English with Brajendra

  Lesson - 2 : Bismillah Khan ( Part 2 ) [A] Comprehension  1 (I) Pungi was the name of a reeded musical instrument. (II) No . Most people thought that pungi would never  revive . (III) The barber decided to improve the tonal quality of the pungi . 2 (I) Bismillah Khan played gilli danda near a pond in the ancient estate of  Dumarao in Bihar. (II) He would regularly go to the nearby Bihariji temple to sing the Bhojpuri ‘Chaita’. (III) At the end he would earn a big laddu weighing 1.25 kg, a prize given by the local Maharaja. (IV) He earned the highest civilian award in India — the Bharat Ratna. 3 (I) The young boy took to music early in life. (II) At the age of three when his mother took him to his maternal uncle’s house in Benaras (now Varanasi), Bismillah was fascinated watching his uncles practise the shehnai. (III) Bismillah started accompanying his uncle, Ali Bux, to the Vishnu temple of Benaras where Bux was employed to play the shehnai. (IV) When Ali Bux would...

  Lesson 2 - The Sound of Music ( part 1 ) [A] Comprehension 1 (I) Evelyn's mother noticed that something was wrong with Evelyn when she was eight. (II) Her mother came to know that Evelyn had some hearing problem when she saw that she did not move even after being called by name while she was waiting to play piano . (III) The name of Evelyn's mother was Isabel Glennie. (IV) Evelyn's headmistress advised her parents to have her fitted with hearing aids and also to send her to a school for the deaf . 2 (I) One day Evelyn noticed a girl playing a xylophone . (II) She had interest in music and she decided that she wanted to play xylophone .  (III) Most of the teachers discouraged her but percussionist Ron Forbes encouraged her. (IV) He advised her to try to sense the sound of music some other way instead of listening to it through her ears . 3 (I) According to Evelyn you will get there if you work hard and you know where you are going. (II) She got right to the top , the world...

  Lesson 1 The Fun They Had  [ A ] Comprehension 1 (I) The pages they turned were yellow and crinkly. (II) It was said to be funny to read the words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to like those on a screen. (III) When they turned back to the page before , they found the same words on it that it had had when they read it the first time . (IV) The word ' they ' refers to Margie and his elder brother Tommy . 2 (I) ' The round little man with a red face ' had a box of tools with dials and wires and he offered Margie an apple. (II) All the lessons and questions appeared on the big screen of the Mechanical Teacher. (III) Margie did not like that part of the Mechanical Teacher where she had to put homework and test papers. (IV) Margie began to learn ' punch ' code at the age of six . 3 (I) According to Tommy it was an old sort of school . (II) No , Margie did not know about such an old kind of school . (III) Such schools existe...

The Road Not Taken    Comprehension    1  (I) The above stanza has been taken from the poem ' The Road Not Taken ' composed by Robert Frost.  (II) The poet , being a single traveller , could not travel both the roads at the same time.  (III) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . (IV) ' I ' looked up to the point where the road bent in the undergrowth.  (V) In the above stanza the word 'wood' rhymes with 'stood' .   2  (I) The poet took the other road because it looked better than the first one .  (II) The other road looked new and travelled by less or no people.  (III) The other road was about the same as the first as it had been equally travelled . (IV) ' There ' rhymes with ' fair ' and ' wear ' .   3  (I) That morning both the roads were covered with leaves which had no sign of having been trodden by any traveller.  (II) The ' other road ' wanted wear. It lacked travellers .  (III) ' The...

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