Class 12 English

Chapter 7 Solutions — The Interview

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Overview

Step-by-step NCERT solutions for The Interview (Chapter 7, CBSE Class 12 English) — every question and answer worked out in full, not just the final result. You can also read the The Interview textbook chapter.

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What these solutions cover

All 10 questions in The Interview are solved in the PDF. Here's what's inside, exercise by exercise:

Understanding the Text

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

Talking about the Text

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?
The medium you like best for an interview, print, radio, or television.
Every famous person has a right to his or her privacy. Interviewers sometimes embarrass celebrities with very personal questions.

Noticing discourse linkers and signallers

Notice how the utterances of the interviewer and the interviewee are linked to one another through reference pronouns and repetition of words (linkers). Study the italicised linkers in the given exchanges and explain how each one links back to a previous utterance.
The text mentions 'signallers' — phrases that prepare the listener for a shift in topic. Identify the two examples given in the text and explain how they function.

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