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. ………………………………………………………………………. ………………………………………………………………………. ………………………………………………………………………. ………………………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………….
Question 1. ‘Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.’ Find at least five other proverbs/ axioms/quotations that convey the same message. Answer:
1. They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
2. Life is an echo – what you send out comes back. 3. As you sow, so shall you reap. 4. Love begets love. 5. Love your neighbour like yourself.
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.
1/5 Question 1. Arrange the following groups of words in the ascending order : (The answer is given directly.) Answer:
Question 2. Prepare similar word chains using the following ideas : (The answer is given directly and underlined.)
Answer:
2/5 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.
Question 1. Pick out lines from the poem that help create images of the following in our mind and write them in the table. Answer:
Old Woman The Street School Boys
1. The woman was old and ragged The streets were white Down the street with and grey And bent with the chill of a with a recent snow laughter and shout winter’s day
2. At the crowded crossing she At the crowded Came happy boys,
waited long, Jostled aside by the crossing she waited like a flock of sheep, careless throng long
3. Her aged hand on his strong Came happy boys, like Past the woman so young arm She placed, and so a flock of sheep, old and grey, without hurt or harm He guided the Hailing the snow piled Hastened the tremblIng feet along high and deep children on their way
3/5 2. Write at least 5 rhymes from the poem.
Question 1. Write at least five rhymes from the extract. Answer:
1. Rhymes: troop – group, low – go, arm – harm, along – strong, went – content. 2. Rhymes: gray – day, snow – slow, long – throng, by – eye, shout – out.
3. Give, in your own words, TWO reasons for each of the following :
Question a. The woman was reluctant to cross the street by herself. Answer: The woman was reluctant to cross the street by herself because …
1. the road was slippery because of the snow.
2. there was heavy traffic of horse carriages on the road.
Question b. The school boys were in a happy mood. Answer: The school boys were in a happy mood because …
1. school was over for the day.
2. the snow was piled high on the road.
Question c. One of the schoolboys helped the old woman cross the street. Answer: One of the schoolboys helped the old woman cross the street because …
1. she was old and afraid to cross on her own
2. he hoped someone, sometime, may lend a hand to his own mother when he was not around.
Question d. We must help those who are in need. Answer: We must help those who are in need because …
1. we too may need help one day.
2. we must show compassion to those in need.
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. ……………………………………………………………………………………………..
Question 1. 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. Answer: People, especially in the larger cities and towns, are always in a hurry to reach their place of work or their home. Hence they don’t have time to spare to help strangers. Some people may be purely selfish and don’t have compassion for others.
I always try to help people who genuinely need help. Once I lent a hand to an old man to get onto a bus. He was very grateful and thanked me. I felt very good about it.
I did not help a woman who had slipped and fallen down on the footpath during the monsoon. I just walked past her, ignoring her. I felt very guilty about it later. I wondered how I would feel if I had been in her place and had not got any help.
5. Read the poem: ‘Home they brought her warrior dead’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Question 1. Read the poem: ‘Home they brought her warrior dead’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson
