Class 10 English - First Flight - Chapter A Letter to God NCERT Solutions | How did the rain change? What happened t
How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
The rain changed and suddenly a strong wind started blowing and large hailstones started falling along with the rain.
Due to the hailstorm the Lencho's field was fully destroyed. There was no leaf remaining on the trees, the flowers were gone from the plants.Lencho was shattered after the destruction caused by the hailstorm.
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Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is? You may select appropriate words from the box to answer the question.
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Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
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Match the sentences in Column A with the meanings of ‘hope’ in Column B.
A B 1. Will you get the subjects you want to study in college? I hope so – a feeling that something good will probably happen 2. I hope you don’t mind my saying this, but I don’t like the way you are arguing. – thinking that this would happen (It may or may not have happened.) 3. This discovery will give new hope to HIV/AIDS sufferers – stopped believing that this good thing would happen 4. We were hoping against hope that the judges would not notice our mistakes. – wanting something to happen (and thinking it quite possible) 5. I called early in the hope of speaking to her before she went to school. – showing concern that what you say should not offend or disturb the other person: a way of being polite 6. Just when everybody had given up hope, the fishermen came back, seven days after the cyclone. – wishing for something to happen, although this is very unlikely - Q:-
What did Lencho hope for?
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There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
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What made him angry?
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