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The document summarizes a chapter from a book about a child's first experience with duck diving, or diving nose-first into water. The swimming instructor taught the children to duck dive by throwing a weighted object into the pond and having them retrieve it. The narrator was afraid but managed to swim down, retrieve a tin box full of mud, and return to the surface, where the other children cheered.

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The document summarizes a chapter from a book about a child's first experience with duck diving, or diving nose-first into water. The swimming instructor taught the children to duck dive by throwing a weighted object into the pond and having them retrieve it. The narrator was afraid but managed to swim down, retrieve a tin box full of mud, and return to the surface, where the other children cheered.

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Session:2023–2024

Grade: S1 Subject: English Ch 8-Return to Air

I. Answer the following questions.

1. What were the ponds, in the author’s village generally used for?
Ans. The ponds in the author’s village were very big, so at the one end people bathed, and at the other end they
fished.

2. Why did the author not want to dive?


Ans.The author did not want to dive because she had to take her glasses off to go into the water and she couldn’t see
without them. She did not want to dive without being able to see clearly.

3. What is duck -diving? How were the children taught, by the instructor, to duck dive?
Ans. Duck-diving is diving nose first into the water. The swimmer swims on the surface of the water and suddenly up-
ends herself/ himself just like a duck, and dives down deep into the water, swims about a bit underwater and then
comes up again. The swimming instructor taught the children to duck-dive by throwing a brick in the water. It was a
brick with a bit of old white flannel around it, to make it show up underwater. The children had to swim down to the
bottom of the pond, pick up the brick and bring it up again.

4. What did the swimming instructor throw in the pond? What were the instructions?
Ans. The swimming instructor threw a brick in the pond. It was a brick with a bit of old white flannel around it, to
make it show up under water. The instructions were to swim down to the bottom of the pond, pick up the brick and
bring it up again.

5. How does the narrator describe the changing colour of water? Why do you think the colour changed?
Ans. The author says, that at first the water was like a thick greenish-brown lemonade. Further down, it became just a
dark blackishbrown. The colour changed on going deeper because less sunlight reached this depth.

6. What were the narrator’s fear?


Ans. The narrator feared that she might get lost underwater. Perhaps she had swum underwater too far. Perhaps she
would come up at the far end of the pond, amongst all the fishermen and perhaps get a fish hook caught in her, or
perhaps she just wasn’t going to find the top and the air again. She also feared that she was swimming up too slowly
and wouldn’t reach the surface in time.

7. How was the narrator greeted when she reached the surface?
Ans. On reaching the surface, the narrator was greeted with a shouting from the bank. The children were cheering and
shouting and the instructor was hallooing with his hands around his mouth.

8. What had she got from the bottom of the pond?


Ans. The narrator had picked up a tin from the bottom of the pond. It was just about the size and shape of a brick. It
was an old tin box with no paint left on it, with brown-black slime from the bottom of the ponds. It was as heavy as a
brick because it was full of mud. There was nothing in it but mud.

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