Warming Up
Q.1 How do you react when your parents scold you?
Ans:
When my parents scold me I become sad, nervous and angry but after some time,
knowing my mistake, I say sorry.
Q.2
How do you feel when someone insult you?
Ans:
When someone insults me I feel sad and angry. But I try to find if there is my
mistake to correct it next time.
Q.3
How would you react when you are cheated by friends?
Ans:
When I am cheated by my friends, I would definitely feel shocked and sad.
Q.4
Why is it wrong to make a difference among friends who belong to a different
class, colour or community?
Ans:
It is wrong to make a different among friends who belong to a different class,
colour or community because it is injustice and against humanity.
Q.5
Complete the sentence meaningfully and share them with the class.
1)
If you read books, you will gain knowledge.
2)
If you do exercise daily, you will keep healthy yourself.
3)
If you study hard, you will pass the exam.
4) If you run fast, you will catch the bus.
Q.6
Classify the following into weaknesses and strengths.
(fear,
confidence, clarify, confusion, worry, courage, cowardice, compassion, bravery,
hesitation, punctuality, laziness, anger, faith, patience, ambition, generous,
impatient, cheerful, tolerant, arrogant, aggressive)
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Weaknesses |
Strengths |
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Fear,
confusion, worry, cowardice, Hesitation, laziness, anger, impatient,
arrogant, aggressive |
confidence,
clarify, courage, compassion, bravery, punctuality, faith, patience, ambition, generous, cheerful,
tolerant, |
Q.6
What does the poet call people who twist the truth to suit them?
Ans:
The poet calls them knaves.
Q.7
How should we react when someone lies about you and hates you?
Ans:
If someone lies about us , we should not deal with him the same way and don’t
hate him if he hates us.
Q.8
Read the following bits of advice and state whether you agree or disagree with
them.
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Advice |
Agree |
Disagree |
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Get
angry when others commit mistakes |
---- |
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Keep
friendship with all classes of people |
√ |
---- |
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Run
away from trouble |
---- |
√ |
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Hate
the rich people and help the poor |
---- |
√ |
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Get
angry when other blame on us |
---- |
√ |
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Reconstruct
something we have built with care even if it has been broken by others |
√ |
---- |
Q.8
Pick out and enlist the positive qualities from the poem in the respective columns.
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Positive Qualities |
Negative Qualities |
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1.
Keep your head |
∎lose your head. |
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2.
Trust
yourself |
∎others doubt you |
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3. Make allowance
for doubt in others |
∎not be tired by waiting |
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4. Don’t give way to
hating |
∎deal in lies |
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5. Face the lies
told by others |
∎nor lose the common
touch |
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6. Keep your virtue |
∎look too good, too
wise. |
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7. Talk with crowds |
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8. Keep the common
touch and walk with kings |
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Q.9
Why do the lines in the poem begin with, ‘If you can?’ What effect does this
have?
Ans:
By beginning the lines ‘If You can’ in the poem, the poet makes his
advice a necessary pre-condition for a person to develop himself into a true
human being.
Q.10 Look at the use of
opposite reactions in the poem.
For
example, ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs’. Find
four other such opposite reactions from the poem. Note them down in your
notebook.
Ans:
1) If you can trust yourself, when all doubt you.
2)
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting.
3) If you can dream and not make dreams your master.'
Q.11
a) Say WHAT
1)
What are the two imposters?
Ans:
triumph and disaster
2)
What can the unforgiving minute be made up of?
Ans:
Sixty seconds worth of distance run.
b)
Say WHO
1)
Who should you trust, when doubted?
Ans:
You should trust yourself.
2)
Who can you talk and walk with?
Ans:
You talk with crowds and walk with kings.
c)
Say WHEN
1)
When can the Earth become yours?
Ans:
When you can make good use of every second without wasting.
2)
When should you start rebuilding with old tools?
Ans:
when the things are broken to whom one has given one’s life to.
d)
Say WHY
1)
Why do knaves twist the truth?
Ans:
to make trap for fools
2)
Why should you consider all men equally important?
Ans:
because neither foe nor friend can hurt you.
Q.12
What should be our attitude towards people of different strata and classes?
Ans:
We should learn to mix with people of all ranks and classes. We should give
equal treatment to all.
Q.13
What according to Rudyard Kipling, is the highest quality that makes a man a
true human being?
Ans: According to Rudyard Kipling, the ability to treat all people equally, makes one a good and balanced human being.
Language Study : If clouse/Condition Clouse
1) Complete the following sentence.
a) If I like it, I will buy it.
b) If it rains, we will cancel the trip.
c) If you ran fast, you would catch the train.
d) If she had obeyed her parents, she would have got good marks.
2) Pick out lines that contain the following figure of speech.
a) Antithesis-
Ans: If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you.
b) Personification-
Ans: Not make dreams your master.
Here, dream is given the human quality of being someone’s master.
c) Repetition:
Ans: And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.
d) Metaphor-
Ans: If you can meet with triumph and disaster.
Activity Based Questions
Extract (If you can keep……………….my son)
A1.
Complete the following.
1)
One should not be tired of waiting.
2)
We should make allowance for their doubting.
3)
One should not take part in lies.
4)
Knaves make a trap for fools.
5)
One should consider all men equal.
6)
The poet calls the minute unforgiving because wasted time never comes
back.
7)
The poem is addressing to Son.
8)
One must be able to retain the common touch even though one walks
with kings.
A2.
1) What should one do when others doubt?
Ans:
One should trust himself/herself when others doubt. At the same time one should
consider what others also have to say about something. One should not lose his/
her balance.
2) Why
do the lines in the poem begin with, If you… ? What effect does this have?
Ans:
By beginning the lines with ‘If you can…..?, the poet makes his advice a
necessary pre-condition for a person to develop himself into a true human
being. This has effect that one who fulfills these conditions; definitely, he
will be a true human being.
A3.
1. Mention the rhyme scheme of 1st and 2nd stanza.
Ans:
aaaa bcbc, abab cdcd
2)Write
two pairs of rhyming words.
Ans:
you- too, waiting- hating, lies- wise, master- disaster, aim- same, spoken-
broken, fools- tools
1)
Give one example of antithesis and personification.
Ans: Antithesis:
1) If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs.
2) If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you.
Personification:
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster.
Appreciation Of The Poem
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Points |
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1 |
Title |
The title of the poem is ‘If’. |
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2 |
Poet |
This poem is written by Rudyard Kipling. He was the first
English Writer who received Noble Prize 1907 for literature. |
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3 |
Rhyme
scheme |
1st stanza – aaaa bcbc 2nd and 3rd
stanza – abab cdcd |
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4 |
Favourite
line |
My favourite lines are : ‘If you can trust yourself when all
men doubt you.’ |
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5 |
Theme
or central idea |
The central idea of the poem is that
success comes from self-control and a true sense of the values of things. In
this poem the speaker (father) is teaching his son life lesson. |
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6 |
Figures
of speech |
Alliteration, repetition,
personification, antithesis, metaphor 1) Repetition: and yet don’t look too
good nor talk too wise. |
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7 |
Special
features |
This
poem is an instructive. Poet used simple language. Poem has three stanzas. |
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8 |
Why
do you like the poem? |
I
like the poem very much because it has lifetime lessons to learn. It gives
positive attitude. |
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