Class 8Th English U-2
Prose 2: Life (U2)
WORKING WITH
TEXT
Q1. What answer did the
stars give to the wind?
Ans: Since the stars have
their own light so they answered in their own way. They told the wind that they
have their own light and with this light they shine the others to find their
way. They are independent. Life of dependence is no life. Having their own
light is the life for them.
Q2. What was the moon's
reply?
Ans: The moon replied that
its life is nothing without stars because it borrows its light from them and
this borrowed light is the cause of its black spots. Due to this, its life is
like a widow. Its life is dependent on others and feels lifeless entity and
child of the ocean.
Q3. What was the oceans
response?
Ans: The Ocean
replied that the idea of life is to realize one's limits and maintain one's
dignity to contain all bitter experiences and take them as pearls and rubies.
The life is also a penance or renunciation, as if it (ocean) is the cause of
someone's death it also regrets it by giving them pearls and rain because salty
water of it creates pearls and create clouds full of rain.
Q4. What was the earth's
reply to the question put forth to her by the wind?
Ans: For earth the meaning
of life is 'love'. Earth considers herself the mother of all lives and says
that the sympathy of mother is the gift of life. Earth says that it takes water
from clouds, rivers, and streams and distributes everything that sprouts from
it, so this taking and giving is life for her.
Q5. What was the little
girl doing when the wind saw her?
Ans: The little girl was
lighting new lamps with the lamp that was already alight in her hand.
Q6. Why was the Wind
impressed by the little girl?
Ans: The wind was impressed
by the girl because she found the real meaning of life from the words that the
girl told her. The wind understood that helping those who have a strong desire
to live is the real meaning of life.
Q7. Why did the wind join
the girl?
Ans: The wind joined the
girl because she was impressed by the answer given by her. Thus the Wind forgot
everything and joined her.
LANGUAGE
WORK
I. Choose appropriate
tiller for the following: (Kindly consult your text
book),(Answers Only):
1. He tames because he
Ans: (c), He is fond of
them.
2. He is so lazy that he
Ans: (c), He can seldom
complete his work.
3. Whichever way you
approach the problem
Ans: (d), It will not be
solved.
4. The doctor warns him
that unless he gives up smoking
Ans: (d), He will not
recover.
II. Write two synonyms of
each of the following Words: (Answers Only):
1. Abhor………..Hate, Detest,
Dislike, Despise
2. Betray……….Expose,
Reveal, Deceive, Grass
3. Counsel……..Advice,
Discuss, Guidance, Direction
4. Delight………Please,
Satisfy, Pleasure, Happiness, Joy
5. Educate……….Amend,
Improve, Teach, Instruct
6. Fate……………Destiny,
Fortune, Luck
7. Generous……..Benevolent,
Big hearted, Lavish, Liberal
8. Hasty………..Quick, Speedy,
Hurried, Swift, Rapid, Fast
9.
Intellectual…….Knowledgeable, Intelligent, Logical, Scholarly
10. Justice……….Fairness,
Impartiality, Rightfulness, Uprightness
11. Languid………Lazy, weak,
Unhurried, Unenergetic, Relaxed
12. Mend……….Aid, Patch,
Repair, Fix, Restore
13. Nonsense……..Senseless,
Gibberish, Babble, Drivel
14. Obstacle……..Difficulty,
Problem, Complication, Hindrance, Restraint
15. Palatable………Edible,
Pleasant, Tasty, Satisfying
16. Queer………….Unusual,
Unexpected, Odd, Expose, Endanger
17. Religious………Sacred,
Spiritual, Holy, Pious, Puritan
18. Sober………….Temperate,
Moderate, Intoxicated, Serious
19. Transient………Fleeting,
Passing, Brief, Temporary, Short-lived
20. Urge…………..Need, Wish,
Impulse, Itch, Craving
GRAMMER WORK
Write the following
sentences inserting ‘to’ wherever necessary before the infinitive in brackets:
1. I have no money (lend)
you. Ans. I have no
money to lend you.
2. We saw the thief
(run).
Ans. We saw the thief running.
3. We heard her
(sing).
Ans. We heard her singing.
4. They watched their team
(play). Ans. They watched their team to play.
5. He made us (wait) for a
long time. Ans. He made us to wait for a long time.
6. Let him (work).
Ans. Let him to work.
7. Need I (come)
tomorrow?
Ans. Need I to come tomorrow?
8. Do you wish make (make)
a complaint? Ans. Do you wish to make a complaint?
9. A heard a cock (crow)
and got up.
Ans. He heard a cock crowing and got up.
10. How dare you (read my
letter?
Ans. How dare you to read my letter?
11. It is up to you
(increase) your
knowledge. Ans. It
is up to you to increase your knowledge.
12. Bid him (go) there.
Ans. Bid him to go there.
13. Good bye! I hope (see)
you again.
Ans. Good bye! I hope to see you again.
14. I would like (be) a
teacher. Ans. I
would like to be a teacher.
15. He learnt (swim) when
he was ten years old. Ans. He learnt to
swim when he was ten years old.
16. I’m tired. I want (go)
to bed. Ans. I’m tired. I want to go
to bed.
17. What have you decided
(do)? Ans. What have you decided to do?
18. We should learn (speak)
the truth.
Ans. We should learn to speak the truth.
19. Where is Sumaya? I need
(ask) her something. Ans. Where is Sumaya? I need to ask her
something.
20. I’m trying
(concentrate). Please stop talking. Ans.
I’m trying to concentrate. Please stop talking.
Let’s Write:
1. Write a dialogue (100-150 words) on ‘Life is Gift’. (By Bilal
Ahmad Kulgam)
Daniel (walking towards the park) Hello George,
how is life treating you?George: I’m pretty good.
Daniel: OK George. Now tell me, how were your exams?
George: Oh yes, I’ve done very well. I hope this year I could make the top.
Daniel: Oh that’s great! I wish for your ascending success. How is your friend, Mark? I’ve not seen him for many days.
George: Daniel, our friend had been suffering from Asthma for the last seven years and.....yesterday he died of Asthma.
Daniel: Oh my God! That is so terrible.
George: Actually he was residing in pollution prone area. It is certainly said that life is a gift and we must take great care of it.
Poem 3: The Bangle Sellers (U2)
THINKING ABOUT THE POEM
Q1. Who is the speaker in
the poem?
Ans. The Bangle Seller is
the speaker in the poem. In the opening lines of the poem we see that it is
Bangle Seller who says, “Bangle sellers are we who bear…….Our shining loads to
the temple fair”. He describes himself and his bangles throughout the whole
poem.
Q2. How are the bangles
described in the first stanza of the poem and who are these bangles for?
Ans. In the first stanza
the bangles are described as lustrous, shining loads, rainbow-coloured,
delicate and bright for happy daughters and happy wives.
Q3. The poet uses different
similes for the bangles. What are these?
Ans. The similes that are used in the
poem are; Mountain mist, new born leaves, sunlit corn and flame of fire.
Q4. Name the different
colours of bangles mentioned in the poem? What do these colours represent?
Ans. Silver and blue,
rainbow coloured, sunlit corn colour, purple, gold flecked grey are some
colours used for bangles in the poem. These colours represent the bangles
suitable for different age group of woman.
Q5. The word ‘some’ has
been repeated in the poem for a purpose. What is it?
Ans. The word ‘some’
represents the different types of bangles in the poem.
Q6. Explain the following
lines:
“Some are made for a maiden’s wrist,
Silver and blue as the mountain mist”
Ans. These lines have been
taken from the second stanza of the poem “The Bangle Seller” written by Sarojni
Naidu. In these lines, the narrator says that some bangles are made for the
wrists of unmarried women with the silver and blue colors just like the mist of
the mountains.
LANGUAGE WORK
I. Read the poem once again
and fill in the blanks as in the poem:
Bangle seller, sunlit corn,
flecked grey, rainbow-tinted
Ans.1. Bangles are said to
be as rainbow-tinted circles of light.
2. Some are like fields of sunlit
corn.
3. Some bangles are purple
and gold flecked grey.
4. People buy these bangles
from the bangle seller.
II. The poet has used
several expressions which form pictures in the readers mind i.e., “fields of
sunlit corn” and “circles of light”. Pick out more such expressions from the
poem.
Ans. Limpid glory and flame
of her marriage fire are some expressions used in the poem.
III. Use the clues to
complete the word pyramid:
Ans. MOB, MOTH, MONTH,
MOTHER, MORNING, MOUNTAIN
Poem 4: Prayer for Strength (U2)
THINKING ABOUT THE POEM
Q1. Why does the poet want
God to strike at his heart?
Ans. The poet prays to God
to strike at his heart so that he could bear the joys and sorrows of poverty
and he also prays to God to remove hard heartedness and fill up his heart with
love and passion.
Q2. What does the poet want
the strength for?
Ans. The poet wants strength
to bear his joys and sorrows to make his love fruitful in service, never to
disown poor and never to bend before rude people.
Q3. How can love be made
meaningful in one’s life?
Ans. If you love someone
and your love changes the life of your beloved in a fruitful way with sweet and
nice results then you have made your love meaningful in one’s life.
Q4. What should be our
attitude towards the poor?
Ans. We should never disown
poor; we should always help and love them.
Q5. What does ‘bend my
knees’ signify?
Ans. ‘Bend my knees’ in the
poem signifies to resist or oppose disrespectful power and not to bend before
them.
Q6. Why does the poet want
to raise his mind high above ‘daily trifles’?
Ans. The poet wants to
raise his mind high above “daily trifles” because he wants to overcome the
thinking about the things of little value and think about the great things that
may be beneficial for the people.
Q7. Why does the poet ask
for strength to surrender his will to God’s will?
Ans. The poet wants
strength to surrender his will before God’s will because he knew that there is
no power that can resist Almighty. By surrendering his will to God’s will his
heart will get purified and he will get love from God and will lead a good life.
LANGUAGE WORK
1. Give me the strength
never to disown the poor;
Make the words beginning
with prefix ‘Dis-’ which makes a negative word.
Ans. Some words with prefix
‘dis-’ are:
1. Disgrace, 2. Discontinue
3. Disconnect 4. Dislike 5. Dishonest, 6.
Disable 7. Discharge, 8. Disagree 9. Disrespect 10. Disown
2. Find the repeated words
in the poem and write them in your notebook;
Ans. Words repeated in the
poem; 1. Strike 2. Give me 3. Strength
Short
Story 2: Achilles (U2)
WORKING WITH TEXT
Q1. How was the Rose-Beetle
Man dressed?
Ans. Rose-Beetle Man was
dressed with a wide hat on head, shirt and a startling blue satin cravat around
his neck. He had worn a coat with bulged pockets, patched trousers and a pair
of leather shoes with upturned toes.
Q2. How do we know that the
Rose-Beetle Man cared well for his pets?
Ans. He had kept his pets
in a sack. When he undid his sack half a dozen tortoise came out tumbling. He
had polished their shells with oil and decorated their front legs with little
red bows. This shows that he cared well for his pets.
Q3. What made the narrator
select one particular tortoise from among the other animals?
Ans. From among the other
animals one was energetic than others. Its shell was of the size of a tea cup.
Its eyes were bright and its walk was alert. This fascinated the narrator and
he was convinced to select this particular tortoise as his pet.
Q4. How did Achilles enjoy
eating strawberries?
Ans. Achilles liked the
wild strawberries the most. He easily swallows the small sized strawberries but
when he was given the big one, he would grab it to a quiet spot among the
flower beds to eat it at the leisure time. He was very fond of wild
strawberries.
Q5. How were Roger and
Achilles rivals?
Ans. Both Roger and
Achilles liked grapes. Before the arrival of Achilles, Roger enjoyed full part
of grapes. Now the Achilles became his partner, therefore there was a great
rivalry between them.
Q6. Why did Achilles find
Roger irritating?
Ans. Achilles was very fond
of grapes, when he ate grapes, the juice would run his chin, and Roger would
lie watching him his mouth dropping saliva. Roger would creep upto Achilles and
lick him vigorously to get the grape juice which irritated Achilles.
Q7. How did Roger feel at
Achilles’ funeral?
Ans. Roger felt happy at
Achilles’ death that is why he was waging his tail at his funeral.
Q8. The family wandered
about the olive-groves, shouting, ‘Achilles… strawberries, Achilles. … .’ At
length, we found him;
a. How had Achilles
escaped?
Ans. Achilles was habitual to
walk through the whole garden. One day, the garden gate was left opened and
Achilles got an opportunity to escape from the garden.
b. Explain, why the family
shouted ‘strawberries’ during their search?
Ans. Achilles was very fond
of strawberries, so to find him any way they should make him greedy for his
favourite fruit so that they could easily find him.
c. Where did the family
finally find Achilles? What had happened to him?
Ans. Finally, the family
found Achilles in the well, the wall of which had long since disintegrated. He
had fallen into the well and was quite dead.
Q9. There are many
instances of humour in the story. Pick out any two of them.
Ans. The story has many
humourous instances. Eating of grapes by Achilles and running of juice from his
mouth is humourous. Searching down the path of sunbathing person and sleeping
on a belly is a humourous instance in the story.
LANGUAGE WORK
Make anagrams using the
following words with the help of the clues given in the table below:
Word Anagram Meaning
Looped Poodle
an intelligent
breed of dog.
Schoolmaster The
Classroom where lessons are taught.
Listen Silent making no
sound.
Married Admirera fan.
Rabies Serbiaa country in the Southeast Europe.
Real fun Funeral performed after someone’s death.
Retain Retinaa part of the human eye.
Charm March movement
of soldiers.
GRAMMER WORK
(i) Some of the following
sentences are incorrect. Correct them.
1) We get a lot of English home works.
Ans. We got a lot of homework.
2) I’ve got some sands in my
shoe.
Ans. I’ve got some sand in my shoe.
3) Did you hear the news about
Sara? Ans.
Did you hear news about Sara?
4) We need more chairs in this
room.
Ans. We need more chairs in this room.
5) Can I have some more pasta?
Ans. Can I have some more pastas?
6) He carried my luggages to the
taxi. Ans. He
carried my luggage to the taxi.
(ii) Insert ‘a’ or ‘an’ wherever necessary.
1. Why are you taking an umbrella? It isn’t raining.
2. I had soup and a bread roll for lunch.
3. It was a good idea to have a party.
4. She’s looking for a job in Jammu.
5. I often go to her for an advice.
(iii) Fill in the gaps with a noun from the words given using a/an/the
wherever necessary.
Chair, Suitcase, Fly, Rice, Furniture, day, whether, accidents, luggage.
1. There’s a fly in my soup.
2. I have to some furniture for my new house.
3. I haven’t got much luggage with me. Just this
bag
4. It’s a sunny day today.
5. There weren’t any accidents on the roads
yesterday.
(iv) Which of the underlined words in the parts of these sentences is
correct?
1. Hurry up? We haven’t got many / a lot of time.
Ans. a lot of
2. I don’t eat much / many
chocolates.
Ans. many
3. I didn’t take much / many
photographs.
Ans. many
4. I don’t listen too much / many classical
music.
Ans. much
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