1.1 An Astrologer's Day - Model Activity sheet

                1.1  An Astrologer's Day

              Model Activity Sheet

Q.1.  Read the following extract and complete the activities given  below.   12

            

            Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, which consisted of a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook, and a bundle of palmyra writing. His forehead was resplendent with sacred ash and vermilion, and his eyes sparkled with a sharp abnormal gleam which was really an outcome of a continual searching look for customers, but which his simple clients took to be a prophetic light and felt comforted. The power of his eyes was considerably enhanced by their position- placed as they were between the painted forehead and the dark whiskers which streamed down his cheeks : even a half-wit’s eyes would sparkle in such a setting. To crown the effect he wound a saffron-coloured turban around his head. This colour scheme never failed. People were attracted to him as bees are attracted to cosmos or dahlia stalks. He sat under the boughs of a spreading tamarind tree which flanked a path running through the Town Hall Park.  It was a remarkable place in many ways. A surging crowd was always moving up and down this narrow road from morning till night. A variety of trades and occupations was represented all along its way : medicine sellers, sellers of stolen hardware and junk, magicians, and above all, an auctioneer of cheap cloth, who created enough din all day to attract the whole town.

A.1.  Complete the web.         2

Professional     Equipments            of the  Astrologer

A.2. Describe:                       2

        Write the description of the market place as it           was a remarkable place.  

A3.  Find Out:                       2

        Find out the sentences that are used to       describe the  Astrologer's  appearance.

A.4. Personal Response :      2

        Write your own opinion about the         profession of 'Astrology' in  about 50 words.    

A.5.Do as directed.                2

    1. It was a remarkable place in many ways.

     ( Make it exclamatory sentence )

    2.  He sat under the boughs of a spreading   tamarind tree which flanked a path running  through the Town Hall Park.

             ( Make it Simple Sentence )

A.6.  Vocabulary :                   2    

        Match the words from column 'A' with            column 'B'.

       'A'                                    'B'

    1.  Profession                     a. obscure

    2.  consumer                      b.  occupation

    3.  difficult to understand  c.  sacred

    4.  holy                              d.  customer 

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Activity Sheet By -

            

            Prof. Munir I. Attar

            Shri Uma Jr. College, Modnimb

            Tal. - Madha Dist. - Solapur

            Mob. 9421065186