EXERCISE
A. Answer the following questions orally :
Q.1. What is your opinion about s greedy man ?
Ans . A greedy man is looked down in the society. He ends his life in disaster.
Q.2. What does he do to satisfy his ambition ?
Ans . He utilizes wrong methods to earn money and can go upto any extent.
Q.3. What ultimate result he has to some across ?
Ans . He ends in doom with ultimate premature death.
B.1. Write ‘ T ‘ for true and ‘ F’ for false statement.
1. Periasamy Thooran has written to poem ‘The Empty Heart’ [ F ].
2. Periasamy Thooran was a Bengali writer [ F ].
3. The Empty Heart ‘ poem was translated by S. Swaminarhan. [ T ].
4. The man was given six pots [ F ].
B. 1.2. Answer the following questions very briefly :
Q.1. Why was the man not content , although he was rich.
Ans . He had a demo desire in his heart to have more and more wealth.
Q.2. When was the gift given by the tree ?
Ans . He used to go to ‘ wish Yielding ‘ tree and prayed for a pot of gold. The Gift God granted him seven pitchers of glistening gold which were filled upto the brim.
Q.3. Why was the tree called unkind ?
Ans . Because the eights pitcher which the God granted as gift was only half filled. He would have been called extremely generous if the eight pitcher would have been full with the gold coins as the other seven pitchers.
Q.4. When did the man want one pot of gold ?
Ans . When he went to the ‘ Kalptaru’ to come to his and give him one pot of gold.
Q.5. Why was her given seven pots ?
Ans . To satisfy the inner greed of the rich man.
B. 1.3. Fill in the blanks with suitable words reading the poem carefully.
Line :
1. The man was rich but not contest.
2. Morning , noon and night he went.
3. His prayer was granted seven fold.
4. For as a gift to him was given.
5. To fill this quick was his thought the seven full vessels he clean forgot.
6. Nothing is wrong with a half filled purse. His the void in the heart that is the curse.
C.1. Long Answer Questions :
Answer the following questions.
Q.1. Explain the tille ” The Empty Heart” in context with the poem ?
Ans . The empty heart denotes a situation where the heart is found to be always in empty condition. It is never filled and hence there is no satisfaction in life. It is just like the half empty pitcher in the poem which could not be filled inspite of the lost efforts from the rich man. The title is quite symbolic and represents the sentiment of the poem.
Q2. Is the name ” Kalpana” justified ? Explain.
Ans . ‘ kalpaka ‘ is a wish Yielding tree which is usually called ‘ Kalptaru’ to Hindi. This seems to be a Tamilian word which is synonymous to ‘ Kalptaru’ or wish Yielding tree. The richman goes to to the wish Yielding tree and addresses the tree as Kalpaka . Hence seems the name is justified.
Q.3. Contentment is the style of life. Discuss .
Ans . Contentment is the way of life. A person is content with he has and leads a happy life whereas another person is always unhappy and is never satisfied even if he has wealth in abundance. The heart and the mind are the key factors to decide Contentment.
Q.4. What does the term silver pitcher symbolize ?
Ans . The pitcher symbolize the heart which is found to empty at all times and silver denotes the wealth. Man is always after money (silver ) and his picture remains unfilled.
C.2. Group Discussion :
Discuss the following in groups or pairs.
1. The greed for the accumulation of material wealth leads to distribution.
Points for discussion :
(a) Greediness is a vice. It is a sin and all the religion despire Greediness.
(b) It is said that Greed gives birth to sun. A person who commits sin is not liked by the people in the society and when you commit sin your life becomes curse.
(c) After all what is the purpose of wealth ? The purpose is to give you happiness in life.
(d) Actually material wealth cause destruction in the end.
C.3. Composition :
Write a paragraph in about 100 words on each of the following :
(1) A rich man empty heart .
It is said that a rich man has an empty heart. His heart is never filled because the more wealth the gets , he has more appetite is never filled because the more wealth he gets he has more appetite for wealth. Everything he finds money his fire of desire in the heart starts burning again and he goes on finding ways and means to earn more money. It may be good or may be bad. The automate end is to earn and fulfil his uncontrolled desire.
(2) Empty dream :
Dreaming is said to be good for marketing progress in life if one can give shape to his dreams. Dreams encourages to plan your things according to what you imagine. But if the dreams are only dreams, it has no meaning and purpose and those are called empty dreams.
The empty dreams are just a waste are just a waste and a picture in vain. It has no meaning and therefore has no justification or purpose. Empty dreams are just like empty coffers.
D.1. Word Study :
Correct the spelling of the following words :
Incorrect Correct
Attect Attack
Bigin Begin
Chenge Change
Greatful Greatful
Apeal Appeal
Statement Statement
Copere Compare
Sufer Suffer
D.2. Use the following words in sentences :
Care : He does not care for his parents.
Bridge : A long road bridge connect Patna with north Bihar.
Demand : He has detected ten rupees for this book.
Hope : He hopes for the best in his examination.
Fight : One should fight the fear .
Promise : You have promised to give me some money.
Profit : The company is running in profit.
Return : He has returned from Delhi only yesterday.
Smell : Foul smell is emitting out from this drain.
E. Grammar :
Pick out the indefinitive, the gernund and the participles in the following sentences :
1. I decided to go there .
2. Walking is a good exercise.
Gerund = Walking.
Decided = Past participle.
A = Indefinitive article.
Look at the following sentences and find out how the words rhyme.
1. The man rich but not content.
Morning noon and night he went.
Content and went are the rhyming words.
2. All I want is a pot of gold.
His prayer was granted seven fold .
Gold and fold are the rhyming words.
3. The Demon desire now made him mad.
To mother wife, children good bye he fed.
Compose small poem with rhyming words of your own :
Mother , Mother how thy care.
In the worst of time even you dare .
To show thou.
For you hold it with best and gentle cover.
F. Activity :
Q. Meat a man in your village and write five sentences about him.
Ans. When I last visited my village in October during Puja holidays . I met with an old man of the village. He was more than Eighty year old but the could see, eat and walk well. One should try to follow his way of life.
G. Translation :
Translate into English :
1. मेरी माँ दयालु है।
My mother is kind hearted.
2. वे सुबह में टहलते हैं।
He walks in the morning.
3. तुम्हें आराम करना चाहिये।
You should take rest .
4. वह कलम से लिख सकती है।
She can write with pen.
5. पटना बिहार की राजधानी है।
Patna is the Capital of Bihar.
6. पटना गंगा के किनारे बसा हुआ है।
Patna is situated on the bank of Ganga.
7. गंगा एक पवित्र नदी है।
Ganga is a sacred river.
8. गंगा को प्रदूषित नहीं करना चाहिये।
We should not pollute Ganga.
9. पटना एक पुराना शहर है।
Patna is an old city.
10. उसने पटना के बारे में पत्र लिखा है।
He has written a letter about Patna.
GLOSSARY AND NOTES
Yielding (noun): माननेवाला।
Glisten (verb): जगमगाना ।
Pitcher (noun): मटका , घड़ा।
Demon (noun): राक्षस, दुरात्मक ।
Shirk (verb): कतराना।
Wreck (noun): जहाज जो टूट गया या डूब गया।
Encyclopedia (noun): विश्व शब्दकोश ।
Brim (noun): ऊपरी किनारे तक ।