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प्रश्न
Proverbs associated with the word season: for eg: Make hay while the sun shines.
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उत्तर
- One kind word can warm three winters.
- No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn.
- Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
To what end have humans used their superior intelligence ?
Notice these expression in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
swathe
Combine related points.
Tick the item that is closest in meaning to the following phrase.
to stand on one's feet
What do you understand of Einstein’s nature from his conversations with his history teacher, his mathematics teacher and the head teacher?
Both Ramanand and Azam Khan seem to have very fixed views. How does Ramanand score over Azam Khan towards the end of the story?
People with foibles are often not conscious of them.
Comment on the symbols used in ‘A Munda Song’. What aspect of the tribal worldview do they reflect?
Comment on the use of the phrase ‘fresh-peeled voice’.
Discuss the following in pairs or in small groups.
“Before you begin experimenting you need to perfect the technique with which you experiment.”
What quality of 'beauty' and 'love' does the poem highlight?
Find from the library or internet other poems composed on tiny living creatures. Try to understand the message in each of them.
Find evidence from the lesson and write in your own words.
India has many amazing success stories.
Find proof from the poem for the following.
The struggle of the cherry tree for survival.
For preparing questions based on the poem, an overall understanding of the poem is a must. Discuss with your partner and prepare a set of five questions.
For example:
- What is the name of the bridge?
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Given below are various professions in column A and in column B, the nature of work in respective professions. Match the columns.
| A | B |
| (i) Anaesthetist | (a) Specialist in the treatment of problems concerning the position of teeth and jaws. |
| (ii) Pharmacist | (b) A person who designs buildings and supervises the process of constructing them. |
| (iii) Orthodentist | (c) A person who is in charge of a newspaper or of a part of a newspaper. |
| (iv) Dermitologist | (d) The medical study of the skin and its diseases. |
| (v) Architect | (e) A person who has been trained to prepare medicines and sell them to the public. |
| (vi) Chartered Accountant | (f) A person whose job is to give drugs which makes the person not feel pain especially in preparation for a medical operation. |
| (vii) Editor | (g) A person who is engaged in the profession of accounting and examining the statements and records of accounts. |
Expansion of Idea:
Expand the following idea in about 100-150 words by using the points.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'.
- Meaning of the proverb
- Significance of the proverb
- Add your own points.
Fill in the gap, choosing a word from the bracket to make an appropriate comparison.
(tall / quiet / humble / merry / busy / slippery / fast / sly / slow / big)
as ______ as a lark
Underline the verb in the following sentence and state whether the sentence is in the Active or Passive voice.
England gave Ramanujan great honours.
Write a sentence each about three of your friends. Each time you should say what your friend cannot do, and yet, pay a compliment to your friend.
Suggest what you would do in the following situation:
You are going through a crisis that is making you short-tempered and impatient, due to which you end up causing harm to your family and friends. They have started complaining about it quite often.
Read the following chains of words:
- fortune - fortunate - fortunately - unfortunately
- know - knowing - knowingly - unknowingly
- amaze - amazing - amazingly
- possible - impossible - impossibly
Write a short note on the following:
Prince Siddharth’s protected life.
Rohan and Muk entered the garden at midnight ______.
Who said the following, to whom, and when?
“As you desire, Huzoor.”
Read the poem and answer the following.
What are the two different ways of eating strawberries?
Discuss how you will measure the worth of a book.
Describe Gulliver’s home in Lilliput.
Why does the poet say that the dewdrops greet the dawn?
What mistake did the man in the moon make?
What does the poet want to know from the lark?
How was the young seagull’s first attempt to fly?
Why did Prospero set Ferdinand a severe task to perform?
Title summarises the story. Each paragraph is a part of the story. Look at the following expressions and find out the paragraphs that best suit these expressions.
- Oh, No! But it happens!
- Don’t let out your travelling dates
- Anyway, people will be people
- Search begins
- Things are not that easy
- Hurry invites worry
The narrator searched for three days to buy ceramic paint.
Read the letter again and write a few lines on each of the following.
- things that the coach taught….
- transformation in the child……..
- things that amazed the writer……..
“Was it just the wind?”– What do you think Usha thought it was? Why?
What makes us happy and free, according to the poet?
He always had lunch with his family.
Identify the speaker/character.
Stop ship. Drop anchor. Quick!
What did Grandmother feel about trees growing in the house?
Complete the sentence given below with word/phrase.
The hole became ______ and ______.
Who was challenged for a race?
Why does the poet fly out of the universe?
Try your own.
How do we see the earthworm often?
What is Amar Jawan Jyoti?
Find the rhyming word from the poem.
alike – _________
Match the dialogue to the character.
| "I will do all the work myself." |  |
| "First, you charge my battery." |  |
| "I have bought you a robot." |  |
What did the oil seller perform?
Guess how would the sparrow pull the elephant and the crocodile.
Match the rhyming words.
| 1. share | dare |
| 2. bread | rest |
| 3. care | needs |
| 4. deeds | ahead |
| 5. zest | bear |
Are you the first to protect the nature?
The child won’t ______ anything, if he closes his ears.
Draw me some hair, quickly, I look like a ______.
Match the rhyming words.
| 1. | earn | day |
| 2. | fend | learn |
| 3. | glow | end |
| 4. | play | slow |
Replace the bold word/words with a word from the quiver and re-write the sentence –
Nasruddin was surely not a good archer.
The rabbit had
Where did the naughty boy go?
Who according to Gandhi, can fight against evil and how?
