Read the questions carefully before answering them.<\/p>\n
Activity I is compulsory.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Attempt any four activities from Activity II to VII.<\/p>\n
Activity 1-<\/p>\n
Read the poem given below and select the most appropriate answers:<\/p>\n
I’m not lonely in the night,<\/p>\n
For I have a magic light. When you look at it by day,<\/p>\n
You can’t see a single ray.<\/p>\n
But at night there can be seen<\/p>\n
Teeny-weeny rays of green<\/p>\n
For my light, you realize, Is a jar of fireflies<\/p>\n
1. By ‘magic light’ the speaker means:<\/p>\n
a. moon,b. teeny-weeny,c. stars<\/p>\n
d. fireflies<\/p>\n
2. The expression ‘teeny-weeny’ denotes:<\/p>\n
a. big<\/p>\n
b. very big<\/p>\n
c. very small<\/p>\n
d. bright<\/p>\n
3.The word ‘realize’ means:<\/p>\n
a. clear<\/p>\n
b. understand<\/p>\n
c. forget<\/p>\n
d. none of these<\/p>\n
4. Which is not a rhyming pair?<\/p>\n
a. night – light<\/p>\n
b. day – ray<\/p>\n
c. seen – green<\/p>\n
d. flies – fire<\/p>\n
“Mom, may I go for the trip?” Totto-chan asked hesitantly to her mother. “What about your father? Will he allow you to go for the trip?” Her mother asked. Then Totto-chan met her father.<\/p>\n
What would be the likely conversation between Totto-chan and her father?<\/p>\n
Activity 1-<\/p>\n
1. fireflies<\/p>\n
2. aa bb<\/p>\n
3. very small<\/p>\n
4. understand<\/p>\n
5. flies – fire<\/p>\n
Activity 2-<\/p>\n
Totto-chan : Could I ask you a favour, Dad?<\/p>\n
Father: What’s it dear?<\/p>\n
Totto-chan: May I go on a trip to the Hot Spring with my friends?<\/p>\n
Father : What does your mother say?<\/p>\n
Totto-chan: She says she’ll let me go if the journey is safe. This is her only concern.<\/p>\n
Father: Okay. What do you say?<\/p>\n
Totto-chan: We have made all the arrangements to make the trip totally safe.<\/p>\n
Father :Tell me about how you plan to go there.<\/p>\n
Totto-chan: We’ll go by train, and be bade after three days.<\/p>\n
Father : Okay. Go ahead. Plan everything carefully. Don’t forget to take your phone.<\/p>\n
Totto-chan:Thank you so much, father.<\/p>\n