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Question
Answer the following question briefly:
Did Private Quelch’s day to day practices take him closer towards his goal? How can you make out?
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Solution
Private Quelch’s day-to-day practices might have not won him a commission in the army but it was not the end for him. Whenever he spoke, the squad listened to him in a cowed, horrified kind of silence. Instead of being nominated for a commission, he was nominated for permanent cookhouse duties. But everybody believed that his nomination for the commission was just a matter of time.
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Write about the following memories or experiences. Share your views with the
class.
Answer the following question briefly:
Do you think Private Quelch learnt a lesson when he was chosen for cookhouse duties?
Answer the following question:
Why was it necessary to keep Harold’s father’s profession a secret from him?
The sequence of events has been jumbled up. Rearrange them and complete the given flowchart.
(1) Major Percy and Bill come to the house.
(2) Harold comes to know that his father is a boxer.
(3) Bill tells his wife that he is doing it for Harold.
(4) Jerry Fisher tries to convince Bill to reconsider.
(5) Mrs. Bramble is amazed to think that she has brought such a prodigy as Harold into the world.
(6) Harold wants to know what will happen to the money he had bet on Murphy losing.(7) Mrs. Bramble is informed that Bill had decided not to fight.
(8) Mrs. Bramble resumes work of darning the sock.
(9) Harold is alone with his mother in their home.
Answer the following questions:
What does the poet want to convey by using the words ‘steal’ and ‘slide’?
On the basis of your understanding of the poem, answer the following question
by ticking the correct choice.
The tone of the speaker in the first stanza is that of ______________.
Answer the following question briefly.
Which road does the speaker choose? Why?
Answer the following question.
"I am like earthly life … "
Why does the poet compare rain to earthly life?
On the basis of your understanding of the poem, answer the following question
by ticking the correct choice.
The seven roles that a man plays correspond to his __
You already know the two literary devices generally used by writers and poets for comparison, i.e. metaphor and simile.
e.g. a) He was a lion in the battle, (metaphor)
b) He fought like a lion, (simile)
In (a) the writer talks of the soldier in terms of a lion. The comparison is implied.
In (b) the writer compares the soldier to a lion with the use of the word like, (as may also be used for such comparisons.)
Read the poem again and note down the metaphors and similes. Complete the following chart.
| Reference | Metaphor | Simile |
| world | all the world's a stage | |
| men, women | ||
| school-boy | ||
| lover | ||
| soldier | ||
| reputation | ||
| voice |
Which comparison(s) do you find most interesting? Why?
On the basis of your reading of the poem, complete the following table.
| Stages in the life of the poet | Activities | Consequences |
| Youth | eating toffees ____________ |
____________ |
| Adulthood | ____________ | gazing at the dentist in despair. |
Complete the following paragraph about the theme of the play using the clues given in the box below. Remember that there are more clues given than required.
sell, buying, house, enthusiastic, comes, 200 thousand francs, taking, favour, get, sleeps, money, 300 thousand francs, unhappy, in-laws, walks in strikes, keep
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Present Perfect Continuous
“What have you been doing?”
Imagine what people have been doing or what are the things that have been happening.
| Ashok comes in wearing white shorts, a T-shirt and carrying a racquet. He is sweating. | ||
| I think | he has been playing | tennis |
| I imagine | badminton | |
| Perhaps | badminton | |
Look at sentences in Column A. Match them with the appropriate explanation in Column B.
| A | B |
| 1. Next Friday is the 29th of May. |
a. emphasizing that something will happen very soon |
| 2. I’ll have left by the time you get here. |
b. making a promise |
| 3. I’m visiting my uncle on Sunday. |
c. predicting that something will be true at a given time in the future |
| 4. I’ll send the photographs as soon as I can. |
d. stating something which is a certainty |
| 5. The lesson is about to start… hurry! |
e. reporting a decision made earlier |
| 6. The population of our country will increase in the next ten years. |
f. making a prediction about future events |
: Duties and Privileges
. In some schools the student - council members are assigned duties at the
beginning of every academic year.
Write a job description to be given to the newly elected Environment
Monitor of your school.
You may do this individually. Later your class as a whole can come out with one
duty list to be displayed on the soft-board. You may use the words given in the
box below.
can, may, can’t, mustn’t, must, should, have to.
In groups of four prepare a questionnaire for a pilot who has survived the Bermuda Triangle. Use the hints given below.
- Radar normal
- No disturbances
- Sudden communication failure
- Strange occurrence (use any of the theories or myths you have just read about)
Review of passives
Look back on the exercises in this Unit. Discuss why the passive is used in each of these different circumstances.
Can you think of any other times when it is best to use the passive?
Either in groups or individually, make a power-point presentation on either of the two games. Incorporate points from the table above and any other interesting information I detail.
Class discussion
• Is a biography written in a particular order of events?
• Which is the most common tense?
Work in pairs. Put one pencil on a point on the map where you live, and put another pencil on any other point. Ask your partner to tell the direction for getting to your house.
Prepositions of time
| after | at | before | between |
| by | during | for | from |
| on | past | since | throughout |
| to | towards | until | within |
