A1. Simple Factual Activity: State whether you Agree or Disagree … - Vidyadip

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
State whether you Agree or Disagree with the following statements : (2)
(1) The poet saw a lovely girl in a train.
(2) A beautiful girl had one leg and used a crutch.
(3) The lad who was selling sweet was very sad.
(4) The poet was very kind with the lad who was selling sweet.

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
I have two eyes, the world is mine

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the following web : (2)

A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:
Make a list of pairs of rhyming words from the extract. (1)

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Answer

A1. Simple Factual Activity:
(1) Disagree
(2) Agree
(3) Disagree
(4) Agree

A2. Complex Factual Activity:

A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:
(1) charm - harm
(2) kind - blind.

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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

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 ....
should you consider all men equally important?

A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:

Rhyming pairs	Added rhyming word

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

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

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.

A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the following sentences:
(1) The speaker stops in _______________.
(2) _______________ season of the year is described in the poem.
(3) The time of the day described in the poem is _______________.
(4) The speaker is riding on his _______________.

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:
Find out line/lines from the poem as a proof for the following explanation:
(1) There is no one to catch the speaker trespassing.
(2) The little horse draws his master's attention.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) Tell whether the rhyming scheme of the following stanzas is right or wrong. Give the correct rhyme scheme for the wrong one:

A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Fill in the blanks: (2)
(1) The poet tells his Captain to rise up and hear _______________.
(2) The Captain does not feel anything The Captain does not feel anything _______________.

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:
Complete the following: (2)
(1) Captain does not feel anything because _______________.
(2) The ship is anchored _______________.
A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:
Complete the following choosing from the alternatives: (1)
(1) The steady rhythm in the poem consists of a pattern of _______________ beats. (three/four/five)
(2) In the _______________ stanza the speaker does not address the Captain. (first/second/third)

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 - _______________

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

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)