THE UNEXPECTED

BY: ELLA ADKINS

Class – 10th

Subject – English

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Presented By:Mrs. Neeraj (SS Mistress)Govt. High School DaadStudents InvolvedPankajKulwinder

INTRODUCTION Two Convicts escaped from the prison.

Everyone was talking about this in the

village. So was Joe .He thought one of the

convicts had entered Mrs. Parker’s house.

Teacher: Was it true?Teacher: Did Mrs Parker try to help him?

P.K TESTING

Teacher: What do know about Prison?

Students :It is a lonely room with a gate of iron

rods , where convicts are kept.

Teacher: Who are the convicts?

Students :They are criminals, thieves, murderer

etc.

Mrs. Parker lives in a lonely

cottage at Dartmoor .Two

boys Alec and Tom come to

her cottage. They tell her that

two convicts have escaped

from the prison.

Shortly afterwards Joe

also comes there and

considers himself a

great detective . He

enters into a heated

arguments with Alec

and Tom.

Joe also suspects Mrs. Parker.

Joe asks her why she has hidden a Bentley

sports car in her shed .Mrs Parker is greatly

annoyed with him.

She tells him that the car belongs to her

nephew .She also asks him to leave her cottage

and Joe goes away from there. But suspicion also

arises in the mind of both the boys.

Mrs. Parker tells them the truth. She says that her son

Roger Felton was falsely accused of forgery. He was

sentenced to three years imprisonment.

Mrs. Parker’s son

Mrs. Parker wanted to help Roger to escape from

the prison. Now she hopes that his son might be

one of the escaped convicts. She has kept the car

ready for use. Both the boys want to help Mrs.

Parker. But Mrs. Parker asks them to leave.

Leave from here both of

you

They hear a knock at the door.

When the door is opened a

convict enters the cottage .Alec

tells him that he need not be

afraid of them. His mother has

told them his story Mrs. Parker

takes the next room. Shortly

afterwards the door knocks

again .

Joe says that he has seen

a convict entering the

cottage.

Mrs. Parker tells Joe that he must have seen her nephew .

But Joe says that the man he has seen was in

a convict’s dress.

In the meanwhile the convict comes there and

wearing an ordinary dress.

Joe says that the convicts dress must be hidden in the next room. But they do not let him

go to that room .

In the mean while the warder of the jail reaches

there , Joe tells him every thing.

The warder goes to the next room and recover the

convit’s dress .He says that he will take the convict

to the prison in Bentley sports car and also says

that it is an important piece of evidence.

Joe says that he will also come with them on his

bike . But the warder tells him that he might have

trouble to pass as the roads are guarded .

Joe says that he knows the password

as his uncle is a constable he also tells

the warder the password .

All the three leave for the Prison

Now he has escaped with his fellow convict in

the Bentley sports car . Joe has told him the

password that will get him safely to the prison

Mrs. Parker , Alec and Tom are left behind

Mrs Parker tells them that the convict was not his

son and he was disguised as a warder .

EXERCISE

WORD MEANINGS

Convict

Motionless

Called

Forged

Extra-ordinary

Alarm

Regulations

Wearily

A person who has done a crime

and is in jail.

Not moving

Visited

Not real

Very unusual

Fearing something dangerous will

happen

Rules

Tired

QUESTIONS

Where did Mrs. Parker live? Who else lived with

her?

Who brought the news of the escape of the

convicts?

Why was Mrs. Parker disturbed to hear the

news?

How did the convict escape the prison?

Who was Joe? Why did he come to Mrs. Parker’s

house?

ANSWERS

Mrs. Parker lived in a cottage at Dartmoor. It

was on the moors very near to the prison. She

lived alone in the cottage.

The two boys ,Tom and Alec, brought this news

to Mrs. Parker.

Mrs. Parker’s own son was in the prison. She

did not know if one of the escaped prisoners

was her own son. That was why she was

disturbed.

ANSWERS

The convicts had been taken to work outside the

prison. suddenly, the mist came on. Two f the

convicts took advantage of this and escaped.

Joe was the nephew of the village constable. He

imagined himself to be a detective. He came to

mrs. Parker’s house to find out if the escaped

convicts were hiding there.

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