… WARMING UP …
1. After your SSC Exams/Result you may have to take a decision regarding the choice ofnma career. What factors will you consider?
Choose from the block below and complete the web-diagram.
(1) Is the option easy/difficult ?
(2) Your capability
(3) Your likes/dislikes
(4) Friends’ decision
(5) Parents’ profession
(6) Your skills/inborn talents
(7) Study the ‘Job Profile’ carefully
(8) Easy money
(9) Possible difficulties
(10) Your ultimate aim
Ans.
2. Form pairs or groups of four. Think of the situations when you have to choose between two things. Make a list of those situations. Some of them may be minor or trivial things – for example, what to wear when going out. Some choices may be related to important things, for example, having to decide between games and studies, whether to confront a close friend about something that he/she did, owning up to your mistakes, etc.
(a) Discuss how to decide what to choose.
(b) Write what you feel when your decision proves right.
(c) Write what you feel when you regret the decision.
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(1) Discuss how to decide what to choose.
Ans. This decision should be taken on the basis of our likes, dislikes, capabilities,
skills, inborn talents, possible difficulties, etc.
(2) Write what you feel when your decision proves right?
Ans. I feel happy and more confident when my decision proves right.
(3) Write what you feel when you regret the decision.
Ans. I feel bad but it gives me a new desire to start up with something new.
… FACTUAL QUESTIONS …
(1) Why does the poet feel sorry?
Ans. The poet feels sorry for he is not able to travel both the roads.
(2) Did the poet choose the road quickly?
Ans. No, the poet did not choose the road quickly. He stood for a long time at the fork before took a decision.
(3) Was one of the roads better than the other?
Ans. No, both were as good.
(4) Does the poet tell us what difference it made?
Ans. No, he doesn’t.
… ENGLISH WORKSHOP…
1. Read the poem again. Does it have a uniform rhyme scheme throughout? Write down the rhyme scheme of every stanza separately.
Ans.
Yes, the poem has a uniform rhyme scheme throughout.
1st stanza – abaab
2nd stanza – abaab
3rd stanza – abaab
4th stanza – abaab
2. Write the symbols that are used in the poem to represent the following ideas.
Ans.
(a) Choice of two options – Two roads
(b) I made a rare choice – I took the one less travelled by
(c) Equally good options – As just as fair
(d) It was tempting and needed to be tried – Because it was grassy and needed wear
(e) Some other time – for another day!
3. Rearrange the following facts in the proper order and fill in the flow chart.
(a) He chooses the one barely travelled.
(b) Choosing the lesser-used road has made a great difference.
(c) He observed one, as far as he could.
(d) The traveller came to a fork in the road
(e) He planned to travel along the previous one some other time.
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4. Think and write in your own words.
(a) In which season does a greenwood turn to a yellow wood? Which stage in our
life can be compared to that season?
Ans.
A greenwood turns to a yellow wood in autumn. The stage in our life that can be compared to that season is middle age
(b) Why did the traveller choose the road less travelled? What attribute of the traveller does it bring out?
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The traveller chooses the road less travelled because the road had not been used by many and he felt it needed to be used. The traveller seems to be an optimist who is full of hopeful confidence and creative energy.
(c) Why does the traveller doubt that he shall ever come back?
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The traveller feels that he will be so busy in his life with one thing leading to another that he may not be able to come back.
(d) If you were in the traveller’s place, which road would you choose ? Justify your choice.
Ans.
If I was in the traveler’s place, I would have chosen the road on which people have travelled more and I would never travel through an unknown road because there could be too much danger in it.
6. Write a letter to your friend or cousin telling him/ her about a difficult choice you have recently made, for example, pursuing one sport or hobby rather than the other or choosing between your studies and hobbies.
Tell your friend/cousin how his/ her example helped you to take a decision.
Ans.
192/A
Green Park road,
Santacruz (w),
Mumbai 400054.
12th November 2019
Dear Rahul,
It’s been a while since I’ve heard from you. Where have you been? I hope this letter finds you in the best of your health. Last month I had to make a difficult choice. I had to choose between singing and my studies. I had no idea what to do? Finally I have decided to give up singing for the next two years. It’s been a very difficult decision to make, but then I remember what you had done. Yours story was like me. You focused on studies and now you have both. This is what has inspired me to make my decision.
Thanks a lot.
Your loving friend
Sameer