… Warming Up …
1. Read the following proverb that has a biblical reference.
‘Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.’ Now find at least 5 other proverbs/ axioms/quotations which convey the same message. Search the internet/dictionary of proverbs.
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‘Do good for others. It will come back in unexpected ways.’
‘If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.’
‘Set your heart on doing good to others. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.’
‘Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.’
‘An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.’
2. Study the following sets of words :
Set A – pleased, happy, joyful, ecstatic
Set B – letter, word, sentence, paragraph
Note :- The words in these sets are arranged in an ascending order, each word showing a higher degree than the previous one. Now rearrange the following groups of words in the ascending order.
Prepare similar word chains using the following ideas.
⇒ rain – drizzle
⇒ wind – breeze
⇒ sunshine – warm
⇒ waterbody – pool
⇒ size – big
⇒ size – small
…ENGLISH WORKSHOP…
1. Pick out lines from the poem that help create images of the following in our mind and write them in the table.
Ans.
2. Write at least 5 rhymes from the poem.
Ans.
gray – day,
snow – slow,
shout – out,
sheep – deep
feet – street
3. Give, in your own words, TWO reasons for each of the following :
(a) The woman was reluctant to cross the street by herself.
(b) The schoolboys were in a happy mood.
(c) One of the schoolboys helped the old woman cross the street.
(d) We must help those who are in need.
Ans.
(a) She was too old. Besides, she was afraid of being run over by carriages pulled by horses.
(b) They were let out from school. It was the end of a long and cold school-day. They felt free after the school.
(c) He was kind and thought his mother would be helped by some kind heart sometime in the future when she traveled alone, tired and aged.
(d) By doing help to other we solve their problems and thus make them to smile. We feel that by this act God will help us in return.
4. Think and write in 5-6 lines, why most of the people on a road/street ignore those in need of help. What about you? Write about your feelings after you have helped/
not helped, when needed.
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Most people on a road/street ignore those in need of help because I think firstly that people do not bother about their problems and secondly they think that they do not fall in our blood relation. Some people want to help but they themselves do not have that much money or strength. I really feel to help every poor people in my country. I always feel happy when I help such needy people.
5. Read the poem : ‘Home they brought her warrior dead’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Home they brought her warrior dead:
She nor swoon’d nor utter’d cry:
All her maidens, watching, said,
“She must weep or she will die.”
Then they praised him, soft and low,
Call’d him worthy to be loved,
Truest friend and noblest foe;
Yet she neither spoke nor moved.
Stole a maiden from her place,
Lightly to the warrior stepped,
Took the face-cloth from the face;
Yet she neither moved nor wept.
Rose a nurse of ninety years,
Set his child upon her knee—
Like summer tempest came her tears—
“Sweet my child, I live for thee.”