Be glad your nose is on your face

SAMACHEER - ENGLISH- 9 STD - POEM - Be glad your nose is on your face

1. Unit II - Poem Be Glad your Nose is on your Face - Jack Prelutsky

2. About the Poet Born in Brooklyn, Newyork in 1940 Author of more than 50 anthologies Anthology means a collection of poems Jack Prelutsky

3. If you have Nose like this How will you feel?

4. Uses of organs We see with our … Eyes We hear with our … Ears We taste with our … Tongue We sense with our … Skin We smell with our… Nose

5. How will you feel if your nose is displaced in some other place ? Have you ever felt that nose is an unnecessary and unwanted organ ?

6. I Be glad your nose is on your face, not pasted on some other place, for if it were where it is not, you might dislike your nose a lot. Pasted – Stuck / fixed Eg : Nose is pasted on the head Nose is stuck on the head Nose is fixed on the head

7. If it is pasted somewhere, you would feel uncomfortable

8. II Imagine if your precious nose were sandwiched in between your toes, that clearly would not be a treat, for you’d be forced to smell your feet. Precious Highly Valuable, Worth, Esteemed Life is precious Sandwiched Pressed between two things . The baby is tasting a sandwich

9. If it is sandwiched between your toes, you would be forced to smell and it would not be a fair treat . When will you be forced to smell your feet? when it is sandwiched inbetween your toes .

10. III Your nose would be a source of dread were it attached atop your head, it soon would drive you to despair, forever tickled by your hair. Dread Fear , Terror, Awe He has a dread of hospitals Despair lose hope , Despondency She is in great despair Tickled slightest touch which causes laughter

11. Nose on forehead If it is placed on your forehead, it will be tickled by your hair When would nose become a source of dread? When it is placed on the top of the head .

12. Nose on Toes If it is sandwiched between your toes, you would be forced to smell and it would not be a fair treat . When will you be forced to smell your feet ? when it is sandwiched in between your toes.

13. IV Within your ear, your nose would be an absolute catastrophe, for when you were obliged to sneeze, your brain would rattle from the breeze. Catastrophe Sudden calamity, Sudden disaster Rattle inharmonious noises Nepal faced a dreadful catastrophe Angry son rattled the door.

14. Nose within Ear If it is within your ear, It will be an absolute catastrophe Your brain will rattle when you sneeze What is meant by catastrophe? Sudden calamity Pick out the word which denotes inharmonious noises ( a)rattle (b)battle ( c)shuttle

15. V Your nose, instead, through thick and thin, remains between your eyes and chin, not pasted on some other place - be glad your nose is on your face! - Jack Prelutsky

16. Be happy, your nose is between your eyes and chin ____________ is the apt place for the nose. a)Toes b)forehead c)between eyes and chin c)ear (ii) Find out the idiom given in the first line Thick and thin

17. Rhyming words found in the poem Face – place Not – lot Nose – toes Treat – feet Dread - head Words of alliteration “ th ” Your nose, instead, th rough th ick and th in

18. Be glad your nose is on your face , not pasted on some other place , for if it were where it is not , you might dislike your nose a lot . Rhyme scheme employed in this poem is aabb a a b b

19. A diamonte poem Noun Adjective Adjective V+ing V+ing V+ing N-1 N-2 N-3 N-4 V+ing V+ing V+ing Adjective Adjective Noun Nose Sharp Beautiful Smelling Inhaling Exhaling Sneeze Irritation Sight Lovely Seeing Pleasing Viewing Elegant Attractive Eyes