FUNWORK 1

MADAM RIDES THE BUS

1.
i. C. she was planning a secret ride to the town.
ii. Vali was a very courageous, sensitive, self-respecting and an
intelligent girl. She was only 8 years old but behaving like a more
matured woman than her age. She wanted to ride a bus so she started
collecting
every penny came to her by avoiding every temptation for buying toys
and other playing instruments.
iii chance / luck / She made a fortune.
iv. FALSE. (Since it is a fact)

2.
i. A. Madam was going to the town,
ii. The conductor advised Valli that she should not stand on the seat of
the bus while it was moving. She could fall when the bus took sharp
turns, this shows that the conductor was jovial and caring. As Valli was
traveling alone he tried to extend his moral support to that id though it
was unwanted.
iii. A. Objective description: there is no emotional response provoked
by what is being described
iv.TRUE

MIJBIL THE OTTER

1.
i B. The otter slipped and vanished.
ii. (e) A narrative is a spoken or written account of connected events; a
story.
iii. Maxwell said that the air hostess was "the very queen of her kind"
because she was extremely friendly and helpful. He took her into
confidence about the incident with the box. She very generously
suggested him to put the otter on his knees. So out of courtesy and
gratitude, he felt like kissing her hand.
iv. He took it for granted that the other would stay on his lap. But on
the contrary, it slipped and vanished for which he was unprepared.
2.
i. B. F2 and 4, 0 1 and 3
ii. prearrange
iii. D. breakdown
iv. Maxwell was waiting for his mail from England but for various
reasons, it didn't arrive in time. He could not place a call because the
exchange was closed for a holiday, communication used to be snail -
paced because even a phone call had to be reserved 24 hours in
advance.

3.
i TRUE
ii. C. Mijbil was intelligent enough to invent games for his amusement.
iii. In the story, Maxwell exhibits compulsive habits similar to those of
children who feel compelled to perform certain rituals on their way to
and from school. For instance, Maxwell feels the need to place his feet
squarely on the centre of each paving block, touch every seventh
upright of the iron railings, or pass to the outside of every second lamp
post. Similarly, Mijbil the otter also displays compulsive behaviour. On
his way home, he jumps over the boundary wall railing and gallops the
full length of its thirty yard. This behaviour causes distraction to both
pupils and staff within the vicinity.
iv. leave/depart(The policeman trotted off to help the victims)

FUNWORK 2
THE SERMON AT BENARES
1.
i. TRUE
ii. Benares is considered to be the most holy place on the banks of the
sacred River Ganges. Many people come here to get rid of their sorrows
and sufferings and to repent for their sins. As the Buddha wanted to
lessen their sorrows and sufferings, he chose to preach his first Sermon
at Benares. (Sarnath was the place where Buddha taught for the first
time. It was near Varanasi.)
iii. C. The vegetables were pickled in vinegar and salt to last the winter.
iv. A religious talk / I preached my first ever sermon on forgiveness.
2.
i. FALSE.
ii. death is inevitable and it is the bitter reality of this universe.
iii. A. 'Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.' Haruki
Murakami
iv. Buddha says that human life is full of trials and tribulations personal
losses are a part of life. One should face them and accept them with
fortitude and courage. Our life is brief and can be cut short at any
instant. Therefore, we must cultivate detachment.
1.
i. FALSE.
ii. C. ask Chubukov for his daughter's hand in marriage.
iii. At first Chubukov suspects that Lomov has come to borrow money.
He is not sincere when he tells Lomov that he had always loved him
and that he was like his own son. He had decided that he would not give
Lomov any money if he tried borrowing from him.
iv. Special rights: An undeserved right that grants a demographic an
unfair advantage.
Eg. After the above mentioned time period reserved for the exercise of
the special rights, no right to exercise the special rights shall exist any
more.
2.
i. A.he is already at a critical age of passing his prime
ii. Natalaya was a good housekeeper, not bad looking and well
educated. She secretly loved Lomov. She was greedy and short-sighted.
She was short-tempered as wel. She was very quarrelsome and abusive
by nature. She began a bitter quarrel with Lomov over a piece of land
that had little value.
iii. A. dangerous
iv. (c) A monologue is a long speech delivered by a character during a
conversation.

FUNWORK 3
TREES
1.
i. The poet imagines how the forest would appear with trees.
ii. A. The trees were captured and enslaved.
iii. C. It shows how the poet dreams about the new morning.
iv. The trees yearn for their freedom and independence. They rebel
against the oppression, slavery and exploitation to be free and be on
their own. The trees also rebel against imprisonment to return to the
forest. Thus, they are apt symbol for human beings.
2.
i. A. The sounds made by the exodus of the trees
ii. whisper
iii. The poet’s head is full of the slow sounds made by the trees which
are desperate to move out. These sounds will not be heard the next day.
The poet asks the reader to listen carefully as a change is about to take
place. She hears the glass window breaking and the trees stumble out
into the night.
iv. D. A-l, B-3, C-4, D-2
3.
i. like newly dischanged patients, free themselves
ii. The figurative language helps the poet to express the concept in
depth. It has an effect of emphasis, clarity of understanding. The
evidence is ‘Like newly discharged patients half dazed moving’ here
the poet expresses the relief of the trees or the women after a long-term
turmoil. As they had undergone terrible exploitation the elation of
freedom is not up to the mark. Since the trees lacked energy.
iii. (D) personification and imagery
iv. strain / struggle / toil / hardwork / labour

FOG
1.
i. It is simple poem. Unlike traditional poetry that relies on complex
rhyme schemes and metaphors, this poem uses simple, every day
language to create a vivid picture in the reader’s mind to create
powerful and evocative mood.
ii. The word little is used to describe the fog in the poem suggests the
subtle and quite nature of the fog. It also makes sense of innocence and
vulnerability. It reflects quietness, peace and touch of mystery
too.
iii. B. coastal
iv. visual / animal / kinaesthetic (moving) imagery.

2.
i. C. (1), (3) and (5)
ii. criticize
iii. The fog comes to the city stealthily just like a cat. Before moving
on, it sits looking over the harbour and the city before disappearing.
The Poet says that the fog looks over the harbour and the city and then
moves on, implying that the fog has covered the city and is sitting and
looking at it, thereby again
comparing it to a cat.
iv. B. Only a cat can impersonate like fog and move so gracefully like
it.
THE TALE OF CUSTARD THE DRAGON
1.
i. C. brave as a lion
ii. emphasis / emphatic comparison
iii. Metaphor - Dragon’s nose has been compared to a chimney in the
poem. Just like how a chimney makes fire, even the Dragon emits
flames
iv. FALSE

2.
i. it had big sharp teeth and spikes on top of him
ii. Realio and trulio actually mean really and truly, but the poet used
them as realio and trulio in the poem because he has poetic licence,
which allows him to use words in a way that makes rhyme. This is a
ballad poem. The poet has spelled the words' real' and 'true' as realio
and trulio, respectively. (Poetic license is the freedom to depart from
the facts of a matter or from the conventional rules of language when
speaking or writing in order to create an effect.)
iii. B. Antithesis
iv. The Tale of Custard The Dragon by Ogden Nash is a poem written
in balled form. However the humorous elements in the poem make it
an ideal example of a parody. Nash through this tries to teach a moral.

3.
i. custard - a cowardice
ii. Custard was feeling lot of insecurity and crying for a cage.
iii. A- False B – True C – True D - True
iv. The poet's use of language is playful and uses hyperbole to
humorously contrast the bravado of the characters with Custard's
openly admitted fear. The vivid and exaggerated comparisons enhance
the comedic tone of the poem.

FOR ANNE GREGORY

1.
i. unconditional / pure / agape
ii. D. Option (1)
iii. D. both B and C
iv. According to the poet, humans are quite superficial and only tend to
focus on external beauty. They fall in love based on a person's physical
appearance. Only God can love us for who we are on the inside without
caring for outer beauty. Hence the poet says that only God is capable
of loving Anne for herself.

2.
i. unconditional / pure / agape
ii. D. Option (1)
iii. D. both B and C
iv. According to the poet, humans are quite superficial and only tend to
focus on external beauty. They fall in love based on a person's physical
appearance. Only God can love us for who we are on the inside without
caring for outer beauty. Hence the poet says that only God is capable
of loving Anne for herself.

FUNWORK 4
THE MKING OF A SCIENTIST
1.
i. unconditional / pure / agape
ii. D. Option (1)
iii. D. both B and C
iv. According to the poet, humans are quite superficial and only tend to
focus on external beauty. They fall in love based on a person's physical
appearance. Only God can love us for who we are on the inside without
caring for outer beauty. Hence the poet says that only God is capable
of loving Anne for herself.
iv. Ebright initiated his research on the monarch pupa by studying the
purpose of the twelve gold spots on its body. He discovered that these
spots produced a hormone which helped in butterfly's full development.
He cultured the hormones and identified its chemical structure. It led to
his theory of cell life

2.
i. Unable to present live experiments.
ii. TRUE
iii. When Ebright was in seventh grade, he participated in County
Science Fair with his slides of frog tissues and lost. He realised that the
winner had tried to do real experiments instead of making a neat and
clean display.
iv. an act of going / coming in

3.
i. Ebright initiated a research on monarch Pupa by studying the purpose
of the twelve gold spots on its body. He discovered that these spots
produced hormone which helped in butterfly’s full development. He
cultured the hormones and identified the its chemical structure. It lead
to theory of cell life.
ii. TRUE
iii. Ebright’s project got the first price in zoology division and third in
country science fair. In his second year of high school, Richard Ebright
research led to his discovery of an unknown insect hormone which led
to his new theory on the lives of cells.
iv. The systematic investigation into and study of material sources in
order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

THE NECKLACE

1.
i. Mr. Loisel is very patient, hardworking, sincere and a humble spouse
of Matilda.
ii. TRUE
iii. Mr. Loisel went to the police and to the cab offices, and out an
advertisement in the newspapers, offering a reward. Loisel returned in
the evening, his face pale; he had discovered nothing.
iv. a sudden accident / a natural catastrophe that causes a great damage
/ loss of life.
2.
i. Matilda’s frustration / dissatisfaction towards life / her status
consciousness.
ii. TRUE
iii. Mr. Loisel is a humble employee and a caring husband of Matilda.
As Matilda was so status conscious, he tried to suggest her that beauty
does not exist in ornaments and attires, but one can make one’s self by
using the available fortunate things in life. He was so thoughtful in
trying to convince Matilda to go for the inexpensive, available natural
things in order to make herself beautiful and enjoy life peacefully.
iv. difficult and much debated, problematic

3.
i. A woman of inferiority complex / woman of low self esteem
ii. TRUE
iii. Matilda believed that "there is nothing more humiliating than to
have a shabby air in the midst of rich women." She means to say that
No to flowers, No to cheap attires, no to borrowed goods, no to be in
the middle of rich people as a poor wife of Mr. Loisel. She feels herself
so inferior and had low self estimation.
iv. silly / unwise / showing poor judgement / little intelligence

FUNWORK 5
BHOLI

1.
i. Bholi was like any other normal child / she had enough beauty/ she
was good looking.
ii. FALSE
iii. Bholi was born pretty and fair. At the age of two she had an attack
of small-pox. Her body got disfigured and face filled with pock marks.
She was a late speaker, mocked by other children, as a result she talked
very little.
iv. spoil the appearance of

2.
i. Bholi’s teacher was kind hearted / Her teacher was empathetic
ii. FALSE
iii. At first Bholi stammered like Bho-Bho-Bho. She could stammer no
further than that. Then she began to cry and tears flowed from her eyes
in a helpless flood. She kept her head down as she sat in her corner, not
daring to look up at the girls who, she knew, were still laughing at her.
iv. speak with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeat the
initial letters of words.

THE BOOK THAT SAVED THE EARTH

1.
i. The Earth
ii. TRUE
iii. Great and Mighty Think-Tank has been presented as the most
powerful and the most intelligent creature in the whole universe. At
least, Noodle and other associates think so. Powerful, of course, he was.
After all, he was the Commander-in-Chief and the ruler of Mars and
her two moons. He was feared, pampered, flattered and obeyed. No one
could afford to disagree with him. Disobeying him was totally out of
question. Only Noodle, through his diplomatic and humble pleadings,
could request him to give some suggestions.
iv. unimportant / mean

2.
i. lack of awareness / quick identificaton / misunderstanding
ii. TRUE
iii. Noodle said that he had seen surveyor films of those sandwiches.
He even noticed that the Earthlings did not eat them. They used them
as some sort of communication device. (Actually this research done by
Noodle in a library about Books).
iv. trivial / unimportant
SESSION 8 FOR
FOR ANNE GREGORY
1. i. B. (2), (6)
ii. C. Joel : God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you
should be.
iii. external beauty
iv. The old religious man says that he has found a text which proves
that only God could love us for ourselves alone and not for our physical
beauty. He is the one who truly loves us. Here the poet W.B Yeats
wants to emphasize that the worldly love is not genuine.

2. i. C. inversion
ii. Her outward appearance
iii. The poet is talking to a beautiful girl named Anne Gregory. He tells
her that a man will never fall in love with her because of her inner
beauty, they’ll always love her because of her beautiful face and yellow
hair.
iv. B. Love thy country and respect your countrymen.

3.i. C. what is visible from outside is very superficial and should not be
important.
ii. Anne Gregory is a beautiful girl and everyone loves her for her
beauty. However, Anne Gregory doesn’t want this kind of love for
herself, she wants someone who loves her for her internal qualities and
not because of her hair contour / her external looks.
iii. She hopes a young man will love for herself.
iv. D. Beauty is only skin deep.

4.i. B. It fosters a feeling of closeness between Anne and the spiritual

man.
ii. The tone in these lines is empathetic and contemplative. The poet
reflects on the religious man’s assertion with a sense of understanding
and empathy, pondering the depth and purity of love beyond superficial
attributes like appearance.
iii. human love being purely unconditional.
iv. The idea is that genuine love values a person for their intrinsic
qualities and not for superficial attributes like appearance.

5. i. C
ii. TRUE
iii. the act of applying or fixing a specific colour to the hair using hair
dye. It suggest the deliberate acting of choosing and applying a colour
to change the appearance of one’s hair.
iv. The phrase “Young men is despair” suggests that the potential
suitors are captivated by Anne’s yellow hair to the point of feeling
desperate or deeply affected by their attraction to her. These are the
men thrown into desperation due to rejection. They are sad since they
are not lucky enough to experience the love of Anne Gregory.

THE BOOK THAT SAVED THE EARTH

1. i. Think - Tank is an embodiment of superiority complex. / Think -
Tank has very low knowledge about the earth creatures / Think - Tank
concluded that the earth creatures only eat.
ii. FALSE (since it is an assumption)
iii. OOP was clueless in order to identify the things whether they are
hats or haberdashery. Though he had been to many galaxies. Omega
opined that the clarity would be given by their chief Think - Tank.
Think - Tank addressed Omega as elementary, and even asked him to
hold one of the items closely so that he can view it closely At the end
he identified it as a crude refreshment stand, since he had a low opinion
that the creatures of the earth, always eat. (The situational irony is none
of the there could identify it as a library). Omega and OOP understood
that they were in a refreshment stand and earthlings eat a lot.
iv. small items used in sewing, such as buttons, zips and thread.

2. i. just a conclusion / Drawing conclusion without any proof

imprudent impulsive, and indiscreet
ii. FALSE
iii. At first she felt that it was great honour to be the first martian to eat
the sandwich. At the same time she felt that was very impolite to eat
infront of her sergeant. Then she handed the book to the sergeant OOP
brightly and ordered to eat the sandwhich immediately.
iv. The main important put of something.

3. i. Advancement of Earthlings / High level of civilization / advanced

living style.
ii. TRUE
iii. An instance of invading a country / region with an armed force.
According to Think -Tank the earthlings reached high level of
civilization. They have taught their domesticated animals music culture
and space techniques. Even their dogs have sense of humour. They may
ever launch an inter planetary attack of millions of cows.
iv. an istance of invading a country / region with an armed force.

4. i. Omega bowed low before Think-Tank out of reverence for Think-

Tank’s intelligence and leadership role among them.
ii. B. Tanishq is a tailor who makes garments for men only.
iii. C. “It’s quite obviously deducible, Omega”
iv. In most sci-fi stories, the inhabitants of Venus are often referred to
as Venusians. This term is derived from the name of the planet Venus,
similarly to how inhabitants of Mars are called Martians and earth
inhabitants are called earth lings.

5. i. Think-Tanks’ interaction with the mirror reveals his vanity and

self-centeredness. He values intelligence highly, but also places great
importance on appearance, believing himself and his fellow Martians
to be superior in both intellect and physical attractiveness compared to
Earthlings.
ii. FALSE. (It reflects his admiration and aspiration towards Think-
Tank’s intellectual ego.
iii. B. colonial
iv. Providing stage directions or actions that are not spoken aloud by
the characters but are intended for the actors and production team to
understand how the scene should be enacted or staged.