as telling fortunes, predicting the arrival of visitors, feeding rabbits, healing burns and sweeping the carpet. It is worth paying attention to such details as warming the pot and using water that is really boiling, so as to make quite sure of wringing out of one’s ration the twenty good, strong cups of that two ounces, properly handled, ought to represent. (Taken from The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell , Volume , - , Penguin ISBN, - - - - ) Glossary spout - the pipe-like opening in a teapot through which tea is poured out liable - likely mysterious - incomprehensible etiquette - socially acceptable behaviour . Based on your understanding of the text, answer each of the following questions in one or two sentences.
a) What seems ‘curious’ to the author? b) Why does the author say that it is important to include a tea recipe in cookery books? curious - interesting controversial - arguable, disputable virtues - admirable qualities despised - hated stimulation - excitement optimistic - positive, hopeful cauldron - a big pot used for boiling rationing - restricting the consumption of a scarce commodity during war dangling - hanging freely, suspended About the Author Eric Arthur Blair ( June – January ), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by clear prose, awareness of social iniquity, opposition to totalitarianism and candid support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism.
He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm ( ) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ( ). In , The Times ranked him second on a list of “The greatest British writers since ”. 12th - - Page c) Mention the countries in which tea is a part of civilization. d) Which tea does the author prefer– China tea or Indian tea?
e) According to the author, what does the phrase ‘a nice cup of tea’ refer to? f) What is the second golden rule in the preparation of tea? g) How does army