On Saying Please descriptive questions

 

Q1 Why was the passenger thrown out of the lift by lift man? Was he justified in doing so?

Q2."the gutters of the city would run with blood all day." What does the author mean by it?

Q3. What the law cannot compel us to do? 

Q4. What was the reason for the lift-man’s uncivilized behaviour?

Q5. How does the author connect dots imaginatively that may be the reason that made the passenger rude and ill-mannered behavior towards the lift man?

Q6. How the author distinguish between physical pain and mental agony?

Q7. What is the importance "please" and "thank you" in our daily life?

Q8. Why did the polite conductor do for the author?

Q9. Will you take risk in helping others when they are in trouble?

Q10. What does the author comment about the Underground Railway company?

Q11. Describe the importance of little curtsies in life as described in the lesson?

Q12. What does the author describe through the incident where the polite conductor trampled his sensitive toe? 

Q13. Why there is always fine weather on polite conductor's bus?

Q14. Why did the author wrote a panegyric about polite conductor?  

Q15. What are Gardiner’s views on the role of law in enforcing polite behaviour?

Q16: Show, after Gardiner, the infectious quality of manners, both good and bad.

Q17: Why does Gardiner say, “Bad manners probably do more to poison

the stream of general life than all the crimes in the calendar”?

Q18: Attempt a detailed report on the behaviour and activities of the ‘polite

conductor’ based on your reading of the text.

Q19: Find an interesting piece of news of human interest in the newspaper.

Q20: Which particular aspect of A.G. Gardiner’s technique do you find most appealing? Try to pick out instances from the essay where that particular technique is displayed.

Q21: List the instances from the essay where polite conductor showed his civil behaviour? Do you approve him? Why?

Q22. Good behaviour is not a wasteful extravaganza but a sound investment? 

Q23. A.G. Gardiner says, If bad manners are infectious, so also are good manners? 

Q24. Why does the law fail in enforcing civility in life?

Q25. How does bad temper affect the person? 

Q26. Why do you recall both good and bad memories of your life?

Q27. Suggest some ways to improve civility in the society?  

 


Activity/Assignment:- 

Try to write an essay using this as your starting point, in the manner of Gardiner.

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