Narration Practice
HSC Passage Narration 2014 All Board Questions
1. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Dhaka Board-2009; Cumilla Board-2014]
“Have you seen your mother, Jerry?” “I see her every summer. She sends for me.” I wanted to cry out, “Why are you not with her? How can she let you go away again?” He said, “She comes up here from Manville whenever she can. She does not have a job now.”
2. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Rajshahi Board-2014]
“Have you cut your hair off?” asked Jim. “I Cut it off and sold it,” said Della. “Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, aren't I?”
3. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Dinajpur Board-2014]
“Mina, have you done your English lesson today?” said the teacher. “Yes, sir,” she replied. “But I haven't understood one grammatical point.” “Don't worry. I'll help you understand it,” said the teacher. “Thank you, sir,” she said.
4. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Chattogram Board-2014; Jashore Board 2010]
“You look a little bit like my mother,” he said, “especially in the dark by the fire.” “But you were only four, Jerry, when you came here. You have remembered how she looked all these years?” “My mother lives in Mannville,” he said.
5. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Sylhet Board-2014]
The beggar said, “Will you give me some food to eat? I have been without food for two days.” The housewife said, “Why don't you work? You can earn your own food.” “Oh my God,” said the beggar, “I am disabled. I can't work.”
6. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Barishal Board-2014]
“You look a little bit like my mother,” he said. “But you were only four, Jerry, when you came here. Do you remember her face all these years?” "My mother lives in Mannville.” “Have you seen her lately?” I said.
HSC Passage Narration 2013 All Board Questions with Answer
1. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Dhaka Board-2013; Jashore Board-2013]
The teacher said to the boy, "Do you think that honesty is the best policy?" The boy said, "Yes, sir, I think so." "Then; learn to be honest from your boyhood," said the teacher. "Thank you, sir," said the boy. "May Allah grant you a long life," said the teacher to the boy.
2. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Rajshahi Board-2013]
The writer said to Jerry, “Your roller-skates look very nice. Who has bought them for you?” “My mother” “Is she alive?” “Yes, she lives in Mannville.”
3. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Dinajpur Board-2013; Mymensingh Board-2022; Chattogram Board-2022]
He said, “I can chop some wood today.” I said, “But I have a boy coming from the orphanage.” “I'm the boy.” “You! But you're small.” “Size doesn't matter chopping wood,” he said.
4. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Sylhet Board-2013]
Rahim said to Hamid, “How are you? “I went to your hostel yesterday, but did not find you. Where did you go?” “I went to the station,” said Hamid. “I had to receive my maternal uncle there.”
5. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Barishal Board-2013]
“Take the fan,” said Edna, offering a fan to him. “Oh, no! Thank you. It does no good. You have to stop fanning some time and feel all the more uncomfortable afterward.”
HSC Passage Narration 2014 All Board Questions With Answers
1. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Dhaka Board-2009; Cumilla Board-2014]
“Have you seen your mother, Jerry?” “I see her every summer. She sends for me.” I wanted to cry out, “Why are you not with her? How can she let you go away again?” He said, “She comes up here from Manville whenever she can. She does not have a job now.”
Answer: I asked Jerry if he had seen his mother. Jerry replied that he saw her every summer as she (mother) sent for him. I wanted to cry out and asked why he was not with her (mother). I also asked him how she (mother) could let him go away again. He replied that she (mother) went up there from Mannville whenever she (mother) could. He added that she (mother) did not have a job then.
2. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Rajshahi Board-2014]
“Have you cut your hair off?” asked Jim. “I Cut it off and sold it,” said Della. “Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, aren't I?”
Answer: Jim asked Della if she had cut her hair off. Della replied that she had cut it off and had sold it. Then she asked him if he didn't like her as well, anyhow. Again she emphatically said that she was herself without her hair.
3. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Dinajpur Board-2014]
“Mina, have you done your English lesson today?” said the teacher. “Yes, sir,” she replied. “But I haven't understood one grammatical point.” “Don't worry. I'll help you understand it,” said the teacher. “Thank you, sir,” she said.
Answer: The teacher asked Mina if she had done her English lesson that day. Mina replied respectfully/ respectfully replied that she had done, but she also added that she had not understood one grammatical point. At this, the teacher told her not to worry and assured her that he would help her understand it. She thanked him respectfully.
4. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Chattogram Board-2014; Jashore Board 2010]
“You look a little bit like my mother,” he said, “especially in the dark by the fire.” “But you were only four, Jerry, when you came here. You have remembered how she looked all these years?” “My mother lives in Mannville,” he said.
Answer: Jerry told her that she looked a little bit like his mother especially in the dark by the fire. At this, she told him that he had been only four when he had come there. Next, she asked him if he had remembered how she had looked all those years. Then, Jerry replied that his mother lived in Mannville.
5. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Sylhet Board-2014]
The beggar said, “Will you give me some food to eat? I have been without food for two days.” The housewife said, “Why don't you work? You can earn your own food.” “Oh my God,” said the beggar, “I am disabled. I can't work.”
Answer: The beggar asked the housewife if she would give him some food to eat. He added that he had been without food for two days. The housewife asked him why he did not work and added that he could earn his own food. Expressing heavy disappointment/Swearing in the name of God, the beggar said that he was disabled and he could not work.
6. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Barishal Board-2014]
“You look a little bit like my mother,” he said. “But you were only four, Jerry, when you came here. Do you remember her face all these years?” "My mother lives in Mannville.” “Have you seen her lately?” I said.
Answer: Jerry told me that I looked a little bit like his mother. Hearing this, I told him that he had been only four when he had come remembered her face all those years. Jerry said that his mother lived in Mannville. Then I asked him if he had seen her lately.
HSC Passage Narration 2013 All Board Questions with Answer
1. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Dhaka Board-2013; Jashore Board-2013]
The teacher said to the boy, "Do you think that honesty is the best policy?" The boy said, "Yes, sir, I think so." "Then; learn to be honest from your boyhood," said the teacher. "Thank you, sir," said the boy. "May Allah grant you a long life," said the teacher to the boy.
Answer: The teacher asked the boy if he (b) thought that honesty is the best policy. The boy politely replied that he (b) thought so. The teacher then advised the boy to learn to be honest from his (b) boyhood. Next, the boy thanked his teacher respectfully. The teacher prayed that Allah might grant him (the boy) a long life.
2. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Rajshahi Board-2013]
The writer said to Jerry, “Your roller-skates look very nice. Who has bought them for you?” “My mother” “Is she alive?” “Yes, she lives in Mannville.”
Answer: The writer told Jerry that his roller-skates looked very nice. She also asked him who had bought them for him. Jerry replied that his mother had bought them for him. She then asked him if she (M) was alive. Jerry replied that she (M) was alive and she lived in Mannville.
3. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Dinajpur Board-2013; Mymensingh Board-2022; Chattogram Board-2022]
He said, “I can chop some wood today.” I said, “But I have a boy coming from the orphanage.” “I'm the boy.” “You! But you're small.” “Size doesn't matter chopping wood,” he said.
Answer: He told me that he could chop some wood that day. I told him that I had a boy coming from the orphanage. He told me that he was the boy. Then I wondered and told him that he was small. He replied that size did not matter chopping wood.
4. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Sylhet Board-2013]
Rahim said to Hamid, “How are you? “I went to your hostel yesterday, but did not find you. Where did you go?” “I went to the station,” said Hamid. “I had to receive my maternal uncle there.”
Answer: Rahim asked Hamid how he (h) was. He (R) added that he (R) had gone to his (h) hostel the previous day but had not found him (H). He (R) again asked him (h) where he (h) had gone. Hamid replied that he (h) had gone to the station and added that he (h) had to receive his (h) maternal uncle there.
5. Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. [Barishal Board-2013]
“Take the fan,” said Edna, offering a fan to him. “Oh, no! Thank you. It does no good. You have to stop fanning some time and feel all the more uncomfortable afterward.”
Answer: Offering a fan to him, Edna told him to take the fan. He negated the offer and thanked her. He added that it did no good. He again said that she had to stop fanning some time pune felt all the more uncomfortable afterward.
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