NOTES PREPARED BY
ASHAQ HUSSAIN BHAT
TEACHER SCHOOL
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
JAMMU AND KASHMIR
'WINDOWS'
Text Book Questions
Q. 1. Where does the speaker walk?
Ans:-He walks down the long school corridor.
Q. 2. What 'view' does he get from the window of the classroom ? Is it dull or your answer. of enjoyable ? Pick out words in support of your answer
Ans. He sees hundreds of books with their picture jackets. The view is enjoyable. The speaker calls it colourful and bright'.
Q. 3. Why does the family cower in a cave ?
Ans. Because they see their men fighting a fearful tiger.
Q .4. Why is the playground deserted ?
Ans .Because all the children are as yet in their classrooms.
Q. 5. Name the things which the speaker sees in stanza 3.
Ans. He sees the deserted playground. He sees the November sky, rows of homes and beyond these the chimney of a closed-down factory.
Q .6 Why is the speaker willing to take register or messages to the office and the classrooms?
Ans:- Because he can then look at the hundreds of books with their colourful picture jackets.
Q. 7. Who is 'T' in this poem?
Ans. I think he is a student studying in the school.
2. Fill in the blanks with the words given below:
Looks willing classrooms waterfalls
Africa walks Sees visited
The poem is about a student who ................. .(a) down the long corridor and (b) .......... different things.
He (c)...................... things through a window he has never (d)................... He also sees elephants in (e).................. cruising far above the white clouds, (f)................. icebergs, and many other things. He is always (g) .............to carry messages or registers to other (h)................ or office as it gives him a chance of seeing these things again and again.
Ans. (a) walks (b) sees (c) looks (d) visited (e) Africa (f) waterfalls (g) willing (h) classrooms.
3. Write down at least five words which have been repeated in the poem.
Ans. walk, corridor, worlds, visited, windows.
Read Aloud
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books boys
elephants butterflies
jackets clouds
walks waterfalls
deserts iceberg
windows
classroom
worlds
pictures
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