Pre Reading
Work in pairs and tell your partner what you will do.
1. If you feel your friend or a neighbor is in trouble, what will be the
first thing you will do?
2. What will be the next thing you will do?
3. Now discuss the following questions and fill in the table below. Give at
least three situations.
4. What kinds of problems can your neighbors have?
Rafia’s Wedding
SCENE 1 | Excerpt
Hassan sees Jawad entering the school gate. He quickly gets up from the
cemented bench and starts walking towards him. Jawad walks towards him
too, but slowly. He seems a little downhearted.
HASSAN (worried to see Jawad upset) Assalamo Alaikum! Where have
you been for three days? What happened? Why do you look so
upset?
JAWAD (downheartedly) Baba broke his leg.
HASSAN (shocked) Oh! No! How did it happen?
JAWAD: (in a sad tone) One of the light bulbs fixed on the wall got fused.
Baba placed a ladder against the mud wall and was changing the
light bulb when the wall collapsed and he fell on the floor, along
with the ladder.
HASSAN: Oh my God! Then?
JAWAD: We took him to the Bhitai Hospital immediately. The doctor has
put his leg in a cast, as he had fractured his leg. His hands are
also bruised.
HASSAN: Oh! And your elder sister’s wedding is in ten days, isn’t it?
JAWAD: Yes…What will happen now? Baba’s cast will be removed after
six weeks. Who will do all the work?
HASSAN: (trying to console him) Don’t worry. Everything will be alright.
JAWAD: (looking at the floor thoughtfully) Yes…everything will
Insha’Allah is alright.
SCENE 2 | Excerpt
Hassan and Jawad are at Hassan’s home telling Hassan’s mother about the
the accident that Jawad’s father met.
HASSAN: Assalamo Alaikum! Amma.
JAWAD: Assalamo Alaikum! Aunty.
AMMA: Wa Alaikum Assalam! How are you Jawad? When is your sister’s
wedding?
JAWAD: (downheartedly) It is in ten days but…
AMMA: (surprised) But…? What happened? Is everything okay?
JAWAD: Baba fell and broke his leg.
AMMA: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that! Don’t worry, son. Hassan will help you.
He helped his father with Safia’s wedding. He knows everything.
Hassan, go with him and tell his father that you will help them. He
must be really worried.
Topical Activity
Work in pairs and make a character web for Hassan. Write about the qualities
he had, for example, a caring friend, a good planner, etc.
Next, write down why you think he was a caring friend, a good planner, etc.
Example: Caring friend; upset to see his friend so sad; asked about his father;
worried about his sister’s wedding, etc.
Now, write a short paragraph about Hassan. You can begin like this:
Hassan was a very caring friend. He was upset to see his friend so sad. He
asked Jawad about his father. He then asked him about his sister’s wedding
and told him that he could help …………….
Vocabulary
downhearted
collapsed
fractured
bruised
cooperative
console
expenses
budget
exceed
slaughter
bother
Cloze Test Examples
Now, let us see a few examples of cloze test questions.
Example 1:
Directions: Read the following text and complete it using the words given in the options.
I do remember it. And I’m grateful. But I can’t help feeling that a woman capable of taking other people’s lives and juggling with them as if they were rubber balls, as she did with ours, is likely at any moment to break out in a new place. So, my gratitude to her is the sort of (1) ______ [hat tip] you would feel toward a cyclone if you were walking home late for dinner and it caught you up and deposited you on your doorstep. Moreover, your Aunt Lora is a human (2) _____[storm]. No, on the whole, she’s more like an earthquake. As she has a habit of splitting up and altering the face of the world whenever she feels like it, and I’m too well satisfied with my world at present to (3) _____[enjoy] the idea of having it changed.”
Little by little the garrison of the studio had been (4) _______ [small slice] down. Except for Steve, the community had no regular members outside the family itself. As Hank was generally out of town. And Bailey paid one more visit, then seemed to consider that he could now absent himself altogether. And the members of Kirk’s bachelor circle stayed away from a man.
Q 1.
A) Tippy
B) Gratitude
C) Excellence.
D) Battle.
Q 2.
A) Cyclone
B) giant
C) Chin
D) Hunter
Q 3.
A) Good
B) relish
C) Delicious
D) Happy
Q 4.
A) slice
B) whittled
C) Cut
D) leveled
Example 2:
Directions: Read the following text and complete it using the words given in the options.
He was a manly man, free from any strong (1) [mother] ________ strain, and he had loved his dark-eyed, dainty bright-colored, and active little wife with a real vein of passion in his sentiment. But he had always felt (he had never allowed himself to think of it) that the promptitude of their family was a little (2) [insensitive]_______ of her, and in a sense an intrusion. He had, however, planned brilliant careers for his two sons, and, with a certain human amount of warping and delay, they were pursuing these. One was in the Indian Civil Service and one was in the rapidly developing motor business. The daughters, he had hoped, would be their mother’s care.
Q 1.
A) maternal
B) Paternal
C) Mother
D) Childish
Q 2.
A) tactful
B) indelicate
C) insensitive
D) non-proportionate
