Class 8: English, Lesson 3: An April Day

📖 পাঠ ও বঙ্গানুবাদ (Text & Translation)

Text:
When the warm sun, that brings
Seed-time and harvest, has returned again,
‘T is sweet to visit the still wood, where springs
The first flower of the plain.
বঙ্গানুবাদ: যখন উষ্ণ সূর্য, যা বীজ বোনার এবং ফসল তোলার সময় নিয়ে আসে, আবার ফিরে এসেছে, তখন নিস্তব্ধ বনে যাওয়া খুব মধুর, যেখানে সমতলের প্রথম ফুলটি ফোটে।

Text:
I love the season well,
When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,
Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell
The coming-on of storms.
বঙ্গানুবাদ: আমি এই ঋতুটিকে খুব ভালোবাসি, যখন বনের ফাঁকা জায়গাগুলো উজ্জ্বল সব আকৃতিতে (প্রাণে) পরিপূর্ণ থাকে, এবং কালো ও বহু-স্তরের মেঘ ঝড়ের আগমনের পূর্বাভাস দেয় না।

Text:
From the earth’s loosened mould
The sapling draws its sustenance, and thrives
Though stricken to the heart with winter’s cold,
The drooping tree revives.
বঙ্গানুবাদ: পৃথিবীর আলগা মাটি থেকে চারাগাছ তার পুষ্টি গ্রহণ করে এবং বিকশিত হয়; যদিও শীতের ঠান্ডায় হৃদয়ে আঘাতপ্রাপ্ত হয়েছিল, এখন নুইয়ে পড়া গাছটি পুনরুজ্জীবিত হয়।

Text:
The softly-warbled song
Comes from the pleasant woods, and coloured wings
Glance quick in the bright sun, that moves along
The forest openings.
বঙ্গানুবাদ: মনোরম বন থেকে ভেসে আসে মৃদু-কাকলি গান, এবং রঙিন ডানাগুলো উজ্জ্বল রোদে দ্রুত ঝিলিক দেয়, যা বনের উন্মুক্ত প্রান্তর দিয়ে বয়ে চলে।

Text:
When the bright sunset fills
The silver woods with light, the green slope throws
Its shadows in the hollows of the hill,
And wide the upland glows.
বঙ্গানুবাদ: যখন উজ্জ্বল সূর্যাস্ত রূপালী বনকে আলোয় পূর্ণ করে দেয়, তখন সবুজ ঢাল পাহাড়ের গহ্বরে তার ছায়া ফেলে, এবং বিস্তৃত উচ্চভূমি দীপ্তিময় হয়ে ওঠে।

শব্দার্থ (Word Nest) [Page 26]

Let’s do (Activity 1) [Page 28]

Tick the correct alternative:

(i) When the warm sun has returned again, it is nice to —

• (a) sing out loud
• (b) visit the still wood
• (c) sail down the river

(ii) The sapling draws its sustenance from —

• (a) the blue sky
• (b) rainwater
• (c) earth’s loosened mould

(iii) The birds —

• (a) glance quick in the bright sun
• (b) sit on the branches of the trees
• (c) peck at the grains from the ground

(iv) The green slope throws its shadow upon —

• (a) the mountain
• (b) the hollows of the hills
• (c) the sand dunes

Activity 2 [Page 28]

Complete the following sentences with information from the text:

(a) Spring is the season of __________.

(b) The coming-on of storms is foretold by __________.

(c) The birds move along __________.

(d) The bright sunset fills __________.

Activity 3 [Page 28]

Answer the following question:

Why do you think the poet “loves the season well?”

Activity 4 [Page 29]

Fill in the chart with information from the text:

Activity 5 [Page 29]

Answer the following questions:

(a) Why is it sweet to visit the wood during springtime?

(b) What does winter’s cold do to the tree?

(c) What time of the day do you think it is when “the green slope throws its shadows in the hollows of the hills”?

(d) Why do you think the poem is titled “An April Day”? Suggest an alternative title.

Activity 6 (a) [Page 29]

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb forms from those given in brackets:

(i) He __________ here for the last two years. (worked, is working, has been working)

(ii) The baby __________ all morning. (cries, has been crying, had cried)

(iii) It __________ for a long time before we went to school. (had been raining, rained, rains)

(iv) The passengers of the train __________ fast when the accident occurred. (slept, had been sleeping, sleep)

Activity 6 (b) [Page 30]

Fill in the blanks with either the Future Continuous tense or Future Perfect tense of the verbs given in brackets:

(i) I suppose it __________ when we start. (rain)

(ii) He __________ us next week. (meet)

(iii) She __________ Jamshedpur by then. (reach)

(iv) This book is not fat, I __________ it by lunch time. (read)

Activity 7 [Page 30]

Make meaningful sentences of your own with the following words:

Let’s do (Writing) [Page 30]

Activity 8 (a)

Write a paragraph in about eighty words on the changes that you see in nature when spring comes after winter.

Activity 8 (b)

You have a separate routine of work in the morning and in the evening. Write a page in your diary on that part of the day which you prefer more.