NCERT Solutions Kaveri Chapter 4 I Cannot Remember My Mother — Vocabulary in Context

Work in pairs to classify the sensory words given in the box below. One example has been done for you.

Fill in the blanks with sensory words in the box for the following passage written by Sarojini Naidu. There are two extra words. Come and share my exquisite March morning with me: this sumptuous blaze of gold and sapphire sky; these 1. _____________ lilies that adorn the sunshine; the voluptuous 2. _____________ of neem and champak and serisha that beat upon the languid air with their implacable 3. _____________; the thousand little gold and blue and silver breasted birds bursting with the 4. _____________ ecstasy of life in nesting time. And, do you know that the scarlet lilies are woven petal by petal from my heart’s blood, these little quivering birds are my soul made incarnate music, these heavy 5. _____________ are my emotions dissolved into aerial 6. _____________, this 7. _____________ blue and gold sky is the ‘very me’…

Write numbers against each picture with the phrases beats of music echo in air

melody of soothing scent, dancing in the air

fragrant breeze of blooming buds

gentle lullaby, a soft melody

colourful sky, painting a lively sight

attractive canvas painting the horizon