SPARK ENGLISH TG BOOK - 6
UNIT-1: Religion and Mythology
Poem: A Conversation with God
Find the facts
1. The poet is talking to God in the poem.
2. He wants to offer his faith to the God.
3. The poet was hurt in the beginning because the god demanded either flower or coin instead of his faith.
4. He was confused to hear the god being ready to become his devotee.
5. He wants to be devotee.
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6. The poet is a theist. We come to know this through his deep devotion and worship to god.
7. They carry baskets of flowers, coins and fruits with them.
8. I think the God wants to be devotee of the poet for the faith and dedication he has to the God. Yes of course, the God has heard the prayer of the poet.
9. He does not want to become the God because If I become God there will be none to grant his wishes.
10. God will respond as his good and faithful devotee.
Story: Upagupta :The Buddhist Monk
Find the facts
1. She was well known for her beauty and dance.
2. Upagupta’s rejection to meet on her call disappointed her.
3. They complained to see her unhappy.
4. She suggested visiting the exhibition of a young sculptor of Mathura in order to keep her to keep her mind out of monk.
5. The given statement is spoken by Vasavadatta to young sculptor. The meaning of this statement is fine art exists for ever but the physical beauty and its existence is transitory.
6. The following sentences are written correctly.
i. You are sorry for losing your beauty which lasts only as long as you are young.
ii. You are yet to discover a beauty greater than that you have lost.
iii. It will bring you peace and eternal happiness.
iv. You can't call your body your own.
v. Light the lamp within you, peace will come.
vi. Buddha had blessed her.
vii. So, be my child. You May find peace.
Words in use
7. Creative sentences expected from students.
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8. As he was a Buddhist monk, he was not attracted by her physical and sensual beauty rather he was waiting to meet her in distress to help. That’s why he postponed going and meeting her.
9. Dancing again was the price of that painting. It was really costly because she had to do again the same job which was of no interest for her.
10. The enemies of the sculptor had killed her and they had killed out of jealousy of him for getting the favor of Vasavadatta.
11. Lighting the lamp within you brings eternal and true peace. Buddhist discourses state this.
12. Conveying the value of inner beauty and spiritual value.
Story: Coyote Brings Fire
Find the facts
1. The Fire Beings had fire in the past.
2. The death of their young children and old people in spring and winter made them to search fire.
3. This is the squirrel’s statement.
4. It’s because he's crafty and cunning.
5. One was huge and ugly - with a small bald head and big rolls of fat around his stomach. Snot dripped in long slimy strands from his nose. The other two were old hags, with eyes like red stones and clawed hands like a vulture.
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6. Coyote lead the animals to the Fire Beings' camp on top of the mountain. The others hid in the bushes while Coyote walked into the camp.
7. It indicates sense of domination of fire animal to Coyote.
8. The big fat bald Fire Being just stood there, with more snot dripping from his nose.
9. One of the hags stretched out her claws and touched the tip of his tail. The heat turned the hairs white.
10. Change the following positive statements into negative.
i. Coyote did not throw the fire into the air towards squirrel.
ii. She was not almost caught.
iii. The fire beings did not hit wood and kick him.
iv. At last the hags did not give up and go home.
v. We won’t have frog’s tail soup tonight.
UNIT - 2: Man and Environment
Poem: The Wild Animals
Find the facts
1. The lion roars at you.
2. You will recognize the Bengal Tiger through its greeting at you, and also its body has black stripes on a yellow ground,
3. It refers to covered or spotted.
4. Bear provides you with a loving hog.
5. The poem is about different animals and their response to man and their activities.
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6. view, peppered, leaped, caress, novice
7. Asian lion and the Bengal Tiger are described in the first and second stanzas. They are ferocious to look and aggressive in their activities.
8. The leopard has been described in the third stanza. It will only leap and leap again in pain instead of crying.
9. A hyena is different from a crocodile in its response to prey. A hyena gives smile but crocodile weeps to get its prey.
10. Its ability to change its color according to its surrounding has been described in the given text.
Essay: The Green Movement
Find the facts
1. Find words or phrases from the text which meam the following.
a. Non toxic
b. Pesticide
c. Self sufficient
d. Unprecedented.
e. Utility meters.
f. Ventilation
g. Biomass
2. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives.
a. Minimize
b Reuse
c. Chop down
d. Minimize
f. Donate
3.
a. The nature will be polluted.
b. It will be solar car.
c. I had given chance to choose my residential area.
d. I would avoid my best to use plastics.
f. If it were cheap.
g. It would be of only bamboo.
4. i. Yes ii. Yes iii. No iv. Yes v. Yes
vi. Yes vii. Yes viii. No ix. Yes x. No
5. Creative answers are expected.
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6. I would want to live in an eco-community now because the city I am living now is much polluted.
7. They will not get enough area for playing games. They will not be able to make house of their choice and interest. The like drawbacks they are likely to face.
8. Conservation of forest and the stoppage of the production of plastic products are the most important ‘green initiative’ for eco-builders at this time in history because the production of plastic is the most destructive to nature.
9. Give your own creative answer.
Drama: While the Auto Waits (Scene – I)
After you read
1. reading a book
2. cool and nice
3. because the light was dim for reading
4. No
5. About pretty lamps of hers
6. Some are going to supper and some to—er—other places.
7. They appear fascinating to her because all of them are rushing about with their petty little dreams and their common worries.
8. She comes here to sit because here, only, she can be near the great, common, throbbing heart of humanity.
9. His name is Parkenstacker.
10. She does so because she is of the opinion that it is simply impossible to keep one's name out of the papers. Or even one's portrait.
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11. She has disguised herself because she is tired of materialistic men surrounding her, dancing like little marionettes all cut from the same pattern.
12. The girl is tired of the materialistic world. I think she is not rich.
13. According to him, the money must be a pretty good thing.
14. As he has always been interested to study the culture of wealthy people, he calls himself a connoisseur.
15. Do this by yourself.
16. She should be a poor girl pretending to be rich.
UNIT - 3: Childhood and Initiation
Poem : The Statue
Find the facts
1. The statue is in the market place.
2. The ‘tongue’ in the tenth line refers to language.
3. His chair and clothes are made of stone.
4. Wearing stone clothes he sits by keeping one stone hand on his knee and the other stone hand point.
5. He does not dare to go near the statue because the statue is constantly standing there by pointing its finger constantly for many years.
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6. The poet describes the physical features of the statue as a bold and strong man standing in middle of the market without changing his clothes in any weather and without moving its body. Wearing stone clothes he sits by keeping one stone hand on his knee and the other stone hand point at the poet. Through this description the poet has feeling of respect to the statue.
7. The speaker does not know what great things the man in the statue had done a great while ago.
8. The speaker and the great man don’t belong to same country. We know this through the poet’s inability of understanding the language under the statue of man.
9. Most often it has been used as an adjective. This repetition refers to bold and strong determination of the man in statue.
10. The statue of certain persons are erected for respecting the great sacrifice and contributions made in different fields and nation.
Story: Vanka
Find the facts
1. He is shoemaker.
2. It’s Christmas Eve.
3. He is writing letter to his grandfather.
4. No he has neither father nor mother.
5. Sixty-five years.
6. a. Watchman b. Gloomy
c. Tortures d. Far
7. fair, shrieked, up headed and confident, coarse, refreshed
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8. He is sad because he is far from his grandfather at the time of Christmas. His master is also unsympathetic to him.
9. It indicates that the master is cruel and the boy is curious to write something to his grandfather.
10. The old man was a thin but extraordinarily nimble and lively little old man of sixty-five, with an everlastingly laughing face and drunken eyes. By day he slept in the servants' kitchen, or made jokes with the cooks; at night, wrapped in an ample sheepskin, he walked round the grounds and tapped with his little mallet.
11. The master pulled him out into the yard by his hair, and whacked him with a boot-stretcher, the mistress told him to clean a herring. When he began from the tail end and she took the herring and thrust its head in my face. The workmen laugh at him and send him to the tavern for vodka, and tell him to steal the master's cucumbers for them and the master beats him with anything that comes to hand.
12. To request his grandfather for taking him back to his village is the intention of the boy behind writing this letter.
13.
i. didn’t he?
ii. wasn’t it?
iii. hadn’t he?
iv. didn’t he?
v. wasn’t she?
Drama: While the Auto Waits (Scene – II)
After you read
1.
Whim craze
Cashier clerk
Scandal dishonor, disgrace
inclination liking, fondness
Besieged encircled, surrounded
Intemperance overindulgence, greed
2. commoner
3. not marrying a higher class man.
4. in a restaurant
5. Guests were asked to eat olives by putting green kid glove.
6. He is fascinated to the rituals of the elite.
7. She is interested in marrying with a man of lowly station who is a worker and not a drone.
Understanding the text
8. (a) the social class to which the girl belongs to
(b) the customs and rituals of the girl's class
(c) that the upper class people are blind followers of their rituals
9. No, she does not think that the lower class people are familiar to the upper class customs. Yes I agree with her.
10. They were Grand Duke of a German principality and an English Marquis,
11. The girl belongs to higher class and the man belongs to lower class.
12. The man dreams of being rich and of elite class but on the other hand the girl intends to lead very common life of commoners. So they are different in their dreams.
UNIT - 4: Love and Affection
Poem:
I Saw A Boy With Eager Eyes
Find the facts
1. Ans:
a. espy
b. cold meat
c. beholding
d. dainty-dressed
2. He wished to read as many books as he gets.
3. The meat was in a tavern larder.
4. Yes, he wants.
5. The second boy wishes he had not learnt to eat because he had no penny to buy food and meat for eating.
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6. In the first stanza, the poet sees a boy who wishes to read lots of books.
7. The stall-man does not let the first boy read the book because he always just reads the books without buying any book.
8. The given extract means rich people are never thoughtful and serious about the sufferings of poor people. The sufferers keep on suffering.
9. The first boy suffers for not being able to read as much as he wants and the second boy suffers for not getting anything to eat. It means the first boy is hungry for reading and second one is hungry for food to eat.
10. Give your own creative answer.
Story: The Magic Flute
Find the facts.
1. He was an orphan boy.
2. He used to play flute in order to recall his dead mother.
3. He met a middle-aged woman carrying a heavy load of grass on who was the wife of the village headman. She addressed him by calling ‘son’.
4. She took him to her home because she was impressed by the melodious music of flute he had played.
5. He could remember of her was a pair of shining eyes and the string of blue beads she always wore around her neck.
6. a. The flute he carried had been ……… a gift from his father.
b. One night as his father sat playing, Sukumar asked him: ………. "Where is Mama?
c. Putting down the flute, ………….. the man's eyes became sad.
d. Sukumar's father carefully fashioned ………….. a flute for the boy.
e. And taught him …………… how to play it.
7. 1. To 2. Of 3. By 4. in
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8. When you play your flute, you must always play it with much love in your own heart. Then everyone will recognize your love through the melody is the opinion and suggestion of father while playing flute.
9. He was nine years old when his father died. He remained sad and alone, the boy put down his flute and did not touch it again for six months as his reaction over the death of his father.
10. Father did not still accept him as his son and also treated differently. That’s why he felt uncomfortable to stay there.
11. She could not understand why he often looked so serious.
12. The departure of the boy from her house made Sayapatri sick. His arrival healed her sickness.
Drama: While the Auto Waits (Scene – III)
After you read
1. (i) because she had to attend a ball
2. (ii) thrice this month
3. (ii) Mr. Witherspoon
4. According to the girl, her chauffeur is waiting.
5. According to her, she is in bondage with her. It means he is supposed to be her life partner.
6. Her name is Mary-Jane Parker. We know this through the address of the waitress to her.
7. He actually belonged to a restaurant. His name was Henry.
8. The young man was boss of the CHAUFFEUR. Its known through his treatment.
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9. It is because she pretends to her maintain her own standard.
10. No, she was not.
11. According to the waitress, the girl is her friend and she works in a restaurant.
12. In the society pages.
13. Yes, he should have been surprised at the end to find out who the young girl was in reality.
Connecting the Scenes
14,15,16. Give your own subjective impressions made by them.
UNIT - 5: Duties and Responsibilities
Poem: The Owl and the Pussy-cat
Find the facts
1. They went to the sea in a beautiful pea-green boat.
2. They took some honey, and plenty of money.
They wrapped up in a five pound note.
They wrapped up in a five pound note.
3. Owl said ‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are, you are, you are.’
What a beautiful Pussy you are, you are, you are.’
4. According to the pussy owl was elegant fowl,
having charmingly ability to sing.
having charmingly ability to sing.
5. They sailed to Turkey.
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6. They began their journey in evening. We can say this because they moved by looking at the stars in the sky.
7. They waited for a year and a day for letting the land for letting the Bong-tree grows.
8. No there is no regular rhyme scheme in all stanzas of the poem.
9. The pig made the marriage of owl and pussy-cat. As they gave them the ring, it became possible.
10. The poem without regular thyme and rhythm is called nonsense verse. The examples of nonsense verse in this poem are as following:
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling your ring?"
Said the Piggy, "I will"
So they took it away, and were married next day.
Story: The Laziest King
Find the facts
1. as the world's laziest king.
2. pleasant
3. scolded
4. King Tadashi had a beautiful castle; built in the finest Japanese tradition. It was a twelve story Pagoda with thick outer walls, many sentry posts and straw roofs.
5. Count Dag was very jealous of King Tadashi. And he was very evil.
6. i. Did I have the most unusual dream?
ii. Did he not know what to say?
iii. Should he tell him the truth that count Dag had in fact attacked?
iv. Did not he have to say anything?
v. Shall I sleep until dinner today?
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7. King Tadashi was kind, good hearted and lover of long sleep whereas Count Dag was ruthless, evil hearted and loving to remain always waking. For him, a moment spent in bed was a moment wasted.
8. All through that day, Count Dag's men were painting their armor black and sharpening their swords again.
9. Tadashi's right hand man was called James John who saved the country from the attack.
10. He opened Tadashi's closet and took out Tadashi's shining red armor, Tadashi's large, sturdy shield and Tadashi's long, beautiful sword and carried them all to the very top of the castle. He stuffed the armor with pillows, so it looked as if someone were inside. He raised the armor's arm and in it he placed the long, shining sword. Then he pushed the armor to a place where everyone below could see it. so that people would feel that the king is commanding them. In this way he saved the country.
11. All the fighting was just a dream for the king. It should be real because the loyalty of king to his people makes us believe him.
Essay: Children’s Rights are Human Rights
Find the facts
1. Living with little or no water and food, with no sanitary service, no job chance and support their family are similarities between poor children of Nepal and some of African poor children.
2. Especially children from ethnic families are deprived of rights and facilities.
3. The violated and deprived rights of children are described in the poem. The rights to interact go outside alone and other fundamental rights of children are violated.
4. There is no health care access of children in Nepal.
5. Honorable principal, Children’s rights, Under-privileged peers, third world countries, ghettos of the African countries.
6. Use the given words and phrases and make your own sensible and creative sentences.
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7. The speaker of this speech is a school child. The speaker represents all the deprived and dominated children of Nepal in particular and all dominated children of the world in general.
8. The tone of this speech is appealing and pathetic.
9. Health, education, expression, economic, social etc. areas about the rights of children are described where they are deprived.
10. As they have no representative of the children in Parliament, the government fails to identify and secure the rights of children.
11. Physically children are made to work hard, given hard punishment by parents for small mistakes etc. like problems and punishments are faced by children.
UNIT - 6: Nature and Adventure
Poem: The Brook
Find the facts
1. The poem is about journey of the stream.
2. It begins from haunts of coot and hern.
3. It crosses thirty hills, slip down the ridges, twenty villages, and fifty bridges
4. Stream has been compared with human that takes birth and die.
5. It is a romantic and at the same time philosophical poem.
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6. The brook moves towards its destination by making rounds of twists and turnings crossing hills and dales.
7. Yes, of course the poet is a nature lover in the poem. I do agree with this statement. As the poet feels his heart soothed to get him on the lap of nature and his vision to see the cycle of life and death in nature proves this.
8. The words sparkle out among the fern, hurry down, slip between the ridges, babble on the pebbles, chatter, etc. words describe both fast and slow pace of stream.
9. The choric lines of this poem refer to poet’s deep love and intimacy to the nature and its beauty especially stream in the poem.
10. brambly wildernesses, slip between the ridges, babble on the pebbles, chatter etc. are the sounds created by the brook while flowing into the valley.
Story: Swimming Lesson
Find the facts
1. They are in the river. They are boating.
2. She was reading in class six.
3. His name was Mr. Fleet.
4. He insisted on the technique that the team jump into the pool again and again, trying to enter the water without a splash.
5. Violent gust of wind roared over the boat.
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6. It was because he was sixteen-year-old boy in hey days of his youth.
7. She was thrown deep into the water, and then her life jacket pulled her up into a tangled mass of lines and sail that blocked her way to the surface. Stunned by the sudden dunking, Katie floated just below the surface, clawing feebly at the fabric of the sail that trapped her.
8. Mr. Fleet is speaker and Katie is listener of this statement.
9. It is confidence and self-control that enables us to survive even in dangerous situation is the message of this story.
10. Expected creative answers.
Essay: Yeti
Find the facts
1. Ang’s uncle’s profession was to guide mountain climbers.
2. He was left behind his group becauseAng slipped and rolled down the snowy mountainside.
3. The footprints led him to an icy cave.
4. The icy cave’s grunts and growls he heard. After that he stepped back in fright.
5. Their light-colored hair helps Yeti to defend itself.
6. They found clumps of rough white hairs and bones in the Himalayan caves.
7. They discover savage snowmen in the mountains of Nepal, Tibet, China and Russia.
8. Some researchers compare Yeti with Bigfoot.
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9. Ang had been actually following the footprints of Yeti. Through its groaning and the findings of scientists we know this.
10. I would try to act like snowman and convince if you were Ang standing before the snowman.
11. Do this based on your own knowledge and information.
12. Give your creative answer.
UNIT - 7: Prevention and Precautions
Poem: The World from a Railway Carriage
Find the facts
1. The speaker is talking about the journey in the train.
2. Troops are charging along.
3. They can be seen in hill and the plain
4. It refers to the very short moment of time.
5. There is regular end rhyme in the poem:
witches-ditches, battle- cattle are examples of rhyming pair.
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6. No, they are not running rather the poet feels so as he is running faster inside the train looking outside.
7. Troops are charging. Cattle fly as thick rain. Hills fly like thick rain.
8. They look like flying thick rain.
9. A tramp stands and gazes;
10. As the poet feels to fly everything outside, we can say that the train was really in high speed.
Story: Run to the River
Find the facts
1. There had been drought.
2. Nine years.
3. Worried
4. The barn was quite a distance downriver from the house, nearer the woods.
5. She led them to the river.
6. you were engulfed by the fire.
7. creative answers are expected
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8. this story is about plight of fire destruction created by long drought.
9. The air was thick with smoke. Confused birds circled above the barn, and ashes floated down from the sky. Three frightened deer bolted from the woods bordering the farm, heading toward the river.
10. They were brothers of Margret. They were sleeping when the fire began.
11. Margaret quickly bent and soaked the dish towels. She draped one over each of her brothers’ heads to protect them from the flying sparks and debris.
12. Nobody died in the story. The idea of going to the river saved all of them.
Biography: Parijat
Find the facts
1. Parijat was born in 1937 AD.
2. It is known as a place of tea gardens.
3. Because her mother Amrita Moktan died early, she was raised by her father Dr. K.N. Waiba.
4. He was a psychologist.
5. a. language b. influential
c. 1954 d. Padma Kanya e. 26
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6. The birth place of Parijat, Darjeeling, was a major Centre of Nepali language, culture and literature during her growing up years which enabled her to become a Nepali writer.
7. When she became paralyzed she was supported for much of her life by her sister.
8. She published three poetry collections: Akansha, ParijatKaKavita and BaisaluBartaman.
9. Her first short story was Maile Najanmayeko Choro.
10. ‘The SirisKoFul’ is her the most famous book. She became MadanPuraskar winner for the novel.
UNIT - 8: Time and Leisure
Poem: Download on a Bicycle
Find the facts
1. i. how he rode a bicycle
2. No, he rather rides the bicycle with full of care.
3. She feels excited to find him flying like bird in the downhill when he is on the bicycle.
4. She feels flying like bird and running in skating.
5. The poet compares her bicycle with skating.
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7. The given lines express his extreme delight while riding the bicycle:
a golden moment,
In a world that is full of bliss?
I float awhile in my airy boat;
8. She is a careful rider. Her poised manner of riding proves this.
9. Yes, of course.
10. The speaker is a young girl in this story. We come to know this through her fantasies and wishes she fostered while riding in his bicycle.
Story: I Spy
Find the facts
1. It was summer holiday.
2. The family was in the car on the way to the sea-side.
3. No it was not. They were bored and tired of long journey.
4. They decided to play game of spy to kill the time.
5. She was 8 years old with brown hair and blue eyes.
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6. She had read all her comics and done all her puzzles.
7. Megan started the game beginning with F.
8. He wept because his sister teased him calling fool.
9. David did spy ‘jumper’ with the letter G.
10. The father was concentrated on his driving and destination. His final question of spy I and its answer justifies this.
Brochure: SheyPhoksundo National Park
Find the facts
1. Brochure
2. It was declared as buffer zone in 1998.
3. Kanjiroba Mountain is 6,883 m high.
4. ThashungGompa was built about 900 years ago to conserve wildlife.
5. They are: snow leopard, grey wolf, musk deer, and blue sheep, goral, great Tibetan sheep etc.
6. It is a Buddhist religion founded in 9th century.
7. Ans: From my place through trekking, we can reach to this place.
8. a. False b. True c. False
d. False e. False
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9. Yes, of course. The birds and animals found in the park are the most interesting for me.
10. Its very cold area. As I live in Hilly region, its climate is similar to some extent.
11. Yes, I do agree.
12. Individual trekking is permitted to trek to Ringmo or Phoksundo Lake. The Trans- Himalayan region of inner Dolpa is restricted to group trekking only. A group trekking permit is needed and can be arranged through any recognized trekking agency of Nepal.
13. Visitors should be self sufficient in fuel supply (kerosene).
The use of firewood is strictly prohibited.
Flora and Fauna are fully protected and must not be disturbed.
Rubbish must be packed out, buried or disposed off in designated areas.
14. One can visit its website.
15. Do this by yourself.
16. Write based on your own experience.
17. Give your creative suggestions.
UNIT-9: Supernatural
Poem: The Ballad of Semmer Water
Find the facts
1. A story of an extraordinary person of event of long ago is called legend.
2. Many a fathom below, there was the palace.
3. A beggar came to the king’s palace.
4. It receives them in heartless manner.
5. He was unfed when he arrived at the palace.
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6. As this poem tells the story of long time ago in a narrative way about the palace and king, it is legend. The curse of beggar is difficult to believe.
7. The people in the city were unkind and heartless. The city was cursed to teach them the lesson of humanity.
8. He was given oatcake and their ale.
9. He cursed the city. As a result it became a gloomy sleeping city.
10. Apart from telling the story, the story also tells cold heart of people who are careless about the suffering of others. When the beggar was suffering from hunger, he asked for something to eat but he was just teased by giving oatcake and ale. How people make fun of others suffering is also shown in the poem.
Story: Theseus and the Minotaur
Find the facts
1. He was king of Crete and was powerful.
2. He built a giant maze, a Labyrinth.
3. It was a monster, half man and half bull.
4. King had to send him seven young men and seven young women.
5. He was prince of Athens.
6. a. I will not go as one of them.
b. Minotaur will not be fed with the flesh of any of our people.
c. Aegeus did not remind him.
d. Other young men had not sworn to slay that terrible beast.
e. He did not understand the dangers.
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6. He told that he would keep watch for his son every day. If he was successful, take down these black sails and replace them with white ones. That way he would know his son was coming home safe.
7. She was daughter of king Minos. She threw him a great ball of string and he tied one end of it to the entrance. So that he could find his way outside the maze.
8. In an instant his world turned upside-down, quite literally. He was picked up between the Minotaur's horns and tossed high into the air. When he landed on the hard cold stone, he felt the animal's huge hooves come down on his chest. Every last breath seemed to be knocked out of him and he struggled to stay alive in the darkness.
As the Minotaur bellowed in his ear and grabbed at him with its hairy arms. He grabbed the animal's huge horns, and kept on twisting the great head from side to side. As the animal grew weak, Theseus gave one almighty tug on the head, turning it almost right around. The creature's neck snapped, it took its last breath and fell to the floor with an enormous thud.
9. It was because he did not find her attractive.
10. It indicates his selfishness and in its stead he got the punishment of the death of his father.
Novella: The Monkey's Paw - I
After you read
1. The night is cold and wet.
2. They were sitting in front of the fire.
3. Mate means friend.
4. Mother is loving and caring to her son.
5. Sergeant-Major Morris has served more than twenty years in India telling exotic stories to his friends.
6. Fakir is a sage like person who wanders door to door for begging.
7. He spelled that anybody could make three wishes keeping the monkey’s paw.
8. He had made three wishes.
9. The White’s family owned two hundred dollars of loan from the bank.
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10. I do not find the story believable because the dead monkey’s paw can fulfill the wishes of people which is impossible.
11. Mr. White was unwilling to use the monkey’s paw. He is afraid of using it but his wife and son want to use it for reducing the loan which they had taken while buying the house. They feel greed over the monkey’s paw.
12. Fakir wants to show that fate ruled people's lives.
13. He kept it thinking that it would bring magical change in his life fulfilling his wishes. But he wants to burn now because it nearly destroyed his life proving paw to be a curse in his life.
14. The father thinks that Morris was right because Morris in his anger threw the paw in the fire.
15. His fourth wish would be to destroy the paw.
16. The first reveals that the family is suffering from economical scarcity and poverty.
17. I would wish to make me talented, hardworking and independent. I would neither believe nor use it because life depends on practical actions of life rather than wishes.
UNIT-10: Fate and Destiny
Poem: I'm Glad I'm Living Now, Not Then!
Find the facts
1. The dinosaurs lived on the earth when the earth was still a little child.
2. They were like spacious homes.
3. They stole the fledglings from their nests.
4. The speaker talks about four different types of creatures.
5. Ans: He is happy because he is living now not then.
6. Do this by yourself.
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7. First and second lines of the poem tells that the dinosaurs are the pre-historic animals.
8. Do it by yourself.
9. The adjectives used in the poem are as following: free and wild, spacious small, tiny, deep, dark, glad etc.
10. She does feel happy even if she did not get chance to see the dinosaurs.
11. Give your own answer.
Story: The Woodcutter and Death
Find the facts
1. It was because he was too frail to raise the heavy weight.
2. Death came when he said that.
3. Death pointed at an old woman who bathed in a nearby pond. The woman suddenly fell and died.
4. Five years to a day.
5. a. Once there lived an old woodcutter.
b. As he bent down to lift the bundle onto his shoulders he found that he was too frail to raise the heavy weight.
c. A strange voice asked: "Did you call me?"
d. He explained that he had simply come, because he had been called.
e. Seeing his doubt, Death pointed at an old woman who bathed in a nearby pond. The woman suddenly fell and died.
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6. It was because he was afraid of death and loving to his life.
7. He was feeling so because he knew that he life was left only for five years.
8. He cut a single hole in a tree of the forest in order to trap Death. Yes he was successful in the mission.
9. People and animals gave birth, but Death came to no one. Hunger and illness resided every -where, yet nobody died since he was trapped in the jungle.
10. Lord Shiva made him invisible, so that people could no longer devise ways to stave him off.
Novella: The Monkey's Paw - 2
After you read
1. Next morning the stranger brought the news about the death of Herbert, son of Mr. and Mrs. White.
2. He was trodden and killed by the machine.
3. The compensation is two hundred dollars.
4. It was not fulfillment of the wish rather a curse.
5. He is afraid of wishing a second time because he thinks about the same another fatal incident likely to happen.
6. She wishes to revive her son by using second wish.
7. Second wish is "I wish my son Herbert would come back."
8. Yes of course. If someone is really in everything, it is possible.
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9. The death of son Herbert reveals the power of the monkey’s paw.
10. I think he looked like ghost. The details that he has looking abnormally tall and strange give us the clue to interpret in this way. His last wish I think was to destroy the paw.
11. Give your own answer.
12. Yes it has proven what the fakir said because the family had interfered Morris from throwing it in the fire, so they had to lose their son.
Connecting the parts
13. a magical but evil monkey’s paw that ruins the quiet life of a family
14. give Mr. White 200 pounds.
15. destiny
16. He realizes his wishes can have only bad consequences.
17. Her husband has made the third wish.
18. Give your own answer.
UNIT -11: Knowledge and wisdom
Poem: The Song of the Whale
Find the facts
1. This poem is about the pointless killing of huge and magnificent animal, whale.
2. Yes it has also the feeling of pain and anger.
3. This stanza ironic to reveal human being’s selfishness. Lipstick is for painted faces and polish is for shoes.
4. The poet is talking about the weeds and bushes inside the sea.
5. The poet feels sad to see the killing of whale. Keeling whale is meaningless in the sense that the act of killing cannot gratify all human needs and desires rather it simply becomes the murder of an innocent creature.
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6. In the first stanza ‘mountain’ is metaphorical to the great problem.
7. The poet’s ability to hear the pain and grief of whale proves that he is compassionate to the suffering of whale.
8. This stanza has been repeated in the poem. This repetition reveals the greed and selfishness of human beings.
9. The Ocean is being compared with forest or wilderness in the seventh stanza. This sort of use of figure of speech is called metaphor.
10. In this stanza, ‘dumb’ means lifeless or killed.
11. Heaving mountain in the sea,
Bird-high notes, keening, soaring:
At their edge a tiny drum. The given three lines have sensory details. The poet appeals our five senses of sense of sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smelling.
Story: The Forgotten Promise
Find the facts
1. King Vikram met a vampire and that vampire told a story to him.
2. They mean: persuaded, difficult and use.
3. The other students kept aloof from the prince as a mark of respect.
4. He did because of the help of Anand.
5. Choose the correct answer of the following questions from the given options:
a. talented
b. teacher
c. Gnananda
d. six years
e. chief advisor
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6. His intelligence or talented was the tool of fostering friendship with the prince.
7. He was an evil character and was misleading man. He suggested an attack on his rivals by revitalizing the army. For collecting treasure he also suggested that by the side of river dwells a demon guarding a huge treasure. He can be conquered only by a well learned young man, like Anand, who is a disciple of Govindacharya. He is in our city for the past three days. He is the right person to accomplish this task.
8. He wanted to be the chief adviser of king as his previous promise for his act of helping the king. He did not take gold and treasure because he knew that the king was in need of money and he was in need of holding the position so that he could help the common people.
9. Creative answers are expected.
Essay: The Chepangs of Nepal
Find the facts
1. The Chepangs are one of the most deprived, disadvantaged and backward indigenous ethnic communities of Nepal.
2. They live in districts of Makwanpur, Chitwan, Gorkha and Dahading.
3. To reach a Chepang village one has to walk five to eight hours from the High Ways.
4. Its Tibeto-Burman strains.
5. Ans: In the past, they used to have a nomadic life.
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6. Its etymological meaning is: ‘che’ means ‘dog’ and ‘pang’ means ‘arrows’.
7. There are only 52237 Chepangs in the entire Nepal out of which 21233 live in Chitwan District alone. The Chepangs make 0.23% of the total population of Nepal. Around 45 % are below 15 years old, 48 % are of the age group of 16-59 and only 7% are 60 and above. 26% of the Chepang families have up to 4 members, 42% have between 5-7 members and 32 % have above 7 members in the family. 92% of the Chepangs are engaged in agriculture and its related works or as agricultural laborers. Only 8% are having non-agricultural occupation.
8. The main source of the livelihood of the Chepangs is the forest and its produces.
9. In the past they used to have a nomadic life but in recent years they have shown interest in cultivation also.
10. Some of them have land in the slops of steep ranges and hence the yields are only minimum and are sufficient only for six to seven months.
UNIT-12: Fact and Fiction
Poem: Foreign Lands
Find the facts
1. The speaker is climbing up in a tall tree. No he is not going to foreign land.
2. The garden is very beautiful. The blooming flowers have made it beautiful.
3. The deep blue and clean sky, the speaker feels to be like a looking-glass.
4. Yes he wants to climb still higher tree so that he can see further and further.
5. Trudging, plodding, marching etc. are some other ways of walking.
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6. Yes, of course. When they climb up tall trees, the can see beautiful vision of far and wide. So it encourages children to climb up tall trees.
7. He sees foreign land from the cherry tree.
8. It is beautiful and attractive. My village is also not less beautiful than that.
9. Yes, I have so many times climbed a tree. When I climbed tree, I also used to see string like rivers and tip of snowcapped mountains.
Story: The Little Time Thief
Find the facts
1. Allina was in school, walking through the hallway on her way to the bathroom.
2. He had been given a ‘time-out.’, punishment either for talking in class or for teasing one of the girls.
3. She grabbed the fifteen minutes from Gerry.
4. Her father cleaned the stove in the kitchen.
5. The time for story was 8:30.
6. The time remained constant when she unfolded the time of Garry. It remained just 8:28.
7. a. through b. to c. from d. to e. at
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8. Allina steals Garry’s time in the story. She used that time for painting the picture.
9. She had to go upstairs, brush her teeth and get ready for stories before going to bed and start listening story from her father.
10. The given statements tell about Allina’s time consciousness. Through her we come to know that every second and every minute time is crucial for us. That’s why we have to utilize it.
Letter: A Letter to Father
Find the facts
1. ‘Students' Home’ is the name of the hostel.
2. The letter was written on May 14, 2011.
3. The boy is feeling quite well at hostel.
4. Shanti is the name of his sister.
5. Mr. K.P. Sharma is the hostel warden. He is kind and co-operative who takes care of the children properly.
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6. Narendra has written this letter. This letter is about hostel life.
7. Punctuality and regularity of activities, new and different types friends and environment etc. are the differences he has found at hostel than in village.
8. Yes, I do agree because there are different students living together having different types habits, attitudes, interests, feelings and emotions and also from different places.
9. As I am also living at hostel, we do have almost similar everyday activities.
10. Debate, discussion, games, watching TV programmes and movies etc. are provided to the students for their recreation and learning at hostel. I think they are enough for them.
Happy Teaching!!!
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