Part:1Read the Para No.3 and answer the questions
1. How long was the skiff?
2. “He is two feet longer than the skiff” the old man thought
(Change in to reported speech)
3. Was the fish panicked? Why?
4. What was the old man trying to do?
5. What would happen if he couldn’t slow the fish with a steady pressure?
6. Find out a one word from the passage with the same meaning “a small boat”
7.”He is two feet longer than the skiff”.Who is “he” here?
Part: 2
Read the first stanza from the poem “Lead kindly light” and answer the following questions
1. Who is the speaker in this poem?
2. Who wrote the poem “Lead kindly light?”
3. What does the devotee pray to the God?
4. How is the night?
5. Who is “Thou” referred to?
6. Find out the rhyming words from the lines
Part: 3
Prepare a profile using the following hints
Earnest Heming Way
Birth – Illinois, USA, I899
Profession: - Journalist
Other Interests: - Writing short stories, Novels
Famous Novel: - The Old Man and the Sea
Nobel Prize: - Literature 1954
Death: - 1961
Part: 4
Fill in the blanks
They changed (a) …………………………. referees every four hours (b)………………………….the first eight (c)………………………..the referees could sleep. Blood came (d)…………………….from under the finger nails (e)………………..both his and his opponents hands.
(Of, So that, and, the, out, after)
part:5
Santiago won the hand game and became the champion .What would he write in his diary after the hand game?
You may begin like this
26 November 2009
Sunday
9 pm
What an Eventful day it was. I can`t believe this. I am the champion ……………………….
Part: 6
Complete the sentences
1. I Wish ………………………………………………….
2. If I were ……………………………………………….
SCORING KEY
Part: 1
1. Two feet longer than the skiff
2. The old man thought that he was two feet longer than the skiff
3. No .Because the line was going out fast and steadily
4. He was trying with both hands to keep the line just inside of breaking strength.
5. The fish could take out all the strength and brake it
6. Skiff
7. The Giant Marlin
Part: 2
1. Devotee
2. John Henry Newman
3. To lead him
4. Dark
5. God
6. See me
Part: 3
Refer Course Book Page No .85
part:4
(a) The (b) after (c) so that (d) out(e) of
Part: 5
26 November 2009
Sunday
9 pm
What an Eventful day it was. I can`t believe this. I am the champion.
How it happened? My God thanks a lot. I defeated the strongest man on the dock. Now I realize that it is nothing but my willpower helped me to become the champion.
part:6
1.I wish I were a doctor
If I were a bird I would Fly
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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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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
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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