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Checking Understanding
FOR SAMPLE ONLY
Answer the following questions.

1) Why do you think the writer visited Miss Beam’s school?
2) What was the ‘game’ that every child in the school had to play?
3) “Each term every child has one blind day, one lame day…” Complete
the line.
4) Which day was the hardest? Why was it the hardest?
5) What was the purpose of these special days?
6) What kind of teaching method was followed in Miss Beam’s School?
7) What was the real aim of Miss Beam’s School?
8) What pains the author?

Going the Extra Mile

Have you ever visited any school studied by physically challenged

students? What did you learn?

Let’s Spell

A. Circle the misspelled words in the sentences. Write them
correctly on the lines.
1) When I arivved their was no one in site but a girl of about twelve.
2) The reel aim of this school is not so much to teech thought as to teach

thoughtfoolness.
3) I sea some very beeutiful picturs.
4) This is a vary impotant part of our sistem.
5) During the blind day there eyes are bandazed absolutely and they are
on their hanour not to peap.

B. Here is a list of words that people often misspell. 6 are
spelled wrongly here. Can you identify the mistakes?

absent decsribe immedeately acheive
dictionery intresting address disappoint
mathematics among eightgh necessary

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