CLASS 11 · WOVEN WORDS · CHAPTER 6
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Textbook pages Understanding the Text
Question Understanding the Text 1
Mention shared crowded housing, simple meals, and careful budgeting.
He shares crowded rooms and facilities, eats inexpensive food, and carefully limits his spending.
Question Understanding the Text 2
Compare shared Bengali life in London with the narrator's gradual learning of American routines.
He adapts through work, shared living, simple routines, and learning local customs while retaining Bengali habits.
Question Understanding the Text 3
Include her strictness, eccentric pride, age, and growing trust in the narrator.
Mrs Croft is strict and eccentric but also vulnerable; she gradually trusts and appreciates the narrator.
Question Understanding the Text 4
Mention Helen's regular practical care and Mrs Croft's independent life.
Helen visits and helps her mother, while Mrs Croft continues to live independently.
Question Understanding the Text 5
Describe the cultural contrasts and Mala's gradual movement from homesickness to comfort.
Mala is homesick and uncertain at first, then gradually adjusts as she and the narrator build a shared life.
Question Understanding the Text 6
Trace the repeated conversations and small acts of kindness that build trust.
Their nightly ritual and the narrator's kindness create affection and respect between the two strangers.
Textbook pages Talking about the Text
Question Talking about the Text 1
Cover practical changes, homesickness, and the gradual role of support.
New routines, language, work, and distance from family can be difficult; patience and relationships help people adjust.
Question Talking about the Text 2
Discuss joint-family support while recognising variation and Mrs Croft's arrangement.
Some families share care across generations, but arrangements vary; Mrs Croft lives alone with regular help from her daughter.
Question Talking about the Text 3
Use Mrs Croft's repeated moon-landing ritual and explain how familiarity changes it.
A distinctive habit can become affectionate through familiarity, as the narrator's shared ritual with Mrs Croft shows.
Textbook pages Appreciation
Question Appreciation 1
Explain how memories of his mother and Mala illuminate the narrator's present experience.
Family memories are linked to present events, adding emotional depth to the migration story.
Question Appreciation 2
Show how six weeks of routine and respect made Mrs Croft's life meaningful to him.
Brief, kind encounters created a lasting bond, so the narrator genuinely mourns Mrs Croft.
Question Appreciation 3
Use examples from Mrs Croft, the narrator, and Mala to connect speech with character.
Their speech reflects Mrs Croft's directness, the narrator's reserve, and Mala's early homesickness and later warmth.
Question Appreciation 4
Name a few awkward language or Mrs Croft moments and explain their affectionate tone.
Language mix-ups and Mrs Croft's commands create gentle, affectionate humour about adjustment.
Textbook pages Language Work
Question Language Work 1
Explain tea as a familiar English custom and the warning to expect different American routines.
Tea stands for familiar English habits; the phrase humorously warns that American routines will differ.
Question Language Work 2
Describe the shopkeeper's explanation of the two words.
A salesman explains that an insulated bottle is a thermos in American usage, while a flask may mean an alcohol container.
Question Language Work 3
Link the mishearing to unfamiliar accent, fast connected speech, and limited context.
An unfamiliar accent and connected speech make the words hard to recognise until he gains experience.
Question Language Work 4
List familiar British and American vocabulary pairs.
lift/elevator, flat/apartment, lorry/truck, pavement/sidewalk, petrol/gas, holiday/vacation, trainers/sneakers.
Question Language Work 5
Give a short definition of each house or entrance area.
Parlour: sitting room; foyer/lobby: entrance areas; lounge: relaxing room; porch/portico: covered entrance; attic: space under roof.