Warming
up!
Chit-Chat
Form pairs or groups of four. Use these questions to
start a conversation with your friends.
•Are you a talkative person?
•
Do you like to share your thoughts?
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What would you like to do after 10th?
Ans. Yes I am a talkative person. I think we should share our thoughts
even they are good or bad, it helps us to understand the others. Every one
wants to be successful in their life. Even I also want to be successful. Its
not just only financially but also in every thing I want to be independent and
have to build my image.
My Thoughts
Form groups of 4-6. Discuss the following with your friends in the group and then complete the sentences.
(a) I would like to talk to my mother
about swimming lessons. my father about weekends
my teacher about study my best
friend about parties my grandparents about their childhood my neighbours
about social problems
(b) I would like to learn to their good habits from my best
friend charity
from my grandmother teaching skills from my teacher cleanliness
from my neighbour games from my cousin
(c) I hesitate to talk to my
Teacher about my studies
Mother about the way he/she talks to my friends
Family about what I would like to do in future
Father about how I want to spend my holidays
Friends about my favourite movies
Cousins about the things I want to buy
English workshop
1. Read the poem aloud. Ans. Activity
2. Put the words given in
brackets in the proper blanks.
(1)
The child is talking to its father.
(father/child)
(2)
The father is leading and the child
is following. (father/child)
(3)
Someday the child
will become a father. (father/child)
(4)
The child does not wish to fall
while following its father. (father/child)
2. Find and write pairs of rhyming words from the
poem.
Ans. 1. Small - fall
2. See - me
3. Be - me
4. True - you
3. The meanings of the words in the following pairs
show that they are related.
Find five more pairs of related words
Ans. (1) teacher: student
(2) doctor: patient
(3) give: take
(4) owner: servant
(5) come: go.
4. The child in the poem requests his father to walk slower.
Here, the poet implies that the child wants to understand his father's actions
better. The child would like to act the same way, but wants the father to be
more understanding towards the child's needs. What is implied in the following
lines?
(a) Sometimes, your steps are
fast ...
Ans.
Sometimes the father's actions are too quick for
the child to follow them properly.
(b) Sometimes your steps are
hard to see…
Ans. Sometimes the actions of the father are so difficult that the child
cannot understand, observe and act accordingly.
(c) I would want to lead just
right ...
Ans. The child who is grown up now wants to guide his child correctly in
the journey of his life.
(d) And know that I was true.
Ans. The grown up child is confident about his opinions, judgements and
actions in his life. He was correct and sincere throughout his life like his
father.
5. Using your own ideas, frame three sentences that
show continuous action.
Example: You are leading me.
Ans. (1) My elder sister was helping me with my studies.
