Activity- 01 on Unit-3.2 Where Have All the Birds Gone?

               3.2 Where Have All the Birds Gone?     

                                                                                                                                             -C.V.Sukumaran

                                                                     ACTIVITY -01

Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities.                         (12)                                                                                                          

A.1.  Complete :

  Complete the following table:                                                                                                        (2)

Birds	Time to visit	Place of shelter
Vishupakshi
Parrots

(Extract – It is April ----------------- to captivate me.) Page: 54, 55

A2.Findout                                                                                                                                          (2)                                                                                              

 Find out four changes that the writer notices in ‘this summer’.

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A3.  Interpretation :                                                                                                                         (2)                                 

' Vishupakshi  and  other birds are not seen in Kerala.' Explain.

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 A4.Vocabulary.                                                                                                                                  (2)                                                                     

   Match the adjectives in column A with their nouns in column B .

1.      Young and ripe		a)      legs
2.      strong		b)      sight
3.      hard		c)      stalks
4.      beautiful		d)     trunks

 A5. Personal Response:                                                                                                                   (2)                                                                                                                           

  Suggest some initiatives  to save birds.

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  A6. Grammar                                                                                                                                  (2) 

 Do as directed. 

   1) These little birds would land on the paddy.           (Rewrite it using ‘used to’)

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  2)  They would come to the fields.

                                         (Rewrite it using the Modal Auxiliary which expresses 'Probability' )

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Activity 01 on Unit 4.1. Old Women -K.Satchidanandan

4.1. Old Women

Q.1 (A) Read the extract and do the activities that follow.                                                (08)

 (‘ There are swings still------------------------

-------------------------------your way home.)

A.1  Complete :                                                                                                                      (2)

Complete the following list of  the geographical images mentioned in the extract.

Ans: Geographical Images

            1. ------------------------------------------       2.-------------------------------------------

            3.------------------------------------------         4.------------------------------------------

                                                                       OR

A.1 Complete:

                      ‘------------leaving only their maps’

                     In the above line maps symbolizes-----

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 A2. Poetic Device:                                                                                                                 (2)

Find-

Sr.No.                        Figure of speech                          Example from the extract

1.                               Metaphor                     :   ------------------------------------------------------

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2.                                Antithesis                   : ----------------------------------------------------------

                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------

A3. Personal Response:                                                                                                               (2)

1. ‘Old people are helpful to us.’ Justify your response.

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A4. Poetic Creation:                                                                                                                    (2)

1. Compose two slogans of your own on the theme of this extract.

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