POEM 2 - THE LITTLE BUSY BEE - 2MARKS

 

C1. Answer the following questions. Share your responses with others.

1. Who is the poet speaking about?

Ans: The poet speaking about the bee.

2. Why does the bee sit on the flower?

Ans: To collect honey from every opening flower.

3. How does the bee build her cell?

Ans: The bee builds her cell skilfully.

4. ‘I would be busy too’. Who does ‘I’ refer to?

Ans: Here I refer to the poet Issac Watts.

5. What does ‘sweet food’ mean in the context?

Ans: Honey means ‘sweet food; in the context.

6. Who does Satan manage to work through?

Ans: Satan manages to work through idle hands.

 C2. Pick out the best alternative for each of the following statements.

1.  People like the bee because:

    a) It is clever 

    b) It sits on the opening flower

    c) It works hard

    d) They get honey from it

Ans:  d) They get honey from it.

2.  And labours hard to store it well.

     Here ‘it’ refers to

      a) The bee

    b) The honey

      c) The wax

      d) The flower

Ans: b) The honey

Read and write:

C2. Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then write.

1. Why does the poet call the bee busy?

Ans: The poet calls the bee busy because the bee work hard it uses time for making good use and it is busy in collecting honey from the every opening flower.

2. “Let my first years be passed.”

 A] What does ‘first years’ refer to?

Ans: ‘First years’ refers to early days or boyhood of poet.

B] How does the poet want to spend his first years?

Ans: The poet spends his time with the books or work or with helpful play.

C] Why does he want to do so?

Ans: He wants to do some good account at the end of the life.

3. How can you say that the bee is intelligent and clever?

Ans: She builds her cell skilfully. She spreads her wax neatly. And labours hard to store it well with the sweet food she makes.

4. What is admirable about the work of the bee?

Ans: The little bee busy in improving each shining hour. And gathering honey everyday from every opening flower.

5. Why does the poet want us to be like the bee?

Ans: The bee is always busy. It builds the hive very skilfully and stores sweet honey in it. Like the bee we too must be busy in always to do useful work.

6. Why should we not keep ourselves idle? What will happen if we are idle?

Ans: because when we become idle Satan makes us to make evil accounts in our life.

7. What is the massage of the poem?

Ans: The man should work hard and busy in the good work as the bee is always busy in making good.

8. Which lines do you like the best in the poem? Give reasons for your choice.

Ans: “In work of labour or of skill

 I would be busy too;”

I want to work labour hard and I want to cultivate skill of bee in my life to make my future fruitful so I like the lines above mentioned. 

9. Pick out the rhyming words in the poem and add more words to each of the rhyming pair.

e. g. play..... day..... may     

Ans: hour – flower, Cell – well, Skill – still, Play – clay, hour - power