List of top English Questions

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?
What did the author find in a junk shop?
What is the 'sadness' that the poet refers to in the poem?
What does the title of the poem suggest to you? What do you think the poem is about?
Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children 'spilling out of their homes'?
What do you understand about the author’s literary inclinations from the account?
How does the author describe the incongruity of an English poet addressing the audience at Gemini Studios ?
Notice the sentences in the text which are in ‘direct speech’. Why does the author use quotations in his narration?
Discuss :
The qualities of a good leader.
How do we know that ordinary people too contributed to the freedom movement?
The passing of time will no longer affect her, says the poet. Which lines of the poem say this?
“A slumber did my spirit seal,” says the poet. That is, a deep sleep ‘closed off’ his soul (or mind). How does the poet react to his loved one’s death? Does he feel bitter grief ? Or does he feel a great peace?