BALGOVIND'S EDUCATIONAL TOUR

                                  Whistle Away  The poem is about the way we should lead our life everyday and that we can do by keeping our heart happy and making others happy. The poet addresses the boy as merry boy and asks him to whistle by keeping his face happy and heart joyful. This will make him strong. The poet ask him to whistle if anything goes wrong with him as it will lighter his heart. Even if he is engaged in hard work like sowing of seeds, hoeing the corn, or pulling weeds, gathering fruit, or raking hay or driving cow, he must whistle every time and keep himself happy. The poet asks the boy that it is not possible for everybody to sing; and at that time, the best thing for him is to whistle a tune. It will make him happy as well as others who gets chance to hear.  It is better to whistle than to pout scold and fret. Finally, the poet asks the child to do all the good he can ea...

                Hide and seek The poem is about a child who plays the game of hide and seek with great enthusiasm and excitement. The poet wants to say that it is not very easy to be a winner. Just as the child faces a lot of a difficulties in the game hide and seek to be a winner, in the same way human beings also face a lot of difficulties in order to overcome the problems in their life.                 Summary of Hide and Seek  The poem starts with a child confidently challenges his friends to find him as he is sure that no one in his Hide and Seek group would be able to get him. The poet says that the child hides himself in a toolshed that is dark and has a salty smell permeating everywhere, which reminds him of the seaside. The boy is advised to close his eyes tightly and curl himself so that his feet aren’t visible from behind the sack where he is hiding. The poet cautions him that if he shouts ag...

                        Mr. Nobody  The theme of the poem is that the poet focuses on the incidents that are small generally unimportant mistakes such as breaking of a plate, that a child might get in trouble for. The poet portrays a family where a little child does mischievous things but the family members do not scold him or rather than blames on Mr Nobody. The family members do not want to scold the child as they love him very much.               Summary of Mr Nobody  The poet says that he knows a funny little man who is as quite as a mouse and he is responsible for every mischief that is done in everybody’s house. Neither the poet nor anyone has seen him, yet we all agree that the plates we break was already cracked by Mr Nobody Here the poet refers to a little child probably of 3 to 5 years old. When such a child breaks any plate he/she never accepts his or her fault and says th...

                                    Sentence Patterns    1.Simple Sentence    2.Compound Sentence 3.Complex Sentence                  1. Simple  Sentence                                 1.Dogs barks     2. The children were playing   Subject                   subject  A subject may contain one word or more than one. A verb may be of one word or more than one. In a simple sentence , the subject may be the noun, pronouns, adjectives, gerund, infinitive, phrase, etc. I. Shakespeare was a great dramatist.        Noun  II. He was a rich man. (Pronoun) III. The rich  helper the poor. (Adjective) IV. Walking is a good exercise. (Gerund) ...