Question

any on know the story " If i were you" ??

Answer 1

sorry l don't know this story

Answer 2

To enable the students to draw their attention to the stage setting, stage directions, description of the characters, their movements, gestures and tonal variations.
To enable the learners to understand some examples of wit and irony.
To enable the children to learn and locate the right meanings of new words and phrases from the dictionary.
To enable the students to enact the play in the class-room.
The intruder entered the house of a playwright. He only knew him as Gerrard.
He had heard about him a few things
The intruder was a criminal.
He decided to kill Gerrard and live himself as Gerrard. So he broke into the cottage of Gerrard one day.
The intruder threatened Gerrard with his revolver.
He asked him to answer his questions. Then he told him that he intended to kill him and then live in his house as Gerrard
He told the intruder that he was also a criminal and a murderer. In case, he killed gerrard he was sure to be hanged.
They would hang him if not as himself then as Gerrard.
Gerrard asked him to hurry and ran with him in his car to a safer place.
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Q. What has the intruder heard about Gerrard?
A. The intruder only knows gerrard by his name. he does not know that he is a playwright. Also he is the owner of the house.he only knows that he lives in the wilds of Essex. Also he is a kind of mysteryman. Not many people know abot him
Q. Who is the intruder and what kind of man he is?
A. The intruder is a criminal. Also he has killed a policeman. The police is chasing him. He wants to live as Gerrard after killing him.
Q. How does the intruder threaten Gerrard ?
A. The intruder threatens Gerrard that he would soon stop being smart. He would make gerrard crawl. He wants to know a few things.
Q. Why does the intruder want to kill gerrard? How does Gerrard befool the intruder with his false story?
A. Gerrard tells the intruder that one of his men had been caught. The things which should have been burnt have been found. So, due to that he expected trouble that night. That’s why, he wanted to clear off at the earliest.
Q. “At last a sympathetic audience.”
(i) Who says this?
A. Gerrard says this.
(ii) Why does he say it?
A. He says it because the intruder shows some sympathy towards him.
(iii) Is he sarcastic or serious?
Ans : He is sarcastic.
Q. Why does the intruder choose Gerrard as the man whose identity he wants
to take on?
A. The intruder chooses Gerrard because he finds him closely similar to him. If he wears clothes like Gerrard does, no one knows that they are two persons.
Q. “I said it with bullets.”
(i) Who says this?
A. Gerrard says this.
(ii) What does it mean?
A. He is very dangerous person.
(iii) Is it the truth? What is the speaker’s reason for saying this?
A. It is not the truth. He says so to make the intruder change his mind.
Q. What is Gerrard’s profession? Quote the parts of the play that support your
answer.
A. Gerrard is a playwright by profession. The supporting words are, : “sorry I can’t let you have the props in time for rehearsal……..’
Q. “You’ll soon stop being smart.”
(i) Who says this?
A. The intruder says this.
(ii) Why does the speaker say it?
A. The speaker says it because Gerrard hasn’t frlt any fear so far though he has a gun in his hand.
(iii) What according to the speaker will stop Gerrard from being smart?
A. Gerrard would stop being smart after being hit by one of his bullets.
Q. “They can’t hang me twice.”
(i) Who says this?
A. The intruder says this.
(ii) Why does the speaker say it?
A. Because he has already committed a murder. The penalty of death can’t be given to him twice.
7. “A mystery I propose to explain.” What is the mystery the speaker proposes to explain?
A. Gerrard says this. The mystery is about Gerrard’s telephoning his orders. Then he would be suddenly disappearing, but again coming back. The intruder wants to do very things like Gerrard does.
8. “This is your big surprise.”
(i) Where has this been said in the play?
A. This has been said in the play when Gerrard tells the intruder not to shoot him. If he shoots him he’d hang if not as himself then as V.C.Gerrard.
(ii) What is the surprise?
A. The big surprise is that the intruder won’t kill him. Gerrard is right in saying this.
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