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39 English -- Expressing Conditions (I)

   Read the text again, and answer the following questions.          Who composed this poem?           What did the students do in the absence of their teacher?             What did the angel reveal to the students?              How does the speaker in the first stanza spend time for th...


  1.    Read the text again, and answer the following questions.




    1.           Who composed this poem?




    2.            What did the students do in the absence of their teacher?




    3.             What did the angel reveal to the students?




    4.              How does the speaker in the first stanza spend time for the full two hours?




    5.              Why does the speaker in the second stanza think being in the class is          important?




    6.               What does the speaker say in the third stanza regarding the value of education?



    7.        Education enlightens people with wisdom.' Does the speaker in the fourth stanza          agree with this statement? How?




    8.             What does the last stanza suggest?



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a.   Who composed this poem?

Ans: Tom Wayland composed this poem.

 

b.   What did the students do in the absence of their teacher?

Ans: The students sat silently folding their hands on their desks in the absence of their teacher.


c.   What did the angel reveal to the students?

Ans: The angel revealed to the students what each woman or man must do to attain divine wisdom in this life     and hereafter.


d.  How does the speaker in the first stanza spend time for the full two hours?

Ans: The speaker in the first stanza spends time for the full two hours in complete silence.



e.   Why does the speaker in the second stanza think being in the class is important?

Ans: The speaker in the second stanza thinks being in the class is important because things taught in the       classroom are asked in the examination.



f.  What does the speaker say in the third stanza regarding the value of education? 

Ans: The speaker in the third stanza says that education is useless and valueless.



g.   'Education enlightens people with wisdom.' Does the speaker in the fourth     stanza agree with this statement? How?

Ans: Yes, the speaker in the fourth stanza agrees with the statement that 'Education enlightens  people with  wisdom.' He argues that an angel descended and told them what a man or woman must do to achieve            divine wisdom.

 

h.   What does the last stanza suggest?

Ans:  The last stanza  suggests that classroom is the only place where there  are shared  experiences  but the    students have missed the class.

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assign = to provide a person a particular taskdescend = to come or go down from a higher to a lower levelreveal = to make something known to somebodyassemble = to bring people, ideas or things together as a group

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a. The teachers assign us homework every day.


b. The climbers have descended to the bottom of the mountain.


c. We shouldn't reveal our secrets to anyone.


d. The students always assemble in the ground for prayer.

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