Balbharati solutions for Integrated 7 Standard Part 3 [Hindi Medium] Maharashtra State Board chapter 3.4 - Please don’t read this poem! [Latest edition]

Have you ever been told not to do certain things? Did you stop doing that immediately? Or did you continue to do same any way? 

Make a list of your don'ts in groups of five, discuss the list and complete the following table.

When you write something, or paint something, or make something, do you want others to see it? Discuss the reasons for your answer. 

Present any two stanzas of the poem using proper intonation.

Find the pairs of rhyming words used in each stanza.

The poet is telling someone not to read the poem. Who is that someone?

What did you feel when you read the line 'Please don't read this poem'?

Does the poet really want you to stop reading the poem?

What does the poet mean when he says, "Tell all your friends and family they shouldn't read it too." 

What situation the following lines remind you of -

'Put the poem down now and slowly back away'.

Decide whether the following thing is right or wrong.
Give rreason for your answer:

Reading someone else's letter.

Decide whether the following thing is right or wrong.
Give reason for your answer:

Reading someone else's diary.

Decide whether the following thing is right or wrong.
Give reason for your answer:

Looking at the keyboard when someone is typing a password.

Decide whether the following thing is right or wrong.
Give reason for your answer:

Eavesdropping - Listening to other people's conversation without their knowledge. 

Decide whether the following thing is right or wrong.
Give reason for your answer:

Trying to get someone's address, phone number, email ID without their knowledge.

Read the lines given in the table. Discuss what they mean and when they might be used. Then use your imagination and name situations which these lines may be used by different speaker.

Add one or two lines before or after the line given below to prepare a short dialogue. 

It's only meant for me.

Add one or two lines before or after the line given below to prepare a short dialogue.

That isn't very nice.

Add one or two lines before or after the line given below to prepare a short dialogue.

You really have to stop.

Add one or two lines before or after the line given below to prepare a short dialogue.

There's only one solution.

Find all contracted forms used in the poem.