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3. How can you say that the bee is intelligent and clever?
4. What is admirable about the work of the bee?
5. Why does the poet want us to be like the bee?
6. Why should we not keep ourselves idle? What will happen if we
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are idle?
7. What is the message of the poem?
8. Which lines do you like the best in the poem?
Give reasons for your choice.
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9. Pick out the rhyming words in the poem and add more words
to each of the rhyming pair.
e.g. play….. day …… may

Extended activity :

1. Draw a picture of a bee and its hive.
2. Collect information about how honey is taken out from the cell.

additional Reading:
Read the following poem and try to understand the message.

The noble nature
It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing like an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May

Although it fall and die that night:
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in small measures life may perfect be
• Ben Jonson

suggested Reading :
“Leave this Chanting and Singing” - Rabindranath Tagore

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