Unit 1 ENGLISH - Unit 1

As the years rolled by we saw less of each other. For some time she continued to wake me up and get me ready for school. When I came back she would ask me what the teacher had taught me. I would tell her English words and little things of western science and learning, the law of gravity, Archimedes' Principle. the world being round, etc. This made her unhappy. She could not help me with my lessons. She did not believe in the things they taught at the English school and was distressed that there was no teaching about God and the scriptures. One day I announced that we were being given music lessons. She was very disturbed. To her music had lewd associations. It was the monopoly of harlots and beggars and not meant for gentlefolk. She said nothing but her silence meant disapproval. She rarely talked to me after that.
Questions:
Q.1. What made the grandmother unhappy?
Q.2. What distressed the grandmother regarding her grandson's studies?
Q.3. to the grandmother music...
Q.4. The grandmother had almost stopped talking with the writer

My grandmother always went to school with me because the school was attached to the temple. The priest taught us the alphabet and the morning prayer. While the children sat in rows on either side of the verandah singing the alphabet or the prayer in a chorus, my grandmother sat inside reading the scriptures. When we had both finished, we would walk back together. This time the village dogs would meet us at the temple door. They followed us to our home growling and fighting with each other for the chapatis we threw to them.
Questions:
Q.1. What made the writer's grandmother accompany him to his school?
Q.2. The children learnt alphabets by...
Q.3. We had both finished. What does 'both stand for?
Q.4. The dogs growled and fought for...

My grandmother, like everybody's grandmother was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather's portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room He wore a big turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest and he looked at least a hundred-years-old. He did not look the sort of person who would have a wife or children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren.
Questions:
Q.1. What according to the writer, was hard to believe?
Q.2. The portrait hanging above the mantelpiece in the drawing room suggested that...
Q.3. The appearance of the writer's grandfather in the portrait revealed that...
Q.4. In the portrait, the writer's grandfather looked...

We lifted her off the bed and, as is customary laid her on the ground and covered her with a red shroud. After a few hours of mourning, we left her alone to make arrangements for her funeral. In the evening we went to her room with a crude stretcher to take her to be cremated. The sun was setting and had lit her room and verandah with a blaze of golden light. We stopped half-way in the courtyard. All over the verandah and in her room right up to where she lay dead and stiff wrapped in the red shroud, thousands of sparrows sat scattered on the floor. There was no chirruping. We felt sorry for the birds and my mother fetched some bread for them. She broke it into little crumbs, the way my grandmother used to, and threw it to them. The sparrows took no notice of the bread. When we carried my grandmother's corpse off, they flew away quietly. Next morning the sweeper swept the bread crumbs into the dustbin.Questions:
Q.1. ......... was customary.
Q.2. What was the time when the grandmother was to be taken for cremation?

As the years rolled by we saw less of each other. For some time she continued to wake me up and get me ready for school. When I came back she would ask me what the teacher had taught me. I would tell her English words and little things of western science and learning, the law of gravity, Archimedes' Principle. the world being round, etc. This made her unhappy. She could not help me with my lessons. She did not believe in the things they taught at the English school and was distressed that there was no teaching about God and the scriptures. One day I announced that we were being given music lessons. She was very disturbed. To her music had lewd associations. It was the monopoly of harlots and beggars and not meant for gentlefolk. She said nothing but her silence meant disapproval. She rarely talked to me after that.
Questions:
Q.1. What made the grandmother unhappy?
Q.2. What distressed the grandmother regarding her grandson's studies?

My grandmother always went to school with me because the school was attached to the temple. The priest taught us the alphabet and the morning prayer. While the children sat in rows on either side of the verandah singing the alphabet or the prayer in a chorus, my grandmother sat inside reading the scriptures. When we had both finished, we would walk back together. This time the village dogs would meet us at the temple door. They followed us to our home growling and fighting with each other for the chapatis we threw to them.
Questions:
Q.1. What made the writer's grandmother accompany him to his school?
Q.2. The children learnt alphabets by...

My grandmother, like everybody's grandmother was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather's portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room He wore a big turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest and he looked at least a hundred-years-old. He did not look the sort of person who would have a wife or children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren.
Questions:
Q.1. What according to the writer, was hard to believe?
Q.2. The portrait hanging above the mantelpiece in the drawing room suggested that...

(ignored, suspect, protested,peacefully)
We ………..……….. But she ………..………… our protests. She lay …………..……….. in bed praying and telling her ( beads. Even before we could ……………….., her lips stopped moving and the rosary fell from her lifeless fingers.

(turning-point, comfortably, Although, sent for)

When my parents were ……….…… settled in the city, they .……..……. us. That was a ………..…… in our friendship. …….……. we shared the same room, my grandmother no Longer came to school with me.

(feeding, turning-point, used to, courtyard, comfortably, Although, sent for, longer)
When my parents were ……….1…… settled in the city, they .……..2……. us. That was a ………..3…… in our friendship. …….4……. we shared the same room, my grandmother no …….5…….. came to school with me. I ………6……… go to an English school in a motor bus. There were no dogs in the streets and she took to ………7……. sparrows in the ……….8 …………. of our city house.

(rosary, ignored, suspect, knew, lifeless, protested, pallor, peacefully)
We _1_. But she _2_ our protest. She lay _3__in bed praying and telling her beads. Even before we could __4_, her lips stopped moving and the _5_ fell from her _6__ fingers. A peaceful _7_ spread on her face and we __8__ that she was dead.

The way in which the sparrows expressed their sorrow when the author’s grandmother died.

The odd way in which the author’s grandmother behaved just before she died.

Three ways in which the author’s grandmother spent her days after he grew up.

Three reasons why the author’s grandmother was disturbed when he started going to the city school.

The three phases of the author’s relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad.

As the years rolled by we saw less of each other for some time she continued to wake me up and get me ready for school when I caihe back she would ask me what the teacher had taught me

No we were certain she had always been as ‘ we had known her old so terribly old that she could not have grown older and had stayed at the same age for twenty years

His job having lost, he took to drinking. (left, started, got into the habit of)

Mansi had severe chest-pain, so we sent for a doctor immediately. (called, consulted, visited)

As his end was near, he could not speak too much, (problem was serious, near death, issue came to close)

As he was suspended just for no reason, he had revolting thoughts, (wanted to take revenge, needed help, unpleasant thinking)

Since he had sprain in his left leg, he was hobbling about the room, (loitering about, limping about, shifting about)

Natalia : Pardon the interruption. You said ‘my meadows’ – but are they yours ?
Lomov : Yes, they belong to me.
Natalia : What nonsense ! The meadows belong to us not to you.

“What do you mean, Holmes?”
“Well, my dear fellow, I fear your deductions have not been so happy as I should have wished.”
“You mean that I was mistaken.”
“Just a little that way.”

“I am able to say that you were greatly preoccupied when you got up this morning,” said Watson.
“Excellent!” said Holmes. “How could you possibly know that?”
“Because you are usually a very tidy man and yet you have forgotten to shave.”

When we carried my grandmother’s corpse off, the birds flew away. (Use ‘no sooner … than’.)

In the evening we went to her room with a crude stretcher to take her to be cremated. (Use ‘cremate’ as Noun.)

She told us that her end was near. (Change into Negative.)

She did not pray. (Change into Affirmative.)

Even on the first day of my arrival, her happiest moments were with her sparrows. (Change into Positive Degree.)