4. this would send my uncle rushing impetuously down to the gate ,where he would recollect that he had with him neither his bag nor his umbrella.
a. what sent the uncle rushing?
b. what happened to the bag and the umbrella?
c. what was the consequest of all this rush?
Answers
Answer:
uncle rushing came he would
Answer:
This is a story told by the narrator about a man who has set his mind on being an example of good manners and work ethic but fails miserably to do so.
Uncle Podger used to advise his children to always leave early with a quarter of an hour left but what happened everyday with him was a different story.
The railway station Was an eight minute walk away from uncle podger’s home but he always gets late as he used to rush for the station when there is five minutes left in departure of the train.This has become an suburban custom as every morning folks gather around the railway station common to watch city gentlemen running for the train, they cheered the most deserving also.Uncle podger used to get early in the morning,he feels angry when he cannot find his thing around him, most of the time it was his newspaper, his bag and his umbrella were missing, all the children of the house then went on searching those things in the various areas of the house.He blamed others for on losing his things as he said that he is surrounded by Conjurers who disappears his thing on purpose just to annoy him.
Aunt Maria used to gather all the children in the hall to so that uncle podger can give them a goodbye kiss, there’s always a child missing and the other children then go out to find him but at last the missing child would come to him itself.And if everything goes on smoothly then the eldest boy would come and say the clocks of the house are five minutes slow , this would send uncle rushing towards the station.When all the children returned to their places they find that the most important thing is left behind in the house, on which they wonder what would uncle say when he comes back to home. The moral of the story is always practice what you preach. Vocabulary
1. Suburb: an outside of a city where people live.
2. Common: a peice or open land in a town o r village for public use.
3. Spectacle: visually striking performance o n display.
4. Earnest: Showing sincerity
5. Indignation: anger about an unfair situation
6. Conscientious: willing to do one’s work or duty well and thoroughly.
7. Savagely: Violently
8. Whoop: A loud cry of joy or excitement
9. Commence: Begin
10. Chime: Melodious ringing sound
11. Conjurers: people who make something a ppear or disappear unexpectedly from/to nowhere
Questions & Answers
Extract 1
{ What he always did was to start five minutes before the time and run }
1. Who is ‘he’ in the above extract? From where is this adapted? Who is he referred to?
Ans: He is referred to as Uncle Podger h ere.
This story i s adapted from three men on the bummel.
2. What was the distance between his house and the station? What three things that all the men carry to the station?
Ans:The distance between uncle Podger’s house and the station was an ‘ eight minutes walk’
The three things carried by all the men to the station were a black bag, a newspaper in one hand and an umbrella in the other hand.
3. How did people know that he had lost something?Where Could this item mostly be found?
Ans:People knew t hat he had lost something by the expression of astonished indignation with which, on such occasions, he would regard the world in general.
● He lost his newspaper most often.
● The newspaper was mostly found from somewhere neatly folded.
4. How can you say that he did not accept his mistake?
Ans:We can say that he did not accept his mistake as he used to blame others for his fault. He did not admit that he had done any mistake.
5. Why did he think that he was surrounded by conjurers?
Ans:He thought that he was surrounded by Conjurers As when he lost something, he spoke in an astonished tone, blaming others that The thing was one minute before in his hand. From his tone, it looked as if he was living surrounded by conjurers, who spirited away things from him merely to irritate him.