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                          SUMMARY                                     Hello friends! Today we will summarize the first lesson of class 11 th textbook English ‘Hornbill’ written by Khushwant Singh. The author is a well known writer of English. His most famous writing is Train to Pakistan inspired by the partition of India. Present lesson is a part of his autobiography. It is a loving tribute from a grandson to a grandmother. It beautifully displays the changing relationship with his grandmother. When we go through the story we feel this very close to our heart. The reader feels that it is his own story.    About  the grandmother The author recalls his grandmother as a very old lady with a wrinkled face. She appeared so old that it was hard for him to believe that she had once been “young and pretty”. She was short...

IMPORTANT STANZAS FOR COMPREHENSION Read the stanzas given below and answer the questions that follow each: 1.   Driving from my parents home to Cochin last Friday morning, I saw my mother, beside me, doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a corpse and realised with pain that she was as old as she looked but soon Questions (a)Where was the poet driving to? Who was sitting beside her? (b)What did the poet notice about her mother? (c)Why was her mother’s face looked like that of a corpse? (d)Find words from the passage which mean: (i) sleep lightly (ii) dead body (iii) felt. Answers: (a)The poet was driving from her parent’s home to the Cochin airport. Her mother was sitting beside her. (b)She noticed that her mother was dozing with her mouth open. (c)Her mother’s face looked like that of the corpse because she was looking pale, faded and lifeless like a dead body. (d)(i) doze (ii) corpse (iii) realised. 2 . …………..She looked but soon put that though...