MY POSITIVE PILL

A LITTLE QUIZ TO CHECK WHAT WE KNOW

What is a 5 letter word meaning "to turn away or aside"?

Addle Trite Staid Avert

 What is a 10 letter word meaning "colorless"?

Insurgence Achromatic  Metropolis  Scriptural

Unscramble the letters to form a word related to music and
peace/friendship
ICUASCTO YA IT M
Which spellings given below are incorrect:

measureable manageable marriageable maneuverable

 WHAT WILL WE LEARN FROM LESSONS
• English subject is different from others.
• No rigorous concepts will be taught. Context shall be!
• Values will be integrated
• Expression will be enhanced
• Interesting sessions and delightful activities.
• Sessions will range from discussion on historical

lessons to critical essays, from the tales of rural

India to foreign lands, from talking of experienced elderly to dynamic
teenagers, from talking of home and parents to sharing glimpses of
world and beyond.
ENGLISH TEXT BOOKS
 WEIGHTAGE- 100 MARKS

THEORY INTERNAL
ASSESSMENT
80 20

READING ,WRITING,
GRAMMAR, ASL - ASSESSMENT OF
LITERATURE SPEAKING AND LISTENING
SKILLS
 PART A- OBJECTIVE TYPE

2. Case Based
MCQ
1. MCQ Passage
Passage
READING (10 marks)
SECTION (10 marks)
(18 marks)
 PART A- OBJECTIVE TYPE
2. Reordering/
Transformation
1. Gap filling (4 marks)
(4 marks)
GRAMMAR
SECTION
(8 marks)
 PART A- OBJECTIVE TYPE
LITERATURE (14 marks)
RTC RTC Prose/ Poetry
Poetry (H) Prose (H+S) (H+S)
MCQ Type MCQ Type MCQ Type
(3 marks) (6 marks) (5 marks)
PART B- SUBJECTIVE TYPE

NOTE MAKING
READING
(8 Marks)
 PART B- SUBJECTIVE TYPE
WRITING Notice/
Poster Making
SKILLS Advertisement
(3 marks)
(16 Marks) (3 marks)

Business/ Speech/ Debate/ Article/ Report/

Formal Letters Narrative
(5 marks) (5 marks)
 PART B- SUBJECTIVE TYPE

LITERATURE Two SAQ (H) One SAQ (S)

(16 Marks) (2+2 marks) (2 marks)

One LAQ (H) One LAQ (S)

(5 marks) (5 marks)
 ASL- Assessment of Speaking and
Listening
• A very crucial part of assessment in English language
• Determines speaking and listening skills.
• As per CBSE, regular activities must be conducted for students round the year.
• Participation is necessary, not just for scores but for self enhancement.
• Group wise topics will be allocated and full participation is sought.

ALLOW YOURSELF THE OPPORTUNITY TO

SHINE
 GUIDELINES FOR ENGLISH
• Attend classes regularly.
• Take proper notes and write self created answers.
• Maintain the notebook in the sequence told.
• Extrapolate and go beyond the text.
• Maintain healthy reading habits.
• Surrender to creativity and rise from it- better and
brighter.
 LESSON 1- Deals with relationships
• A moving tale of a bond shared by a grandchild and
grandmother.
• Union of Old age homes and Orphanage
• Both in the same stage of life- need lot of love,
understanding and care
• Introspect- How much time do you spend with your
grandparents?
What is your quality of communication with them?
How many times have you asked them about their
childhood?
How a child gets busy and forsakes the most selfless
love he gets.
OUR POSITIVE ANCHORS IN DISTRESS
 HOW DO GRANDPARENTS MAKE
OUR LIVES BETTER?

ROLE MODEL
HISTORIAN

PLAYMATE
NURTURER
MENTOR

STUDENT
SPIRITUAL GUIDE

GUIDE CARE GIVER

 HOW DO CHILDREN
HELP GRANDPARENTS?

Boost brain function

Lead to a longer life

Protect against depression
CONDITION OF GRANDPARENTS TODAY

AS PER THE SURVEY OF WHO

RAYS OF HOPE
•Love for Grandparents is
universal. Every one feels it and
the lucky ones bask under the
shade of this affection till long .

•There is no divide of rich or poor,

urban or rural, literate or illiterate
that restricts people from dwelling
in it.
 ACTIVITY:

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR GRANDPARENTS ?

Rapid fire:
1. Favourite colour
2. Favourite food
3. Favourite song
4. Favourite movie
5. Favourite Actor Now ask your
6. Favourite memory grandparents
7. Favourite game
and tally the
answers!
8. Best Friend
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
•Born in Khushab district of Punjab (now in
Pakistan)
•2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014
•Worked as a lawyer, then in IFS. Later
joined as a jounalist in All India Radio.
•Also worked at UNESCO, columnist in HT

He wrote his Epitaph

Here lies one who spared neither
man nor God;
Waste not your tears on him, he was
a sod;
Writing nasty things he regarded as
great fun;
Thank the Lord he is dead, this son
of a gun.
NOTEBOOK SEQUENCE
• INDEX
• CHAPTER NAME AND DATE
• VALUE/THEME/SETTING
• VOCABULARY EXERCISES
• QUESTIONS (OF PPT AND
STUDY MATERIAL)
 ACCOLADES FOR THE STORY
• The story leaves the reader In a delightful, inebriated trance’—
Sunday Chronicle 
• ‘A Khushwant Singh short story is not flamboyant but modest,
restrained, well-crafted…Perhaps his greatest gift as a writer is a
wonderful particularity of description’—London Magazine
• ‘He is not an ordinary short story writer…[Collected Stories] is
delightful reading’—Hindustan Times 
• ‘Khushwant’s stories enthrall…[He has]an Somerset Maugham…
the ability to akin to that of entertain intelligently’—India Today
 BEFORE WE PROCEED
• Autobiographical Chapter
• Insight of his relationship with his grandmother
through his own eyes.
• Written in first person
• Poignant tale of deep bond of love and affection he shared
with his inimitable grandmother.
• The story touches the hemisphere of Indian culture.
• Grandmother: embodiment of the term ‘lady’- her
inner beauty shone through her persona making her
appear beautiful.
THE PORTRAIT OF A
LADY
KHUSHWANT SINGH
 LETS CONTEMPLATE
• Imagine you are extremely good friends with an individual
today. Over the course of years how do you expect that
friendship to evolve.
• What can be the various ways in which this friendship does
not survive the test of time?
• Do all relations stay forever?
• Can we be close to all people we were close to once we were
children?
• So, what is the natural progression of any relationship?
 AUTHOR AND HIS GRANDMOTHER
Relationship undergoes three stages of transition

Stage 1- The early life of the author with his grandmother in the

village house.
Stage 2- When they both migrate to the city and the bond
between grandmother and author gets strained.
Stage 3- When the author has grown up so has his personal room
and will be later going to the University. 
 GRANDMOTHER:
Through the eyes of the author
• Short, fat and hunched in stature.
• She moved around the house with one hand
on her waist to balance her stoop
• Wrinkled face, sagging skin, frail frame
• Her serene visage reminded the author of a winter
landscape
• Beauty- spotless and immaculate
• Silver locks scattered over her pale face
• Calm and tranquil air to her
• Kind and considerate
 GRANDMOTHER:
Through the eyes of the author
• Pious and orthodox, conservative and traditional
• Matriarch of the household- realistic and practical
• Telling the beads of the rosary
• Had a control over her emotions, faced situations
courageously
• Benevolent but reserved

“She could never have been

pretty; but she was always
beautiful.”
 WHAT DO THESE SUGGEST?

CLOSE KNIT COLLAPSE

FALLING APART
 AUTHOR’S TONE

•Talks with familiarity

•Distances himself from grandmother’s youth
•Pretty or beautiful
•Similar approach for grandfather
 PHASE 1- VILLAGE LIFE
Very religious-
Took care of all his visited temple
needs daily

Helped in lessons Fed street dogs

Undisputed custodian, dynamic,

agile, involved, queen of her
realm
PHASE 2- CITY LIFE

Disapproved of
Role in raising the Found herself at a loss,
Music, Science
child was purpose of daily routine
and English but
curtailed lost
did not show it

Less communication, Common nexus of

Withdrew with
marked difference in friendship was fading
dignity
relationship away
 PHASE 3

Common nexus Only happy Would not leave

of friendship pursuit was the spinning wheel
disrupted feeding birds Lonely and aloof

Author went
abroad- came to
Weathered this Kept
drop him at
closing with grace muttering
and dignity. the prayers station. No
outburst of
emotion.
 Last Stage of Grandmother’s life
• Broke her routine
• Abandoned her prayers
• Sang songs of homecoming
• Does not say much, doesn’t openly communicate
emotions
• Enjoyed herself to the fullest, was taken ill and dies
• Sparrows gather around and mourn for her death ,
did not eat breadcrumbs
• Language of love best demonstrated by mute
animals
• Animals- more dependable and affectionate
 COMPASSION INNOCENCE FRIENDSHIP

KINDNESS
LOVE

ACCEPTANCE SELFLESSNESS

RESPECT THEMES CONNECTION

 A QUICK RECAP
• Simple and TURNING
involved POINT • Separate room-
• Life revolved university
around each • Same room- • Moved abroad-no
other English school outburst of emotions
• Fed dogs • Change of • Celebrated
• Religious, studies, no more homecoming
charitable, kind involved • Spent her last
• Spinning wheel, moments in praying
VILLAGE LIFE feeding birds, • Birds mourned her
prayers death SNAP OF BOND
KHUSHWANT SINGH’S SON TALKS
ABOUT HIM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT7iUqEc59k
 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
VIRTUAL/ ONLINE SESSION
 Students to keep their video “ON” while entering in the virtual class
room.
 Entry will be given to those students only who have renamed
themselves in the format i.e. Name/ Adm. No./Class- sec. and video is
in “ON” mode.  
 Appropriate action will be taken against those who do not follow the
guidelines issued for online sessions.
You can ask any query related to the topic through chat box or you can
raise hand if you have any doubt.
You can also mail your queries at below mentioned email id:
shikhasharma@lancersconvent.net
EXPRESSING RELATIONSHIPS(POSITIVE)
• get on like a house on fire 
to get on really well with someone: “They get on like a house on fire.”
• have a soft spot for someone 
to be very fond of someone: “She has a soft spot for her youngest child.”
• go back a long way 
to know someone well for a long time: “Those two go back a long way. They
were at primary school together.”
• be in with 
to have favoured status with someone: “She’s in with the management.”
EXPRESSING RELATIONSHIPS(NEGATIVE)
• get off on the wrong foot with someone 
to start off badly with someone: “She really got off on the wrong foot with
her new boss.”
• keep someone at arm’s length 
to keep someone at a distance: “I’m keeping her at arm’s length for the
time being.”
• be at loggerheads 
to disagree strongly: “Charles and Henry are at loggerheads over the new
policy.”
• sworn enemies 
to hate someone: “Those two are sworn enemies.”
 LONG QUESTIONS:
(TO BE DONE IN NOTEBOOK)
Describe the narrator’s grandmother as a very religious and kind-hearted woman.
Ans.  God-fearing woman and feels delight in reading scriptures.
 always busy in telling the beads of her rosary
 Her lips always moved in silent prayer.
 bathe her grandson, she would say her prayers in a singsong manner
 treated her grandson with love and affection.
 feed the village dogs with stale chapattis.
 city- she took delight in feeding the sparrows, never shooed them away.
 Her joy knew no bounds, when her grandson returned from abroad.
 She was a woman of noble nature, kind and tender heart.
The grandmother herself was not formally educated but was serious
about the author’s education. How does the text support this?
Ans. Although the grandmother had no proper schooling and was not
formally educated but she was serious about the author’s education.
 author’s parents had shifted to the city.
 would wake him up in the morning and get him ready for school.
 accompany him to the school and back.
 In City- the author was sent to an English school. (mention changes)
 distressed that there was no teaching about God and the scriptures.
 was disturbed when she was told that they were being given music
lessons at school, but she said nothing.
 did not get sentimental when the author decided to go abroad for
further studies.
 she did not want to stand in the way of the author’s education.
 HOW DO I MAKE MY GRANDPARENT’S
PORTRAIT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urg1jyhLIhQ

A tutorial to make a portrait. Now I can be an artist too!!!!

 ASL/ READING WEEK ACTIVITY

Through Khushwant’s experiences, students will share the bond

between them and their grandparent. This must include a fond
memory which is equally memorable for them and the
grandparent.

(Students of groups 1, 2, 3 will present this activity)