Subject: English

Topic: Dusk

Grade: VIII

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  Hector Hugh Munro
 Pen name: Saki
 British Writer
 A master of the short story form
 Born in Burma
 Educated in England
 Short stint with the Burmese
Imperial Police
 Became a journalist

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  Political satirist (wrote and illustrated humourous presentation and
criticisms about politicians and the government)

 Ridiculed false values of the society

 Short stories with surprise and unexpected endings made him very
famous

 ‘Tobermory’, ‘Open Window’, ‘Reginald’ etc. are his famous stories

 Enlisted as a common soldier for WWI.

 Rose along the ranks to become a sergeant.

 Killed in the war in France (1916)

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 Activity 1- Pick out the words/ phrases/time
related to ‘evening’

eventide dawn noon sun rise

close of the
twilight 7.00 p.m. morning
day

midday nightfall 12.00 sundown

sunset 8 a.m. 18:45 dusk

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 Activity 1- Pick out the words/ phrases/time
related to ‘evening’- Answers

eventide dawn noon sun rise

close of the
twilight 7.00 p.m. morning
day

midday nightfall 12.00 sundown

sunset 8 a.m. 18:45 dusk

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 deserted : empty of people

harmonised : coordinated, matched, correlated

shabby : in poor condition through long use or lack of care

temper : a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being

angry or calm

shilling : a unit of British currency, 20 shillings= 1 pound (£)

pence : a unit of British currency, plural of penny

12 pennies = 1 shilling
240 pennies = 1 pound (approx Rupees 85.58)

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 Instructions:
• Finds the words/ phrases from your textbook.
• Fill in the grid horizontally, one letter in one box
only.
• The answer is the word (read vertically) that is
formed by the letters filled in the highlighted
squares in the grid.

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 1
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3 I
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• Clues- (Time limit: 5 minutes)
1. The _______ in your story is that you can’t produce the soap.
2. It was a pity, the soap was the one ______ in the whole story.
3. Given- letter already filled in
4. Yet it was just that _______ that brought him grief.
5. … don’t lose it again, it’s been a ______ to you.
6. The important _____ to the genuineness of your story has
turned up.
7. Gortsby saw lying on the ground, … , a small _____, wrapped
and sealed by a chemist.
8. The answer to “Have you lost anything, sir?”- “Yes, sir, a ___.”

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 Answer- Activity 2

1 W E A K P I ON T
2 C O N V I N C I NG T O U C H
3 I
4 L I T T L E D E T A I L
5 G OO D F R I E N D
6 W I T N E S S
7 O V A L P A C K E T
8 C A K E O F S O A P

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 Discuss –

How important is the time of presenting

the ‘evidence’.

Discuss with reference to this story.

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