Question

Give an account of the last day of M.Hamel in school.

Answer 1

• Introduction:
  M. Hamel was a french teacher in France. He taught French for forty years. German wanted the German language to be taught in the schools of France. The last day of French class had come.
• Narrator’s life:
  The narrator was not a bright student. He was told to go to work with his parents. But he goes to school simply. In these years he did not learn his lessons properly.
• Last day:
  The last day of French class had come. Mi Hamel was dressed in his Sunday’s best. In the last class the village people, the old mayor, the post master were present. The narrator worried that he did not learn his lessons properly. M. Hamel told them to guard their language. He also told that French is one of the best logical and clearest languages in the world.
• Conclusion:
  The clock struck twelve M. Hamel, thus he could not speak filled with emotions wrote “Vive la France” on the blackboard, and with sorrows, he bid farewell to the class.

Answer 2

Paragraph for Slow Learners:
Hamel was the teacher in faithful service for forty years. He wore his Sunday clothes in honor of his last French class. The old villagers were present on the last day at school. Hamel told Franz that the Prussians would find fault with the French for they do not know to read and write French.

He said that French was a beautiful language. It must be held and guarded to be used as the key to the prison of the enslaved. He took a grammar lesson. Then they had a lesson in writing.

He looked at the garden and the classroom. Hearing the trumpets of the Prussians, Hamel stood up but he could not speak out of grief. He wrote on the blackboard in French, “Long Live France”. Then with a gesture, he dismissed the school.

Answer 3

1. Hamel had put on his fine Sunday class clothes.
2. It was in honour of his last French lesson.
3. He had worked faithfully for forty years.
4. The old villagers were present in the school, besides children.
5. Hamel told Franz that Prussians would blame the Frenchmen if they could not read and write French.
6. He told that French was a beautiful language.
7. French must be guarded to be used as a key to the prison of the enslaved.
8. Hamel was in grief and he could not speak.
9. He wrote “Long Live France” in French on the black board.
10. He dismissed the school with a gesture.