MACHINE-8th Standard Second Language English Notes

October 10, 2017
MACHINE- Rudyard kipling
C1. Answer the following questions.
1) Look at eh first stanza see how a machine made of metal goes through a process in making fill in the empty boxes with the appropriate steps.
123
MinedMeltedCast
456
WroughtHammeredcut
789
FiledTooledGauged
2) What do simple machines need to start working?
They need some water, coal and oil to start working.
3) Name at least five machine or mechanical devices and write how they are useful to man.
1) Train:- Transportation of goods and people .
2) Scanning machine:- to find out the internal diseases in our body.
3) printing machine:- for printing books
4) Loud speaker:- to conduct speeches and programmes
5) Washing machine. For washing clothes.
4) What cannot a machine do?
Machine cannot comprehend a lie. It cannot have love pity or forgive.
5) What is the risk if the machine is mishandled?
If you mishandle the machine you will die.
C2. Read and discuss with your partner and then write.
1) How are machines and human beings different? Study the last stanza and write.
Though machines are powerful bigger in size and weight,
they are nothing before man as they are the children of man's brain.
2) Do you observe any rhyme scheme in each stanza. If
you do write the words that rhyme to get her.
Mine - design, pit - fit, ask - task, play - day, ask - task, drive- dive, light -write, live - forgive, lie - die, eyes - size, again- brain.
3) List all the words that suggest motion.
1) pull 2) haul 3) push 4) drive
5) print 6) plough 7) weave 8) heat
9) light 10) run 11) jump 12) swim
13) fly 14) dive 15) see 16) hear
17) count 18) read 19) write
4) Identify other words which are repeated in the poem like 'and'
Repeated words in poem are - Were, can, we,
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