4. Listen to the poem and answer these questions
• Which season is described in the poem?
• Who is the poet?
• John Keats - To Autumn [Original
Manuscript]_(360p).mp4
• odetoautumn_keats_add_converted.mp3
5. Reading -1
Read the questions
• How is the season described?
• Whose bosom - friend is the season?
• Where do the vines run?
• Where are the apples?
• Who will think ‘warm days will never cease’?
6. Stanza 1
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease;
For Summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells
7. list out the unfamiliar words
mists, mellow fruitfulness , bosom friend,
maturing sun, conspire, load, vines, thatch,
eaves, mossed cottage trees, ripeness to the
core, swell the gourd, plump the hazel shells,
kernel, budding, warm days, cease, over
brimmed, clammy cells
26. Reading 2:
• Which fruits and nuts are described?
• What will it conspire?
• What will autumn do?
• What will autumn prepare for the bees?
• What will bees think about summer?
Stanza 1
27. Match the following
A
1. Autumn
2. Sun
3. Vines
4. Cottage trees
5. Ripeness to the core
6. Gourd
7. Hazel shells
8. Bees
B
a) maturing
b) season of mists and
fruitfulness
c) plumping with sweet
kernel
d) fruit
e) swelling
f) bent with apples
g) flowers and honey
h) run round the thatch
eaves
28. Fill in the blanks with suitable words
• Autumn is the season of
__________________________________________.
• Autumn is close friend of
__________________________________________.
• Autumn will plan to _________________________the
vines with___________, to____________ the cottage
trees with______________ , to fill fruit
with__________________, to __________ the gourd
and to _____________ the hazel shells with a
___________________.
• Stanza 1
29. Reading 1
• Who is sitting carelessly?
• Where is it sitting?
• What activities of farming mentioned in the
stanza?
30. Stanza-2
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers;
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.
vijay koganti
47. Reading 2
• List the 2 farming tools mentioned in the
stanza
• Who is autumn compared to?
• Where does autumn walk?
• How does autumn watch?
• Stanza-2
48. Match the following
A B
1 store a ooze
2 poppies b swath
3 wind c granary
4 hook d drowsed
5 cider press e winnowing
Pick out the prepositions from Stanza two and use them in your
sentences
Stanza-2
49. Paraphrase
__________is often _____ among its store.
Autumn is in the form of________________
floor after all the husk is _________________.
It is also found________ on a
_________________, after inhaling
_________________. Autumn is compared to
a _________ who _________
across_________ the weight. Autumn
waits_________ for the ________ by a
____________.
50. Reading questions
• What season is referred to?
• Who has its own music?
• List the birds and insects from the stanza
• List the places of nature from the stanza
• List the sounds from the stanza
51. Stanza 3
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are
they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, -
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing, and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
67. Describing words
• Identify the descriptive words and state which
objects are they describing
• Ex: barred clouds- word ‘barred’ describes the
object(noun) cloud
• Stanza 3
