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Question 1.
Do you keep a diary? Given
below under A are some terms we use to describe a written record of personal
experience. Can you match them with their descriptions under ‘B’?
(You may look up the terms in a dictionary if you wish.)
| A | B | |
| (i) | Journal | A book with a separate space or page for each day, in which you write down your thoughts and feelings or what has happened on that day |
| (ii) | Diary | A full record of a journey, a period of time or an event, written every day |
| (iii) | Log | A record of a person’s own life and experiences (usually, a famous person) |
| (iv) | Memoir(s) | A written record of events with times and dates, usually official |
Answer:
| A | B | |
| (i) | Journal | A full record of a journey, a period of time or an event, written every day |
| (ii) | Diary | A book with a separate space or page for each day, in which you write down your thoughts and feelings or what has happened on that day |
| (iii) | Log | A written record of events with times and dates, usually official |
| (iv) | Memoir(s) | A record of person’s own life and experiences (usually, a famous person) |
Question 2.
Here are some entries from
personal records. Use the definitions above to decide which of the entries
might be from a diary, a journal, a log or a memoir.
1. I woke up very late today and promptly got a scolding from Mum! I can’t
help it — how can I miss the FIFA World Cup matches?
2. 10:30 a.m. Went to the office of the Director 01:00 p.m. Had lunch with
Chairman 05:45 p.m. Received Rahul at the airport 09 : 30 p.m. Dinner at
home
3. The ride to Ooty was uneventful.
We rested for a while every 50 km or so and used the time to capture the
magnificent landscape with my HandyCam From Ooty we went on to Bangalore. What
a contrast! The noise and pollution of this once-beautiful city really broke
my heart.
4. This is how Raj Kapoor found
me – all wet and ragged outside RK Studios. He was then looking for just
someone like this for a small role in ‘Mera Naam Joker and he cast me on the
spot. The rest, as they say, is history.
Answers:
(1) Diary
(2) Log
(3) Journal
(4) Memoir
Oral Comprehension Check
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Question 3.
What makes writing in a diary
a strange experience for Anne Frank?
Answer:
Writing in a diary was a
strange experience for Anne Frank as she never had a diary and it was a gift
on her 13th birthday. She considered it her best friend on which she relied
the most and with whom she shared all her ups and downs.
Question 4.
Why does Anne want to keep a
diary?
Answer:
Anne always feels lonely and distressed so to get off all the burden and
pain she wants to keep a diary in which she finds a true friend as she has
hardly any friends whom she could confide in.
Question 5.
Why did Anne think she could
confide more in her diary than in people.
Answer:
Anne felt that paper had more
patience than people to listen to her plight. So, it was easier for her to
write all kind of thoughts which she had in her mind. Her personal diary was
not meant for any one else to read.
Question 6.
Why does Anne provide a brief
sketch of her life?
Answer:
By providing the brief sketch of her life, Anne wants to give an overview of
her family, relatives and her age. This helps the reader to develop a
connection with the author.
Question 7.
What tells you that Anne
loved her grandmother?
Answer:
Anne lived with her grandmother for sometime while her parents setded down
in Holland. She was very close to her Grandmother. She writes in her diary .
“No one knows how often I think of her and still love her”. On her 13th
birthday by lightening up one candle for Grandmother she shows her love for
her.
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Question 8.
Why was Mr Keesing annoyed
with Anne? What did he ask her to do?
Answer:
Mr Keesing was annoyed with
Anne because she was very talkative. He punished her by giving her extra
homework to write essays to keep her silent and the topics always related to
her nature.
Question 9.
How did Anne justify her
being a chatterbox in her essay?
Answer:
Anne justified her being a
chatterbox in her essay by explaining that it is due to her mother who was
also very talkative and nobody could do anything about their inherited traits.
Question 10.
Do you think Mr Keesing was
a strict teacher?
Answer:
No, Mr Keesing was not a bad or strict teacher because a teacher did
something for the welfare of his students. Any teacher would be annoyed if
children keep on talking in the class. Secondly, if he had been strict he
would not have laughed at Anne’s funny arguments.
Question 11.
What made Mr Keesing allow
Anne to talk in class?
Answer:
Anne’s last essay in the form of a poem showed Mr Keesing the lighter side
of a naughty child. It helped bridge the generation gap between the teacher
and the student.
Thinking about the Text
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54)
Question 1.
Was Anne right when she Said
that the world would not be interested in the musings of a 13 year old
girl?
Answer:
Yes, Anne was right when she said so because most of the people don’t want
to give importance to a child’s perspective toward the world because they are
too immature for the world. But Anne Frank has become one of the most
discussed of all holocaust victims. Her ‘diary’ has been translated into many
language
Question 2.
There are some examples of
diary or journal entries in the ‘Before You Read’ section. Compare these with
what Anne writes in her diary. What language was the diary originally written
in? In what way is Anne’s diary different?
Answer:
Anne’s diary was entirely
different from most of the examples given before the text. It was somewhere
closer to the memoir in which the name of Raj Kapoor has been mentioned. It
was originally written in Dutch. It has informal tone which exudes the careful
nature of a teenager.
Question 3.
Why does Anne need to give a
brief sketch about her family? Does she treat ‘Kitty’ as an insider or an
outsider?
Answer:
Anne gave an introduction of her family in the ‘diary’ because it was hard
to make other realise that a 13 years old teenager could write about her
loneliness. Kitty was an ‘outsider’ which was gifted by her parents on her
13th birthday but she considered it her best friend and treated it as an
insider.
Question 4.
How does Anne feel about her
father, her grandmother, Mrs Kuperus and Mr Keesing? What do these tell you
about her?
Answer:
Anne has fond of memories of her father, grandmother, Mrs Kuperus and Mr
Keesing, who have left indelible impressions on her mind and affected her life
a lot. The way she represents all of them in her diary reveals that Anne was
very good at understanding people and at developing interpersonal relations.
Question 5.
What does Anne write in her
first essay?
Answer:
Mr Keesing asked her to write an essay on the topic ‘A Chatterbox’ as
punishment. In the essay : she accepted the drawbacks of being talkative but
argued that it was in her genes as her mother was also very talkative. It was
difficult to give up the habit and it was also a student’s trait. Even Mr
Keesing laughed at the argument she had given.
Question 6.
Anne says teachers are most
unpredictable. Is Mr Keesing unpredictable?
Answer:
Anne took perfect example of Mr
Keesing as an unpredictable teacher because Mr Keesing seemed to be
indifferent towards Annes’ behaviour. Earlier he laughed but later he allowed
Anne to talk in the class post reading her essays.
Question 7.
What do these statements tell
you about Anne Frank as a person?
1. We
don’t seem to be able to get any closer and that’s the problem. Maybe it’s my
fault that we don’t confide in each other.
2. I don’t want, to jcft; down the facts in this diary the way most people
would, but I want the diary to be my friend.
3. Margot went to Holland in December and I followed in February, when I was
plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot.
4. If you ask me, there are so many dummies that about a quarter of the
class should be kept back, but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures
on Earth.
5. Anyone could ramble on and
leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with
convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking.
Answers:
1.A. Anne is reserved.
2.A. She is self-confident and inventive.
3.A. She is humorous as well.
4.A. Anne
is intelligent.
5.A. She has a sense of
propriety and convincing attitude.
Thinking about Language
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Question 1.
Match the compound words
under A with their meanings under ‘B’. Use each in a sentence.
| S.No. | A | B | |
| 1. | Heart-breaking | (a) | Obeying and respecting the law |
| 2. | Homesick | (b) | Think about pleasant things, forgetting about the present |
| 3. | Blockhead | (c) | Something produced by a person, machine or organisation |
| 4. | Law-abiding | (d) | Producing great sadness |
| 5. | Overdo | (e) | An occasion when vehicles/machines stop working |
| 6. | Daydream | (f) | An informal word which means a very stupid person |
| 7. | Breakdown | (g) | Missing home and family very much |
| 8. | Output | (h) | Do something to an excessive degree |
Answers:
1. (d),
2. (g),
3. (f),
4. (a),
5. (h),
6. (b),
7. (e),
8. (c).
Question 2.
Now find the sentences in the
lesson that have the phrasal verbs given below. Match them with their
meanings. (You have already found out the meanings for some of them.) Are
their meanings the same as that of their parts? (Note that two parts of a
phrasal verb may occur separated in the text.)
| 1. | Plunge in | (a) | Speak or write without focus |
| 2. | Kept back | (b) | Stay indoors |
| 3. | Move up | (c) | Make (them) remain quiet |
| 4. | Ramble on | (d) | Have a good relationship with |
| 5. | Get along with | (e) | Give an assignment (homework) to a person in authority (the teacher) |
| 6. | Calm down | (f) | Compensate |
| 7. | Stay in | (g) | Go straight to the topic |
| 8. | Make up for | (h) | Go to the next grade |
| 9. | Hand in | (i) | Not promoted |
Answers:
1. (g),
2. (b),
3. (h),
4. (a),
5. (d),
6. (c),
7. (b),
8. (f),
9. (e).
Question 3(a).
Here are a few sentences
from the text which have idiomatic expressions. Can you say what each means?
(You might want to consult a dictionary first.)
1. Our entire class is quacking in its boots.
2. Until then, we keep telling each other not to lose heart.
3. Mr Keesing annoyed with me for ages because I talked so much.
4. Mr Keesing was trying to play a joke on me with this ridiculous subject,
but I’d make sure the joke was on him.
Answers:
1. Shaking with fear and
nervous.
2. Not to think about negative
side, but hope for the best.
3. For quite
a long time.
4. Joke would be on him
only.
Question 3(b).
Here are a few more
idiomatic expressions that occur in the text. Try to use them in sentences of
your own.
1. Caught my eye
2. He’d had enough
3. Laugh ourselves
silly
4. Can’t bring myself to
5. Break somebody’s heart
6. Close/Dear
to heart
7. From the (bottom of your)
heart
8. Have a heart
9. Have a heart of stone
10. Your heart
goes out to somebody .
Answer:
1. Caught my eye While I was in
the market, a beautiful purse had caught my eye.
2. He’d had enough The teacher said that they’d had enough and he wanted all
the notebooks by Wednesday.
3. Laugh
ourselves silly He laughed ourselves silly on his stupid jokes.
4. Can’t bring myself I can’t bring myself to terms with this tragedy.
5. Break somebody’s heart It is not a good habit to break somebody’s
heart.
6. Close to heart I am very close
to my father’s heart.
7. From the
(bottom! of your) heart I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being my
mentor.
8. Have a heart I request you to
have a heart and look again at my application.
9. Have a heart of stone It is said that people like Hitler have a heart of
stone.
10. Your heart goes out to
somebody As I looked at shabbily dressed up children, my heart went out to
them.