Ghisa Ram Dhaka Fatehpura English Teacher

 Fill the blanks with the correct forms of verbs :- 1. He usually....... (do) his homework in his room. 2. The doctor told him to stop......... (smoke) and take a trip. 3. Could you....... (help) me please? 4. I have decided....... (study) more and improve my overall average. 5. Let me....... (leave) the classroom please. 6. He wants Mary........ (do) the dishes. 7. She....... (not /do) any bad thing yesterday, I'm sure. 8. They........ (come) here next week to visit my new office. 9. Would you mind........ (open) the window, please? It's hot here. 10. Had they........ (leave) your husband before you came here? 11.John ........TV every night. ( watch ) 12. I am tired of ........ here. ( work). Fill in the correct forms of verbs:- I_______________   a great film yesterday. (see)  2........ you...... a new car? ( ever buy)  3. I ____  him last Monday. (meet)  4. The band _______ while I ________ . (play, write)  5. She _______ the new car in 2005. (...

 CLASS:XII POEM:03 Keeping Quiet  Questions and Answers  Short Answer Type Question 1. What will counting up to twelve and keeping still help us achieve ? Answer: Counting upto twelve and keeping still gives us time to introspect ourselves. In this way, we can recuperate our energy and restart our activities with fresh energy and zeal. Question 2. Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death ? Answer: No, the poet does not advocate total inactivity and death. He only wants us to keep quiet for a few seconds and suspend all our activities for a few seconds. In this way we can introspect our¬selves and restart our activities with fresh energy and zeal. Question 3. What is the ‘sadness’ that the poet refers to in the poem? Answer: When people don’t introspect themselves they fail to understand themselves, then ‘sadness’ arises. The poet wants that people should overcome this sadness by introspecting themselves. Question 4. What symbol from Nature does the poet ...

 CLASS:X Poem:10 The Tale of Custard the Dragon  Questions and Answers  Short Answer Type Question 1. What were the names of Belinda’s pets? Answer: The names of Belinda’s pets were Ink, a little black kitten; Mustard, a little yellow dog; Blink, a little grey mouse and a dragon whose name was Custard. Question 2. How did the pirate look? Answer: The pirate held a pistol in his left hand and another pistol in his right hand. He had black beard and his one leg was of wood. He held a bright cutlass in his teeth. It was clear that his intentions were not good. Question 3. Why did the Belinda cry for help? Answer: Belinda was scared to see the pirate who had pistols in his hands and had a bright cutlass in his teeth. There was something bad in his appearance and intention. Therefore Belinda was afraid of the pirate and cried for help. Question 4. What did the custard do at last? Answer: Custard saved Belinda and the other pets from the pirate. He showed his braver side and at...

Class:XII  Book:Flamingo Poem:02 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum  Questions Short Answer Type Question 1: What change does the poet hope for in the lives of the slum children? Answer: Stephen Spender wants a better life for the children of the slums. He wants the officials to help these poor children come out of their miserable surroundings. He wishes that these children should be given education, because education is the key to prosperity. Question 2: To whom does the poet in the poem, ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum’ make an appeal? What is his appeal? Answer: The poet makes an appeal to his readers, especially the educated and well-off people, to help the poor children of the slum come out and be freed from their miserable surroundings. His appeal is that these children should be given quality education, because education holds the key to their emancipation. Question 3: Which words/phrases in the poem ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum’show that th...

 Class:X Poem:07  Animals  Questions and Answers  Short Answer Type Question 1. Why does the poet wish to live with animals? Answer: The poet wishes if he could be transformed and live with animals. The poet thinks that animals Eire self contained, peaceful, unambitious, uncomplaining, simple Eind honest. He finds himself more like Einimsds. Question 2. About what do the animals not ‘whine’ and ‘weep’? Answer: The animals do not show anxiety or distress nor do they moan about the condition in which they live.. The animals do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. Question 3. ‘Not one kneels to another, nor to his. kind that lived thousands of years ago.’ How does the poet distinguish between animals and human being in these lines? Answer: The poet wishes to convey that the EinimEils do not kneel before others especially before the ones who lived thousand of years ago. But the humsm beings indulge in hero worship and kneel to another human beings, who migh...

 Poem : 01 My mother at Sixty six    Questions - Answers Q1. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels? Ans: When the poet sees the pale and corpse-like face of her mother, her old familiar pain or the ache returns. Perhaps she has entertained this fear since her childhood. Ageing is a natural process. Time and ageing spare none. Time and ageing have not spared the poet’s mother and may not spare her as well. With this ageing, separation and death become inevitable. Q2. Why are the young trees described as ‘sprinting’? Ans: The poet is driving to the Cochin airport. When she looks outside, the young trees seem to be walking past them. With the speed of the car they seem to be running fast or sprinting. The poet presents a contrast—her ‘dozing’ old mother and the ‘sprinting’ young trees. Q3. Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children ‘spilling out of their homes’ ? Ans: The poet has brought in the image of merry children ‘spilling out of their ...

Class:10 Poem:7 The Trees Questions and Answers Question 1. Why do the trees need to move out? Where have they been and why? Answer: The trees in the forest have been cut and man has planted trees in his courtyard for his selfish decorative purposes. It makes the trees feel suffocated and out of place. So they need to move out into the forest. They have been in the city houses as men have imprisoned them there. Question 2. What makes the forest empty? What cannot happen in a-treeless forest? Answer: Man’s cutting the trees of the forest at an uncontrollable speed has resulted in the empty forests. In a treeless forest, birds and insects cannot find shelter and make their homes there. The sun cannot cool its rays in the shadow there. Question 3. How do the trees rebel against their imprisonment at the hand of the man? Answer: Man has imprisoned the trees of the forest in his houses in cities. The trees rebel against their imprisonment. The roots come out of the floors by breaking them. ...