Work is Worship | Class 8 | English | C18



MP Board Class 8 English Chapter 18 Work is Worship

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Lesson - 18

Work is Worship

Textual Exercise

Word Power

(B) Listen to the poem carefully and write the words from the poem that rhyme with the words given below:

Ans. 

only – holy

bye – Thy

but – shut

killer – tiller

row – brow

run – sun

oil – toil

bones – stones

some – come.

(A) Rearrange the jumpled letters to form meaningful words from the poem.

Example: sprwoih = worship

  • ntemla – m_____
  • rgnemta – g_____
  • ermpahkta – p_____
  • cnesine – i_____
  • tedsain – s_____

Ans. 

  • mantle
  • garment
  • pathmaker
  • incense
  • stained.

(B) Choose the correct words and re-write the following paragraph:

Ans. Our Principal is a man of principles and a great scholar. He meets some of the students and teachers himself once a week to ensure regular teaching.

Comprehension

A. Answer the following questions.

1. What does the poet want us to leave and why?

Ans. The poet wants us to leave chanting and singing and telling of beads because we can’t find god by doing this.


2. What does the poet mean by ‘Open Thine eyes’?

Ans. The poet means to say that we should understand the fact that if we want to please god we must work hard in sun and shower.


3. ‘Thy God is not before thee’. Where can we find Him according to the poet?

Ans. We can find God where the tiller works in the hard ground and where the path-maker breaks stones.


4. What, according to the poet, is the ultimate aim of man?

Ans. According to the poet the ultimate aim of man is to do his duty assigned to him.


5. What message does the poet want to convey, through this poem?

Ans. The poet wants to convey "Work is Worship" through this poem.


B. Explain the following lines:

Whom dost thou worship in this

lonely dark corner of a temple

with doors all shut? Open thine

eyes and see thy God is not before thee!

Ans. The poet asks us to whom we worship in the lonely, dark corner of the temple with all doors shut. The poet says to us to open our eyes and see that there is no god before us.


2. Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow:

“Put off thy holy mantle and even like Him come down on the dusty soil!”

(a) Who is the speaker?

(b) Who is he asking to put off the holy mantle?

(c) Who does ‘Him’ refer to?

Ans. (a) The poet is the speaker.

Ans. (b) He is asking those who keep themselves busy in chanting and singing and telling of beads to put off the holy mantle.

Ans. (c) ‘Him’ refers to the God.


Let’s Read

Read the following story carefully:

Once a woman was standing in the balcony of her home. She was holding her baby in her arms.

As she was looking below, the baby slipped out of her hands. Down below there was heavy traffic on the road. Buses, trucks, cars and scooters were passing by. The mother ran down for help. She cried and cried but could not find her baby anywhere.

People on the road wondered, “Where did the baby go?” They asked her to report to the police.

A truck carrying cushions and pillows stopped near a shop. A baby’s cry came from the back of the truck. The baby was lying on the topmost cushion, sucking its thumb.

“Look, a baby here!” shouted the truck driver “How did he get in?” everyone wondered. Soon the baby was handed over to the police. The police took the baby to its mother. The mother was over joyed and she thanked the police.

Who saved the baby’s life, the truck driver or the police? Surely, it was the unseen hand of God.

We should always have faith in God and His goodness.


1. Now answer the questions:

a. Where was the woman standing?

b. What made the people wonder?

c. How was the baby saved?

d. Who saved the baby’s life?

e. Who guards us from dangers?

Ans. 

a. The woman was standing in the balcony of her home.

b. The woman was holding her baby in her arms. Suddenly the baby slipped out of her hands. This made the people wonder.

c. The baby fell on the cushions, loaded on a truck. Thus he was not injured and was saved luckily.

d. It was the unseen hand of God that saved the baby’s life.

e. God guards us from dangers.


II. Fill in the blanks with suitable words, choosing from these given below:

police, over joyed, slipped, topmost cushion

  1. The baby .......... out of the mother’s hand.
  2. People asked the woman to report to the ............ .
  3. The baby was lying on the  ............... .
  4. The mother was ............. and she thanked the police.

Answers:

  1. slipped
  2. police
  3. topmost cushion
  4. overjoyed

III. Say whether the following statements are True or False:

  1. Once a woman was sitting in the balcony of her home. ( )
  2. There was no traffic on the road. ( )
  3. The baby was lying on the topmust cushion and sucking its thumb. ( )
  4. The police took the baby to its father. ( )

Answers:

  1. False
  2. False
  3. True
  4. False.

Let’s Write

Use the information given to write a brief note about Rabindranath Tagore.

Rabindranath Tagore – born in the year 1861 (Kolkata)

— eminent Bengali poet, essayist, composer and fiction writer

— his best known work is Gitanjali, a volume of spiritual poetry

— Won Nobel prize for literature in 1913

— in 1919, established a university named Vishwa Bharathi

Ans. Rabindranath Tagore was born in the year 1861 in Kolkata. He was an eminent Bengali poet, essayist, composer and fiction writer. His best known work is Gitanjali, a volume of spiritual poetry. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1913. He established a university named Vishwa Bharathi in 1919.


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