English Connection
CLASS:-7TH SUBJECT : English
SECTION-C
THE GEOGRAPHY LESSON
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
QNO.1:- What did the teacher want to do?
ANS:- The teacher wanted to travel to faraway lands.
QNO.2:- Did he ever do it? Why or why not?
ANS:- He never got to travel. He continued teaching in the school until one day when he fell fatally ill and died.
QNO.3:- Why does the writer remember the teacher?
ANS:- The writer remembers the teacher for the wonder lust the teacher had ignited in him.
Q .4 From your reading of the poem, what impression do you form of the teacher?
ANSWER : The impression I get of the teacher is that he was a man who felt great passion for the subject he taught but whose dreams were unfulfilled.
OR
4.The passionate teaching is always leaving an impression upon a learner. Similarly, the teachers dedicated nature of teaching shows postive outcome in relation with the student, who fulfilled his teachers dream.
QNO.5:- How has the poet been affected by what he
has learned from the teachers ?
ANS:- The poet has travelled to all those places that his teacher wished to see but never did. He is filled with a sense of pity, sympathy and nostalgia for the teacher.
OR
ANSWER:
The poet describes the places the teacher ‘had only known from maps’ in a way which shows that he loves these places as much as the teacher did. To the teacher, these countries were places you could imagine yourself living, in houses where fragrant jasmine was ‘clinging to the walls’ and the heat of the day caused leaves to burn on the tree. His enthusiasm was infectious, and now the poet travels ‘to where the green leaves burn / To where the ocean’s glass-clear and blue’.
The other lesson the poet learned from the teacher is that it is important to follow your dreams and not to live for tomorrow. Although the teacher did not realise he was teaching the poet this, his lack of action and his unfulfilled desires affected his pupil so strongly that he says that this lesson is ‘with me to this day’. It seems he is determined not to repeat his teacher’s mistake. As a result, he travels ‘to where the green leaves burn’ and enjoys the reality of the places his teacher ‘had only known from maps’.
OR
The poet has been affected positively by the teacher by getting an inspiration from him when he says him, only to isn't important, but to turn dream into reality is equally important.
Q. 6 Complete the following table with reference to the poem. One has done for you.
Answer :
2 ( a) The teacher's house was narrow.
2 (b) He dreams to visit the vast natural field .
3 (a) His house is grey.
3 (b) He dreams to visit the green natural field.
4(a) His house is surrounded by walls. 4 (b) He dreams to visit the unlimited nature joined by a blue
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