Class X Chapter 1 – A Letter to God English
Questions:
Oral Comprehension Check
- What did Lencho hope for?
- Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?
- How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
- What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?
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Questions:
Thinking About the Text
- Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
- Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter ‘God’?
- Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
- Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in the situation? [Remember that the irony of a situation is an unexpected aspect of it. An ironic situation is strange or amusing because it is the opposite of what is expected.]
- Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is? You may select appropriate words from the box to answer the question.
- There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
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Questions:
Oral Comprehension Check
Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
What made him angry?
- There are different names in different parts of the world for storms, depending on their nature. Can you match the names in the box with theirdescriptions below, and fill in the blanks? You may use a dictionary to helpyou.
gale, whirlwind, cyclone,hurricane, tornado, typhoon - Match the sentences in Column A with the meanings of ‘hope’ in Column B.
- Relative Clauses Join the sentences given below using who, whom, whose, which assuggested.
- Find sentences in the story with negative words, which express the following ideas emphatically.
- In pairs, find metaphors from the story to complete the table below. Try to say what qualities are being compared. One has been done for you.
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