Activity On Saying Please

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SECTION I – PROSE

(Reading for Comprehension, Language Study, Summary, Note-Making/Mind Mapping)

Q. 1 A. Read the extract and complete the activities given below. (Seen extract from Section No.1 consisting of 275-300 words) (12) A1) Global understanding (02)

A2) Complex factual (02)

A3) Inference/Interpretation/Analysis (02) A4) Personal response (02)

A5) Language study (02)

A6) Vocabulary (02)

Activity “On Saying Please”

Read the extract and complete the activities

given below. 12

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 relief of

throwing the author of his wound out of the lift, brooding

over the insult by the hour, and visiting his wife in the

evening as the only way of restoring his equilibrium. For

there are few things more catching than bad temper and

bad manners. When Sir Anthony Absolute bullied Captain

Absolute, the latter went out and bullied his man, Fag,

whereupon Fag went out downstairs and kicked the pageboy.

Probably the man who said “Top” to the lift-man

was really only getting back on his employer who had not

said “Good morning” to him because he himself had been

henpecked at breakfast by his wife, to whom the cook

had been insolent because the housemaid had “answered

her back”. We infect the world with our ill-humours.

Bad manners probably do more to poison the stream of

the general life than all the crimes in the calendar. For

one wife who gets a black eye from an otherwise good-natured

husband there are a hundred who live a life of

martyrdom under the shadow of a morose temper. But

all the same the law cannot become the guardian of our

private manners. No Decalogue could cover the vast area

of offences and no court could administer a law which

governed our social civilities, our speech, the tilt of our

eyebrows and all our moods and manners.

A 1 Choose (2) Choose the two appropriate statements which suggest the theme of the extract.

1) The pain of a wound to our self-respect or our vanity may poison a whole day.

2) Law can give punishment for bad manners.

3) Bad manners infect the world.

4) Court could administer a law which governed our moods and manners.

Answer:

1)=______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A2 Fill in the blanks (2)

1) Sir Anthony Absolute bullied _________,the latter went out and bullied his man,aFag,whereupon Fag went out downstairs and kicked_____________

2) Bad manners probably do more to ___________of the general life than all the_______________in the calendar.

A3. Explain

“We infect the world with our ill humours.” (2)

Do you agree with the above statement explain_

A4. Personal Response (2)

If Somebody insulted you, you became disturbed- explain

A5 Language study-

1)The pain of a kick on the shins should soon passes away but the pain of a wound to our self- respect or our vanity may poison a whole day (use – Though) (1)

Answer: –

2) No Decalogue could cover the vast area of offences.( use- be able to) (1)

Vocabulary. 2

Match the following

A B

Henpecked Extremely rude

Insolent To set right

Redress used to describe a husband who always does what h is wife tells him to do

Equilibrium Balance

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