Summary & Question-answers of The Chapter: 6- The Monkey & the Crocodile with the concerned video

Summary of The Monkey and the Crocodile

This is a story of a friendship between a monkey and a crocodile. A monkey lived alone in a fruit-laden tree on a riverbank. He was very happy but used to feel lonely. He wanted to have someone to talk to.

One day, a crocodile came near that tree and the monkey offered him fruit to eat. The crocodile found it delicious and started coming daily. Soon they became very good friends. They both liked each other’s company.

They discussed everything around them like birds, animals, villagers and their problems. Their closeness grew day by day.

The crocodile did not just eat the fruit himself but also carried some fruits for his wife. But his wife didn’t like his friendship with the monkey. She expressed a wish to eat the monkey’s heart.To keep his wife’s words he invited his friend monkey to have dinner with him. While taking the monkey to his home, he told him the truth about his wife’s wish.

Hearing that the monkey asked the crocodile to go back to the river as he had forgotten his heart on the tree. The crocodile swam back and reached the river bank.

The monkey quickly jumped onto the tree and threw some fruits to the crocodile and bade goodbye to the crocodile.

1.The monkey was happy living in the fruit tree, but his happiness was not complete. What did he miss?

A. He missed a companion. He wanted to have someone to talk to.

2. What did the two friends generally talk about?

A. They talked about birds and animals, villagers and their challenges.

3. Why was the crocodile’s wife annoyed with her husband one day?

A. She was annoyed because he got late and she had to manage the little ones all alone. She wanted to know who was so dear to him.

4. Why was the crocodile unwilling to invite his friend home?

A. He was unwilling because he knew that his wife would eat the monkey and he didn’t want to cheat him.

5. What did the crocodile tell the monkey midstream?

A. The crocodile told his intention of taking him home midstream.He told that his wife wanted his heart to eat.

6. How did the monkey save himself?

A. The monkey saved himself very cleverly in a wise manner. He told him that he had forgotten his heart on the tree.

7. What does the last sentence of the story suggest? What would the crocodile tell his wife?

A.The last sentence suggests that the crocodile repented losing a good friend. He would tell his wife about his foolishness. He would tell her that it was not a wise decision to pay attention to her words and cheat a friend.

Summary & Question-answers of The Poem: 6- The Wonderful Words with the concerned video

The Wonderful Words Summary In English

Every mind has thoughts. People are constantly trying to translate their thoughts into words. The poet wants these attempts to continue. No thought should die for want of proper words. English is a wonderful language and trying to find suitable words for your thoughts is a wonderful game. New thoughts are always coming. Many beautiful thoughts have not yet found expression. Let everyone try to give his thoughts a body of proper words.

Words are the food and dress of thoughts. They supply the thought its body and energy. Everyone wants to hear something new and beautiful. The thoughts are imprisoned in our mind. We can liberate them only with the help of suitable words. Who knows there may be some splendid and original thought of your mind waiting for proper words. 

With your partner, complete the following sentences in your own words using the ideas in the poem.

1. Do not let a thought shrivel and die because ________________.
2. English is a _______________ with words that everyone can play.
3. One has to match _________________ .
4. Words are the _______________ of thought.

Аnswer:

1. you don’t know how to say it.
2. wonderful game.
3. the words to the brightest thoughts in one’s head.
4. food and dress

Summary of Question-answers of The Chapter: 5- Who I Am with the concerned video

Who I Am Summary In English

This lesson tells us that all the people on earth are different, yet we are all interesting people in different ways. The author makes his point by describing six persons.

Radha
Radha likes to climb trees. This is her favourite activity. Her mother asks her not to do so. However, one afternoon Radha’s mother also climbed with her on the mango tree outside their house. Both of them talked and ate raw mangoes up on the tree. Climbing a tree Radha feels like she can rule the whole world.

Nasir
Nasir has cotton fields in the village. His father spends a lot of money on the seeds to grow the cotton plants. His grandfather had once told him that he used to collect seeds from his own plants which were used to grow new plants, But these days it doesn’t work. Nasir wants to know why it is so. He wants to learn to preserve seeds so as to use them again and not spend money on this every year.

Rohit
Rohit likes to travel. If he could afford, he would go round the world. He wants to visit the mountains of New Zealand and the Amazon river in South America. He also wishes to enjoy the beaches of Lakshadweep and the Konark Temple in Orissa. The old city of Beijing in China and the Pyramids of Egypt are also his favourites.

Serbjit
Serbjit is angry with most people around him because they do not trust him when he speaks the truth. His teacher thinks that he is lying when he says that he could not do homework because Ravi had borrowed his look. He tells his parents that it is his little brother who started the fight. But they blame him. Their distrust angers him and he has to make effort to control his anger.

Dolma

Dolma is very ambitious. She wants to do some service for the country. For this she wants to become the Prime Minister. She says that she has leadership qualities. Her classmates come to her when they have a problem. Her teachers trust her when something is to be done in school. As Prime Minister she would try to make things better for everyone.

Peter
Peter loves the second Sunday of every month. For, on that day, his father takes the whole family for an outing. They go to cinema. He loves eating peanuts while seeing a film. After the film, they eat ice-cream. Every one is in a good mood feeling lucky for being such a happy family.

Question and Answers

A. Answer the following questions.

Peter’s favourite day of the week is Sunday because —————

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A. Peter’s favourite day of the week is Sunday because on this day his family goes for outing.

 Nasir wants to learn ———— —————

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A.Nasir wants to learn the art of seed preservation.

Dolma believes that she can make a good Prime Minister because ———————

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A.Dolma believes that she can make a good Prime Minister because she has leadership qualities in her. People come to her for ideas to begin new things and solutions to solve their problems.

 B. Write True or False against each of the following statements.

1. Peter is an only child. ——————————

2. When Serbjit gets angry he shouts at people. ——————————

3. Nasir lives in the city. ——————————

4. Radha’s mother enjoys doing things with her. ——————————

Answers: 1- False , 2- False, 3- False,4 – true

Autumn Break Homework for Class 10B in English subject (2021-22)

1. Read & revise all the chapters taken up in the class & prepare all question-answers.

2. You have received a letter from your bank, asking you to acknowledge receipt of a new bank card. However, the card was missing from the envelope. Write a letter to the bank's head office explaining the situation. (100-120 words)

3. Write an analytical paragraph in about

100-120 words based on any data of your 

choice.

4. You ordered an item from an online store & it has arrived damaged. Write a letter to the retailer explaining the situation how you received the damaged product. (100-120 words)

5. Prepare 100 MCQs with answers (20 MCQs from each chapter/poem) from the following chapters/poem in First Flight.

i- Glimpses of India

ii- Madam Rides the Bus

iii- The Tale of Custard the Dragon

iv- The Sermon at Benares

v-  The Proposal

Autumn Break Homework for Class 9B in English subject (2021-'22)

1. Read & revise all the chapters taken up in the class & prepare all question- answers.

2. You are Kavya/Kavish of Class 9. You recently met a famous television personality. Make a diary entry using the 

given clues on what you learnt from the meeting & also state how you felt.(100 words)

Met a star- got the opportunity due to a lucky draw -hardworking- man of modern thinking - felt inspired- calm & composed

3. Complete the following story in about 

120 words.

Two years ago, I intended to visit Agra with my close friends. I got up early in the morning & -------------------------------------------       4. Write a descriptive paragraph in 100-120 words on any visual of your choice.

5. Prepare 100 MCQs from the chapters 

6 to 8 in Beehive.

Summary & Question-answers of The Poem : 8- The Trees with the concerned video

The Trees Summary

The poet talks about trees symbolically. They refer to women who have been healed and are ready to move out of their houses to fulfil their primary purpose – to renew the forest of mankind. As women have remained indoors, the forest has become empty, the birds and insects rendered shelterless. The Sun’s rays do not have the tree trucks and leaves to fall upon and thus, reach the earth. She says that the forest will be full of trees the next morning. The roots of the trees are working hard to separate from the floor of the veranda where they have remained fixed. The leaves and branches are moving towards the glass windows. They are desperate to move out just like a newly discharged patient who has not recovered completely, moves to the exit door of the hospital in a hurry. The poet is sitting in her house with the doors of the veranda open. She is writing letters but does not mention this movement of the trees. It is night time, the sky is clear and a bright moon is visible. She can smell the leaves and lichen which seem to be calling out desperately. She hears the glass of the window pane breaking. The trees are moving out and the fast blowing wind embraces them.  As the trees have reached the forest, the tall and strong oak tree overshadows the moon and it seems that the moon has been broken into several pieces.

Q1-(1) Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest?

Ans: The three things mentioned in the first stanza that cannot happen in a treeless forest are:

Birds sitting on the tree branches.

The hiding of insects in the branches of trees

The sun burying its feet in the shadow of the trees in the forest.

 (2) What picture do these words create in your mind: “… sun bury its feet in shadow…”? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet?’

Ans: The sun’s feet are the rays of sun that reach the earth after falling on the leaves of the trees and finally, reach the earth’s surface.

Q2- (1) Where are the trees in the poem? What do their roots, their leaves, and their twigs do?

Ans: The trees are in the poet’s house. The roots are working hard to remove themselves from the cracks of veranda. The leaves are making an effort to reach towards the glass in order to come out and the twigs are making attempts to set themselves free and reach the forest.

(2) What does the poet compare their branches to?

Ans: The poet uses the word long cramped for the branches. She says that the branches are trying hard to come out of the roof. She then compares them with newly discharged patients who are trying to move out in their half consciousness.

Q3- (1) How does the poet describe the moon: (a) at the beginning of the third stanza, and (b) at its end? What causes this change?

Ans: The poet describes the moon as a full moon in the beginning of the third stanza but at the end of the stanza, she describes it to be broken into pieces. The change in the moon is because of the trees. The trees that earlier were in the poet’s house have now reached the forest. Their long branches have cast a shadow on the full moon and now it appears to be broken into pieces like a mirror.

 

(2) What happens to the house when the trees move out of it?

Ans: The house becomes silent as the fragrance of the leaves and lichens which was like a voice urging for a change can no longer be smelt.

(3) Why do you think the poet does not mention “the departure of the forest from the house” in her letters? (Could it be that we are often silent about important happenings that are so unexpected that they embarrass us? Think about this again when you answer the next set of questions.) ?

Ans: The poet did not mention the departure of the forest from her house because it is a part of human nature to ignore the important matters of their life. We all know that trees are so important for our survival on earth. But still human beings are cutting them for making profits without even thinking of the aftermath.

Summary & Question-answers of The Chapter: 5- Tansen with the concerned video

Tansen – Summary

This is the story of the famous Indian musician named, Tansen. He was the only child of singer Mukandan Mishra.They lived in the village Behat near Gwalior. Tansen was a naughty but wise and talented child. One day, in the forest, Swami Haridas found Tansen roaring like a tiger. Then, Tansen started learning music from him. He learnt music for eleven years and became a great singer afterwards. His father’s last wish was to send Tansen to Mohammed Ghaus of Gwalior. There, Tansen got married to Hussaini. Soon after Tansen became a famous Musician.He became the official singer in Emperor Akbar’s court. Being a favourite of Akbar, he was a victim of jealousy of the few courtiers. Courtiers even planned to kill Tansen. Shaukat Mian, a courtier in Akbar’s court requested Akbar to make Tansen sing Raga Deepak.

Tansen knew that Raga Deepak could produce heat around the singer and turn him into ashes  and Raga Megh could bring Rain. So, he prepared his daughter Saraswati and her friend Rupvati to sing Raga Megh in the court.

The girls sang Raga Megh when fire spread out near Tansen and lamps were alighted as per the plan. Tansen’s life was saved when drops of rain fell down on him. After this incident Tansen became sick. Akbar punished the courtiers. Tansen recovered from his illness and people rejoiced and celebrated his recovery.Questions and Answers

1. Why did Swami Haridas say Tansen was ‘talented’?

A.Swami said so because of his skills to make different sounds.

2. Why did Akbar ask Tansen to join his court?

A. Akbar asked Tansen to join his court because he was impressed by his singing.

3. How do we know that Akbar was fond of Tansen? Give two reasons.

A. Akbar was fond of Tansen because he used to call him for singing in his court very often. Secondly, when his courtiers expressed distrust in his singing, Akbar was full of trust that Tansen could sing anything.

4. What did the other courtiers feel about Tansen?

A They felt jealous of him.

5. (i) What happens if Raga Deepak is sung properly?

A. It produces heat which can burn everything.

(ii) Why did Tansen’s enemies want him to sing the Raga?

A.They wanted him to sing Raga Deepak because they didn’t like him and wanted to get rid of him.

6. Why did Tansen agree to sing Raga Deepak?

A. He agreed to sing Raga Deepak because he didn’t want to say no to the Emperor. He didn’t want to displease him. So he agreed to keep his master’s trust.

7. (i) What steps did he take to save himself?

A. He trained his daughter and her friend to sing Raga Megh. He also instructed them to sing the Raag when the lamps would be lit.

(ii) Did his plan work? How?

A. Yes, his plan worked well.The girls started singing just as planned and rain showers came and he was saved.