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In groups of four constructs the dialogues and enact the following situations from the story:

1. Mrs. Packletide and the headman of the village/other villagers discussing the details of the tiger shooting.


2. Miss Mebbin blackmailing Mrs. Packletide into gifting her a cottage.


3. Loona Bimberton and a lady-friend discussing Mrs. Packletide's hunting success.

(1) Village head: I just heard that Memsahib wanted to hunt a tiger


Mrs. Packeltide: Yes. But I want a lean and thin one.


Village head: I got it. A tiger has been seen preying on our cattle and is now without any food to satisfy its thirst. It roams around, looking thin and weak. We shall get that for you, Memsahib.


Mrs. Packeltide: Fine. Arrange that and you will get ten thousand rupees from me.


Village head: As you wish, Memsahib. We shall see to it and arrange for the platform for your shooting.


2. Miss Mebbin: I have found a week end cottage atDarking and I’m thinking of buying. What do you say?


Mrs. Packeltide: Go ahead. What am I to do for it?


Miss Mebbin: Nothing much. I was wondering how Loona would be elated on knowing about your tiger shooting?


Mrs. Packeltide: Is it a blackmail?


Miss Mebbin: Not at all. I was just thinking of retiring to some calm corner and wondering if you could help me out.


Mrs. Packeltide: And what if I don’t act accordingly? Will you give out the truth and tell everyone that the bullet frightened the tiger to death while hitting an innocent goat?


Miss Mebbin: Let's see. May be. I don’t know.


Mrs. Packeltide: fine. Tell me your amount and remember not to open your mouth henceforth.


Miss Mebbin: Never ever. And why should I? I just want some peace.


3. Lady friend: What’s’ that lying on the table?


Loona Bimberton: Oh, nothing. Just a tiger claw brooch sent by a friend.


Lady friend: And who is this friend of yours?


Loona Bimberton: Some Mrs. Packeltide


Lady friend: Is this that woman whom we saw in the newspapers some weeks ago?


Loona Bimberton: Oh, yes. That poor lady! Somehow managed to hunt down a tiger in the jungles.


Lady friend: Very courageous though.


Loona Bimberton: Not exactly. I doubt whether it was really she herself who shot the tiger or she made someone do it for her.


Lady friend: And why so?


Loona Bimberton: Mrs. Packeltide is not at all a courageous lady. She must have duped people and bribed someone to do it just to put me down.


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An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines normally-contradictory terms. The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination of two words like- failed success

Writers often use an oxymoron to call attention to an apparent contradiction. For example, Wilfred Owen's poem The Send-off refers to soldiers leaving for the front line, who "lined the train with faces grimly gay." The oxymoron 'grimly gay' highlights the contradiction between how the soldiers feel and how they act: though they put on a brave face and act cheerful, they feel grim. Some examples of oxymorons are- dark sunshine, cold sun, living dead, dark light, almost exactly etc.


The story Mrs. Packletide's Tiger has a number of oxymorons. Can you identify them and write them down in your notebooks?

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Years later Mrs. Packletide writes her autobiography. As Mrs. Packletide, write about the tiger episode with the help of the clues given below.

jealous of the applause Loona was getting-thought of tiger hunt--all arranged-- Louisa Mebbin accompanied; turned out to be a blackmailer-huge price to pay to outdo a rival.

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Listen to the passage on lion hunting and answer the questions given below:

The Maasai tribe in Africa hunt lions because

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Listen to the passage on lion hunting and answer the questions given below:

Solo hunting has been banned because of