Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ against each of the following sentences.
Gopal was too poor to afford decent clothes.________
पर्याय
True
False
उत्तर
Gopal was too poor to afford decent clothes - False.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Find the words in the text which show Ustad Bismillah Khan’s feelings about the items listed below. Then mark a tick (✓ ) in the correct column. Discuss your answers in class.
Bismillah Khan’s Feelings about | Positive | Negative | Neutral |
1. teaching children music |
|||
2. the film world | |||
3. migrating to the U.S.A | |||
4. playing at temples | |||
5. getting the Bharat Ratna | |||
6. the banks of the Ganga | |||
7. leaving Benaras and Dumraon |
Use the suffixes −ion or −tion to form nuns from the following verbs. Make the necessary changes in the spellings of the words.
Example:proclaim − proclamation
cremate ___ | act ___ | exhaust ___ |
invent ___ | tempt ___ | immigrate ___ |
direct ___ | meditate ___ | imagine ___ |
dislocate ___ | associate ___ | dedicate ___ |
Thinking about the Poem
Which country or countries do you think “the Northland” refers to?
Thinking about the Poem
Do you think that the old lady would have been so ungenerous if she had known who Saint Peter really was? What would she have done then?
Thinking about Poem
Can a “simple jab of the knife” kill a tree? Why not?
Working in groups of four, create your own mystery story. You may use the following chart to plan your story.
Title of 'Solve-it Story' | |
Main Character | |
Secondary character | |
Setting (where and when) | |
Problem | |
Main events | |
Climax | |
Solution |
Notice how ideas are connected in the story.
Write what the following words you just used in 1.1 imply by choosing suitable options from the box.
- and:
- but:
- where:
- while:
- after:
- until:
- so :
connects similar actions, objects
denotes contrast
denotes time.
The words given above are called connectors. Connectors do not simply join sentences together; they also show how ideas are related.
There are many different ways of classifying connectors according to their meaning. We shall start with the ones you are already familiar with.
This woman had been despised, scoffed at, and angrily denounced by nearly every man, woman, and child in the village; but now, as the fact of, her death was passed from lip to lip, in subdued tones, pity took the place of anger, and sorrow of denunciation.
Neighbours went hastily to the old tumble-down hut, in which she had secured little more than a place of shelter from summer heats and winter cold: some with grave-clothes for a decent interment of the body; and some with food for the half-starving children, three in number. Of these, John, the oldest, a boy of twelve, was a stout lad, able to earn his living with any farmer. Kate, between ten and eleven, was bright, active girl, out of whom something clever might be made, if in good hands; but poor little Maggie, the youngest, was hopelessly diseased. Two years before a fall from a window had injured her spine, and she had not been able to leave her bed since, except when lifted in the arms of her mother.
“What is to be done with the children?” That was the chief question now. The dead mother would go underground, and be forever beyond all care or concern of the villagers. But the children must not be left to starve.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Describe the three children.
Complete the following sentence.
The beggar said that the kind ladies of the household___________________________________.
Complete the following sentence.
After the lesson was over, the music teacher asked Lalli if__________________________________.
How did the kind old couple treat their dog?
Describe Golu’s meeting with the crocodile.
How did the jealous courtiers of Akbar plan to ruin Tansen?
State an adjective used to describe the tree.
Word in the box given below indicates a large number of… For example, ‘a herd of cows’ refers to many cows. Complete the following phrase with a suitable word from the box.
a _____________of chicks
Multiple Choice Question:
Who is the poet of this poem?
Speak the following sentences clearly but as quickly as you can learn them by heart.
1. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood.
2. Betty bought a bit of butter, but the bit of butter was a little bitter so she bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better.
Use the word “rebel” in a sentence of your own.
What is the condition of the window described in the poem?
Read the following extract from Norah Burke's short story, ‘The Blue Bead' and answer the questions that follow:
On the way back, she met her mother, out of breath, come to look for her, and scolding. "I did not see till I was home that you were not there. I thought something must have happened to you." And Sibia, bursting with her story, cried, “Something did!" |
- What are the tasks that Sibia was required to perform from a very young age? [3]
- What had delayed Sibia and separated her from the other village women on her way home that day?
What was Sibia doing when she heard the Gujar woman's cry for help? [3] - What were the dangers that the crocodile had to overcome before it could grow into the ferocious creature that Sibia encountered? [3]
-
How does Sibia’s knowledge of the ways of the jungle help her fight the crocodile? [3]
-
Compare and contrast the mother’s mood with Sibia's in the given extract. Give one reason to explain why each one of them was feeling this way. [4]