Lesson plan: English Class: XII

Cycle I Dates: 1April-15April2019

Topics:

1. The Last Lesson

2. Lost Spring
3. My mother at Sixty Six.
4. The Third Level
5. Classified advertisements- Situation Vacant/Wanted, Sale & Purchase, To Let &
Accommodation Wanted
QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE

Short Answer Questions.

1. Why was Franz unwilling to go to school?

2. Why didn’t M. Hamel punish Franz, even though he was late?
3. Mention the three changes that Franz noticed in the school?
4. What announcement did M. Hamel make and what was its impact?
5. What do you think was written on the bulletin board?
6. Why did M. Hamel say about knowing one’s language is a key to prison?
7. Whom did Mr. Hamel blame for not learning the French?
8. What changes have taken place in the school in the last forty years?
9. What did he mean by “Viva La France”?
10. Do you think that the story touches upon the brutalities of war?
Explain 11.How does Hamel arouse patriotism in the people off
Alsace?
12. What does Franz mean when he asks: “ Will they make them sing in
German, even the pigeons”
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS 125 -150 words.

1.Write a note on the character of M. Hamel as a teacher?

2.Do you think the story touches upon the brutalities of war? Comment.
3.What thunderbolt did the narrator receive on reaching the school? How was it
affect him ?
4. At the end of the last lesson M. Hamel wrote, ‘Viva La France’ on the board in
bold letters. Why do you think he wrote that and how did he expect the people of
Alsace – Lorraine to keep their identity intact?
5. What were Franz’ feelings about M Hamel and his French lessons? How did
they undergo a complete change?
Value Based Question: Answer the following in about 100 words. 5

M Hamel ‘The Last Lesson’ talks to the people of Alsace about the necessity of
their mother tongue- French: “ …. We must guard it among us and never forget it
because when a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is
as if they had the key to their prison”.

‘Mother tongue is the language of one’s thoughts and ideas. Rejecting one’s mother
tongue is denying one’s own culture and identity.’ Do you think so? Write your
reflections on the above statement in the form of an article to be published in your
school magazine , encouraging your friends to the need for learning and protecting
their mother tongue.

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE

a. What does the title of the story ‘Lost Spring ’ imply?

b. Where has Saheb come from and why?
c. How is Saheb’s name full of irony ?
d.“Promises made to poor children are never kept. “Explain with examples from the
lesson.
e. Mention the hazards of working in the bangle industry.
f. Do you think Mukesh will realize his dream of becoming a car mechanic?
g. ‘His dreams loom like a mirage’. Whose dreams are being referred to and
why are they compared to a mirage?
h. ‘Together they have imposed the baggage on the child that he cannot put
down.’ Who do ‘they’ refer to? What is the ‘baggage’ and why can the child
not get rid of it?
i. How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?
j. Why does the author describe children of slums as partners in survival?
k. How has being born in the caste of bangle makers become both a
destiny and a curse?
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Like all children of his age, Saheb also had many hopes and dreams. Do you
think children like Saheb are able to fulfill their dreams?
2. Politicians exploit all people and situations to their own benefit. Comment,
keeping in view the situation of refugees in Seemapuri.
3. Saheb wants to blossom and bloom but is nipped in the bud. Elaborate.
4. ‘Saheb and Mukesh are brothers in penury and suffering.’ Discuss.

6. Answer the following in about 100 words. (5marks)

 Mukesh says “ I will be a motor mechanic. I will learn to drive a car.”
Not only setting a goal, but having a clear idea about the means to reach the
goal and pursuing it with strong determination and commitment are essential
to achieve success. Based on this realization , write an email to your younger
brother , a boarding school student, making him aware of the need for setting
realistic goal and planning ways to reach it with strong determination and
commitment.
My Mother at Sixty -Six {RTC Questions (1 MARK)}

1.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: (Delhi 2009)
…….and felt that old familiar ache, my childhood’s fear, but all I said was, see you soon,
Amma, all I did was smile and smile and smile …

1. What was the childhood fear that now troubled the poet?
2. What do the poet’s parting words suggest?
3. Why did the poet smile and smile?

2.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follows: (Delhi 2011)
…but soon
put that thought away and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, …

1. Which thought did the poet put away?

2. What do the ‘sprinting trees’ signify?
3. What are ‘the merry children spilling out of their homes’, symbolic of?

3.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: (All India 2016)
……..I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with
pain…….

1. Who is ‘I’?
2. What did ‘I’ realise with pain?
3. Why was the realisation painful?
4. Identify and name the figure of speech used in these lines.
 Important Questions ( 2 marks)

Q. How many levels are there in the Grand Central Station? How did Charley reach the third
level of the Grand Central Station?

Q. What is the role of the stamp – collection in the story?

Q. How did Charley ascertain that he had reached the 1894 world?

Q. Why did Charley run away from the third level?

Q. What was Sam’s answer to Charley’s dilemma?

Q. Why was Charley not able to get to Galesburg?

Q. How did Sam reach Galesburg? How did he settle down there?

Q. How did Sam’s mail reach Charley?

Important Questions (5 marks )

Q. What was Charley’s strange experience at the Grand Central Station?

Q. Do you think Charley was really a worried man as his psychiatrist friend and others believed?

Q. Discuss the significance of the title “The Third Level”

Classified advertisement ( Practice Questions)

1. You are Ran/Rajani. Draft a classified advertisement, in not more than 50 words, to be
published in India Times for the sale of a used motor car giving all the necessary details.
You can be contacted at 12345679 , Rajouri Garden , Delhi. (Comptt. Delhi 2014)

2. You are Ran/Rajani. Draft a classified advertisement, in not more than 50 words, for the
purchase of a house, giving all necessary details of your requirement. You can be
contacted at 45678900. (Comptt. All India 2014)
3. You are Vikrain/Sonia, an electronics engineer who has recently returned from the U.S.
and are looking for a suitable job in the IT industry. Draft an advertisement in about 50
words for publication in a national daily.
4. You Vikrant/Sonia, an Hons graduate in History with specialization in Medieval India.
You are well acquainted with places of historical interest in Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. You
are looking for the job of tourist guide. Write an advertisement in about 50 words for the
situations wanted column of a local newspaper. Your contact no. 999751234. (Delhi
2014)
5. You want to sell your car. Write an advertisement for the ‘sale and purchase ‘ column of
a local newspaper giving all relevant details. Write the advertisement in about 50 words.
 Invent necessary details.
6. 3 BHK Flat available on rent in Dwarka, Write an advertisement, as Sanjay Gupta,
offering Do not exceed 50 words. Contact: xxxxxx (Comptt. All India 2014)
7. Situation Wanted Qualified civil engineer recently returned from UAE seeks suitable job
in India. Done Civil Engineering from Jamia Milia University. Fifteen years experience
of working in construction field (commercial) in reputed firms in India and UAE.
Expected remuneration—negotiable. Contact: Karan, M 114, Mall Road, (Delhi 2014)
8. You are Karan Kumar/Karuna Bajaj, a leading lawyer practising in Surat. You want to
buy an independent house at City Light Road to be used as office-cum-residence. Draft
an advertisement in about 50 words for the classified columns of a local newspaper. You
can be contacted at 45645678. (All India 2014)
9. You need to buy a flat. Draft a suitable advertisement in about 50 words to be published
in the classified columns of a local newspaper giving all the necessary details of your
requirement. You are Karan/Karuna, M 114, Mall Road, Delhi. (Delhi 2014)
10. Principal, Sunrise Global School, Agra requires a receptionist for her school. Draft a
suitable advertisement in about 50 words to be published in the classified columns of a
national newspaper giving all the necessary details of qualifications and experience
required in the receptionist. (Delhi 2014)
11. You have cleared your IIT Entrance Exam and so want to sell off the reading material
you have with you. Write an advertisement to be placed in the ‘For Sale’ columns of a
local daily giving all details of the material you have with you in not more than 50 words.
You are Mohan/Mohini. Contact No. 9811111111. (Comptt. Delhi 2014)
12. Your school, Akash Public school, Agra needs a canteen manager. On behalf of the
Principal, write an advertisement in about 50 words to be published in the classified
columns of a local daily. Mention the educational and professional qualifications, other
qualities required in the manager, who to apply to and the last date for the receipt of
applications. (All India 2015)