Father’s Help : R K Narayan
Unit 1
Complete The Sentences
Read the text carefully and answer the following questions :
Lying in bed, Swami realized with a shudder that it was Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago it was Friday. Already Monday was here. He hoped he didn’t have to go to school.
At nine o’clock, Swaminathan wailed, “I have a headache.”
Mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home. At 9.30, when he ought to have been in the school prayer hall, Swami was lying on the bench in Mother’s room.
Father asked him, “Have you no school today?”
“Headache,” Swami replied.
“Nonsense! Dress up and go.”
“Headache!”
“Loaf about less on Sundays and you will be without a headache on Monday.”
Swami knew how strict his father could be. So he changed his tactics. “I can’t go so late to the class.”
“You’ll have to. It is your own fault.”
“What will the teacher think if I go so late?”
“Tell him you had a headache and so are late.”
“He will scold me if I say so.”
“Will he? Let us see. What is his name?”
“Samuel.”
“Does he always scold the students?”
“He is a very angry man. He is especially angry with boys who come in late. I wouldn’t like to go late to Samuel’s class.”
“If he is so angry, why not tell your headmaster about it?”
COMPLETE
2️⃣ Swami hoped that he would be asked not to ______________.
3️⃣ On Monday morning Swami hoped that ____________________.
4️⃣ Swaminathan complained about his headache at ___________________.
5️⃣ Swaminathan wailed that he ________________.
6️⃣ Mother told Swami that he might _________________.
7️⃣ At 9.30 Swaminathan was expected to be in ____________________.
8️⃣ At 9.30 Swaminathan should have been in _____________________.
9️⃣ Swaminathan’s father asked if he had no ___________________.
1️⃣0️⃣ Swaminathan was ordered to dress up and go to school by ____________________.
1️⃣1️⃣ Father suggested Swami to loaf ____________________.
1️⃣2️⃣ Swami will not have headache if ____________________.
1️⃣3️⃣ Knowing how strict his father is _____________________.
1️⃣4️⃣ According to Swami’s father, he will have to go to school because ______________.
1️⃣5️⃣ According to Swami’s father, Swami was late because of __________________.
1️⃣6️⃣ Swami knew if _________________.
1️⃣7️⃣ Swami’s father advised him to tell his teacher that __________________.
1️⃣8️⃣ Swami’s father wanted to know the name of ______________.
1️⃣9️⃣ To his father Swaminathan described Samuel as a _____________________.
2️⃣0️⃣ Swaminathan was not ready to go late to _______________________.
2️⃣1️⃣ Swami told his father that even the headmaster was afraid of ______________.
2️⃣2️⃣ According to Swaminathan, the headmaster of the school is afraid of ________________.
👇Answer Key
1️⃣ a shudder
2️⃣ go to school
3️⃣ he didn’t have to go to school
4️⃣ nine o’clock
5️⃣ had a headache
6️⃣ stay at home
7️⃣ the school prayer hall
8️⃣ the school prayer hall
9️⃣ school that day
1️⃣0️⃣ his father
1️⃣1️⃣ about less on Sundays
1️⃣2️⃣ he loafs about less on Sundays
1️⃣3️⃣ Swami changes his tactics
1️⃣4️⃣ it is his own fault
1️⃣5️⃣ his own fault
1️⃣6️⃣ he went so late to the class, the teacher would scold him
1️⃣7️⃣ he had a headache and so was late
1️⃣8️⃣ the teacher
1️⃣9️⃣ very angry man
2️⃣0️⃣ Samuel’s class
2️⃣1️⃣ Samuel
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