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प्रश्न
How much time do grubstake for becoming cocoons? What do the cocoons do after that?
उत्तर
Grubs take two or three weeks for becoming cocoons. After that cocoons lie with- out-food or activity for three weeks more. Then they break and perfect ants appear.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Thinking about the Poem
Write the story of ‘A Legend of the Northland’ in about ten sentences.
Thinking about Poem
What finally kills the tree?
We notice lots of details about people and their appearance, but in order to
vividly describe them , we need to be specific.
Working in pairs, look carefully at the people around you and complete the
table with appropriate words from the box given on the next page. You may
add words of your own to describe people.
| angular | close-cropped | well-tailored | well-tailored casual | stocky |
| elegant | unshaven | ill-fitting | formal | lanky |
| bearded | sloppy | medium | petite | hefty |
| balding | slim | plaited | thick | round |
| open | friendly | wavy | long | receding |
| over weight | sharp-featured |
| A | B | C | D | |
| Face | ||||
| Hair | ||||
| Dress | ||||
| Build |
After having read the story, you realise the anguish of the illiterate adults. You want to make your friends aware of it and contribute something in bringing about a change in the lives of the illiterate adults. Deliver a speech in the morning assembly at your school about the Importance of Adult Education and ways to implement it.
Read the following to make your speech effective:
The introduction of a speech is like the nose of an airplane. The nose sets the course and leads the plane off in a specific direction. A good introduction sets the direction of your speech by
- getting the attention of your audience
- introducing your topic
- stating your central idea or purpose
- briefly identifying the main points
- making your audience eager to hear what you have to say
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants cool shade and tender rain,
And seed and bud of days to be,
And years that fade and flush again;
He plants the glory of the plain;
He plants the forest's heritage;
The harvest of a coming age;
The joy that unborn eyes shall see___
These things he plants who plants a tree.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
What is meant by the phrase ‘days to be’?
Some are like fields of sunlit corn,
Meet for a bride on her bridal morn,
Some, like the flame of her marriage fire,
Or, rich with the hue of her heart's desire,
Tinkling,luminous,tender, and clear,
Like her bridal laughter and bridal tear.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Pick a simile from the stanza.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Whom did the daffodils out do and how ?
How, according to Portia, can the Duke of Saxony’s nephew be made to choose the wrong casket? What do these suitors ultimately decide? Why?
The story of an ant’s life sounds almost untrue.
The underlined phrase means
Why we cannot use water to put out some fires?
How old were Kari (the elephant) and the narrator?
What is an oasis? How is it useful for desert plants?
Who is the ‘he’ in the line "I couldn’t quite hear what he said" of the extract?
The little elf was a nag. How did it tell Patrick’s health?
Multiple Choice Question:
‘And its wings fill’. What do the ‘wings’ bring to your mind?
Multiple Choice Question:
What makes people dance in the fields?
Multiple Choice Question:
Who is the poet of this poem?
Multiple Choice Question:
What does the poet want to say through the poem?
With your partner, complete the following sentence in your own word using the ideas in the poem.
One has to match __________________.
Multiple Choice Question:
What does the word “marvellous’ mean?
