The Last Lesson
Write a paragraph of about 100 words arguing for or against having to study three languages at school.
Study Three Languages At School
India is a secular democracy comprising of people having faith in different religions and speaking different languages. Above all English is gaining good ground as one of the link language at national and international stage. Students of urban as well as rural areas have been going to live or travel throughout the length and breadth of the country on business, trade, tourism, education or professional requirements.
As different languages are spoken in each region, so the three language formula for school teaching, has been proving a boon. The three languages studied by students at school not only help better communication and understanding among people but also promote national integration. Therefore, the three languages study in their schools will go a long way in promoting national interests among the citizens and strengthening India.
Against :
To study Three Languages At School
“All work and no play makes Jack dull boy.” A kid at the age of three is sent to study at school. There the kid gets the lessons in English, a language mostly not spoken at home. In his high school, he is taught Sanskrit due to three language formula. This language is not spelhen publicly.
Most of the students settle in life in their native places and hardly get any chance to move out to the places where they can find the utility of the second and the third language they have studied at school. The time and labour spent by them could have been better used for imparting the know-how of one or the other professional skills. Every where one can see the school passouts, doing petty jobs for earning their livelihood. Of what use, they find having studied the two additional languages at school ? Of course it is a more wastage.
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What was Franz expected to be prepared with for school that day?
What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?
What had been put on the bulletin board?
What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?
How did Franz’s feelings about M. Hamel and school change?
The people in this story suddenly realise how precious their language is to them. What shows you this? Why does this happen?
Franz thinks : “Will they make them sing in German, even the pigeons ?” What could this mean ? (There could be more than one answer).
‘When a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.” Can you think of examples in history where a conquered people had their language taken away from them or had a language imposed on them?
What happens to a linguistic minority in a state ? How do you think they can keep their language alive?
For example:
Punjabis in Bangalore
Tamilians in Mumbai
Kannadigas in Delhi
Gujaratis in Kolkata
Is it possible to carry pride in one’s language too far? Do you know what linguistic chauvinism means?
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