English class 10
3.3 stopping by wood on a snowy evening
Put (✔) mark in front of True statement or
(x) mark in front of False statement:
Answers are directly given.)
(a) The speaker stops to watch rain falling
×
among the trees. (b) The owner of the woods is known to the speaker.
✓
Give your own rhyming words for the
lowing
(Answers are directly given.)
a) house - spouse (b) woods - goods (d) wind -skinned
(c) easy-busy
(e) dark -bark
(f) watch - botch
4) The poem is believed to have a reference the poet's life itself. What could the following
gnify? Choose from the brackets below: (duties and responsibilities/old age/life/death/ erlasting peace)
The speaker's journey- life
-(b) Snowy Evening- old age
(c) Lovely, deep, dark- everlasting
woods peace - duties and
(d) Promises responsibilit
(e) Sleep- death
The person who owns the woods lives in the village.
(ii) The speaker stopped his horse at a place between the frozen lake and the woods.
(iii) The speaker was really captivated by the lovely, dark and deep woods.
(iv) The little horse gives a shake to its harness bells attached to its neck.
(4) List the sounds mentioned in the poem.
Ans. harness bells, sound of wind, sound of soft feathers like snow flakes falling.
(5) On what date every year is the darkest
evening?
Ans. On 21st December
There is no one to catch the speaker trespassing.
Ans. He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Form group of 4 to 6 students. Every student should close his/her eyes. As the group leader reads aloud the following lines, the students try to create a picture in his/her mind. Later, each one gives a heading for each description.
) Bright blue sky - soft white clouds sweeping by tiny specks of birds flying high-sun playing hide and seek behind the clouds.
ns. Heading The Enchanting Beauty of the
D) Miles of smooth barren land - sparkling sand stretched till the horizon, in wave - like forms - thorny, cacti propping here and there - an occasional cluster of palms provide a shady spot - a carvan of camels moving in a line in the distance.
Ans. Heading Life in the Desert
3) Compose in your group, a four to six line poem, which contains imagery.
A Lost of golden daffodils,
1 Beside the lake, beneath the trees. Fluttering and dancing in the breeze, Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way.
a Snowy Evening
There is no one to catch the speaker
respassing.
Ans. He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
(b) Theattention. little horse
draws his master's
Ans. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake.
(c) His horse seems anxious to keep going.
Ans. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near.
(d) The speaker prefers to stay but is forced to move onwards.
Ans. But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep.... (e) The poem is set in bygone era.
Ans. He gives his harness bells a shake. Shows that the poem is set in the bygone era.
*(2) Why does the traveller have to leave the lovely woods? (त्या प्रवाशाला ते सुंदर उपवन का सोडावे लागले ?)
Ans. The traveller was really captivated by the lovely woods. He is supposed to discharge his duties on time. He promises himself to keep his word. So he has to leave the lovely woods to keep his word.
Prepare a set of questions to interview person who has just returned from a trek in he woods: (रानात प्रवास करून नुकत्याच परतलेल्या व्यक्तीची
लाखत घेण्याकरिता प्रश्नांचा एक संच तयार करा :) Ans.
(1) Welcome back, how did you feel when you visited the woods?
(2) What was the purpose of your visit? (3) Did you take any precautions while roaming in the woods?
(4) Which strange or rare things did you find in the woods?
(5) Did you come across any wild animals? Whatwas your feeling then? (6) How were you able to get your food, water
and other essential things?
(7) What difference did you find in the woods and the place where you live?
(8) Were you able to fulfil your expectations from this visit?
(9) What should be your role to conserve the woods?
(10) Would you like to suggest the youngsters to undertake such expeditions? Why?
Prepare a set of questions to interview a person who has recently scaled Mt. Everest:
(हल्लीच एव्हरेस्ट शिखर सर केलेल्या व्यक्तीची मुलाखत घेण्यासाठी प्रश्नसंच तयार करा :)
Ans.
(1) Welcome back, What preparations did you make before the climb?
2) What did you do to stay fit when you were at
the base?
(3) What did you do to make your climb interesting?
4) What food did you take along with you whileclimbing?
(5) What was the purpose of your adventure?
(6) How did you face difficulties on the way to the top?
(7) What is the memorable moment of your ascent?
(8) What was the hardest adjustment you had to make during the ascent? (9) What were your feelings when you scaled the
peak? (10) What message would you give to the youngsters?
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