This document provides information about an English lesson on the famous poet Rabindranath Tagore. It includes an introduction to Tagore's life and accomplishments, as well as a poem titled "Taj Mahal" that describes the Taj Mahal monument as Shah Jahan's attempt to preserve his grief over his wife's death. Students are instructed to read the poem individually and discuss it, looking up unfamiliar words. They are asked comprehension questions about the poem and encouraged to appreciate its rhyming words.

1. WELCOME

3. TAGORE

4. Name of the teacher : SREEJA K NAIR.
Name of the subject : English.
Name of the unit : Hues and Views.
Name of the sub unit : VIII

5.  Pupil reads and enjoys simple poems.
 Develops skill to appreciate the beauty of
the poem.
 Develop an awareness about Taj Mahal and
also about the eternity of art.

6.  Are you happy ?
 Do you like poems ?
 Are you familiar with the seven wonders in
the world?
 Which are they ?

9. Let me introduce the famous poet RABINDRANATH
TAGORE.

10.  Writer, painter.
 Author of GITANJALI.
 Won Nobel prize for literature in 1913.

11. TAJ MAHAL
TAGORE

12. You knew the emperor of India , Shah Jahan,

13. That life ,youth , wealth, renown
All float away down the stream of time.

14. Your only dream
Was to preserve forever your heart’s pain.

15. The harsh thunder of imperial power
Would fade into sleep
Like a sunset’s crimson splendour,

16. But it was your hope
That at least a single ,eternally heaved sigh would
stay
To grieve the sky.

17. Though emeralds, rubies ,pearls are all
But as the glitter of a rainbow tricking out
empty air
And must pass away,

18. Yet still one solitary tear
Would hang on the cheek of time
In the form
Of this white and gleaming Taj Mahal.

19. Individual reading by the learner
Learner reads with proper stress , intonation
and rhythm.

20.  Sharing with pair or peer
 bounce ideas back and forth……

21.  Glossary reference with the help of the
teacher
emerald,pearl : gem stons.

22.  Grieve : feel intense sorrow

23. Scaffolding Questions
Time to use your brain,
1. What in the poet’s view are the things
that would float away down in the stream of
time?
2. What do you think was Shah Jahan’s
heart’s pain?

24.  Appreciation
 Rhyming words
1.time,dream.
2.stay, sky. etc

25.  Recite the poem once again.

26.  Evaluation
1.Imagine that you visited Taj Mahal. Write
your diary on that day.