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TS 9th Class English Guide Unit 8B Father Returning Home

My father travels on the late evening train Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light suburbs slid past his unseeing eyes His shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat Stained with mud and his bag stuffed with books Is falling apart. His eyes dimmed by age fade homeward through the humid monsoon night. Now I can see him getting off the train

Like a word dropped from a long sentence. He hurries across the length of the grey platform, Crosses the railway line, enters the lane, His chappals are sticky with mud, but he hurries onward

Home again, I see him drinking weak tea, Eating a stale chapati, reading a book. He goes into the toilet to contemplate Mans estrangement from a man-made world. Coming out he trembles at the sink, The cold water running over his brown hands, A few droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists. His sullen children have often refused to share Jokes and secrets with him. He will now go to sleep Listening to the static on the radio, dreaming Of his ancestors and grandchildren, thinking Of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass

Questions and Answers:

Answer the following

Questions

Question 1.
Is the father comfortable on the train?

Answer: The father is not comfortable on the train

Question 2.
What does the dress of the father Indicate?

Answer: The dress of the father indicates the state of mind of the old man. He is dull and tired. The dress also shows his insignificance in this world

Question 3.
A word dropped from a long sentence. What does It refer to?

Answer: It refers to visual picture of an old man dropping off from the train as though he is no longer relevant to the train which will now move forward with other people to their destinations. The old man is just a word in the syntax of life. The sentence that is long enough to carry several words forward each contributing to its overall meaning now drops off one stray word, which is no longer required

Question 4.
How can you say that the father Is In a hurry to go home?

Answer: He is very much concerned about his family. He is eager to meet them after days work. So he is in a hurry to go home though his chappals are sticky with mud

Question 5.
What might be the contemplation of the father in the toilet?

Answer: He might be contemplating on the mans estrangement from a man-made world in the toilet

Question 6.
What image do you get from the line, A few droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists?

Answer: Since the father is old he has no significance in the family. Just like the droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists he clings to the family

Question 7.
Why is the father thinking of nomads?

Answer: The father is totally alienated from the family. He is trying to think about his ancestors who had entered the sub-continent through the Khyber

Father Returning Home Summary in English

The poem speaks about the inner loneliness of the poets father. He is experiencing alienation in the twilight years. His children do not take care of him. They dont share anything with him. All the while he is trying to think about his ancestors who had entered the sub-continent through the Khyber Pass in the Himalayas in some distant past. The poet uses some fine imagery to describe the pain and misery lurking in the old mans soul as he travels in the local train. His bag stuffed with books is falling apart. It indicates the state of the old mans mind

At the outset the poet describes his father coming home in an evening train. Father is silent and is unmoved by the sights of the suburbs because they are too familiar to him to catch his eye. His clothes are damp and dirty, his bag is disintegrating with the heavy load of books. Being old, he has lost the brightness of his eyes. The poet visualizes him getting out of the train and hastening along the platform. The old man is just a word in the syntax of life. The sentence that is long enough to carry several words forward each contributing to its overall meaning now drops off one stray word, which is no longer required

At home, the alienation is not lessened. He is written off by his children. Even his tea is weak and the chapati he eats is stale. His children are gloomy and do not interact with him. He has to be content with listening to the "static" on the radio. His life having lost its charm, music fails to interest him. Yet his dreams are on a grander scale. They revolve round his ancestors and grandchildren

About the Poet:

Dilip Purushottam Chitre (17 September 1938 -10 December 2009) was one of the foremost Indian writers and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a very important bilin¬gual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a painter and filmmaker. His Ekun Kavita or Collected Poems were published in the nineteen nineties in three volumes. As Is, Where Is selected English po¬ems (1964- 2007) and "Shesha" English translation of selected Marathi poems both published by Poetrywala are among his last books published in 2007

He is also an accomplished translator and has prolifically translated prose and poetry. He started his professional film career in 1969 and has since made one feature film, about a dozen documentary films, several short films in the cinema format, and about twenty video documentary features. He also scored the music for some of them

Glossary: commuters (n) : passengers soggy (adj) : wet and soft stale (adj) : no longer fresh contemplate (v) : think seriously estrangement (n) : separation sullen (adj) : silent and bad-tempered static (n) : (here) noise that disturbs the signals of radio nomads (n) : members of a tribe moving with their animals from place to place subcontinent (n) : (here) India

Important Question

TS 9th Class English 23th Lesson Father Returning Home Speech Important Question and Answers

Section - B: Vocabulary and Grammar Reading: A, B & C

Read the passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered (13 - 17) at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct and re-write them in the answer booklet

Question 1.?
  1. Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the more outstanding
  2. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficult that are pretty much beyond me
  3. I cannot tell you the number of times that I have gone looking at the lavatory in a cinema
  4. for instance, and ended up standing in an alley on the wrong side of an self locking door
  5. My particular speciality now is returning tohotel desks two or three times a day and asked what my room number is, 1 am, in short, easily Confused

Answer:

  1. Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding
  2. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me
  3. I cannot tell you the number of times that I have gone looking for the lavatory in a cinema
  4. for instance, and ended up standing in an alley on the wrong side of a self locking door
  5. My particular speciality now is returning to hotel desks two or three times a day and asking what my room number is, I am, in short, easily confused
Question 2.?
  1. The zip in the bag was jammed
  2. So I pull on it and yanked at it, with grunts and frowns and increasing consternation.
  3. I kept this up for some minute but it wouldnt budge
  4. so I pulled harder and harder, with most grunts.
  5. Well, you could guess what happened

Answer:

  1. The zip on the bag was jammed
  2. So I pulled on it and yanked at it, with grunts and frowns and increasing consternation
  3. I kept this up for some minutes but it wouldnt budge
  4. so I pulled harder and harder, with more grunts
  5. Well, you can guess what happened
Question 3.?
  1. But Im afraid its so
  2. I always have catastrophes when I travel. Once on an aeroplane, I leaned over to tie a shoelace just at the movement someone in the seat ahead of me threw his seat back into full recline, and found myself pinned helplessly in the crash position
  3. It was only by clawing the leg of the man sitting next to me that I managed to get me freed
  4. On another occasion, I knocked a soft drink onto the lap of a sweet little lady sitting besides me
  5. The flight attendant came and cleans her up

Answer:

  1. But Im afraid its so
  2. I always have catastrophes when I travel. Once on an aeroplane leaned over to tie a shoelace just at the moment someone in the seat ahead .of me threw his seat back into full recline, and found myself pinned helplessly in the crash position
  3. It was only by clawing the leg of the man sitting next to me that I managed to get myself freed
  4. On another occasion, I knocked a soft drink onto the lap of a sweet little lady sitting beside me
  5. The flight attendant came and cleaned her up
Question 4.?
  1. I never did got my frequent flyer miles, by the way
  2. I never did
  3. I couldnt find the card on time
  4. This has become the real frustration for me
  5. Everyone 1 knew - everyone - is forever flyifig off to Bali first class with their air miles

Answer:

  1. I never did get my frequent flyer miles, by the way
  2. I never do
  3. I couldnt find the card in time
  4. This has become a real frustration for me
  5. Everyone I know - everyone - is forever flying off to Bali first class with their air miles
Question 5.?
  1. This is because either I forget to ask for the air miles when 1 check in, are I remember to ask for them but the air line then manages not to record them
  2. or the check-in clerk informed me that 1 am not entitled to them
  3. In January, on a flight to Australia - a flight for who I was going to get about a million air miles
  4. the clerk shake her head when I presented my card and told me I was not entitled to any
  5. "Why?" "The ticket is on the name of B. Bryson and the card is in the name of W. Bryson."

Answer:

  1. This is because either I forget to. ask for the air miles when I check in, or I remember to ask for them biit the air line then manages not to record them
  2. or the check-in clerk informs me that I am not entitled to them
  3. In January,, on a flight to Australia - a flight for which I was going to get about a million air miles
  4. the clerk shook her head when I presented my card and told me I was not entitled to any
  5. "Why?" "The ticket is in the name of B.Bryson and the card is in the name of W.Bryson."
Question 6.?
  1. At Pashupathinath there is a atmosphere of febrile confusion.
  2. Priests, hawkers, devotees, tourists, cows, monkeys, pigeons and dogs roam threw the grounds
  3. We offered a few flowers.
  4. There are so much worshippers that some people trying to get the priests attention are elbowed aside by others pushing their way to the front.
  5. A princesses of the Nepalese royal house appears; everyone bows and makes way

Answer:

  1. At Pashupathinath there is an atmosphere of febrile confusion
  2. Priests, hawkers, devotees, tourists, cows, monkeys, pigeons and dogs roam through the grounds
  3. We offer a few flowers
  4. There are so many worshippers that some people trying to get the priests attention are elbowed aside by others pushing their way to the front
  5. A princess of the Nepalese royal house appears; everyone bows and makes way
Question 7.?
  1. On the Baudhnath stupa, the Buddhist shrine of Kathmandu, there is, in contrast, a sense of stillness
  2. Its immense white dome is rings by a road.
  3. Small shops stood on its outer edge; many of these are owned by Tibetan immigrants; felt bags, Tibetan prints and silver jewellery can be bought here
  4. There are not crowds;
  5. this is a haven of quite in the busy streets around

Answer:

  1.  At the Baudhnath stupa, the Buddhist shrine of Kathmandu, there is, in contrast, a sense of stillness
  2. Its immense white dome is ringed by a road
  3. Small shops stand on its outer edge; many of these are owned by Tibetan immigrants; felt bags, Tibetan prints and silver jewellery can be bought here
  4. There are no crowds
  5. this is a haven of quietness in the busy streets around
Question 8.?
  1. Kathmandu is vivid, mercenary, religious, with small shrines to flower-adorned deities across the narrowest and busiest streets
  2. with fruit sellers, flute sellers, hawkers of postcards; shops selling western cosmetics, film rolls and chocolate; are copper utensils and Nepalese antiques
  3. Film songs blare in from the radios, car horns sound, bicycle bells ring, stray cows low
    Questioningly at motorcycles, vendors shout out their wares
  4. I indulge me mindlessly
  5. bought a bar of marzipan a t corn-on-the-cob roasted in a charcoal brazier on the pavement

Answer:

  1. Kathmandu is vivid, mercenary, religious, with small shrines to flower-adorned deities along the narrowest and busiest streets
  2. with fruit sellers, flute sellers, hawkers of postcards; shops selling western cosmetics, film rolls and chocolate; or copper utensils and Nepalese antiques
  3. Film songs blare out from the radios, car horns sound, bicycle bells ring, stray cows low
    Questioningly at motorcycles, vendors shout out their wares
  4. I indulge myself mindlessly
  5.  buy a bar of marzipan a corn-on-the-cob roasted in a charcoal brazier on the pavement
Question 9.?
  1. I consider whose route I should take back home
  2. If I was propelled by enthusiasm for travel per se, I would go by bus and train to Patna
  3. then sailed up the Ganges past Benaras to Allahabad, then up the Yamuna, past Agra to Delhi
  4. But I am very exhaust and homesick; today is the last day of August.
  5. Go home, I tell me.

Answer:

  1. I consider what route I should take back home
  2. If I were propelled by enthusiasm for travel per se, I would go by bus and train to Patna
  3. then sail up the Ganges past Benaras to Allahabad, then up the Yamuna, past Agra to Delhi
  4. But I am very exhausted and homesick; today is the last day of August
  5. Go home. I tell myself
Question 10.?
  1. Its motive force too is living breath: it too needs to pause and breathe before it can go on
  2. That 1 could be so affected by a few familiar phrases on the bansuri surprises me at first
  3. with on the previous occasions that I have returned home after a long absence abroad,
  4. I have hard noticed such details,
  5. and certainly have not invested them with a significance I now do

Answer:

  1.  Its motive force too is living breath: it too needs to pause and breathe before it can go on
  2. That I can be so affected by a few familiar phrases on the bansuri surprises me at first
  3.  for on the previous occasions that I have returned home after a long absence abroad
  4. I have hardly noticed such details
  5. and certainly have not invested them with the significance I now do
Choose The Right Word:

Complete the passage choosing the right words from the box given below. Each blank is numbered. Write the correct words in your answer booklet. (5 × 1/2 = 2 1/2 Marks)

Question 1.
find, finds, travel, at, humorously, a, the?

Answer:

    They say that the world today is a small place because travel 
  1. has become easy, but not everybody finds 
  2. it easy to travel. Here, the author reflects humorously 
  3. his experience as a traveller. Of all the things 1 am not very good at 
  4. , living in the real world is perhaps the 
  5. most outstanding
    6. Question 2.
    minutes, seconds, jammed, at, and, or, consternation?

    Answer:

      The zip on the bag was jammed 
    1. . So I pulled on it and yanked at
    2. It, with grunts and 
    3. frowns and increasing consternation 
    4. . 1 kept this up for some minutes 
    5. but it wouldnt budge, so I pulled harder and harder, with more grunts
      6. Question 3.
      discovered, invented, in, at, cry, budget, shedding?

      Answer:

        "My tobacco!" I cried in 
      1. horror, thinking what I would have to pay for that much tobacco in England now that another budget 
      2. had come and gone, and then changed the cry 
      3. to "My finger! My finger!" as I discovered 
      4. that I had gashed my finger on the zip and was shedding 
      5. blood in a lavish manner
        6. Question 4.
        best, worst, into, in, amused, attractive, sucking?

        Answer:

          This, however, was not my worst experience on,a plane flight. My worst 
        1. experience was when I was writing important thoughts in a notebook buy socks, clutch drinks carefully, etc. sucking 
        2. thoughtfully on the end of my pen as you do, and fell into
          3.  
        3. conversation with an attractive 
        4. young lady in the next seat. I amused 
        5. her for perhaps 20 minutes with a scattering of urbane bons mots, then retired to the lavatory where I discovered that the pen had leaked
          6. Question 5.
          flying, travelling, delivered, off, of, about, this?

          Answer:

            Now on planes when the food is delivered 
          1. , my wife says: "Take the lids off 
          2. the food for Daddy" or "Put your hoods up, children. Daddys about 
          3. to cut his meat." Of course, this 
          4. is only when I am flying 
          5. with my family
          Question 6.
          a, the, cheap, visit, for, few, sacred?

          Answer:

            I get a cheap 
          1. room in the centre of town and sleep for 
          2. hours. The next morning, with Mr. Shahs son and nephew. I visit 
          3. the two temples in Kathmandu that are most sacred
          4. to the
            5.  
          5. Hindus and the Buddhists
          Question 7.
          its, its, shrine, immense, by, with, in contrast?

          Answer:

            At the Baudhnath stupa, the Buddhist shrine 
          1. of Kathmandu, there is, in contrast 
          2. . a sense of stillness. Its immense 
          3. white dome is ringed by 
          4. a road. Small shops stand on its 
          5. outer edge
          Question 8.
          up, down, exhausted, home, by, propelled, on?

          Answer:

            I consider what route I should take back home 
          1. . If I were propelled 
          2. by enthusiasm for travel per se, I would go by 
          3. bus and tram to Patna, then sail up 
          4. the Ganges past Benaras to Allahabad, then up the Yamuna, past Agra to Delhi. But I am very exhausted 
          5. and homesick
          Question 9.
          off, flute seller, flower seller, an, a, which, of, protrude?

          Answer:

            I look at the flute seller 
          1. standing in a corner of the square near the hotel. In his hand is a pole with an 
          2. attachment at the top from which
          3. fifty or sixty bansuris protrude 
          4. in all directions, like the quills of a porcupine. They are of 
          5. bamboo
          Question 10.
          very, so, smoothly, hardly, at, familiar, previous?

          Answer:

            That I can be so 
          1. affected by a few familiar 
          2. phrases on the bansuri surprises me at 
          3. first, for on the previous 
          4. occasions that I have returned home after a long absence abroad, I have hardly 
          5. noticed such details, and certainly have not invested them with the significance I now do
          Rewrite As Directed:

          Some words in the given passage are underlined. Rewrite the underlined words in your answer booklet as directed. (5 × 1/2 = 21/2 M)

          1. My particular (23) speciality (24) now is returned (25) to hotel desks two or three times a day and asking what my room number is, I am, in short, easily bewildered (26). I was thinking on (27) this the last time we went en famille on a big trip.

          Question 23.
          Write the opposite word to the underlined word?

          Answer: general

          Question 24.
          Write the right form of the underlined word?

          Answer: special

          Question 25.
          Write the correct form of the underlined word?

          Answer: returning

          Question 26.
          Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

          Answer: confused

          Question 27.
          Replace the underlined word with the correct one?

          Answer: about

          2. I suddenly remembered (23) that I had recently (24) joined British Airways frequent flyer programme. I also remembered that I have (25) put the card in my carry-on bag. And heres where the trouble initiated (26). The zip in (27) the bag was jammed

          Question 23.
          Write the opposite word to the underlined word?

          Answer: forgot

          Question 24.
          Write the right form of the underlined word?

          Answer: recent

          Question 25.
          Write the correct form of the underlined word?

          Answer: had

          Question 26.
          Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

          Answer: started

          Question 27.
          Replace the underlined word with the correct one?

          Answer: on

          3. I just remember reaching out for the new drink and watching helplessly as my arm, like some cheap (23) prop in one of those 1950s horror movies with a name like The Undead Limb, violently (24) swept the drink from its perch and into (25) her lap. The lady looked at me with the shocked (26) expression you would expected (27) to receive from someone whom you have repeatedly drenched

          Question 23.
          Write the opposite word to the underlined word?

          Answer: expensive

          Question 24.
          Write the right form of the underlined word?

          Answer: violent/violence

          Question 25.
          Replace the underlined word with the correct one?

          Answer: onto

          Question 26.
          Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

          Answer: stupefied

          Question 27.
          Write the correct form of the underlined word?

          Answer: expect

          4. So you will understand, I trust (23), when I tell you how much I ache to be polite (24). I would love, just once in my life, to rise from a dinner table without looking as if I have just experience (25) a (26) extremely (27) localised seismic event

          Question 23.
          Write the opposite word to the underlined word?

          Answer: mistrust/distrust

          Question 24.
          Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

          Answer: suave

          Question 25.
          Write the correct form of the underlined word?

          Answer: experienced

          Question 26.
          Replace the underlined word with the correct one?

          Answer: an

          Question 27.
          Write the right form of the underlined word?

          Answer: extreme

          5. This is because either I forget to ask for the air miles when I check in, or I remember to ask for them but the air line then manages not to register (23) them, or the check in clerk informs (24) me that I am not entitled (25) to them. On (26) January, on a flight to Australia - a flight for which I am (27) going to get about a million air miles - the clerk shook her head when I presented my card and told me I was not entitled to any

          Question 23.
          Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

          Answer: record

          Question 24.
          Write the right form of the underlined word?

          Answer: information

          Question 25.
          Write the opposite of the underlined word?

          Answer: ineligible

          Question 26.
          Replace the underlined word with the correct one?

          Answer: in

          Question 27.
          Write the correct form of the underlined word?

          Answer: was

          6. At Pashupathinath (outside which a sign proclaims Entrance for the Hindus only) . there is an atmosphere of febrile confusion(23). Priests, hawkers, devotees, tourists, cows, monkeys, pigeons and dogs move (24) through the grounds. We offer (25) a few flowers. There are so many worshippers that some people trying to got (26) a (27) priests attention are elbowed aside by others pushing their way to the front

          Question 23.
          Write the right form of the underlined word?

          Answer: confuse

          Question 24.
          Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

          Answer: roam

          Question 25.
          Write the opposite word to the underlined word?

          Answer: refuse

          Question 26.
          Write the correct form of the underlined word?

          Answer: get

          Question 27.
          Replace the underlined word with the correct one?

          Answer: the

          7. But I am very exhaust (23) and homesick; today is the last day of August. Go home, I tell himself: (24) move directly (25) towards home. I enter (26) the Nepal Airlines office and buy a ticket for tomorrows travel (27)

          Question 23.
          Write the correct form of the underlined word?

          Answer: exhausted

          Question 24.
          Replace the underlined word with the correct one?

          Answer: myself

          Question 25.
          Write the right form of the underlined word?

          Answer: direct

          Question 26.
          Write the opposite word to the underlined word?

          Answer: exit

          Question 27.
          Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

          Answer: flight

          8. The sound rises clearly above the sound (23) of the traffic and the hawkers cries. He played (24) slowly (25) meditatively, without excessive (26) display. He does not shout on (27) his wares

          Question 23.
          Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

          Answer: noise

          Question 24.
          Write the correct form of the underlined word?

          Answer: plays

          Question 25.
          Write the right form of the underlined word?

          Answer: slow

          Question 26.
          Write the opposite word to the underlined word?

          Answer: insufficient/reasonable/moderate

          Question 27.
          Replace the underlined word with the correct one?

          Answer: out

          9. There is no culture that does, not have its flute - the reed neh, the recorder, the Japanese shakuhachi, the deep (23) bansuri of Hindustani classical music, a (24) clear (25) or breathy flutes of South America, the high-sounded (26) Chinese flutes. Each have (27) its specific fingering and compass

          Question 23.
          Write the opposite word to the underlined word?

          Answer: shallow

          Question 24.
          Replace the underlined word with the correct one?

          Answer: the

          Question 25.
          Write the right form of the underlined word?

          Answer: clearly

          Question 26.
          Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

          Answer: pitched

          Question 27.
          Write the correct form of the underlined word?

          Answer: has

          10. That I can be so affected .by a few familiar (23) phrases on a (24) bansuri surprises me at first, for on the past (25) occasions (26) that I have return (27) home after a long absence abroad, I have hardly oticed such details, and certainly have not invested them with the significance now do

          Question 23.
          Write the opposite word to the underlined word?

          Answer: strange

          Question 24.
          Replace the underlined word with the correct one?

          Answer: the

          Question 25.
          Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

          Answer: previous

          Question 26.
          Write the right form of the underlined word?

          Answer: occasional

          Question 27.
          Write the correct form of the underlined word?

          Answer: returned

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