ICSE & ISC English Made Easy

India's Heroes Extract I. “ Wonderful” Mrs Baruah said……a person and wish to emulate.” (i)              Who is Mrs Baruah? Give her full name. Why does she exclaim ‘Wonderful’?  Mrs. Baruah is a teacher, teaching the students of Class Eight. Her full name is Mrs. Reeta Baruah. She exclaims ‘wonderful’ when, in response to her question about the number of students who have completed their assignment, all the forty students raise their hand in affirmation. (ii) What assignment did Mrs. Baruah give and to whom? What is the strength of the class? How do we know that the children had done the assignment? Mrs. Baruah gave an assignment to the students of Class Eight to write what they would like to be when they grew up. There were forty students in the class. All the forty student raised their hands in affirmation when Mrs. Baruah asked them if they had completed their assignment. (ii)    ...

The Professor Extract I By God’s grace……..family must have black sheep. (i) What does the speaker mean by saying ‘all my children are well settled in life”? The speaker wants to say that all his children, i.e., his sons are economically well off and his two daughters are happily married. (ii) What does the speaker want to convey when he says, “ Both have cars?” What does it convey about the Indian society? By saying, “Both have cars”, the speaker wants to convey that both his sons are well off and have a status in society. It conveys that in Indian society the worth of an individual is measured more by his financial status than anything else. (iii) Who is the ‘Other’ referred to in the above lines? Why does the speaker  say that he is not  doing ‘so well’? The “other” is a reference for the speaker’s third son. The speaker says that he is not doing “so well” because in comparison to his other two sons, who have managerial jobs and are economically ...

Princess September Extract I He cried bitterly.......ever had. 1.     What did the King say, which made him cry bitterly in the company of the queen? What do you find strange in the way he treated the queen? Why was the queen uneasy? He said that after the birth of their twelfth daughter, he would have her head cut off. The king is rather a mysterious character. While on the one hand, he is extremely fond of  the queen, on the other hand, he decides to cut off the queen’s  head after the birth of his twelfth  daughter, for he thinks that twelve daughters are enough for any man. The queen would be uneasy more because the king would be distressed to have her executed. 2.     How many daughters did the king and queen have ? Why were they named after the months of the year? How were the king’s daughters named earlier? They had nine daughters. First, the king had two daughters, so they were named Night and Day. When they...