NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Snapshots – Chapter 6 – Birth Reading with insight : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 70 Q1 :“I have done something; oh, God! I’ve done something real at last.” Why does Andrew say this? What does it mean? Answer : A model answer has been provided for students’ reference. It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer on their own. Andrew, the protagonist of the story Birth, utters these words as he is able to bring a still born child back to life which seemed impossible in the beginning. The child…
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NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Snapshots – Chapter 5 – Mother’s Day Reading with insight : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 52 Q1 :This play, written in the 1950s, is a humorous and satirical depiction of the status of the mother in the family. What are the issues it raises? Answer : Mother’s Day is a comical satire. The story is a simple one, yet it strongly condemns the position of women in society. Our mothers and wives work hard daily, turning our houses into homes. They receive no wages and have no weekends off and work…
NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Snapshots – Chapter 4 – Albert Einstein at School Reading with insight : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 31 Q1 :What do you understand of Einstein’s nature from his conversations with his history teacher, his mathematics teacher and the head teacher? Answer : A model answer has been provided for students’ reference. It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer on their own. Einstein’s behavior seemed to be extremely unruly. He didn’t believe in the then prevailing system of education. His nature was a spontaneous one. He found memorising facts and…
NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Snapshots – Chapter 3 – Ranga’s Marriage Reading with insight : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 24 Q1 :Comment on the influence of English – the language and the way of life – on Indian life as reflected in the story. What is the narrator’s attitude to English? Answer : When the English came to our land, they did not bring the industrialisation alone. They carried with themselves their culture, their religion and their language to our home. We, who had been ruled by the Slaves and the Moguls for centuries were…
NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Snapshots – Chapter 2 – The Address Reading with insight : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 15 Q1 :’Have you come back?’ said the woman.’I thought that no one had come back.’ Does this statement give some clue about the story? If yes, what is it? Answer : The quoted statement indicates that the two families knew each other. When the war was going on some people left their homes to take refuge in distant lands. Few people who remained there thought that those people who had left their land would never…
NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Snapshots – Chapter 1 – The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse Reading with insight : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 8 Q1 :You will probably agree that this story does not have breathless adventure and exciting action. Then what in your opinion makes it interesting? Answer : Pointers have been provided for students’ reference. It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer on their own. The various reasons which make this story mind-gripping and a real page turner, are: The innocence of the language which keeps us in suspense about…
Activity : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 118 NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Hornbill – Chapter 12 – Creative Writting Q1 : Activity I Put down the images that come to your mind immediately when you see the words in the box. Cat cupboard wall pond bird Answer : Cat: rat, milk, fur Cupboard: Clothes, books Wall: Clock, paint, colours Pond: ducks, water, lotus Bird: tree, nest, sky Q2 : Activity II Try to write four lines of poetry or four sentences of prose with one of these as the starting point. Answer : A bird is…
NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Hornbill – Chapter 11 – Letter Writing Activity : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 114 Q1: You have not received your Roll number card for the Class XII examination. Write a letter to the Registrar Examination Branch CBSE asking for it. Answer : Rakesh Sharma Class: XII, Sec. B St. Thomas School Delhi February 20, 2012 The Registrar Examination Branch CBSE Delhi Dear Sir/Madam, Subject: Inquiry about the roll number card for class XII board examination This is to inform you that I have not received my roll number card for the…
Activity : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 106 NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Hornbill – Chapter 10 – Essay Writing Q1 : Himalayan Quake 2005 Answer : The mesmerising beauty of the Himalayan mountain range was put to question on 8th of October 2005, when a massive earthquake rocked some parts of the Himalayan region. The earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, was devastating. According to the seismologists, the epicentre of the earthquake was in Muzzaffarabad, Pakistan. The worst hit areas were Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Khyber-pakhtunka and western parts of the Kashmir valley in the Indian-administered Kashmir.…
Father to son is a poem describing the troubled relationship between a father and his son, in the present times. The poem emphasises the generation-gap between the father and the son and expresses the father’s pain and helplessness in failing to ‘understand’ his child. The father realizes the distance between them and wishes to bridge the gap. Full Summary of “Father To Son” : Think it out : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 86 NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Hornbill – Chapter 9 – Father to Son Q1 :Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience…