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Activity Sheet July 2023.
Prose
Section.
Q 1 Read the following
extract and complete the Activities given below it.
Soapy
had confidence in himself from the lowest button of his vest upward. He was
shaven, and his coat was trim and his neat, black bow had been presented to him
by a lady missionary on Thanksgiving Day. If only he could reach a table in the
restaurant unsuspected, success would be his. The portion of him that would
show above the table would raise no doubt in the waiter's mind. A roasted mallard
duck, thought Soapy, would be about the thing with a bottle of wine and then
some cheese, a cup of coffee and a cigar. One dollar for the cigar would be
enough. The total would not be so high as to call forth any extreme of revenge
from the cafe management; and yet the meat would leave him filled and happy for
the journey to his winter island.
But
as Soapy set foot inside the restaurant door, the head-waiter's eye fell upon
his tattered trousers and decadent shoes. Strong and ready hands turned him about
and conveyed him in silence and haste to the side-walk and averted the ignoble
fate of the menaced mallard.
Soapy turned off
Broadway. It seemed that his route to the coveted island was not to be an easy
one. Some other way of entering the limbo must be devised.
At
a corner of this Sixth Avenue, electric lights and cunningly displayed wares
behind plate glass made a shop window attractive. Soapy took a stone and dashed
it through the glass. People came running round the corner, a policeman in the
lead. Soapy stood still with his hands in his pockets, and smiled at the sight
of brass buttons.
"Where's the man
that done that?" inquired the officer agitatedly.
"Don't
you think that I might have had something to do with it?" said Soapy, with
a friendly voice, as one greets good fortune.
A1. Read and rewrite the following
sentences and state whether they are True or False:(2)
(a) A lady missionary has presented
Soapy a black bow on Thanksgiving Day.
(b) The head-waiter's eye did not
fall upon his tattered trousers and decadent shoes.
(c) A policeman was in the lead
when people came running round the corner.
(d) The officer did not inquire
about the man who broke the glass.
✒️Answer:-
(a) A lady missionary has presented
Soapy a black bow on Thanksgiving Day. True
(b) The head-waiter's eye did not
fall upon his tattered trousers and decadent shoes. False
(c) A policeman was in the lead
when people came running round the corner.True
(d) The officer did not inquire
about the man who broke the glass. corner.False
A2. Match the incidents given in
column 'A' with the consequences given in column 'B':
✒️Answer:-
A3. Complete the following
sentences:(2)
'His route to the coveted island
was not to be an easy one.
(i) Here 'Island' means
(ii) The island is 'Coveted'
because
✒️Answer:-
(i) Here 'Island' means The
place where he wished to spend his winter that is Jail/Prison.
(ii) The island is 'Coveted'
because he didn't have his own house and he has strong desire to spend his
winter there in the prison.
A4. 'Students should stay away from
crime'. Write your opinion on the above sentence.
✒️Answer:-
Crime spoils the life of youngsters
specially students, the age of the students is to build their own career and
help to build the nation, but if they get involved in crime it will not only
harmful for them but also for the nation too, hence the students should stay
away from crime as it will distract their life.
A5. Do as directed:(2)
(1) Soapy turned off Broadway.
(Identify the correct tense form
from the following options and rewrite)
(a) The simple present tense
(b) The simple past tense
(c) The present perfect tense
(d) The past perfect tense
✒️Answer:-
(b) The simple past tense
(ii) 'Soapy took a stone and dashed
it through the glass.
(Choose the correct alternative to make
it a simple sentence)
(a) Taking a stone Soapy dashed it
through the glass.
(b) Soapy took a stone to dashed it
through the glass.
(c) Soapy has taken a stone to dash
it through the glass.
(d) Soapy takes a stone to dash it
through the glass.
✒️Answer:-
(a) Taking a stone Soapy dashed it
through the glass.
A6. Find the synonyms of the
following from the extract:(2)
(i) jail
(ii) old and worn out shoes
(iii) dishonourable
(iv) nervous manner.
✒️Answer:-
(i) jail = Coveted Island.
(ii) old and worn out
shoes. =decadent shoes.
(iii) dishonourable. ignoble
(iv) nervous manner. =
Agitatedly.
B1. Language study (4)
Do as directed:
(1) There were no boats to take the
people across.
(Identify and rewrite the correct
transformation of the above sentence beginning with 'If.....)
(a) If there were no boats, they
wouldn't have taken people across.
(b) If there were no boats, they
would have taken people across.
(c) If there were boats, they would
have taken people across.
(d) If there were boats, they
wouldn't have taken people across.
✒️Answer:-
(c) If there were boats, they would
have taken people across.
(a) If there were no boats, they wouldn't have taken people across.
(2) He simply abandoned his sack by
the stream. (Identify and rewrite the correct transformation of the above
sentence beginning with 'His sack...)
(a) His sack is abandoned by the
stream by him.
(b) His sack has been abandoned by
him by the stream.
(c) His sack was abandoned by him
by the stream.
(d) His sack had been abandoned by
the stream by him.
✒️Answer:-
(c) His sack was abandoned by him
by the stream.
(3) She said, "I have worked
hard from childhood." (Identify the correct indirect narration of the
above sentence from the given options and rewrite)
(a) She said that she had worked
hard from childhood.
(b) She said that she has worked hard
from childhood.
(c) She said that she worked hard
from childhood.
(d) She said that she has been
working hard from childhood
✒️Answer:-
(d) She said that she had worked hard from childhood
B2. Spot the error:
India pays tribute to Gandhiji for
his birth anniversary.
✒️Answer:-
India pays tribute to
Gandhiji on his birth anniversary.
Q 2 (A) Read the following extract and
complete the Activities given below it.
This
is my birthday, sir,' explained Gopal timidly.
'Wish
you many happy returns,' said the director promptly and added, "What
if it is your birthday?"
'Rather a peculiar
birthday,' explained Gopal. 'This is my forty-ninth birthday. Astrologers have
often told me that I might not see this birthday, and if I lived to see this day
I should have nothing more to worry about... I have lived in secret terror of
this day all my life. Whenever I saw my wife and children I used to be racked
with the thought that I should probably be leaving them orphans. I came late
today because we held some propitiatory rites at home for the planets, and we
celebrated my survival this day with a feast. My astrologer has suggested that
I do nothing unpleasant today, sir. I wish to treat it as a very auspicious
day, sir.'
The
director was impressed. He turned to his assistant, who always shadowed him,
carrying a portfolio under his arm and commanded, 'fetch the story-writer'.
Presently he arrived, his lips red with the chewing of betel leaves. He was a
successful story-writer who made a lot of money by dashing off plots for film
people. He laughed aloud on hearing of the problem created by the actor. He was
not the angry type to feel upset at contrary suggestions. He declared,
'Impossible to change the story. How can he refuse to die? I am busy.'
He
turned on his heel and started out. At the door he stopped to add. Anyway, send
for our boss and tell him about it. The boss came running into the scene. He
asked anxiously, "What is all this trouble about? What is it all about?
Gopal sat in his
chair unmoving: he was not allowed to shift his position even slightly;
continuity would be spoilt otherwise. He felt stuffy. The big lamp scorched his
face. They all stood around and looked at him as if he were a freak. Their
faces were blurred beyond the shadows. 'All of them are my Yamas,' Gopal
thought. 'They are bent upon seeing me dead."
A1. Arrange the following
statements in a proper sequence as per their occurrence in the extract and
rewrite:(2)
(i) The director was impressed.
(ii) Their faces were blurred
beyond the shadows.
(iii) Gopal explained timidly that
it was his birthday.
(iv) His lips were red with
the chewing of betel leaves.
✒️Answer:-
(iii) Gopal explained timidly that
it was his birthday.
(i) The director was impressed.
(iv) His lips were red with the
chewing of betel leaves.
(ii) Their faces were blurred
beyond the shadows.
A2. Give reasons:(2)
(i) Gopal's forty-ninth birthday
was a peculiar one because
(ii) He felt stuffy because
✒️Answer:-
(i) Gopal's forty-ninth birthday
was a peculiar one because he was told by an astrologer that he may not
service till his forty ninth birthday, he has been living worried about it
through out of his life.
(ii) He felt stuffy
because, he was seated on the chair without any movement, he was told not
to move slightly it makes him feel stuffy.
A3. All of them are my Yamas'.
Explain the statement.(2)
✒️Answer:-
Gopal was referring to the people
around him as his Yamas because he felt they were trying to control him or
restrain him in some way or the other. That's why he said that "All
of them are my Yamas .
A4. 'Superstition poison our
minds.' Explain in your own words.
✒️Answer:-
Superstition creates doubts in our
mind and we loose rational thinking, it forec us to think and act irrationally
which is harmful for the mankind, hence superstition poison our mind and enable
us to act illogically.
(Since it's an open ended question
multiple answers are acceptable.)
A5. Do as directed:
(1) He laughed aloud on hearing of
the problem.
(Choose the correct change in the
given options, if "would' is used in the above sentence).
(a) He would laughed on hearing of
the problem.
(b) He would have laughed on
hearing of the problem.
(c) He would laugh on hearing of
the problem.
(d) He would be laughed on hearing
of the problem.
✒️Answer:-
(a) He would laugh on hearing of
the problem.
(i) They all stood around and
looked at him. (Choose the correct alternative to write it with 'not only...
but also.")(1)
(a) They all not only stood around
but also looked at him.
(b) They all stood not only around
but also looked at him.
(c) Not only they all stood around
but also looked at him.
(d) They all stood not around only
but also looked at him.
✒️Answer:-
(a) They all not only stood around
but also looked at him.
A6. Find out the antonyms for the
following from the extract:
(i) bravely
(i) pleasant
(iii) accept
(iv) moving
✒️Answer:-
(i) bravely =timidly
(i) pleasant =unpleasant
(iii) accept =refuse
(iv) moving =unmoving.
Q2 B Summary Writing
Astrologer's
Prediction
Gopal explains to the
director that it is his 49th birthday, which he has been afraid of all his life
due to astrologers’ predictions. He has celebrated his survival with a feast
and wishes to treat the day as auspicious. The director is impressed and calls
for the story-writer, who refuses to change the story and suggests calling
their boss. Gopal sits unmoving, feeling stuffy and scorched by the big lamp,
while everyone looks at him as if he were a freak. He thinks of them as his
Yamas, bent upon seeing him dead.
Q.2. C. Mind Mapping
(Since both of the questions are an
open ended question multiple answers are acceptable.)
Poetry
Section.
Q 3 Read the following lines
and complete the Activities given m below it.
No stir in the air, no stir in the
sea,
The ship was as still as she could
be,
Her sails from heaven received no
motion,
Her keel was steady in the ocean.
Without either sign or sound of
their shock
The waves flow'd over Inchcape
Rock;
So little they rose, so little they
fell,
They did not move the Inchcape
Bell.
The Abbot of Aberbrothok
Had placed that bell on the
Inchcape Rock;
On a buoy in the storm it floated
and swung.
And over the waves its warning
rung.
When the Rock was hid by the
surge's swell,
The mariners heard the warning
bell;
And then they knew the perilous
Rock,
And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
A1. Describe the scene in the
beginning of the poem.(2)
✒️Answer:-
The sea was quit silent and the
wind was not blowing. The waves didn't move at sea and the sea is clear and
calm
A2. Give reasons:(2)
(I)The ship was still at sea because.
✒️Answer:-
(I)The ship was still at sea
because, there was no wind to move the sail of the ship as the sea was
calm, the ship didn't get the motion from the sky.
(II) The Abbot of Aberbrothok had
placed the bell on the Inchcape Rock so.
✒️Answer:-
(II) The Abbot of Aberbrothok had
placed the bell on the Inchcape Rock so that the Mariners should get an
alert about the dangerous rock, whenever the water level increased and hide the
rock the weaves will hit the bell and warn the sailors about the fact that the
rock is nearby.
A3. Write two incidents/ occasions
on which you helped other people.
✒️Answer:-
I have helped people many times,
once I saw an accident where the passengers were injured, I called 108 for
Ambulance to take them to hospital. I have also helped many poor students by
giving them my old books and note books.
(This is an open ended question,
hence multiple answers are acceptable)
A4. Give the rhyming pairs and
rhyme scheme from stanza 2 from the extract.(2)
✒️Answer:-
Rhyming Pairs, shock-Rock,
Bell-fell.
Rhymes schemes:- aabb.
A5. Compose four lines of your own
on 'Sea".(2)
✒️Answer:-
Thou are the preserver a
feeder
Thou are the destroyer too a
demolisher
Taken care of us in need
Thou are the to love and feed.
(This is an open ended question,
hence multiple answers are acceptable)
(B) Appreciation:
Read the extract and write the
appreciation of the poem:(4)
When I had money, money, O!
I knew no joy till I went poor,
For many a false man as a friend
Came knocking all day at my door.
Then felt I like a child that holds
A trumpet that he must not blow
Because a man is dead: I dared
Not speak to let this false world
know.
Much have I thought of life, and
seen
How poor men's hearts are ever
light,
And how their wives do hum like bees
About their work from mom till
night.
So, when I hear these poor ones
laugh,
And see the rich ones coldly frown
Poor men,
think I, need not go up So much as rich men
should come down.
Answer
Poetic Appreciation of the poem Money
The
poem "Money" is the poem taken from the famous poetic volume
of W. H. Davies "The Collected Poem" published in the year
1916. The poet has an identity as Welsh Poet and writer as he was born and
brought up there. The poem deals with the theme that "the real
happiness is not in being rich but the real happiness one must become
poor" because the poet has an experience that whenever he had money he had
many friends but they were interested in his wealth but after becoming poor he
had very few friends but all of them are true. The poet realized that real
happiness we can feel only when we become poor.
The poem has five stanzas of 4 lines
each with a regular rhyme scheme where only the second and fourth line rhyme
with each other, thus the rhythm scheme is abcb. The poet enriches
the poem with many figures of speech like Simile, Repetition, Inversion,
Antithesis Onomatopoeia, etc. The language used by the poet is very
simple and easy to understand. The special feature of the poem is that the poet
used the used interjection... O!" in the very first and last stanzas to
show the intensity of his feelings. The moral of the poem is money may be very
important but the most important thing in life is real friends which we can get
only in poverty. So we must value people and not money. I like the
poem very much because this poem tells the harsh reality of life.
SECTION
- IV
(LITERARY
GENRE - NOVEL)
Q 5. (A) Complete the activities
given below as per the instructions: (4)
✒️Answer:-
(ii) Choose the correct
alternatives and rewrite the sentences:(2)
(a) The central idea in the novel
is [ plot/theme/story]
✒️Answer:-
(a) The central idea in the novel
is theme.
(b) The main character in the novel
is referred to as [antagonist/clown/protagonist]
✒️Answer:-
(b) The main character in the novel
is referred to as protagonist.
(c) The struggle between the
opposite forces in the story is called [setting/character/conflict]
✒️Answer:-
(c) The struggle between the
opposite forces in the story is called conflict.
(d) Language and techniques used in
the novel is known as [manner / style / texture]
✒️Answer:-
(d) Language and techniques used in
the novel is known as style.
(B) Answer in about
50 words to the questions given below:
(I) Explain How the setting of
the extract "To Sir with Love'" contributes to the theme of the
novel.
✒️Answer:-
The
settings of the extract is in the Green Slade School, whereas one of the themes
of the novel is teacher students relationship. It's shows that the students
were naughty and ill-mannered but with the narrator deals with them in
respectful manner which changed their behaviour. The settings of the novel is
in the auditorium of the school which contributes to the theme of the novel.
(II) Discribe in brief the plot of
the extract from "To Sir with Love"
✒️Answer:-
The
narrator of the novel was an engineer by profession by accepted the job of the
teacher to earn his bread. He wasn't getting the good job due to his black
skin. Here also he was rejected by the students only because of his colour,
later he changed the approach of students with his innovative techniques and
won the heart of the students.
(C) Answer in about
50 words to the questions given below:
(i) Describe
The character-sketch of Phileas Fogg from the extract of the
novel Around the World In Eighty Days."
✒️Answer:-
Phileas Fogg is the protagonist of the novel
"Around The World In Eighty Day"s. He is the inventor, who loved to
invent new things he was challenged by his fellow mate over his prediction that
one can not complete the journey around the world in eighty days. He took the
challenge and completed it with courageously.
(ü) Compare
The characters Passepartout and detective Fix from the extract
of the novel Around the World In Eighty Days."
✒️Answer:-
The both of the
characters are contrasting to each other as Passepartout is good character who
helped Fogg to complete his adventures he is loyal, faithful, loving, and
unselfish. But detective fix is creating obstacles in the way of Phileas Fogg
he is stupid, unimaginative, and stubborn. But there is similarity in both of
then we're performing their duties.
(D) (I) Arrange the sentences
in correct sequence as per their occurrence in the extract "The Sign of
Four'. Jumbled Sentence/incidents :
(a) Holmes put a revolver
in his pocket.
(b) Mary received a large and
lustrous pearl through the post.
(c) Mary's father was
an officer in an Indian regiment.
(d) Mary Morstan was a well-dressed
young lady.
✒️Answer:-
1) (d) Mary Morstan was a
well-dressed young lady.
2) (c) Mary's father was an officer
in an Indian regiment.
3) (b) Mary received a large and
lustrous pearl through the post.
4) (a) Holmes put a revolver in his
pocket.
(ü) Discuss the importance of the
following statements in about 50 words in the light of the extract "The
Sign of Four." The trio-Holmes, Dr. Watson And Mary decide
to visit Lyceum Theatre.
✒️Answer:-
Mary received the letter stating her to be
there at Lyceum Theatre. She was allowed to bring two companions with her, she
visited Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes and tell the the whole story and aks for
the help. Both of them were ready to help her, Thus the trio decided to visit
Lyceum Theatre.
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