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2.4 Excuses ! (A Skit)
Std 8th ENGLISH
Class 8th ENGLISH
MY ENGLISH BOOK EIGHT
STANDARD EIGHT
Unit TWO
Excuses ! (A Skit)
Characters :Ritesh : A school student
Mrs Sen : His class
teacher
Scene : A classroom Ritesh : May I come in, Madam ?
Mrs Sen : Now? Don’t you think you are early ?
Ritesh : Pardon, Ma’am ?
Mrs Sen : I mean for the second period. You are tooearly for the second period.
Ritesh : I am so sorry ! Ma’am, I’m really sorry.I started well in time from home, you won’tbelieve what happened.
Mrs Sen : Hmm, We’ll see. Let’s hear the story first.What happened? Nothing short of anearthquake, I ’m sure.
Ritesh : No, Ma’am, really, Ma’am. Honestly, Ma’am.
Mrs Sen : Go ahead. Go ahead.
Ritesh : I was walking to school as usual, I was halfway down the narrow lane that leads to themarket. Suddenly, I heard a scream from themain road.
Mrs Sen : And of course, you had to investigate !
Ritesh : Yes, Madam, I had to find out if someoneneeded help. And sure enough, there was thisperson lying near the pavement - he wasgroaning with pain.
Mrs Sen : So, you took him to Dr Jadhav.
Ritesh : No, Ma’am, I didn’t get the chance. Just as Ireached that man, another man came running outof the shop there, with a packet in his hand. Andthe shopkeeper also ran out shouting, “Chor!Chor! catch him!”.
Mrs Sen : Amazing ! Quite a handful for you to deal withand all at once ! What did you do then ?
Ritesh : Yes, Ma’am, but the most amazing thinghappened then. That man near the pavementhe,too, got up and began to run with the thief.Without losing a moment, I ran after them.
Mrs Sen : And then you caught them and took them to thepolice station !We couldn’t do that, Ma’am. They just vanishedaround the corner. All this happened so fast.Mrs Sen : Then why are you late ?
Ritesh : That’s not all. I realized that I had left my bagat the shop in the mad rush. So I ran back toget it.
Mrs Sen : And it wasn’t there !Ritesh : No, Ma’am, it
was there all right, but therewas a huge, hairy, brown dog sitting on it.
Ididn’t know what to do.
SUBMIT QUIZ
MY ENGLISH BOOK EIGHT
STANDARD EIGHT
Unit One
1.1 Be the Best
1.2 Androcles and the Lion
1.3 Trees are the Kindest Things I Know
1.4 Miss Slippery
Live English Traffic Signs and Road Safety
2.1 Try Again
2.2 The House builder
2.3 The Little River
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