KSEEB Solutions for Class 9 English Prose Chapter 3 My Beginnings

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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 9 English Prose Chapter 3 My Beginnings

My Beginnings Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes

Before you read:

Look at the following pictures:

Work in pairs/groups. Identify the games and write their name in the space provided. Names of the sports are given within brackets.
(basketball, volleyball, cricket, fencing, cycling, table tennis, weight-lifting, discus throw, archery, shooting, tennis, swimming, running race, sailing, badminton)

Answer:

Running race
Sailing
Badminton
Cricket
Basketball
Discus Throw
Cycling
Volleyball
Fencing
Shooting
Swimming
Weight lifting
Tennis
Table Tennis
Archery

Work in groups. Ask the following questions to your friends and share your thoughts and feelings.

Question 1.
Which games do you play?
Answer:
I play Volleyball, Shuttle Badminton, Cricket and Football.

Question 2.
What is your favorite game?
Answer:
Cricket is my favorite game.

Question 3.
Was Gandhiji right in his opinion? If yes, why? If not, why not?
Answer:
No, Gandhiji was not right in his opinion. Sports and physical exercises are very essential for physical and mental development of an individual.

Question 4.
Should sports and games be made compulsory in schools and colleges? Discuss.
Answer:
Sports and games should be made compulsory in schools and optional in colleges. In school-level importance should be given to curricular and co-curricular activities. Here students have no opportunity to get separate physical exercises. At college level, students have many opportunities to get special training in different fields of their interest along with their studies.

Check your comprehension:

Share your responses:

Question 1.
Kapil says, “The date, 6th January 1959, was thankfully recorded.” Why does he feel so?
Answer:
Kapil’s mother could not read the time and date of his birth, but one of his cousins with the same name was born at the same time and date i.e, 6th January 1959, and it was recorded. So, Kapil says that his date of birth was thankfully recorded.

Question 2.
Kapil says, “But at that time…these dreams seemed like Castles in the air,” What were these dreams? Were these dreams realized?
Answer:
Kapil Dev’s, ambition was to travel around the world and drive a Mercedes Benz Car. These were his dreams. Yes, these dreams were realized later.

Question 3.
What did Kapil’s mother always regale him with?
Answer:
His mother always regaled him with sto¬ries of his naughty behaviour.

Question 4.
Kapil uses an idiomatic expression ‘castles in the air’. What does this mean?
Answer:
“Castles in the air” means the plans or hopes that we have which are unlikely ever to become real. Twenty-five years ago as a kid, Kapil dreamt of travelling around the world, and driving a Mercedes Benz Car, could not happen that which at that time seemed like castles in the air, things.

II. Check Your Comprehension:

Question 1.
In what way was Kapil ‘like all the other children’ around him?
Answer:
Kapil Dev was bunking school and saving enough money to go to a new movie or have a plate of chicken chowmein with his friends, and when broke or bored, breaking the fruits from their neighbor’s trees. In this way, Kapil was “ like all the chilldren around him.”

Question 2.
In the third paragraph Kapil says his neighbor’s lady grew trees. What were the two trees grown there?
Answer:
Papaya and pomegranate were the two trees grown there.

Question 3.
How did Kapil and his friends spend most of their time in their childhood?
Answer:
Kapil and his friends spent most of their time in planning how to get into the garden of the lady and pick the fruits off the trees.

Question 4.
What had Kapil done that he had to sit still for two hours?
Answer:
Kapil had climbed over the wall and was perched on the tree to pluck the fruits. He was on the tree to sit still for two hours because the lady was entertaining her guests for tea right under the papaya tree.

Question 5.
What discovery did Kapil make by sitting on the papaya tree?
Answer:
Kapil discovered the rash that papaya sap can cause to the skin.

Question 6.
“She counted them every day.” What did the lady count every day? Why?
Answer:
The lady counted the pomegranates on the trees in her garden every day. Because she was aware of Kapil and his friends and their mischief.

Question 7.
‘I got even the next day,’ What does this mean? What does this tell us about Kapil?
Answer:
Kapil Dev could not tell his mother about his two hours spending on papaya tree. when he tried to pluck fruit and he was hurt by the rash of papaya sap. But, the next day he got a good opportunity to pluck pomegranate fruits from the trees of the neighbour, because lady had gone to Delhi for two days. It shows that he was truthful, though he was that a naughty boy.

III. Check Your Comprehension:

Question 1.
What naughty thing does Kapil narrate in the 7th paragraph?
Answer:
nobody would have noticed except for ’ the fact that I bit off more than I could chew.’

Question 2.
Nobody would have noticed except for the fact that I bit off more than I could chew. What is the incident described here?
Answer:
Once Kapil and his friends had learned to master the horse (which Kapil became attached to it). They became courageous and ventured out of the fenced area with the horses. This is the incident described here.

Question 3.
Why does Kapil say he bit off more than he could chew?
Answer:
Kapil decided to take the horse home and house him in his back garden which was about seven hundred square feet in size. This act was too much for his age. That is why Kapil says he bit off more than he could.

Question 4.
How did Kapil’s father react to his escapade?
Answer:
Kapils father got angry his escaped and discouraged him saying not to venture near the grazing field.

Question 5.
What were the games offered at the local school where Kapil was studying?
Answer:
Basketball, football, table tennis, hockey, and cricket were the games offered at the local school where Kapil was studying.

Question 6.
In which game was Kapil fairly good at, during his school days?
Answer:
Kapil was fairly good at all games in his school days.

Question 7.
‘That is a decision I will always be grateful to them for, as they unconsciously introduced me to the game for which I was made.’ What was the ‘decision’?
Answer:
Fortunately, Kapil’s friends were interested in and played cricket and they convinced him to change his game. That was a decision which he would always grateful to them for, as they unconsciously introduced him to the game of cricket for which he was made of.

Question 8.
‘But it was all merely fun to start with.’ What is Kapil talking about? Do you think cricket remained merely fun for him forever?
Answer:
Kapil Dev is talking about the beginning of his cricket play. He changed from one game to the other and began to spend a lot of his time on the cricket field. Naturally, he played in a number of interschool tournaments and came to be noticed as “a promising lead” in the local press. He said that it was all merely fun to start with. No, I don’t think that cricket remained merely fun for him forever. He became a successful professional cricket player.

Think about the text :

C1. Kapil narrates an incident from his childhood. Related to his childhood life, some sentences are given below. Working in pairs/groups, arrange them in the right order.

a. A lady lived down the road and she had a beautiful garden.
b. She entertained the guests for tea right under the papaya tree.
c. Two others were on the road on the other side of the wall.
d. One day Kapil and his friends climbed over the wall and perched on the tree.
e. That was the day Kapil discovered the rash that papaya sap can cause.
f. She took great pride in papaya and pomegranate trees which she had grown in her garden.
g. Two friends, who had been outside, ran away.
h. But Kapil and his friend had to sit for nearly two hours till the tea party ended.
Answer:
a,f,d,b,c,g,h,e.

C2. Say whether the following statements are true or false.

a. Kapil was born into a large family. [ ]
b. Kapil came to know about the date of his birth from his mother. [ ]
c. The lady who was a neighbor to Kapil counted ninety-two pomegranates on the tree in her garden because she was good at mathematics.[ ]
d. The police horses became Kapil’s pets. [ ]
e. Kapil was good at athletics and dreamed of becoming a footballer. [ ]
Answer:
a. T; b. F; c. F; d. T; e. T.

C3. Imagine you are narrating Kapil’s childhood experiences to your friend. How can you narrate this? You can begin like this. Kapil shares two very interesting incidents with the reader.
Answer:
Kapil and his friends were trying to pick up fruits from the trees in the garden of his neighbour, a lady. One day, Kapil and his friends had climbed over the wall and were perched on the papaya tree. While they were there, the lady walked out into the garden with some friends for a tea party. The two friends who were standing outside of the wall, ran away. But Kapil and his friend had to sit still for nearly two hours on the tree, till the tea party ended. On that day, Kapil came to know the rash that papaya sap can cause the skin.

Kapil and his friends learned to ride the police horses that were left in the large open green areas to graze. After mastering in riding horses, they became more courageous and ventured out of the fenced area with the horses. Nobody noticed them riding the horses. Once, Kapil decided to take the horse to his home and keep it tethered in his back garden. But he had not anticipated the struggle he had to face. It was impossible to get the horse through the five and a half feet by two feet doorway. Kapil and his friends were caught within minutes of their arrival. These two incidents in the life of Kapil Dev create a lot of humour.

Vocabulary:

VI. Study the following sets of words. Pick out the one that does not belong to the set. (Say why it doesn’t belong.)

Question 1.
football, athletics, basketball, volleyball.
Answer:
Athletics (because the other three are all ball games).

Question 2.
coach, learner, teacher, trainer.
Answer:
Learner (because the others are guiding the learner).

Question 3.
boxing, running, jumping, throwing.
Answer:
boxing (other are outdoor games).

Question 4.
stamina, speed, skill, sports.
Answer:
sports (because the other three are requirements for sports)

Question 5.
victory, success, defeat, win.
Answer:
defeat (The other three are synonyms).

Question 6.
medal, shield, cup, competition.
Answer:
Competition (other three are awards given to prize winners).

V2. Notice the words given in brackets. Do you And anything special about these words? If you find, what is it? (lick, munch, sip, drink, chew, swallow, eat, lap, dine, suck, gulp)

Sit in pairs/groups, discuss with your partner and fill in the blanks using the appropriate words given above. You can change the form of the word.

They’d __________ their way through three packets of biscuits. (to eat something noisily)
A cat ____________ up the drops spilt on the floor, (to move your tongue across the surface of something in order to eat it)
Ranjitha was sitting at the table __________ her coffee, (to drink something slowly)
You should _________ plenty of water, (to take liquid into your mouth)
This nut is so tough I can hardly ___________ it! (to bite food several times before swallowing it)
Sathvik __________ the last drop of his coffee and asked for the bill, (to make food or drink go down your throat and towards your stomach)
Hemanthini _________ up the last bit of milkshake with her straw, (to take liquid into her mouth by making her lips form a small hole)
A small girl was __________ a sandwich. (to put food in her mouth and chew and swallow it)
The cat began to ____________ up the milk. (it drinks it by putting its tongue into it)
Umesh was ___________ with friends at the Taj Hotel, (to eat dinner)

Answer:

munch
licked
sipping
drink
chew
swallowed
sucked
eating
lap
dining

V3 – Activity:

Read and respond – Class Activity.
Listen and Comprehend – Class Activity.
Listen and Do:
Choose the right word given in brackets :

The use of credit cards……..(has/have)increased hundredfold in the last decade.
Half the students in the class_________ (was/were) absent yesterday.
The number of poisonous snakes _________ (is/ are)not known accurately.
I ____________ (am/is/was) not hungry now.
We ______________ (hadn’t/hasn’t/ haven’t) seen him of late.
Salim _________ (do not/does not) know how to cook.

Answer:

has
were
is
am
haven’t
does not

My Beginnings Additional Questions and Answers

I. Choose the correct answer:

Question 1.
The lesson “My beginnings” is taken from the autobiography of:
(a) Sunil Gavaskar.
(b) Sachin Tendulkar.
(c) Rahul Dravid.
(d) Kapil Dev.
Answer:
(d) KapilDev

Question 2.
Kapil Dev was born in:
(a) Delhi
(b) Bombay
(c) Chandigarh
(d) Bengaluru.
Answer:
(c) Chandigarh.

Question 3.
Kapil Dev grew up among :
(a) Six brothers and sisters.
(b) Six brothers and six sisters.
(c) Six brothers and one young sister.
(d) Six elder brothers and sisters.
Answer:
(a) Six brothers and sisters.

Question 4.
Whenever Kapil dev and his friends were broke or bored, they would amuse themselves by:
(a) Playing cricket.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Breaking fruits off their neighbors tree.
(d) Riding the horse.
Answer:
(c) Breaking fruits off their neighbors tree.

Question 5.
Once Kapil dev had to sit still for nearly two hours on :
(a) Mango tree
(b) Papaya tree
(c) Appletree
(d) Jack fruit tree.
Answer:
(b) Papaya tree.

Question 6.
The lady used to count pomegranates in her garden every day because:
(a) It was her habit.
(b) She knew the mischief of Kapil and his friends.
(c) She knew mischief of birds.
(d) She knew the mischief of thieves.
Answer:
(b) She knew the mischief of Kapil and his friends.

Question 7.
Kapil dev and his friends were riding:
(a) Neighbour’s horses
(b) Racehorses
(c) Police horses
(d) Army horses.
Answer:
(c) Police horses

Question 8.
Kapil Dev could not take the horse into his back garden because:
(a) Horse stopped and he could not move it.
(b) Horse was big and door was very small.
(c) His father caught him.
(d) Police caught him.
Answer:
(b) Horse was big and door was very small.

Question 9.
Kapil Dev was dreaming of become a:
(a) Cricketer
(b) Foot bailer
(c) Basket ball player
(d) Tennis player.
Answer:
(b) Footballer.

Question 10.
Kapil Dev was convinced to play cricket by his:
(a) Friends
(b) Father
(c) Neighbour
(d) Teacher.
Answer:
(a) Friends.

Question 11.
I spent my childhood like all the other children _________ me. The correct preposition to be filled in the blank is.
(a) on
(b) to
(c) with
(d) around.
Answer:
(d) around.

Question 12.
My Mother always regales me. The underlined words are:
(a) Noun
(b) Pronoun
(c) Verb
(d) Adjective.
Answer:
(b) Pronoun.

Question 13.
Pick out the one that does not belong to the group :
(a) Football
(b) Athletics
(c) Basketball
(d) Volleyball.
Answer:
(b) Athletics.

Question 14.
They had ________ their way through three packets of biscuits: The correct word to be filled in the blanks is :
(a) Lick
(b) munch
(c) gulp
(d) chew.
Answer:
(b) munch.

Question 15.
Salim ________ know how to cook. Choose the right word to fill the blank :
(a) do not
(b) doesn’t
(c) has not
(d) have not.
Answer:
(b) doesn’t

II. Match the following

A	B
1. naughty	a. strong desire to achieve something
2. ambition	b. suddenly leave the place without telling anyone
3. fright	c. make someone laugh of smile
4. bunk	d. sudden feeling of fear
5. amuse	e. mischievous

Answer:
1 – (e), 2 – (a), 3 – (d), 4 – (b), 5 – (c).

II. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow :

1. “God has been kind to me and both my wishes have been fulfilled. But at that time, twenty-five years ago, these dreams seemed like castles in the air.”

Question a.
Who spoke these words?
Answer:
Kapil Dev spoke these words.

Question b.
What are his wishes that have been fulfilled?
Answer:
His wishes like travelling around the world and driving a Mercedes Benz car are fulfilled.

Question c.
What is the meaning of “castles in the ‘air”
Answer:
Castles in the air mean plans or hopes that one has which are not likely ever to become real.

2. “The chiding I received from my father discouraged my venturing near the grazing fields again.”

Question a.
Who does refer ‘I’ here?
Answer:
I refer to Kapil Dev.

Question b.
What was his venture?
Answer:
Riding the horse was his venture.

Question c.
Why did his father discourage him?
Answer:
Because he was riding the police horses secretly, without getting permission.

IV. Answer the following questions.

Question 1.
When and where was Kapil born?
Answer:
Kapil Dev was born on 6th January 1959, in Chandigarh.

Question 2.
What was his full name?
Answer:
Kapil DevRamlal Nikhanj was his full name.

Question 3.
What is the name of his autobiography?
Answer:
Straight from the Heart’ is the name of his autobiography.

Question 4.
What does Kapil narrate in his autobiography?
Answer:
He narrates his childhood experiences in his autobiography.

Question 5.
Why did Kapil Dev climb the Papaya tree?
Answer:
He climbed the papaya tree to pluck papayas.

Question 6.
Who discouraged Kapil Dev from riding the police horse?
Answer:
His father discouraged him from riding.

Question 7.
Who convinced Kapil Dev to play cricket and why?
Answer:
His friends convinced him to play cricket. Because they were interested in cricket and they were playing cricket.

Question 8.
Why did Kapil Dev save the money?
Answer:
Kapil dev saved the money to go to a new movie or have a plate of chicken chowmein with his friends.

Question 9.
What is a biography?
Answer:
Story or life history of a person written by another person.

Question 10.
What is autobiography?
Answer:
Story or life history of a person written by himself/ herself.

V. Give the opposites of:
Answer:

younger x elder
remember x forget
fortunate x unfortunate
numerable x innumerable
discourage x encourage
consciously x unconsciously

My Beginnings Summary in English

This lesson is taken from“ Straight from the heart” an autobiography of Kapil Dev the famous Indian cricketer. Kapil narrates his childhood experiences.

Kapil Dev was born on 6th January 1959 in Chandigarh. His mother was a simple woman. He grew up among six brothers and sisters. He says by referring his early life that our beginnings never know our ends.
His mother regales him with tales of his naughty behaviour. She could not control him. He could not sit still. His ambition was to travel around the world and drive a Mercedes Benz Car. By God’s grace both of his two ambitions have been fulfilled. But at the time of his boyhood days, those dreams seemed like “castles in the air”

Like other children, Kapil was also trying to bunk school, and save up enough money to go to a new movie or have a plate of chicken chowmein with his friends. He was amusing with his friends by stealing the fruits off their neighbor’s trees. One particular lady, a neighbor had a beautiful garden. In it, she had papaya and pomegranate trees. He and his friends were often trying to pick the fruits of the trees. One day, Kapil and his friend had climbed over the wall and were perched on the tree when the lady walked out with some guests. As she was entertaining them for tea right under the papaya tree, he and his friend had to sit still for nearly two hours on the tree till the tea party ended.

Lady had ninety – two pomegranates on the tree in her garden. She counted them every day because she knew the mischief of the children. Once she went to Delhi for two days. Kapil and his friends took down all the ninety-two pomegranates, ate whatever they could and distributed the rest. After returning, she complained to Kapil’s mother, who wallopped him severely. Later, the lady used to tell others with great pride and affection about the mischief of Kapil and his friends.

Kapil and his friends tried to ride the horses that were left in the huge open green areas to graze. After innumerable falls and many frights, Kapil learnt to ride and control a horse. Once they had mastered how to ride the horse, they became more courageous and ventured out of the fenced area with the horSes. Nobody noticed their venture. Once, he had taken the horse in his back garden. It was very easy to ride the horse up to his home, but it was very difficult to get the horse through the small doorway. He did not anticipate this. So, he was caught within minutes of their arrival. His father’s chiding discouraged him from entering the grazing field again.

Kapil was not very studious. He used to spend his time in playing games and participating in athletics. He went to a small local school. Cricket, basketball, football, table tennis and hockey were the games offered there. Kapil was fairly good at all games, but very good at athletics. He dreamed of becoming a footballer. He worked hard at that game and was selected to play for his school. His friends played cricket.

They convinced Kapil to change his game. Kapil took a decision to change his game. He is always grateful for his friends. He began to spend a lot of his time on the cricket field. He played in a number of inter-school tournaments and came to be noticed as “a promising lad” in the local press. But it was all merely fun to start with. He could never have imagined where cricket would take him. Later he became a famous professional cricketer and captained India to World Cup glory in one day cricket.