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Prose Section On saying please Extract No. 04 Activities with expected answers Page no. 16/17   [ Lines, “It is ……………given me.”] Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow: A1. Rearrange :                           Following sentences are jumbled up rearrange them as per their occurrence in the extract. a) The account was settled by the narrator b) The narrator found a shilling in the corner of his pocket. c) The narrator had left home without money. d) The narrator told the conductor honestly that he did not have a penny (Correct order is ....... c),  d),  b),  a) ) It is not, therefore, with any feeling of unfriendliness to conductors as a class that I pay a tribute to a particular member of that class. I first became conscious of his existence one day when I jumped on to a bus and found that I had left home without any money in m...

Brainstorming activities: (A1) (i) Given below are some descriptions. Discuss them with your partner and find out one word for each of them. An example is given for you. (a) The scientific study of the universe and the objects in it, including stars, planets, nebulae and galaxies - Astronomy (b) The study of the movements of the planets, Sun, Moon, and Stars in the belief that these movements can have an influence on people's lives - Astrology or (Cosmology or Astrophysics) (c) A prediction of what will happen in the future. - Prophet or Foreteller or Oracle (d) Scientific discipline that studies mental states and processes and behaviour in humans and other animals. - Psychology (ii) In the story we are told that the Town Hall Park was a remarkable place in many ways for an astrologer to build his business. Discuss it in a group and list the exceptional qualities of the place. a) A surging crowd    b) A variety of trades and occupations. c) An auct...

Prose section Unit 1.2 On saying please Extract No. 03 Activities with expected answers Page no. 15/16   [ Lines, “ But Though ……………service”] Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow: A1. True or False :                     State whether the following statements are True or False. a) Being civil is utmost important. (T) b) We should acknowledge a service.  (T) c) Commands can be used in day to day life to deal with people.  (F) d) Courtesies help the machine of life to run sweetly.  (T) But though we are bound to endorse the verdict against the lift-man most people will have certain sympathy with him. While it is true that there is no law that compels us to say ‘Please’, there is a social practice much older and much more sacred than any law which enjoins us to be civil. And the first requirement of civility is that we should acknowledge a service....

Prose section On Saying Please Extract No 02 Activities with Expected answers Page no. 15   [ Lines, “This does not………..moods and manners”] Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow: A1. True or False :                 i) It is more painful if someone hurts our self-respect. (T) ii) Bad manners can cause much damage which irreparable. (T) iii) Law can control our private manners. (F) iv) Court could control our social manners and moods. (F) This does not mean that the damages are negligible. It is probable that the lift-man was much more acutely hurt by what he regarded as a slur upon his social standing than he would have been if he had a kick on the shins, for which he could have got a legal redress. The pain of a kick on the shins soon passes away but the pain of a wound to our self-respect or our vanity may poison a whole day. I can imagine that lift-man, denied the r...

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Prose section Unit 1.2  On Saying please Activities with Expected answers ExtractNo. 01 Page no 14/15   [ Lines, “The Young………..these matters”] Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow : A1. True or False :                 State whether the following statements are true or false. i) The passenger was thrown out of lift for being impolite. (T) ii) The law can compel us to say ha” please” (F) iii) If we were given the liberty to box people’s ears there would be violence.(T) iv) Bitter problems in a day-to-day life can be solved by sweet words.(T) The young lift-man in a City office who threw a passenger out of his lift the other morning and was fined for the offence was undoubtedly in the wrong.  It was a question of ‘Please’. The complainant entering the lift,  said, ‘Top’. The lift-man demanded ‘Top-please’ and this concession being refused he not only decl...

Prose section Astrologrer's Day Unit 1.1 Extract No. 06 Activities with expected answers Page no 6 /7  [ Lines,” why  should………..on the pyol”] Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follows: A1. True or False :                 State whether the following statements are True or false. i) The astrologer ran away from his home because he made an attempt to kill a man(T) ii) The astrologer’s wife was well aware of the fact that her husband had tried to kill a man.(F) iii) The astrologer was relived from the burden on his head.(T) iv) The man whom the astrologer tried to kill was dead in reality.(F) “Why should I leave home again?” the other said reflectively. “I was only going away now and then To look  for him and to choke out his life if I met him.” He shook his head regretfully. “He has escaped  my hands. I hope at least he died as he deserved.”  Yes,” sai...