List of top English Questions

Discuss in small groups taking off from points in the text. 
1. Film-production today has come a long way from the early days of the Gemini Studios. 
2. Poetry and films. 
3. Humour and criticism
Give an example to show that even as a young girl Santosh was not ready to accept anything unreasonable.
Why did Santosh’s parents agree to pay for her schooling in Delhi? What mental qualities of Santosh are brought into light by this incident?
How are the earth’s principal biological systems being depleted?
Do you think the Indian princes were short-sighted in their approach to the events of 1757?
Which picture, according to you, reveals the first sparks of the fire of revolt?
Who is an artisan? Why do you think the artisans suffered? (picture 3)
In picture 2 what do you understand by the Company’s “superior weapons”?
If Tilly’s award was to be shared, who do you think she should share it with — her parents or her geography teacher?
How are Meghna and Almas’s stories similar?
What did the dogs in Galle do?
What do people say about the elephants of Yala National Park?
How do you think her geography teacher felt when he heard about what Tilly had done in Phuket?
Where did the Smith family and the others on the beach go to escape from the tsunami?
Where had Tilly seen the sea behaving in the same strange fashion?
What were the warning signs that both Tilly and her mother saw?
Why do Jim and Hans think that games or sports are good ways of resolving conflicts? Do you agree?
For how long do you think Connie had kept Jim’s letter? Give reasons for your answer.
Why do you think the desk had been sold, and when?
Who did Connie Macpherson think her visitor was?
How old was Mrs Macpherson now? Where was she?
Why did the author go to Bridport?
Had Hans Wolf ever been to Dorset? Why did he say he knew it?
What jobs did Hans Wolf and Jim Macpherson have when they were not soldiers?
Why was the letter written — what was the wonderful thing that had happened?