Class-12th
Subject-English
Date- 18/4/2020
Day- Saturday
Spelling & word-meanings of ‘The Last
Lesson’
Spelling
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Participles
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Prussian
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Drilling
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Bulletin-board
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Blacksmith
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Frightened
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Primer
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Apprentice
·
Spectacles
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Attentive
·
Cranky
·
Recite
·
Patience
·
Thunderclap
·
Wretches
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Patience
·
Floating
·
Scratching
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Hopvine
·
Pigeon
Word-meanings
§ Scolding-rebuking
§ Plenty-enough
§ Making a fun-laugh at
§ Terrible-dreadful
§ Kindly-politely
§ Give up-leave
§ Anxious-worried
§ Ought to-should
§ Dread-Fear
§ Drilling-Parading
§ In unison-together
§ Commotion-confusion
§ Former- previous
§ Beetles- flying insects
§ Vive La France-Long live France
Class-12th
Subject-English
Date- 29/4/2020
Day- Wednesday
Poem - My Mother at Sixty Six (Kamala Das)
Important Spellings &
word-meanings
Spellings
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ashen
·
corpse
·
realised
·
affection
·
sprinting
·
spilling
·
daughter
·
familiar
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accompanies
·
ache
·
children
·
Cochin
·
security
·
arouse
Word-meanings
§ arouse- awake, rouse
§ doze- drowse, snooze, sleep lightly
§ ashen- ash coloured, bloodless
§ corpse- stiff, dead body
§ unconscious- thought away
§ sprinting- running fast
§ spilling- coming out
§ wan- sick, pale, weak, colourless
§ familiar- well known
§ ache- pain
Class-12th
Subject-English
Date- 06/05/2020
Day- Wednesday
1. The Third Level (Jack Finney)
Important Spellings &
word-meanings
Spellings
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Psychiatrist
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Curious
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Experience
·
Believe
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Presidents
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Obvious
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Fulfillment
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Insecurity
·
Collection
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Practically
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Gabardine
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Corridor
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Twentieth
·
Century
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Locomotives
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Tremendous
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Flickering
·
Premium
·
Disappeared
·
lemonade
Word-meanings
§ Psychiatrist- mental disease expert
§ Uptown - residential area
§ Apartment- flat
§ Subway- underground way
§ Corridor- passage to a building
§ Gabardine – a kind of cloth
§ Slanting- sloping
§ Lemonade- lemon drink
§ Flickering- waving
§ Spittoon- vessel to spit into
§ Locomotives- railway engines
§ Stack – chimney
§ Worth- value
§ Flight – stairs between two landings
Tunnel - burrow
Class-12th
Subject-English
Date- 12/05/2020
Day- Tuesday
2. Lost Spring- Stories of Stolen Childhood
(Anees Jung)
Important Spellings & word-meanings
Spellings
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Scrounging
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Embarrassed
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Shuffles
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Tradition
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Perpetual
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Ragpickers
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Desolation
·
Acquaintance
·
Periphery
·
Squatters
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Survival
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Proportion
·
Impoverished
·
Achieve
·
Bureaucrats
Word-meanings
§ Garbage – rubbish, waste material,
§ Scrounging – searching for something
§ Dumps – heaps
§ Swept away – washed away
§ Embarrassed – uncomfortable
§ Bleak – dark, desolate
§ Roams – wanders
§ Shuffles – keeps shifting
§ Tradition – custom
§ Wonder – surprise
§ Perpetual – never ending, endless
§ Desolation – ruin, gloom, unhappiness
§ Panting – breathing heavily
§ Periphery – border, boundary
§ Aching – paining
§ Survival – living
§ Tattered – torn to pieces
§ Transit – passing, temporary
§ Proportions – forms, part, portion,
§ Discarded – given up
§ Mirage – false appearance
§ Dingy – dark and dirty
§ Slog – toil, labour, hard work
§ Hearth – furnace
§ Volunteers – offers himself for
service
§ Wobbly – unstable
§ Renovate – repair
§ Impoverished – very poor
§ Trapped – cheated
§ Apathy – indifference
§ Stigma – mark of disgrace
§ Hurtling – clattering
Class-12th
Subject-English
Date- 20/05/2020
Day- Wednesday
2. POEM - An Elementary School ClasPoemoom
in a Slum (Stephen Spender)
Important Spellings &
word-meanings
Spellings
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Elementary
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Pallor
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Stunted
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Twisted
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Gnarled
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Disease
·
Unnoted
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Squirrel
·
Donations
·
Shakespeare
·
Tempting
·
Slyly
·
Cramped
·
Spectacles
·
Governor
·
Inspector
·
Visitor
·
Catacombs
·
Tongues
·
Language
·
Miserable
Word-meanings
§ Weeds – useless plants
§ Gnarled – twisted
§ Stormy – gusty
§ Fog – mist
§ Wicked – bad
§ Slyly – secretly
§ Cramped – narrow
§ Slums
- dirty area
§ Slag – waste material
§ Doom – ruin
§ Catacombs – graves
§ Azure – blue
Class-12th
Subject-English
Date- 26/05/2020
Day- Tuesday
2. The Tiger King (Kalki)
Important Spellings &
word-meanings
Spellings
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Pretending
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Strategic
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Withdrawal
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Imperative
·
Indomitable
·
Fantastic
·
Astrologers
·
Warrior
·
Prophets
·
Prediction
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Incredible
·
Terrifying
·
Rumour
·
Innumerable
·
Incoherent
·
Celebration
·
Deliberations
·
Statistics
·
Catastrophic
·
Thoroughly
·
Bafflement
·
Erected
·
Suppurating
Word-meanings
§ Strategic – important, planned,
calculated
§ Imperative – necessary
§ Vital – important
§ Indomitable – unbeatable, unyielding
§ Abode – home, house, rooms
§ Demise – death
§ Foretold – predicted
§ Prophets – foretellers
§ Prediction – forecast
§ Incredible – unbelievable
§ Nanny – nurse
§ Tuft – bunch of hair, knot
§ Carcass – dead body
§ Deliberations – discussion
§ Hara-kiri – suicide
§ Shuddering – trembling
§ Babble – childish talk
§ Adorned- decorated
§ Savage – cruel
§ Rage – anger
§ Thoroughly – completely
§ Supplication – prayer
§ Bafflement – confusion
§ Erected – built
Class-12th
Subject-English
Date- 18/07/2020
Day- Saturday
Topic- Word-meanings and important spellings
3.
Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)
Word-meanings
· Keep still – not to move
· Exotic – unusual
· Still – motionless
· Victory – triumph
· Confused – misunderstood
· Huge – big
· Inactivity – lethargy
· Perhaps – probably
Important spellings
· Quiet
· Quite
· Quit
· Twelfth
· Language
· Exotic
· Engines
· Strangeness
· Together
· Unusual
· Motionless
· Gathering
· Prepare
· Survivors
· Triumph
· Inactivity
· Lethargy
· Misunderstood
· Quietness
· Interrupt
· Threatening
· Probably
· intervene