Warming up!
Chit-chat (गप्पागोष्टी)
(Useful for Question on Dialogue)
(1) What do you like-poems or stories? (तुम्हांला कविता आवडतात की गोष्टी ?)
Ans - I like both-poems and stories.
(2) What kind of poems do you enjoy the most ? (कोणत्या प्रकारच्या कविता तुम्हांला सर्वांत जास्त आवडतात ? )
Ans - I enjoy lyrical and didactic poems most.
(3) Do you think poems can inspire us? (कविता आपल्याला प्रेरणा देतात, असे तुम्हांला वाटते का?)
Ans - Yes, I do think that poems inspire us.
(4) Do you remember any such inspiring poem? (तुम्हांला अशी एखादी प्रेरणा देणारी कविता आठवते का?)
Ans - Yes, I remember the inspiring poem 'We shall overcome Someday'
(5) When did you learn or listen to it? (तुम्ही ती केव्हा शिकलात किंवा ऐकलीत ? )
Ans - I learnt it when I was in Std. VII.
English Workshop
1. The following Anagrams contain words / phrases from the poem. Guess and write what they are.
(1) rainy tag = try again
(2) our cage = courage
(3) vet sir = strive
(4) red raw w = reward
(5) tap niece = patience.
(6) serve peer = persevere
2. Pick out lines that convey the following from the poem.
(a) If you keep trying, without a doubt, you shall win.
Ans - For if you will persevere, you will conquer, never fear.
(b) It is not shameful to struggle hard
Ans - If we strive 'tis no disgrace Though we do not win the race;.
(c) When others can do the work, so can you, if you keep trying patiently.
Ans - All that other folk can do, why, with patience, may not you?
(d) When you fail in your first attempt, make another one.
Ans - If at first you don't succeed, Try again.
3. Find from the poem the Antonyms (opposite words) for the following.
(1) succeed × fail
(2) punishment × reward
(3) courage × fear
(4) stop / quit x persevere
(5) lose × win
4. Answer in your own words.
(a) What lesson should be kept always in mind?
Ans - If at first you don't succeed, you should try again to get success. This lesson should be always kept in mind.
(b) What should someone who loses a race, do?
Ans - If someone loses a race he should not feel ashamed of his failure. he should try again he will definitely get success
(c) What quality is important, when you are struggling for success?
Ans - patience is very important , capacity to accept delay without losing hope when you are struggling for success.
(d) When can success have a greater value when you get it easily or with difficulty?
Ans - if you get success easily you will not understand the value of success but when you face difficulty in your struggle you can understand the value of the things for which you are struggling
5. Read the poem and fill in the web choosing points from it.
6. Most lines the poem can serve as a Truth or a Proverb. Pick out 3 or 4 such lines.
(1) If at first you don't succeed, try again.
(2) If you persevere with courage you will conquer.
(3) Though after striving you do not win, it is no disgrace.
(4) Time will bring you, your reward; so be patient.