Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 1 Solutions Unit 2 Text A: Portrait of a Teacher Textbook Activity Questions and Answers.
CHSE Odisha Class 11 Alternative English Solutions Unit 2 Text A: Portrait of a Teacher
Portrait Of A Teacher
(Part-One)
Section-A
Pre-Reading Activity
The following text has the title “Portrait of a Teacher”.
a) Can you say what a portrait means?
Answer:
If you have doubts about the meaning you have guessed, you may look up the word in a dictionary.
b) What qualities did you value in your favorite, teacher at school?
Now, read the passage to form a general idea of what the teacher described.
Activity-1
Global Comprehension
Question 1.
What is the relationship between the narrator and? Mr. Crossett?
Answer:
The relationship between the narrator and Mr. Crossett at that of a student and a teacher. The narrator in the text is the writer’s father who had a very sharp liking for his old teacher. His old teacher Mr. Crossett was eighty-four years old and he had received an award from the government For his sixty years long teaching services and contribution to education.
Question 2.
Have only good things been written about the teacher so far?
Answer:
Teachers so far have been highly respected and praised for their deeds and achievements. Nothing bad has ever been mentioned anywhere about a teacher. They are rather glorified and considered gods. Their illuminating touch has been a great force of love and greatness.
Activity-2
Local Comprehension
Answer the following questions as briefly as you can:
a) What is the significance of each of these lengths of time as mentioned in the text,’ (i) twenty years ago, (ii) eighty-four years old, (Hi) sixty years, (iv) two years ago (v) forty years old.
Answer:
(i) Twenty years ago: twenty years before: It expresses a period of long years.
(ii) Eighty-four years old: It is the coverage of a. period of the year,
(iii) Sixty years: Itis longevity or expense of years.
(iv) Two years ago: Two years back recently.
(v) Forty years: a! period of forty years.
Activity-3
Predicting
Now read the last paragraph of ‘Portrait of Teacher’ part one which ends with “…..but I admitted him already”. Look at the following sentences, each of which begins a paragraph in “Portrait of a Teacher” (Part two). Then decide which of these sentences would begin in the first paragraph of the text in part two.
a) At this moment the bell rang announcing the end of the. class.
b) We all sat quietly for a few minutes after my father finished the story.
c) Later my father and Mr. Crossett talked for half an hour about persons and things that remembered about the school.
d) Once again my father referred to his first day in Mr. Cresset’s classroom.
Your answer: a/b/c/d
Discuss with your partner whether and was your answer is right. It is time now to go through “Portrait of a Teacher” (Part two) to check your answer in Activity 4 and find to see what happens next.
Answer:
(c) Later my father and Mr. Crusset talked for half an hour about persons and things they remembered about the school.
Extra Activity-3(A)
A. Sequence the situations of the following sentences in the right order:
a) My father told him his name, Albert Borden.
b) He is eighty-four years old and yesterday the government gave him a medal for having completed sixty years of service
c) “Albert Burden, Your father was an engineer and you lived very near the school”
d) Thus, it happened that the next afternoon my father and I drove over to Daleville to see Mr. Crossett.
e) Let’s drive over there in the afternoon and say hello to you. him.
Answer:
a) He is eighty-four years old and yesterday the government gave him a medal for having completed sixty years of service.
b)Let’s drive over there in the afternoon and say hello to him.
c) Thus, it happened that the next afternoon my father and I drove over to Daleville to see Mr. Crosset.
d) My father told him his name, Albert Borden.
e) “Albert Burden, your father was an engineer and you lived very near the school”
B.(i) What was the writer’s father doing when he let out a cry?
Answer:
The writer’s father was looking through the evening paper when he let out a cry.
(ii) Why did he let out a cry?
Answer:
He let out a cry because he came to know from the newspaper that his first teacher Mr. Crosset was given a medal by government for his continuous and prolonged service of sixty years who he thought had been dead for twenty years.
(iii) Why did the writer’s father start his studies in the third grade? direct?
Answer:
It was because he had been sick for some time and had lessons at home.- This made him enter the third, grade direct.
(iv) How did Mr. Crossett receive the writer’s father as a student?
Answer:
Mr. Crossett smiled at us and patched me in the head and all his fears immediately disappeared.
(v) What does the writer’s father remember about the approach of Mr. Crossett in the classroom?
Answer:
Mr. Crossett. on entering the classroom every day, would put his cane in the comer and hang the tip of his coat with exactly the movements. He came with some humor, the same interest, and enthusiasm as though it were his first day of teaching.
Portrait Of A Teacher
(Part- Two)
Activity-4
Understanding The Structure Of The Text
There are five gaps in the above text. as you must have already noticed. The missing sequence. Decide which part (A, B, C, D, or E) will I find the gap in the passage: parts are given below, but not in the right
A. One by one we got up from our seats and left the room quietly. The boy who had gotten up on his seat .and made face, however, went up to Mr. Crossett’s desk with his voice trembling and said, “I’m sorry, Sir.”
B. While his back was turned, another student in the class got up stood upon his desk, and began to make faces just in order to make the other students laugh.
C. Out of the package, he drew a piece of paper and gave it to my father. It was marked with my father’s name and with the month and the year and it was one of my father’s own copybook exercises. Mr. Crossett has a record of all his old students
D. Occasionally one of the students of the previous year would put his head in the door to say hello to Mr. Crossett. They all spoke to him in such a manner as
to suggest that they were very fond of him. Others came in and shook his hand. He remained very serious.
E.“Don’t do that again” he said at last quietly but firmly. Then he went back to his desk and went on with the lesson.
Answer:
Gap-1- (D) Occasionally one of the students of the previous year would put his head in the door to say hello to Mr. Crossett. They all spoke to him in such a manner as to suggest that they were very fond of him. Others came in and shook his hand. He remained very serious.
Gap-2- (B) While his back was turned, another student in the class got up stood upon his desk, and began to make faces just in oxter to make the other students laugh.
Gap-3- (A) One by one we got up from our seats and left the room quietly. The boy who had gotten up on Ins seat and made face, however, went up to Mr. Crossett s desk with his voice trembling and said, “I’m sorry, Sir.”
Gap-4-(E) “Do not do that again” he said at last quietly but firmly. Then he went back to his desk and went on with the lesson.
Gap-5- (C) Out of the package, he drew a piece of paper and gave it to my father. It was marked with my father’s name and with the month and the year and it was one of my father’s own copybook exercises. Mr. Crossett thus kept a record of all his old students.
Activity-5
Understanding The Chronological Sequence
(a) Mr. Crossett did not recognize his old student, although the narrator’s father recognized him instantly.
(b) The whole evening he went on talking about his old teacher and having fond remembrances of him.
(c) The narrator was full of admiration for Ms eighty-four-year-old teacher of his father.
(d) He decided to visit Mr. Crossett who was living in Dclville, only an hour’s ride from his place.
(e) Mr- Crossett then rose and brought out a Package.
(f) One evening the narrator’s father while looking through the newspaper gave a cry of surprise.
(g)When the narrator’s father told him his name Albert Borden, Mr. Crossett thought for a while and remembered all about him.
(h)The next afternoon, the narrator and his father drove to Deville and knocked at Mr. Crossett‘s door.
(i) He had read a news item about Mr.Crossett who was his first teacher in the elementary school
(j) Mr. Crossett and his old student then shared many memories of school.
(k) Out of the package he drew a piece of paper and gave it to Mr. Borden
(I)Mr. Borden remembered an accident that showed how loving and paternal his old teacher had; been at a school.
(m) He was deeply moved and tears came to his eyes.
(n) It was one of his, home works which also bore the handwriting of his mother.
Answer:
(f)One evening the narrator’s father while looking through the newspaper gave a cry of surprise.
(i) He had read a news item about Mr. Crossett who was his first teacher in the elementary school
(b)The whole evening he went on talking about his old teacher and having fond remembrances of him
(d)He decided to visit Mr. Crossett who was living in Daleville, only an hour’s ride from his place.
(h), The next afternoon, the narrator and his father drove to Delville and knocked at Mr. Crossett’s door
(a) Mr. Crossett did not recognize his old student, although the narrator’s father recognized him instantly.
(g) When the narrator’s father told him his name Albert Borden, Mr. Crossett thought for a while and remembered all about him
(c) The narrator was full of admiration for his eighty-four-year-old teacher of his father
(j) Mr. Crossett and his old student then shared many memories of school.
(e) Mr. Crqssett then rose and brought out a package.
(k) Out of the package he drew a paper and Gaye it to Mr. Borden.
(n) It was one of his home works which also bore die handwriting of his mother.
(m) He was deeply moved and tears came to his eyes.
Activity 6
(For Group work & Writing practice)
(a) Do you remember your first day at school? What incidents of that day do you remember?
(b) Which teacher made the strongest impression on you at school? And why?
Activity-7
Usage
In Text-A you have the following expressions. Insert them in appropriate places in the following paragraph: (although; in the course of; make face; on account of; left them speechless; glared at)
There was nothing special about his class. The boys were naughty as expected and they loved to _________at each other whenever, the teacher was not there __________ their routine exercise, the older boys ________ the newly admitted ones. All, this while the new teacher behaved_______ he was a stranger and had come to the school _________ some business with the principal. Then suddenly he turned around and asked them to be quiet which _________
Answer:
There was nothing special about His class. The boys were naughty as expected and they loved to make faces at each other whenever, the teacher was not there in the course of their routine exercise, the older boys glared at the newly admitted ones. All this while the new teacher behaved although he was a stranger and had come to the school on account of some business with the principal. Then suddenly he turned around and asked them to be quiet which left them speechless.
Extra Activity- 7(A)
I. Put in a/an or the.
1. This morning I bought_____newspaper and_______magazine_________newspaper is in my bag, but I don’t know where 1 put______magazine.
2 I saw ___________ accident in this morning ____ car crashed into ________tree. _______ driver of _______ car wasn’t hurt but _________ car was badly damaged.
3. There are two cars parked outside _________ grey one.___________ blue one belonged to my neighbors; I don’t know _____________ owner of_______grey one is.
4. My friends live in__________ old house in __________ small village. There is ______ beautiful garden behind ________ house. I would like to have________garden like that.
5. (a) This house is very nice. Has it got ______ garden
(b) We had dinner in __________most expensive restaurant in the town.
(c) We have dinner in ______mos expensive restaurant.
Answers:
I. 1. a; a; the; the
2. am;1 A; The; the; the
3. A; a; The; the; the;
4. an; a; a; the; a
5. (a)a; (b) the (c) the
II. Put in a/an or the in these sentences where necessary:
1. Would you like an apple ?_______.
2. How often do you go to the dentist ?________.
3. Could you close the door, please? __________ .
4. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do that. I was mistake_________ .
5. Excuse me, where is the bus stand, please? ___________ .
6. I’ve got a problem. Can you help me ?__________.
7. I’m just going to ______ Post Office. I won’t be long.
8. There were no chairs, so we had to sit on floor _________.
9. Have you finished with book I lent you_____________ .
10. My sister has just got a job in Bank in Manchester__________.
11. We live in a small flat near the city center_______.
12. There’s a small supermarket at end of the street. I live in__________ .
Answers:
1.______ an apple.
2.__________the dentist
3. ______the door.
4. ________Mistake.
5. __________the bus station.
6.________a problem.
7. _______the Post Office
8. ________ the floor.
9. ___________the book
10.________ a job in a Bank in the Manchester
11.______a small flat near the city center.
12. ______a small_______the end of the street.
III. Read about what these1 people do and say what their jobs are. Choose one of these jobs: driving instructor interpreter journalist travel agent waiter nurse pilot plumber
1. Stella looks after patients In the hospital. ____________ .
2. George works in an ai’ restaurant. He brings the food to the table. He __________.
3. Many arrange people’s holidays for them. She__________ .
4. Viju works for an airline! He flies airplanes. He ________________.
5. Sobhan teaches people hoW to drive ________.
6. Santosh fits and repairs water pipes ____________.
7. Suman writes articles for a newspaper ___________.
8. Shakti translates what people are saying from one language to another so that they can understand each Other. _____________ .
Answers:
1. She is a nurse.
2. He is a waiter.
3. She is a travel agent.
4. He is a pilot.
5. He is a driving instructor.
6. He is a plumber.
7. He is a journalist.
8. He is an interpreter.
IV. Put in ‘a/an’ or ‘some’ where necessary. If no word is necessary, leave the space empty:
1. I’ve seen_________good films recently.
2. What’s wrong with you? Have you got ________ headache?
3. I know a lot of people. Mdk bf them are __________ students.
4.It is_________ unique event
5. Would you like to be an actor?
6. Do you collect _________ stamps?
7. What __________ beautiful garden
8__________ birds for example the Penguin, cannot fly.
9. I’ve been walking for three hours. I’ve got ______ sore feet.
10. I don’t feel very well this morning. I’ve got_________ sore throat
11. It’s a pity we haven’t got ___________ camera. I’d like to take photographs of that house
12. Those are__________ nice shoes. Where did you get them?
13. I’m going shopping. I want to buy _________ new shoes
14. You need __________ visa to visit _______ countries, but not all of them
15. Jane is ________ teacher. Her parents were _______ teachers too
16. Do you enjoy going to _________ concerts?
17. When we got to the city center ________ shops were still open but most of them were closed.
18. I don’t believe him. His_______lies
Answers:
1. some.
2, a,
3,x,
4. a,
5. an,
6.x,
7. a,
8. some,
9. a,
lO.a,
11. a the
12. x,
13. some,
14. X, some,
15. a,x,
16. the,
17.x,
18. a, x
Portrait Of A Teacher
(Part-One)
Portrait Of A Teacher Part-One Summary in English
Father had a look through the evening newspaper. His father started to come However, before dinner, the writer’s across the news of his first teacher died at least twenty years ago. Could anybody believe that father’s first teacher Mr. Crossett newspaper? His father thought that he was still living. He was eighty-four years old and the previous day the government gave him a medal for having completed sixty years ‘of teaching. He gave up teaching two years ago. He lived in Daleville about an hour’s ride from the writer’s residence.
Father proposed to go to his teacher for congratulating him on his The writer’s father spoke very little. He success,- recalled thousands of memories regarding Mr. Crossett. He saw his teacher the first day he entered school. His father had been sick for some time. So he was reading his lessons at home. Hence he began in the third grade. He had never been separated from his mother for a day previously and it was a fearful experience for her and me. Mr. Crossett understood the situation perfectly. He smiled at us and patted my head and with this all his fears vanished.
At that time, he must have been forty years. He was a man of broad shoulders and thick, wide hands. He had come from the village and had educated himself through hard work and study. He would enter the class every day on time and put his cane in the comer of the room and hang up his coat. He came every day with the same good humor, the same interest, and enthusiasm, as though it were his first day of teaching. Both the writer and his father set out the next afternoon to Delville to see Mr. father an engineer who lived very close to the school.
I alter answered positively. The Cross. He was well-known to everybody in the town. So they had no problem finding his house. Mr. Crosset came to the door. His father recognized him at once although he was a very old man. His father asked if an old student might be allowed to shake hands with him. Mr. Crosset could not remember his father’s name and wanted to know his father’s name. His father immediately told him that he; was Albert Borden. The old man started murmuring to himself and said whether his writer was surprised at the memory of the old man after forty years. This implied his sacrifice for and closeness to his old students.
Analytical Outlines
- Before dinner, the writer’s father had a look through the evening newspaper.
- His father started to come across the news of his first teacher in the newspaper.
- His father thought that he had died at least twenty years before.
- Could anybody believe that father’s first teacher Mr. Crosset was still living?
- His teacher Mr. Crosset was eighty-four years old.
- The previous day the government gave him a medal for having completed sixty years of teaching.
- He gave up teaching two years ago.
- He lived in Daleville about an hour’s ride
- from the writer’s residence.
- Father proposed to go to his teacher for
- congratulating him on his success.
- The writer’s father spoke very little.
- He recalled thousands of memories
- regarding Mr. Crosset.
- He saw his teacher the first day he entered school.
- His father had been seeking for sometimes.
- So he was reading his lessons at home.
- Rejoice. he began in the third grade.
- He had never been separated from his
- a mother from the day previously.
- It was a fearful experience for her and me.
- Mr. Crosset understood the situation perfectly.
- He smiled at us and patted my head.
- All his fear disappeared by this.
- At that time, he must have been almost forty years.
- He was a man of broad shoulders and thick, wide hands.
- He had come from the village.
- He had educated himself through hard work and study.
- He would enter the class every day on, time.
- He put his cane in the comer of the room.
- He hangs up his coat as usual.
- He came every day with the same good humor
- He also came every day with the same interest.
- He came every day to class with the same enthusiasm.
- He did all these as though it were his first day of teaching.
- Both the writer and his father set out
- the next afternoon to Delville to see Mr. Crosset.
- He was well-known to everybody in the house.
- So they had no problem finding his town.
- Mr. Crosset came to the door
- Mr. Crosset came to the door.
- His father recognized him at once.
- Of course, he was a very old man.
- His father asked if an old student might
- be allowed to shake hands with him.
- Mr. Crosset could not remember his name.
- So he wanted to know his father’s father’s name.
- His father immediately told him that he was Albert Burden.
- The old man started murmuring to himself
- He said whether his father was an
- He wanted to know if his father was an engineer. living very close to the school.
- His father answered positively.
- The writer was surprised at the memory of the old man after forty years.
- This implied his sacrifice for old students
- This also implied his closeness to his old students.
Portrait Of A Teacher
(Part- Two)
Portrait Of A Teacher Part- Two Summary in English
The writer’s father and Mr. Crossett had talked for half an hour. They talked about the people and things they recalled about the school. Mr. Crossett’s diagrid was quivering continuously. He said that he had to cease teaching due to this quivering hand two years ago. If it had not happened., he would have remained with students. till that day. Again, his father remembered about the first day in Mr. Crossett’s classroom. In Gap-1, it is found that Mr. Crossett marked one of his students looked sick and suffering from fever. He rushed to him and put his hand on the child’s head. In Gap 2, Mr. Crossett turned -quickly and glanced at the student.
In Gap-3, it is explained that Mr. Crossett put aside his book, looked at us for some time, and said that they had to spend their time together as in a family. He has lost his mother one year before and wished to be always with us as he had nobody with him. In Gap-4, it is found that Mr. Crossett anything about his sickness. Thereafter he got up and did something which made the author thoroughly speechless. He moved into a closet and came out with a packet which was patted on his head and told not to mind marked with name and date thereon. In Gap-5, it is found that the writer’s father read the exercise which brought tears to his eyes for the things had been written by his matter with his own hand.
Analytical Outlines
- The writer’s father and Mr. Crossett had talked for half an hour.
- They talked about the people and things they recalled about the school.
- Mr. Crossett’s hand was quivering continuously
- He said that he had to cease teaching due to these quivering two. years ago.
- If it had not happened, he would have remained with students till that day”
- Again, his father remembered the first day in Mr. Crossett’s classroom,
- In Gap-1, it is found that Mr. Crossett marked one ofWs’students looked sick.
- He found that he was suffering from a fever.
- Then,1 he rushed to him.
- He put his hand on the child’s head.
- In Gap-2, Mr. Crbssett turned quickly and glanced at the student.
- In Gapf3, it is explained that Mr. Crossett put aside his book and looked at us for sometime
- He said that they had to spend their time together as in a family
- He lost his mother one year before,
- Hence, he wished to be always with us as he had nobody with him.
- In Gap-4, it is found that Mr. Crossett patted him on his head.
- He told me not to mind anything about his sickness.
- Thereafter, he got up and did something,
- It made the author thoroughly speechless.
- He moved into a closet
- He came out with a packet.
- It was marked with the name and date therein
- In Gap-5, it is found that the writer’s father read the exercise.
- It was for the things that had been written
- It brought tears to his eyes. by his mother with his own hand.