Unit 3 - 3.4 The Will to Win English - Unit 3 - 3.4 The Will to Win

Complete the web the web chart with the information from the extract:

Complete the web:

State whether the following statements are True or False. Correct the false statements:
(a) Cold or poverty cannot keep you away from achieving your goal.
(b) You can achieve your goal with the help of God.

State whether the following statements are True of False. Correct the false statements: Ans.
(a) If you want a thing, you should not give up your sleep.
Corrected statement: If you want a thing. you should willingly give up your sleep.
(b) You should be afraid of your opposition.
Corrected statement: You should not fear the opposition.
(c) Life will not seem useless and worthless without achieving your goal.
Corrected statement: Life will seem utterly useless and worthless without achieving the goal.

What does the word 'scheme' mean here?
Choose the correct alternative from the following:
(a) housing colony
(b) goal in life
(c) rhyme pattern
(d) plan of action

How can poverty keep you away from achieving your goals?

The poet wants us to possess all the strengths and keep away from all the weaknesses. Make a list of all words and phrases from the extract showing Strengths in table A and Weaknesses in table B:

A (Strengths)	B (Weaknesses)
capacity, strength, sagacity
faith, hope, confidence
doggedness, grimness
the help given by God

Every stanza begins with the word 'if'. How does it add to the effectiveness of the poem?

Complete the web with suitable responses. Tell the class what all things the poet wants us to do to win.

Find the appropriate meanings of the following lines:
(a) to go out and fight for it.
(b) makes you quite mad enough (This line is not part of the poem given in the textbook.)
(c) lose all the terror of God or man for it
(This line in the poem in the textbook has the word 'opposition' and not 'God or man'.)

Find the lines from the extract which mean:
(a) become crazy for the goal
(b) toil hard happily
(c) get rid of all fears
(d) make efforts continuously

Find examples of 'Climax' from the extract.

Give an example of each of the following from the extract:
(a) Tautology.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Antithesis.

Match the phrases in table A with lines from the extract given in table B:

'A' (Phrases)	'B' (Lines)
(1) Toil hard	(a) If you want a thing bad enough...
(2) Get rid of all	(b) Fret for it ...
(3) Worry a lot about it	(c) To work day and night for it
(4) Need desperately	(d) Lose all your terror of

Do you think the line 'Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it' means that one should be 'desperate' or 'restless' to achieve one's goal? Explain your opinions.

Write a short speech on 'How to achieve success".