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Have you ever changed your opinion about someone or something that you had earlier liked or disliked? Narrate what led you to change your mind.


Franz’s dislike for his teacher M. Hamel is nine out of ten opinions formed about people initially and change gradually in many cases. But same is very little true in case of opinion of likes changing to dislikes. But in case of majority of the students of my school it happened so. One always has a room for second opinion.

Next day after the summer vacation at school, we got a new teacher of History. He almost regularly spoke on typical events in the assembly. Not only I but many others also developed liking for him. But the time was not far off when we were astonished to hear him always boast of himself and his family and a foreign land all the time.

Soon all were taken aback to hear him uttering filthy words and abusive language all the time, for anyone whosoever and on every matter whatsoever. We even overheard other teacher¹s talk about his uncultured habits and uncivilized behaviour most of the time. Such persons betray others from their path of goodness and themselves would never shun their hypocrisy.

I changed my first opinion about him and now dislike him like most others because such persons incur more harm to students community than any benefit of their teaching. But like the village people the old Hauser, the former Mayor, the former postmaster and others, can anyone expect us, to thank and respect such a person truly. Of course, not.

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Write a paragraph of about 100 words arguing for or against having to study three languages at school.


Find out about the following: You may go to the internet, interview people, consult reference books or visit a library.

(a) linguistic human rights


M. Hamel had said that he would question us on Participles. In the sentence above, the verb form “had said” in the first part is used to indicate an “earlier past.” The whole story is narrated in the Past. M. Ilamel’s “saying” happened earlier than the events in this story. This form of the verb is called the Past Perfect.

Pick out five sentences from the story with this form of the verb and say why this form has been used.


Write a notice for your school bulletin- board. Your notice could be an announcement of a forthcoming event, or a requirement to be fulfilled, or a rule to be followed.


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