: Q. NO. 06 (B) - LEAF-LET (04 Marks)👇👇👇
LEAF-LET :- Donation, tourism, yoga/computer class, summer camps, holiday camps, book club etc.
Q. NO. 6(B) TOURIST LEAF-LET (Historical Place Or Hill Station (Cool Place):-
(Tourists Leaf-let म्हणजे पर्यटकासाठीची माहितीपत्रक होय. Historical Place किंवा Hill Station/Cool Place या पैकी एक विचारले जाते.)
(1) Prepare a short tourist leaflet on a Historical Place with the help of the following points:- (Oct-2014,Feb-2016)
1).How to go there? (How to reach?) 2) Where to stay? (Accommodation) 3) What to see? 4) Time to visit 5) Anything special about the place(Any attraction, Shopping etc.).
Ans:- Tourist Leaf-Let on Historical Place:-
1. *KOLHAPUR*
There are many historical places in Maharashtra, Kolhapur is one of them. People, from all over India,visit this place. It is an ancient place having a lot historical important background. Here is a tourist leaf-let to guide those who want to visit this unique historical place.
1.How to reach there?:-
Kolhapur is city of having historical and cultural importance. It is located in nesting amid the Sahyadri on the bank of the ‘PanchaGanga’ river. The distance from Mumbai is near about 376 kms. It is connected by roads and railways. This place is very ancient. One can go by road, air and railways. MSRTC buses are regular plying from Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Aurangabad, Nanded to Kolhapur. One can also go by private vehicles and luxuries.
2.Where to stay?:-
As a historical and cultural city, Kolhapur is very crowded by standard hotels, restaurants and private lodges. Except this, one can halt at the five star hotels and international hotels, like ‘Hotel Chanda’, ‘Hotel Priya’, ‘Hotel National’ etc. one can also stay at Govt. rest house or MTDC quarters.
3.What to see?:-
There are many important spots to visit. Kolhapur has historical, cultural, religious and educational importance. Kolhapur is known as ‘Karvirlnagari’. After reaching in city, one can take the Darshana of the goddesses “Mahalaxmi.” Tourists can enjoy visiting many places like Film City, Town Hall , New Palace, Museum, Old Palace etc. There are many unique historical old buildings. ‘Navaratri’ is the famous festival celebrated in Kolhapur.
4.Time to go?:-
One can go to this historical place in any months and any season of the year. Winter season is the best season to visit.
5.Anything special of the place:-
It is the place of art and crafts. It is famous for ladies ornaments like ‘Saj’, ‘Toe-rings’, ’anklets’ and ‘Thushi’. The specialty of Kolhapur is ‘ Kolhapuri Chappal’. It is also famous for various Vegetarian and Non Vegetarian Dishes . Jwar Bhakari, Amati, Bharleli Wangi, Chatnis, Mataki, Farsan etc are veg. dishes. Non-veg. dishes are Goli-pulav, Tambada Rassa, Pandhara Rassa, Muttan sukka, Kombadi- masala etc.
Really visit once to Kolhapur.
Welcome to Kolhapur.
🌹🌹🌹 👉(2) Prepare a short tourist leaflet on a Historical Place with the help of the following points:- (Oct-2014,Feb-2016)
02)* Aurangabad*
There are many historical places in Maharashtra, Aurangabad is one of them. People, from all over India, visit this place. It is an ancient place having a lot historical important background. Here is a short tourist leaf-let to guide those who want to visit this unique historical place.
1.How to go there?:-
Aurangabad is a city of historical importance. It is the capital place of Marathawada region. It is just 335kms away from Mumbai. It is well connected by road, railways and airways. One can reach by train, Buses, private vehicles and luxuries. MSRT buses are plying regular to Aurangabad from Mumbai, Pune, Latur, Nanded, Kolhapur etc. Airplane facility is available daily.
2. Accommodation:-
As a historical and cultural city, Aurangabad is very crowded by standard hotels, restaurants and private lodges. Except this, one can halt at the five star hotels and international hotels, like ‘Hotel Godavary’, ‘Hotel Sanket’, ‘Hotel Rama International’ etc. Railway rest house is also available. One can also stay at Govt. rest house or MTDC quarters.
3.What to see?:-
There are many important spots to visit. Aurangabad has historical, cultural, religious and educational importance. After reaching in city, one can visit a famous Bibi-ka-Maquabara. It is the replica of Taj Mahal in Delhi. One can enjoy watching many places like Aurangabad Caves, Pavan Chakki and Thatte Haud. Many old gates are famous like Paithan gate, Bhadakal gate. Tourists can enjoy visiting many cultural places like Sant Ekanath Rang Mandir, Marathwada cultural Hall and many cultural clubs.
4.Time (season) of the year to visit:-
One can go to this historical place in any months and any season of the year. Winter season is the best season to visit.
5.Anything special of the place:-
As an educational city, one can visit Dr. BAM University, MGM medical college, GHATI Medical Institute, MIT Engg. College and many other famous educational Institutes. It is a famous industrial place. One can visit MIDC Waluj, MIDC Pandharpur, MIDC Shendra and many other industrial projects. One can also do shopping at Nirala Bazar, Gulmandi, Khadkpura, Aurangpura etc.
One can also visit Daulatabad (only 15kms ), Bhadra Maroti, Khultabad (25kms.), Ellora caves(30kms), Mhaismal (Cool Place)(35kms) and The DakshinKashi Paithan (40kms).
Really visit Aurangabad once!
**Welcome to Aurangabad**
🌸🌸🌸 👉(2) Prepare a Tourist Leaf-let on a Hill Station (Cool Place):- (Feb-2014,July-2016)
Ex. No. (01) Prepare a short tourist leaflet of any Hill Station/Resort you like most with the help of the following points : (Feb.-2014)
1) How to go there? 2) Accommodation. 3) What to see?
4) Best Time(Season)of the year to visit. 5) Anything special about the place.
Ans:- A Tourist Leaf-let on a Hill station :-
3. * KHANDALA*
There are many Hill Stations in Maharashtra, Khandala is one of them. People, from all over India, visit this place. It is a famous place having a lot natural importance. Here is a tourist leaf-let to guide those who wants to visit this unique cool place.
1.How to reach there?:-
As a famous hill station, one can reach this place easily by various ways like by bus, by train, by airplane and by private vehicles. The distance from Mumbai is only 82 kms. It is connected by roads and railways. This place is very famous. MSRTC buses are regular plying between Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Aurangabad, Nanded and Kolhapur. One can also go by private vehicles and luxuries.
2. Accommodation:-
Accommodation is no problem in Khandala. One can stay at The Govt. Tourist hotel. Now a days many private hotels are also available like ‘Hotel Ashoka’, ‘ Hotel Sakshi’, ‘Hotel Anurag’, ‘Hotel Anuska’ etc. MTDC quarters are also available.
3.What to see?:-
Khandala offers breathtaking views of the green surrounding. ‘Amrutanjan’ Point is the main attraction at Khandala for the tourists. The memorizing view of the beauty of the surrounding from the ‘Dukes Nose’ is unforgettable experience. Some of the beautiful lakes near Khandala are the Lonaval Lake, Tugali Lake and Bhushi Lake. The ’Walvan dam’ near Khandala is also a worth visiting place.’ Karla caves’ and ‘Bhaje caves’ are the nearby attractions from Khandala.
4.Time to go?:-
One can go to this historical place in any months and any season of the year. Winter season is the best season to visit.
5.Anything special of the place:-
Khandala is well known for the fast fools such as ‘Chiki’,’ Jam’,’ Chiwada’, ‘Wafers’ and Various types of ‘ Saves’. Khandala is a paradise for adventure tourists. Trekking and hiking in Peru will be unforgettable experience.
Really visit once to Khandala- a Heaven on the earth. * Wel-Come to Khandala.*.
🌷🌷🌷 👉Ex. No. (02) Prepare a short tourist leaflet of any Hill Station/Resort you like most with the help of the following points : (Feb.-2014)
1) How to get there? 2) Accommodation 3) What to see there:- 4) Time (season) of the year to visit
5) Shopping and other important places 6) Add your own points
Ans:- A Tourist Leaf-let on a Hill station :-
4. * Mahabaleshwar*
There are many Hill Stations in Maharashtra, Mahabaleshwar is one of them. People, from all over India, come to visit this place. It is a famous place having a lot natural beauty. Here is a short tourist leaf-let to guide those who want to visit this unique cool place.
1)How to get there?:-
Mahabaleshwar is on the Pune-Banglore highway 40 Kms. Away from it. It 265 kms away from capital city Mumbai. The nearest big city is Pune ,only on 120 kms. One can reach by private vehicles, luxuries, taxies and MSRTC buses. Buses ply daily from Pune, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Nagpur Kolhapur, Amarawati, Nanded to Mahabaleshwar. There is no direct railway track. There are frequent airplanes from Nagpur, Mumbai etc.
2) Accommodation :-
Mahabaleshwar is full of green vegetation and therefore, it is full of fun and ecstasy to live here. Many three stars and five stars hotels are available like “Hotel Rajaratan”, “Hotel sapana”, “Hotel Vishranti”etc. one can also do halt in private resorts, guest houses and MTDC quarters.
3)What to see there:-
Mahabaleshwar has many points to visit as a religious place. One can visit the Hindu’s religious, ancient temple of ‘Gokarna’, one of the best Shivalingas. As a hill-station, it is nothing but heaven on the earth. One can take experience visiting to many spots like ‘Arther Sea Point’, ‘Lord Wick Point’, ‘Bombay Point’, ‘Lover’s Point’, ‘Connaught Rock’ etc.
4) Time (season) of the year to visit:-
As a Hill Station, Mahabaleshwar attracts many tourists from all over India. One can go this place in any month and season of the year, but summer season is the best season to visit.
5) Shopping and other important places:-
As a famous tourist place, it crowded with many shops. One can do shopping of woolen cloths and caps. One can buy children’s play toys. One can also enjoy to test of strawberry. ‘Venna Lake’ is a famous spot for boating. This place attracts a lot of tourist in the summer season.
Really visit Mahabaleshwar once !
** Welcome to Mahabaleshwar-the heaven on the earth**
Ans:- A Speech on :- Blood Donation
An Honorable president of the programme , respected chief-guest, respected teachers and dear friends. First of all I would like to salute mother goddess ‘Sarswati’. Today, we gathered this place to celebrate an important event. I am very glad that the organizer gave me a chance to speak something about given topic. I am very lucky to get a chance to deliver speech on this occasion. I hope that you will listen my few words silently.
Friends, our college has organized a “Blood Donation Camp” on this day. Donation has a special importance in Indian culture. Our culture teaches us to donate. We donate many things like food, grain, clothes, gold etc. with change of time the concept of donation has also changed. Eye donation, kidney donation, blood donation and even entire body donation after death. Blood donation is the best donation. As blood means life, blood donation means life donation. There are some mistaken notions about blood donation. People think that blood donation makes donor weak, but it is not true. Our body replaces the given blood within a few weeks. Friends, thousands of people die due to lack of blood. Who are they? Are not they our brothers and sisters? Isn’t it our responsibility to help them? Blood donation is the most precious kind of donation. Remember, you donate blood means you save life. The man who receives your blood will bless you.
Friends, in this way, I have given you a speech. I am very thankful to the programmer organizer about giving me a golden chance to deliver a speech. I am also very thankful to all of you for listening my speech and encouraged me giving response with clapping. Saying so, I conclude my speech. Once again, thanks all of you.
[05/12, 8:41 AM] +91 99233 20830: Ans.:- A Speech on :- *Cleanliness Drive*
Respected president, honorable Principal, respected chief-guest, respected teachers and dear friends. First of all I would like to salute mother goddess ‘Sarswati’. Today, we gathered this place to celebrate an important event. I am very glad that the organizer gave me a chance to speak something about given topic. I am very lucky to get a chance to deliver speech on this occasion. I hope that you will listen my few words silently
As a NSS secretary of our college, I am very pleased to inform you that our college has undertaken a campaign for cleanliness as a social service. During this campaign we have to clean our entire city as well as we have to appeal people to keep their surrounding clean. Friends, Our present Prime-Minister Mr. Narendra Modi once announced,“ Main gnadagi nahi karunga or na kisiko karane dunga.”
We all know that “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Man is a social animal. It is said, “Service to man is service to God.” Man can work well, if surrounding is clean, clean area is a happy and healthy for all of us. Clean home is happy home. Do we not know all this? Our surrounding is becoming breeding ground for germs, diseases, pollution etc. Due to these unhygienic conditions dangerous diseases like typhoid, cholera, and flue are spreading. We all know that “prevention is better cure.” So participate in this campaign. Do the following things.
• Use the dustbins.
• Don’t through garbage on roads.
• Dispose garbage carefully.
• Go, door to door and appeal people for cleanliness.
• Tell people importance of cleanliness.
Friends, in this way, I have given you a speech. I am very thankful to the programmer organizer about giving me a golden chance to deliver a speech. I am also very thankful to all of you for listening my speech and encouraged me giving response with clapping. Saying so, I conclude my speech. Once again, thanks all of you.
Ans:- A Speech on :-
*Tree Plantation Programme*
An honorable president of the programme , respected chief-guest, respected teachers and dear friends. First of all I would like to salute mother goddess ‘Sarswati’. Today, we gathered this place to celebrate an important event. I am very glad that the organizer gave me a chance to speak something about given topic. I am very lucky to get a chance to deliver speech on this occasion. I hope that you will listen my few words silently
Friends, Tree Plantation is the need of the time, we can not live without trees. Trees are our good friends. They provide us wood, fuel, food, fibers, shade, medicine, fruits, flowers etc. They serve man in various ways. We know the role of trees in keeping the ecological balance. We know how important trees are for the existence of varied life forms. It is not that we are ignorant of these things. It is that we lack the initiative. We think that others will take care of such matters. No every one of us is personally answerable to the coming generations. Every one of us must do our bit to save trees to save ourselves and our future generations. Let’s now say in one voice “save trees, save life.” Remember, trees are our lungs. They take carbon and release oxygen in the air. Imagine earth without trees. Entire earth well becomes ‘dead zone’ without trees. Trees are our best friends. Trees are our life-line. So plant trees, grow trees, keep them, and protect them. Save environment, save life. If we don’t do this, there will be end of human beings and other living species also. I hope you will participate in the camp of tree plantation for the noble cause. So, friends we should plant more and more trees. Each one, plant one should be our slogan and mission to save environment.
Remember: NO trees, No oxygen
No oxygen, no life.
Friends, in this way, I have given you a speech. I am very thankful to the programmer organizer about giving me a golden chance to deliver a speech. I am also very thankful to all of you for listening my speech and encouraged me giving response with clapping. Saying so, I conclude my speech. Once again, thanks all of you.
*Eye Donation*
An Honorable president, respected chief-guest, respected teachers and dear friends. First of all I would like to salute mother goddess ‘Sarswati’. Today, we gathered this place to celebrate an important event. I am very glad that the organizer gave me a chance to speak something about given topic. I am very lucky to get a chance to deliver speech on this occasion. I hope that you will listen my few words silently
Friends, Thousands of people in our country are blind. They are unable to see the beautiful world around them. The beautiful flowers, birds, rivers, snow covered peaks, deep vallies, sun set, sun rise, lush green vegetation, dancing waves of the sea etc. are just darkness for them. Let’s help them to enjoy the beauties of nature. Let’s help them to lead an independent life, confident and happy life. Let’s help them to enjoy precious life. Friends, our valuable eyes are useless to us after death. Why should we waste our eyes. So think of donating eyes. Make a will and inform the same to your parents and ‘Eye Donation’ societies. Your eyes will make you immortal. You will live after your death also. Your eyes can make a blind person see the wonders of nature. A blind person can live happiest life due to your eyes. A person who gets your eyes will bless you. A blind can live happiest life due to your eyes.
Friends, in this way, I have given you a speech. I am very thankful to the programmer organizer about giving me a golden chance to deliver a speech. I am also very thankful to all of you for listening my speech and encouraged me giving response with clapping. Saying so, I conclude my speech. Once again, thanks all of you.
*The Send-Off Day*
An Honorable president, respected chief-guest, respected teachers and dear friends. First of all I would like to salute mother goddess ‘Sarswati’. Today, we gathered this place to celebrate an important event. I am very glad that the organizer gave me a chance to speak something about given topic. I am very lucky to get a chance to deliver speech on this occasion. I hope that you will listen my few words silently.
Dear friends, I would like to express my deep gratitude to our college and to our respected teachers. As we know, the last day function is a mixture of joy and sorrow. We have been learning in our college for last two years. Now we have to go to other colleges for further education. It is very sorrow to leave our beloved teachers and college. Our college arranged different functions for us. Our college played an important role to develop curricular and extra curricular activities. Our personality is developed because of our college. It is very difficult to forget our college. I can’t express my gratitude towards college in words. Really I am proud of my college. Our teachers are devoted teachers. They arranged different projects for us. They took extra classes to cover the syllabus in time. They arranged successfully the night class facility for us. They arranged the paper solution workshop and guidance of experts for us. I felt rather unhappy at this moment. I assure to our teachers that I will add feather in the cap of the school.
Friends, in this way, I have given you a speech. I am very thankful to the programmer organizer about giving me a golden chance to deliver a speech. I am also very thankful to all of you for listening my speech and encouraged me giving response with clapping. Saying so, I conclude my speech. Once again, thanks all of you.
(1) Prepare an appeal seeking help for the flood-affected people of Kerala with the help of the following points:- (04 Marks)
1) Attractive slogan 2)Use a logo, Illustrations. 3) Dire consequence of flood
4) Rally lead by well-known personality 5) Make a persuasive appeal. 6) Add your own points.
Ans:-
***HELP THE FLOOD AFFECTED PEOPLE***
Our college’s ‘Brilliant Student Group’ organized a programme to collect Fund for Flood Affected People of ‘ Kerala’ (a place of God). Friends, we all know from last few days dire consequences of flood make thousand people homeless. Men, women and even children are without food, clothes and shelter. They are like us. Isn’t it our duty to help them? We must come forward and help them with generous donations. You can donate not only with money but with food, clothes and other ways.
The details of the Progamme and the Rally are as following:-
Come and join the rally……………..
Venue:- MGM College Ground,
Nanded.
Date and Day:- 21st Feb2019, Monday.
Time:- 11.00 a.m.
Chief Guest:- Mr. Anna Hajare (Social worker)
During the rally donation fund will be collected. After the Rally a speech programme is arranged in college campus. Chief Guest will appeal people by speech.
So please come with your friends to success a programme and a Rally for flood affected people.
Come, Join and Success the golden event for a sacred purpose!!!
***
Section A - Prose
(Reading skill, Grammar, Note-making and Summary)
Q 1 (A) Do the activity , read the following extract and do all the activities given below: (12M) (Each activity carries 2 marks)
Fill in the blanks
a) Michael's father was ......... by profession.
b) His mother was ............ by profession.
Growing up in Houston, Texas, Michael and his two brothers were imbued by their parents, Alexander and Lorraine – he an orthodontist, she s stockbroker – with the desire to learn and the drive to work hard. Even so, stories about the middle boy began to be told early. Like the time a saleswoman came asking to speak to “Mr. Michael Dell” about his getting a high school equivalency diploma. Moments later, eight-year-old Michael was explaining that he thought it might be a good idea to get high school out of the way. A few years later Michael had another good idea, to trade stamps by advertising in stamp magazines.
With the $2000 he made, he bought his first personal computer. Then he took it apart to figure out how it worked. In high school Michael had a job selling newspaper subscriptions. Newlyweds, he figured, were the best prospects, so he hired friends to copy the names and addresses of recent recipients of marriage licenses. These he entered into his computer, then sent a personalized letter offering each couple a free two-week subscription. This time Dell made $ 18,000 and bought an expensive BMW car. The car salesman was flabbergasted when the 17-year-old paid cash.
Questions:
A2. Narrate Michael's trading.
A3. Arrange jumbled sentences in order of the occurrence in the extract.
a) Michael bought an expensive car.
b) He bought his first personal computer.
c) He earned $2000 by advertising in stamp magazine.
d) He made $ 18,000 by selling newspapers.
A4. Find out the words from the extract which mean:
(i) Filled with a quality (ii) understand
A5. Put your views about Dell's idea of earning while learning.
(5) Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed:
(i) If you think you have a good idea, try it. (Use ‘Unless)
(ii) This time Dell made $ 18,000 and bought an expensive BMW car. (Rewrite it as simple sentence.)
(B) Grammar (Do as directed):
(i) My friend is..... able translator and.......impartial editor as well.(Rewrite it using appropriate article)
(ii) I was..........my regular walk through the forest ..........9 a.m. (Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions.)
(iii) I whispered to him hesitantly, “Could you stay here for a day?” Gandhiji said, “It is very difficult.” (Change it into indirect speech.)
Q.2 (A) Read the following extract and answer the question given blow: (12M) (Each activity carries 2 marks)
A1 Complete the statements:
a) The narrator left India in because ........
b) You might languish in a long waiting list and never receive a telephone connection because..........
When I left India in 1975 to go the US for graduate studies, we had perhaps 600 million residents in the country and just two million land-line telephones. Having a telephone was a rare privilege; if you weren’t an important government official, or a doctor, or a journalist, you might languish in a long waiting list and never receive a phone. Telephones were such a rarity (after all, 90% of the population had no access to a telephone line) that elected members of Parliament had amongst their privileges the right to allocate 15 telephone connections to whomever they deemed worthy. And if you did have a phone, it wasn’t necessarily a blessing. I spent my high school years in Calcutta, and I remember that if you picked up your phone, you had no guarantee you would reach the number you had dialed. Sometimes you were connected to someone else’s ongoing conversation, and they had no idea you were able to hear them; there was even a technical term for it, the ‘cross-connection’
(appropriately, since these were connections that made us very cross. If you wanted to call another city, say Delhi, you had to book a ‘trunk call’ in the morning and then sit by the telephone all day waiting for it to come through; or you could pay eight times the going rate for a ‘lighting call’- but even lighting struck slowly in India in those days, so it only took half an hour instead of the usual three or four or
more to be connected.
Questions:
A2 Enlist the special rights elected members of parliament used to have .
A3 Differentiate between a ‘trunk call’ and a ‘lighting call’.
A4 Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B:
(Reading skill, Grammar, Note-making and Summary)
Q 1 (A) Do the activity , read the following extract and do all the activities given below: (12M) (Each activity carries 2 marks)
Fill in the blanks
a) Michael's father was ......... by profession.
b) His mother was ............ by profession.
Growing up in Houston, Texas, Michael and his two brothers were imbued by their parents, Alexander and Lorraine – he an orthodontist, she s stockbroker – with the desire to learn and the drive to work hard. Even so, stories about the middle boy began to be told early. Like the time a saleswoman came asking to speak to “Mr. Michael Dell” about his getting a high school equivalency diploma. Moments later, eight-year-old Michael was explaining that he thought it might be a good idea to get high school out of the way. A few years later Michael had another good idea, to trade stamps by advertising in stamp magazines.
With the $2000 he made, he bought his first personal computer. Then he took it apart to figure out how it worked. In high school Michael had a job selling newspaper subscriptions. Newlyweds, he figured, were the best prospects, so he hired friends to copy the names and addresses of recent recipients of marriage licenses. These he entered into his computer, then sent a personalized letter offering each couple a free two-week subscription. This time Dell made $ 18,000 and bought an expensive BMW car. The car salesman was flabbergasted when the 17-year-old paid cash.
Questions:
A2. Narrate Michael's trading.
A3. Arrange jumbled sentences in order of the occurrence in the extract.
a) Michael bought an expensive car.
b) He bought his first personal computer.
c) He earned $2000 by advertising in stamp magazine.
d) He made $ 18,000 by selling newspapers.
A4. Find out the words from the extract which mean:
(i) Filled with a quality (ii) understand
A5. Put your views about Dell's idea of earning while learning.
(5) Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed:
(i) If you think you have a good idea, try it. (Use ‘Unless)
(ii) This time Dell made $ 18,000 and bought an expensive BMW car. (Rewrite it as simple sentence.)
(B) Grammar (Do as directed):
(i) My friend is..... able translator and.......impartial editor as well.(Rewrite it using appropriate article)
(ii) I was..........my regular walk through the forest ..........9 a.m. (Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions.)
(iii) I whispered to him hesitantly, “Could you stay here for a day?” Gandhiji said, “It is very difficult.” (Change it into indirect speech.)
Q.2 (A) Read the following extract and answer the question given blow: (12M) (Each activity carries 2 marks)
A1 Complete the statements:
a) The narrator left India in because ........
b) You might languish in a long waiting list and never receive a telephone connection because..........
When I left India in 1975 to go the US for graduate studies, we had perhaps 600 million residents in the country and just two million land-line telephones. Having a telephone was a rare privilege; if you weren’t an important government official, or a doctor, or a journalist, you might languish in a long waiting list and never receive a phone. Telephones were such a rarity (after all, 90% of the population had no access to a telephone line) that elected members of Parliament had amongst their privileges the right to allocate 15 telephone connections to whomever they deemed worthy. And if you did have a phone, it wasn’t necessarily a blessing. I spent my high school years in Calcutta, and I remember that if you picked up your phone, you had no guarantee you would reach the number you had dialed. Sometimes you were connected to someone else’s ongoing conversation, and they had no idea you were able to hear them; there was even a technical term for it, the ‘cross-connection’
(appropriately, since these were connections that made us very cross. If you wanted to call another city, say Delhi, you had to book a ‘trunk call’ in the morning and then sit by the telephone all day waiting for it to come through; or you could pay eight times the going rate for a ‘lighting call’- but even lighting struck slowly in India in those days, so it only took half an hour instead of the usual three or four or
more to be connected.
Questions:
A2 Enlist the special rights elected members of parliament used to have .
A3 Differentiate between a ‘trunk call’ and a ‘lighting call’.
A4 Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B:
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ |
|---|---|
| (i) Privilege | (a) means to reach or get |
| (ii) Access | (b) remedy |
| (c) special right |
A5 The cell phone has made us global. Explain.
(5) Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed:
(i) You could pay eight times the going rate for a ‘lighting call’. (Rewrite it using model auxiliary showing compulsion.)
(ii) I spent my high school years in Calcutta. (Rewrite it using Past perfect Tense)
(B) Note-making: (3M)
Read the following extract carefully and make the notes with the help of the clues given below:
Naturally occurring platinum and platinum-rich alloys have been known for a long time. The Spaniards named the metal ‘platina’ or little silver, when they first encountered it in Colombia. The platinum group metals are rhodium, ruthenium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum. Of these, platinum is the most important. These metals are very similar in many ways and are extremely rare. On an average, there is only a gramme of ruthenium in each tone of rock and barely a gramme of rhodium in over a 1000 tonnes of rocks! Platinum’s wear and tarnish resistance characteristics are well suited for making fine jewelry. Other distinctive properties include-resistance to chemical attack,
excellent high temperature characteristic and stable electrical properties. These metals are uniquely durable and can be used extremely efficiently- meaning that a very little goes a very long way. When recycled, over 96 percent can be recovered. The platinum group metals- or PGMS – plays an important role in our everyday life, for they are used in so many things from foundation pens to aircraft turbine. In facts, one in four of the goods manufactured today either contain one or the other of these metals. The catalytic converter – a pollution control device – is the largest application of platinum group metals.
(5) Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed:
(i) You could pay eight times the going rate for a ‘lighting call’. (Rewrite it using model auxiliary showing compulsion.)
(ii) I spent my high school years in Calcutta. (Rewrite it using Past perfect Tense)
(B) Note-making: (3M)
Read the following extract carefully and make the notes with the help of the clues given below:
Naturally occurring platinum and platinum-rich alloys have been known for a long time. The Spaniards named the metal ‘platina’ or little silver, when they first encountered it in Colombia. The platinum group metals are rhodium, ruthenium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum. Of these, platinum is the most important. These metals are very similar in many ways and are extremely rare. On an average, there is only a gramme of ruthenium in each tone of rock and barely a gramme of rhodium in over a 1000 tonnes of rocks! Platinum’s wear and tarnish resistance characteristics are well suited for making fine jewelry. Other distinctive properties include-resistance to chemical attack,
excellent high temperature characteristic and stable electrical properties. These metals are uniquely durable and can be used extremely efficiently- meaning that a very little goes a very long way. When recycled, over 96 percent can be recovered. The platinum group metals- or PGMS – plays an important role in our everyday life, for they are used in so many things from foundation pens to aircraft turbine. In facts, one in four of the goods manufactured today either contain one or the other of these metals. The catalytic converter – a pollution control device – is the largest application of platinum group metals.
| * First encountered | *_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. |
|---|---|
| * Platinum group metals include | *_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Iridium and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. |
| * Nature | * Similar in many ways, extremely rare. |
| * Availability | *_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ barely a gramme of rhodium_ _ _ _ _ . |
| * Distinctive properties | *_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ * resistance to chemical attack * durable, long-lasting |
| * Platinum groups | *_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
| metals used in: | *_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
A3 Say whether the following statements are true or false.
a) Many of our young people spend more time in their classroom than before TV sets.
b) Teenagers are considerably influenced by the electronic media.
c) The television has become the single most powerful influence in their lives.
d) There are many advantages of T. V.
We often hear this statement that’ many of our young people spend more time before their TV sets, than they do in their classrooms or with their textbooks. : A bit exaggerated though it may sound, it is nearly true and our teenagers are being considerably influenced by the electronic media, particularly the TV. The television has become the single most powerful influence in the lives of many of our youngsters today. Too often this happens to us much before we realize it ourselves. I am in no way trying to deny the many advantages of TV, or minimize its manifold contributions to our world. On the other hand, I consider, TV as one of the greatest scientific achievements of our times,bringing people closer than ever before. Television’s use of the modern satellite technology brings today even the remotest regions of the world to us in seconds, making the world a small (global) village. As we know, television also provides us with a fuller and more impressive coverage of current events than any other media. The TV does serve, in addition, as a medium of education as well as entertainment. Besides helping us to learn subjects taught in school, college in greater depth, it enables us (National Geographic, Discovery channel etc.) to see and appreciate from close quarters (without having to go there, which is very expensive or even impossible for most of us) the wonders of God’s creation in any part of the world.
Questions:
A2. Write at least two advantages of TV from the passage.
A3. The TV does serve in addition to education and entertainment. Opine.
A4. Find out the synonyms of the following words from the extract:
(i) refuse (ii) an activity designed to give pleasure (iii) costly (iv) surprise
A5. Do you agree with the statement that many of our young people spend more time with their TV
set? Justify your answer.
A6. Rewrite the following sentence in the ways instructed:
(i) Our young people spend more time before their TV set than in their classrooms.
(Rewrite it using positive degree)
(ii) The TV does serve as a medium of education as well as an entertainment.
(Rewrite it using ‘not only……but also’)
(B) Summary: (M3)
Write a brief summary of the above extract with the help of the given clues and suggest a suitable title. Clues: TV – misunderstanding – influence on youngsters – advantages – other benefits.
SECTION– B (Poetry)
Q.4 (A) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below: (8M)
All drawn pass
leaving them in the dark.
They do not fear death,
they died long ago.
Old women once
were continents.
They had deep woods in them,
lakes, mountains, volcanoes ,
even raging gulfs.
When the earth was in heat
they melted, shrank,
leaving only their maps.
You can fold them
and keep them handy:
who knows, they might help you find
your way home.
Questions
A1 Complete the web :
Old women
|_______|____________| |
| | |
A2 Point out the examples of geographical imagery mentioned in the extract.
A3 “All dawns pass leaving them in dark.” Identify The figure of speech.
A4 Describe your grandmother in poetic manner.
SECTION – C (Rapid Reading and Composition)
Q.5 (A) Read the following extract carefully and complete the activities :(4M)
I was walking around the camp, around the barracks, near the barbed wire fence where the guards could not easily see. I was alone.
On the other side of the fence, I spotted someone: a little girl with light, almost luminous curls. She was half- hidden behind a birch tree. I glanced around to make sure no saw me. I called to her softly in German, “Do you have something to eat?” She didn’t understand. I inched closer to the fence and repeated the question in Polish. She stepped forward. I was thin and gaunt, with rags wrapped around my feet, but the girl looked unafraid. In her eyes I saw life. She pulled an apple from her woolen jacket and threw it over fence. I grabbed the fruit and, as I started to run away, I heard her say faintly, “I’ll see you tomorrow.” I returned to the same spot by the fence at the same time every day. She was always there with something for me to eat – a hunk of bread or better yet, an apple. We didn’t dare speak or linger. To be caught would mean death for us, both. I didn’t know anything about her. Just a kind farm girl, except that she understand Polish.
What was her name? Why was she risking her life for me?
A1. Describe the characters that appear in the extract.
Imagine that you are the author's brother Sam and rewrite it.
You may begin with:”Hello, I am Sam. My brother was walking around the camp….”
(B) Read the following extract carefully and complete the activities: (4M)
George : (contemptuously) I wasn’t afraid of the bulldog.
Tom : No, may be you weren’t; but I’m not sure that the savage beast hasn’t torn
off a bit of young Alfie’s suit, and if he has there won’t half be a row!
(Alfie fidgets nervously at the mention of his damaged suit)
Tom : (down R.C.) How much money have we collected?
Ginger : (crossing C. to George) let’s have a look under the light.
(after counting coppers, with the aid of George’s torch) Eight pence half penny.
Tom : (in a tone of disgust) only eight pence half penny – between four of us – after yelling
our heads off all the evening! Crikey! Money’s a bit tight round these parts, isn’t it?
George : I told you it was too early for carol-singing. It’s too soon after Guy Fawke’s day.
(Faint distant scream off R.)
Tom : (startled) What was that?
George : What was what?
Tom : That noise – it sounded like a scream.
George : Nonsense.
Alfie : (L) Let’s go home.
George : You chaps do get scared easily. It wouldn’t do for you to be in the club that Bert
Williams and I are running. We go out looking for adventures like this.
Ginger : Club? I thought it was a gang.
George : Gangs are getting too common. We have tuned ours into a club – “The Do and Dare Club” we call it and no one in it must ever show a sign of fear.
Tom : I shouldn’t think you’d have many members. Why, everybody’s afraid of something – if
it’s not one thing, it’s bounded to be another.
George : (in a very superior tone) Ours isn’t a club for kids; it’s for daring young fellows keen on
adventure.
A1 Throw light on the language used in the extract.
A2Convert the extract into a short continuous write-up in about 120 words.
You may begin with:”George wasn’t afraid of the bull-dog….”
OR
(B) Read the following extract carefully:
How happy that daisy was! No one had the least idea. The bird kissed it with its beak, sang to it and then rose again up to the blue sky. It was certainly more than a quarter of an hour before the daisy recovered its sense. Half-ashamed, yet glad at heart, it looked over to the other flowers in the garden, surely that had witnessed its pleasure and the honour that had been done to it; they understood its joy. But the tulips stood more stiffly than ever, their faces were pointed and red, because they were vexed. The peonies were sulky; it was well that they could not speak; otherwise they would have given the daisy a good lecture. The little flower could very well see that they were ill at ease and pitied them sincerely.
A1 List the characters in the extract. (2)
Extend the extract by adding in imaginary paragraph of your own in about 80 words. (2)
SECTION – D (Writing Skills)
Q.6 (A) Letter Writing:
Write any ONE of the following letters:
(4M)
(1) Write an application in response to the advertisement using information given in the CV
Provided.
Wanted
Smart, young Computer Operators / cum Data Entry Operators having good Knowledge of English and Marathi. Write to: The manager, Vision Infotech, D.N. Road, Dhantoli, Nagpur. |
Name : Saurabh Akolkar
Address : 25, Parth Society, M. G. Road, Aurangabad – 431001 Age : 24 years Nationality : Indian Experience: Working as a Computer Operator at ‘Wonder Travels,’ Mumbai. Academic Achievements: Sr. Exams. Passed University/ Boards Years of Passing Percentage 1. B.Com Mumbai March-2010 64% 2. MSCIT MKCL 2011 82% 3. Diploma in Information Technology MKCL 2012 90% |
OR
(2) Write a letter to the manager of your local bus depot pointing out that there are very few buses on your route in the morning and these are invariably late, thereby causing inconvenience to many junior college students and other passengers. Request him to solve the problem.
(B) Write on any ONE of the following items as directed:
(4M)
(1) Write a short tourist leaflet on any hill station you know with the help of the following points:
(i) How to reach there?
(ii) Where to stay?
(iii) What to see?
(iv) Shopping attractions.
(v) Add your own points.
OR
(2) Read the following intro and write a headline, a date-line and a short continuing paragraph
(Any one)
(i) Intro
A Medical check-up camp has been organised at local Shri Lami Narayan Vidyalaya under Joint auspices of Ashish Homeo-clinic and District General Hospital on December 27.
OR
(ii) Intro
Dozens of people were feared dead in Myanmar after a landslide hit a jade mining region.
(C) Write on any ONE of the items as directed:
(4M)
(1) View – Counter –view
Prepare a paragraph to be used for the Counter –View Section on the following topic (about 120
words)
‘Study says homework does not help students score better grades.’
View Section
Homework: Still a key part of Education
(i) It helps students to get better standardized test scores.
(ii) It engages the child with his study more effectively.
(iii) Integrates the child with what is going on in the classroom.
(iv) Homework inculcates student with life skills.
OR
2. Observe the diagram and prepare a paragraph.
Q.7 (A) Framing Interview Questions:
(4M)
Imagine you are going to interview some important personality. prepare a set of 8-10 questions/ focusing on his/ her social behavior and the activities he/she carries out.
(B) Speech Writing: (3M)
Write a short speech to be delivered in your college on Tree Plantation on the occasion of ‘The World Earth Day.’ with the help of the following points (about 100 words):
(1) Air, water and noise pollution.
(2) Depletion of natural resources.
(3) Trees prevent soil erosion
(4) Live in harmony with nature.
