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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Standard :9 , English

THE NIGHT AT THE HOTEL

1. Read the given passage (Para-1) carefully and answer the following questions
1. Why did the night receptionist shrug his shoulders?
2.”It’s all we have available” he said .What does it stands for here?
3. What does “single” stands for in this passage?
4. Find out the antonym of ‘early’ from the given passage?
5. You are Schwamm, 10-Nehru Street Thrissur, Kerala on a three day visit to New Delhi to attend a conference .You are to hotel Ashoka.Fill the following form given to you.

HOTEL ASOKA INTERNATIONAL
1. Name:
2. Address:
3. Nationality:
4. Profession:
5. Purpose of visit:
6. Type of room: Double Single
7. Nationality:
8. Signature with date

6. Suppose you are Schwamm.You went to the hotel to take a room. Prepare a conversation between you and the receptionist (6 exchanges)
7. Find out a synonym of ‘sadly’ from the passage


Objectives:
* How to answer questions
* Understanding pronouns
* Realizing antonym and synonyms
* How to fill a form
* Making conversations

Answer

1. Because there was no single room.
2. Single bed in a double room.
3. Single bed in a double room.
4. Late
5. Do yourself
6.
Receptionist: Good evening Sir, Can I help you?
Schwamm : Good evening, Can I get a room?
Receptionist: Of course, which one Sir?
Schwamm : A single
Receptionist: Let me look, Sorry Sir, Will a single bed in double room do it sir?
Schwamm : No, I want a single
Receptionist: It’s all we have available
7. Regretfully.

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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Stanard :9 , English ,Poem , A Boy`s song, Worksheet

A BOY`S SONG
Read the first eight lines of the poem ‘A boy’s Song ‘ and answer the following questions

1.Who is speaking in this poem?
2.Where does the gray trout asleep?
3.How are the pools?
4.Who is Billy?
5.Why does Billy always follow the boy?
6.What type of the song the blackbird sing ?
7.What is a ‘ nestling’?
9.Find out any two words that indicating the sounds of birds?
10.Find out the rhyming scheme of the lines


ANSWER
1. The boy
2. River / Pool
3. Bright and deep
4. Boy`s friend / a dog
5. Because he is boy’s friend
6. Latest
7. A young bird that cannot leave the nest
8. Chirp / sings
9. aa ,bb


Read the second eight lines of the poem ‘A boy’s Song ‘and answers the following questions

1. How do mowers mow the grass?
2. What do the boy and the Billy trace?
3. Where does the bee go after collecting the honey?
4. Find out some superlatives?
5. Where do the shadows fall?
6. Why does the boy go to the hazel bank?
7. Find out rhyming words?

ANSWER
1. Cleanly / neatly
2. Bees
3. To the homeward
4. Cleanest, greenest, Steepest, deepest
5. In the hazel bank
6. To collect hazel nuts
7. Cleanest-greenest, Bee-me, Steepest-deepest, Free- me.


Read the third eight lines of the poem ‘A boy’s Song ‘ and answer the following questions
1. Whom do the boy’s drive away?
2. What are the maidens doing?
3. The boy and the Billy do not like one thing. What is it?
4. Write down some favorite places of Billy and the boy would like to go?
5. Find out an example for ‘assonance’?
6. Find out rhyming words

ANSWER
1. The maidens
2. Playing
3. To banter and drive away little maidens
4. Lea, river, meadow
5. Water, over, lea
6. play-hay, well-tell, lea-me