Teacher and his Naughty students

The class was very quiet when suddenly Mr Mensah heard a giggle from the back of the classroom. Of late he has observed that giggling and murmuring have reared their ugly heads in the class. This time he was determined to find the cause of this naughty behaviour and discipline the culprits. Pretending not to have heard the noise, he moved to the blackboard as if to write something on it but in reality to set a trap. Immediately the giggling and murmuring resumed, he turned and spotted three big boys at the back of the class chattering. His turning was so quick that he caught them right in the act. He also saw one of the boys passing on a magazine to the boy next to him.

With the speed of lightning, Mr Mensah got there, asked the three boys to stand up and then searched them in order to seize the magazine. Smart though he was, the boys were even smarter, for the boy sitting next to the window had thrown the magazine onto the veranda. After a thorough search Mr Mensah nearly gave up. It was, perhaps, an exercise book he had seen and not a magazine. However, his long years of teaching experience suggested to him that the boys could have thrown the magazine outside. When he looked through the window, lo and behold, there lay the magazine! He retrieved it, flipped through it and saw that it was full of obscenities. Mr Mensah fumed.

1. According to the passage, Mr Mensah was determined to ……….. A. find the trouble makers. B. write on the board. C. insult the class. D. talk to the three big boys. 2. The children giggled and murmured because ..... A. Mr Mensah turned to write on the board. B. they thought Mr Mensah was funny. C. of what they saw in the magazine. D. the boy near the window threw the magazine away. 3. The boys threw the magazine away because ……….. A. they were murmuring and giggling B. the window was open C. the teacher turned quickly D. they did not want the teacher to see it. 4. The teacher found the magazine because ………… A. it was thrown onto the veranda B. of his many years of teaching experience C. he walked quickly to the back of the class D. the children gave it to him 5. The expression have reared their ugly heads in the passage means have become unpleasantly ……….. A. common B. funny C. troublesome D. ugly 6. The word fumed in the passage means ………. A. exclaimed B. left the room C. smoked D. became very angry

VOCABULARY FROM THE PASSAGE 1. giggled 2. Murmuring 3. Reared 4. Naughty 5. Culprits 6. Resumed 7. spotted 8. chattering 9. in the act 10. Retrieved 11. Flipped 12. Obscenities What figure of speech is used in the following sentences. 13.Speed of lightening. What language is this? 14. ...giggling and murmuring have reared their ugly heads in the class. 15. ....he moved to the blackboard as if to write something on it......