Discuss in class | Class 10 English Notes

This is a role-play activity designed to encourage discussion and exchange of views about tea. Each participant should prepare their points based on their role:

• Tea planter: Discuss the cultivation, challenges, and importance of tea farming.
• Sales agent: Highlight marketing strategies, sales figures, and consumer preferences.
• Tea lover (consumer): Share personal preferences, health benefits experienced, and social aspects of tea drinking.
• Physician: Explain the medicinal properties, hea

Draft an advertisement highlighting the unique qualities of the tea brand, such as its rich aroma, health benefits, and origin. Include catchy slogans, attractive visuals, and persuasive language to appeal to consumers. For example:

"Experience the Magic of Nature in Every Sip! Our premium Assam Tea brings you freshness, health, and happiness. Brew a cup, relax, and rejuvenate. Available at all leading stores."

Add colorful pictures of tea gardens, steaming cups of tea, and happy customers to

(i) The three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest as per the first stanza are:

• No bird could sit.
• No insect could hide.
• No sun could bury its feet in shadow.

(ii) The phrase “sun bury its feet in shadow” creates the image of sunlight being blocked or shaded by the trees, as if the sun has feet that are hidden or covered by the shadows cast by the trees. The poet uses this metaphor to describe how the presence of trees creates shade, preventing direct sunlight from reaching the

(i) In the poem, the trees are inside the house, specifically on the veranda floor. Their roots work all night to disengage themselves from the cracks in the veranda floor. The leaves strain toward the glass, and the small twigs are stiff with exertion.

(ii) The poet compares the branches (boughs) to newly discharged patients who are half-dazed and moving to the clinic doors. This simile suggests that the branches are slowly and awkwardly moving out of the house.