A1. Simple Factual Activity: Complete the following with the info…

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:
Say whether the following pieces of advice by the poet are Right or Wrong:
(1) Avoid strong feelings and their unsteady emotions.
(2) When you are not satisfied even then don't change your life.
(3) Go after your dream.
(4) Show the courage to risk something.

If you avoid to feel passion
And their turbulent emotions;
Those which make your eyes glisten
And your heart beat fast.
You start dying slowly...
If you do not change your life
when you are not satisfied with your job,
or with your love,
If you do not risk what is safe, for the uncertain,
If you do not go after a dream,
If you do not allow yourself,
At least once in your lifetime,
To run away from sensible advice…

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the following lines with the help of the extract:
(1) Passions and their emotions shine _______________.
(2) If you are not satisfied with your job or love, _______________.
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
(1) Find out a pair of rhyming words from the extract : Passion
(2) Give your own rhyming words for : job

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Choose the correct alternatives and complete the sentences: (2)
(1) The poet prays to the Lord to help him stand. for what is _______________. (might/ right)
(2) The poet wants to see that his teenage years have been the _______________ of his life. (worst/ best)

Please open up my eyes, dear Lord,
That I might clearly see
Help me stand for what is right,
Bring out the best in me.
Help, Lord, to just say “no”
When temptation comes my way,
That I might keep my body clean
And fit for life each day.
When my teenage years are over,
I know that I will see
That life is lived its very best
With you walking next to me

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) The What effect does the speaker wish to see in himself at the end of his teens? (1)
(2) In what condition does the poet wish to maintain his body? (1)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Write the pairs of rhyming words from the extract: (1)
(1) see - _______________
(2) way - _______________

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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:
Say whether the following pieces of advice by the poet are Right or Wrong: (2)
(1) Avoid strong feelings and their unsteady emotions.
(2) When you are not satisfied even then don't change your life.
(3) Go after your dream.
(4) Show the courage to risk something.

If you avoid to feel passion
And their turbulent emotions;
Those which make your eyes glisten
And your heart beat fast.
You start dying slowly...
If you do not change your life
when you are not satisfied with your job,
or with your love,
If you do not risk what is safe, for the uncertain,
If you do not go after a dream,
If you do not allow yourself,
At least once in your lifetime,
To run away from sensible advice…

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) What is it that makes life worth living? Give four points : (2)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Give your own rhyming words for : (1)
(1) job (2) fast

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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)

A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:
Write down rhyming pairs from the extract. (1)

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
State whether you agree or disagree with the following statements: (2)
(1) The narrator's brother asked the question fruitlessly - _______________
(2) According to the poet (narrator) he himself died - _______________
(3) The close resembelance between the twins turned the tide of the narrators domestic life - _______________
(4) John was always getting flogged because of the narrator's mistake - _______________

This fatal likeness even dogged
My footsteps, when at school,
And I was always getting flogged,
For John turned out a fool.
I put this question, fruitlessly,
To everyone I knew,
‘What would you do, if you were me,
To prove that you were you?’
Our close resemblance turned the tide
Of my domestic life,
For somehow, my intended bride
Became my brother's wife.
In fact, year after year the same
Absurd mistakes went on,
And when I died, the neighbours came
And buried brother John.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) Write any two lines from the poem, that you find most humorous. (2)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Write the rhyming words for the following from the extract : (1)
(1) knew - _______________
(2) fruitlessly - _______________

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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 Activity:
Complete the following lines with the help of the poem: (2)
(1) The child wants to sow moons of light from _______________.
(2) According to the child, the route of his village is tough and full _______________.

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:
(1) What does the poet wish to get from me moon and why? (1)
(2) Why is the road from the city to the village dangerous? (1)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Pick out the examples of alliteration and repetition: (1)
(1) Alliteration :
(2) Repetition :

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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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