My Own True Family
Edward James Ted Hughes
Comprehension Exercise
1. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:
(a) Creeping in an Oakwood, the poet was looking for a –
(i) Goat
(ii) Rhinoceros
(iii) Stag
(iv) Buffalo.
Answer: (iii) Stag
(b) Whenever an oak tree is chop down, the number of trees the poet must plant is –
(i) Two
(ii) Three
(iii) Four
(iv) Five.
Answer: (i) Two
(c) When the poet came out of the oak wood, his heart was that of a –
(a) Stag
(ii) Tree
(iii) Human child
(iv) Old woman.
Answer: (ii) Tree
2. Find out which of the following statements are True or False. Provide sentences/ phrase/ words in support of your answer.
(a) The old woman held the poet’s secret in her little bag.
Answer: True
Supporting Statement: “I have your top-secret here inside my bag”
(b) The tree tribe said that the poet is bothered to see the chopping down of oak-trees.
Answer: False
Supporting Statement: “We are chopped down, we are torn up, and you do not blink an eye”
(c) The poet never came out of the oak wood.
Answer: False
Supporting statement: “When I came out of the oak wood, back to human company.”
3. Answer the following questions:
(a) When did the poet come twice awake?
Answer: The old woman opened up her little bag and the poet, at once, came twice awake.
(b) What would occur to the poet if he failed to make the promise?
Answer: The poet would surely die if he failed to make the promise.
(c) What was it that altered the poet?
Answer: The poet dreamt a dream beneath the boughs and that very dream altered him.
Grammar in Use
4. Change the following into indirect speech.
(a) Rahul asked Dipa, “Will you go to school today?”
Answer: Rahul wanted to know if Dipa would go to school that day.
(b) Rakhi said to Ayesha, “Please give me a glass of water.”
Answer: Rakhi requested Ayesha to give her a glass of water.
(c) The old man told the little girl, “May you be happy!”
Answer: The old man wished that the little girl might be happy.
5. Do as directed:
(a) Ranjan said, “Who does not know the name of Rabindranath Tagore?” (Change into affirmative sentence)
Answer: Ranjan said that everybody knows the name of Rabindranath Tagore.
(b) Sangeta runs faster than any other girl in her class. (Rewrite using the positive degree of ‘faster’)
Answer: No girl in the class runs so fast as Sangeeta.
(C) Kaushiki blamed her friend for the trouble. (Rewrite using the noun form of ‘blamed’)
Answer: Kaushiki put the blame on her friend for the trouble.
Writing Activities
6. Your School is going to host the Inter-school District Music Competition. You are supposed to be the Secretary of the Sports Club of your school. Write a notice (within 100 words) calling students to participate in the competition. Your notice should be countersigned by the Headmistress/ Headmaster of your school.
Answer:
Memari V. M. Institution (unit – 2)
NOTICE
Sub: Music Competition
No: 003
Date: 07 March 2021
All the students are hereby informed that our school is going to organize an inter-school music competition on 15th May 2021, in the school auditorium. The competition will be on several categories of music. Students of Class - VIII to XII can participate in the competition. There will be a screening prior to. Interested students should register their names with the music teacher before 15 March 2021. The categories in the competition are: Hindustani Classical, Rabindra Sangeet, and Folk. A student can compete in any two categories. No registration fee is required for participating in the competition. For any further information the undersigned may be contacted.
Countersigned by the Headmaster
……………………………………….
Sd/…………………………..
(Student-secretary)
Cultural Committee
Memari V. M. Institution (unit – 2)
7. Your School is going to host the Inter-school District Sports Competition. You are supposed to be the Secretary of the Sports Club of your school. Write a notice (within 100 words) calling students to participate in the competition. Your notice should be countersigned by the Headmistress/ Headmaster of your school.
Answer:
C.M.O. Girls High School
Kolkata – 700073
NOTICE
Sub: Sport Competition
No. 007
Date: 08 March 2021
All the students of the institution are hereby notified that our school is going to organize and host the Inter-school District Sports Competition on 20th April 2021 at Netaji Sport Complex at 9 a.m. Interested students should register their names with the sports teacher before 26th November, 2021. The events are: High Jump, Long Jump, Shot put, Javeline throw, 100 Race, Relay race, Throwing Cricket Ball etc. A student can take part in any two events. No registration fee is required for participating in the sports. For any further information the undersigned may be contacted.
Countersigned by the Headmistress
……………………………………….
Sd/…………………………
(Student-secretary)
Cultural Committee
C.M.O. Girls High School
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Textual Questions and Answers
(Ch- 01) ‘Father's Help’ by R.K. Narayan
(Ch- 02) 'Fable' by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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