Balbharati solutions for My English Coursebook 9 Standard Maharashtra State Board chapter 2.1 - Comparisons [Latest edition]

What is your favourite colour? What does it remind you of?

Are you afraid of the dark? What does it make you think of?

If you were asked to design a big garden, what will you include in it?

Form pairs. List the names of as many vehicles as you can. Choose any two of them, but they must be of different types. Then draw a word web for each of them to show their appearance, qualities and the things that these features remind you of. You may use words as well as phrases in the web.

Describe your dream vehicle in a few lines.

Note the difference between drive and ride. Use the two words correctly in your own sentences.

What adjectives/words are used to here to show - shape, size temperature?

List all the adjectives in the poem. Use the comparative forms of at least 8 of them to write new comparisons. Two of them have been given as examples.

List all the nouns in the poem. Find a suitable adjective - other than the ones given here - for each of the nouns and write meaningful similes for at least 8 of them. For example, as yellow as a lemon.

Form groups of 6-8. Think of similes using different objects, for example,

1. Dry as land
2. Wet as a puddle.

Now try to put together the similes to make a poem with rhyming lines.

Write the pairs of rhyming words.

Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following categories.

Idioms with colours:

• as black as ______
• as white as ______
• as red as ______
• as blue as ______
• as green as ______
• as pink as ______
• as ______ as ______
• as ______ as ______
• as ______ as ______

Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following category.

Idioms with animals

1. as cunning as a fox
2. ______
3. ______

Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following category.

Idioms with objects

1. as black as coal
2. ______
3. ______ 

Given below are some idiomatic comparisons with ‘like’. Can you guess their meaning? Look them up in a good dictionary. You won’t find them under ‘like’. Which words will you look up to find these comparisons?

1. Like a bull in a china shop (Here, china means delicate articles of porcelain)
2. Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
3. Like a red rag to a bull.
4. Like a cat that stole the cream.
5. Like water off a duck’s back.
6. Memory like a sieve.

Using your imagination write more comparisons using ‘like’