SILVER JUBILEE
GOVT. COLLLEGE (A), KURNOOL
ReAccredited
with NAAC ‘A’ Grade & College with
Potential for Excellence
Star
College Status & NIRF State 1st Rank
Department of English
Workshop
On Comprehension
‘The Verger’
Written
by
Somerset Maugham
09-08-2018
Venue:
Virtual Class Room 2
Class
: II B. Sc
(Biology
Stream)
Instructor
Dr. A. S. Kanna
Asst. Professor of English & HoD
Activity
Foreman had been the ___________ to several ______who worked in
St. Peter’s parish. He was most ________to his work and kept the ____of the
work. He was a good man. He had worked for _______years when a new priest took
duty of the church. After a few days, the new priest called ________to a couple
of officials of the church and announced that the _____had decided to force him
to _____the service because Foreman was not ________! However, the
authorities gave him three month’s time to ____but Foreman refused this offer
as he had already failed in his repeated ______to learn writing.
(dedicated, literate, purity, Assistant, learn, Foreman, Church,
attempts, sixteen, quit, priests)
That evening, instead of heading_____, Foreman walked to a
different ______and reached a _________with several shops. Foreman thought of ______a
shop there with the _________he had made during his 16 years’ work in the
church. In a few _____Foreman’s first shop opened. Time passed and Foreman’s _____went
well. In a short ____of time he opened more shops and made a _____income from
all of them. Foreman was still ______but that didn’t ______his business. He _____his
income in a bank. One day the manager of the ____had a meeting with Foreman and
_____him to try his fortune in the ________-market. Foreman didn’t know what it
was so he was____.
(Marketplace, deposited, Home, doubtful, opening, days, advised,
business , illiterate, direction, savings,
period, share, huge, affect, bank )
Finally the manager _____how share-markets worked and made
Foreman ____to deposit in the share business. The manager ______ all the
papers and asked Foreman to read all the terms and______. At this point he
admits that he could not__– nor______. The manager asked ____what he could have become if
he knew ___to read and write. He said he could be the _____of the parish is he
were literate.
(Explained, write,
conditions, agree, prepared, read , Foreman, how, verger,)
