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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Sunday, July 19, 2009
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
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
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Std:IX. English Worksheet, Poem , The Beggar Maid
THE BEGGAR MAID
Expected Questions:-
1. Read the first eight lines of the Poem ‘The Beggar Maid’ and answer the following questions
1. Why did the beggar maid place her hand across her breast?
2. How did the beggar maid appear before the king?
3. Who was Cophetua?
4. Why did the king step down from the palace?
5. How did the king step down from the palace?
6. What did the lords say about her beauty?
7. “t`s no wonder” What was no wonder?
8. Who said that she was more beautiful than day?
9. Find out the figure of speech employed in the line “ She is more beautiful than day “
10. Find out the rhyming scheme?
ANSWER
1. To show respect / she was not neatly dressed.
2. Barefooted and by laying her hands across her breast.
3. An Ethiopian King
4. To meat and greet the beggar maid
5. In robe and crown
6. They said that she was more beautiful than day.
7. The beggar maid was more beautiful than day.
8. The lords
9. Hyperbole.
10. ab,ab, ….
2. Read the Second eight lines of the Poem ‘The Beggar Maid’ and answer the following questions
1. How was the beggar maid seen in her poor attire?
2. Find out an example for ‘simile’ in these lines?
3. What is the beggar maid compared to?
4. Find out a word with the same meaning ‘dress’?
5. How was her mien?
6. What was the royal Oath?
7. Find out a few rhyming words?
8. The beggar maid was the most beautiful woman in the land. Quote the lines which tell you this?
ANSWER
1. As shines the moon in clouded skies
2. She was……………………………………….
3. An angel / as the moon shines in the clouded skies.
4. Attire.
5. Lovesome
6. The beggar maid shall be his queen.
7. Skies, Eyes Seen, Mien Been, Queen
8.” So sweet ……………………in all that land had never been
Expected Questions:-
1. Read the first eight lines of the Poem ‘The Beggar Maid’ and answer the following questions
1. Why did the beggar maid place her hand across her breast?
2. How did the beggar maid appear before the king?
3. Who was Cophetua?
4. Why did the king step down from the palace?
5. How did the king step down from the palace?
6. What did the lords say about her beauty?
7. “t`s no wonder” What was no wonder?
8. Who said that she was more beautiful than day?
9. Find out the figure of speech employed in the line “ She is more beautiful than day “
10. Find out the rhyming scheme?
ANSWER
1. To show respect / she was not neatly dressed.
2. Barefooted and by laying her hands across her breast.
3. An Ethiopian King
4. To meat and greet the beggar maid
5. In robe and crown
6. They said that she was more beautiful than day.
7. The beggar maid was more beautiful than day.
8. The lords
9. Hyperbole.
10. ab,ab, ….
2. Read the Second eight lines of the Poem ‘The Beggar Maid’ and answer the following questions
1. How was the beggar maid seen in her poor attire?
2. Find out an example for ‘simile’ in these lines?
3. What is the beggar maid compared to?
4. Find out a word with the same meaning ‘dress’?
5. How was her mien?
6. What was the royal Oath?
7. Find out a few rhyming words?
8. The beggar maid was the most beautiful woman in the land. Quote the lines which tell you this?
ANSWER
1. As shines the moon in clouded skies
2. She was……………………………………….
3. An angel / as the moon shines in the clouded skies.
4. Attire.
5. Lovesome
6. The beggar maid shall be his queen.
7. Skies, Eyes Seen, Mien Been, Queen
8.” So sweet ……………………in all that land had never been
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