AMANDA POEM 10TH CBSE

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2. https://www.successcds.net/learn-english/class-10/amanda.html
3. Don’t bite your nails, Amanda! 
   Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!
   Stop that slouching and sit up straight,
   Amanda!
   Hunch: bend
   Slouching: sitting in a lazy way
   Languid: relaxed
   Emerald: here, green color
   Inhabitant: resident
   Drifting: carried slowly by the water
   Blissfully: happily
4. biting the nails is a bad habit. why do they bite? there must be a reason. find out.
5. hunching your shoulders means bending your shoulders all the time will make the stature and personality bad.
6. slouching  sitting doing nothing lazily will spoil your mood and make you more lazy.
7. (There is a languid, emerald sea,                      
8. where the sole inhabitant is me—
   a mermaid, drifting blissfully.)
9. Did you finish your homework, Amanda?
   Did you tidy your room, Amanda?
   I thought I told you to clean your shoes, 
   Amanda!
   Orphan: A child whose parents are dead
   Hushed: quiet and still place
10. Home work is too much these days pupils and students get bored and teachers also get the same.It leads nowhere. a minimum constructive one will bring enthusiasm to learn more.it is like giving imposition . 
11. tidying your room is a good habit. you can get what you want and when you want. life will be more comfortable.
12. cleaning your own shoes,keeping it clean will you relief and will make you happy that you are wearing clean shoes.                                                                   
    (I am an orphan, roaming the street.
    I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
    The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)
13. Don’t eat that chocolate, Amanda!
    Remember your acne, Amanda! 
    Will you please look at me when I’m speaking to you,
    Amanda!
    (I am Rapunzel; I have not a care;                          
    life in a tower is tranquil and rare;
    I’ll certainly never let down my bright hair!) 
    Acne: Pimples
    Rapunzel: A girl in the fairy tale by Brothers Grimm
    Tranquil: calm, quiet
    Rare: uncommon
14. chocolates too  many every time will surely spoil your teeth and will have to visit the dentist often also loose some of your natural teeth.
15. acne can be avoided if you clean your face with fresh water as may times as possible every day and stop eating fried things and munching them especially when you are between 10 and 18 years of age.
16. when somebody especially your parents are talking with you you must listen with attention and that is done only for your own benefit.Not NAGGING.
17. Stop that sulking at once, Amanda! 
    You’re always so moody, Amanda!         
    Anyone would think that I nagged at you,
    Amanda!
    Sulking: be in a bad mood
    Moody: unstable
    Nagged: harass
18. do not be in bad mood that will make your life miserable.
19. do not be moody, being unstable, you will achieve nothing in your life.
20. suggestion to parents. NAGGING  all the time makes the child lose her interest in life. He /she is a child and there is always a WAY to bring them up nicely complimenting them even some small things done nicely and praising them .Make them think positively.
21. they are just growing. you have to nurture them as we take care of the growing plant.
22. or else they will start hating life,Remember they are only children, allow them the freedom . correct them discreetly without creating and any friction and hate.
23. This will lead the parents, teachers and the children to go in a different path making every place a HELL.