Chapter- The best Christmas present
Answer the following question and shar
with your teacher.
1. Why did the author go to Brid port?
2. Where was the football match played?
3. Who was waving a bottle above his head?
4. What did the author explain Connie?
5. In what relation did she take the author?
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Explanation:
Comprehension Check (Page 10)
Questions:
What did the author find in a junk shop?
What did he find in a secret drawer? Who do you think had put it in there?
Answers:
The author found a roll-top desk for sale in a junk shop. It was made of oak wood, but it was in a veiy bad condition.
In the secret drawer of the desk, the author found a small tin box. It had a letter in it. I think the owner of the roll-top desk might have put it there.
Comprehension Check (Page 14)
Questions:
Who had written the letter, to whom, and when?
Why was the letter written — what was the wonderful thing that had happened?
What jobs did Hans Wolf and Jim Macpherson have when they were not soldiers?
Had Hans Wolf ever been to Dorset? Why did he say he knew it?
Do you think Jim Macpherson came back from the war? How do you know this?
Answers:
John Macpherson, a captain in the British army, had written that letter, dated Dec. 26, 1914, to his wife Connie.
The letter described a wonderful event. The two armies-the British and the German—fighting against each other celebrated Christmas together.
Before joining the army, Hans played the cello in the orchestra and Jim was a teacher.
No, Hans had never been to Dorset. He had only read about Dorset in Hardy’s novel ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’.
No, Jim Macpherson never came back home from the war. Perhaps therefore his wife Connie had preserved his letters.
Comprehension Check (Page 15)
Questions:
Why did the author go to Bridport?
How old was Mrs Macpherson now? Where was she?
Answers:
The author went to Bridport to meet Mrs Jim Macpherson and deliver to her Jim’s letter.
Macpherson was 101 years old. She was in a nursing home.
Comprehension Check (Page 16)
Questions:
Who did Connie Macpherson think her visitor was?
Which sentence in the text shows that the visitor did not try to hide his identity?
Answers:
Connie thought that the visitor was her own husband, Jim Macpherson.
That sentence is, “you told me you’d come home by Christmas, dearest,” she said, “And here you are, the best Christmas present in the world. Come closer, Jim dear, sit down.
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