Basic English Speaking & Grammar, English Writing & Interview

Notes For All Chapters English Flamingo Class 12 The Interview Summary In English The lesson begins with the introduction to interview as a commonplace of journalism since its invention, which was a little over 130 years ago. According to the author, it is not very surprising that people have very distinct opinions about the usage […]

Notes For All Chapters English Flamingo Class 12 Poets and Pancakes Summary In English In this lesson, Asokamitran talks about Gemini Studios and all that helps in keeping it in the spotlight. He starts by making a mention about ‘Pancakes’, the famous make-up brand which Gemini Studios ordered in truckloads. He then talks about the […]

Notes For All Chapters English Flamingo Class 12 Indigo Summary In English In December 1916 Gandhi went to Lucknow to attend the annual convention of the Indian National Congress. There were 2,301 delegates and many visitors. A peasant from Champaran, Rajkumar Shukla, asked Gandhi to visit his district. Shukla followed Gandhi, wherever he went. In […]

Notes For All Chapters English Flamingo Class 12 The Rattrap Summary In English Once there was a man who went around selling small rattraps of wire. He made them himself but his business was not profitable. So, he had to beg and steal a bit to keep himself alive. His clothes were in rags, his […]

Notes For All Chapters English Flamingo Class 12 Deep Water Summary In English William 0. Douglas recalls a misadventure of childhood. It had happened when he was ten or eleven years old. He had decided to learn to swim. There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A. in Yakima, which was safe. It was only two […]

Notes For All Chapters English Flamingo Class 12 Lost Spring Summary In English I. “Sometimes I find a rupee in the garbage’ The author comes across Saheb every morning. Saheb left his home in Dhaka long time ago. He is trying to sponge gold in the heaps of garbage in the neighbourhood. The author asks […]

Notes For All Chapters English Flamingo Class 12 The Last Lesson Summary In English CBSE Franz started for school very late that morning. He was afraid of being scolded because M. Hamel was to question them on participles, and he did not know the first word about them. He thought of running away and spending […]

The Invisible Man Summary Chapterwise The Invisible Man Text Based Important Questions

Questions From Text Book Solved Question 1: Why was Mrs. Hall shocked to see the visitor when she came to him with a mustard pot? Answer: When Mrs. Hall put the mustard pot over the table in the strange visitor’s room and asked his hat to let dry, the visitor turned round, face-to-face with Mrs. […]

About the Novel First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, The Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison’s nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the […]

Silas Marner Summary Chapterwise Silas Marner Text Based Important Questions

Questions From Text Book Solved Question 1: How did the people of Raveloe regard Silas? Answer: The people of Raveloe distrusted and disliked Silas Marner because he was different from them and was not even a native of their town. He was a weaver who came to Raveloe from another place. His bulging brownish eyes […]

About the Novel Silas Marner was Eliot’s third novel and is among the best known of her works. Many of the novel’s themes and concerns stem from Eliot’s own life experiences. Silas’s loss of religious faith recalls Eliot’s own struggle with her faith, and the novel’s setting in the vanishing English countryside reflects Eliot’s concern […]

Up From Slavery Introduction & Summary Up From Slavery Text Based Important Questions

Questions From Text Book Solved Question 1: Describe the character traits of General Armstrong. Answer: General Armstrong was a man of principles. He dedicated his life for amelioration of the Blacks without displeasing the White people. He was a very noble and kind hearted person. Washington said that he was “a perfect man.” The student […]

Introduction Booker T. Washington was born on 5 April, 1856. He was an African-American educator, author and advisor to Republican presidents. He was born in Hale’s Ford, Virginia. His mother was a slave and father was white. He dominated the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. He urged a programme of […]

The Canterville Ghost Introduction & Summary The Canterville Ghost Text Based Important Questions

Questions from Text Book Solved Question 1: What is the theme of The Canterville Ghost’? Answer: The Canterville Ghost is a study in contrast. Wilde takes an American family, and places them in a British setting. Then, through a series of mishaps, he pits one culture against the other. His stereotypical characters represent both England […]

Introduction Oscar Wilde was born on 16 October, 1854 at 21 Westland Row, Dublin. He was born to Sir William Wilde and Jane Francesca. His parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Until he was nine, Oscar Wilde was educated at home. A French borne and a German governess taught him their languages at home. He then […]

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think about it Q1. How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tiger’s attitudes? Ans: Like all beasts of prey, the tigers are the denizens of the forest. They live far away from human settlements. They are called ‘chivalric.’ This indicates the […]

A Roadside Stand Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think about it Q1. The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or to the people who ran it. If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out? What was their complaint […]

A Thing of Beauty Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think it out Q1. List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem. Ans: Everything of nature is a thing of beauty and a source of pleasure. Some of them are: the sun, the moon, old and young trees, daffodil flowers, small streams with […]

Keeping Quiet Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think it out Question 1. What will counting up to twelve and keeping still help us achieve? Ans: Counting up to twelve takes very short time. Keeping still for this brief interval of time gives us a momentary pause to introspect and review the course of […]

An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think it out Question 1. Tick the item which best answers the following. (a)The tall girl with her head weighed down means The girl (i)is ill and exhausted (ii)has her head bent with shame (iii)has untidy hair. (b)The paper-seeming boy with […]

My Mother at Sixty Six Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think it out Question 1. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels? Ans: When the poet sees the pale and corpse-like face of her mother, her old familiar pain or the ache returns. Perhaps she has entertained this […]

Going Places Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think As you Read (Page No: 79) Question 1.Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school? Ans: Sophie and Jansie would soon pass out of their school. Only a few months were left. Jansie knew very well that both of […]

The Interview Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think As you Read (Page No: 69) Question 1. What are some of the positive views on interviews? Answer: Interview, in the 130 years of its existence, has become an inherent part of journalism. It is a useful means of communication that is, at times, considered […]

Poets and Pancakes Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think as You Read (Page no. 59) Question 1. What does the writer mean by ‘the fiery misery’ of those subjected to make-up’? Answer: The heat produced by the lights in the make-up room brought about a lot of discomfort to the actors in the […]

Indigo Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think as You Read (Page no. 47) Question 1. Strike out what is not true in the following: (a) Rajkumar Shukla was: (i) a sharecropper (ii)a politician (iii) delegate (iv)a landlord. (b) Rajkumar Shukla was: (i) poor (ii)physically strong (iii) illiterate. Ans: (a) (ii) a politician (b) […]

The Rattrap Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think as you read (Page no. 34) Question 1. From where did the peddler get the idea of the world being a rattrap? Ans: The peddler had been thinking of his rattraps when suddenly he was struck by the idea that the whole world was nothing […]

Deep Water Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think as You Read (Page no. 27) Question 1. What is the “misadventure ” that William Douglas speaks about? Ans. William O. Douglas had just learnt swimming. One day, an eighteen year old big bruiser picked him up and tossed him into the nine feet deep […]

Flamingo Prose Chapter 1: The Last Lesson Chapter 2: Lost Spring Chapter 3: Deep Water Chapter 4: The Rattrap Chapter 5: Indigo Chapter 6: Poets and Pancakes Chapter 7: The Interview Chapter 8: Going Places   Flamingo Poem Poem 1: My Mother at Sixty-six Poem 2: Keeping Quiet Poem 3: A Thing of Beauty Poem […]

Lost Spring Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think as You Read (Page no. 16) Question 1. What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from? Ans. Saheb is looking for gold in the garbage dumps. He is in the neighbourhood of the author. Saheb […]

The Last Lesson Solutions For All Chapters Flamingo Class 12 Think as You Read (Page no. 7) Question 1. What was Franz expected to be prepared with for school that day? Ans: That day Franz was expected to be prepared with participles because M. Hamel had said that he would question them on participles. Franz […]

Memories of Childhood Solutions For All Chapters Vistas Class 12 Reading With Insight Question 1.The two accounts that you have read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them? Ans. The two accounts given in the unit ‘Memories of Childhood’ are based in two distant […]