NEB Grade XI Compulsory English Note | Language Development | Unit- 18 Identity Crisis in Immigrants | Reported Speech

Unit:18

Identity Crisis in Immigrants

Ways with words

A. Words from the text to solve the crossword puzzle

Across

2. as is certain to happen- inevitably

4. famous and respected- eminent

6. a temporary stay- sojourn

7. knowing everything- omniscient

Down

1. the state of being preoccupied- preoccupation

3. anxious or fearful that something bad will happen- apprehensive

5. a person of mixed white and black ancestry- mulatto

B. Meanings of the words in a dictionary

a. melancholy- a deep feeling of sadness that lasts for a long time and often cannot be explained

b. elusive- difficult to find, define or achieve

c. motif- a subject, an idea that is developed in a work of literature

d. disdain- the feeling that somebody is not good enough to deserve your respect or attention

e. fabricate- to produce something false to decieve someone

f. intoxicate- to cause somebody to lose control of their behaviour or their physical and mental abilities

g. resentment- a feeling of anger or unhappiness about something that you think is unfair

Homophones

Exercise

a. Can you …… the box in the back garden? (bury/berry)

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Answer:
Can you bury the box in the back garden?

b. Alex could not …… the branch off the tree. (break/brake)

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Answer:
Alex could not break the branch off the tree.

c. …… pencil is on the floor? (Who's/Whose)

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Answer:
Whose pencil is on the floor?

d. We have got very …… (phew/few) tasks left.

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Answer:
We have got very few tasks left.

e. Some tribes worship their gods before they …… (prey/pray)

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Answer:
Some tribes worship their gods before they prey.

f. …… it. Everything is messed up.(Dam /Damn)

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Answer:
Damn it. Everything is messed up.

g. What a wonderful …… the professor presented. (lesson/lessen)

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Answer:
What a wonderful lesson the professor presented.

Comprehension

Answer these questions.

a. How is Willie Chandran different from the rest of his family?

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Answer:
Willie Chandran is different from the rest of his family as he is insecure about himself and his own identity.

b. Who is the main character of Half A Life? How is he described?

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Answer:
Willie Chandran is the main character of Half A Life. He was born in India 40-some years ago. His father is a Brahmin and mother a Dalit. His middle name comes from the name of an English writer called Somerest Maugham.

c. Why does Willie leave India?

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Answer:
Willie leaves India because he manages to get a scholarship to a college in London.

d. What is the revelation that Willie begin to feel in college and in London?

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Answer:
Willie began to understand that he was free to present himself as he wished. He could write his own revolution. He could remake himself, his past and his ancestry.

e. Why does Willie accompany Ana?

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Answer:
Willie accompanies Ana because she has a kind of high status in her colonial world and he can also find a complete acceptance there.

f. What is the central issue Naipal has raised in the novel?

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Answer:
In the novel Naipal has raised the issue of cultural and racial identity.

Grammar

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Change the following into indirect speech.

a. She said, "While I was having dinner, the phone rang."

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Answer:
She said that while she was having dinner, the phone rang.

(Simple Past and Past Progressive in time clauses do not normally change.)

b. My friend said, "Where are they staying?"

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Answer:
My friend asked where they were staying.

c. Jamila said, "I travel a lot in my job."

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Answer:
Jamila said that she travelled a lot in her job.

d. She said to me, "We lived in China for five years."

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Answer:
She told me that they had lived in China for five years.

e. He said to me, "Do you like ice-cream?"

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Answer:
He told me if I had liked ice-cream.

f. They said, "Hurray! We've won the match."

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Answer:
They exclaimed with delight that they had won the match.

g. He said, "I'd tried everything without success, but this new medicine is great."

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Answer:
He said that he'd tried everything without success, but this new medicine was great.

h. Sony said, "I go to the gym next to your house."

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Answer:
Sony said that she went to the gym next to my house.

i. He said, "Be quiet after 10 o'clock."

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Answer:
He told me to be quiet after 10 o'clock.

j. He said, "I don't want to go to the party unless he invites me."

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Answer:
He said that he didn't want to go to the party unless he invited him.

k. He said to me, "I will see you tomorrow if you meet me."

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Answer:
He told me that he would see me the following day if I met him.

l. She said, "If I were you, I would give up the work."

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Answer:
She said that if she were me, she would give up the work.

Simple Past and Past Continuous do not normally change in sentences with if (imaginary condition).

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