FR. AGNEL MULTIPURPOSE SCHOOL & JR.

COLLEGE
ENGLISH – ONLINE CLASS – STD X
Good Morning,

Please follow the day wise plan.

Maintain a separate English register.
Parents must sign your completed work.

25/8/21

LESSON 2.4 – THE PULLEY

Copy the work given below in your register:
Copy the following words and their meanings -

1. riches – wealth, bounties

2. dispersed – scattered
3. contract – collect together
4. span – small space
5. stay – waited
6. perceiving – noticing, becoming conscious of
7. bestow on – give as a gift to
8. jewel – precious valuable thing, (here) contentment
9. adore – love very much
10. repining restlessness – continuous anxiety due to dissatisfaction
11. weary – very tired
12. toss – (here) bring, throw close

ENGLISH WORKSHOP (TB pg. no. 72) Complete the given work in your
text book.
Q1. Pick out words containing the letter ‘a’ from the poem and build a
word-pyramid
a. a
b. at
c. lay
d. span
e. adore
f. beauty
g. instead
h. treasure
i. weariness
Q2. Choose the correct alternative of the following –
a. Origins and Morality/Spirituality
b. to remind man about his creator in his exhaustion.
God pulled man towards Him by making him restless and weary.
c. an image by which God compels people to become devout.
d. Rest in the bottom lay.
e. ‘Let him be rich and weary.’
f. ‘May toss him to my breast.’
g. ‘repining restlessness.’
h. ‘So both should losers be.’
i. ababa
Copy the notes given below in your register:
Q3) Answer the following –
a. The poet has used to word REST thrice in the poem. Write what the word
implies in each of the three lines it occurs.
Ans) The poet has used the word REST in the second stanza to imply peace
and contentment. In the third stanza, it implies ‘appreciation’, whereas in
the last stanza REST means ‘the remaining qualities’.

b. What does God want in return from man, for the gift he has bestowed
upon him?
Ans) In return for the gifts bestowed upon man, God only wants him to
remember and worship Him and to keep on adoring God who has been so
generous to him.
c. Why did God withhold the gift of ‘Rest’ from man?
Ans) God withheld the gift of ‘Rest’ from man because of the special nature
that gift has. ‘Rest’ makes us feel contented and relaxed, thereby not
desiring for any more. We might even stop wanting to know more about God,
our Creator, as well as seek His blessings.
d. Besides those given in the poem, what other gifts has God blessed
mankind with above his other creations? Enlist them.
Ans) Besides those given in the poem, God has blessed mankind with the
following gifts – the ability to think, speak, dream, introspect, laugh etc.