GITARATTAN JINDAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

ROHINI DELHI-110085
CLASS : XII SUBJECT : ENGLISH
ASSIGNMENT 2
LESSON 1
THE LOST SPRING: STORIES OF STOLEN
CHILDHOOD
Answer the following questions in about 30-
40 words:-
a) What explanation does Anees Jung offer for
the children not wearing footwear?
b) How is Sahebs name a total contrast to his
very existence?
c) What does the author describe the children of
slums as partners in survival?
d) I go inside when no one is around. Where
does Saheb go? Why? Why does he go there
only when on one is around?
e) To be born in the caste of bangle makers has
become both a destiny and a curse. Discuss
briefly.
f) Anees Jung speaks about the coexistence of
two diverse, distinct worlds with respect to
the bangle makers. What are they?
g) The family occupation of bangle making and
poverty is the accepted order in Firozabad.
Comment with respect to Mukeshs
grandmother.
h) What could be some of the reasons for the
migration of people from villages to cities?
i) Do you think the fenced gate has a metaphor
attached to it?
j) There is something ironical about the old
woman wearing bangles? what is it?
Answer the following question in 150 words:-
Together they have imposed the baggage on
the child Elucidate.

GITARATTAN JINDAL PUBLIC SCHOOL
ROHINI DELHI-110085
CLASS : XII SUBJECT : ENGLISH
BOOK: FLAMINGO
ASSIGNMENT 1
THE LAST LESSON
A. Answer the following questions in about
30-40 words: (9x2=18 marks)
Q1. How did Saheb react to the idea of going to
school?
Q2. Bring out the irony in Saheb's name?
Q3. Why does the writer feel that it is not
tradition but poverty that children do not wear
shoes?
Q4. Why does the writer feel that the child in
Udipi was more fortunate than others?
Q5. Why had people from Bangladesh left their
own fields and come to settle in the slums in
Seemapuri?
Q6. What does the garbage mean to the slum
dwellers? What does it mean to the children?
Q7. Saheb unlike the other children of his age ,
is resigned to his fate and does not covet for
what he
thinks is beyond his means. Justify.
Q8. How is Mukesh different from Saheb?
Q9. Describe the miserable plight of the people
working at the glass furnace?
B. Answer the following questions in about
150 words: ( 10 marks each)
Q1. Describe the miserable condition of the
people at Seemapuri.
Q2. Seemapuri is a place near to the periphery
of Delhi yet miles away from it. Explain this
statement in
context of the chapter " The Last Lesson"?
Q3. Describe the poverty of living conditions of
the people in Firozabad as described by the
writer.

GITARATTAN JINDAL PUBLIC SCHOOL
ROHINI DELHI-110085
SUBJECT : ENGISH
ASSIGNMENT 3
BOOK FLAMINGO DEEP WATER
CLASS : XII MM : 30
Answer the following questions in 30-40
words: - (2*7=14 MARKS)
a) What did the writer notice when he was sitting
alone on the side of Y.M.C.A. pool?
b) What did the eighteen year old boy do to the
writer and why?
c) What did the writer remember when he came
to himself after the misadventure at the pool?
d) What did the writer finally do to get over his
fear of water?
e) When did the writer join the Y.M.C.A. pool and
why?
f) What special method did the instructor used to
teach the writer to swim?
g) What is the misadventure writer is talking
about?
Answer the following question in about 150-
200 words: - (8*2=16 MARKS)
a) Narrate briefly the writer emotions and fears
when he was thrown into the pool. What plans
did he make
to come to the surface?
b) How did the instructor build a swimmer out of
the Douglar?