Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.
A newly appointed teacher with a good academic record has come to take up English classes of class VII. He is sincere enough and has sound knowledge of the new trends and approach of teaching English Language, whether through, functional communicative method or the direct method. He tries to follow his professional skills acquired from the handbook or the teacher's manual and advice from linguists. In the classroom, he uses only English as the medium of his instruction. He advises his learners to guess the meanings. He sincerely tries to improve the standard of teaching by means of interaction.
As a man, he is a sociable one and within a few days he becomes popular among his students. But, unfortunately, after a few days he comes to know from one of his students outside the classroom that they could understand very little of what he taught. The teacher asks politely, "Why did you not confess your problem in the classroom?" The student replies modestly but hesitatingly, "We could not say anything as you were not speaking our mother tongue and we cannot speak English".
The children could not say anything because

Options

A. they could not speak English
B. the teacher was not speaking their mother tongue
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. they did not like the way he was teaching

Answer

C

Explanation

Here, both the reasons i.e. .they could not speak English. and .the teacher was not speaking their language. would be Included.