PM Shri Government Senior Secondary School Khanauri ( Girls) Sangrur

 CLASS-XII  GENERAL ENGLISH   (2021-22)  Time: 3hrs Theory: 80 Marks   IA: 20 Marks   (Listening and Speaking skills based practical:18 marks   Book bank: 2 marks)   Total: 100 Marks  SYLLABUS  UNSEEN PASSAGES FOR TESTING READING SKILLS  TEXT BOOK   Section A (Lessons for Intensive study)  1. Hassan's Attendance Problem Sudha Murthy  2. The March King Katherine Little Bakeless  3. Thinking Out of the Box: Lateral Thinking (Adapted from the article   from Internet)  4. On Saying 'Please' A. G. Gardiner  5. The Story of My Life Helen Keller  6. Two Gentlemen of Verona A. J. Cronin  7. In Celebration of Being Alive Dr. Christian Barnard  8. Gadari Babas in Kalapani Jail Dr. Harish Puri  Section B (Poetry)  1. Prayer of the Woods Anonymous  2. On Friendship Khalil Gibran  3. The Echoing Green William Blake  4. Once upon a Time Gabrie...

12th   A CHAMELEON { ਕਮਿਲਿਓਨ } ਗਿਰਗਿਟ                     - ANTON CHEKHOV SHORT Q/A Q.1. Where was the police superintendent Otchumyelov walking? What was he carrying under his arm? Ans. He was walking across the market square and carrying a parcel under his arm.    Q.2. Who walking after him? Ans. A red haired policeman.    Q.3. What was the red-haired policeman carrying in his hands? Ans. A sieve (filter)  full of gooseberries.   Q.4. Who was chasing the dog? Ans. Hryukin was chasing the dog.    Q.5. Why was Hryukin chasing the dog? Ans. The dog had bitten his finger.   Q. 6. What was Hryukin wearing'? Ans. A cotton shirt and a waistcoat.    Q.7 What did Hryukin display to the crowd?   Ans.He was  displaying his bleeding finger to the crowd.   Q.8. How was Hryukin's bleeding finger flag of victory? Ans. He wanted to get some easy money for his damages....

 A Chameleon” by Anton Chekhov The police superintendent Otchumyelov is walking across the market square wearing a new overcoat and carrying a parcel under his arm. A red-haired policeman strides after him with a sieve full of confiscated gooseberries in his hands. There is silence all around. Not a soul in the square. . . . The open doors of the shops and taverns look out upon God’s world disconsolately, like hungry mouths; there is not even a beggar near them. “So you bite, you damned brute?” Otchumyelov hears suddenly. “Lads, don’t let him go! Biting is prohibited nowadays! Hold him! ah . . . ah!” There is the sound of a dog yelping. Otchumyelov looks in the direction of the sound and sees a dog, hopping on three legs and looking about her, run out of Pitchugin’s timber-yard. A man in a starched cotton shirt, with his waistcoat unbuttoned, is chasing her. He runs after her, and throwing his body forward falls down and seizes the dog by her hind legs. Once more there is a yelping...