THINKING ABOUT THE TEXT PAGE 7
I.
Given below are some emotions that Kezia felt. Match the emotions in Column A
with the items in Column B.
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A |
B |
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1. fear or terror |
(i) father comes into
her room to give her a goodbye kiss |
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2. glad sense of
relief |
(ii) noise of the
carriage grows fainter |
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3. a “funny” feeling, perhaps of understanding |
(iii) father comes home (iv) speaking to father (v) going to bed when alone at home (vi) father comforts her and falls asleep (vii) father stretched
out on the sofa, snoring |
Answer:
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A |
B |
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1. fear
or terror |
(iii)
father comes home (v)
going to bed when alone at home |
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2.
glad sense of relief |
(i) Father comes into her room to give her
a goodbye kiss (ii) Noise of the carriage grows fainter |
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3.
a “funny” feeling, perhaps of understanding |
(vi)
Father comforts her and falls asleep |
II. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
1. Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
Answer: Kezia was afraid of her father because he was a domineering man. Not only was he strict, but he was also quite violent.
2. Who were the people in Kezia’s family?
Answer: Kezia’s family had a total of four members - Kezia, her parents, and her grandmother.
3. What was Kezia’s father’s routine
(i)
before going to his office?
(ii)
after coming back from his office?
(iii)
on Sundays?
Answer:
(i) Kezia’s father would enter
Kezia’s room to give her a casual kiss before heading for work.
(ii) After returning from work,
Kezia’s father asked for tea to be delivered to his drawing-room. Then, he
would ask his wife to bring him the newspaper and his slippers and would tell
Kezia to pull off his boots.
(iii) Kezia's father would lay himself down on the sofa on Sundays. He would sleep with his face covered with a handkerchief.
4. In what ways did Kezia’s
grandmother encourage her to get to know her father better?
Answer: Kezia’s grandmother would ask Kezia to have a discussion with her father on Sundays. Once, she told Kezia to make a pin cushion on the occasion of her father’s birthday.
III. Discuss these questions in class with your teacher and then write down your answers in two or three paragraphs each.
1. Kezia’s efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much. How did this happen?
Answer: Kezia was terrified of her father. His presence almost always
made her feel uncomfortable. Every Sunday, her grandmother would ask her to
discuss with her dad in the drawing-room. Nevertheless, she only irritated her
father with her presence. In fact, her father used to address her as 'little
brown owl'.
It so happened once that Kezia’s grandmother suggested Kezia craft a pin-cushion as a gift for her father’s birthday. While stitching the cushion, Kezia needed scraps, so she searched her mother's bedroom. After finding some sheets of paper on the bed table, she gathered tore them up, filling the cushion with those torn pieces.
But sadly, it was only later that she got to know those scraps were her father's speech for the Port Authority. So, even though she wanted to make him happy, she ended up upsetting her father.
2. Kezia decides that there are “different kinds of fathers”. What kind of father was Mr Macdonald, and how was he different from Kezia’s father?
Answer: Mr Macdonald was a friendly father. Unlike Kezia’s father who was strict and violent, Mr Macdonald played with his kids and was caring and kind towards them.
While there is little doubt that both the fathers were different from each other, Kezia concluded that there were different kinds of fathers only after having seen Mr Macdonald behaving in a cool and nonchalant way with his kids. As a matter of fact, he did not even seem to scold his children when they did something naughty but rather laughed off their naughty action of theirs.
3. How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy.
Answer: Once Kezia’s mother became ill, and this led to her being taken to the hospital. Her grandmother went to the hospital too. Thus, Kezia was home with Alice, who was the cook, and her father. When Alice tried putting Kezia to bed, Kezia got afraid. She asked what she would do if she got a nightmare, telling her that her grandmother would take her bed when she had nightmares. But Alice just asked her to go to sleep.
When the nightmare finally came, Kezia woke up, shivering, only to find her father standing with a candle beside her bed. He then caught Kezia in his arms after blowing off the candle. He even asked her to run her feet against his legs to get some warmth. That’s exactly when Kezia began to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy.
THINKING ABOUT LANGUAGE PAGE 7
I. Look at the following sentence.
There was a glad sense of relief when she heard the noise of the carriage growing fainter...
Here, glad means
happy about something.
Glad, happy, pleased, delighted, thrilled and overjoyed are synonyms (words or 2020-21 The expressions that have the same or nearly the same meaning.) However, they express happiness in certain ways.
Read
the sentences below.
• She
was glad when the meeting was over.
• The chief guest was pleased to announce the name of the winner.
1. Use an appropriate word from the synonyms given above in the following sentences. Clues are given in brackets.
(i) She was ________ by
the news of her brother’s wedding. (very pleased)
(ii) I was ________ to be invited to the party. (extremely pleased and excited about)
(iii) She was ______ at the birth of her granddaughter. (extremely happy)
(iv) The coach was
_______ with his performance. (satisfied about)
(v) She was ______very with her results. (happy about something that has
happened)
Answer: (i) delighted (ii) overjoyed (iii) thrilled (iv) satisfied (v) pleased.
2. Study the use of the word big in the following sentence.
He was so big — his hands and his neck, especially his mouth… Here, big means large in size. Now, consult a dictionary and find out the meaning of big in the following sentences. The first one has been done for you.
(i) You are a big girl now. ______older
(ii) Today you are going to take the biggest decision of your
career. _________________
(iii) Their project is full of big ideas. _________________
(iv) Cricket is a big game in our country. __________________
(v) I am a big fan of Lata Mangeskar. _________________
(vi) You have to cook a bit more as my friend is a big eater.
_____________
(vii) What a big heart you’ve got, Father dear. ________________
Answer: (i) older (ii) most significant (iii) noble (iv) important (v) serious
(vi) hearty (vii) generous
II. Verbs of Reporting
We use verbs of reporting to advise, order, report statements, thoughts, intentions, questions, requests, apologies, manner of speaking and so on.
1.
Underline the verbs of reporting in the following sentences.
(i) He says he will enjoy
the ride.
(ii) Father mentioned that
he was going on a holiday.
(iii) No one told us
that the shop was closed.
(iv) He answered that
the price would go up.
(v) I wondered why he
was screaming.
(vi) Ben told her to
wake him up.
(vii) Ratan apologised
for coming late to the party.
(i) He says he will enjoy the ride.
(ii) Father mentioned that he was going on
a holiday.
(iii) No one told us that the shop was
closed.
(iv) He answered that the price would go
up.
(v) I wondered why he was screaming.
(vi) Ben told her to wake him up.
(vii) Ratan apologised for coming late to the party.
2. Some verbs of reporting are given in the box. Choose the appropriate verbs and fill in the blanks in the following sentences.
were complaining shouted replied remarked ordered suggeste
(i) “I am not afraid,” _____________ the woman.
(ii) “Leave me alone,” my mother ______________.
(iii) The children _________________ that the roads were
crowded and noisy.
(iv) “Perhaps he isn’t a bad sort of a chap after all,” _______________
the master.
(v) “Let’s go and look at the school ground,” ______________
the sports teacher.
(vi) The traffic police ______________ all the passers-by to keep off the road.
Answer:
(i) “I
am not afraid,” replied the
woman.
(ii)
“Leave me alone,” shouted my
mother.
(iii)
The children were complaining
that the roads were crowded and noisy.
(iv)
“Perhaps he isn’t a bad sort of a chap after all,” remarked the master.
(v)
“Let’s go and look at the school ground,” suggested
the sports teacher.
(vi) The traffic police ordered
all the passers-by to keep off the road.
Poem: Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney
THINKING
ABOUT THE POEM PAGE
11
I. 1. What do the following phrases mean
to you? Discuss in class.
(i) humid shadows
(ii) starry spheres
(iii) what a bliss
(iv) a thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start
(v) a thousand recollections weave their air-threads
into woof.
Answer:
(i) dark clouds
(ii) night sky
(iii) indicates the
poet’s happiness
(iv) the poet’s
imagination prowess gets rekindled
(v) the thoughts that
come to the poet create a beautiful story.
2. What does the poet like to do when it
rains?
Answer:
The
poet likes to press the pillow and listen to the patter of the rain upon the
roof.
3. What is the single major memory that
comes to the poet? Who are the “darling dreamers” he refers to?
Answer:
The
single major memory that comes to the poet is the fond look of his mother. And
the darling dreamers are the siblings of the poet and the poet himself who are
laid to sleep by their mother.
4. Is the poet now a child? Is his mother
still alive?
Answer:
The
poet is not a child anymore as it is evident that the memories of his childhood
are from the distant past. From the wordings of the poet, it is not clear
whether his mother is alive or not. However, she doesn’t seem to be living with
him.
II. 1. When you were a young child, did
your mother tuck you in, as the poet’s did?
Answer:
Although
I can’t remember those days, my mother tells me that she tucked me in. She adds
that I would cry often, only to later be fed milk and then put to sleep.
2. Do you like rain? What do you do when
it rains steadily or heavily as described in the poem?
Answer:
I
don’t really like rain. The weather gets humid, and I am bound to stay indoors.
Also, the roads get damaged. When it rains steadily, I do manage to go out,
sometimes even get drenched in the rain. But when it rains heavily, I prefer
staying indoors.
3. Does everybody have a cosy bed to lie
in when it rains? Look around you and describe how different kinds of people or
animals spend time, seek shelter etc. during rain.
Answer: No, everybody doesn't have a cosy bed to lie in when it rains. The homeless have to spend their time outside even when there are horrific storms. After all, they don't have a place to take shelter. Be that as it may, different animals behave differently during rain. Squirrels oftentimes seem to enjoy themselves when it rains. Larger animals like cats and dogs look for shelter. There are a few animals like rats who get inside houses during heavy rains, feeding on the foodstuffs they find there.
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