Activity Sheet

Unit 1.3

The Turning Point Of My Life (Part II) 

Read the lesson carefully and try to solve these activities. 

A1) Complete the sentence by using right alternative. 

     1) The Idea that the narrator got in his idleness 

1.     to continue his practice in village 
2.     to write a novel 
3.     look after cattle 

     2) The first week at Fyne Farm 

1. was very happy 
2. the narrator was very active in this week 
3. it made him crazy 

     3) The narrator had been advised by the doctor to 

1. pursue sports 
2. not to write too much 
3. not to do much activities 

     4) The narrator's wife 

1. fully encouraged his illusions of writing 
2. fully discouraged his illusions of writing 
3. tactfully ignored his illusions of writing 

A2) Guess : 

     The narrator compared himself with the poet in Daudet's  'Jack' .

A3) Explain : 

     The words of narrator's schoolmaster encouraged him to write 

A4)  1) Rearrange the events in a proper sequence. 

1.  He was advised to take six month complete rest in a farm house outside the town.
2.  He started living in Fyne Farm near the village Tarbert in the Scottish Highlands.
3. The doctor set up his practice in the West End of London.
4. He himself was diagnosed with gastric ulcer.

       2) Rearrange the events in a proper sequence.

1. He remembered his school masters's encouraging words " If it stops in your head, it will always be nothing. Get it down." 
2. He felt the enforced idleness more agonizing 
3. he decided to write a novel thinking his enforced rest, an opportunity.
4. He couldn't even succeed in writing an opening phrase of his novel.

A5) Complete the web. Mention the naive fundamentals to complete the novel that writer had mentioned.

A6) Mention : 

       The difficulties that the narrator has faced while completing his novel. 

A7) Complete the web with the help of given clue. 

A8) Mention : 

     Your reaction when you faced many difficulties while achieving your target or goal.