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1.1 A Teenager's Prayer — My English Coursebook STD 10 — Question

Maharashtra BoardSemi English MediumSTD 10My English Coursebook1.1 A Teenager's Prayer5 Marks
Question
A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Choose the correct alternatives and complete the sentences: (2)
(1) We must decide to take the road which leads to _______________ . (great distress/ great success) 
(2) The age group of the speaker in the poem is _______________ . (13 to 19/ 20 to 25 )

Each day brings new beginnings
   Decisions I must make.
I am the only one to choose
   The road that I will take.
I can choose to take the road of life
   That leads to great success.
Or travel down the darkened road
   That leads to great distress.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the webs : (2)
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A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Match the lines in Column A' with Figures of Speech in Column 'B': (1)
Column 'A'Column 'B'
 (1) Decisions, I must make (a) Apostrophe 
 (2) Please open up my eyes, dear Lord. (b) Alliteration
  (c) Inversion
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Answer

A1. Simple Factual Activity:
(1) We must decide to take the road which leads to great succes.
(2) The age group of the speaker in the poem is 13 to 19.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
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A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
(1) Decisions, I must make - Inversion
(2) Please open up my eyes, dear Lord. - Apostrophe

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences : (2)
(1) The poet told the boy to join the others to play but he couldn't hear.
(2) The boy was watching the others play.

Later walking down the street, I saw a child with eyes of blue
He stood and watched the others play; it seemed he knew not what to do
I stopped a moment, then I said, why don’t you join the others dear”
He looked ahead without a word, and then I knew he could not hear
O God forgive me when I whine
I have two ears, the world is mine
With legs to take me where I’ll go
With eyes to see the sunset’s glow
With ears to hear what I would know
O God forgive me when I whine
I’m blessed, indeed, the world is mine

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the following web : (2)
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A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:
Write down rhyming pairs from the extract. (1)
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Read the following bits of advice and state whether you Agree or Disagree with them: (2)

AdviceAns.
 (1) Keep friendship with all classes of people. 
 (2) Hate the rich people and help the poor. 
 (3) We should treat everyone equally. 
 (4) If we use every minute for the sake of good, we will be a real 'human being'. 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
   With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
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A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Pick out and enlist the positive and negative qualities in respective columns from the extract : (2)

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A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Name the figures of speech : (1)
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(2) Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.

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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)

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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.
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences: (2)
(1) The speaker in this poem is _______________.
(2) The poem is addressed to _______________.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
   With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
   And which is more you’ll be a Man, my son!

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) Say WHEN ....
can the Earth become yours? 
(2) Say WHY ....
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A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
State whether the following statements are True or False: (2)
(1) The speaker expresses his relief that the ship has reached its home port.
(2) Captain's dead body is lying on the land.

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:
(1) Describe the grief that the speaker in the poem feels at the death of his Captain. (2)
A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:
Complete the following sentences choosing from the alternatives: (1)
(1) The rhyme scheme of the given extract is _______________. (aabbccdd/abcdede/aabbcded)
(2) The line repeated in every stanza _______________. (O Captain! My Captain!/Fallen cold and dead)
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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 Activity:
Complete the following with the information given in the extract: (2)
(1) The twins were similar to each other in _______________.
(2) The speaker was christened as _______________.

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) Write any two lines from the extract that you find humorous. (2)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices: 
Write the rhyming words : (1)
(i) limb   (2) brother
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Choose the correct word from the brackets and complete the sentences : (2)
(1) The girl on the bus wore a _______________.(crutch/new dress)
(2) The lad seemed so _______________.(shy/calm)

Today on a bus, I saw a lovely girl with silken hair
I envied her, she seemed so gay, and I wished I was so fair
When suddenly she rose to leave, I saw her hobble down the aisle
She had one leg and wore a crutch, but as she passed - a smile
O God, forgive me when I whine
I have two legs, the world is mine
And then I stopped to buy some sweets, The lad who sold them had such charm
I talked with him, he seemed so calm, and if I were late, it would do no harm,
And as I left he said to me “I thank you, you have been so kind”
It’s nice to talk with folks like you. You see, I’m blind
O God forgive me when I whine
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A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the following web : (2)
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A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:
Write the rhyming words for the following from the extract: (1)
(1) hair - _______________
(2) mine - _______________
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Match the following sentences: (2)

'A''B'
 (1) We should treat two imposters (a) when others doubt us
 (2) We should trust ourselves (b) when others blame us
  (c) just the same

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:
(1) Look at the use of opposite reactions in this extract. For example, "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs". Find four other such opposite reactions from the extract. (2)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Identify the figures of speech used in the following lines : (1)
(Apostroph/ Simile/ Repetition/ Alliteration)
(1) "And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise"
(2) With worn-out tools

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