NCERT Class 11 English The Portrait of a Lady

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NCERT Book for Class 11 English Hornbill Chapter 1 The Portrait of a Lady

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Hornbill Chapter 1 The Portrait of a Lady NCERT Book Class 11

 

The Portrait of a Lady

MY grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather’s portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore a big turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest and he looked at least a hundred years old. He did not look the sort of person who would have a wife or children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren. As for my grandmother being young and pretty, the thought was almost revolting. She often told us of the games she used to play as a child. That seemed quite absurd and undignified on her part and we treated it like the fables of the Prophets she used to tell us.

She had always been short and fat and slightly bent. Her face was a criss-cross of wrinkles running from everywhere to everywhere. No, we were certain she had always been as we had known her. Old, so terribly old that she could not have grown older, and had stayed at the same age for twenty years. She could never have been pretty; but she was always beautiful. She hobbled about the house in spotless white with one hand resting on her waist to balance her stoop and the other telling the beads of her rosary. Her silver locks were scattered untidily over her pale, puckered face, and her lips constantly moved in inaudible prayer. Yes, she was beautiful. She was like the winter landscape in the mountains, an expanse of pure white serenity breathing peace and contentment.

My grandmother and I were good friends. My parents left me with her when they went to live in the city and we were constantly together. She used to wake me up in the morning and get me ready for school. She said her morning prayer in a monotonous sing-song while she bathed and dressed me in the hope that I would listen and get to know it by heart; I listened because I loved her voice but never bothered to learn it. Then she would fetch my wooden slate which she had already washed and plastered with yellow chalk, a tiny earthen ink-pot and a red pen, tie them all in a bundle and hand it to me. After a breakfast of a thick, stale chapatti with a little butter and sugar spread on it, we went to school. She carried several stale chapattis with her for the village dogs.

My grandmother always went to school with me because the school was attached to the temple. The priest taught us the alphabet and the morning prayer. While the children sat in rows on either side of the verandah singing the alphabet or the prayer in a chorus, my grandmother sat inside reading the scriptures. When we had both finished, we would walk back together. This time the village dogs would meet us at the temple door. They followed us to our home growling and fighting with each other for the chapattis we threw to them.

When my parents were comfortably settled in the city, they sent for us. That was a turning-point in our friendship. Although we shared the same room, my grandmother no longer came to school with me. I used to go to an English school in a motor bus. There were no dogs in the streets and she took to feeding sparrows in the courtyard of our city house.

As the years rolled by we saw less of each other. For some time she continued to wake me up and get me ready for school. When I came back she would ask me what the teacher had taught me. I would tell her English words and little things of western science and learning, the law of gravity, Archimedes’ Principle, the world being round, etc. This made her unhappy. She could not help me with my lessons. She did not believe in the things they taught at the English school and was distressed that there was no teaching about God and the scriptures. One day I announced that we were being given music lessons. She was very disturbed. To her music had lewd associations. It was the monopoly of harlots and beggars and not meant for gentlefolk. She said nothing but her silence meant disapproval. She rarely talked to me after that.

Understanding the text

The tasks cover the entire text and help in summarising the various phases of the autobiographical account and are based on the facts presented. (Factual and global comprehension)

1 Ask the students to read the text silently, paragraph by paragraph, and get a quick oral feedback on what the main points of each are. For example: Para1– description of grandmother and grandfather’s photograph.

2 At the end of the unit ask students to answer the comprehension questions first orally and then in writing in point form.

For example, when he went to the:

– village school

– city school

– university

Talking about the text

Peer interaction about the text is necessary before students engage in writing tasks. The questions raised in this section elicit subjective responses to the facts in the text and also open up possibilities for relating the events to the reader’s own life and establish the universality of the kind of relationship and feelings described in the text. (Subjective responses to the text and establishing real-life relevance)

Thinking about language

The questions here try to:

1 make the reader visualise the language that must have been used by the author and his grandmother

2 think about their own home language

1 find equivalents in their language for English phrases

2 relate to songs with emotional import in their own language. (Multilingualism and multiculturalism)


Please refer to attached file for NCERT Class 11 English The Portrait of a Lady

Hornbill Chapter 01 The Portrait of a Lady
NCERT Class 11 English The Portrait of a Lady
Hornbill Chapter 02 Were Not Afraid to Die
NCERT Class 11 English Were Not Afraid to Die
Hornbill Chapter 03 Discovering Tut : the Saga Continues
NCERT Class 11 English Discovering Tut the Saga Continues
Hornbill Chapter 04 Landscape of the Soul
NCERT Class 11 English Landscape of the Soul
Hornbill Chapter 05 The Ailing Planet: the Green Movements Role
NCERT Class 11 English The Ailing Planet
Hornbill Chapter 06 The Browning Version
NCERT Class 11 English The Browning Version
Hornbill Chapter 07 The Adventure
NCERT Class 11 English The Adventure
Hornbill Chapter 08 Silk Road
NCERT Class 11 English Silk Road
Hornbill Writing Section Chapter 01 Note-making
NCERT Class 11 English Note making
Hornbill Writing Section Chapter 02 Summarising
NCERT Class 11 English Summarising
Hornbill Writing Section Chapter 03 Sub-titling
NCERT Class 11 English Sub titling
Hornbill Writing Section Chapter 04 Essay-writing
NCERT Class 11 English Essay writing
Hornbill Writing Section Chapter 05 Letter-writing
NCERT Class 11 English Letter writing
Hornbill Writing Section Chapter 06 Creative Writing
NCERT Class 11 English Creative Writing
Snapshots Chapter 01 The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
NCERT Class 11 English The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
Snapshots Chapter 02 The Address
NCERT Class 11 English The Address
Snapshots Chapter 03 Rangas Marriage
NCERT Class 11 English Rangas Marriage
Snapshots Chapter 04 Albert Einstein at School
NCERT Class 11 English Albert Einstein at School
Snapshots Chapter 05 Mothers Day
NCERT Class 11 English Mothers Day
Snapshots Chapter 06 The Ghat of the Only World
NCERT Class 11 English The Ghat of the Only World
Snapshots Chapter 07 Birth
NCERT Class 11 English Birth
Snapshots Chapter 08 The Tale of Melon City
NCERT Class 11 English The Tale of the Melon City
Woven Words Essays Chapter 01 My Watch
NCERT Class 11 English Elective My Watch
Woven Words Essays Chapter 02 My Three Passions
NCERT Class 11 English Elective My Three Passions
Woven Words Essays Chapter 03 Patterns of Creativity
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Patterns of Creativity
Woven Words Essays Chapter 04 Tribal Verse
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Tribal Verse
Woven Words Essays Chapter 05 What is a Good Book?
NCERT Class 11 English Elective What is a Good Book
Woven Words Essays Chapter 06 The Story
NCERT Class 11 English Elective The Story
Woven Words Essays Chapter 07 Bridges
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Bridges
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 01 The Peacock
NCERT Class 11 English Elective The Peacock
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 02 Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Let Me Not to the Marriage
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 03 Coming Philip Larkin
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Coming
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Haiku
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 04 Telephone Conversation
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Telephone Conversation
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 05 The World is too Much with Us
NCERT Class 11 English Elective The World is too Much with Us
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 06 Mother Tongue
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Mother Tongue
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 07 Hawk Roosting
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Hawk Roosting
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 09 Refugee Blues
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Refugee Blues
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 10 Felling of the Banyan Tree
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Felling of the Banyan Tree
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 11 Ode to a Nightingale
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Ode to a Nightingale
Woven Words Poetry Chapter 12 Ajamil and the Tigers
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Ajamil and the Tigers
Woven Words Short Stories Chapter 01 The Lament
NCERT Class 11 English Elective The Lament
Woven Words Short Stories Chapter 02 A Pair of Mustachios
NCERT Class 11 English Elective A Pair of Mustachios
Woven Words Short Stories Chapter 03 The Rocking-horse Winner
NCERT Class 11 English Elective The Rocking horse Winner
Woven Words Short Stories Chapter 04 The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
NCERT Class 11 English Elective The Adventure of the Three
Woven Words Short Stories Chapter 05 Pappachis Moth
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Pappachis Moth
Woven Words Short Stories Chapter 06 The Third and Final Continent
NCERT Class 11 English Elective The Third and Final Continent
Woven Words Short Stories Chapter 07 Glory at Twilight
NCERT Class 11 English Elective Glory at Twilight
Woven Words Short Stories Chapter 08 The Luncheon
NCERT Class 11 English Elective The Luncheon

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