Prose section Unit 1.2
On saying please
Extract No. 03
Activities with expected answers
Page no. 15/16 [ Lines, “ But Though ……………service”]
Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:
A1. True or False : (02)
State whether the following statements are True or False.
a) Being civil is utmost important. (T)
b) We should acknowledge a service. (T)
c) Commands can be used in day to day life to deal with people. (F)
d) Courtesies help the machine of life to run sweetly. (T)
But though we are bound to endorse the verdict against the lift-man most people will have certain sympathy with him. While it is true that there is no law that compels us to say ‘Please’, there is a social practice much older and much more sacred than any law which enjoins us to be civil. And the first requirement of civility is that we should acknowledge a service. ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ are the small change with which we pay our way as social beings. They are the little courtesies by which we keep the machine of life oiled and running sweetly. They put our intercourse upon the basis of a friendly cooperation an easy give and take, instead of on the basis of superiors dictating to inferiors. It is a very vulgar mind that would wish to command where he can have the service for asking, and have it with willingness and good feeling instead of resentment.
I should like to ‘feature’ in this connection my friend, the polite conductor. By this discriminating title, I do not intend to suggest a rebuke to conductors generally. On the contrary, I am disposed to think that there are few classes of men who come through the ordeal of a very trying calling better than bus conductors do. Here and there you will meet an unpleasant specimen who regards the passengers as his natural enemies - as creatures whose chief purpose on the bus is to cheat him, and who can only be kept reasonably honest by a loud voice and an aggressive manner. But this type is rare - rarer than it used to be. I fancy the public owes much to the Underground Railway Company, which also runs the buses, for insisting on a certain standard of civility in its servants and taking care that that standard is observed. In doing this it not only makes things pleasant for the travelling public, but performs an important social service.
A2. Describe : (02)
Describe the impact of good temper and kindliness on the society in the light of the good-mannered conductor.
The conductor in this extract is very polite with the narrator ……………. (Practice Activity)
A2. Explain : (02)
Explain what can be the basis of our day to day communication.
Friendly cooperation and easy give and take, instead of on the basis of superiors dictating to inferiors. It is a very vulgar mind that would wish to command where he can have the service for asking, and have it with willingness and good feeling instead of resentment(anger)
A4. Personal Response : (02)
"The first requirement of civility Is that we should acknowledge a service.” share your thoughts on this in about Fifty words.
A5. Language study (02)
i) Though we are bound to endorse the verdict against the lift-man most people will have certain sympathy with him.
(Rewrite the sentence using” but’ conjunction)
We are bound to endorse the verdict against the lift-man but most people will have certain Sympathy with him.
ii) We should acknowledge a service.
(Replace the modal by another showing ,”obligation / Compulsion)
Select your answer from the options
a) We can acknowledge a service.
b) We will acknowledge a science.
C) We must/ought to acknowledge a service.
d) We might acknowledge a service.
iii) It is a very vulgar mind that would wish to command.
(Make it Exclamatory)
Select your answer from the options.
a)How vulgar mind it is that would wish to command.
b)What a vulgar mind it is that would wish to command!
c) it is really a vulgar mind that would wish to command.
d) A vulgar mind would not wish to command.
iv) You will meet an unpleasant specimen.
(Make it less definite)
You may/might meet an unpleasant specimen.
A6. Vocabulary : (02)
Find out words from the extract which mean the following.
a) Communication or conversation = intercourse
b) Suffering = ordeal
c) Anger = Resentment
d) To speak angrily = Rebuke
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Activities prepared by
TUSHAR J BAGWE
K J SOMAIYA COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND COMMERCE VIDYAVIHAR EAST MUMBAI 77
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