01 The Portrait of a Lady

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01 The Portrait of a Lady - Part 1

This is from Hornbill_ class XI . (Paragraph No.1 to 6) (My grandmother,...........She rarely talked to me after that)

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Listening Activity Click on the link given below and listen to the audio recording of the text (Para 1 to 6) and answer the following TRUE/FALSE questions.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OG03l9-Di2EJZGqjp0wbLObCNBW2vrTX/view?usp=sharing

1. The author says that it was not hard to believe that his grandmother had once been young and pretty. *

1 point

False

True

2. The author says that his grandfather looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren. *

1 point

True

False

3. Grandmother had always been short and fat and slightly bent and her face was a criss-cross of wrinkles. *

1 point

True

False

4. The author says that his grandmother could never have been pretty but she was always beautiful. *

1 point

True

False

5. Grandmother hobbled about the house with one hand resting on her waist to balance her stoop and the other holding a walking stick. *

1 point

True

False

6. The author says that his grandmother was like the winter landscape in the mountains, an expanse of pure white serenity breathing peace and confusion. *

1 point

True

False

7. Grandmother said her morning prayer in a monotonous sing-song while she bathed and dressed the author hoping that he would listen and get to know it by heart. *

1 point

True

False

8. The author listened to his grandmother’s morning prayer because he wanted to learn it. *

1 point

True

False

9. Grandmother carried several fresh chapattis with her for the village dogs while accompanying the author to school. *

1 point

True

False

10. Grandmother always went to school with the author because she could feed the village dogs. *

1 point

True

False

11. The priest taught the author and the other children the alphabet and the morning prayer. *

1 point

True

False

12. When the author’s parents were settled in the city, the author and his grandmother went there to stay with them. The author says that was a turning-point in their friendship. *

1 point

True

False

13. Grandmother took to feeding dogs in the courtyard of their city house. *

1 point

True

False

14. Grandmother was sad because there was no teaching about God and the scriptures in the English school. *

1 point

True

False

15. Grandmother was happy when one day the author told her that he was given music lessons in the English school. *

1 point

True

False

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