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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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(teach, idea,  thunderclap,wretches; sliding, sorry; forget, nuisance, master, give up)
 
The order has come from Berlin to _______ only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. The new _______ comes tomorrow. This is your last French lesson. I want you to be very attentive.” What a ________ these words were to me! Oh, the _______ that was what they had put up at the town-hall! My last French lesson! Why, I hardly knew how to write! I should never learn anymore! I must stop there, then! Oh, how ______I was for not learning my lessons, for seeking birds’ eggs, or going _______ on the Saar! My books, that had seemed such a _________a while ago, so heavy to carry, my grammar, and my history of the saints, were old friends now that I couldn’t _______. And M. Hamel, too; the ______ that he was going away, that I should never see him again, made me ________ all about his ruler and how cranky he was.
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Teach, master, hardly , wretches; thunderclap, sorry, sliding, nuisance, give up, idea ,forget

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