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VIII ENGLISH POEM MY COMPUTER NEEDS A BREAK
POEM
MY COMPUTER NEEDS A BREAK
-Shanthini Govindan
Glossary
brainy (adj) – very intelligent
absent-minded (adj) – being forgetful
vanish (v) – disappear
dreadful (adj) – unpleasant
gobbled (v) – ate hastily or greedily
erratically (adv) – unsteadily or unpredictably
squirm (v) – to twist the body in discomfort
A) Answer the following:
1. How does the poet describe her computer?
The poet describes her computer as very intelligent and smart.
2. What happened to the computer?
The computer was behaving badly, forgetting to save and store anything.
3. List four things that the computer could not do after it became absent-minded
(a) The computer forgets to save the poet's work.
(b) It doesn’t check her spellings.
(c) It hides all her files.
(d) It makes her work vanish in the most dreadful way.
4. What made the poet squirm?
When the computer actually gobbled a worm, a virus, it behaved unsteadily. So the poet squirmed.
5. Why did the poet call the doctor?
The computer was caught by a virus and felt very sick. So the poet had to call a doctor.
B) Fill in the blanks.
1) Computers are ______ and _______.
Ans: brainy, smart
2) We get answers for questions by a ______.
Ans: click
3) The computer forgot to ______ the poet's work.
Ans: save
4) The computer actually gobbled a _______.
Ans: worm
5) The poet feels that his computer needs _______.
Ans: a holiday
C) Pick out the rhyming words from the poem.
Smart - heart
click - quick
right - sight
sick - click
D) Match the poetic lines with Figures of speech
Ans:
E) Find the alliterating words from the poem
1) Save - seems
2) Doctor - double
3) Virus - very
4) makes - made
5) Gobbled - give