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+2 UNIT 5 LESSON 3 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (STORY) By R K Narayan

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It is a humorous short story. This story really proves the old saying, “spare the rod and spoil the child”. It highlights the truth that over caring and over parenting spoil the child. This story brings out a comical situation between a teacher and his naughty student. The boy was preparing a test in arithmetic. The test was scheduled and the teacher was preparing the naughty student for the test. The student provokes the angry teacher by repeating the wrong answer. At last the teacher beats the little boy.  When the boy started crying the teacher becomes very upset. The boy’s parents were against giving punishments. He is afraid that the boy’s parents would know this. They were very rich. The boy was their only child and they did not like anybody beating him.  The teacher knew this truth and tried to console the boy. The boy put forward a condition before the teacher. If he allowed him to play he would not disclose the truth. At last the teacher obeyed  and the boy wan...

+2 UNIT 5 LESSON 2 THIS IS GOING TO HURT A LITTLE BIT (POEM) By Ogden Nash

Write an appreciation of the poem, “This is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit” The poem, “This is going to hurt just a little bit”  written by Ogden Nash is a very funny poem. It is filled with exaggerations, puns and metaphors. It describes the feeling of a person going to a dentist. The poet portrays the unpleasant experience of sitting in a dentist chair with fear and terror. In the beginning of the poem, the poet shares his unpleasant experience of sitting in a dentist chair. He expresses his dislike in opening his mouth wide open. Then he describes both physical and mental tortures related with it. He humorously attributes these tortures as dental. The poet also writes about the different ugly expressions made by patient’s fingers on his palm. It makes serious changes in one’s life line, love line or some other important line. Next the poet compares one’s mouth to a damaged road where repair work is going on. The mouth appears to be a place with stone-crushers, concrete...

+2 UNIT 5 LESSON 1 POST EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS (ONE ACT PLAY) By R H WOOD

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It is a one act play which depicts the humorous incidents  in a village post office. This story takes place in a Christmas season. The theme of the play is centred on a parcel booked by a foreigner in the post office. The news  of bombs in the parcels of some nearby post offices make the people fearful It is this fear that made the panic situation more terrible. They become more fearful by the tickling sound from one of the parcels. The assistant of the Post Office calls the police. The police confirm the presence of bomb in the parcel of the foreigner. They immerse it in a bucket of water to defuse it. The foreigner who returns to take his hat from the post office is astonished to see this. It becomes very humorous when the foreigner reveals the truth that the parcel was not a bomb but a precious time piece. The foreigner becomes angry and goes to meet the post master general to file a complaint. In the end the assistant resigns job in the post office. SUMMAR...

+2 UNIT 4 LESSON 3 DANGERS OF DRUG ABUSE

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It is an essay written by Dr.Hardin B Jones It is a warning against the excessive use of drugs. Speaks about the people’s wrong notion of pills to cure any disease. People use stimulant drugs at the time of nervousness. People use drugs both at depressed time and good time. It is only to forget the problems the people use drugs. Medicines should be distinguished from sensual drugs Accoring to Hippocrates, the Father of medicine, a remedy should treat not only the diseases but also the constitution of the patient. The sensual drugs stimulate the brain’s pleasure centres and gets a strong sense of pleasure Drugs really upset our sensations, moods, thoughts and actions. Drugs never give total satisfaction. There are lot of drug disorders. Dirty needles and solutions can cause abscesses in the arms and veins. The excessive use of drugs can cause liver disease, venereal disease and infection of the kidney and brain. Sniffing cocaine and amphetamines can damage the tissue of...