Unit 2.6 Money Textual Activity.

 BRAINSTORMING

(A1) (i) 'Money does not mean everything in life'. Discuss with your partner and justify the statement by giving examples. Take help of the following points.

(a) Money cannot give you eternal happiness.

(b) Art, music and literature can give you unending happiness.

(c) Money is short-lived.

(d) Money cannot purchase happiness and contentment.

Ans : Money does not mean everything in life. Happiness cannot be bought with money. We will come across people who have all the riches but are not happy. Happiness we get with money is short-lived. Money does not bring us eternal happiness because happiness is a state of mind. Rag pickers sleep peacefully while landlords pass night sleeplessly.

 (A2) (i) State whether the following statements are True or False. Correct the False statements with the help of the poem.

(a) The poet knew no joy till he was rich. True

(b) The poet felt that he should talk about his poverty. True

(c) When poet had money, he had many true friends. False

Correct Ans : When poet had money, he had many false friends.

(d) When poet became poor he had a few real friends. True

(ii) Write reasons for the following statements.

(a) Friends came knocking all day at the poet’s door because he had   money. It is the inclination of the world to gather  around the rich man.

(b) Poor men’s wives hum like bees because they suffer a lot due to poverty. They are attracted to richness.

(iii) Money makes the world go round. Explain it in the light of the poet's experience.  

Ans: The poet had many friends when he had money. He could not get  time to enjoy life. He was always surrounded by false friend.

(iv) Poor men need not go up so much as rich men should come down. Express your views regarding this statement.

Ans : It is difficult for poor men to become rich. It is like a mountain top to climb. The rich came down to poverty level fast like a stone dropped from the mountain top.

(A3) (i) Find out meanings of the phrases given below and use them in your own sentences.

(a) be in the money – have or win a lot of money: My friend was in the money when he won the billion dollar lottery.

  (b) win lots of money – to earn money easily: Hard work can help us win lot of money  

(c) for my money – in my opinion : For my money belongs to me and none other can claim it.       

 (d) money for old rope – reward for no effort: Many people are lucky for they get money for old rope.

(e) put one's money where one's mouth is – take action to support one’s statements or options

I believe that to put one's money where one's mouth is only through efforts. 

(ii) Complete the crossword with the help of the clues from the poem.

Across                                                                                                                             

(1) A brass musical instrument : TRUMPET  (6)                                                                                    

(2) A low steady continuous sound: HUM (3)

(3) False : UNTRUE (6)                                                                    

(4) Say Something: SPEAK (5)

Down

(5) Not imaginary: REAL(4)

(6)  Ponder: THINK (5)

(7) Stinging insects: BEES (4)

(8) In large number: MANY (4)

(9) Strike a surface noisily: KNOCK (5)                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                

(A4) (i) Complete the following table.

Figure of speech                    Line of the poem                                           Explanation    

1. Inversion                          Then felt I like a child that holds                The line is not in a prose order.

2. Simile                            And how their wives do hum like bees          Wives are compared to bees.  

3. Repetition                         When I had money, money O !                    The word ‘money’ is repeated.

4. Onomatopoeia            And how their wives do hum like bees        Hum represents the sound of bees.

5 Antithesis.                    About their work from morn till night.        Opposite words are used.

 (ii) Identify the rhyme scheme of all the stanzas of the poem.

'abcb'

(iii) Poem on 'Friendship'

Friends are just like ships

Who sail with us through our sorrows

They move with us in the ocean of life

For they are true to their promise.