Balbharati solutions for My English Coursebook 9 Standard Maharashtra State Board chapter 3.1 - Coromandel Fishers [Latest edition]

1. What time do you get up in the morning?
2. What time do you go to bed?
3. Where do you spend your holidays ?
4. What adventures do you like - boating, trekking, scuba diving, mountaineering or something else ?
5. After you finish your education, would you like to work close to nature? What would you like to do?

Write as many words as you can, related to the following. You should have at least twenty words. You may refer to your geography textbook or other sources for that purpose. Then try to find English words/items for the ones you have written.

Write as many words as you can, related to the following. You should have at least twenty words. You may refer to your geography textbook or other sources for that purpose. Then try to find English words/items for the ones you have written.

Write as many words as you can, related to the following. You should have at least twenty words. You may refer to your geography textbook or other sources for that purpose. Then try to find English words/items for the ones you have written.

Write as many words as you can, related to the following. You should have at least twenty words. You may refer to your geography textbook or other sources for that purpose. Then try to find English words/items for the ones you have written.

Prepare a bilingual glossary for this topic.

sea

Prepare a bilingual glossary for this topic.

wind

Prepare a bilingual glossary for this topic.

sky

Prepare a bilingual glossary for this topic.

land

Arrange the glossary in way:

According to the alphabetical order of letters in your mother tongue.

Arrange the glossary in ways:

According to the alphabetical order ‘a-z’.

In what way can a bilingual glossary be useful?

What is the advantage of arranging the words according to two alphabetical orders?

Guess the meaning of wakening skies.

Guess the meaning of catamarans.

Guess the meaning of the track.

As the seagull flies away calling, it appears as though he is showing the way- What does the way lead to?

Who holds the storm by the hair?

What type of boat do the fishermen use?

How many stanzas are there in the poem?

How many lines are there in the poem?

List the rhyming words in each stanza.

You know that many poems have rhyming words or rhymes at the end of the lines in each stanza. The pattern of rhyming is usually shown with the help of small letters such as ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, etc. This pattern of rhyme is known as the rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme of each stanza in this poem is aabb. Verify.

What do the following expression refer to? Write in a word or phrase.

leaping wealth of the tide

What do the following expression refer to? Write in a word or phrase.

kings of sea

What do the following expression refer to? Write in a word or phrase.

at the fall of the sun

What do the following expression refer to? Write in a word or phrase.

The edge of the verge

Match the following:

Find and write the line in the poem that refer to -

early morning

Find and write the line in the poem that refer to -

Evening

Find and write the line in the poem that refers to -

Full moon light

Write the lines that show that the fishermen are not afraid of the sea or of drowning.

In the last stanza, two lines refer to landscapes, and two lines refer to a ‘seascape’. Which are they? Copy them from the poem correctly.

Using the internet, find photographs/pictures of landscapes/seascapes to illustrate the images used in the poem.

Select a few lines from your favourite nature poem in your mother tongue and translate them into English.