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Class 12

English: Flamingo

43 lessons in 13 chapters, explained in plain words.

The Last Lesson

  1. A strange, quiet morning
  2. The last French lesson
  3. Words, idioms and the past perfect
  4. Language rights and writing

Lost Spring

  1. Saheb, the ragpicker
  2. Mukesh and the bangle makers
  3. Poetic prose
  4. Paradoxes and the unorganised sector

Deep Water

  1. Thrown into the deep end
  2. Building a swimmer
  3. All we have to fear is fear itself
  4. Telling and writing about fear

The Rattrap

  1. The world is a rattrap
  2. Caught in the forest, mistaken in the forge
  3. Treated like a captain
  4. Characters and big ideas
  5. Words, labels and reflexives

Indigo

  1. Shukla brings Gandhi to Champaran
  2. Indigo and civil disobedience
  3. The settlement and self-reliance
  4. Fear, leadership and language

Poets and Pancakes

  1. Pancake and the make-up men
  2. Subbu and the legal adviser
  3. Two visitors and a mystery solved
  4. Gentle humour and rambling style

The Interview

  1. What people think of interviews
  2. Umberto Eco at work
  3. The Name of the Rose
  4. How an interview flows

Going Places

  1. Sophie's dreams
  2. The Danny Casey story
  3. Waiting by the canal
  4. Language of the story

My Mother at Sixty-six

  1. A drive to the airport
  2. Images and one long sentence

Keeping Quiet

  1. Let us all keep still
  2. Stillness that is alive

A Thing of Beauty

  1. A joy for ever
  2. The bounty of beauty

A Roadside Stand

  1. The stand by the road
  2. False helpers and the poet's pain

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

  1. Proud tigers, a frightened aunt
  2. Symbols, colours and sounds