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                     Class 11                     Chepter 1             The Portrait of a Lady Long Questions Question 1 Describe the friendship between Khushwant Singh and his grandmother?  Answer Khushwant Singh's grandmother was closely involved in bringing him up when the author lived with her in the village during his early life. She used to wake him up early in the morning. While bathing and dressing him, she sang her prayers.She hoped that the author would learn it by heart. She then gave him breakfast stale chapati with butter and sugar. Then they would go together to the temple school.While the author learnt his lesson.The grandmother would read holy books.A turning point came in their friendship when his parents called them to the city.Although they shared a room, she could not help him much. She hated music, Science and Western educ...

                    Class 11                     Chepter 1             The Portrait of a Lady Short questions Question 1 How did the narrator’s grandfather appear in the potrait? Answer -  The narrator's grandfather looked very old. He had a long white beard. His clothes were loose fitting. He wore a big turban. He did not look the sort of person who would have a wife or children. He looked at least a hundred years old. Question 2 Describe 'the happiest half-hour of the day' for the grandmother.  Answer. The grandmother would sit in the verandah breaking the bread into little bits for the sparrows.Hundreds of sparrows would gather around her.  They would perch on her lep, shoulders and even on the head. Feeding the sparrows was the happiest half hour of the day for the grandmother.  Question 3 How did the narrator and the grandmothe...

 Appreciating the Text II.  Long Answer Type Questions  1. When do we come to know about the girl for the first time? Describe her, and say where was she oin and for what ?   Ans. We come to know about her for the first time when she was on the underground train platform,  She was a slight little girl. Though she was seventeen years of age, she looked much and  She was nervous yet she was excited. She could feel the vibrations of the approaching train. She was going to the Prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London. It was her first day there.  2.Who Spotted her (Evelyn's) potential? What did he to help her'?   Ans. Seeing a girl playing a xylophone, Evelyn got interested in it, and decided to be a percussionist. But most of her teachers discouraged her. It was Ron Forbes the percussionist, who spotted her potential. To help, he took two large drums to different notes, and advised her to feel them through various parts of her body and ...

The students will be asked to attempt a long piece of composition of minimum 100-120 words in length. The composition will be in the form of an article. The students may be provided with a verbal or visual input. They can take help from the given input, information or notes and can expand them in their own language to 100-120 words. Sometimes the given input can be in the form of a figure, a diagram or a cartoon. The aim of the examiner by inserting an input is only to provide clues along which the article has to be developed. The subject on which the article can be based may be burning social, cultural, economic, ethical, behavioural, religious and political issues. You may be asked to write an article on any topic under the sun. You can master in English Grammar of various classes by our articles like Tenses, Clauses, Prepositions, Story writing, Unseen Passage, Notice Writing etc. GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR ARTICLE WRITING Always study the given input, information or notes carefully. Ar...