Balbharati solutions for My English Coursebook 10 Standard SSC Maharashtra State Board chapter 4.1 - The World is Mine [Latest edition]

What do you often, complain to your parents/elders about?

Name some of the things, you have in your possession, which your younger brother/sister does not have.

Name one thing that, at present, you are craving to possess, most of all?

Read the translated Arabic proverb given below and discuss what it means to convey -
‘I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet’.

Read the poem below and fill in the gaps choosing the appropriate words, to make it meaningful. Also suggest a title of your own:

(hours/ fall/ flowers/ at all/ birthday/ years/ tears/ shadows)

Count your garden by the ____________ 
Never by the leaves that ____________
Count your days by golden ____________
Don’t remember clouds ____________

Count your nights by stars, not ____________
Count your life with smiles, ____________
not And with joy, on every ____________
Count your age by friends not ____________

Fill in the table on your own.

Make the world a happy place by changing negative things into positive ones.

The poet saw a lovely girl hobble down ____________

The poet wanted to buy from the lad ____________

The poet told the boy to join others to play but he couldn’t _______.

The poet requests ___________ to forgive him.

Match the following.

What does the poet mean when she says ‘The World is Mine?’ Explain the importance of the title with reference to the poem.

What is the theme of the poem?

Do you think people with some handicap should beg for money? Justify your response.

What is better?

1. To completely take over the work and responsibility of a disabled person in order to help (OR)
2. Encourage such a person to do it himself/herself in a different way. Justify your choice.

Make a list of pairs of rhyming words from the poem.

For example, Whine - mine

The Rhyme scheme of the first two stanzas is _______.

Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.

Inversion

Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.

Interrogation

Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.

Onomatopoeia

Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.

Apostrophe

Pick out 4 lines that contain Imagery.

1. __________________
2. ___________________
3. __________________
4. __________________

Among your classmates, one is unable to walk properly, the second one can’t hear properly and the third one can’t see this beautiful world. All of them are facing lots of difficulties in life. Compose a dialogue among them, about the problems and difficulties faced by them. You can take the help of the following dialogue to expand your ideas.

(Now continue in your notebook.)

Develop/Complete a story in your own words and suggest a title.
A polio victim and a strong, but visually challenged man, were friends. They wished to go to pay homage at a place of worship, three kilometres away. Now, continue the story and try to end it with a related moral/proverb.

Recite/Read your favourite or any English poem before the class. Take help of the following points while reciting the poem.

1. Confidence and fluency
2. Appropriate pronunciation and intonation
3. Take proper pauses/stresses
4. Proper voice and tone
5. Pay attention to the music and rhythm of words and lines.

Translate into the Marathi language.

A disabled person should be respected in society.

Translate into the Marathi language.

A true friend ignores your weaknesses, corrects you, and encourages you to make full use of your strengths.

Translate into the Marathi language.

One cannot change everything that one faces; but nothing can be changed unless one faces it.

Write a letter to your father requesting him to attend the social and cultural gathering of your school. Take help of the points given below.

1. Social and cultural gathering a mega event.
2. Varieties of activities conducted in the gathering.
3. Your participation in two or three activities.
4. Need to boost your confidence.

Divide the class into groups and conduct a poster-making competition for an Eye /Blood Donation Camp. Fix up the details of the above camp, like time, place, etc.