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प्रश्न
Tick the item that is closest in meaning to the following phrase.
to meet one's match
पर्याय
to meet a partner who has similar tastes
to meet an opponent
to meet someone who is equally able as oneself
to meet defeat
उत्तर
to meet one's match - to meet someone who is equally able as oneself
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer any three of the following in 30-40 words each:
(a) Why has the poet’s mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
(b) The poet says, ‘And yet, for these Children, these windows, not this map, their world.’ Which world do these children belong to? Which world is inaccessible to them?
(c) What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
(d) What will happen to Aunt Jennifer’s tigers when she is dead?
Read the following extract and do the given activities:
B.1) Fill in the Balloons with suitable ideas from the poem:
“Oh, the value of the elderly! How could anyone not know?
They hold so many keys, so many things they can show.
We all will read the other side this I firmly believe
And the elderly are closest oh what clues we could retrieve.
For their characters are closest to how we’ll be on high.
They are the ones most developed, you can see it if you try.
They’ve let go of the frivolous and kept things that are dear
The memories of so sweet, of loved ones that were near.
As a nation, we are missing our greatest true resource,
To get to know our elders and let them guide our course.”
B.2) Find Evidence:
Pick out the line from the extract which supports the given ideas:
(i) The elders have many things to share.
(ii) Everybody knows the value of elderly people.
(iii) The elderly people have vast experience.
(iv) The elderly people are a boon to the nation.
B.3) Write a pair from the extract that rhymes with the given word:
| Fear | ........................... | .......................... |
Underline the important words and phrases.
Look for pictures in newspapers and magazines that depict the urban civic problems discussed in the text. Cut them out and pin them to the text at appropriate places.
What were the attempts made by the author to get his watch repaired?
Poetry and science are incompatible.
Explain the undertones in the statement:
'Wife and husband in unusual rapport
State one unspoken thought':
Find from the story one word for the following.
any animal that catches mice ______
We all know that blogs can be written on many topics. Your teacher will divide the class into groups and assign a task to every group to make a list of various topics on which blogs are normally written. One is given to you.
- Social Awareness
- _________________
- _________________
- ________________
Comment on the given statement after reading the given dialogue -
But when I saw a man in trouble, I could never help trying to set him out of it.
Its human to help others. Here the statement tells us that ____________________________.
State whether the following statement is True or False:
Oberon transforms Bottom's head into that of an ass.
Who erected the first known veterinary hospitals in the world?
Think and answer:
Are the boys and girls happy that it is raining?
Prepare similar word chains using the following ideas.
waterbody - pool ____________.
Correct the following sentence and rewrite it.
By afternoon, Papa Panov had stopped looking out for Jesus.
Do you know of similar stories in your mother tongue or in other languages? Narrate it in short.
Did Gopal Bhand have a field?
Miranda was brought to the island ____________ years ago.
What were the various sounds the brothers heard when they went downstairs?
The weather is always too hot or cold; Summer and winter alike they scold. Nothing goes right with the folks you meet Down on that gloomy Complaining Street.
Pick out the rhyming words and identify the rhyme scheme of the above lines.
Activity
It’s fun to help out in the kitchen. You can even practice reading aloud when reading the recipe. And you can learn a little math by figuring out how to measure. Here are a few fun items to make that are “Alice” themed.
“I will die, but not run away.” – Justify the saying of Neerja.
Who came to India from Portugal in search of pepper?
Find the rhyming word from the poem.
Crowd - ______.
Name the character or speaker.
"Why don't you do that yourself?"
Choose the correct answer.
Tenzin is from ______.
Match the following rhyming words.
| 1. | earn | glow |
| 2. | fend | day |
| 3. | slow | learn |
| 4. | play | end |
A person who overcomes problems, will get ______ at the end.
What happen to a child who shuts his ears?
