Free English notes I. Open Book Test: 1. What did the poet do after writing his name? A. The poet decided to write a letter to the examiner. 2. What is the teacher doing? A. The teacher is checking the homework. II. Words to focus: 1. frightful 2. guff 3. errands 4. mower 5. chugs 6. off the cuff III. Meanings: 1. frightful = (here) used for stressing something bad 2. guff = foolish ideas or talk 3. errands = a job done for someone else that usually involves delivering or collecting something 4. mower = a machine used for cutting grass 5. chugs = to move slowly, making the sound of an engine running slowly 6. off the cuff = to speak without thinking IV. Synonyms: 1. probably - perhaps, possibly, doubtless 2. tick - beat, blow, clack V. Antonyms: 1. formally x informally 2. careful x careless 3. unemployed x employed 4. favour x disfavour VI. Frame sentences: 1. watch 2. absolute VII. Summary: Dear Mr. Examiner by Gareth Owen is a letter written by the student who is taking an exam. He confesses that he has read all the questions carefully, but he doesn’t know the answers. After writing his name and date he doesn’t know what to write, so he decides to write an informal letter to his examiner explaining what all goes on in the examination hall. Like Mandy has written ten pages, but the poet doubts it to be a frightful guff and Angela Smythe is copying answers from her cuff. Miss Quinlan is sitting and checking homework. He imagines that to the other people outside it’s just another day and he describes how housewives, grannies, unemployed people would be engaged in different things. At the end, he apologizes that the questions were fine, but he himself is to be blamed for not knowing the answers. Hence, the poet describes about an honest out pour of the emotions of a child’s nervousness, while sitting in the examination hall.
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I. Open Book Test:
1. What did the poet do after writing his name?
A. The poet decided to write a letter to the examiner.
2. What is the teacher doing?
A. The teacher is checking the homework.
II. Words to focus:
1. frightful 2. guff 3. errands
4. mower 5. chugs 6. off the cuff
III. Meanings:
1. frightful = (here) used for stressing something bad
2. guff = foolish ideas or talk
3. errands = a job done for someone else that usually involves
delivering or collecting something
4. mower = a machine used for cutting grass
5. chugs = to move slowly, making the sound of an engine
running slowly
6. off the cuff = to speak without thinking
IV. Synonyms:
1. probably - perhaps, possibly, doubtless
2. tick - beat, blow, clack
V. Antonyms:
1. formally x informally
2. careful x careless
3. unemployed x employed
4. favour x disfavour
VI. Frame sentences:
1. watch 2. absolute
VII. Summary:
Dear Mr. Examiner by Gareth Owen is a letter written by the student who is taking an exam. He confesses that he has read all the questions carefully, but he doesn’t know the answers. After writing his name and date he doesn’t know what to write, so he decides to write an informal letter to his examiner explaining what all goes on in the examination hall. Like Mandy has written ten pages, but the poet doubts it to be a frightful guff and Angela Smythe is copying answers from her cuff. Miss Quinlan is sitting and checking homework. He imagines that to the other people outside it’s just another day and he describes how housewives, grannies, unemployed people would be engaged in different things. At the end, he apologizes that the questions were fine, but he himself is to be blamed for not knowing the answers.
Hence, the poet describes about an honest outpour of the emotions of a child’s nervousness, while sitting in the examination hall.