Prose section
Unit 1.2 On Saying please
Activities with Expected answers
ExtractNo. 01
Page no 14/15 [ Lines, “The Young………..these matters”]
Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow :
A1. True or False : (02)
State whether the following statements are true or false.
i) The passenger was thrown out of lift for being impolite. (T)
ii) The law can compel us to say ha” please” (F)
iii) If we were given the liberty to box people’s ears there would be violence.(T)
iv) Bitter problems in a day-to-day life can be solved by sweet words.(T)
The young lift-man in a City office who threw a passenger out of his lift the other morning and was fined for the offence was undoubtedly in the wrong. It was a question of ‘Please’. The complainant entering the lift, said, ‘Top’. The lift-man demanded ‘Top-please’ and this concession being refused he not only declined to comply with the instruction, but hurled the passenger out of the lift. This, of course was carrying a comment on manner too far. Discourtesy is not a legal offence, and it does not excuse assault and battery. If a burglar breaks into my house and I knock him down, the law will acquit me, and if I am physically assaulted, it will permit me to retaliate with reasonable violence. It does this because the burglar and my assailant have broken quite definite commands of the law, but no legal system could attempt to legislate against bad manners, or could sanction the use of violence against something which it does not itself recognize as a legally punishable offence. And whatever our sympathy with the lift-man, we must admit that the law is reasonable. It would never do if we were at liberty to box people’s ears because we did not like their behaviour, or the tone of their voices, or the scowl on their faces. Our fists would never be idle, and the gutters of the City would run with blood all day.
I may be as uncivil as I may please and the law will protect me against violent retaliation. I may be haughty or boorish and there is no penalty to pay except the penalty of being written down an ill-mannered fellow. The law does not compel me to say ‘please’ or to attune my voice to other people’s sensibilities any more than it says that I shall not wax my moustache or dye my hair or wear ringlets down my back. It does not recognize the laceration of our feelings as a case for compensation. There is no allowance for moral and intellectual damages in these matters.
A1. Complete : (02)
Choose the correct alternatives and complete the following sentences.
i) The lift man insisted that the person should say……………
a) Please b) Top-please c) Top d) stop
ii) No legal system in the world has attempted to legislate against……………………….
a) Murder b) assault c) robbery d) bad manners
iii) The only penalty a haughty or boorish person have to pay if he is uncivil is………..
a) Punishment b) boycott
c) being written down as an ill-mannered d) prison
iv) ………………………. Is not a legal offence.
a) Cheating b) smuggling c) mugging d) Dishonesty
A1. Summarise : (02)
Select two most appropriate sentences which suggest the theme of the extract.
1) Etiquette and manners are very important for a person to live in a society.
2) Being civilised is more important than being educated.
3) The extract deals with types of manners and funny incidents of rude people.
4) The writer wants to highlight the point that law can punish you if you are rude.
A2. Give reasons : (02)
The narrator says that the law is reasonable because …………………..
Discourtesy is not a legal offence as per law. A person who tries to defend himself in an assault Or battery reasonably can be freed by the law, but at the same time you can be punished if you Violet or break the law beyond the specified rules.
A3. Interpret : (02)
Interpret the statement,” It would never do if we were at liberty to box people’s ears.”
The above statement says that law does not permit you to use violence or punish somebody as per your whims and fancies .The law is very clear and reasonable. If people will decide what is Right or wrong,there would be violence everywhere and people will kill each other in every nook and corner.It will be a complete chaos and there will be bloodshed on roads and gutters.
A4. Personal Response : (02)
Suggest some ways to encourage people to adopt social behaviour write in about Fifty words.
A5. Language study : (02)
i) Discourtesy is not a legal offence. ( Frame a Rhetorical question)
Is discourtesy a legal offence?
ii) If I am physically assaulted, it will permit me to retaliate with reasonable violence.
(Rewrite using “Unless”)
Unless I am physically assaulted, it will not permit me to retaliate with reasonable violence.
iii) No legal system could attempt to legislate against bad manners.
(Make it Interrogative)
Could any legal system attempt to legislate against bad manners?
iv) We must admit that the law is reasonable.
(Replace the Modal Auxiliary by another showing,” Advice/suggestions”)
We should admit that the law is reasonable.
v) We did not like their behaviour. (Make it Affirmative)
We disliked their behaviour.
vi) The law will protect me against violent retaliation.
(Make it less definite)
The law may/might protect me against violent retaliation.
vii) There is no penalty to pay. (Frame a Rhetorical question)
Is there any penalty to pay?
viii) There is no allowance for moral and intellectual damages in these matters.
(Frame a Rhetorical question)
Is there any allowance for moral and intellectual damages in these matters?
A6. Vocabulary : (02)
Find out words from the extract which mean the following.
a) One who files a complaint = complainant
b) Rude = boorish
c) Proud = haughty
d) To throw = hurled
A6. Vocabulary : (02)
Write down the Antonyms of the words from the extract.
a) Convict x acquit
b) Unreasonable x reasonable
c) Illegal x legal
d) nonviolence x violence
e) Civil x uncivil
A6. Vocabulary : (02)
Prepare a word Register for the word, “LAW”
Offence, complainant, assault, battery, acquit, legislate, violence, punishable, legally, compensation
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