The Verger

SILVER JUBILEE GOVT. COLLLEGE (A), KURNOOL

ReAccredited with NAAC  ‘A’ Grade & College with Potential for Excellence

Star College Status & NIRF State 1^st 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,)