In this post, we’ll learn about IF, which is a topic from Chapter 3, English Subject, Class 7.
Important Vocabularies For This Lesson
- Universal – সার্বজনীন
- Meaningful – অর্থপূর্ণ
- Climb up – উপরে উঠা
- Wonder – অবাক হওয়া
- Impact – প্রভাব
- Eventually – অবশেষে
- Multiple – একের বেশি
- Terrible – ভয়ংকর
- Error – ভুল
- Willingly – ইচ্ছাকৃতভাবে
3.1 | Read the following story written by a student in their annual school magazine. Then, ask and answer the following questions in pairs/groups.
নিচে বিদ্যালয়ের বার্ষিক ক্রোড়পত্রে একজন শিক্ষার্থীর লেখা গল্পটি পড়ো। তারপর, দল বা জোড়ায় ভাগ হয়ে নিচের প্রশ্নগুলো একে-অপরকে জিজ্ঞাসা করো এবং উত্তর দাও।
a) What happened to Azmayn?
b) How did he feel when he couldn’t walk?
c) How was the situation overcome?
d) Did you ever experience a difficult situation like Azmayn?
e) What was that?
f) How did you feel then?
g) How was that solved?
Ans:
Student-1: Hello, Sabina. Let’s discuss on the story ‘Life Must Go on. What happened to Azmayn?
Student-2 : A bone of Azmayn’s right leg got displaced while trying to climb the hill.
Student-1 : How did he feel when he couldn’t walk?
Student-2 : He felt hurt because he knew nothing about his classroom teaching and learning for two months.
Student-1 : How was the situation overcome?
Student-2: Azmayn’s teacher Mr. Shahed engaged his classmates in messaging him everything discussed in the class. Now this is your turn. Did you ever experience a difficult situation like Azmayn?
Student-1: Yes, I also experienced such situation two years ago when I was in Barishal.
Student-2 : What was that?
Student-1 : A terrible storm took place in our locality and I was injured by a small branch of tree that was blown out by the wind. As a result, I was in bed rest for two weeks.
Student -2 : How did you feel then?
Student-1: As I couldn’t go to school. I was extremely worried about my classroom lessons.
Student-2 : How was that solved?
Student-1 : My teacher Mr. Ahmed sent all class notes to me. Besides, several of my classmates came to me and discussed class activities with me. Thus, I could made up my loss of lesson. Anyway, that’s all today. Thank you for being with me.
৪-৫ জনের দল ভাগ হয়ে কাজটি করবে। আজমাইনের মতো তোমার জীবনের একটি খারাপ পরিস্থিতির অভিজ্ঞতার উপর ভিত্তি করে একটি গল্প লেখো। লেখার জন্য নিচের টেবিলটি ব্যবহার করতে পারো। তারপর, তার গল্পটি তোমার দলের বাকি বন্ধুদের বলে শোনাও। তোমার গল্প শোনার পর তোমার বন্ধুদের অনুভূতি ফাঁকা জায়গাতে লিখতে বলো।
Ans:
| A difficult experience in my life | ||
| What happened? I have a difficult experience in my life. Last year, I was going back to Barishal from Dhaka with my parents and younger sister by launch. Unfortunately, there excessive pressure was of passengers that day. Moreover, the weather was bad. The launch took passengers beyond its capacity. The launch began to swing. When it reached Chandpur, it was about to sink because of tremendous wind, strong current and waves of the river. | How did I feel? I became extremely afraid. I could not hold my nerve. A great panic occupied my mind. I just thought that we were going to die. My sister was screaming. My parents were extremely worried about our safety. | How was it solved? When the launch was about to sink, the crew of the launch worked hard to save the life of the passengers. They tried their best to take the launch near the shore. At the same time, they contacted the crews of other launches. Luckily, a big launch appeared and rescued several hundred passengers from our launch. Many passengers jumped off the launch with life- saving tubes. They somehow reached the shore. But we were still in our launch. As the load of the launch decreased because of removing passengers, our launch began to sail towards the shore. Thus, the lives of all of us got saved. |
| Feelings of friends: Friend-1: It is a horrible incident. My heart is throbbing with fear Friend-2: My heart is also throbbing with fear. But, we are happy that you are amongst us now. Friend-3: We have watched such kind of accidents on TV. Friend-4: We have to take lesson from this incident. We should not get on launch while the/ weather is bad and the launch is overloaded. | ||
3.3 | Listen to the recitation of the poem ‘If given below and practice it in pairs/groups. Later, recite it for the whole class.
নিচের ‘If’ কবিতাটির আবৃত্তি শোনো এবং দল বা জোড়ায় ভাগ হয়ে কবিতাটি অনুশীলন করো। পরবর্তীতে, কবিতাটি আবৃত্তি করে ক্লাসে শোনাও।
IF
Rudyard Kipling
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!”
3.4 | Read the poem again and match the following words with their meanings in the next column. Then, use the words in your sentences. One is done for you.
কবিতাটি আবার পড়ো এবং নিচের শব্দগুলোর সাথে পরের কলামের শব্দগুলো অর্থানুসারে মেলাও। তারপর, শব্দগুলো ব্যবহার করে বাক্য তৈরি করো। বোঝার সুবিধার্থে একটি বাক্য তৈরি করে দেওয়া হয়েছে।
Ans:
| Word | Meaning | My Sentence |
| a) Heap | 4) To put things on top of each other | Your room looks very untidy when you lay your clothes in a heap on the floor. |
| b) Risk | 3) To do something that might be dangerous | The freedom fighters risked their lives to make the nation free |
| c) Pitch-and-toss | 9) A game in which the player pitches a coin nearest to a mark has the first chance to toss all the coins, winning those that land heads up. | He plays pitch-on-toss very often and luckily wins the most of them. |
| d) Beginning | 1) The start of something | The speaker was nervous at the beginning but he recovered from it soon. |
| e) Breathe a word | 8) Don’t say a word about something to anyone | He has a reputation of never breathing a word about others’ faults. |
| f) Sinew | 7) A part of the body that connects a muscle to a bone | The athlete has got an injury in his sinew. |
| g) Serve | 5) Perform duties | Abraham served in the company for 12 years. |
| h) Except | 2) Not including | Every member of my family except my younger brother was infected by COVID-19. |
| i) Will | 6) To want to do something | You can do any uphill task if you have strong will. |
3.5 | Read the poem again in pairs and complete the sentences with words or phrases from the box to make it a meaningful sentence. One is done for you.
জোড়ায় ভাগ হয়ে কবিতাটি পুনরায় পড়ো এবং নিচের বক্স থেকে শব্দ বা শব্দগুচ্ছ ব্যবহার করে বাক্যগুলো অর্থপূর্ণ করো। বোঝার সুবিধার্থে একটি বাক্য তৈরি করে দেওয়া হলো।
Ans:
i. The name of the poem is “If.”
ii. Rudyard Kipling is a poet.
iii. Sometimes in life if you fail, you can start again a new beginning.
iv. It’s wise not to give importance to your failures.
v. On bad days, we must not give up rather, we will hold on to the will to do something.
vi. ‘If’ is a poem because it has stanza and rhyming.
vii. The rhyming word of ‘toss’ is ‘loss.’
viii. The poem has one stanzas.
কবিতার ‘Central Theme’ এর উপর লেখা নিচের টিকাটি পড়ো। তারপর, দলে ভাগ হয়ে ‘II” কবিতাটির Central Theme লেখো। তারপর, ক্লাসে লেখাটি উপস্থাপন করো।
Ans: Preparatory task before writing the central theme:
i. Do yourself
ii. a father’s advice for his son to the readers.
iii. risk, start, force, heart, nerve serve, will and hold on.
iv. we have to take risk of losing like pitch-and-toss game and start again from the beginning. We must not utter single word about our failure. We have to force our heart and nerve even after a long time they are gone. We must not stop in life thinking that there is nothing in us. Will is enough to revive our heart and nerve and go on.
v. there are ups and downs in life. We should not be worried about failures as these are the parts of life. We should not lose our heart when we fail in any stage of life. Rather, we should renew our spirit and try again and again to reach our goals.
vi. Central theme of the poem: Persistence is the key to success in life. In the journey of reaching our goals, we will have to keep aside the fear of failure, take a lot of risks, start again from the beginning after every failure and go on with strong willpower until we reach our goal.
3.7 | Now, in groups read any of the two poems given below. Then, write the central theme of the poem. Follow all the steps of writing the central theme of a poem. Later, present it to the whole class.
এখন, দলে ভাগ হয়ে নিচের দুইটি কবিতার যেকোন একটি পড়ো। এরপর, কবিতাটির Central Theme সম্পর্কে লেখো। কবিতার Central Theme লেখার সবগুলো ধাপ অনুসরণ করো। তারপর, পুরো ক্লাসে লেখাটি উপস্থাপন করো।
Ans:
Poem : Be The Best of Whatever You Are
Central theme of the poem: Everyone has their own significance and has a specific job to play in our planet. Whatever work we do, we must do it in the most perfect manner. We should give priority on doing something for the society, whether it is big or small.
Poem : My Books
Central theme of the poem: We can enter the realm of knowledge through books. We can know newer things each time we read books. By reading books, we can be acquainted with the persons of glorious rank and deed. By reading books, we can explore the whole world.
