Enfant India English School
Marks -80 Sub-English
Section 1:- Language study
Q. 1.(A)
(A1) Do as directed: (Attempt any four) (4 marks)
(1) Write two compound words of your own. (1 mark)
(2) Spot the error: The stories of Akbar and Birbal is witty and amusing. (1 mark)
(3) Make a statement using the word 'deplorably'. (1 mark)
(4) Arrange the words in alphabetical (1 mark)
cycle, casement, catch, candy
(5) Identify the type of sentence (Assertive/interrogative/Exclaratory/Imperative) (1 mark)
Please carry all the things mentioned in the list.
(6) Punctuate the following sentence: (1 mark)
The shop that opened on monday sells books bags and accessories
(A2) Do as directed: (Attempt any two) (4 marks)
(1) Make a word register of four words related to music. (2 marks)
(2) Change into Indirect speech:(2 marks)
Dr. Strange said, "It is the only way."
(3) Change the voice: (2 marks)
Imade a wretched attempt lo like a man with a fearfully quick temper.
(4) Rewrite the given sentence into Future Perfect Tense: (2 marks)
She did her work with diligence
(B) Do as directed: (Attempt any one) (2 marks)
(1) Use the two words 'sapling' and 'manure' in a sentence of your own. (2 marks)
(2) Transform the following sentence into a simple sentence. (2 marks)
The team reached India and received a warm welcome.
Section 2:- Textual Passage
Q.2. (A) Read the following passage and do the activities: (10 marks)
(A1) State whether the following statements are "True' or 'False': (2 marks)
(1) In India, turtles have been given as much protection as tigers.
(2) The volunteers decided to undertake a project for the protection and conservation of turtles and their nests in Goa.
However, in India, sea turtles have been given protection by including them under Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972. That means turtles have been given as much protection as tigers. Therefore, all this business of gathering turtle eggs and killing turtles is carried on in a secret, hush-hush manner. This information was distressing. We began to think seriously about it. We decided to undertake a project for the protection and conservation of turtles and their nests in Maharashtra.
We had no experience regarding sea-turtles, so first of all we undertook a study of turtles. he contacted institutes that work for the protection of turtles in India. The next step was launching a Turtle Protection Campaign at Velas, Taluka, Mandangad, District Ratnagiri. This was done with the People support and cooperation of the Forest Department. As part of the campaign, a few local people were specially appointed to look for turtle nests on the beach in the morning.
When they came across a nest, they had to carefully remove the eggs from the nest, and bury them again in a similar pit, but one protected with wire fencing. They had to watch over the protected nest to prevent thefts. In the first year, we could successfully protect 50 nests in this manner. When the babies batched out of the eggs what an event that was the whole village rushed to the beach to witness the spectacles, When the tiny turtle hatchlings hurried across the silver sands to meet the rolling boundless sea, what an ovation they received from the onlookers! Some of the elderly villagers confessed that though they had seen (and stoler) turtle eggs right from their school days. It was for the first time that they had seen the hatchlings rushing to the sea.
There are seven types of sea turtles in the world, five of which are found in India. The Olive Ridley turtles nest along the entire coastline of Maharashtra. Creen turtles and Hawksbills have also been found
(A2) The elderly persons had seen the hatchlings for the first time. What does it indicate? (2 marks)
(A3) Give the noun form of:- (2 marks)
(1) protect (2) conserve
(A4) Do as directed: (2 marks)
(1) We undertook a study of turtles. (Change the voice)
(2) What an event that was! (Make it assertive)
(A5) Why do you think have these turtles been protected in India? (2 marks)
Q.2. (B) Read the following passage and do the activities: (10 marks)
(B1) Who said to whom?
(1) "Well, I lost it."
(2) "You must have made a mistake."
From then on, Madame Loisel knew the hortible life of the very poor. But she played her part heroically The dreadful debt must be paid. She would pay it. They dismissed their maid, they changed their lodgings; they rented a garret under the roof. She came to know the drudgery of housework, the odious labours of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, the dirty linen, she cared the garbage down to the street every morning, and carried up the water, stopping at each landing to catch her breath and dressed like a commoner. She had to bargain at markets, quarrel and face insults over every miserable sou.
Each month they had to pay some loans, renew others, get more time. Her husband worked extra, every evening, doing accounts for a tradesman, and often, late into the night, he sat copying a manuscript at five sous a page. And this life lasted ten years. At the end of ten years they had paid off everything, even the interest.
Madame Loisel looked old now. Often, she brooded over the past - What happened if she had not lost that necklace? How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed for one to be ruined or saved!
One Sunday, as she was walking in the Champs Élysées suddenly she saw Madame Forestier, still young, still beautiful, still charming. Madame Loisel felt emotional. Should she speak to her? Yes, of course, And now that she had paid, she would tell her all. Why not? She went up to her "Good morning, Jeanne."
The other, astonished to be addressed so familiarly by this common woman, did not recognise her. She stammered: "But - Madame - I don't know. You must have made a mistake
"No, I am Mathilde Loisel."
Her friend uttered a cry, "Oh l. my poor Mathilde, how you've changed! ."
"Yes, I have had some hard times since I last saw you, and many miseries . and all because of you !."
"Me ? How can that be ?"
"You remember that diamond necklace that you lent me to wear to the Ministry party ?"
"Yes. Well"
"Well, I lost it."
What do you mean ? You brought it back.
I brought you back another exactly like it. And it has taken us ter years to pay for it. It wasn't easy for us, we had very little. But at last it is over, and I am very glad."
Madame Forestier was stunned.
"You say that you bought a diamond necklace to replace mine ?"
"Yes; you didn't notice then ? They were very similar
And she smiled with proud and innocent pleasure
Madame Forestier, deeply moved took both her hands
"Oh, my poor Mathilde! Mine was an imitation! It was worth five hundred francs at most! ... "
(B2)What is meant by the horrible life of the very poor? (2 marks)
(B3) Frame sentences using the given words: (2 marks)
(1) dreadful (2) pleasure
(B4) Do as directed: (2 marks)
(1) Each month they had to pay some loan. (Identify the non-finite verb and state its kind.
(2) She was walking in the Champs Élysées. (Identify the tense)
(B5) Who do you think was responsible for Mathilde's misery? Was it her friend, she herself, her husband or the circumstances? (2 marks)
Section 3:- Poetry
Q3. (A) Read the following poem and do the activities: (5 marks)
(A1) Fill in the blanks: (2 marks)
(1) The poet took the road that was less ___________.
(2) The other way was __________and___________.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less travelled by
And that has made all the difference
(A2) Why did the traveller choose the road less travelled? What attribute of the traveller does it bring out? (2 marks)
(A3) Identify the figure of speech from the following line. (1 marks)
"Yet knowing how way leads on to way"
Q.3. (B) Critical Appreciation: (5 marks)
Read the poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in paragraph format:
• Title (1/2) • Poet (1/2) • Rhyme scheme (1) Figures of speech (1) • Theme/Central idea (2)
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch:
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in silver feathered sleep
A harvest mouse goes scampering by
With silver claws, and silver eye:
And moveless fish in the water gleam
By silver reeds in a silver stream
-Walter de la Mare
Section 4:- Non-Textual Passage
Q4. (A) Read the following passage and do the activities: (10 marks)
(A1) State whether the following statements are "True or False": (2 marks)
(1) The cabbit had a watch in his waistcoat pocket.
(2) The door Was huge and Alice went through it.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having opting to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no PICTures or conversations in it. "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very markable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to himsel Oh dear! Oh, dean I shall be too late But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of his waistcoat pocket. Alice started to her fort, for she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat pocket or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after him, just in time to see him pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after him. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so that Alice found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well. Down, down, down. Then suddenly, thump thump down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
The White Rabbit was still in sight, and away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear him say, as he turned a corner, "Oh, my ears and whiskers, how late it is getting! She turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen. She found herself in a long narrow hall, which was lit up by lamps hanging from the roof.
In the hall she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass. There was nothing on it but a tiny golden key. Behind a low curtain, she came upon a little door about fifteen inches high. She tried the little golden key in the lock, and, to her great delight, it fitted.
Alice opened the deor, and knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. But she could not even get her head through the doorway.
(A2) Why was Alice getting tired? (2 marks)
(A3) Pick out two compound words from the passage. (2 marks)
(A4) Do as directed:- (2 marks)
(1) The White Rabbit was still in sight. (Add question tag)
(2) There was nothing on it but a tiny golden key. (Identify the verb and state its tense)
(A5) Do you read story books? What kind of stories do you like? (2 marks)
Q.4. (B) Read the passage given in Q.4. (A) and write a summary. Give a suitable title to the summary. (5 marks)
Section 5:- Writing Skill
Q.5. (A) Letter Writing: Attempt any one of the following activities: (5 marks)
Read the following news and write a letter based on it.
Sameer / Samera Raorane from C/26, Shivsevak, C. G. Road, Wadgaon, sees an accident in his locality as there are no street lights in his/her area. Like always, all the bystanders stood mute and did noting, This was the fourth scrious accident in that month.
(A1) Informal Letter :
Write a letter to your uncle about bystanders after them see people hit with a vehicle. They have forgotten all about being human. Suggest what you expect from your bystanders.
OR
(A2) Formal Letter:
Write a letter to the Sarpanch, Grampanchyat office, Main Road, Wadgaon - 400 001; mentioning the problem of no street light in your area. inform him/her about the increasing number of accidents Request him/her to install street light at the earliest.
Q. 6.(A) Information Transfer:- Attempt any one of the following activities: (5 marks)
(A1) Read the following page and prepare a flow chart. Give a suitable title:
Here are some tips about hair care. Read and write in the form of Do's and Don'ts (table). We must take proper care of our hair. Healthy hair looks beautiful and makes us look good. It is important to keep our hair clean by washing it regularly with soap or shampoo. At the same time, washing our hair too often can spoil our hair, it can make it dry and brittle. To have healthy hair, we must eat a balance diet which provides nourishment to our hair and skin. We should eat lots of green leafy vegetables fresh fruits and cereals. Consumption of amla juice, ashgourd juice, pumpkin and coconut water enhances hair growth. We should avoid hard chemicals and dyes. We should also avoid the intake of maida (fine flour) and deep dried dishes, sweets made of white sugar, soft drinks, tea and coffee. We should not expose our hair to the sun during the hottest time of the day. We Should cover it up and wear a hat instead. If we follow a healthy regime of yoga and breathing exercies we can enjoy Healthy hair for a long time as it slows down the process of greying and aging.
OR
(A2) The following is the information given in the form of a table. Write two paragraphs of about 70-80 words using the information given below.
Maharashtra
Area
307713 sq. km.
Rivers
Godavari, Krishna, Bhima, Koyana
Population
78937187
Crops
Jowar, Bajra, Sugarcane
Capital
Mumbai
Major cities
Mumbai, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nasik
Language
Marathi
Q.6. (B) Drafting a View-Counterview /Speech: Attempt any one of the following activities: (5 marks)
(B1) Humans are still treating animals just for their selfish needs. Deliver a speech in the morning assembly of your school on 'Cruelty Towards Animals'.
Use the points given below:
• cruelty towards animals has reached alarming levels
• treatment given to various domestic animals
• certain species are endangered
• products made by killing animals should be banned
OR
(B2) Humanity and Compassion are slowly dying. Present your counterview against the given statement. You may take help from the following points in the view section:
•the present generation is very selfish
•people no longer care for others
•hatred, intolerance is on the rise
• minorities are subjected to discrimination
•we have moved away from our basic moral values.
Section 6:- Creative Writing
Q.7. (A) Expand the Theme /News Report: Attempt any one of the following activities:- (5 marks) (A1) Expand the Theme: 'Where there is a will there is a way'
OR
(A2) Prepare a News Report based on the given headline.
Himachal Pradesh shivers on the coldest day in 60 years
Q7. B) Developing a story / Narrating an Experience: (5 marks)
(B1) Write a story ending with the line 'God had rewarded Parth's hard work. The trophy shone in his hands'.
OR
(B2) Narrate an incident beginning with the line "It was my first experience at a bank.
