Question
A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the sentences using the information from the passage:
(1) At the end of ten years, they ______________.
(2) How little is needed for one to be ______________
(3) Mathilde played her part ______________.
(4) She came to know the ______________.
From then on, Madame Loisel knew the horrible life of the very poor. But she played her part heroically. The dreadful debt must be paid. She would pay it. They dismissed their maid; they changed their lodgings; they rented a garret under the roof.
She came to know the drudgery of housework, the odious labours of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, the dirty linen, she carried the garbage down to the street every morning, and carried up the water, stopping at each landing to catch her breath and dressed like a commoner. She had to bargain at markets, quarrel and face insults over every miserable sou.
Each month they had to pay some loans, renew others, get more time.
Her husband worked extra, every evening, doing accounts for a tradesman, and often, late into the night, he sat copying a manuscript at five sous a page.
And this life lasted ten years. At the end of ten years they had paid off everything, even the interest.
Madame Loisel looked old now. Often, she brooded over the past - What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace ? How strange life is, how fickle ! How little is needed for one to be ruined or saved !
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) How did life of Mathilde change after the horrible incident?
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Write from the passage the phrases related to 'housework'.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Change the following sentences in passive voice:
(1) They dismissed their maid.
(2) They rented a garret under the roof.
A5. Personal Response:
Write what you think about the following actions of Mathilde:
(1) Mathilde worked very very hard to pay the debt.
Complete the sentences using the information from the passage:
(1) At the end of ten years, they ______________.
(2) How little is needed for one to be ______________
(3) Mathilde played her part ______________.
(4) She came to know the ______________.
From then on, Madame Loisel knew the horrible life of the very poor. But she played her part heroically. The dreadful debt must be paid. She would pay it. They dismissed their maid; they changed their lodgings; they rented a garret under the roof.
She came to know the drudgery of housework, the odious labours of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, the dirty linen, she carried the garbage down to the street every morning, and carried up the water, stopping at each landing to catch her breath and dressed like a commoner. She had to bargain at markets, quarrel and face insults over every miserable sou.
Each month they had to pay some loans, renew others, get more time.
Her husband worked extra, every evening, doing accounts for a tradesman, and often, late into the night, he sat copying a manuscript at five sous a page.
And this life lasted ten years. At the end of ten years they had paid off everything, even the interest.
Madame Loisel looked old now. Often, she brooded over the past - What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace ? How strange life is, how fickle ! How little is needed for one to be ruined or saved !
A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) How did life of Mathilde change after the horrible incident?
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Write from the passage the phrases related to 'housework'.
A4. Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
Change the following sentences in passive voice:
(1) They dismissed their maid.
(2) They rented a garret under the roof.
A5. Personal Response:
Write what you think about the following actions of Mathilde:
(1) Mathilde worked very very hard to pay the debt.
