CHAPTER 6 MY CHILDHOOD Thinking about the Text I. Answer these questions in one or two sentences each. QUESTION-3 Who were Abdul Kalam’s school friends? What did they later become? ANSWER: Ramanadha Sastry, Aravindan and Sivaprakasan were Abdul Kalam’s school friends. Ramanadha Sastry took over the priesthood of the Rameswaram […]
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CHAPTER 6 MY CHILDHOOD Thinking about the Text I. Answer these questions in one or two sentences each. QUESTION-2 What do you think Dinamani is the name of? Give a reason for your answer. ANSWER: I think Dinamani is the name of a newspaper because Kalam says that when his […]
CLASS-9 ENGLISH BEEHIVE(PROSE) Q-1
CHAPTER 6 MY CHILDHOOD Thinking about the Text I. Answer these questions in one or two sentences each. QUESTION-1 Where was Abdul Kalam’s house? ANSWER: Abdul Kalam’s house was on Mosque Street in Rameswaram.
CLASS-9 ENGLISH BEEHIVE(PROSE) Q-1
CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language Translation QUESTION-1 The text you read is a translation of a story by a well-known Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. In translating a story from one language to another, a translator must keep the content intact. However, the language and […]
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CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language Writing QUESTION-2 Read the description given alongside this sketch from a photograph in a newspaper (Times of India, 4 September 1999). Make up a story about what the monkey is thinking, or why it is looking into a mirror. Write […]
CLASS-9 ENGLISH BEEHIVE(PROSE) Q-1
CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language Writing QUESTION-1 Try to rewrite the story without its humour, merely as a frightening incident. What details or parts of the story would you leave out? ANSWER: Do it yourself.
CLASS-9 ENGLISH BEEHIVE(PROSE) Q-6
CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language Dictation QUESTION-6 The following paragraph is about the Indian cobra. Read it twice and close your book. Your teacher will then dictate the paragraph to you. Write it down with appropriate punctuation marks. The Indian cobra is the common name […]
CLASS-9 ENGLISH BEEHIVE(PROSE) Q-5
CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language Speaking QUESTION-5 Using some of the expressions given above in exercise III, talk about an incident when you were very scared. You may have a competition to decide whose story was the most frightening. ANSWER: Students are advised to try […]
CLASS-9 ENGLISH BEEHIVE(PROSE) Q-4
CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language IV. Reported questions Report these questions using if/whether or why/when/where/how/which/what QUESTION-4 Remember the italicised verbs change into the past tense. 1. Meena asked her friend, “Do you think your teacher will come today?” 2. David asked his colleague, “Where will […]
CLASS-9 ENGLISH BEEHIVE(PROSE) Q-3
CHAPTER 5 THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR Thinking about Language III. In the sentences given below some words and expressions are italicised. They variously mean that one • is very frightened. • is too scared to move. • is frightened by something that happens suddenly. • makes another feel frightened […]