Essay Writing (250 words)

20 Some people say that Technology is a big boon for the younger generation. Others believe that Technology has hampered the growth and imagination of the upcoming lot. Write an essay on what you think about the pros and cons of Technology and its use by young people in 21st Century.

Description (150 words)

 Imagine that you have to write a news paper article on "Your Ideal Educational Institution." Write describing what an ideal educational institution (school, college or university) should be like. Write about location, facilities, faculty, etc.

Letter writing (150 words):

 You recently bought a micro-wave oven for your kitchen but it did not work properly. Write a Letter to the shop manager. In your letter, say when you bought the oven, what the problem is and say what you would like the manager to do.

Fill up the blanks with the correct form of the word 5 given in brackets. 

(1) Nowadays, many people have made a lot of money and have become _______(Wealth)

(2) Many Clinics have come up all over the city ________ (Fertile)

(3) People nowadays are supposed to be more than people in the past ________ (civilize)

(4) Handloom mills have been in India for many years. ________ (Flourish)

(5) In our state, sugarcane grows ________ (abundant)

Look at these words and phrases taken from the reading passage. Match them with the correct meaning given in the box.

05 (1) Tattered footwear (2) Word spread like fire (3) Wrong in the head (4) Dwell (5) Given charge

(a) to work (b) crazy (c) torn shoes (d) live (e) given a battery (f) new shoes (g) news went around (h) give responsibility.

State whether the following statements are True or False :- 

(1) The people of Ratnam woke up very late in the morning.

(2) Rajan had ideas of his own and did not listen to anyone.

(3) Rajan's friends thought he was a very intelligent and clever boy.

(4) Rajan decided about his future only after seeing the footwear of the villagers.

(5) The villagers were too poor to afford the shoes from the city.

(6) Rajan went to the city to buy new shoes and machinery to make shoes.

(7) Rajan made new shoes for his family members so that the villagers could see them.

(8) The shoes that Rajan made for the villagers were cheap and affordable.

(9) Rajan worked alone in his house and made shoes for everyone.

(10) Rajan became a respectable man in his village.

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: In Ratnam village, life was routine for each and every member .They opened their eyes open at the crack of down washed up, packed and set off to gain from the fertile land But among the people there, was one young lad, Rajan, who shirked routine and thought differently. lie wanted to dwell on his own and Live life on his own terms. So, he looked around for ideas. People poked fun at him, his friends thought he was a bit wrong in the head, while his parents cursed themselves for having such a son in their family. But Rajan turned a deaf ear to the continuous ugly downpour of words. One day, as he walked through the village his shoes got stuck in the mud on the road. Pulling them out from the mud, Rajan landed on his back with a thud, holding his shoes to his chest. He lay there for a few minutes and then suddenly, it dawned on him what he wanted to do in life. The 21st century belongs to the knowledge age, where acquisition, possession and application of knowledge are the most important resources. To India, knowledge is not new. Ancient India was an advanced knowledge society with a continual process of intellectual renaissance through inspiring contributions by saints of many faiths, philosophers, poets, scientists, astronomers and mathematicians. There existed great universities like Takshashila and Nalanda where students not only from India but also from far-off countries come to study diverse subjects. Many scholars have said that India culturally conquered and dominated China for 20 centuries without sending a single soldier across the border. He went around observing the shoes of everyone in the village and felt sorry at the sight of the tattered footwear. The city shoes were too expensive for the poor villagers and so they wore shoes till no one could use them any more. Raj an went to the city to collect information and resources on how to make shoes. He worked with a shoemaker only to return home six months later, equipped with knowledge and material. He made a pair of shoes for every member of his family, they proudly walked around the village and spoke lovingly of their son's talent. Soon, people requested Rajan to make shoes for them. He did, at a price they could pay, but at a price with which he could make a profit. Word spread like fire, and Rajan had shoe projects he never dreamt of. He put up a board at his home, "Rajan Shoe Mart" Give your feet some love was the tagline he used, to attract people and profits. And so, Ratnam village had something un- 10 routine about it. There was a new cobbler who made shoes in their village. Soon Rajan employed six men in his small factory and taught them the craft of weaving rubber and tan. Transporters were employed to deliver the products. Suppliers were employed to receive the products. Raj an's father was given the charge of the factory's finance. His mother was in-charge of quality. Every one in Rajan's family had a job that earned them more money than their regular jobs. Rajan's parents were now proud of their son. He was not a useless son anymore. Now he was 'Rajansaheb.' After all, he was the village saviour.

A. Answer the following questions by choosing the correct option A. B or C. 

1 Choose the most appropriate title for the story: (A) Rajan, the city cobbler. (B) The Lazy Boy. (C) The Boy who changed his Life.

2. Why did people poke fun at Rajan?

(A) Because he was Lazy. (B) Because he thought differently. (C) Because his parents ignored him.

3. Why did the villagers buy city shoes? (A) Because the city shoes were too costly. (B) Because the villagers were miserly (C) Because the city was far from the village.

4. When did Rajan decide what he wanted to do in life? (A) When his parents cursed him. (B) When his shoes got stuck in the mud. (C) When he visited the city

5. How did the villagers come to know at Rajan's shoes making ability?

(A) Rajan advertised in the village (B) Rajan opened a new shoe mart. (C) By looking at his family member's shoes.

Write a dialogue in about 150 words on the following situation: 

A well-known hospital in your town has started a regular health-check camp for the economically weaker sections of society, free of cost. In six months’ time the project has received tremendous response – especially from old people and young mothers. You are Anita Sharma, a doctor working at the hospital. A newspaper journalist wants to know details about the project and how many people have benefitted from it. Write a dialogue between the two in about ten turns.

Imagine that a new person has come to your classroom. Using What, Why, How, Where, When, etc. ask information about the following points: 

Example: Name

Ans. What is your name?

1. age

2. come from which city

3. speaks which mother tongue

4. residence at present

5. hobbies and interests

Write an Essay in about 250 words on any one of the following. 15

i) Education in the Corona Times

ii) Climate Change is everyone’s problem

iii) Animal Rights Vs Human Rights

Here is some information on how tea is grown, prepared and drunk. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct verb forms from the brackets in each case. 

Tea is a popular drink all over the world. It …………(is made/made)

from the leaves of the tea plant, which………….(grow/grows) in very

warm countries. The leaves ………….. (are dried/dried) and then are

put in boiling water and allowed to stand for a few minutes. This………….(makes/make) a hot drink having a reddish brown colour,

and a pleasant flavour. Most of the world’s tea…………..(is grown/has grown) in India, Sri Lanka, Japan and Indonesia.

The tea leaves……………..(is picked/are picked) by hand or cut off with

scissors. The quality of tea…(depend/depends) on the soil in which it is

grown, the age of leaves at the time of picking. It also………………..(depend/depends) on how it ………..(made/is made).

Tea is not a good drink for children, but it… (is/are) harmless for grown ups if they do not drink too much of it.

I immediately went round to the Boma to make complaint about……….way I had been treated.

There was……….young district Officer there whom I knew well.

He took me into his office. He listenedwith sympathy to my story and began thumping…………… table in his indignation.

He said, ‘Look here, Kenneth, if ever you want anything just come along to me and I will give you………..note.’ ‘But,’ I said, ‘that is

not… point, what about all the thousands of others who want to be treated like reasonable human beings in…shops?

Have they got to come to you every time for………. note?’ He promised to write…………. letter to… ............ chemist and I let the matter drop.

Add the prefixes un-, dis-, in-, ir-, il-, im-, mis- to the following words. There are two extra prefixes.

inform, audible, logical, kind, reverence

Youth of today are very conscious of their looks. They watch advertisements on TV, read about the lifestyle of rich people and like to copy them. Compose a paragraph describing how youth and teenagers have changed today. The essay entitled "Youth and Changing Lifestyles" must be written in about 150 words

Fill in the blanks in the paragraph below with the correct form of the words given in brackets: 

I began my life among books when I was very young. In my grandfather's study they were everywhere and we were i (forbid) to dust them except once a year. Even before I could read, I already ii (respect) them. I felt that our family's iii (prosper) depended on them. I used to touch them in secret to honour my hands with their dust. Hundreds of times I saw my grandfather iv (absent mind) walk round the table, cross the room and v (hesitate) pick out a volume without vi (allow) himself time for choice, vii (look) through it as he went back to his armchair. With a combined viii (move) of his thumb and forefinger he would open a book, ix (make) it creaks like a shoe. I sometimes got close enough to observe them and felt their pale, dank and x (slight) blistered pages.

Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions that follow: Not unlike drugs or alcohol, the television experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state. The worries and anxieties of reality are as effectively deferred by becoming absorbed in a television program as by going on a "trip" induced by drugs or alcohol. And just as alcoholics are only inchoately aware of their addiction, feeling that they control their drinking more than they really do ("I can cut it out any time I want — I just like to have three or four drinks before dinner"), people similarly overestimate their control over television watching. Even as they put off other activities to spend hour after hour watching television, they feel they could easily resume living in a different, less passive style. But somehow or the other while the television set is present in their homes, the click doesn't sound. With television pleasures available, those other experiences seem less attractive, more difficult somehow. A heavy viewer (a college English instructor) observes: "I find television almost irresistible. When the set is on, I cannot ignore it. I can't turn it off. I feel sapped, will-less, enervated. As I reach out to turn off the set, the strength goes out of my arms. So I sit there for hours and hours." The self-confessed television addict often feels he "ought" to do other things — but the fact that he doesn't read and doesn't plant his garden or sew or crochet or play games or have conversations means that those activities are no longer as desirable as television viewing. In a way a heavy viewer's life is as imbalanced by his television "habit" as a drug addict's or an alcoholic's. He is living in a holding pattern, as it were, passing up the activities that lead to growth or development or a sense of accomplishment. This is one reason people talk about their television viewing so ruefully, so apologetically. They are aware that it is an unproductive experience, that almost any other endeavour is more worthwhile by any human measure. Finally it is the adverse effect of television viewing on the lives of so many people that defines it as a serious addiction. The television habit distorts the sense of time. It renders other experiences vague and curiously unreal while taking on a greater reality for itself. It weakens relationships by reducing and sometimes eliminating normal opportunities for talking, for communicating. And yet television does not satisfy, else 5 why would the viewer continue to watch hour after hour, day after day? "The measure of health," writes Lawrence Kubie, "is flexibility and especially the freedom to cease when sated." But the television viewer can never be sated with his television experiences — they do not provide the true nourishment that satiation requires — and thus he finds that he cannot stop watching.

(a) Answer the following questions by choosing the correct option — (1), (2) or (3)

 (i) The experience of watching TV is similar to that of consuming drugs as both (1) give pleasure (2) create anxieties (3) create nearness to reality

(ii) TV addicts wrongly think that (1) They can control their habit (2) they have no control on their addiction (3) their normal life is over

(iii) TV addicts find it difficult to (1) sit and watch TV for hours (2) be engrossed in a show on TV (3) switch off the TV

(iv) TV viewing is more attractive to the addict than (1) drugs (2) reading (3) alcohol

(v) Because of one's addiction to TV, one can become quite (1) unproductive (2) active (3) worthwhile

(b) State whether the following statements are True or False:

  (i) The experience of watching TV makes a person become passive.

(ii) A TV addict lives in the real world.

(iii) Watching TV for long hours makes people conscious of real life problems.

(iv) People who get addicted to watching TV for long hours think they'll be able to switch it off whenever they want to.

(v) A compulsive viewer thinks he can resume a more active life whenever he wishes to and he is able to do so.

(vi) Alcoholics and TV viewers lead similar lives.

(vii) To a TV addict playing games, reading or planting his garden is equally desirable.

(viii) A habit turns into a serious addiction when it starts having a negative impact on a person's life.

(ix) An addict enjoys the unreal world more than the real world.

(x) In spite of being aware of the hold of their addiction on their lives, addicts are not able to give it up (c) Match the words in Column A (taken from the passage) Column B. 0

Column A with their meanings in Column B

Alienation

Identity

Karam

Alternative Historiography