tiger in the zoo

 Tiger in the Zoo Question and Answers

Q1- Read the poem again, and work in pairs or groups to do the following tasks.

(i) Find the words that describe the movements and actions of the tiger in the cage and in the wild. Arrange them in two columns.

(ii) Find the words that describe the two places, and arrange them in two columns.

Now try to share ideas about how the poet uses words and images to contrast the two situations.

A1- (1)

In the cage	In the wild
Stalks, quiet rage, ignoring visitors, hears the sound of patrolling cars, stares at stars	Lurking in shadow, sliding through the long grass, snarling around houses, baring his white fangs, terrorizing the village

(2)

CAGE	WILD
Few steps of his cage	Shadow, long grass
Locked in concrete cell	Snarling around houses
His Strength behind bars	Baring his white fangs, his claws
Terrorising the village	Ignoring visitors

Q2- Notice the use of a word repeated in lines such as these:

(i) On pads of velvet quiet, In his quiet rage.

(ii) And stares with his brilliant eyes At the brilliant stars.

What do you think is the effect of this repetition?

A2- The poet has repeated the words to give a nice impact to his poem. Like the use of quiet with velvet pads describes that the tiger has to walk in the limited area of his cage. He cannot run as he would have done had it been in the forest. Whereas ‘quiet rage’ shows the hidden anger inside him which has grown stronger because of his confinement in the cage. The next word he used is ‘brilliant’. The word brilliant in the first line means the twinkling bright stars and the brilliant words used for the tiger’s eyes shows the sadness of the tiger who would have led a free and fearless life if it were in the jungle.

Central Idea of the Poem
The poem ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’ by Leslie Norris. In this poem, the poet tries to depict the mental condition of a caged tiger. He compares the life of a tiger in the zoo with its life in its natural habitat. The poet conveys an important message that the wild animals should be in their natural habitat. In the poem, he heightens the contrast between freedom and captivity. He, very impressively, shows us how love for freedom is the natural instinct of every living being.

Poetic Devices Used in the Poem
Repetition
velvet quiet quiet rage
brilliant eyes brilliant stars
Alliteration
He stalks in his vivid stripes
But he’s locked in a concrete cell
Rhyme
The rhyme scheme for first, second and fifth stanza is abcb and for third and fifth stanza is abed.

WORKSHEET FOR HALF YEARLY EXMAS

1) Write the summary and theme of the following poems:
a) Rain on the Roof
b) The Lake Isle of Innisfree
c) The Legend of the North Land
d) No Men are foreign
2) What are the incidents of APJ Abdul Kalam;s life that moulded his life?
3) " There are different types of father' In the light of this statement what type of father was Kezia's father?
4) How did Einstein  react to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
5) Why does the world remember Einstein as " world citizen"?
6) What are the two strange things that the guru and the disciple find in the kingdom of fools?
7) Name all the people who are tried in the kings court? Give reason for their trial.
8) Write the character sketch of 1) Mahendra and 2) Iswaran
9) what two important and earth shattering decision did the doctor take while looking at the mirror?
10) Describe the doctor's encounter with the fat snake? What was his reaction to the incident?
Read all the chapter well and thoroughly 

WORKSHEET FOR HALF YEARLY EXAMS

Write the summary and theme of the following poems
1) Rain on the roof
2)The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
3) The Legend of the Northland
4) No Men are Foreign

b) What are the incidents of APJ Abdul Kalam"s childhood that moulded his life?
c) "There are different sorts of Fathers" In the light of this statement. What type of father was Kezia's father?
d) How did Einstine react to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
e) Why does the world remember Einstein as " world citizen"?
f) What are the two strange things that the guru and disciple find in the Kingdom of fools?
g) Name all the people who are tried in the King's court. Give reason for their trial?
h) Write the character sketch of  - Mahendra and Iswaran?
i) What two important and earth shattering decision did the doctor take while looking at the mirror?
j) describe the doctor's encounter with the fat snake? What was his reaction to the incident?
 Read all the chapter thoroughly
EDITING WORKSHEET

HAPPY HOLIDAYS CHILDREN

worksheet for class 9

GRAMMAR WORKSHEET

 Q1 Rearrange the jumbled sentences.

(a) pillars/there/human life/man/of/woman/and/are/two
(b) both/in the making of/share/responsibility/equal/the/society

(c) both/each other/hence/are/supplementary/to

(d) one of the/Saudi Arabia/largest/petroleum/producers/is/world/in/the/of
(e) Saudi Arabia/lifestyle/discovery/has changed/of/of the people/the/petroleum/in/the
(f) petroleum/world/all over/in great/is/demand/the

(g) uppermost/soil/layer/is/earth/the/of/the
(h) it/plants/which/supports/food/provide/all living things/to/planet/on/this
(i) soil/thus/foundation/earth/life/on/of/is/the/all

(j) people/look at/tend to/you look/the way/yourself/at/you
(k) brought up/oliver /was/workhouse/orphanage/run by/the/an/in
(l) from the very beginning/status of women/there/but/question mark/has been/a/big/the/ an/in our society.

Q 2 . The following passage has not been edited .There is one error in each line. Write the wrong as well as the correct words.

Editing Exercise 1

More and more people in the country are looked__________________________

at the sun for cleaner energy options and right so_________________________

India receives a huge amounts of sunlight every__________________________

year. If harnessed with cost effective methods__________________________

this sunlight could be used to producing a whooping____________________

600 giga watts of electricity. This is more than 5 time____________________

the annual power consumption of India what__________________________

is only 120 giga watts. But in spite the fact that the_____________________

potential is huge, what India currently derive is________________________

only 10-15 mega watts annually.______________________________

Editing Exercise 2

The most common utilization for solar energy____________________

is been with solar photovoltaic (PV) cells. Here____________________

the sun’s light is converting by the PV cells into____________________

Direct Current (DC).These electricity can then be____________________

used to running almost all gadgets in your home. ____________________

Another method involve the use of sun’s heat____________________

instead of light. Energy producing from the sun’s_________________

heat is called thermal solar energy. Producing____________________

of thermal solar energy has more cost effective____________________

then the photovoltaic cells method mainly because____________________

here you can converts up to 50-80% of the sun’s____________________

energy as opposed with PV which converts only 15%.____________________

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK CLASS-11

                HOLIDAY  HOMEWORK  CLASS-11

WRITE A BOOK REVIEW OF A NOVEL OF YOUR CHOICE . PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING

1.        TITLE OF THE BOOK

2.        AUTHOR OF THE BOOK( INTRODUCTION/COUNTRY/ OTHER IMPORTANT WORKS)

3.        WAS THE BOOK A BEST SELLER?

4.        GENRE

5.        INTRODUCTION

6.        PLOT/SUMMARY

7.        SETTING

8.        WRITING STYLE

9.        CHARACTER ANALYSIS

10.      YOUR IMPRESSSION

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK CLASS X

                          WORKSHEET FOR CLASS 10

                             Holiday Homework

Q1)The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the

incorrect and the correct word against the blanks provided below: (4)

Incorrect Correct

A)The issue of capital punishment involves determining

whether the execute of criminals is ever                        a) ______ _______

justified, and if so, on what circumstances                     b) ______ _______

it is permissible and how to determining                        c) ______ _______

the limits of a crime demand execution.                        d) ______ _______

It also involve the issue whether the society                  e) ______ _______

believes in corrective justice nor retributive                    f) ______ _______

justice. The basic assumption of retributive

nature of punishment in generally is that a                    g) ______ _______

criminal deserve punish                                          h) ______ _______

B) Virat Kohli has been in unstop form                         a) ________ ________

over the last three years and captaincy seem                b) ________ ________

to have add to his steely determination                        c) ________ ________

to succeed. Hapless Srilankans was flattened                d) ________ ________

on Sunday as the India skipper hit a majestic                e) ________ ________

243 on the final test at the Ferozeshah Kotla                 f) _________ ________

ground on Sunday. The beauty of Kohli‟s knock            g)_________ ________

are that they had been rapid affairs                             h) ________ ________

and come as great advertisement for entertaining test cricket

C)A Harvard Business Review experimented at rudeness a) ______ ______

and came out with some interesting conclusions.

Participants who were treated rudely with others            b) ______ ______

were 30% less creative and produce 25% fewer             c) ______ ______

ideas than the ones which weren‟t treated rudely.           d) ______ ______

Rude behaviour is not just a epidemic but it‟s                e) ______ ______

contagious. Unless, we find a way

to reward good behaviour, we are head                        f) ______ ______

for disaster.

Q2)Rearrange the words and phrases given below to form meaningful sentences: (2)

a) blood / school / a / was / our / last / camp / organized / in / donation / week

b) all / a / few / their / blood / principal / the / almost / teachers / donated /

except / including / the

c) for / disadvantaged / NGO‟s attract / of the / many / uplift / to / people /

deeply committed / working/the

d) social organizations / real / their / indeed / calling / certain / many have / found / in

e) their skills / can / welfare / of the society / the / they / use / for

f) and / foreign agencies / the / a lot of / sector / the government / gets / from / funding

g) Without focus / a / a / like / mind / is / vagabond

h) to practice discipline / a focused / in various forms / to have / one needs / mind

i) get / it / tendency to / distracted / is human / easily

j)methods of / meditation / different temperaments / so many / have been

developed / wonderful / to suit

k) with / by linking us / they / attain / our inner selves / equanimity / help us

Q3)Complete the following story in 150-200 words. Also provide a suitable title.

A)The prize distribution ceremony was going on. The parents and the awardees were seated  but then suddenly…

B)Read the cues given below and develop the story about robbery in 150-200 words. Give suitable title.

The boy/girl went to the bank/ discussing and doing the needful – crowd started becoming more and more noticeable- noticed three young men between the age of 20-30- took out their arms- brandished their guns- gave threats to rob the bank- carried black suitcases-boy/girl got up- took position in front of one of the robbers- he/she thought of a trick to save the bank.