How Teachers Learn | chapter 1 English 8th JKBOSE/NCERT | Tulip Series

Working with text

Q1. Who was Nora? How did she become a friend of the teacher?

Ans: Nora was a five-year-old girl who became friends with her teacher after the teacher visited her family over a weekend.

Q2. How did the teacher observe Nora while learning?

Ans: Most of the time, the teacher would sit quietly and observe Nora, but sometimes he noticed her struggling with reading certain words or phrases. In those instances, he encouraged her to keep going and sometimes offered help to read the words correctly.

Q3. What odd thing happened with Nora? Why was the teacher puzzled?

Ans: The teacher noticed an odd occurrence when Nora couldn't read a word correctly that she had previously read correctly on a different page or paragraph. This puzzled and confused the teacher.

Q4. Was Nora a careless child? How do you know?

Ans: Nora was indeed a bright and intelligent student. She was not careless and read the book with full focus. The teacher noticed the odd occurrence of her not being able to read a word correctly that she had previously read correctly, which puzzled and confused him despite Nora's overall attentiveness and intelligence.

Q5. How should a teacher understand the problems of the children?

Ans: To understand the learning problems of students, a teacher must see things through a child's eyes. This helps in providing effective support and empathy during their learning process.

Q6. What experiences popped into the teacher’s mind after Nora’s learning problem.

Ans: The teacher came across a page in an Indian language script that he couldn't understand, making the words look like a jumble. Nora faced a similar learning problem, as some words also appeared confusing to her.

Q7. Why are the children of unlettered homes at a disadvantage?

Ans: Children from unlettered homes face a disadvantage because no one at home can teach them. As a result, they remain unfamiliar with the shapes and patterns of letters.

Q8. How did the child learn from Nora?

Ans: To understand children's learning problems, a teacher must see things from their perspective. For a child experiencing the world for the first time, remembering words can be difficult.

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Language Work

1. In the text, the author keeps using the American expression, ‘to figure out’. Which of the
   
   
   following words or phrases is closest in meaning to the expression as it is used in the
   
   
   passage?
   
   
   (a) To guess (b) to recognize (c) to reason out (d) to decide Answer (b) To recognize

2. He taught me to play the piano.

I learned to play it.

These two sentences describe the same action from different points of view. Now write a second sentence for each of the sentences below in the same way.

(a) He loaned me some clothes.

I had made a new suit.

(b) He sold me an old piano.

I bought it.

(c) He chased me.

I  ran away

(d) I gave him a glass of water.

He took it.

(e) We conquered the enemy.

They got defeated.

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3. Some suffixes (like -al, -ial, -ish , -py, -ous, -ine, -ly etc.) are added to nouns to form adjectives. e.g. orient ——-oriental ; nation ——national; child—– childish; friend ——friendly.

Now form adjectives from the following nouns by using suffixes.

 

Noun	Adjective
Alphabet	Alphabetical
Angel	Angelic
Shape	Shaped , shapeless
Book	Bookish
Man	Mannish, manly
Government	Governmental
Minister	Ministerial
Elephant	Elephantine
Tiger	Tigerish
Day	Daily
College	Collegiate

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4. Message prepared from telephonic conversation.

Dear Asif Khalid had called me and has asked to convey to you that he has to complete an office assignment and shall be one hour late for dinner at Ahdoos. Rauf

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Grammar Work

I- Fill in the blanks by using the past participle form of the given verbs.

write rent forget break cook

1. I am living in a rented
   house.
2. It is not safe to sit in a broken chair.
3. Some people do not like cooked vegetables.
4. The headmaster wanted a written report
5. That is a forgotten quallel.

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II- Using the words and phrases given, make sentences like in the example given below.

Example: we / the doors / have / painted / shall .

We shall have the doors painted

1. made / I / a new suit / had.
2. she / heard / has never /spoken / French.
3. respected / makes / his knowledge / him.
4. I / your name / heard / called
5. work / we / want his / quickly / done.

Answer

1. I had made a new suit.
2. She has never heard spoken French.
3. His knowledge makes him respected.
4. I heard your name called.
5. We want his work done quickly.