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प्रश्न
Based on your understanding of the play, explain how a mistaken understanding of events can lead to confusion. How has the author used this unexpected combination of events in the situation to create humour?
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उत्तर
Author C.V. Burgess is a master craftsman. He reveals only a few names. The first patient Joe and his wife Emily are the most dominant characters. Joe is inside the surgical room. Emily is apprehensive about their husband. Among two children the dramatist uses only the girl’s name Dorothea and the Dentist hospital becomes a play area for Dorothea and the little boy who claim the same magazine for reading. The snobbish woman who goes on showing her
photo album gives us an impression if she came to see the doctor or to show her photos. The whole play revolves around the dramatic irony of patients’ guess as to what happened inside the dentists’ room and what really happened. The pliers, hack saw and the huge hammer were taken inside the dentist’s room only for opening the tool cabinet. But the patients wondered how these tools would be used in surgery. The groaning noise from inside the dentist’s rooms and the vexation of Emily Joe add to the dramatic irony. A few women patients leave the waiting room scared of subjecting themselves to the torture of having their bad teeth extracted with carpentry tools. The nurse moves about with all feigned seriousness without disclosing the fact of the misplacement of the key which adds to the comic situation
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संबंधित प्रश्न
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Fun with sounds
| pleasure | treasure | - | measure |
| wear | tear | - | - |
| stare | where | - | - |
| planned | canned | scanned | strand |
| topsy-turvy | hurly-burly | hurly-burly | curly-whirly |
Let your partner talk about or copy those sounds.
Read out the following phrases aloud. Divide them into loud and softer sounds.
- clapping hands
- a worm moving
- stamping feet
- a bud blooming
- a butterfly flying
- a feather dropping
- an ant walking
- a car moving
- the wind blowing
- ssshhhh
- whisper
- tiptoe
- a leaf falling
| Loud sounds | Softer sounds |
Read and listen to these two poems with your partner and find out what are the things that the village child and the city child like.
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The Village Child My home is a house Near a wood I'd live in a street If I could! I do wish someone Lived near. There's no one to play with At all. The trees are so high And so tall: And I should be lonely For hours, Were it not for the birds And the flowers. |
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Listening Activity
First, read the questions given below. Next, listen to an excerpt from a poem read out by your teacher or played in a recorder. Note how a child admires and praises the abilities of his/her father. Then tick the right answers from the options given.
by Edgar Albert Guest
My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run;
He tells us, children, every day
Just what should now be done?
He knows the way to fix the trusts,
He has a simple plan;
But if the furnace needs repairs,
We have to hire a man.
My father, in a day or two
Could land big thieves in jail;
There’s nothing that he cannot do,
He knows no word like “fail.”
‘Our confidence” he would restore
Of that there is no doubt;
But if there is a chair to mend,
We have to send it out.
In conversation, father can
Do many wondrous things;
He’s built upon a wiser plan
Then presidents or kings.
He knows the ins and outs of each
And every deep transaction;
We look to him for theories,
But look to ma for action
i) When the ______ needs to be repaired, they have to hire a man.
- heater
- furnace
- stove
- oven
ii) Father knows no word like______
- fail
- frail
- jail
- snail
iii) It is certain that the father would restore the _______of the family members.
- glory
- prosperity
- confidence
- happiness
iv) The father will not be able to mend a broken
- table
- bench
- chair
- stool
v) The children expect their _________ to guide them in action.
- mother
- father
- teacher
- guardian
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Some words have been left out in the poem below. First, read the poem. Then, fill in the missing words on listening to the reading or the recording of it in full. You may listen again, if required.
The Drum
John Scott (1731–83)
I hate that drum’s ______ sound,
Parading round, and round, and round:
To thoughtless ______ it pleasure yields,
And lures from cities and from fields, sell their ______ for charms
Of tawdry lace, and glittering arms;
And when______ voice commands,
To march, and fight, and fall, in______.
I hate that drum’s discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round; To me, it talks of______plains, And burning towns and ruin’d swains, And all that Misery’s hand bestows, To fill the______of human woes.
