5. Correct the statement and rewrite.

The issue that was to be addressed was the treatment of people in New York origin in United Nation.

6. Pick up the incorrect statement

1) The writer retaliated to personal attack.
2) The writer refused to retaliate to score cheap point.

Practice Time : 3.2 City

1.The speaker in the poem is old woman. Give evidence from the poem.

2.Write true or false

I) She is young.
II) She is old.
III) She belongs to Village.
IV) She belongs to city.

3. Pick up an expression that shows : she has permanently settled in the City

4.Pick up the lines from the poem that referred to city life.

5. Pick out the words that describe her life.

6. Complete the statement. The words painted on her door indicates that.,.......

7. The way Woman is living her life indicate no sign of happiness. Pick up examples from the poem to support
this statement

8.Look at the lines from the poem referring to friendship. State opinion about her attitude to friendship

9. Compare the life in the village and her life in the City

10. She is now living the life of pretence. Prove it.

11. Complete the statement. The curses of city life described in the poem are........

12. The woman has shut up herself from friends or from others because.......

13. Currently dressed in modern dresses, taking yesterday as a very old hag. Identify and explain the figures of
speech used here .
Pick out an example of each: metaphor, antithesis and alliteration.
 Practice Time : Work
Read the following extract and answer the questions given below it.

When you are at home I have no peace-

I can’t find a quiet nook;

And time and again you come to me :

“Daddy, read me a book!”

A timid question, a hesitant step,

For often you’ve heard my quirk;

“Another time, then, my little chap.

You see I’m trying to work!"

Questions:

1) Complete the statements :

a. The child asks his father to ___________________

b. Father replies that ____________

2) “Another time, then, my little chap.

You see I’m trying to work!”

Read the lines and answers . What do ‘You’ and ‘I’ stand for?

3) ‘A timid question, a hesitant step’. Name and explain the figure of speech in the line.

4)“Daddy, read me a book!” Name and explain the figure of speech in the line.

5) Write your feelings about when your father doesn't listen to you.

6) Do you think father should spare time for children? Explain.

7) Rearrange the words in the first three lines of the extract without changing the meaning . The first one is
done for you.
_I have no peace when you are at home_

8) Compose a couplet (two lines) about father.

 English Activities of STD 11
The following activities are given in course book of STD 11 . Number against the each activity indicates the
page number of the course book.

1 Complete the following sentences

Page no. 37 Text book
2. Here the events in the story are arranged in a jumbled way. Rearrange them in a proper sequence 68

3 Glance through text and find out the following statements are true or false. Correct the false statements 75
4. Read the text silently and choosethe correct alternative 89
4. Arrange the following jumbled sentences in the proper order of events 97
5. There are certain do's and don'ts that the father has advised his son to follow. Complete the list. 103
6. Complete the following statements choosing the correct alternative from those given below. 117
7. Complete the following sentences choosing the facts from the text 12
8. Complete the sentences in column a By matching them with the points in column b 137

9. Match the following places in column a with their attractions in column b 143
10. Complete the following sentences.: 149
11. Read carefully the words /groups of words in the box given in jumbled order. Selecting the correct word
from the box complete a short note on 162

12. Complete the following notes by using information given in extract 163

13. Choose the correct alternative from those given below 169

14. Read the following sentences and try to guess what who referred to by the underlined words in the context

15 Complete the following table 188

16 Choose the correct alternative and fill in the blanks in the following sentences 193

17 Complete the following pie chart

18 Complete the following tree diagram

Poetic Creation Type Questions

Poetic Creation type question aims at the hidden quality of the students. Students are expected to bring out his
poetic ability which everyone has hidden in him. Questions framed under this would be of creative type. For
example, questions may be like :
1. Add suitable poetic lines of your own to rhyme with the last two lines of the extract.
"Be it the victory of war or the mourning of defeat
Life sheds tears on death after all "
Answer :
Be it the victory of war or the mourning of defeat