RAYAT SHIKSHAN SANSTHA’S

WESTERN REGION ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOL

SUBJECT – ENGLISH CLASS – IX
LESSON NAME – THE NECKLACE (PART I)

Instructions-
• Notes to be copied neatly in the notebook.
• Read the textbook well.
Vocabulary :
• Aristocrat – a person of high social rank.
• Entitled – deserving
• Luxuries – great comfort
• Tormented – tortured
• Despair – hopeless
• Triumph – victory
• Resentfully – showing feeling of anger or displeasure
• Anxious – worried
• Fastened – lock
• Hesitating – to be reluctant
• Rapturously – with great joy
Q1) Read each of the following aloud. Write who said it and to whom.
a) “Look, here’s something for you.”
Ans: Mathilde’s husband said this to Mathilde.
b) “Why, the dress you go to the theatre in!”
Ans: Mathilde’s husband said to Mathilde.
c) “I would rather not go to the party.”
Ans: Mathilde said to her husband Mr.Loisel.
 d) “Choose, my dear.”
Ans: Mathilde’s friend Madame Forestier said to Mathilde.
Q2) Write what you think about the following thoughts and actions of
Mathilde.
a) Mathilde was beautiful and so she wanted to marry an aristocrat.
Ans: I think that this is a natural but childish wish. What Mathilde does not
realize is that happiness does not lie in money or status. It depends on the
character of a person.
b) Mathilde was sad because she did not get any luxuries.
Ans: Mathilde was dissatisfied with her life.She was selfish and wanted
more and more from life.
c) Mathilde was not happy to see the invitation.
Ans: Mathilde had no rich dresses, no jewels, nothing, so she was not happy
to see the invitation.
d) Mathilde lost the necklace.
Ans: Mathilde was very careless and so thrilled with all the admiration that
she forgot everything. She should have taken care and not been so
irresponsible, especially when she was wearing borrowed jewels.
Q3) Answer the following questions.
1) Why was Mathilde married to a ‘minor official’?
Ans: Mathilde, a pretty and charming girl, was born into a family of clerks.
She had no means of becoming known, understood, loved or be wedded to
an aristocrat. So she was married to a ‘minor official’.
2) What did the envelope hold?
Ans: The envelope held an invitation for a party at the Ministry of
Education.
3) Why did Mathilde go her friend’s house and tell her of her distress?
Ans: Mathilde did not have any jewel to wear in the party, so she went to her
friend’s house and told her of her distress.
4) Why did Mathilde not notice the loss of her necklace earlier?
Ans: Mathilde was enjoying herself so much at the party,dancing wildly with
passion that she just floated on a cloud of happiness in the triumph of her
beauty and success and forget everything around her.
Worksheet-
Read the extract carefully and do the activities. (Page No.19 and 20)
The day of the party…………………………………………………………...
……………………………………………………….as she looked at herself.
Q1) What did Madame Forestier’s large box contain?
Q2) What was Mathilde’s reaction when she openedthe black satin box?
Q3) Form adverds form: a) uncontrolled b) fashionable.
Q4) She saw some bracelets. (Change the voice)
Q5) Just imagine you were getting ready for a party. Write in your own
words about your preparation for the party.
• Prepare a formal invitation using the format is given on page no.21.