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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

                                    STD-4  ENGLISH    LITERATURE


                  CHAPTER-10-WHEN I HEARD THE LEARNED ASTROMER

                                           HOME ASSIGNMENT-1


               OBJECTIVE:

               A.  Fill in the blanks:-

                   1.  The poet feels _____ on hearing the astronomer’s lecture.

                   2.  The poet sees _____, ______ and ______ arranged in columns in the room.

                   3.  The poet _____ and _____ from the room.

                   4.  The air in the night was _____ and _____.
                   5.  The audience was ______ at the astronomer’s lecture.

                   6.  The poem is written by _______ who was a ______ and ______.


               SUBJECTIVE:


               B.  Answer the following questions: -

                   1.  How did the astronomer teach in the class?

                   2.  Why do you think the poet became tired and sick?
                   3.  Do you agree that everyone has a different way of learning?

                   4.  Imagine that after gazing at the stars for some time, the poet from the poem ‘When I

                       Heard the Learned Astronomer’ goes inside the lecture room and has a conversation

                       with the astronomer. What do you think they would talk? Write a dialogue between
                       the two or role play the conversation.
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