Poem 2.4 Have you Earned your tomorrow

Unit 2.4  Have you Earned your Tomorrow         

By Edgar Guest

 

Is anybody happier because you passed his way?

Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?

This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;

Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?

Did you give a cheerful greeting to the friend who came along?

Or a churlish sort of “Howdy” and then vanish in the throng?

Were you selfish pure and simple as you rushed along the way,

Or is someone mighty grateful for a deed you did today?

Can you say tonight, in parting with the days that’s slipping fast,

That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed?

Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said

Does a man whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead?

Did you waste the day, or lose it, was it well or sorely spent?

Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent?

As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say,

You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?

- Edgar Guest

Toiling Time- time spent in hard physical work.

Churlish - rude

Howdy - an informal friendly greeting

throng - crowd,large number of people

Sorely - uselessly

Slumber - sleep

PARAPHRASE OF THE POEM

Have you earned your tomorrow by Edgar Guest is a four stanza poem that is separated into sets of four lines, or quatrains. Guest chose to confirm these quatrains to a consistent rhyme scheme. The lines follow the pattern of a a, b b, c c, d d, e e, f f. Immediately noteworthy is the repetition of the –ay’ sound that appears in the first, second and fourth stanzas. It has been used repetitively in order to make a new impact. Both elements of the poem constantly press on the reader’s mind.

As a reader will immediately notice upon beginning,” Have you earned your tomorrow” that the text is marked by questions directed at the reader. Each stanza contains at least two, sometimes three questions which probe at a one’s treatment of others. For example, the second stanza inquires into friendly greetings and kind actions while the third is concerned with helping others and giving hope. The speaker’s words are piercing, leaving no room for interpretation. Any reader who considers them even briefly, will be challenged to analyse their own goodness.

“Have you earned your tomorrow”, by Edgar Guest presents a number of probing questions to a reader about how they spend their days.

The poem begins with the speaker asking a reader if they did everything to improve the day of another human being. He continues on to ask if the reader greeted their friends cheerfully or if Instead they passed them by,” churlish(ly).It is the end of the day and time is running out to guarantee one’s actions are approved by God.

In the second half of the poem the speaker enquires into the reader’s actions further.

He hopes that everyone does what they can to bring hope and courage to those who do not

Have it in the poem concludes with the speaker reminding the reader that it is up to God whether or not, you have a tomorrow. Therefore, one should consider their actions care for if they want the next day.

Stanza One :

In the first stanza, the speaker begins with a question of all the questions to come this one is the most direct. It gets off to the heart of what Guest’s speaker is concerned with. He asks if today, ‘Your’ referring to the reader, made anyone’s day better. He speaks abstractly about ‘him’ the reader might have passed and helped or made happier. The speaker purposely does not define what this means. It is up for interpretation as it could mean any number of things.

This question is followed by a second then later a third. The second asks the reader if there was anyone, “You spoke to” today who remembers,” you” Again this question could mean anything.

The most important parts of these two questions are the emphasis on unprompted kindness and the fact that it is now the end of the day. The hours are running out for,’ You” to make a positive impact .The speaker emphasises this by asking if there is “anyone’ to utter now a kindly word of you? 

Stanza Two :

The second stanza begins with another question. Here, the speaker asks if anytime during the day” you” greeted a friend “cheerfully”. Now the kindness is moving inward. The speaker is also concerned with how” you” Treat those known to “you” as well.

In the next lines he presents the opposite, and pushes the reader on their own selfish tendencies rather than a cheerful, heartfelt, “hello” the speaker asks if “you’ were,” churlish’ or rude. This would Also be marked by one’s quick disappearance into the, ‘crowd” and a rushing off to another task. It is clear the speaker feels distaste at the idea of treating a friend in this way. He says very clearly that it is a “Pure(ly)’ “selfish’ way to be. As if he is hoping for the opposite response, he asks, “or” did “you’ act .

Stanza Three :

The third stanza begins with a longer question, probing into any help the reader might have given to a “single brother”. It is enough for the speaker if” you’ were kind to one person out of many “that you pass” An action like this would be sufficient to have “earned your tomorrow”

It is important to note how this way of thinking is connected to a number of different religions and their dependence on “good deeds”. This is backed up by Guest’s tendency to connect his themes to Christianity. In fact, God comes into a play in the fourth stanza as one is forced to contend with how they lived.

In the second half of the third stanza, the speaker uses courage and cowardice as tools to improve or worsen someone’s life. He asks if there is one “single heart” that is now “rejoicing’ due to “your’ actions. Ideally, he would like there to be” a man’ with improved hopes and reinvigorated courage to look ahead.

Stanza Four :

In the fourth stanza, the speaker states that any day not spent, at least in part, improving the lives of others is wasted. It is “lost’ if it was “sorely’ or ‘ badly’ spent on the other hand, if it was well….spent’ there will be a trail of kindness making one’s  path through the day. The last lines tells the reader(if they are unsure how their day was spent)that they can’ lose’ their “eyes’ in slumber’ and think about what God would have to say to them.

If after considering the response of God,  a reader feels as if they’ve done well, then tomorrow is assured, otherwise, God might look kindly on the actions or inactions of the day and tomorrow might not come.

Read the given extract and do all the activities that follow it:

A1. True or False :                 (02)

State whether the following statements are true or false.

a) The poet asks the reader whether he/she is kind to others or not. (T)

b) The poet expects that we should be rude and ungrateful to the people around us. (F)

c) The Poet believes that one should always help others and bring a smile on their

faces. (T)

d) If you are good to others ,God will be angry with you that you earned your day by being good the people. (F)

A1. Complete :                             (02)

Complete the sentences by choosing the information given in the extract.

1) The toiling time is over in the stanza means………….

a) Time spent in hard physical work

b) Happy and prosperous time ends.

c) Cooking time is over.

d) The time to party  its over

2) The poet expects the readers to be …………… with the people around them.

a) Cheerful and not rude.

b) Funny and humorous.

c) Rude and arrogant

d) Angry and upset.

3) The poet expects the reader to be …………………………. to one and all.

a) Helpful         b)    jealous      c)    arrogant       d)    irritating.

4) If you are good to others, God would surely say ……………………..

a) You have earned one more tomorrow.

b) You have wasted your life.

c) You are hopeless and useless.

d) You have no right to live in this world.

A2. Elaborate :                             (02)

“As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say, you have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today. 

Elaborate the idea expressed in these lines.

The speaker states that if you do not want to help others or being rude to people the day is “Lost” or badly spent. On the other hand it was “well spent” if there will be a trail of kindness “Making one’s path through the day. The lines tell the reader that they can close their eyes in slumber and think about what and God would have to say them.

If after considering the response of God, a reader feels as if they’ve done well, then tomorrow is assured.

A2. Find out :                             (02)

Find out the expressions/phrases which denote,” going away” from the extract.

The expressions are

“time is through”,  “vanish in the throng’,  “slipping fast”,  “many that you have passed”,  “Hopes were fading”,  ‘sorely spent” etc.

A3. Personal Response :             (02)

“Courtesy costs nothing but pays everything’ Share your views with suitable examples in Fifty words.

A3. Personal Response :             (02)

“Goodness always wins” share your views on this with suitable examples in about Fifty words.

A3. Personal Response :            (02)

 Moral and ethical virtues are the most preferred values in life.Justify your answer with suitable examples in Fifty words.

A3. Personal Response :            (02)

God help those who help themselves as well as others share your views on this in about Fifty words.

A4. Poetic Devices :                   (02)

“Is anybody happier because you passed his way?

Name and explain the figure of speech used in the above line.

The figure of speech used here is an example of an interrogation because the poet is asking the question to the readers.

A4. Poetic Devices :                     (02)

This day is almost over and its toiling time is through.

Identify the figure of speech used in the above line.

The figure of speech used here is called as an ALLITERATION because the initial sound / letter “t’’ is repeated in a pleasant manner.

A4. Poetic Devices:.                    (02)

Identify an example of Synecdoche from the poem.

The example of Synecdoche is

1." Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said

( The word heart which is a part of human body represents the whole i.e person)

A4. Poetic Devices :                   (02)

Complete the table

Complete the table by writing down the examples/lines of the figure of speech mentioned in the extract.

NO

            POETIC DEVICE

                                                   LINES

   01    ALLITERATION.      ............

1)This day is almost over,and it's toiling time is through (The initial sound/ Letter 't' is repeated)

2) Or a Churlish sort of " Howdy"and then vanish in the throng.

3) Does a man whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead?

    02   INTERROGATION. ..............

The examples of interrogation are

there in first second and fourth stanzas line numbers 1,2 and 4

In the  third Stanza  second and fourth line.

A4. Poetic Devices :                     (02)

Complete the table.

Note down the Rhyme scheme used in the poem and also note down the Rhyming pair of words and complete the activity.

  Stanza

Rhyme scheme

Rhyming pair of words

Stanza one

a    a   b      b

Way-today, through-you

Stanza two

C     c      d     d

Along-throng, way-today

Stanza three

e      e     f      f

Fast-passed, said-

Stanza four

g     g      h     h

Spent-content, say-today

A5. Poetic creativity :             (02)

Compose two to four lines on your own on , "Good deeds”

( This is a practice Activity )

A5. Poetic Creativity:.                (02)

Is anything happier because you passed his way?

Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?

This day is almost over, and is toiling time is through

Is there  anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?

Replace the underlined (second and fourth)lines by composing your own.

A5. Poetic Creativity :            (02)

Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that slipping fast

That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed,

Replace the underlined words/phrases and make use of your own words/phrases and create new lines.

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On saying please 4

Prose Section

On saying please

Extract No. 04

Activities with expected answers

Page no. 16/17  

 [ Lines, “It is ……………given me.”]

Read  the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1. Rearrange :                            (02)

Following sentences are jumbled up rearrange them as per their occurrence in the extract.

a) The account was settled by the narrator

b) The narrator found a shilling in the corner of his pocket.

c) The narrator had left home without money.

d) The narrator told the conductor honestly that he did not have a penny

(Correct order is ....... c),  d),  b),  a) )

It is not, therefore, with any feeling of unfriendliness to conductors as a class that I pay a tribute to a particular member of that class. I first became conscious of his existence one day when I jumped on to a bus and found that I had left home without any money in my pocket. Everyone has had the experience and knows the feeling, the mixed feeling, which the discovery arouses. You are annoyed because you look like a fool at the best and like a knave at the worst. You would not be at all surprised if the conductor eyed you coldly as much as to say, ‘Yes I know that stale old trick. Now then, off you get.’ And even if the conductor is a good fellow and lets you down easily, you are faced with the necessity of going back and the inconvenience, perhaps, of missing your train or your engagement.

Having searched my pockets in vain for stray coppers, and having found I was utterly penniless, I told the conductor with as honest a face as I could assume that I couldn’t pay the fare, and must go back for money. ‘Oh, you needn’t get off: that’s all right’, said he. ‘All right’, said I, ‘but I haven’t a copper on me.’ ‘Oh I’ll book you through, he replied. ‘Where d’ye want to go ?’ and he handled his bundle of tickets with the air of a man who was prepared to give me a ticket for anywhere from the Bank to Hong Kong. I said it was very kind of him, and told him where I wanted to go, and as he gave me the ticket I said, ‘But where shall I send the fare?’ ‘Oh, you’ll see me some day all right’, he said cheerfully, as he turned to go. And then, luckily, my fingers, still wandering in the corners of my pockets lighted on a shilling and the account was squared. But that fact did not lessen the glow of pleasure which so good-natured an action had given me.

A2. Describe :                    (02)

Describe the feelings of the narrator when he realised that he was travelling without money.

There was a mixed and awkward feeling. The writer felt angry as he looked like a fool. He thought

The conductor would humiliate him by saying that it was an old trick of the ticketless passenger.

A3. Find out and give reasons :(02)

“I pay tribute to a particular member of that class. Find out which particular member of class the writer is talking about with reasons.

The writer is talking about the conductor of the bus. Despite of the fact that the writer was travelling without money the conductor did not shout at him and didn’t tell the writer to get down from the bus. He was very polite with the writer and handled the situation very calmly and quietly.

A4. Personal Response :            (02)

Share if you have similar kind of experience like the narrator had as mentioned in the extract.

A5. Language study :.                 (02)

i) I pay tribute to a particular member of that class.

(Rewrite using,” Present perfect continuous Tense”).

(Choose the correct answer from the options and rewrite it.)

1)I have been paying tribute to a particular member of that class.

2) I have paid tribute to a particular member of that class.

3) I had paid to a particular member of that class.

4) I will pay tribute to a particular member of that class.

ii) I couldn’t pay the fare.  ( Use, “be able to”)

I was not able to pay the fare. OR I was unable to pay the fare.

iii) It was very kind of him.  (Make it Exclamatory)

How kind it was of him!

iv) He gave me the ticket.

( Frame a ,”wh- question” to get the underlined part as an answer)

(Write your answer using the given clue.)

What ....... he ......... me?

v) I said,” But where shall I send the fare?” (Rewrite in Reported speech)

I asked/inquired but where I would send the fare.

A6. Vocabulary :                    (02)                    

Find Antonyms of the following words from the extract.

a) Friendly x Unfriendly

b) unconscious   x conscious

c) Convenience x Inconvenience

d) unlucky x lucky

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On saying please 3

Prose section Unit 1.2 

On saying please

Extract No. 03

Activities with expected answers

Page no. 15/16   [ Lines, “ But Though ……………service”]

Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1. True or False :                     (02)

State whether the following statements are True or False.

a) Being civil is utmost important. (T)

b) We should acknowledge a service.  (T)

c) Commands can be used in day to day life to deal with people.  (F)

d) Courtesies help the machine of life to run sweetly.  (T)

But though we are bound to endorse the verdict against the lift-man most people will have certain sympathy with him. While it is true that there is no law that compels us to say ‘Please’, there is a social practice much older and much more sacred than any law which enjoins us to be civil. And the first requirement of civility is that we should acknowledge a service. ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ are the small change with which we pay our way as social beings. They are the little courtesies by which we keep the machine of life oiled and running sweetly. They put our intercourse upon the basis of a friendly cooperation an easy give and take, instead of on the basis of superiors dictating to inferiors. It is a very vulgar mind that would wish to command where he can have the service for asking, and have it with willingness and good feeling instead of resentment.

I should like to ‘feature’ in this connection my friend, the polite conductor. By this discriminating title, I do not intend to suggest a rebuke to conductors generally. On the contrary, I am disposed to think that there are few classes of men who come through the ordeal of a very trying calling better than bus conductors do. Here and there you will meet an unpleasant specimen who regards the passengers as his natural enemies - as creatures whose chief purpose  on the bus is to cheat him, and who can only be kept reasonably honest by a  loud voice and an aggressive manner.  But this type is rare - rarer than it used to be. I fancy the public owes much to the Underground Railway Company, which also runs the buses, for insisting on a certain standard of civility in its servants and taking care that that standard is observed. In doing this it not only makes things pleasant for the travelling public, but performs an important social service.

A2. Describe :                     (02)

Describe the impact of good temper and kindliness on the society in the light of the good-mannered conductor.

The conductor in this extract is very polite with the narrator ……………. (Practice Activity)

A2. Explain :                     (02)

Explain what can be the basis of our day to day communication.

Friendly cooperation and easy give and take, instead of on the basis of superiors dictating to inferiors. It is a very vulgar mind that would wish to command where he can have the service for asking, and have it with willingness and good feeling instead of resentment(anger)

A4. Personal Response :             (02)

"The first requirement of civility Is that we should acknowledge a service.” share your thoughts on this in about Fifty words.

A5. Language study                     (02)

i) Though we are bound to endorse the verdict against the lift-man most people will have certain sympathy with him.

(Rewrite the sentence using” but’ conjunction)

We are bound to endorse the verdict against the lift-man but most people will have certain Sympathy with him.

ii) We should acknowledge a service.

(Replace the modal by another showing ,”obligation / Compulsion)

Select your answer from the options

a) We can acknowledge a service.

b) We will acknowledge a science.

C) We must/ought to acknowledge a service.

d) We might acknowledge a service.

iii) It is a very vulgar mind that would wish to command.

(Make it Exclamatory)

Select your answer from the options.

a)How vulgar mind it is that would wish to command.

b)What a vulgar mind it is that would wish to command!

c) it is really a vulgar mind that would wish to command.

d) A vulgar mind would not wish to command.

iv) You will meet an unpleasant specimen.

(Make it less definite)

You may/might meet an unpleasant specimen.

A6. Vocabulary :                           (02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a) Communication or conversation = intercourse

b) Suffering = ordeal

c) Anger = Resentment

d) To speak angrily = Rebuke

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On saying please 2

Prose section 

On Saying Please

Extract No 02 

Activities with Expected answers

Page no. 15   [ Lines, “This does not………..moods and manners”]

Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1. True or False :                  (02)

i) It is more painful if someone hurts our self-respect. (T)

ii) Bad manners can cause much damage which is irreparable. (T)

iii) Law can control our private manners. (F)

iv) Court could control our social manners and moods. (F)

This does not mean that the damages are negligible. It is probable that the lift-man was much more acutely hurt by what he regarded as a slur upon his social standing than he would have been if he had a kick on the shins, for which he could have got a legal redress. The pain of a kick on the shins soon passes away but the pain of a wound to our self-respect or our vanity may poison a whole day. I can imagine that lift-man, denied the relief of throwing the author  of his wound out of the lift, brooding over the insult by the hour, and visiting it on his wife in the evening as the only way of restoring his equilibrium. For there are few things more catching than bad temper and bad manners. When Sir Anthony Absolute bullied Captain Absolute, the latter went out and bullied his man, Fag, whereupon Fag went out downstairs and kicked the page-boy. Probably the man who said ‘Top’ to the lift man was really only getting back on his employer who had not said ‘Good morning’ to him because he himself had been henpecked at breakfast by his wife, to whom the cook had been insolent because the housemaid had ‘answered her back’. We infect the world with our ill humours. Bad manners probably do more to poison the stream of the general life than all the crimes in the calendar. For one wife who gets a black eye from an otherwise good natured husband there are a hundred who live a life of martyrdom under the shadow of a morose temper. But all the same the law cannot become the guardian of our private manners. No Decalogue could cover the vast area of offences and no court could administer a law which governed our social civilities, our speech, the tilt of our eyebrows and all our moods and manners.

A2. Explain/Elaborate :   (02)

The pain of a kick on the shins soon passes away but the pain of a wound to our self-respect or our vanity may poison a whole day.

The statement is self-explanatory. The writer wants to convey that physical assault can heal with Passage of time but an injury to our self-respect cannot be healed easily. It may poison our day or Life because it is an insult or humiliation.

A3. Give Reasons :                 (02)

it is not possible for the law to become the guardian of our private manners ……….

Law is reasonable and clear. It can guide us in our daily life. Discourtesy is not a legal offence.

Social mannerisms, etiquettes, politeness are expected nobilities and courtesies. We  cannot compel somebody to say Thank you and please every now and then.

A4. Personal Response :           (02)

“Courtesy costs nothing but pays everything,” Share your views on this. Justify your  answer with suitable examples in Fifty words.

A5. Language study :.             (02)

i) We infect the world with our ill-humours.

(Rewrite the sentence beginning with,” The world…….”)

The world is infected by us with our ill-humours.

ii) The law cannot become the guardian of our private manners.

(Frame a Rhetorical question)

Can the law become the guardian of our private manners?

iii) No Decalogue could cover the vast area.  (Make it affirmative)

Decalogue could not cover the vast area.

A6. Vocabulary :                   (02)

Find out words from the extract which mean.

a) Remedy = Redress 

b) very rude = insolent

c) Bad name or Reputation = Black eye

d) A man who is controlled by his wife=henpecked.

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On Saying please 1

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Unit 1.2  On Saying please

Activities with Expected answers

ExtractNo. 01

Page no 14/15   [ Lines, “The Young………..these matters”]

Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow :

A1. True or False :                   (02)

State whether the following statements are true or false.

i) The passenger was thrown out of lift for being impolite. (T)

ii) The law can compel us to say ha” please” (F)

iii) If we were given the liberty to box people’s ears there would be violence.(T)

iv) Bitter problems in a day-to-day life can be solved by sweet words.(T)

The young lift-man in a City office who threw a passenger out of his lift the other morning and was fined for the offence was undoubtedly in the wrong.  It was a question of ‘Please’. The complainant entering the lift,  said, ‘Top’. The lift-man demanded ‘Top-please’ and this concession being refused he not only declined to comply with the instruction, but hurled the passenger out of the lift. This, of course was carrying a comment on manner too far.  Discourtesy is not a legal offence, and it does not excuse assault and battery. If a burglar breaks into my house and I knock him down, the law will acquit me, and if I am physically assaulted, it will permit me to retaliate with reasonable violence. It does this because the burglar and my assailant have broken quite definite commands of the law, but no legal system could attempt to legislate against bad manners, or could sanction the use of violence against something which it does not itself recognize as a legally punishable offence. And whatever our sympathy with the lift-man, we must admit that the law is reasonable. It would never do if we were at liberty to box people’s ears because we did not like their behaviour, or the tone of their voices, or the scowl on their faces. Our fists would never be idle, and the gutters of the City would run with blood all day.

I may be as uncivil as I may please and the law will protect me against violent retaliation. I may be haughty or boorish and there is no penalty to pay except the penalty of being written down an ill-mannered fellow. The law does not compel me to say ‘please’ or to attune my voice to other people’s sensibilities any more than it says that I shall not wax my moustache or dye my hair or wear ringlets down my back. It does not recognize the laceration of our feelings as   a case for compensation. There is no allowance for moral and intellectual damages in these matters. 

A1. Complete :                   (02)

Choose the correct alternatives and complete the following sentences.

i) The lift man insisted that the person should say……………

a) Please b) Top-please c) Top d) stop

ii) No legal system in the world has attempted to legislate against……………………….

a) Murder b) assault c) robbery d) bad manners

iii) The only penalty a haughty  or boorish person have to pay if he is uncivil is………..

a) Punishment b) boycott

c) being written down as an ill-mannered d) prison

iv) ………………………. Is not a legal offence.

a) Cheating      b) smuggling c) mugging    d) Dishonesty

A1. Summarise :                     (02)

Select two most appropriate sentences which suggest the theme of the extract.

1) Etiquette and manners are very important for a person to live in a society.

2) Being civilised is more important than being educated.

3) The extract deals with types of manners and funny incidents of rude people.

4) The writer wants to highlight the point that law can punish you if you are rude.

A2. Give reasons :                   (02)

The narrator says that the law is reasonable because …………………..

Discourtesy is not a legal offence as per law. A person who tries to defend himself in an assault Or battery reasonably can be freed by the law, but at the same time you can be punished if you Violet or break the law beyond the specified rules.

A3. Interpret :                   (02)

Interpret the statement,” It would never do if we were at liberty to box people’s ears.”

The above statement says that law does not permit you to use violence or punish somebody as per your whims and fancies .The law is very clear and reasonable. If people will decide what is Right or wrong,there would be violence everywhere and people will kill each other in every nook and corner.It will be a complete chaos and there will be bloodshed on roads and gutters.

A4. Personal Response :            (02)

Suggest some ways to encourage people to adopt social behaviour write in about Fifty words.

A5. Language study :                 (02)

i) Discourtesy is not a legal offence. ( Frame a Rhetorical question)

Is discourtesy a legal offence? 

ii) If I am physically assaulted, it will permit me to retaliate with reasonable violence.

(Rewrite using “Unless”)

Unless I am physically assaulted, it will not permit me to retaliate with reasonable violence.

iii) No legal system could attempt to legislate against bad manners.

(Make it Interrogative)

Could any legal system attempt to legislate against bad manners?

iv) We must admit that the law is reasonable.

(Replace the Modal Auxiliary by another showing,” Advice/suggestions”)

We should admit that the law is reasonable.

v) We did not like their behaviour.  (Make it Affirmative)

We disliked their behaviour.

vi) The law will protect me against violent retaliation.

(Make it less definite)

The law may/might protect me against violent retaliation.

vii) There is no penalty to pay. (Frame a Rhetorical question)

Is there any penalty to pay?

viii) There is no allowance for moral and intellectual damages in these matters. 

(Frame a Rhetorical question)

Is there any allowance for moral and intellectual damages in these matters?

A6. Vocabulary :                 (02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a) One who files a complaint  =    complainant

b) Rude  =  boorish

c) Proud =  haughty                                                                                 

d) To throw  =  hurled

A6. Vocabulary :                    (02)

Write down the Antonyms of the words from the extract.

a) Convict x  acquit     

b) Unreasonable x  reasonable

c) Illegal x legal

d) nonviolence x violence

e) Civil x uncivil

A6. Vocabulary :                    (02)

Prepare a word Register for the word, “LAW”

Offence, complainant, assault, battery, acquit, legislate, violence, punishable, legally, compensation

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An Astrologer''s Day 6

Prose section

Extract No. 06 Activities with expected answers

Page no 6 /7 

 [ Lines,” why  should………..on the pyol”]

Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follows:

A1. True or False :                   (02)

State whether the following statements are True or false.

i) The astrologer ran away from his home because he made an attempt to kill a man(T)

ii) The astrologer’s wife was well aware of the fact that her husband had tried to kill a man.(F)

iii) The astrologer was relived from the burden on his head.(T)

iv) The man whom the astrologer tried to kill was dead in reality.(F)

“Why should I leave home again?” the other said reflectively. “I was only going away now and then To look  for him and to choke out his life if I met him.” He shook his head regretfully. “He has escaped  my hands. I hope at least he died as he deserved.”  Yes,” said the astrologer. “He was crushed under a lorry.”  The other looked gratified to hear it. 

The place was deserted by the time the astrologer picked up his articles and put them into his bag. The green shaft was also gone, leaving the place in darkness and silence. The stranger had gone off into the night, after giving the astrologer a handful of coins.

It was nearly midnight when the astrologer reached home. His wife was waiting for him at the door and demanded an explanation. He flung the coins at her and said, “Count them. One man gave all that.”

        “Twelve and a half annas,” she said, counting. She was overjoyed. “I can buy some jaggery and coconut tomorrow. The child has been asking for sweets for so many days now. I will prepare some nice stuff for her”

The swine has cheated me! He promised me a rupee,” said the astrologer. She looked up at him. “You  look worried. What is wrong?

“Nothing.”

After dinner, sitting on the pyol, he told her, “Do you know a great load is gone from me today? I Thought I had the blood of a man on my hands all these years. That was the reason why I ran away From home, settled here and married you. He is alive.”

She gasped, “You tried to kill!”

“Yes, in our village, when I was a silly youngster. We drank, gambled and quarrelled badly one day—Why think of it now? Time to sleep,” he said, yawning, and stretched himself on the pyol.

A2. Give reasons :                     (02)

The astrologer’s wife was very happy that night because ……………….

The astrologer came home with twelve and half annas. With the help of this money, she can buy Some jaggery and Coconut. She is overjoyed with the feeling that she can prepare some nice stuff  like Sweets  for their girl child at home.

A3. Find out :                     (02)

Describe the load on the astrologer’s mind.

When the astrologer was a youngster he was very silly. He used to drink, gamble and quarrel 

One day, in a fit of anger, he tried to kill a man.He thought that the man must have died, but after Few days, he met the same man. He was under burden of killing a man but as he saw the man  alive his load vanished.

A4. Personal Response :.   (02)

 The astrologer had tried to kill the man intentionally or it might have happened due to anger, addiction, stress or frustration? Justify your answer in Fifty words.

A5. Language study :           (02)

i)Why should I leave home again ?

 ( Make it Assertive)

I should not leave home again.

ii) Identify the tenses and match the column.

Match the column,” A” (sentences) with column”( Tenses)

            A B

i) His wife was waiting for him. a) Present perfect continuous 

ii) He has escaped my hands b) Past continuous

iii) The child has been asking for sweets. c) Present perfect

iv) I hope at least he died as he deserved d) Simple past

Ans. i) - b),  ii) - c),  iii) - a),  iv) - d)

iii) I can buy some jaggery and coconut tomorrow.

(Replace the auxiliary by another showing, “Certainty”)

I will buy some jaggery and coconut tomorrow.

A6. Vocabulary :                          (02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a) Pleased or satisfied = gratified,                   

b) empty  = deserted

c) To bet money on playing cards  = Gambled         

d) to have difficulty in breathing  = gasped

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An Astrologer's Day 5

Prose section Unit 1.1

An Astrologer's Day

Extract No 05

Activities with Expected answers

Page no.  5/6 [ Lines, “The other………..to be hundred”]

Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow:

A1.True or False : (02)

Read the following sentences and find out True and False sentences. Correct the  false Sentences.

a) The astrologer gave a correct prediction of the client about his name, his past like he Was stabbed and thrown into a well. (T)

b) The passer-by noticed that someone is there deep into the well.(T)

c) The astrologer advised Guru Nayak to go in search of the man who had tried to kill him (F) CORRECT SENTENCE - The astrologer advised Guru Nayak to go home.

d) The astrologer told Guru Nayak that the man whom he was searching died four months 

           ago. (T)

The other thrust his palm in his face and said,” challenge is challenge, Go on,” The astrologer Proceeded  with his throat drying up.” There is a woman……..’

          “Stop,” said the other,” I don’t want all that. Shall I succeed in my present search or not ? Answer this and go, otherwise I will not let you go till you disgorge all your coins.’ The astrologer muttered a few incantations and replied,” All right, I will speak but will you give me a rupee if  What I say is convincing? Otherwise I will not open my mouth, and you may do what you like,’ After a good deal of haggling, the other agreed. The astrologer said,” You were left for dead, Am I right?”

“ Ah, tell me more.”

“A knife has passed through you once?” said the astrologer.

“Good fellow!” He bared his chest to show the scar. “what else?”

“ And then you were pushed into a well nearby in the field. You were left for dead.’

“ I should have been dead if some passer-by had not chanced to peep into the well,’ Exclaimed the other,  over-whelmed by enthusiasm.

“ When shall I get at him?” he asked, clenching his fist.

“In the next world,” answered the Astrologer,” He died four months ago in a far-off town. You will never see any more of him,” The other groaned on hearing it the astrologer proceeded.

“ Guru Nayak-”

“You know my name!” the other said, taken ‘aback.

“As I know all other things. Guru Nayak, listen carefully to what I have to say. Your village is two Days’ journey due North of this town. Take next train and be gone. I see once again great danger To your life if you go from home, “He took out a pinch of sacred ash and held it to him,” Rub It on your forehead and go home. Never travel southward again, and you will live to be Hundred.”

A2.Find out: (02)

Find out the expressions from the extract that shows how the astrologer persuaded Guru Nayak not to search the man who had tried to kill him.

I) “ In the next world,” he answered

II) He died four months ago in far – off town

III) You will never see any more of him.

IV) Take the next train and be gone.

V) I see once again great danger to your life if you go from home.

VI) Never travel southward again.

A3.Give Reasons : (02)

Guru Nayak was taken aback by the Astrologer ……………………….

The astrologer told Guru Nayak all about his past life including his name, how a knife has Passed through him once. He also revealed how he was pushed into a well nearby in the Field. When Guru Nayak asked him about the culprit he told that he passed away four Months ago in a far-off town. On hearing all this Guru Nayak was taken aback.

A4.Personal Response : (02)

If you have to eradicate the superstitions and other ill practices from our society, write down the Steps you would like to suggest in Fifty words.

A5. Language study: (02)

i) I will not let you go till you disgorge all your coins.

(Make it less definite)

I may/might let you go till you disgorge all your coins.

ii) You may do what you like.

(Replace the modal auxiliary by another showing,” Advice/Suggestion”)

You should do what you like.

iii) “When shall I get at him?” he asked.

(Rewrite in Indirect speech)

He asked/inquired when he would get at him.

iv) You will never see any more of him.

(Replace the modal auxiliary by another Showing “ability”)

You can never see any more of him.

v) Never travel southward again.

(Make it affirmative)

Refrain from travelling southward again.

A6. Vocabulary : (02)

Match the columns “A’ with their meanings in Column “B”

A) Haggling i) to look into

B) Groaned ii) astonished

C) Over-whelmed iii) arguing

D) To peep into iv) unpleasant/sad sound

Ans. A) - iii),  B) - iv),   c) - ii),   d) - i) 

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