My Own True Family : WBBSE Class 10 : Questions and Answers
Lesson 4
Poem: My own true Family
Poet: Ted Hughes
Comprehension exercises
1. Choose
the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:
(a) Creeping in an oak wood, the poet
was looking for a
Ans: (iii) stag
(b) Whenever an oak tree is felled,
the number of trees the poet must plant is
Ans: (i) two
(c) When the poet came out of the oak
wood, his heart was that of a
Ans: (ii) tree
2. State
whether the following statements are True or False. Provide sentences/ phrases/
words in support of your answer.
(a) The old woman held the poet’s secrets
in her little bag.
Ans: True
SS: She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’
(b) The tree tribe said that the poet
is bothered to see the chopping down of oak trees.
Ans: False
SS: We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
(c) The poet never came out of the
oakwood.
Ans: False
SS: When I came out of the oakwood,
3. Answer
the following questions:
(a) When did the poet come twice
awake?
Ans: When the old woman opened up her little bag, the poet came twice awake.
(b) What would happen to the poet if
he failed to make the promise?
Ans: The poet have to die, if he failed to make the promise.
(c) What was it that altered the
poet?
Ans: It was the poet’s dream beneath the boughs that altered him.
Grammar in use
4. Change the following into indirect
speech:
(a) Rahul asked Dipa, " Will you
go to school today?"
Ans: Rahul asked Dipa if she would go to school that day.
(b) Rita said to Ayesha, "Please
give me a glass of water."
Ans: Rita requested Ayesha to give her a glass of water.
(c) The old man told the little girl,
”May you be happy!”
Ans: The old man blessed the little girl that she might be happy.
5. Do
as directed:
(a) Ranjan said, "Who does not
know the name of Rabindranath?‘ (Change into affirmative sentence )
Ans: Ranjan said that everybody knows the name of Rabindranath.
(b) Sangeeta runs faster than any
other girl in her class. (Rewrite using the positive degree of 'faster')
Ans: No other girl in the class can run as fast as Sangeeta.
(c) Kaushiki blamed her friend for
the trouble. (Rewrite using the noun form of 'blamed’)
Ans: Kaushiki put the blame on her friend for the trouble.
7. Your
school is going to host the lnter-school District Sports Competition. Suppose
you are the Secretary of the Sports Club of your school. Write a notice (within
100 words) calling students to participate in the competition. Mention the
time, date and venue of the competition. Your notice should be countersigned by
the Headmistress/Headmaster of your school.
Ans:
TUV HIGH SCHOOL
No: 2022/6 NOTICE Date: dd/mm/yyyy
lnter - school District Sports Competition
All the students are hereby notified
that our school is going to host the Inter-school District Sports Competition.*
*try to write at your own points. If any help needed feel free to comment or contact.
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