Activity Sheet No.1
Q1. Read the following extract and complete the activities given below. (12)
Punctually (promptly) at midday, he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment,(tools) which consisted of a dozen cowrie shells,(conch of small snell) a square piece of cloth with obscure(unclear) mystic(supernatural) charts on it, a notebook and a bundle of palmyra (tree) writing. His forehead was resplendent(splendid/Shinning) with sacred ash (residue) and vermilion (red colour/Sindur),
and his eyes sparkled with a sharp abnormal gleam which was really an
outcome of a continual searching look for customers, but which his
simple clients took to be a prophetic (foresighted) light and felt comforted.(pleased)
The power of his eyes was considerably enhanced (improved) by their position—placed as they were between the painted forehead and the dark whiskers (mustache hairs) which streamed down (coursed down) his cheeks: even a half-wit's eyes would sparkle in such a setting. To crown (culminate/coronate/heighten/exalt) the effect he wound a saffron-colored; (orange-yellow colored) turban (cap/hat/Pagadi) around his head. This color scheme never failed. People were attracted to him as bees are attracted to cosmos or dahlia (flowers) stalk. (axis/shaft/shoot) He sat under the boughs (branch) of a spreading tamarind tree which flanked(boarder/side/line) a path running through the Town Hall Park.
It was a remarkable place in many ways: a surging (rising/increasing)
crowd was always moving up and down this narrow road morning till
night. A variety of trades and occupations was represented all along
its way: medicine-sellers, sellers of stolen hard ware and junk,
magicians and, above all, an auctioneer of cheap cloth, who created
enough din all day to attract the whole town.
A1. Web (2)
A2. Describe (2)
Describe the market place as a center of attraction for the
sellers and the whole town.
A3. Find out (2)
Find
out any two instances of the appearance of the prophet mostly suitable to his
profession.
profession.
A4. Personal Response (2)
Write
in 50 words about the career you like to choose in your life.
A5. Language study – (Do as directed) (2)
i) Punctually at midday, he opened
his bag.
(Make it compound)
ii) The power of his eyes was
considerably enhanced by their position. (Change
the voice)
A6. Vocabulary (2)
Find from the passage the adjectives used to describe the
following words. (2)
i) turban- ………
ii) equipment - ………
iii) forehead - ……..
iv) place - ………
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Activity Set By: Prof. R.D.Dhumal,
Jaysingpur Jr. College,
Kolhapur
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