3. THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY
Read the chapter from your book and answer the following questions.
1. What is the name
of the blind girl?
The name of the blind girl is
Helen Keller.
2. What did
everyone suggest to Helen’s mother?
They suggested to just send her
away somewhere.
3. What kind of
behaviour did the child have?
She was wild and did not allow
anyone to comb her hair. Her cloths were dirty and. She was often angry and sometimes laid on the
floor and kicked her feet.
4. What is the name
of her teacher?
Her teacher’s name is Miss. Anne
Sullivan.
5. What are the verbs
did she learn in the beginning?
She learnt sit, stand and walk in
the beginning.
6. How did she
learn homework?
She used all other senses such as taste, smell and feel to learn homework.
WORD MEANING
held – remained, stayed
to grow wild – not behaving
properly
existed – remained
blossom – opening up, revealing
itself
enough – sufficient
major – important
courage - daring
A. CHOOSE THE RIGHT OPTION TO ANSWER THESE
QUESTIONS.
1. What did Helen’t
mother say when people thought she could not learn anything?
a. She disagreed with them and decided to send Helen away.
b. She disagreed with them and said that Helen was smart. (Correct)
c. She disagreed with them but left Helen alone.
d. She disagreed with them and told them to find a good tutor.
2. How did Helen
Keller behave before Miss Sulilvan came?
a. She was quiet and helpful.
b. She was playful and naughty.
c. She was wild and often angry. (Correct)
d. She was thin and sickly.
B. Answer these questions.
1. When and where
was Helen born?
She was born in 1880 in Alabama.
2. How was Helen
different after the illness?
After the illness, Helen could
not see or hear.
3. How did Miss
Sullivan help Helen?
Miss Sullivan made the letters
with special hand signs and spelt words in her hands.
4. What did Helen
learn when the teacher put her hand into running water?
When the teacher put her hand into running water and spelt W-A-T-E-R, Helen understood that water meant something wet. She also understood words were the most important things in the world.
C. Read these sentences from the text and
answer the questions that follow.
1. “Something is
very wrong,”
a. Who said these
words?
Helen’s mother said these words.
b. Whom was she
talking about?
She was talking about Helen.
c. Why did she say
that something was ‘wrong’?
She said this because the baby
was not responding.
2. She thought
about the joys it had brought her and, for the first time, longed for a new day
to come.
a. Who was ‘she’?
She was Helen Keller.
b. What was the ‘it’
she was thinking about?
‘It’ refers to ‘word’ which
opened her world of understanding.
c. Why was she looking
forward to a new day?
When Helen learned the words,
they made the world blossom to her, so she was looking forward to a new day.
D. THINK AND ANSWER.
1. What kind of
person was Miss Sullivan?
Miss Sullivan was strict but
kind. She was a good teacher and helped Helen Keller learn to see the world.
2. What was the most
important thing that Helen finally understood?
The most important thing that Helen
finally understood are the ‘words’ which tell everything one wants to know. Words
make the world blossom for her.
3. Why would Helen’s
world now ‘blossom’?
Her world would now ‘blossom’ because
words can explain everything to her. Now she would be able to understand
anything she wanted to know.
E. DISCUSS IN CLASS.
‘A teacher takes a
hand, opens a mind and touches a heart.’ Explain this in the context of Helen
Keller’s life.
This line explains the quality of
a good teacher. In this story we find the care and ability of Miss Sullivan to
teach a deaf and dumb girl like Helen Keller. Taking her hand, Miss Sullivan
uses it to explain the words that opened the understanding of Helen Keller. Finally,
Helen understood everything through words. She became a happier than ever.
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