1.5 The New Dress
Activity Sheet
No.1
Q.
Read the extract and complete the activities given below.
Extract :- Mabel had her first serious suspicion that
------------------ the moment she came into Mrs. Dalloway's drawing-room. (Page no. 44 & 45)
A1.
True or false
Rewrite
the statements and state whether they are true or false.
1)
Mabel was worried about her dress that she had chosen for the party.
2)
From childhood Mabel had the sense of being inferior to other people.
3)
Mabel was suspicious about her look in the mirror
4)
The drawing room of Mabel was beautiful and rich.
Answer:-
1) Mabel was worried about her
dress that she had chosen for the party. - True
2) From childhood Mabel had
the sense of being inferior to other people. - True
3) Mabel was suspicious about
her look in the mirror. - True
4) The drawing room of Mabel was beautiful and rich. - False
A2.
Pick out
Pick
out four sentences which show the anxious mood of Mabel.
Answer:
Sentences
showing the anxious mood of Mabel:
1) Mabel had her first serious
suspicion that something was wrong as she took her cloak off.
2) When Mabel saw herself in
the mirror she was suspicious about her look and dress.
3)
It was her own appalling inadequacy, her cowardice; her mean, water sprinkled
blood that depressed her.
4) All this now seemed unutterably silly, paltry, and provincial.
A3. Explain
Mabel said, "It was not
RIGHT." Explain the sentence
A4. Personal Response
Give information about your favourite dress in
50 words.
Answer:-
A5. Language Study (Do as directed)
a) What a hideous new dress! (Make assertive
sentence)
Answer:- It is a very hideous new dress.
b) It was not right. (Make affirmative
sentence)
Answer:- It was wrong
A6. Vocabulary
Write antonyms for the following from the
extract.
a) Weaker
b) satisfaction
c) superior
d) adequacy
Answer:
a) stronger
b) dissatisfaction
c) inferior
d) inadequacy
Activity Sheet
No.2
Q. Read the extract and complete the
activities given below.
Extract:- What she had thought that
evening -------------------------------- precisely like everybody else, always
(Page no. 45)
A1. Web
Complete the web.
A2. Complete
Complete the information.
a) According to Mabel, fashion meant
-------------------------------------------
b) Mabel considered fashion as
----------------------------------------------------
Answer:-
b)
Mabel considered fashion as absurd. She liked to be looking original. It was
foolish trying to look like the fashionable model.
A3. Give proof
Mabel did not like fashion. Give the
proof from the extract.
Answer:-
A4. Personal Response
State with reason whether you agree or
disagree with the following statement.
"We should choose a dress
according to the fashion rather than our choice.”
Answer:
A5. Language Study (Do as directed)
1) But she dared not look in the
glass. (Use modal auxiliary showing ability)
Answer:- But she could not look in the glass.
2) She could not face the whole
horror. (Remove 'could not")
Answer:- She was failed to face the whole horror.
A6. Vocabulary
Write meaning and use the following
words in your own sentence.
1) precisely
2) absurd
Answer:
1) Precisely:- exactly
e.g. The guidelines are precisely
defined
2) Absurd:- wildly
unreasonable, illogical or inappropriate
e.g. The allegations are
totally absurd.
Activity Sheet No.3
Q. Read the extract and complete the
activities given below.
Extract:- We are all like flies trying to crawl over the -------------------- out of the saucer (Envy and spite, the most detestable of the vices, were her chief faults.)
(Page no. 45 & 46)
A1. Narrate
Narrate the picture of the flies imagined by
Mabel.
Answer:-
A2. Give information
Give the words Mabel used to describe herself
and other guests of the party.
Answer:-
A3.Explain
Explain the character traits of Mabel in 50
words.
Answer:-
A4. Personal Response
State with reason whether you agree or
disagree with the following statement.
“A simple dress makes one's personality look
dull."
Answer:-
A5. Language Study (Do as directed)
1) We are all like flies trying to crawl over the edge of the saucer
(Make complex sentence]
Answer:- We are all like flies who try to crawl over the edge of
the saucer.
2) But she could not see them like that, not
other people (Use:- neither ---nor)
Answer: - But she could neither see them like that, nor other
people.
A6. Vocabulary
Write the meaningful words by filling
appropriate letters in the blanks.
1) Nu-b
2) ch-ll
3) fro-en
4) du-b
Answer: -
1) numb
2) chill
3) frozen
4) dumb
Activity Sheet No.4
Q. Read the extract and complete the
activities given below.
Extract:- "I feel like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old --------------- such miserable, scanty, sordid, little pleasures filled her eyes with tears. (Page no. 46 & 47)
A1. Choose
Choose the two appropriate statements showing
the theme of the extract.
1) Mabel had inferiority complex about herself
2) Miss Milan's little workroom was really
good and enjoyable
3) The activities and thoughts of Miss Milan
are described here
4) Mabel considered the expressions of Robert
Haydon as true
Answer:
1) Mabel had inferiority complex
about herself.
3) The activities and thoughts of Miss Milan are described here.
A2. Give information
Give Information about Miss Milan.
Answer:-
Miss Milan was poor and hard-working woman. Her face was red and her eyes bulged Her pleasures in life were few and cheap. It includes allowing her pet canary to pick a hemp-send from between her lips. She was patient and had to endure a lot of difficulties. She was very emotional too.
A3.Explain
"I feel like some dowdy, decrepit,
horribly dingy old fly.” Explain this remark of Mabel.
Answer:-
Mabel told Robert Haydon that she felt like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old ty Her dress was not attractive and fashionable (dowdy). She was in bad condition (decrepit) She was looking like an old fly who was dirty and dark (dingy) She said it to reassure herself appear detached and witty. She also wanted to show that she did not feel in the least out of anything. This shows that she had no self-esteem and a very big inferiority complex.
A4. Personal Response
Write in Column 'B' the description of the clothes you would choose to wear for the occasions given in Column 'A'.
Answer:-
A5. Language Study (Do as directed)
1) Miss Milan's little workroom was really terribly hot, stuffy, sordid.
(Make exclamatory sentence)
Answer:- How terribly hot, stuffy, sordid Miss Mian's little
workroom was!
2) She saw the truth. (Use - used to)
Answer:- She used to see the truth.
A6. Vocabulary
Insert appropriate letters and make meaningful
words.
1) so- did
2) exi-tence
3) v-nity
4) endur-nce
Answer:-
1) sordid
2) existence
3) vanity
4) endurance
Activity Sheet
No.5
Q. Read the extract and complete the
activities given below.
Extract:- And now the whole thing had vanished. The dress, the room, -------------------------- if one were feeling particularly mean, paltry, or feeble-minded.
A1. Choose
Choose any four statements from the extract
showing the weaknesses of Mabel.
Answer:
1) Mabel was suffering from
torture in a corner of Mrs Dalloway's drawing-room.
2) Mabel was utterly dependent
on people's opinions and did not have principles or convictions.
3) She looked foolish and
self-conscious. She considered herself as a fly in a saucer .
4) She was longing for some praise from Charles but she failed to get it.
A2. Find
Find the information showing Mabel's
expectation from Charles Burt and his behaviour.
Answer:-
A3. Give proof
Mabel had inferiority complex. Give its proof
from the extract.
Answer:
A4. Personal Response
Suggest ways to boost up self-esteem.
Answer:
A5. Language Study (Do as directed)
1) And now the whole thing had vanished
(Identify the tense)
Answer: Past perfect tense
2) She faced herself straight in the glass.
(Frame a wh-type question to get the
underlined words as answer)
Answer:- Where did she face herself straight in?
A6. Vocabulary
Find synonyms for the following from the words
given in the bracket-
|
malice fierce, vanished, foolish |
a) disappeared b) silly c) aggressive d) ill will
Answer: - a) vanished b) foolish c) fierce d) malice
Activity Sheet
No.6
Q. Read the extract and complete the
activities given below.
Extract;- "Mabel's got a new dress!"
he said, and the poor fly was --------------
sitting solitary, self-centred, feel what the black dot was feeling, yet
they pretended. (Page no. 48 & 49)
A1. True or false
Rewrite the following statements and state
whether they are true or false.
1) Charles had no heart, no fundamental
kindness, only a veneer of friendliness
2) Miss Milan was much more real and much
kinder than Charles.
3) Mabel was watching carefully her yellow
dress in the round looking-glass
4) Mrs. Holman was talking about her husband.
Answer:
1) Charles had no heart, no
fundamental kindness, only a veneer of friendliness. - True
2) Miss Milan was much more
real and much kinder than Charles. - True
3) Mabel was watching
carefully her yellow dress in the round looking glass. - True
4) Mrs Holman was talking
about her husband. - False
A2. Describe
Write the views of Mabel about Charles with
reasons.
Answer:-
A3 Give reason
The conversation with Mrs. Holman did not like
Mabel. Give its reason.
Answer-
The conversation with Mrs. Holman did not like Mabel because it was a conversation that bored her unutterably. It made her furious to be treated like a house agent or a messenger boy She did not to get any value. She felt humiliated and insulted She did not want to hear the problems of Mrs. Holman.
A4. Personal Response
Suggest ways to enjoy a social gathering.
Answer:-
Ways to enjoy a social
gathering:-
A5. Language Study (Do as directed}
1) Then Mrs. Holman, seeing her standing there, bore down upon her
(Make compound sentence)
Answer:- Then Mrs. Holman saw her standing there and bore down
upon her.
2) Could Mabel tell her if Elm Thorpe was ever let for August and September?
(Make assertive)
Answer: Mabel could not tell her if Elmthorpe was ever let for August and September.
A6. Vocabulary
Find and write antonyms for the following from
the extract-
a) unreal
b) strong
c) foolishly
d) connected
Answer:
a) real
b) weak
c) sensibly
d) disconnected
Activity Sheet
No.7
Q. Read the extract and complete the
activities given below.
Extract:- "S0 impossible to keep boys quiet" that was the kind of thing one said, ------------------- And she had done the same-she was just like her aunts. (Page no. 49 & 50)
A1 Choose
Choose the two statements showing the correct
information.
1) Mrs. Holman showed her greedy nature.
2) Mabel's little girl had a swollen
knee-joint.
3) Mabel considered her yellow dress as a
penance which she had deserved.
4) Mabel's family life was very happy and
exciting.
Answer:
1) Mrs. Holman showed her
greedy nature.
3) Mabel considered her yellow dress as a penance which she had deserved.
A2. Character trait
Describe the incident showing the character
trait of Mrs. Holman.
Answer:
Mrs. Holman desired to get enough sympathy She had greedy nature. In the party she snatched what little there was greedily as if it were her right. She took it in the name of her little girl who had come down this morning with a swollen knee-joint She also tried to win sympathy from others showing the condition of the little girl.
A3, Guess
Guess the financial situation of Mabel's
family.
Answer:-
Mabel's family had ten members. This family had never got enough money. They were always skimping and paring Her mother worked hard. Their sheep farm was not working properly There were no exciting moments in their life. They had to live in some lodging with the front windows not quite facing the sea. They didn't get good life due to poverty.
A4. Personal Response
Give information about your family in 50
words.
Answer:
My family is a nucleus family. My parents are farmer They help me in my need and try to support me in every occasion. They work hard in the farm. They give me opportunity to develop my career. I have one elder brother. He is doing his graduation. We four are living a very happy life.
A5. Language Study (Do as directed)
1) And she had done the same. (Change it into
past perfect continuous tense)
Answer: - And she had been doing the same
2) It was tragic. (Make rhetorical type question)
Answer:- Wasn't it tragic?
A6. Vocabulary
Insert a letter and make meaningful words.
1) tr-gic
2) gre-d
3) miser-ble
4) trag-dy
Answer:
1) tragic
2) greed
3) miserable
4) tragedy
Activity Sheet
No.8
Q. Read the extract and complete the
activities given below.
Extract:- For all her dreams of living in India, married to some hero like Sir Henry Lawrence --------- One wasn't happy. It was flat, just flat, that was all.
(Page no. 50 & 51)
A1. Choose
Choose the two correct statements showing
appropriately the theme of the extract.
1) Mabel had a dream to settle in India and
live a life with a hero.
2) Mabel could join the Charles Burt and Rose
Shaw as they had same lifestyle.
3) Mabel's life had not a single worth moment
to describe.
4) Mabel described her family's happy moments.
Answer:
1) Mabel had a dream to settle
in India and live a life with a hero.
4) Mabel described her family's happy moments
A2. Give information
Give reality of Mable's married life.
Answer:
Mabel desired to marry to some hero like Sir Henry Lawrence or some empire builder but she failed in it. She had married Hubert because he had his safe and permanent underling's job in the Law Courts. They managed tolerably in a rather small house and without proper maids. He financial condition was weak. This was the reality of Mabel's married life.
A3. Explain
Explain Mabel's divine moments.
Answer:-
Mabel thought back to special, isolated moments in her life, which she characterizes "delicious" and "divine." These were the only moments when she felt truly happy and fulfiled. connected with all the earth and everything in it, or as she puts it, "on the crest of a wave There were the happy moments she treasured in her mind.
A4 Personal Response
State whether you agree or disagree with the
following statement and give its reasons.
"A fashionable and costly dress makes you
look rich, Intelligent and beautiful."
Answer:-
I don't agree with the statement A fashionable and costly dress makes you look rich, intelligent and beautiful. Dress enhances the beauty but it doesn't show our intelligence It may create an impression that we are rich but our etiquette and behaviour can expose us So I don't accept the given statement.
A5. Language Study (Do as directed]
1) it was a divine moment (Make exclamatory
sentence)
Answer: What a divine moment it was!
2) This has happened (Make rhetorical type
question)
Answer: Hasn't that happened?
A6. Vocabulary
Find hidden names of any four characters
mentioned in the extract from the grid.
Answer:
a) Hubert
b) Holman
c) Mabel
d) Burt
Activity Sheet
No.9
Q. Read the extract and complete the activities given below.
Her wretched self again, no doubt! She
had always been a fretful; ---------------- in the Chinese cloak she had worn
these twenty years. (Page no. 51 & 52)
A1. Order
Rearrange the following statements as per the
events happened.
1) Mabel told Mrs. Dalloway that she had
enjoyed herself.
2) Mabel decided to go to the London Library
the next day.
3) Mabel thanked Mrs. Barnet for helping her.
4) Mabel waved her hand to Charles and Rose
when she was leaving.
Answer:
2) Mabel decided to go to the
London Library the next day.
4) Mabel waved her hand to
Charles and Rose when she was leaving.
1) Mabel told Mrs. Dolloway
that she had enjoyed herself.
3) Mabel thanked Mrs. Barnet for helping her.
A2. Give Information
Give information of Mabel's life in 50 words.
Answer:
Mabel had always been a fretful, weak and unsatisfactory mother. She was a wobbly wife, struggling for existence Like all her brothers and sisters, except perhaps Herbert they were all the same poor water-veined creatures who did nothing. She was forty so she would cease to struggle any more. She couldn't endure her life any more.
A3. Find proof
Find any four positive things that Mabel
decided to do.
Answer:
Mabel
expected the following changes in her life in the next day:-
1)
Mabel would go to the London Library the next day.
2)
She would find some wonderful, helpful and astonishing book
3) She would walk down the Strand and drop, accidentally, into a hall where a miner was telling about the life in the pit, and suddenly she would become a new person.
4) She would wear a uniform and she would be called Sister by Somebody.
A4. Personal Response
Give importance of books in student's life.
Answer:
Books are considered as the best friends of students in a real sense. They play a significant role in Students' life. Books give plenty of joy to students. They learn a lot of things from books They take them into a unique world of imagination. Books help to inspire students to do hard wor with courage and hope. They enrich the experience of students and sharpen their intellect.
A5. Language Study (Do as directed)
1) She would go to the London Library tomorrow.
(Frame a wh-question to get the underlined
words as answer)
Answer: When would she go to the London Library?
2) “I have enjoyed myself," she said to
Mr. Dalloway, whom she met on the stairs. (Make indirect speech)
Answer:- She met Mrs. Dalloway on the stairs and told her that she had enjoyed herself.
A6. Vocabulary
Find antonyms for the following from the
extract-
a) strong
b) timid
c) satisfactory
d) start
Answer:
a) weak
b) bold
c) unsatisfactory
d) cease
Extra Activities
Q. Language study (Do as directed]
1) She could not face the whole horror. (Make
affirmative)
Answer: She was unable to/failed to face the whole horror.
2) She saw the truth (Change the voice)
Answer: The truth was seen by her.
3) Miss Milan wanted to know about the
length of the skirt.
(Frame a wh-question to get the underlined
words as answer)
Answer:- What did Miss Milan want to know?
4) "Mabel's got a new dress!" he
said. (Make indirect speech)
Answer: a) He said that Mabel had got a new dress.
5) Mabel's means -?
Answer:- 'Mabel's' means 'Mabel has.’
6) What a fright she looks! (Make assertive
sentence)
Answer: She looks a real fright.
7) How dull! (Make assertive sentence)
Answer: It was very dull.
Q Use the correct tense form of the verbs
given in the brackets and rewrite the sentences.
(a) She (take/takes/took/had taken) that old
fashion book of her mother a few months back.
Answer - She had taken that old fashion book of her mother a few months back.
(b) She [pecking/pecks/ pecked) at her left
shoulder for quite some time.
Answer: She pecked at her left shoulder for quite some time.
(c) One human should (done /doing/be doing)
this for another always
Answer: One human should be doing this for another always.
(d) All this [will be/is/ have been] destroyed
in a few years.
Answer: All this will be destroyed in a few years.
(e) She feels/felt/will be feeling) like a dressmaker's
dummy standing there.
Answer: She felt like a dressmaker's dummy standing there.
Q Vocabulary
1) Write the synonyms for the word ‘dress' by
filling appropriate letters in the blanks.
(a) a-t-re
(b) –r--
(c) ---t--e
(d) –r---t
(e) –t—t
(f) ---a--l
Answer:
(a) attire
(b) garb
(c) costume
(d) garment
(e) outfit
(f) apparel
Extra Reading
Characters:-
1) Mrs. Barnet:-
Mrs. Barnet is a maidservant in the Dalloway household. Her behavior in greeting Mabel Waring and taking her coat seem unremarkable to the reader, but sets off great waves of insecurity in the party guest about her appearance and social role.
2) Mrs. Dalloway or Clarissa Dalloway:-
Clarissa Dalloway is the hostess of the party that Mabel attends. Clarissa is affable and courteous to her guests, and her presence lingers, though the reader only hears her speak once in the story- to encourage Mabel not to leave the party early.
3) Mabel Waring:-
Mabel Waring is a middle-aged woman who reflects constantly and, some might say, obsessively, about her alienation from the members of the elevated level of society the wants to join. When she is invited to a party given by the wealthy and socially prominent Clarissa Dalloway, she is overwhelmed with worry about her inability to dress fashionably because of the cost. She has an old-fashioned dress made from a book of dress patterns that had belonged to her mother, and then spends much of her time at the party fretting over its inappropriateness and drawing the attention of other partygoers to it. She also engages in perfunctory conversations that provide further evidence of her dissociation from these strata of society.
4) Rose Shaw:-
Rose Shaw is a guest at Clarissa
Dalloway's party. Mabel Waring characterizes her as being dressed "in the
height of fashion, precisely like everybody else, always." Rose
compliments Mabel on her new dress, but Mabel is convinced that she is being
subtly mocked.
Synopsis of the text:-
The New Dress' is a story told in a
stream-of-consciousness narrative. The story focuses on Mabel Waring. Mabel
Waring felt deeply self-conscious and insecure as she attended a party hosted
by Clarissa Dalloway Mabel wore a new, although old-fashioned, dress.
As Mabel Waring arrived at Clarissa
Dalloway's party, she was filled with feelings d inadequacy and inferiority.
These feelings were set off by worries that her new dress was rut appropriate
for the occasion. After greeting the hostess, she went to look at herself in a
min immediately deciding that it's not right. She imagined the other guests
were staring at her, exclaiming, "What a fright she looks! What a hideous
new dress!" Mabel couldn't afford a new dress in the latest fashion, so
she had a yellow silk dress made from an older pattern. She continued to
condemn herself. She was escalating to self-torture with obsessive thoughts of
her own foolishness. She told herself that she deserved to be chastised by her
fellow partygoers She felt that they were calling her new dress a horror and
idiotically old fashioned Rose Shaw, a stylishly dressed fellow partygoer,
approached Mabel and told her the dress was perfectly charming, but Mabel was
sure, she was being mocked. Mabel tried to envision the partygoers as flies
trying to crawl all over the edges of a saxe all alike and swarming like
insects. However, she couldn't bring herself to see the others in this fashion.
Mabel recalled growing up in her unremarkable family and her dreams of romance
and adventure in far away lands She thought about her reality, including her
marriage to a man with a "safe, permanent underling's job." She
thought back to special, isolated moments in her life, which she characterized
as "delicious" and "divine." These were the only moments
when she felt truh happy and fulfilled.
Finally she decided to find a way to be happy. She wanted to pursue self improvement and transformation through "some wonderful, helpful, astonishing book," or maybe an inspirational public speaker. Having talked herself out of her internal crisis, she got up to leave the party Before she went, she approached Mrs. Dalloway, assuring the hostess that she enjoyed herself at the party.
