The Hummingbird that Lived Through Winter

 

                                    Lesson-14
      The Hummingbird that Lived Through Winter
                         (New) Word-Meanings

	Word	Meaning
1.	compassionate	good-hearted
2.	severe	painful or harmful
3.	behold	to gaze upon
4.	swift	quick
5.	warmth	warm in temperature
6.	generously	noble
7.	magnificent	heroic
8.	stir	to begin to move
9.	suspended	swing

 

 

Question-Answers

 

B. Read this line from the text given below and answer the questions:

 

1. “What is this in my hand?”

 

(a) Who said this to whom?

Answer: Dikran said this to the narrator.

 

(b) What was there in the speaker’s hand?

Answer: The speaker was having a ‘hummingbird’ in his hand.

 

(c) Why couldn’t the speaker figure out what the thing was? How did he find out what it was?

Answer: The speaker couldn’t figure out what the thing was because he was visually challenged. With the help of the narrator, he found out that it was a hummingbird.

 

 

2. “Each one of them is our bird.”

 

(a) What had the speaker been asked?

Answer: The narrator asked the old man that -“Do you remember the little bird that was dying last winter—the one we give warm honey to? Did it live?”

 

(b) What is the speaker talking about in this line?

Answer: The speaker is talking about the hummingbird, in this line.

 

(c) What do you get to know about the speaker from this line?

Answer: Through this line, we get to know about the compassionate and loving nature of the old man towards the things from the sky.

 

The Charge of the Light Brigade

 

                           Poem - 7
         The Charge of the Light Brigade
               (New) Word-Meanings

	Word	Meaning
1.	rode	past tense of ride
2.	cannon	a large, heavy gun
3.	boldly	fearless
4.	bare	without covering
5.	sabring	a type of sword
6.	plunged	to cause to enter a state usually violently

 

A. Answer these questions.

Q1. What was the order given to the six hundred soldiers?
Ans- The six hundred soldiers were ordered to move forward with charge for the guns, into the valley of death.

 

Q2. What were the soldiers surrounded by?
Ans- The soldiers were surrounded by cannons on their left side, on the right side and in front of them.

Q3. What was the reaction of the rest of the world?
Ans- The rest of the world was in wonder and amazement with the bravery of the six-hundred soldiers.

Q4. Did all the six hundred make the journey back? How do we know?
Ans- No, not all the six hundred soldiers make the journey back. We know from these lines of the poem--
“Then they rode back, but not,
  Not the six hundred”

Courage Courage Courage (Question-Answers)

 

                                     Poem - 4
                     Courage Courage Courage!
                            Question-Answers

A. Answer these questions.

1. When does the speaker ask the readers to call on your courage and see the thing through?
Ans- The speaker asks the readers to call on your courage and see the thing through when the burden of difficulties grows heavy and the way is rough. When a person falters and slip and the days are not good, that’s when one should not loose courage.

2. Who battles for victory ventures defeat
   Misfortune is something we all have to meet
a. What is the speaker trying to say in these lines?
Ans- Through these lines the speaker is trying to say that sometimes in life, when we are battling for victory, we may also encounter defeats. But we should never give up as at some point of  time, misfortune is faced by everyone in their lives

b. According to the speaker, what can be done to come out of this misfortune?
Ans- According to the speaker, we can show some courage to come out of any misfortune.

c. Do you agree with the line Misfortune is something we all have to meet?
Ans- Yes, we agree with this line.

3. How does the speaker ask the readers to gracefully handle their loss?
Ans- The speaker asks the readers to gracefully handle their loss by not complaining, when the things go against you. At that time, just call on your courage and try to grin at that situation.

4. According to the speaker, what should be the test of one’s courage?
Ans- According to the speaker, the reverses and the difficult times in one’s life act as a test of one’s courage.

The Narayanpur Incident (Question-Answers)

 

Question-Answers

 

B. Read this line from the text given below and answer the questions:

1. “Why did you go back so quietly? Were you scared of what the police would do?”

(a) Who said these words to whom?

Answer: Babu said these words to Mohan.

(b) Why does the speaker ask these questions?

Answer: The speaker asked these questions because Manju asked these questions from him.

(c) Was the listener ‘scared’? What did the listener say in reply?

Answer: No, the listener (Mohan) was not ‘scared’. He said that they had planned the procession in that way only.

 

2. “And this is my country as much as it is yours.”

(a) Who said these words to whom?

Answer: Patil, the Sub-Inspector said these words to Mohan.

 (b) Why had the speaker come there?

Answer: The speaker had come there to take the cyclostyling machine.

 

(c) Why did he say these words? What did he mean?

Answer: He said these words because Mohan did not trust him. He meant that he would not do anything wrong, as he was his father’s friend.

 

C. Answer in detail.

 

1. Describe the procession that Manju and Babu went to see.

Ans: The procession started from the college to the Collector’s office. Then Manju and Babu joined the procession and found a good spot. There were no slogans, no shouts, just the shuffle of feet and a low murmur from the watching crowd.

 

2. What did Suman and the boy bring? Why did they bring it?

Ans: Suman and the boy brought a cyclostyling machine. They brought it to make copies of Mahatma’s speech.

 

3. How did Amma react when Babu warned them of someone coming?

Ans: When Babu warned them of someone coming, Amma’s voice was steady and her hands were trembling.

 

4. What happened when sub-inspector Patil came?

Ans: When sub-inspector Patil came, everyone in the house became alert and attentive.

 

4. Why did they give sub-inspector Patil what he asked for?

Ans: They give sub-inspector Patil what he asked for because he warned them that other policemen might come to search their house for cyclostyling machine.

 

 

 

Fire Stones (Question-Answers)

 

                                      
                        Question-Answers

A. Answer these questions.

1. What was the island boy admiring on the day of the tsunami?
Ans- The island boy was admiring the fabulous waves of the sea, on the day of the tsunami.

2. Why was the Shompen boy forced to pick the island boy’s pocket?
Ans- The Shompen boy was forced to pick the island boy’s pocket because when he told the island boy that the mountain waves are coming, he didn’t listen to him.

3. Pick out lines in the text that show that the island boy was an obedient son.
Ans- The lines in the text that show that the island boy was an obedient son are—‘My mother had always told me never to follow a Shompen anywhere, especially into the forest. I did not intend to disobey her.’

4. The Shompen boy believed that he had done his best in the situation. How does he prove it?
Ans- The Shompen boy knew that the mountain waves are coming. He picked up the pocket of the island boy and the boy ran behind him to take his money pouch back. By doing this, the Shompen boy took the boy to the highest point of the hill and saved their lives.

 

B. Read these lines from the text and answer the questions.

1. The wave was high with white foam at its head.

a. Where was the speaker?
Ans- The speaker was near the sea.

b. What is being talked about?
Ans- Sea waves are being talked about.

c. What happened after this?
Ans- Then it rumbled closer. It made a noise like all the creatures of the world rolled up in a ball—the lion’s roars, the bull’s bellow, even the snake’s hiss.

2. He had risked his own life and save mine. And all I had done in return was to mistrust him.

a. Who does ‘he’ refer to?
Ans- ‘He’ refers to the Shompen boy.

b. How had ‘he’ risked his own life to save the speaker?
Ans- ‘He’ had risked his own life to save the speaker by picking the pocket of the island boy and saving his life by reaching the summit.

c. When and how did the speaker realise that he had misunderstood ‘him’?
Ans- When the boys survived through the mountain waves and the narrator noticed that his money pouch is back in his pocket and there was something else in it—two black stones. When he saw the precious fire stones as a gift, that’s when the speaker realised that he had misunderstood ‘him’.

Candy Man

 

                                        Poem - 4
                                     Candy Man
                                Question-Answers

A. Answer these questions.

1. What miracles does the candy man create with candies and sweets?
Ans- The candy man could take a sunrise, then sprinkle it with dew, cover it in chocolate and created a miracle out of that. He could take a rainbow, wrap it in a sigh, and then soak it in the sun and make a strawberry--lemon pie.

2. Who can take a rainbow, wrap it in a sigh
    Soak it in the sun and make a strawberry—lemon pie
a. Who is the poet talking about?
b. What makes the person do what he does?
Ans- a. The poet is talking about the candy man -- Willy Wonka.
b. Willy Wonka did all this because of his love towards baking and he felt that everything in the world should taste good.

3. Why does everything that Willy Wonka bakes, tastes delicious and satisfying?
Ans- Everything that Willy Wonka baked, tastes delicious and satisfying because he used to mix love in every dish he made.

4. What can Willy Wonka do? How can he do that?
Ans- Willy Wonka could bake candies and chocolates in satisfying and delicious manner. He could do that because of his love and made the world taste good.

Fire Stones (Word-Meanings)

 

                                       Lesson - 13
                                       Fire Stones
                            (New) Word-Meanings

	Word	Meaning
1.	churn	to stir
2.	fling	to move or throw
3.	rumbled	to speak in low tone
4.	rolled up	turn something up
5.	thumped	to knock or strike
6.	reluctantly	with hesitation
7.	fabulous	wonderful
8.	urged	to force
9.	darted	something projected with sudden speed
10.	waved	to motion with the hands to give some signal
11.	giant	large
12.	summit	the highest point
13.	sure-footed	confident
14.	flick	to activate or strike
15.	dislodge	to leave a place previously occupied
16.	perch	a resting place
17.	squatted	to sit or bend
18.	eternity	infinite time
19.	leaped	to pass from one state to another
20.	armpits	the hollow beneath the joint of the arm and shoulder
21.	rim	edge