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SESSION – 2023-24

THE LAST LESSON (WS 01)

Subject English Chapter
Class XII
Issuing date Author Alphonse Daudet
Prepared by Mrs. Madhulika Bhattacharya
Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

1. I heard M. Hamel say to me, “/ won’t scold you, little Franz; you must feel bad
enough. See how it is! Every day we have said to ourselves, ‘Bah! I’ve plenty of time.
I’ll learn it tomorrow.’ And now you see where we’ve come out. Ah, that’s the great
trouble with Alsace; she puts off learning till tomorrow.
(a) Hamel was not _________ with Franz because it was the last lesson.
(b) Franz would feel bad because he always learnt his lessons on time. (True/False)
(c) ‘Ourselves’here refers to all the teachers. (True/False)

2. But he had the courage to hear even• lesson to the very last. After the writing, we had a
lesson in history, and then the babies chanted their ba, be bi, bo, bu. Down there at the
back of the room old Hauser had put on his spectacles and, holding his primer in both
hands, spelled the letters with them.
(a) Hamel was _________ with each and every student.
(b) Old Hauser spelled the letters from the primer. (True/False)
(c) Babies had come to school for the first time so they had to learn
alphabet.{true/false}

3. I was amazed to see how well I understood it. All he said seemed so easy, so easy! I
think, too, that I had never listened so carefully, and that he had never explained
everything with so much patience. It seemed almost as if the poor man wanted to give
us all he knew before going away, and to put it all into our heads at one stroke.

(a) The speaker here is _________ .

(b) The speaker felt _________ for not being inattentive in the class.
(c) Hamel was sorry for not being regular with his classes. (True/False)
(d) Find a word from the extract that means ‘the ability to stay calm’ .

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS- (120-150 WORDS).

A. The ban on teaching French strengthened the resolve of the French to learn their
language. Give evidence from the text to prove/disapprove the above statement.

B. Bah! I have plenty of time. I’ll learn it tomorrow.’

Franz was shocked when he heard that it was the last lesson in French and he hardly
knew his mother tongue.
Many of us find ourselves in similar situations and regret when all is over. What
should we do so that we are able to achieve our goals?

C. How had the natives of Alsace become victims of linguistic chauvinism?