Online Learning Materials
Academic Session-2077
Grade:10
English
Unit 4
Reporting Commands
Day 18
Reading Task: A
Lesson: 18 Time: 50 Minutes
Full Marks: 30 Pass Mark: 08
Please note that all the tasks and items prepared below are
authentic materials and will be used as they are in your terminal, Pre SEE and
SEE Preparation Examinations. You are therefore required to sincerely complete
these tasks on a daily basis. Parents are kindly advised to be observant and
with their children monitoring and supervising their studies and most of these
contents contain a number of materials on the internet, especially YouTube. Just make sure that they do not get digitally
distracted.
1.
Scene Setting
Go through the given bullets and see
how differently you attempt to comprehend the text below.
·
Predicting the meaning
of a text;
·
Determining the
purpose of a text;
·
Activation of
prior knowledge in order to...
·
Connect prior experiences
to the text;
·
Identify word and
sentence meanings in order to decode the text;
·
Summarize the text in
order to create new meanings;
·
Visualize the
characters, settings, situations in the text;
·
Question the text;
·
Decide what is not
understood in the text;
·
Use strategies to
improve understanding of the text;
·
Reflect on the meaning
of a text;
·
Apply understanding of
the text as needed
I entered the building, and as instructed by
the curator, I bought a ticket and hired a special hand machine that will play
the recorded voice to explain to me everything in English. As I passed the
administrative building, I came across a beautiful garden; it was full of
pointed shapes of fir and pine trees,
giving the best proof of French topiary. Far away stood other trees like
walnut, juniper and yew, birds chirruped from the top. Among the topiary art
stood a huge black bust, on top of which lay a drooping figure of Rodin. Not
Rodin himself but a magnificent sculpture of
him. It is commonly known as Rodin’s Thinking Man. The Thinking Man squatted on
a large and tall marble slab, in half bent posture and pensive mood. This is
one of the masterpieces in modern art, an incomparable work. Rodin’s pensive
mood is remarkable.
Since I heard of the name of Rodin as one of
the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century, I had always desired to see
him, that is, his work, or his Museum. The brochure distributed at the metro
station suggests: If you are going to spend four days in Paris, please visit
Rodin Museum on the very first
day. Enter the sculpture garden premises and go close to the thinker and feel
or experience the weight of the pensive mood he has. On
that noon, it was drizzling I tried to feel the pensive mood Rodin sculpted in
his immortal art. At that moment my mood also turned like his. (329 words)
Task I. Read the text and find the words or phrases that are
similar in meanings to these words. [16]
a) clarify
b) organizational
c) flower decoration
d) a statue above the chest
e) tweeted
f) superb
g) crouched
h) stance
i) contemplative
j) work of genius
k) matchless
l) model
m) flyer
n) signals
o) memorable
p) know-how
Task
II. Answer the following questions in a sentence only. [9]
i) How was the speaker guided through the lane to his final destination?
ii) What was the scene in the vicinity like?
iii) What was the huge black bust?
iv) What is the thinking man in the museum?
v) Describe the posture of the thinking man.
vi) What was the speaker’s experience three years before?
vii) What reminds the speaker of his visit to Baltimore where was it
published?
viii) Who created the masterpiece of sculpture in Paris?
ix) What does the brochure at the metro station recommend?
Task III. Choose
the correct option to complete these statements.
a. The author travelled for 30 minutes from the Paris Nord station
to ...
i. Baltimore
ii. ii.
Rodin Museum
iii. Vernon
iv. iv. Monet Museum
b. ... thinks nobody knows him.
i)
Lainsingh Bangdel
ii)
B. P. Koirala
iii)
Nirmal
iv)
Govinda Raj Bhattarai
c. The author was afraid of confined
spaces, so he felt suffocated while ...
i)
visiting Musée Rodin
ii) travelling underground
iii) climbing
the escalator
iv) all
of the above
Task IV. Complete these sentences using
the correct words from the text above. [2]
a) The immortal art of the Thinking man was sculpted
be……………………
b)
The American Thinking
Man was but a piece of little ………………… work, just a replica.
Useful Links
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxcd-9Ww_bE [ < 2 minutes ]
Use
a separate Notebook for all your tasks or A4
size paper well-maintained in a portfolio/file in the same order
for submission and evaluation later.
The End
Compiled,
Edited and Prepared by Jaya Narayan Bhusal
Department of English
