What does Mandela thank the international leaders for ?

What made Mr Keesing allow Anne to talk in class?

Chubukov says of Natalya: “... as if she won’t consent! She’s in love; egad, she’s like a lovesick cat...” Would you agree? Find reasons for your answer.

Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is? You may select appropriate words from the box to answer the question.

   greedy            naive                   stupid                ungrateful 
   selfish            comical               unquestioning

Why didn’t Valli want to make friends with the elderly woman?

Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?

What ideals does Nelson Mandela set for the future of South Africa?

Anne says teachers are most unpredictable. Is Mr Keesing unpredictable? How?

How does Mandela describe the systems of government in his country

(i) in the first decade, and
(ii) in the final decade of the twentieth century?

Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?

Do you think Mr Keesing was a strict teacher?

Why does the conductor call Valli ‘madam’?

What did Valli see on her way that made her laugh?

Can you say how 10th May is an ‘autumn day’ in South Africa?

Where in the classroom does Wanda sit and why?
 

Why does Maxwell say the airhostess was “the very queen of her kind”?

How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?

Find sentences in the story with negative words, which express the following ideas emphatically.

1. The trees lost all their leaves.
2. The letter was addressed to God himself.
3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.

Anne says teachers are most unpredictable. Is Mr Keesing unpredictable? How?

What made him angry?

What do you think Valli was planning to do?