GRAMMAR WORKSHEET 1 CLASS IX &X

1. Choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below to complete the following 
passage. 

 A three year - old tigress at Bandhavagarh National Park (a) __________ under mysterious
circumstances. A group of tourists (b) __________ the injured tigress near the Tata range of the
reserve and (c) __________ the park officials. The tigress (d) __________ in the morning. This
(e) __________ the 18th tiger death (f) __________ in the country since January. The shocking
incident (g) __________ at a time when nationwide tiger census (h) _________ completion.


(a) (i) died (ii) had died (iii) has died (iv) was dead
(b) (i) observed (ii) noticed (iii) had spotted (iv) spotted.
(c) (i) will have informed (ii) informed (iii) had informed (iv) has informed
(d) (i) was being seen (ii) was noticed (iii) were seen (iv) was found
(e) (i) is (ii) was (iii) had been (iv) has been
(f) (i) reported (ii) occurred (iii) happened (iv) had been
 occurred
g) (i) is coming (ii) has come (iii) had come (iv) was coming
(h) (i) can reach (ii) will reach (iii) has reached (iv) is nearing

2. Given below are the instructions on how to make tea. Refer to the given notes and 
complete the paragraph. Below the paragraph, four choices are suggested for each blank. 
Find and write the most appropriate option for each blank 

Pour water in a pan – Heat it till it boils – Put tea leaves, sugar and cardamom – Add milk to it –
Heat it – After boiling , pour it into cups – Serve it hot.

To prepare tea water is poured in a pan. It (a) ________________ till it boils. Tea leaves, sugar
and cardamom (b) _____________________ into the boiling water. Milk is then (c)
______________________ and the concoction is further heated. After boiling, it (d)
_______________ into cups and then served hot.

 (a) (i) is heating (ii) was heated (iii) will be heated (iv) is heated
 (b) (i) is put (ii) are put (iii) is being put (iv) was put
(c) (i) being added (ii) adding (iii) is added (iv) added
 (d) (i) poured into cups (ii) was poured (iii) is being poured (iv) is poured


3. Read the conversation given below and report the dialogues between Sonu and Monu 
 by completing the passage that follows. 

Sonu : I’m dying, Monu.
Monu : Well, do me a favour after you reach heaven.
Sonu : What do you want me to do ?
Monu : Tell me if they play cricket in heaven.
 Sonu dies and Monu sees him in his dream.
 Sonu : There is one good and one bad news for you. The good news is that they play
 cricket here, and the bad news is that it is your turn to bowl tomorrow!

 Sonu told Monu that he was dying. Monu asked Sonu (i) __________ after he reached heaven.
Sonu asked (ii) __________ . Monu told Sonu (iii) __________ . After his death Sonu came in
Monu‟s dream and said that there was one good and one bad news for him. The good news
was that they played cricket there and the bad one was that (iv) _________.

SUMMARY LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER

LORD ULLIN''S DAUGHTER   

A Scottish chieftain is in love with the daughter of Lord Ullin. The Scots have close knit clans and are very proud of their clans. This often resulted in feuds and fights.

Lord Ullin does not approve of his daughter's choice and threatens to kill the chieftain. The two lovers escape and come to a large lake called the loch. It is a stormy night and going into the lake in this weather could be quite dangerous.

The chieftain  offers the boatman a silver pound to ferry them across. The boatman is quite surprised at this request and would like to know who they are. The lover tells him. They have been running for 3 days now. He is sure that if caught he will be killed. His blood will stain the heather.

The brave boatsman offers to take them across. He says that he does so not for money, but because of the charming lady. It is not for her silver bright but for her winsome lady.

The dark clouds gathered. The storm grew fierce. The lady pleaded with the men to hurry. She would rather venture into the stormy waters than meet the wrath of her father. I'll meet the raging of the skies. But not an angry father.

The lovers were taken into the stormy waters. But the winds were hard and the tempest too strong. The boat soon capsized and the frail occupants of the boat fell into the lake and were soon drowned.

Just at that moment Lord Ullin reached the bank. His anger had melted away and now he was close to tears his wrath was changed to wailing.

He saw the raised hand of his child, before she sank into the water with her lover. He called out to her in grief, promising to accept her lover the chieftain. But he was too late. The lovers had met their watery grave.

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REVISION WORKSHEET CLASS IX

 CLASS- IX TOPIC :LITERATURE
 Q1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
 1. I tell you what I’ll do. I’ll be philanthropic and let you have it for two thousand.
 a. Who is the speaker and what is being offered for two thousand?
 b. What does ‘philanthropic’ mean and do you the speaker is being philanthropic in giving this offer? c. Does the listener accept the offer? Why/ Why not?

 2. Come back! Come back!” he cried in grief 
Across the stormy water
 a. Who is asking whom to come back?
 b. What was the earlier mood of the speaker?
 c. How did he change and what did he promise to do?

 3.Whate’er the theme the maiden sang
 As if her song could have no ending
 I saw her singing at her work 
And o’er her sickle bending
 a. Did the poet know the theme of the girl’s song? Why/ Why not?
 b. What was the girl doing while she sang the song?
 c. How did the poet listen to her song?

 4.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 
and sorry I could not travel both
 and be one traveler, long I stood and looked
 down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth;
 a. Why does the poet feel sorry?
 b. What is the poet talking about in this stanza?
 c. “...., long I stood’ what does this line mean?
 d.Why is the wood yellow?

 Q.2. Answer the following questions in about 50-60 words:

 1.“Duke was an intelligent dog.” Give two instances to prove the statement.
 2.Why did people in the new locality consider Hooper ‘a mechanical giant’ ‘owned’ by the dog? 
3. What is the dilemma faced by the poet-traveler in the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’? 
4.What does the poet say about the solitary reaper’s song?
 5.What did Lord Ullin see when he reached the shore? 
6.Why did the lovers enter into the stormy waters? 
7.Gaston is against buying the villa. Why does he praise it later and buy it?
8.How is everyone delighted in the business of the sale of villa?

Q3Answer the following questions in 100-120 words.( Value based)

 i. Hooper met with an accident but recovered quickly due to Duke’s help. How are the values of fellow feeling, gratitude and self-support reflected in the character of Charles Hooper?

 ii. Gaston lacked honesty and fairness in his deal. Do you agree? What values are reflected from his character? As a businessman, what would be your priority-profit or honesty?

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NOTES

Gulliver -  The narrator and protagonist of the story. Although Lemuel Gulliver’s vivid and detailed style of narration makes it clear that he is intelligent and well educated, his perceptions are naïve and gullible. He has virtually no emotional life, or at least no awareness of it, and his comments are strictly factual. Indeed, sometimes his obsession with the facts of navigation, for example, becomes unbearable for us, as his fictional editor, Richard Sympson, makes clear when he explains having had to cut out nearly half of Gulliver’s verbiage. Gulliver never thinks that the absurdities he encounters are funny and never makes the satiric connections between the lands he visits and his own home. Gulliver’s naïveté makes the satire possible, as we pick up on things that Gulliver does not notice.

Laputans -  Absentminded intellectuals who live on the floating island of Laputa, encountered by Gulliver on his third voyage. The Laputans are parodies of theoreticians, who have scant regard for any practical results of their own research. They are so inwardly absorbed in their own thoughts that they must be shaken out of their meditations by special servants called flappers, who shake rattles in their ears. During Gulliver’s stay among them, they do not mistreat him, but are generally unpleasant and dismiss him as intellectually deficient. They do not care about down-to-earth things like the dilapidation of their own houses, but worry intensely about abstract matters like the trajectories of comets and the course of the sun. They are dependent in their own material needs on the land below them, called Lagado, above which they hover by virtue of a magnetic field, and from which they periodically raise up food supplies. In the larger context of Gulliver’s journeys, the Laputans are a parody of the excesses of theoretical pursuits and the uselessness of purely abstract knowledge.

Richard Sympson -  Gulliver’s cousin, self-proclaimed intimate friend, and the editor and publisher of Gulliver’s Travels. It was in Richard Sympson’s name that Jonathan Swift arranged for the publication of his narrative, thus somewhat mixing the fictional and actual worlds. Sympson is the fictional author of the prefatory note to Gulliver’s Travels, entitled “The Publisher to the Readers.” This note justifies Sympson’s elimination of nearly half of the original manuscript material on the grounds that it was irrelevant, a statement that Swift includes so as to allow us to doubt Gulliver’s overall wisdom and ability to distinguish between important facts and trivial details

Yahoos -  Unkempt humanlike beasts who live in servitude to the Houyhnhnms. Yahoos seem to belong to various ethnic groups, since there are blond Yahoos as well as dark-haired and redheaded ones. The men are characterized by their hairy bodies, and the women by their low-hanging breasts. They are naked, filthy, and extremely primitive in their eating habits. Yahoos are not capable of government, and thus they are kept as servants to the Houyhnhnms, pulling their carriages and performing manual tasks. They repel Gulliver with their lascivious sexual appetites, especially when an eleven-year-old Yahoo girl attempts to rape Gulliver as he is bathing naked. Yet despite Gulliver’s revulsion for these disgusting creatures, he ends his writings referring to himself as a Yahoo, just as the Houyhnhnms do as they regretfully evict him from their realm. Thus, “Yahoo” becomes another term for human, at least in the semideranged and self-loathing mind of Gulliver at the end of his fourth journey.