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Class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 7. The Interview [Removed] Summary, Explanation, Question Answers (NCERT Solutions)

The Interview (7. The Interview [Removed]) CBSE class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 7. The Interview [Removed] summary with detailed explanation of the lesson The Interview along with meanings of difficult words. Given here is the complete explanation of the lesson, along with summary, explanation and questions and answers of each topic of lesson 7. The Interview [Removed].

English Flamingo (Chapter 7. The Interview [Removed]) Solution
 Think As You Read

1. What are some of the positive views on interviews?

Answer :


Interview, in the 130 years of its existence, has become an inherent part of journalism. It is a useful means of communication that is, at times, considered to be an art, serving as a source of truth. Denis Brian has stated that in today’s world we get to know “our contemporaries” through their interviews.


All Questions of English Flamingo Chapter 7. The Interview [Removed]
Think As You Read
1. What are some of the positive views on interviews?
2. Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?
3. What is the belief in some primitive cultures about being photographed?
4. What do you understand by the expression “thumbprints on his windpipe”?
5. Who, in today’s world, is our chief source of information about personalities?

Understanding The Text
1. Do you think Umberto Eco likes being interviewed? Give reasons for your opinion.
2. How does Eco find the time to write so much?
3. What was distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style?
4. Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?
5. What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, The Name of the Rose?

Talking About The Text
Discuss in pairs or small groups.

1. Talk about any interview that you have watched on television or read in a newspaper. How did it add to your understanding of the celebrity, the interviewer and the field of the celebrity?

2. The medium you like best for an interview, print, radio, or television.

3. Every famous person has a right to his or her privacy. Interviewers sometimes embarrass celebrities with very personal questions.

Writing
If the interviewer Mukund Padmanabhan had not got the space in the newspaper to reproduce the interview verbatim, he may have been asked to produce a short report of the interview with the salient points.

Write this report for him.

[The teacher should be able to help the pupils in what to include and what can be omitted. We could also provide a short report of an interview as a sample.]

Things to do
Interview a person whom you admire either in school or your neighbourhood and record it in writing.

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