Saturday, 29 December 2018
H.S.C.Preliminary Examination 2018/19
. S.B.B.A.K.Higher Secondary School,Hingoli
Sub:English Practise examination 2018/2019
Marks: 80
Std.XII(Arts/Commerce)
Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities.(12)
A1. Positive or negative(2)
Read the following statements and rewrite which shows positive feelings?
1.Chandan had a small smile on his lips.
2.Today I can see sadness in your faces.
3.Everyone looked down ashamed at their behavior.
4.Chandan spotted his cheerful face in the crowd.
King Amrit and Chandan watched them trudge up in their soaking clothes. Chandan had a small smile on his lips, while the king looked sad. When they had assembled in front of him, he said, “When I asked you yesterday if you were happy with your lives, all of you said you were contented and did not need anything more. Yet, today I can see the sadness in your faces when you had to leave behind the riches you had gathered in my garden. If you were really happy with your lives, why did you gather the jewel fruits, and why are you so sad now?”
The man said, “I didn’t pick the jeweled fruits and flowers. I had picked some of the lovely, tasty fruits and had eaten my fill of them. In my sack 1had kept some others for my little daughter who is at home. I had thought she would enjoy these tasty apples and mangoes. But when I saw there was no other way to go across the stream, 1did not think twice about leaving my sack by the river. My little girl can get tasty fruits from some other garden too! But I am so happy the king let us all wander around his garden, looking at the trees and plants and animals. He is a great king for having created this place of beauty, and it was a pleasure walking around there.”
A2. Infere (2)
The young man seemed to be unconcerned.
Ø The extract shows us this with….
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2.------
3.------
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A3. Compare(2)
This extract indicates two contrast things in the action of people and young man.Indicate those actions to make comparison between them?
Action of people
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Action of young man
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A4. (2)
Which one suits one?
In A column context has given. Choose the suitable word from the extract and write in B column.
1.The Person who rules the country
2.The part of tree
3.The beautiful place where we go for recreation
4.Which are not humanbeings but have emotions,they make sound,
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2.--------
3.-------
4.--------
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A5. Your choice
1.----2.-----3.------4.-----
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A6. Choose the correct alternative from bracket and follow the instructions?
1.King Amrit and Chandan watched them trudge up in their soaking clothes.
They---(were watched/ watched/had watched) trudge up in their soaking cloths by King Amrit and Chandan.
(Change the voice)
2. Chandan spotted his cheerful face in the crowd and beckoned him forward.
(Spotting/spotted/having spotted) his cheerful face,Chandan beckoned him forward.
(Make it simple sentence)
B.Rewrite in the ways instructed(3)
1.Insert appropriate preposition?
1. ---1999 we had been living---Mumbai. (at/in)
2. This matter have—biggest issue to be presented.We couldn’t give—approval.(Use correct articles)
3. Mrunmayi asked,’’ Can you suggest any alternative for this matter Rohan?’’
(Select the correct words from the bracket to convert this sentence into indirect speech)
Mrunmayi (asked/said) ---(if/that) he (can/could)suggest any alternative for this matter.
Q.2(A)Read the first activity,read the extract and do all the activities that follow.(12)
A1.Read the following statements and write down two statements which explain the theme of the extract.(2)
1. This extract is about how we can create a poverty free world.
2. It explains still we have differences between the middle class and the luxury class.
3. It justifies Poverty free world means the ideal world that we feel proud to live in.
4. It gives example of trains in Europe which have only first class.
A poverty-free world might see a whole group of families, locations, or even regions devastated by some shared disaster, such as floods, fire, cyclones, riots, earthquakes or other disasters. But such temporary problems could be taken care of by the market mechanism through insurance and other self- paying programmes, assisted of course by social-consciousness-driven enterprises.
There would always remain differences in lifestyle between people at the bottom of society and those at the top income levels. Yet that difference would be the difference between the middle-class and the luxury class, just as on trains in Europe today you have only first-class and second-class carriages, whereas in the nineteenth century there were third-class and even fourth-class carriages – sometimes with no windows and just hay strewn on the floor.
Can we really create a poverty-free world? A world without third-class or fourth-class citizens, a world without a hungry, illiterate barefoot under-class?
Yes we can, in the same way, as we can create ‘sovereign’ states, or ‘democratic’ political systems, or ‘free’ market economies.
A poverty-free world would not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.
We have created a slavery-free world, a polio-free world, an apartheid-free world. Creating a poverty-free world would be greater than all these accomplishments while at the same time reinforcing them. This would be a world that we could all be proud to live in.
A2. Give examples:
Give one example for each of the following from the above extract:
1. A poverty-free world might see a whole group of families, locations, or even regions devastated by some shared disaster,
2. In Europe we can observe equality.
3. The extract focuses on ideal poverty free world.
4. The writer gives examples of the world which we have created.
A3. Conclusion:
The extract throughs light on ideal poverty free world.We can make it with..
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2---------
3------------
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A4.Vocabulary
Pick up four compound words from extract.
A5.Personal response(2)
Suggest how you can contribute to make poverty free world.Justify your answer with your views.
B.Note making:
Read the following extract and complete the table given below?(3)
When studying poetry, it is useful first of all to consider the theme and the overall development of the theme in the poem.
A lyric poem is a comparatively short, non-narrative poem in which a single speaker presents a state of mind or an emotional state.
Subcategories of the lyric are, for example elegy, ode, sonnet and dramatic monologue and most occasional poetry:
In modern usage, elegy is a formal lament for the death of a particular person (for example Tennyson’s In Memoriam A.H.H.). More broadly defined, the term elegy is also used for solemn meditations, often on questions of death, such as Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
An ode is a long lyric poem with a serious subject written in an elevated style. Famous examples are Wordsworth’s Hymn to Duty or Keats’ Ode to a Grecian Urn.
The sonnet was originally a love poem which dealt with the lover’s sufferings and hopes. It originated in Italy and became popular in England in the Renaissance, when Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey translated and imitated the sonnets written by Petrarch (Petrarchan sonnet). From the seventeenth century onwards the sonnet was also used for other topics than love, for instance for religious experience (by Donne and Milton), reflections on art (by Keats or Shelley) or even the war experience (by Brooke or Owen). The sonnet uses a single stanza of (usually) fourteen lines and an intricate rhyme pattern (see stanza forms). Many poets wrote a series of sonnets linked by the same theme, so-called sonnet cycles (for instance Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Drayton, Barret-Browning, Meredith) which depict the various stages of a love relationship.
In a dramatic monologue a speaker, who is explicitly someone other than the author, makes a speech to a silent auditor in a specific situation and at a critical moment. Without intending to do so, the speaker reveals aspects of his temperament and character. In Browning's My Last Duchess for instance, the Duke shows the picture of his last wife to the emissary from his prospective new wife and reveals his excessive pride in his position and his jealous temperament.
Narrative Poetry:
Narrative Poetry:
Narrative poetry gives a verbal representation, in verse, of a sequence of connected events, it propels characters through a plot. It is always told by a narrator. Narrative poems might tell of a love story (like Tennyson's Maud), the story of a father and son (like Wordsworth's Michael) or the deeds of a hero or heroine (like Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel).
Sub-categories of narrative poetry:
Epics usually operate on a large scale, both in length and topic, such as the founding of a nation (Virgil’s Aeneid) or the beginning of world history (Milton'sParadise Lost), they tend to use an elevated style of language and supernatural beings take part in the action.
The mock-epic makes use of epic conventions, like the elevated style and the assumption that the topic is of great importance, to deal with completely insignificant occurrences. A famous example is Pope's The Rape of the Lock, which tells the story of a young beauty whose suitor secretly cuts off a lock of her hair.
A ballad is a song, originally transmitted orally, which tells a story. It is an important form of folk poetry which was adapted for literary uses from the sixteenth century onwards. The ballad stanza is usually a four-line stanza, alternating tetrameter and trimeter.
Descriptive and Didactic Poetry
Both lyric and narrative poetry can contain lengthy and detailed descriptions (descriptive poetry) or scenes in direct speech (dramatic poetry).
The purpose of a didactic poem is primarily to teach something. This can take the form of very specific instructions, such as how to catch a fish, as in James Thomson’s The Seasons (Spring 379-442) or how to write good poetry as in Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism. But it can also be meant as instructive in a general way. Until the twentieth century all literature was expected to have a didactic purpose in a general sense, that is, to impart moral, theoretical or even practical knowledge; Horace famously demanded that poetry should combine prodesse (learning) and delectare (pleasure). The twentieth century was more reluctant to proclaim literature openly as a teaching tool.
Types of poetry
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Examples
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elegy, ode, sonnet and dramatic monologue and most occasional poetry:
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3.Descriptive and Didactic Poetry
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A1. Fill up(2)
Fill up the flow chart with four events in Ganapat Belwikar’s life.
Life events in Ganapat Belwilkar's life
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Natsamrat Review: Nana Patekar brilliance reminds us what Bollywood is missing out on
The first week of the new year has given movie buffs plenty of reason to rejoice. Mahesh Manjrekar’s Natsamrat is the kind of cinema that leaves your eyes moist and your soul cleansed.
Even the most hardened and cynical moviegoer would find it hard not to be moved by the plight of Ganpat Belwiker, a theatre actor par excellence who foolishly believes his children will look after him after retirement.
“Be careful of what you give away,” warns Ganpat’s sensible wife (Medha Manjrekar, suitably subdued serene and subtle) a little too late. By then, the floodgates of ingratitude have already opened up in Ganpat’s life. With heart-wrenching resonance we hear his heart being broken time and again.
Natsamrat is a very old-fashioned melodramatic morality tale, and that’s the highest compliment I can pay this extraordinarily rich emotional drama. In an era of 'fast-food films' this film is like an aromatic home-made thaali — the vegetables that are cooked with the purest home-ground spices. The film is deeply dramatic — as it ought to be, since it owes its thematic allegiance to the world of theatre (Marathi theatre to be more specific)..
Creative nihilism is a theme that thunders passionately across the film. To hear Nana Patekar recite impassioned monologues of theatre-greats is a treat for all lovers of stage performances, but also a distracting device that distances us from the world that Ganpat inhabits, as much as it distances him from his immediate surroundings..
At times the pounding truth of Patekar/Ganpat’s words hits us where it hurts the most. After being betrayed and humiliated by his favourite child when she comes to ask his forgiveness, Patekar observer how helpless parents become when they are dependent on their children. “You must have thought we are like dogs tied to your backyard. Where can we go?” Patekar tells his penitent daughter.
Patekar, at 65 proves that great actors don’t fade away. They simply burn brighter with the growing awareness of mortality. This performance of a man raging against human injustices and God’s quirky decree will rank among the most towering performances of Indian cinema.
. Thank you, cinematographer Ajith V Reddy for mapping the characters’ hearts with as much vividness as their faces (though here I must confess the supporting cast is just not on a par with the looming lead actors).
A2: Locate(2)
Locate the following information from the review:
1.Characters------
2.Music-----
3.Director/Producer------
4.Cinematography-----
5.Writers------
^.Actors---------
A3:conclusion(2)
The reviewer says,’’. In an era of 'fast-food films' this film is like an aromatic home-made thaali ---------(complete it in a paragraph)
A4 Word register
Prepare word register from this review with the word ‘cinema’?
A5: Your opinion(2)
Our grand parents need to be protected in our family,mention four things that you would like to do for your grand parents or any old aged people.
A6:Grammar:
Follow the instructions to convert the sentences in other form?
1. Creative nihilism is a theme that thunders passionately across the film.
(Choose the correct one alternative to convert the above sentence in form of Simple sentence.)
a.The theme creative nihilism thunders passionately across the film.
b.Audience are passionate about the theme creative nihilism across the film.
c.Audience says that they are passionate about the theme creative nihilism across the film.
2. Patekar, at 65 proves that great actors don’t fade away
( This is not the correct ‘’Wh’’ question to get any part of the sentence as answer)
a.Where does he prove that great actors don’t fade away?
b.What does Patekar prove at 65?
c.By whom it is proved that actors don’t fade away?
Q.4.Read the given extract and do the activities that follow?
Considered the largest thing known to man
Now skyscrapers are the most extravagant and titanic part of the plan
We used to sit next to the stream, the wind caressing our crown
Watching the magnificent untamed beasts roam far, far from town
Now they are just characters of folktales, memories we pass down
An adjective to describe someone, no more a noun
This could be our reality
If we continue to live in impracticality
No more vast, endless oceans-
Only littered swamps, the colour of a witch’s potions.
No more soaring birds overhead-
Only planes, so loud they rock your bed.
No more woods
No more natural goods
We have little time
To change our self centered, one track minds
Before we are stuck with a great heap of jumble
Left only with an artificial concrete jungle.
A1. Complete(2)
Complete the following statements by choosing appropriate ideas from the extract?
1.The poet used to sit next to stream because......
2. The poet thinks that now…….part of the plan.
A2:Poetic Device:(2)
1.Watching the magnificent untamed beasts roam far, far from town.
The figure of speech used in this line is…….The poet uses it here because……
2.Pick out
A3: Personal response:
You wish to protect natural surroundings in your locality.Plan four things that you would have thought about
I have planned –
1.To keep water for birds on my terrace of house.
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A4.Poetic Creativity:
Read the lines.Use positive meaning to create your poetic lines?
No more soaring birds overhead-
Only planes, so loud they rock your bed.
No more woods
No more natural goods
Q.5. A) Read the following extract and do the activities that follow it.(4)
The two girls made their plans. There were many thieves on the road s in those days, and it was dangerous for rich and beautiful young women to travel alone. So they stained their faces with a brown juice to make them look sunburned, and wore simple country clothes. Rosalind, who was much taller than Celia, dressed herself as a young man, and took the name of Ganymede. Celia decided to call herself Aliena. They took with them a kind old servant called Touchstone, who served as Court Jester, or “Fool”, to Duke Frederick. (A Jester’s duty was to keep the court amused with merry jokes and songs, and to make his master laugh when he felt sad or dull.)
Touchstone had always been very fond of Celia, and he gladly agreed to accompany her and Rosalind into the Forest of Arden. He still wore his Jester's clothes of red and black, with little bells hanging from his cap; and he was a great comfort o the two lonely girls, making them laugh with his merry jokes, and cheering them when they were tired or frightened.
As you can imagine, Duke Frederick was very angry when he was told that Celia had gone with Rosalind. He knew how much they had admired the young Orlando de Boys, and he suspected that the two girls had joined the young man and that they had all run away together. ‘Send at once to Oliver’s house,’ he said angrily, ‘and if Orlando is not there, bring his brother to me. I’ll make him find him. Everything must be done to bring back these foolish runaways.’
A1: Match the characters with their roles?(2)
Characters
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Roles
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1.Rosalind
2..Celia
3.Touchstone
4.Orlando
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1.Young de Boys
2.Jestler
3. Ganymede
4.Aliena
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A2: Extend the extract with adding imaginative paragraph?You can add new characters or change the place?(2)
Q.5.(B) Read the following extract and do the activities that follow it.(4)
Dentist : (sternly). Who are you, and what are you doing in my house?
Tom : I say – I’m awfully sorry- but we thought you were a ghost.
Dentist : (bewildered). A ghost! Why on earth should you think I was a ghost?
George : (crossing C). I’m awfully sorry, sir. You see, we were out carol-singing,
and – Oh, so it was you who were making that horrible din outside?
George : Yes – that was Ginger’s idea – but, you see, it was raining rather hard, and
these fellows were afraid of getting wet, so –
Tom : (interrupting).Young Alfie’s got his best suit on, otherwise we shouldn’t
have been afraid of getting wet.
Ginger : Anyhow, sir, we stood in your doorway for shelter.
Tom : And the door was open, so we came inside.
Dentist : I see. But what were you making all that confounded noise about?
Tom : (finding the explanation difficult). Well, you see, we saw that skull, and
those white grinning things-and we thought the place was haunted-at least,
that’s what Ginger thought.
Dentist : (laughing) Great Scott! So that's the explanation. I happen to be a dentist,
and what you saw were some of my models used for fitting artificial teeth.
B1: Focus:
Focus on the statement which has not mentioned in the extract?
a.Dentist was working with artificial teath.
b.Tom is brave enough to handle the situation.
c.Ginger is mentioned as ghost.
d.Children thought that the place is haunted.
B2.Convert diologues into story in about 50 words?
Q. 6. (A) Letter writing. (4)
1. Write a letter to the Editor of a Newspaper, showing concern about town pollution.
1.Noise pollution
2. Use of loud speakers,DJ,
3. mention it’s adverse effects on citizens
4.suggestions for improvement
5.Expectation of positive response
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OR
1. You want a school leaving certificate as your parents have shifted at another city. Write a letter of application to the Principal of your junior college requesting him/her to issue you the same. Use the following clues?
Name: Ku.Jyoti Babarao Bhosale
School: SBBAKV,Hingoli
Entrance NO.: 422335
Class: 11th A(Commerce)
Reason: My parents shifted at another city
(B) Leaflet Writing (4) New Hope Travels and Tourism has arranged a tour at hill stations for two days.
Prepare a leaflet on tourism to attract tourist to join the tour.
Use the following points:-
1. List of sight seeings
2. Special activities
3. Accommodation
4. Another features
5. Add your own points
OR
(B) News writing. (4)
Read the following intro and prepare a headline, dateline and a continuing paragraph.
Headline :- ---------------------------------------------------
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Dateline :-
Lead :-
The Annual Social Gathering of the SBBAKV Hingoli had been organised at College premises. on Sunday, December 30, 2017. The chief guest on this occasion was District Collector, Education Officer and President of Institution.
Continuing Para:-
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C) Information Transfer (4)
Read the following chart and write a paragraph describing it.
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C) View – Counterview (4)
Prepare a paragraph for counterview section on the topic?
‘’Social networking as boon for new generation”
You can take help of the following points in the 'view' section.
1) Social networking need of time
2) prevention is better than cure
3) opportunity for building career
4) informative,knowledgable source
Q.7 A) Framing interview questions. (4)
Frame interview questions to take an interview of a woman piolet who has achieved success after many hardships?
You may include the following points.
1.Preparation she has planned for her career
2. her routine,daily chores
3. challenges
4. solutions
5.other questions you would like to ask
B.Speech writing(3)
Prepare a short speech on ‘’Failure is the first step of success’’
1. Explain the quote
2. Provide examples
3. Use proper beginning and concluding lines
