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B. Answer the following questions.
1. What is the speaker’s usual routine on a school day?

2. Which rules does the speaker have to obey while the hawker doesn’t? Quote the lines from
the poem.

3. What does the speaker wish when she sees the gardener?
4. ‘I wish I were a watchman walking the streets all night, chasing the shadows with my lantern.’
What does ‘chasing the shadows’ refer to? Give reasons for your answer.

C. Refl ect and answer.

1. Do you think the lives of the hawker, the gardener and the night watchman are really as
carefree and easy as the speaker thinks? Why/Why not?
2. What could be the reason for the speaker’s admiration for these three people? What does this
tell you about her life?
3. The speaker looks at other people and wishes she could lead a life like theirs. Is this
something most of us tend to do? Why do you think this is the case?

4. Which quality in the speaker is evident from her wishes in the poem? Give reasons for your
answer.

Sounds and Pronunciation

Listen carefully and repeat these words.

voCAtion diRECtion eVASion coLLECtion deTENtion proCESSion

obJECtive deCIsive imPRESSive fanTAStic giGANtic deTECtive
You will notice a pattern in the words above. The stress is on the second-last syllable. In other words,
most words that end in -sion, -tion, -ic and -ive are pronounced with stress on the syllable before the
ending.

Write ten more words ending in -sion, -tion, -ic or -ive in your notebook. Underline the stressed
syllables in them. Check your answers with the help of a standard dictionary.

Appreciation

A. Find one example each of a simile and a metaphor from the poem. Do these lines also
create vivid pictures of the scene in your mind? Write the name of this poetic device.
B. Write a poem titled ‘I Wish I Were’. Try thinking like the child in ‘Vocation’ and look at the
people you see around you every day. Is there anyone whose way of life appeals to you?
Write about them in your poem.

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