#39 Class 9 The Fun They Had

Exercise No. 3 at Page No.12 (Making adverbs from adjectives)

It is very simple just remove 'y' at the end of the adjective and add 'ily' in place of that.

Look at the example--

Angry--  Angrily

Now you can do rest of the words easily.


Also do this question

How are E-books different from real books? Write any two points.

#38 Class 12 An elementary school classroom in a slum ((17/04/2020)

Hello dear students,

Today we are going to start the poem 'An Elementary school classroom in a slum' by Stephen Spender. You can download the PDF copy of the lesson by clicking on following link

http://www.ncert.nic.in/ncerts/l/lefl112.pdf


This poem is all about the pathetic classrooms of slum children of England. Read the introduction to the poet from the PDF copy.Here we go with the paraphrasing of the poem.

Far far from gusty waves these children's faces. Like rootless weeds

These slum children are very far and away from the gusty waves (waves of development). Their faces look as pale and discarded as rootless weeds. As a farmer throws weeds out of his field thinking that weeds are useless in the same way the society has ignored and discarded these slum children.

the hair torn around their pallor

These children have not combed their hair properly as they have not bathed for a long time. Their hair are torn around their forehead.

The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paper seeming boy, with rat's eyes.

A tall girl also can be seen in the classroom. Her head is down because of a disease. Also we can see a boy in the classroom who is as thin as paper. His eyes look like of a rat's eyes. Rat's eyes are the symbol of hunger.

#37 The Fun They Had (Questions and answers, language activity)

Answers of the activity No.2 given at page No.11

1. carefully 2. loftily 3. differently 4. sorrowfully 5. completely 6. nonchalantly 7. awfully 8. quickly


 Questions for today

Q.1 What are the main features of the mechanical teachers and the schoolrooms that Margie and Tommy have in the story? How are these different from old schools?

Hints--- A room of home specially meant for school, No classmates, teaching by mechanical teacher, regular home work, regular tests, fix teaching hours, everyday school except Saturday and Sunday, E-books, content of the books keep up moving

Old schools had school buildings, classmates, human teachers, good interaction, physical books, No E-content.

Q.2 Why did Margie hate school? Why did she think the old kind of school must have been fun?

Ans. The mechanical teacher too boring and worrisome, everyday demanded home work and tests created pressure
Old kind of school fun because good participation of students, helping each other in home work, met everyday, enjoyed and played, a human teacher to interact 

#36 My mother at sixty six-- Important Questions (16/04/2020)

Q.1 Why did Kamala Das become sad when she gave a look at her mother's face?

Q.2 How did Kamala Das try to divert her attention from her mother's old age?

Q.3 Why are the tress shown as sprinting?

Q.4 Why has the mother's face been compared with the late winter's moon?

Q.5 What did the smile of the poet signify?

Important Point-- Whole the poem is written in a single sentence. 

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