NOTES PREPARED BY
ASHAQ HUSSAIN BHAT
TEACHER SCHOOL
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
JAMMU AND KASHMIR
A Different Kind Of School
TEXT-BASED EXERCISES
WORKING WITH THE TEXT
A. Put these sentences from the story in the right order and write them out in a paragraph. (Don't refer to the text. Check your memory).
B. Answer the following questions :
Q. 1. Why do you think the writer visited Miss Beam's school?
Q. 2. What was the 'game' that every child in the school had to play?
Ans. Every child in the school had one blind day, one lame day, one deaf day, one injured day and one dumb day. This was the game that experience of these misfortunes. every child in the school had to play. This enabled the children to have experience of the miseries which these persons face in life .
Q. 3. "Each term every child has one blind day, one lame day..." Complete the line.? Which day was the hardest? Why was it the hardest?
Ans. Each term every child has one blind day, one lame day, one deaf day, one injured day and one dumb day. The blind day was the hardest. It was so because the child's eyes were covered with a bandage and he could not see anything. The child felt that he was going to be hit by something every moment.
Q. 4. What was the purpose of these special days ?
Ans. The purpose of these special days was to make the children appreciate and understand misfortune.
LANGUAGE WORK
A. Match the words and phrases with their meanings in the box below.
1. homesick.....................
2. practically...................
3. it pains me..................
4. jolly............................
5. appreciate..................
6. thoughtless...................
7. crutch..........................
8. misfortune..................
9. ghastly......
T-shaped support for a lame person fitting under the armpit, it hurts me, test the strength of, frightful, happy, to understand the difficulties, intense feeling of returning home after being away from it, bad luck, not very caring.
Ans. 1. homesick................intense feeling of returning home after being away from it.
2. practically................... Almost or very nearly
3. it pains me....................it hurts me.
4. jolly.............................happy
5. appreciate...................to understand the difficulties.
6. thoughtless...................not very caring.
7. crutch..........................T-shaped support for a lame person fitting
8. misfortune....................bad luck
9. ghastly............................frightful
B.write these lines in order from the story:
1. I had heard a great deal about Miss Beam's school.
2. Miss Beam was all that I had expected.... middle aged, full of authority.
3. I went to the window which overlooked a large garden.
4. "We cannot bandage the children's mouths, so they really have to exercise their will power."
Ans.
1. The writer had heard a lot about Miss Beam's school.
2. The writer found Miss Beam the same as he had expected-middle aged and full of authority.
3. The author went to the window from which he could see a large garden.
4. Miss Beam told the writer that they could not bandage the children's mouths, so they were required to make use of their will-power.
C. Given below is a page from a dictionary-Look at it carefully and ;
(i) Find a word which means the same as 'ghastly'. Write down the word and its two meanings;
(ii) Find a meaning that means a part of the school year.
(iii) Find a word that means examination. term noun
1. a fixed length of time: He was made captain of the football team for a term of one year.
2. a part of the school year: There are three terms in a school year.
terms plural noun the things you are asking for. If you agree to my terms _
free meals and good wages I will work for you. terrace noun
1. a level area cut out from the side of a hill.
2. a flat area outside a house: We sat on the terrace in the evening.
3. a row of houses joined together.
terraced adjective:
a terraced house
terrible adjective
1. causing fear: We saw a terrible storm,
2. very bad: Your writing is terrible.
terribly adverb: It is terribly (=very) hot.
terrify verb
(present participle terrifying, past terrified) to fill with fear: The
animals were terrified by the storm.
terror noun (no plural)
great fear: a feeling of terror
territory noun
(plural territories)
allow other animals to enter their territory,
1. land ruled by one government: This land is British territory.
2. an area belonging to one person or animal; Wild animals will no
test 1 verb
Before he bought the car, he drove it to test it.
1. to look at something to see if it is correct or will work properly:
2. to ask someone questions: The teacher tested the children on the homework
test 2 noun
an examination : I passed my driving test today.
test tube noun small thin glass tube: We put chemicals in test tubes in our chemistry class.
text noon.
1. the words used in a book
2. a few words from a book
textbook noun: A textbook is a book we use to learn about something. than (used when we compare things, in sentences like these): My brother is older than me. Mary sings better than anyone else in the class.
to say we are grateful to someone: I thanked her for the present she sent me. Thank you for the present you sent me. No, thank you, I don't want any more tea.
thankful adjective very glad: grateful thanks plural noun word used to show that we are grateful: Thanks for helping me. It was thanks to John (= because of him) that we won the game. that
1. (plural those) the one over there; the one further away than this one: This is my bowl; that bowl is yours.
2. (plural those) (used to point out someone or something; used to mean the one known or mentioned already): Did you bring that photograph? We played football and after that (= next) we went home.
3. (used instead of who, whom)
Hints
(i) terrible-causing fear, frightening
(ii) term.
(iii) test.
2. Now make lists of
(i) all the words on the page (plus any more that you can think of) that begin with terr-
(ii) five words that may follow the last word on the page, that.
(iii) write down your own meaning of the word thank.
Then write down the meaning given in the dictionary.
Hints:
(i) terrace, terrible, territory, terror.
(ii) thatch, thaw, the, theatre, thee.
(iii) to express gratitude to; to say we are grateful to someone.
D.A. Poem for you to read
All but Blind*
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.
All but blind
In the evening sky
The hooded Bat
Twirls softly by.
All but blind
In the burning day
The Barn Owl blunders'
On her way
And blind as are
These three to me,
So, blind to someone
I must be.
GRAMMAR WORK
I. Study the underlined words in the following sentences :
"Gradually I discovered that I was ten times more thoughtful than I ever thought I could be. It's perfectly ghastly not to see. These two words tell us 'how' things are being talked of. Such words are called adverbs of manner. We usually form an adverb of manner by adding-ly to the adjective:
ADJECTIVE
careful
absolute
serious
brave
easy
Angry
Ans;-carefully , absolutely , seriously , bravely ,(Here y changes to i before ly): easily , angrily ,
ADVERB
carefully , absolutely , seriously , bravely , easily , angrily , angry
Adverbs of manner usually come after the verb:
* Do you always work so neatly?
* We walked slowly towards the school building.
Now, cross out the wrong words in the following sentences :
i. All the children in Miss Beam's school took the games serious / seriously.
ii. The bandaged girl walked careful / carefully to avoid hitting a thing.
iii. Miss Beam bandaged the girl complete/ completely.
iv. The visitor felt unhappy / unhappily after leaving the school.
v. Miss Beam expected her children to arrive punctual / punctually.
Ans. i. Seriously ii. Carefully iii. Completely iv. Unhappily v. Punctually.
II. Study this expression from the passage :
What is the girl wearing? My friend asked.
You know is/am/ are + verb + ing is used to form present continuous
tense. In making questions in present continuous tense, we use either
is / am/ are in the beginning of the sentence or wh-word before is/am/
are in the beginning of the sentence or a wh-word before is /am/ are:
'Is he feeling well ?"Yes, he's fine.'
'Are you/they/ we shifting to a new building ? 'No, you/they / we aren't.
*Am I wasting your time ?" No, It's okay.
Who' is knocking at the door?
What is Tashi doing in the classroom ?
Now, complete the following questions by using is/am/ are or a wh- words:
Ans.
(i) 'Is Majid writing a letter to his father?" No, he isn't.
(ii) 'Where are you going this morning ? To my sister's house."
(iii) 'Are your friends coming to the picnic ?' 'only one.'
(iv) 'Is Tashi visiting Leh again ?' 'I think so ?"
(v) Is he planning to go by bus or by air ? 'I believe, by air."
LET'S TALK
A. Make a short list of things you find difficult to do. For example
(i) running a marathon race
(ii) running as fast as a speeding car
(iii) climbing a multi-storey building without a lift
(iv) carrying a heavy weight of one or two quintals
You can write as many things as you think of. This is not an exam-oriented exercise. This is meant for practice in the classroom.
B. Look at your hands carefully. Now, write down for each finger one action for which that finger is particularly important. For example, the second (or index) finger helps to hold the knife down firmly when cutting.
Forefinger. It is the finger next to the thumb. It is also known as index finger. Some call it the accusing finger. It is used for pointing to something or some person.
Ring Finger. It is the finger next to the little finger. In many western cultures, people often wear a ring on their ring finger to show that they are married or are planning to get married.
Little Finger. It is the smallest finger on each hand.
LET'S WRITE
The following sentences make up a complete story, but they are jumbled.
Rearrange them to form a meaningful story.
(i) The crow drank the water.
(ii) He hit upon a plan.
(iii) He flew here and there in search of water.
(iv) He tried to reach the water but failed.
(v) He collected pebbles in his beak and dropped them one by one in the pot.
(vi) Once upon a time, there was a crow who was very thirsty.
(vii) He saw a pot in a garden that contained very little water.
(viii) The water level rose up, and he drank it and quenched his thirst.
Write a short paragraph of 100 words on your classroom.
For answer read the composition section at the end.
Write a short paragraph of about 80 words on (i) Your favourite teacher, (ii) Your grandmother, (iii) Your School.
Ans. This question is for self-attempt.
DO IT YOURSELF
Collect photographs of two famous personalities (for example, Mother Teresa), one man and one woman, who have done something for the s suffering people. Paste them on a sheet of paper and under each photograph E write a brief biographical note. Hang the sheet on your classroom wall.
Ans. This is an activity for home-work. It is not an exam-oriented question.
Different Kind Of School
JK BOSE NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English A
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