A1. Simple Factual Activity: (1) When the people around us doubt us, we should trust ourselves. (2) We can dream but we should not be slave to our dreams. A2. Complex Factual Activity: (1) The lines in the poem begin with 'If you can...' because the poet insistently wants to emphasise the importance of his good advice and attract his son's attention to every piece of advice given by him. The repetition of the lines has a musical effect. A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices: (1) Repetition: If you can dream and not make dreams your master. (2) Metaphor: And stoop and rebuilt them up with worn-out tools.

A1. Simple Factual Activity: (1) When the people around us doubt us, we should trust ourselves. (2) We can dream but we should not be slave to our dreams. A2. Complex Factual Activity: (1) The lines in the poem begin with If you can...' because the poet insistently wants to emphasise the importance of his good advice and attract his son's attention to every piece of advice given by him. The repetition of the lines has a musical effect. A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices: (1) Repetition: If you can dream and not make dreams your master. (2) Metaphor: And stoop and rebuilt them up with worn-out tools.

A1. Simple Factual Activity: (1) When the people around us doubt …

A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Say whether the following pieces of advice by the poet are Right or Wrong: (2)
(1) Appreciate your own good qualities.
(2) You should kill your self-esteem.
(3) Be a slave of your bad habits.
(4) Don't bother to change the routine.

If you do not travel,
If you do not read,
If you do not listen to the sounds of life,
If you do not appreciate yourself.
You start dying slowly...
When you kill your self-esteem;
When you do not let others help you.
You start dying slowly...
If you become a slave of your habits,
Walking everyday on the same paths…
If you do not change your routine,
If you do not wear different colours
Or you do not speak to those you don’t know.
You start dying slowly...

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the Web: (2)

A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Give your own rhyming words for the following : (1)
(1) read (2) change

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
State whether you agree or disagree with the following statements: (2)
(1) Stanza II portrays how people celebrate the triumph of the ship and their leader.
(2) The poet refers to the fallen Captain as 'Father'-the father of nation.
(3) Stanza III expresses the poet's profound sorrow for President Lincoln's death.
(4) The poet is celebrating victory. with the people of his country with joy.

O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths-for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
The poem has a direct reference to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on 15th April, 1865, after the Civil War was won. Match the symbols/images in Column 'A' with what they refer to, in Column 'B'. (2)

Column 'A'	Column 'B'
(1) the ship	(a) celebrating victor
(2) the fearful (trip/ voyage)	(b) the President of USA
(3) the port	(c) United States of America
(4) the bells (ringing)	(d) the deadly Civil War

A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:
Find from the extract one example each of the following :(2)
(1) Alliteration -
(2) Antithesis -

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following lines with the help of the poem: (2)
(1) The child wants a basketful of moonlight on _______________.
(2) The child wants to light the dark route so that _______________.

And he goes back early in the morning
while I am sleeping.
O moon
give me a basketful of moonlight
on loan.
I want to light the dark route
so that my father returns early.
I too want to hear fairy tales
and stories from him.
O moon,
give me a basketful of moonlight.
I want to sow seeds of moon
on the sides of the path.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Pick out and write the lines from the poem that prove the following: (2)
(1) Eager to hear fairy tales from his father.
(2) Remove darkness and bring light among the darker paths.
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Give your own rhyming words for the following : (1)
(1) dark (2) sow

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following lines with the help of the poem: (2)
(1) The poet wants to sow many _______________.
(2) The whole village goes to the city _______________.

O moon,
give me moonlight,
basketful or two baskets full,
with seeds of moonlight.
From the city to my village,
on the sides of the path
I want to sow many,
small, small moons of light.
The whole village goes to the city
daily to work.
It becomes dark on its way back
as my village is quite far.
The route is tough and full of
snakes and scorpions.
Neither bus nor cart plies.
When my father returns home
I am asleep.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Pick out and write the lines from the poem that prove the following: (2)
(1) Father reaches home late, after dark.
(2) The path from city to village is having many difficulties.
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Write rhyming words for the following from the extract: (1)
(1) Pack (2) deeds

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences: (2)
(1) We can bear to hear the truth spoken by _______________.
(2) When all people around us are unable to act in a sensible way, we should _______________.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts, your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth, you’ve spoken,
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the following: (2)
(1) Say WHAT ....
the two imposters?
(2) Say WHO.....
should you trust, when doubted?

A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Write down all musical pairs from the extract and add your own rhyming word for each of them. (1)

Musical pairs	Added rhyming word

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Match the following sentences : (2)

'A'	'B'
(1) It puzzled all their	(a) his brother
(2) The situation reached	(b) kith and kin
	(c) a fearful pitch

In form and feature, face and limb,
I grew so like my brother,
That folks got taking me for him,
And each for one another.
It puzzled all our kith and kin,
It reached a fearful pitch;
For one of us was born a twin,
Yet not a soul knew which.
One day, to make the matter worse,
Before our names were fixed,
As we were being washed by nurse,
We got completely mixed;
And thus, you see, by fate’s decree,
Or rather nurse’s whim,
My brother John got christened me,
And I got christened him.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) Pick out from the extract words/phrases that tell that the narrator was like his brother John.
(2) What is the mix-up mentioned in this extract?
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Name the figures of speech: (1)
(1) In form and feature, face and limb.
(2) For one of us was born a twin, Yet not a soul knew which.

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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Put (✓) mark in front of True statement or (✘) mark in front of False statement:
(1) The speaker stops to watch rain falling among the trees.
(2) The owner of the woods is known to the speaker.
(3) The horse is worried about the cold and wants to keep going.
(4) The speaker doesn't emphasize upon the beauty of woods he is passing through.

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) Why does the traveller have to leave the lovely woods?
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Give your own rhyming words for the following:
(1) house - _______________
(2) woods - _______________
(3) easy - _______________
(4) wind - _______________

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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Choose the correct alternatives:
(1) The poet has stopped in the _______________. (village/city)
(2) The season of the year is _______________. (winter/summer)
(3) The time of the day is _______________. (evening/morning)
(4) Between the woods and the frozen _______________ is the darkest evening of the year. (lake/river)

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) His horse seems anxious to stop.
(2) The speaker prefers to stay but is forced to move onwards.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Match the lines of the poem with their figures of speech:

Group 'A'	Group 'B'
(1) Whose woods these are I think I know	(a) Alliteration
(2) The woods are lovely, dark and deep.	(b) Personification
(3) And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep.	(c) Inversion
(4) My little horse must think it queer	(d) Repetition

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
(1) We should not get angry - when others blame us
(2) We should consider - views and thoughts of others

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
In the first stanza, the poet advises us that :
(1) We should not get angry when others blame us.
(2) We should trust ourselves when others doubt us, but at the same time we should consider other's thoughts and views.
(3) We should not get tired by waiting.
(4) If someone talks lies about us we should not deal in lies.

A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
(1) Antithesis
(2) Personification

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
State whether the following statements are True or False: (2)
(1) According to the speaker, his captain's death feels like horrible dream.
(2) The people are cheering because the voyage of the ship is successful.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Find and answer in your own words: (2)
(1) What are the signs that show the people are celebrating victory ?
(2) Why was the crowd on the shore eagerly waiting to felicitate their captain?
A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:
Find from the extract one example of each of the following figure of speech : (1)
(1) Personification -
(2) Tautology -

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