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Unit: 4 Section 2: Return to Air Date: 09 /01/ 2021
VOCABULARY
Nagging –bothering
Duck-diving- diving nose- first
Blurred –unclear
Treading water – a stroke that keeps above water by trashing the legs and
arms.
Foul- mess up.
Halloing - shouting with delight
Glimmer – shine faintly.
Hauled – pull or drag
Strained - separated
ANTONYMS
Excited X depressed
Blurred X clear/ distinct
Nagging X encouraging
foul X righteous
haul X push
Answer the following questions.
1. What were the ponds , in the author’s village generally used for?
Ans. The ponds in the author’s village were very big, so at the one end
people bathed, and at the other end they fished.
2. Why did the author not want to dive?.
Ans. The author did not want to dive because she had to take her glasses off
to go into the water and she couldn’t see without them. She did not want to
dive without being able to see clearly.
3. What is duck-diving? How were the children taught, by the instructor, to
duck-dive?
Ans. Duck-diving is diving nose first into the water. The swimmer swims on
the surface of the water and suddenly up-ends herself/himself just like a
duck, and dives down deep into the water, swims about a bit underwater
and then comes up again. The swimming instructor taught the children to
duck-dive by throwing a brick in the water. It was a brick with a bit of old
white flannel around it, to make it show up underwater.
The children had to swim down to the bottom of the pond, pick up the
brick and bring it up again.
4. What did the swimming instructor throw in the pond? What were the
instructions?
Ans. The swimming instructor threw a brick in the pond. It was a brick
with a bit of old white flannel around it, to make it show up underwater.
The instructions were to swim down to the bottom of the pond, pick up the
brick and bring it up again.
5. How does the narrator describe the changing colour of water? Why do
you think the colour changed?
Ans. The author says, that at first the water was like a thick greenish-
brown lemonade. Further down, it became just a dark blackish brown.
The colour changed on going deeper because less sunlight reached this
depth.
6. What were the narrator’s fears?
Ans. The narrator feared that she might get lost underwater. Perhaps she
had swum underwater too far. Perhaps she would come up at the far end of
the pond, amongst all the fishermen and perhaps get a fish hook caught in
her, or perhaps she just wasn’t going to find the top and the air again. She
also feared that she was swimming up too slowly and wouldn’t reach the
surface in time.
7. How was the narrator greeted when she reached the surface?
Ans. On reaching the surface, the narrator was greeted with shouting from
the bank. The children were cheering and shouting and the instructor was
hallooing with his hands around his mouth.
8. What had she got from the bottom of the pond?
Ans : The narrator had picked up a tin from the bottom of the pond. It was
just about the size and shape of a brick. It was an old tin box with no paint
left on it, with brown-black slime from the bottom of the ponds. It was as
heavy as a brick because it was full of mud. There was nothing in it but
mud.
Explain in detail
9. The narrator was a very sporting person. How do you know?
Ans: We know that the narrator was a sporting person because she says
that she didn’t mind when others teased her by saying that she could
always swim easily because fat floats.
10. Do you think the narrator was fond of a good life? Give reasons.
Ans: Yes, the narrator was fond of a good life. We know this when the
narrator, with a sense of relief at completing the dive successfully, tells us
about all the things that might happen in her life. She says that now that
she was alive after the dive, she might live to be a hundred. A person who
wants to live to be a hundred presumably has a lot of ambitions in life and
a good life is one wherein you fulfil your ambitions.
11.The story of the narrator’s learning diving is more about her
conquering her fear. Do you agree? What were her fears? How do
you know she had conquered her fear?
Ans: Yes, the story of the narrator’s learning diving is more about her
conquering her fear.
The narrator was scared of diving since she couldn’t see without her
glasses. She was also scared that she wouldn’t be able to up end her legs for
the duck-dive or that she would get lost underwater or that she would not
be able to reach the surface back in time to catch her breath. But the
narrator overcomes her fears by giving the duck-dive a try. She reaches the
bottom of the pond and resurfaces successfully. This is how she conquers
her fear of diving.
We know that the narrator had conquered her fears because she says that
the next time she tried duck-diving, she could do it without being
frightened at all.
Explanation:
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