Chapter 6: The Missing Tenth Man

Dip-ডুব দেওয়া; Confused- বিভ্রান্ত হওয়া; Gather-একত্রিত করা; Scream-চিৎকার দেওয়া; Emphasis-গুরুত্ব দেওয়া, জোর দেওয়া; Intonation-স্বরধনী।

English chapter 6 question answer

6. 1 Read the story. Then, discuss the answer to the following question in pairs/groups.

One day, a group of ten men went to a river to take a dip. They held their hands to each other while taking the dip. But they somehow forgot to hold hands while coming out of the water.

After returning to the shore, Rothin Babu, one of the senior men asked, “Have we all crossed the river safely?” All the men in the group started looking at each other. They were confused.

Then the senior man asked everyone to lift their hand up to take a count. He started counting each person and the count stopped at nine. Thinking that one man was missing all the men started screaming. They even started looking for the missing tenth man. That went on with each person counting men up to nine and missing the tenth man.

Seeing this, a cap seller told, “I can help you”. He gave a cap to each man and asked them to wear it. The men were confused as to what was happening. The seller asked the senior man to gather all the caps, including his own, and count them all. Everyone was happy to see ten caps, that means no one was missing after all. The silly men thanked the seller for his help to find their missing member and believed it to be magic!

the missing tenth man meaning in bengali

অনুবাদ: একদিন দশ জনের একটা দল একটা নদীতে ডুব দিতে গেল। ডুব দেওয়ার সময় তারা একে অপরের হাত ধরেছিল। কিন্তু পানি থেকে বের হওয়ার সময় তারা কোনোভাবে হাত ধরতে ভুলে যায়।

তীরে ফিরে আসার পর, রথীন বাবু, একজন বয়জেষ্ঠ্য ব্যক্তি জিজ্ঞাসা করলেন, “আমরা সবাই কি নিরাপদে নদী পার হয়েছি?” দলের সব পুরুষ একে অপরের দিকে তাকাতে লাগলো। তারা বিভ্রান্ত ছিল।

তারপর বয়জেষ্ঠ্য লোকটি গণনা করার জন্য সবাইকে হাত উপরে তুলতে বললেন। তিনি প্রত্যেক জনকে গণনা করতে শুরু করলেন এবং গণনা নয়টায় থামল। একজন লোক নিখোঁজ ভেবে সবাই চিৎকার করতে লাগলেন। এমনকি তারা নিখোঁজ দশম লোকটিকেও খুঁজতে শুরু করে। এটি চলতে থাকে প্রতিটি ব্যক্তি নয়জন পর্যন্ত পুরুষ গণনা করে এবং দশম লোকটিকে নিখোঁজ করে। এটা দেখে একজন ক্যাপ বিক্রেতা বললেন, “আমি আপনাকে সাহায্য করতে পারি”।

তিনি প্রত্যেককে একটি করে ক্যাপ দিলেন এবং তাদের তা পরতে বললেন। পুরুষরা কি ঘটছে তা নিয়ে বিভ্রান্ত হয়েছিল। বিক্রেতা বয়জেষ্ঠ্য লোকটিকে তার নিজের সহ সমস্ত ক্যাপ সংগ্রহ করতে এবং সেগুলি গণনা করতে বলেছিলেন। দশটি ক্যাপ দেখে সবাই খুশি, তার মানে কেউ নিখোঁজ ছিল না। মূর্খ ব্যক্তিরা তাদের অনুপস্থিত সদস্যকে খুঁজে পেতে সাহায্যের জন্য বিক্রেতাকে ধন্যবাদ জানায় এবং বিশ্বাস করেছিল যে এটি জাদু!

Question: What has really happened? Why did the result come to nine when they counted each of them?
Ans. The person who counts everyone in the group, didn’t count himself. But he himself was one of those ten. Since the count was excluding himself, their accounts did not match.

6.2 In pairs/groups, discuss the uses of capital letters in the box below.
Uses of capital letters
The first letter in a sentence:
Where is my new pen?

The first letter of the name of people, places & things:
Runu is going to visit her friend, Tania in Rajshahi.

The first letter of the name of days, months, and holidays:
26 March is our Independence Day.

The first letter of direct quotes:
“Time is money”- Benjamin Franklin

I when it is about you:
I like music.

The first letter of the titles of people:
Dr. Sarwar is my uncle.

6.3 In pairs/groups, read the story again and discuss why the bold letters of the following sentences are in capitals:

The sentences
1. They hold their hands to each other while taking the dip.
2. One day, a group of ten men go to the Ganges to take a dip…
3. After returning to the shore, Mr. Rothin, one of the senior men, asks…
4. “I can help you”

Reason
‘T’ is capital because it is the first letter of a sentence.
‘G’ is capital because it is the first letter of a river.
‘M’ is capital because it is the first letter of a title.
‘I’ is capital because it indicates a person (a pronoun).

6.4 Read the following pairs of sentences in the bubbles. Then, in pairs or groups discuss the meaning of each sentence and share why the meaning of the sentences are different.

Pair 1:
What do you want me to cook? It is simply a question where the speaker wants to know what to cook.
What? Do you want me to cook? Here the speaker wants to be clear whether the s/he needs to cook.

Pair 2:
Let’s eat Grandma! It means the speaker proposes someone to eat grandma!
Let’s eat, Grandma! It means the speaker proposes grandma to eat food.

Part 3:
Congratulation wished Rupa. Here ‘Congratulations’ seems to be a person and hence it is used as a subject of the sentence.
“Congratulations!” wished Rupa. It means Rupa congratulates someone.

6.5 In pairs/groups read the note given below. Discuss the following punctuation marks and draw the appropriate punctuation marks next to the names.

Names
1. Full stop/Period- .
2. Question Mark- ?
3. Exclamation Mark- !
4. Dash- —
5. Comma- ,
6. Quotation Mark- “ ”
7. Colon- :
8. Slash- /
9. Semicolon- ;
10. Round Bracket- ()

6.6 Read the following note on the use of punctuation marks.
Note: Students will learn this with the help of class teacher.

6.7 Rearrange the words to make a meaningful sentence. Then use the appropriate punctuation marks and capital letters where required.

a. garden is beautiful this a tea
Ans. This is a beautiful tea garden.

b. friend dear hello
Ans. Hello dear friend.

c. you what doing are here
Ans. What are you doing here?

d. rana my is dr neighbour
Ans. Dr. Rana is my neighbour.

e. bought a funny interesting a and colourful book
Ans. I bought a funny and interesting colourful book.

6.8 Read the following story and fill in the gaps using capital letters or punctuation marks. Then, tell the story to the class using proper intonation.

1) —- once in a village, there lived a wise man. People from nearby villages have been coming to the wise man 2) —- and complaining about the same problems every time 3) —- One day he told the villagers, 4) —- “Dear friends, listen to a joke.” Hearing the joke the villagers roared in laughter. After a couple of minutes 5) —- he told them the same joke and only a few of them smiled. 6) —- when he told the same joke for the third time no one laughed anymore. 7) —- the wise man smiled and said 8) —- “You can’t laugh at the same joke over and over 9) —- So why are you always crying about the same problem 10) —- ”

Ans. Once in a village, there lived a wise man. People from nearby have been coming to the wise man and complaining about the same problems every time. One day he told the villagers, “Dear friends, listen to a joke.” Hearing the joke, the villagers roared in laughter. After a couple of minutes, he told the same joke and then a few of them smiled. When he told the same joke the third time, no one laughed anymore. The wise man smiled and said, “You can’t laugh hearing the same joke over and over. So, why are you always crying about the same problem?”