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Flamingo Prose CH 1 The Last Lesson — ENGLISH STD 12 Commerce — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 CommerceENGLISHFlamingo Prose CH 1 The Last Lesson5 Marks
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(prison, logical, copies, flags, beautiful, well, enslaved, stroke, carefully, almost)
Then, from one thing to another, M. Hamel went on totalk of the French language, saying that it was the most _______ language in the world - the clearest, the most _______; that we must guard it among us and never forget it, because when people are _________, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their _______ Then he opened a grammar and read us our lesson. I was amazed to see how _______I understood it. All he said seemed so easy, so easy! I think, too, that I had never listened so _______ and that he had never explained everything with so much patience. It seemed _______ as if the poor man wanted to give us all he knew before going away, and to put it all into our heads at one _______.After the grammar, we had a lesson in writing. That day M. Hamel had new _______ for us, written in a beautiful round hand - France, Alsace, France, Alsace. They looked like little _______ floating everywhere in the school-room, hung from the rod at the top of our desks.
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Beautiful, logical, enslaved, prison, well, carefully, almost, stroke, copies, flags

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