10th Std | SSC BOARD
Questions and Answers
1.5 His First Flight | English Workshop
1 State whether
the following statements are true or false.
a) The young seagull was not confident about the ability of his wings.
b) The young seagull’s parents guided and improved his siblings in the art of flying.
c) When the young seagull pretended to be falling asleep, his parents noticed him.
d) Flying across the young seagull, the mother dropping a piece of fish into his beak.
e) His sister was smaller than him.
f) The young seagull had flown with his brothers and sister.
False
g) The young seagull had seen his younger brothers catching his first fish.
h) The sun was ascending the sky.
i) The young seagull flew away before his brothers and sister.
2. Complete the
following sentences.
a) The seagull is afraid to fly because because he has no
confidence on his wings.
b) Young birds are afraid to make
their first flight because they are not confident and don’t
want to take a risk.
c) Human beings find it difficult
to face great challenges because fear of failure and lack of confidence
make them negative. They don’t like to take risk in life. Most of the time they
don’t have any to motivate them.
d) The young seagull bent his head
and ran away because he felt that his wings would never support him.
e) The young seagull felt hot because
he had not eaten since the previous nightfall.
f) The young seagull utter a joy
full scream because his mother had picked up a piece of the fish and was
flying across to him with it.
,Complex Factual Question.
1. Rearrange the
sentences in proper order.( answers are given directly)
a) The sun was
ascending the sky.
b) The young seagull
uttered a joyful scream.
c) Maddened by
hunger, he dived at the fish.
d) He was no longer
afraid.
e) She dropped his
legs to the stand on the green sea.
f) She had made his
first flight.
3. Answer the following questions.
1. What did the young seagull feel?
Ans: The young seagull felt that his wings would never support him.
2. What were the young seagull’s
parents doing?
Ans: His father was preening the feathers on his white back and his mother
was looking at him. She was tearing a piece of fish that lay at her feet and
then scrapping each site of her beak on the rock.
3. What were the young seagull’s brothers and sister doing?
Ans: His two brothers and his sister flying around him
curveting and banking and soaring and diving.
4. What did his mother do to force
him to fly?
Ans: His mother picked up a piece of fish and flew across to him with it. But she was just opposite to him. She halted with her wings motionless and the maddened by hunger he dived at the fish that wise trick mother used to force to fly.
5. Why was the young seagull alone on
his ledge?
Ans: The young seagull was alone on his ledge because his two brothers and sister
had already flown away the day before.
7. Why did he keep calling out to his
mother?
Ans: He kept calling out to his mother because he wanted to bring him some
food.
8. From when had the young seagull
not eaten?
Ans: The young seagull had not eaten since the previous nightfall.
9. Where had the whole family walked
about?
Ans: The whole
family walked about on the big plateau mid-way down the opposite cliff.
10. What was the family taunting him?
Ans: The family was taunting him for his cowardice.
11. What had the young seagull
watched all the day long?
Ans: The young seagull watched all the day long that his parents flying about
with his brothers and sister perfecting them in the art of flight, teaching
them how to skim the waves and how to dive for fish.
12. What had happened the day before?
Ans: His two brothers and his sister had
already flown away. He had been afraid to fly with them. Somehow when he had
taken a little run to the brink of the ledge and attempted to flap his wings he
became afraid. He felt that his wings would never support him; so he bent his
head and ran away back to the little hole under the ledge where he slept at
night.
.Vocabulary-Based Questions.
4. Read the following words carefully and fill in the blanks by choosing appropriate words given in brackets.
(afraid, plunged, appeared, shrilly, skimmed, devoured, cowardice)
a) Arun is full of cowardice.
b) The violin played very shrilly and
merrily.
c) Ravi said, “Are you really afraid of
the dark?”
d) The whole village plunged into
darkness.
e) The lions devoured their prey,
hungrily.
f) He skimmed through the report.
5. Find from the lesson the
Homophones of the following.
A) Pick the Homophones from the text.
1. see-she 2.
Eye-I
3.wood-would 4.peace-piece
5.there-their 6.
Threw-through
7. scene-seen 8.hence-hens
9. won-own 10.knot-not
B) Find from the lesson the Homophones of the
following.
👉Explain how the underlined Homographs differ in
meaning.
1. a) He saw his two brothers.
C) Write the relating words for the
following from the story.
1. Sound and movements of birds.
Ans: Flying, shrilly, cackle, skim, dive, devour, dozing, preening, scrapping,
curveting, banking, soaring, shrieking, screaming, floating, falling, cawing.
2. Body parts of birds.
Ans: wings,
head, leg, eye, neck, feathers, back, breast, beak, stomach, feet, belly
3. Find the similar words from the
story.
| A | B |
|---|---|
| a. tried | attempted |
| b. dive | plunge |
| c. sharpen | whet |
| d. tired | exhausted |
4. Find the opposite words (antonyms).
| A | B |
|---|---|
| 1.courage | cowardice |
| 2.descending | ascending |
| 3.upwards | downwards |
| 4. fall | rise |
| 5. following | previous |
5. Write the describing words for the following nouns.
1. joyful scream
2. next moment
3. monstrous terror
4. high hump
5. closed eye
6. great expanse
7. little sister
.Grammar Based Questions.
1. Match
the following. (Answers are given directly)
| A | B |
|---|---|
| 1. His brother and sister had landed on the green flooring. | hadn’t they? |
| 2. He flapped his wings. | didn’t he? |
| 3. Bring him some food. | will you? |
| 4. He had not eaten since the previous nightfall. | had he? |
1. His
brother and sister ran to the brink. (Use not only…but also)
Ans: Not
only his brothers but also sister ran to the brink.
2. He could
not move. (Use ‘able to’)
Ans: He was
not able to move.
3. The
whole family had walked about on the big plateau. (Identify the tense)
Ans: Past Perfect Tense
4. He was
tired and weak with hunger to rise. (Use so…that)
Ans: He was so
tired and weak that he could not rise.
5. He
dropped his leg and stand on the green sea. (Identify the tense)
Ans: Simple Past Tense
6. He
failed to master up courage to take the plunge which appeared to him so
desperate. (Identify the clause)
Ans: Adjective
Clause
7. Sister’s
wings were shorter than his own. (Change the degree)
Ans: His own
wings were not as short as his sister’s wings.
8. He completely forgot that he
had not always been able to fly. (Identify the clause)
Ans: Noun
Clause
9. Standing
on one leg, he closed his eyes. (Make it compound Sentence)
Ans: He stood
on one leg and closed his eyes.
10. He answered
her with another scream. (Begin the sentence with ‘She…)
Ans: She was
answered with another scream by him.
11. He was
tired and weak with hunger. (Use not only…but also)
Ans: He was not
only tired but also weak with hunger.
12. He ran away back to the little
hole under the ledge where he slept at night. (Identify the Cluase)
Ans: Adverb
clause of place.
13. He stepped slowly
out to the brink of the ledge. (Frame a Wh-type question to get underlined
word as answer.)
Ans: How did he
step out to the brink of the ledge?
14. He dropped his legs to stand on the green sea. His legs sank into it.
(‘as soon as’)
Ans: As soon as he dropped his legs to stand on the green sea, his leg sank into it.
.Personal Response Questions.
1. Why is it difficult to do something for the first time?
Ans: The
things which we do for the first time seems difficult to do because we are
unknown about it. We may not have any idea how to do it. Fear of failure and
lack of confidence also make the situation difficult.
2. What tricks
does your mother play to do something that you don’t like? Explain any with an
example.
Ans: My
mother plays many tricks to do something that I don’t like. When I refuse to
eat any vegetable, she makes a mix vegetable dish that contains all vegetables
and I eat that dish lovingly.
3. Describe your
experience of learning to ride a bicycle or swimming or any skill.
Ans: Generally, learning something for the
first time is fearful and also exciting. I have experience learning swimming
when I was in 5th standard. I remember it was a summer day. I rushed
to the nearby well with my friends. When I was about to plunge into the well
with an empty can on the back, the surface of the water frightened me and I
screamed with fright. But my friends threw me into the well. For few seconds my
body sank into the water and I thought it was the last day of my life. But then
that tin kept me floating on the water and I started to move my hands and legs.
That is how I learned swimming.
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