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Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

'……. And discard all those things that come in the way of finding it.'


1. Identify the speaker


2. What does the speaker want the narrator to discard ?


3. What does 'it' in the second line refer to ?


4. Use the expression 'come in the way' in a sentence of your own.

1. This line was said by the old beggar.

2. The beggar wants the narrator to discard the obstacles that come between him and his dream.


3. ‘It’ in the second line refers to a person’s dream.


4. I will not allow my fears to come in the way of my success.


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Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

"Live long, my friend, be wise and strong


But do not take from any man his song."


1. Who sang these lines ?


2. What does 'song' refer to in the second line ?

 2

Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

"I remained in the litchi tree, pondering over his wisdom and wondering how a man so wise


could be so poor."


1. What surprised the narrator ?


2. What were the poor man's pearls of wisdom ?

 1

Complete the web with suitable synonyms to describe what having a ‘room of your own

means’.


 2

Explain the following expressions.

a) It was a startling question coming from that ragged old man...


b) 'I refused to admit that I was a dreamer.'


c) 'There is no magic formula, my friend.’


d) 'Do not take away from any man, his song.’


e) 'Taking everything for granted'


f) 'Freedom is something you have to insist upon'


g) 'Follow your own dream'