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1. Match the following sentences with their correct question tag:

A	B
The word cereal comes from Ceres,	will you?
Atta is prepacked and milled,	can't you?
You can smell the river in the grain,	isn't it?
Get your Atta freshly ground from a local chakki,	doesn't it?
I was like any other kid	am I?
I am not surprised with these ressults,	don't they?
People shoo birds away,	wasn't I?

Key The word cereal comes from Ceres,doesn't it? Atta is prepacked and milled,isn't it? You can smell the river in the grain,can't you? Get your Atta freshly ground from a local chakki,will you? I was like any other kid,wasn't I? I am not surprised with these ressults,am I ? People shoo birds away,don't they?
2. Complete the following sentences by using passive voice.
1. You can save eight to ten trees every year.
• Eight to ten trees can be saved every year by you.

Your family uses a ton of paper every year.

• A ton of paper is used by your family every year.

He vacated the seat.

• The seat was vacated by him.

Language Study

1. "It's so unfair!"said the boys.(Rewrite as indirect speech.)
• The boys exclaimed that it was very unfair.
2. People are consuming packaged food.(Frame 'wh' question to get the underlined part as an answer.)
• Who are consuming packaged food?
3. One needs to do a little bit of time management and planning.
• What does one need to do ?
4. These medals are bigger than any other awards.(Begin the sentence with "No other award....")
• No other award is as big as these medals.
5. Their expansion was put on hold.(Rewrite using the Present Perfect tense of the underlined verb)
• Their expansion has been put on hold.
6. The true survival rate is not adequate.(Rewrite as an affirmative sentence.)
• The true survival rate is inadequate.
7. Playing for India gave me the opportunity to travel the world, to play on some of the greatest grounds of the world.(Rewrite using 'not only ..... but also)
• Playing for India gave me the opportunity not only to travel the world but also to play on some of the greatest grounds of the world.
8. Virdhawal Khade is the fastest swimmer in the world.(Begin your sentence with 'No other swimmer.....)
• No other swimmer is as fast as Virdhawal Khade.
9. He holds several records.(Begin with 'The several records.....)
• The several records are held by him.
10. She looked across at Geraldine Wong.(Frame 'wh' question to get the underlined part as an answer.)
• Whom did she look across at?
11. She thought wryly. (Frame Yes/No type question.)
• Did she think wryly?

Grammar Worksheet

Key 1

KEY 1

1. I did not like the idea of making Omelette.
2. Mother was not at home, wasn't she?
3. No sooner had Dave begun his second year than he heard himself hopelessly swamped.
4. Don't lose faith, will you?
5. I would spend hours under it.
6. We treated him with respect.
7. Present Perfect Tense.
8. She has been playing the role in Hollywood .
9. Possibility
10. The science class had started when Satish reached the college.
11. COMP: This is greater than any other lesson in life.
      POSI: No other lesson in life is as great as this.
12. They aren't free from the burden of parental aspiration.
13. Let us resolve to give our children the freedom of childhood, shall we?
14. Isn't he the right person to do this?
15. Past Perfect Continuous Tense
16. The problem was too difficult to solve.
17. Not only boys but also girls are given equal opportunity.
18. There was neither electricity nor primary school.
19. It was a very pleasant idea.
20. Chennai's climate was not hotter than my father's moods.

Summary Writing

First step in making a summary of a given passage is to understand the original extract clearly. There are certain principles to bear in mind while writing a summary; selection, order, conciseness, clearness, smoothness and unity.
1 Selection: It mainly lies in separating the essential from what is superfluous. During each reading, one can go on marking the salient points of the given passage then they can be afterwards paraphrased in one’s own words.
2 Order: A summary must also possess order. It must present a clear unbroken sequence of ideas. Do not change the order of events or reasoning in the original passage.
3 Conciseness: It is the chief quality of a summary, in fact its very soul. Avoid using a clause where a phrase would suffice; or a phrase where one word would be enough.
4 Clearness: One must avoid all vague expressions and phrases and be very careful about missing the essential points. Failure to be clear means that you have not understood the original passage.
5 Smoothness: Various parts of the summary must neatly fit in with one another. Sometimes the use of links ‘but’, ‘and’ might take your Passage smooth.
6 Unity: The summary must have unity, in other words, it must be an organic whole, not a mere sum of various parts.Select your ideas carefully, join them properly, make them clear and concise and above all knit them together, indivisibly. When the summary has unity it is a complete literary form, independent of the passage from which it is derived it should be a miniature model essay, with a beginning, a middle and an end.



Exclude
In your summary you must omit
1. All repetition of ideas, which the original writer might have resorted to for the sake of emphasis.
2. All illustrative comparisons employed in the original for the sake of literary ornament.
3. All round-about expressions.
4. All examples given in the original to expand or clear some abstract or vague ideas.
5. Any irrelevant ideas used for blowing up the size of the passage.
A few don'ts
1. Do not use the words or phrases employed in the original passage.
2. Do not imitate the construction of the original sentences.
3. Do not introduce any ideas of your own.
4. Do not be irrelevant.
5. Do not materially exceed the limit of words indicated by the examiner.
6. Do not use telegraphic expressions.
7. Do not use phrases like, ‘In my opinion’, The writer says’ etc.

आपल्या दैनंदिन जीवनात आपले म्हणने थोडक्यात सांगता व लिहिता येणे गरजेचे असते. कारण आजच्या गतिमान जीवनात आपले विचार संक्षेपाने सांगता येणे खूप महत्वाचे बनले आहे. यासाठी संक्षेपाने बोलणे आणि लिहिणे ही क्षमता जोपासणे नि वृ‌द्धिंगत करणे आवश्यक असते. त्यासाठी 'सारांशलेखन कौशल्य आत्मसात करून विकसित करणे गरजेचे असते. विस्तारित गद्य

उता-यातील विचार समजून घेउन तो संक्षेपाने मांडणे म्हणजेच 'सारांशलेखन' होय. सारांशलेखन करण्यासाठी मूळ उतारा एकाग्रतेने वाचण्याची क्षमता विकसित करून त्याचा सराव करणे गरजेचे असते. आपण कोणत्याही क्षेत्रात कार्यरत असलो तरी आपले विचार मोजक्या व अचूक शब्दात मांडण्याची कला आत्मसात करणे आवश्यक असते. ही कला आत्मसात करण्या साठी सारांशलेखन' हे कौशल्य विकसित करणे गरजेचे असते. याचाच अर्थ, मूळ उता-यातील आशयाचा संक्षेप किंवा सारांश म्हणजे 'सारांशलेखन' होय. हे भाषिक कौशल्य आहे. हे भाषिक कौशल्य आत्मसात करण्यासाठी खालील बाबी लक्षात घेणे गरजेचे आहे;

प्रथम मूळ उता-याचे एकाग्रतेने वाचन करावे. आशय नीट समजून घ्यावा. मध्यवर्ती आशय शोधावा. मूळ आशय कायम ठेवून स्वतःच्या शब्दात मांडणी करावी. उता-यातील एकूण शब्द संख्येच्या एक-तृतीयांश शब्दात सारांश लिहावा. उता-याबद्दल स्वतःचे मत मांडू नये उता-याचे समिक्षण करू नये. संयुक्त व मिश्र वाक्यांऐवजी केवल वाक्यांचा यथायोग्य वापर करावा. आपण केलेल्या सारांशलेखनास योग्य असे शीर्षक दयावे.

In our daily life it is necessary to be able to say and write our sayings briefly. Because in today's dynamic life it has become very important to be able to express your thoughts concisely. For this it is necessary to cultivate and improve the ability to speak and write concisely. For that, it is necessary to acquire and develop summarizing skills. Extended Prose

Summarizing is to understand the thoughts in the passage and summarize it. In order to write a summary, it is necessary to develop the ability to read the original text with concentration and practice it. No matter what field you are working in, it is necessary to master the art of expressing your thoughts in few and precise words. To master this art, it is necessary to develop the skill of summarizing. This means 'summary' is a summary or summary of the content of the original text. This is a linguistic skill. To acquire this linguistic skill, it is necessary to keep in mind the following points;

First read the original text with concentration. Understand the content well. Find the central content. Keep the original content and present it in your own words. Write a summary in one-third of the total word count of the passage. One should not express one's own opinion about the passage and should not criticize the passage. Instead of compound and mixed sentences, only sentences should be used appropriately. Give your summary an appropriate title..

Read the following extract and write a summary with a suitable title. 3 Marks
(Remember 1 Mark for title and two marks for summary.)

Read the following passage carefully:-

The work of the heart can never be interrupted The heart’s job is to keep oxygen rich blood flowing through the body. All the body’s cells need a constant supply of Oxygen, especially those in the brain. The brain cells like only four to five minutes after their oxygen is cut off, and death comes to the entire body.

The heart is a specialized muscle that serves as a pump. This pump is divided into four chambers connected by tiny doors called valves. The chambers work to keep the blood flowing round the body in a circle.

At the end of each circuit, veins carry the blood to the right atrium, the first of the four chambers 2/5 oxygen by then is used up and it is on its way back to the lung to pick up a fresh supply and to give up the carbon dioxide it has accumulated. From the right atrium the blood flow through the tricuspid valve into the second chamber, the right ventricle. The right ventricle contracts when it is filled, pushing the blood through the pulmonary artery, which leads to the lungs – in the lungs the blood gives up its carbon dioxide and picks up fresh oxygen. Then it travels to the third chamber the left atrium. When this chamber is filled it forces the blood through the a valve to the left ventricle. From here it is pushed into a big blood vessel called aorta and sent round the body by way of arteries.

Heart disease can result from any damage to the heart muscle, the valves or the pacemaker. If the muscle is damaged, the heart is unable to pump properly. If the valves are damaged blood cannot flow normally and easily from one chamber to another, and if the pacemaker is defective, the contractions of the chambers will become less coordinated.

Until the twentieth century, few doctors dared to touch the heart. In 1953 all this changed after twenty years of work, Dr. John Gibbon in the USA had developed a machine that could take over temporarily from the heart and lungs. Blood could be routed through the machine bypassing the heart so that surgeons could work inside it and see what they were doing. The era of open heart surgery had began.

In the operating theatre, it gives surgeons the chance to repair or replace a defective heart. Many parties have had plastic valves inserted in their hearts when their own was faulty. Many people are being kept alive with tiny battery operated pacemakers; none of these repairs could have been made without the heart – lung machine. But valuable as it is to the surgeons, the heart lung machine has certain limitations. It can be used only for a few hours at a time because its pumping gradually damages the bloods cells.

ANS : Summary:- Working Of Heart

The heart is a vital organ of the body, which never stop working. It supplies oxygen rich blood to all parts of the body. It is divided into four chambers inter connected by valves. Blood is purified in the lungs and arteries carry it to different parts of the body. Heart disease has various cause such as weak muscles defective valves or a defective pace maker. The era of open-heart surgery began in 1953 when Dr. Gibbon developed the heart lung machine. Replacement of valves and other areas of a damaged heart is now possible.

Read the following extract and write a summary with a suitable title.
Remember 1 Mark for title and two marks for summary.

Children who are dyslexic have problems processing specific visual information, resulting in trouble reading and writing. Until recently, it was thought to be language-related areas of the brain which were deficient, but new research suggests that dyslexics have difficulty with the control of eye movement, or ‘eye wobble’. Scientists based at the Quiescent laboratory and researchers at the Dyslexia Research Trust are working together to adapt hi-tech spectacles, developed to monitor the eye movements of fighter pilots, into miniaturized versions for children as young as five.

It is hoped the technology will help children like the six-year-old boy who asked Dr Sue Fowler, a researcher at the Dyslexia Research Trust’s clinic, ‘Do you want to know a secret? All the words on the page move and I don’t know how they do it because they don’t have any legs.’ Other children with dyslexia may report a disturbing sensation of ‘glare’ from the printed page, making them rub their eyes frequently. In some dyslexic children, reading causes a headache.

Professor John Stein, professor of neurology at Magdalene College, Oxford, has spent 20 years researching the connection between lack of eye control and reading difficulties. He says, ‘We are visual animals and eye movements are possibly the most important movements we make because they allow us to inspect the world around us. I believe problems with eye wobble account for up to two-thirds of dyslexia cases.

‘Dyslexia is not a disease. It is a brain difference, like left-handedness. We also believe that a cell in the brain, the bmagnocell, is related to eye movement. It seems that magnocells in dyslexics do not develop as well as those in good readers.’The professor, who trained at Oxford and St Thomas’s Hospital in London, will be meeting government officials to prepare for a trial of the hi-tech specs in primary schools in London and Hampshire. Professor Stein and his colleague, Dr Fowler, used the first prototype on a child last summer.

Professor Stein explains, ‘Eye wobble is not obvious to the naked eye. The movements are small and very rapid. The hi-tech specs, which are worn for only a few minutes during tests, are the most accurate technique we have for detecting the amount of eye wobble. The child focuses on a

point 18 inches away and then follows a moving target. The specs show whether the child’s eyes are tracking steadily, or whether they wobble. We would like the specs to be mass-produced, becoming cheap enough to be used in all primary schools.’

Dr Fowler adds, ‘We see 800 children a year from all over the country. They are mostly aged seven to twelve, but people of any age can be assessed. Because we are a charity and investigations are part of our research, children are seen free.‘If we can get children early, their brains are flexible enough to enable them to improve control. After seeing them at the clinic, we give patients daily exercises to enable them to keep their eyes still and fixed on one object. In time, we believe these exercises become etched onto the brain. The result is that reading improves greatly.’

Spell it

Incorrect                                Correct	Incorrect         Correct
acessories                        accessories	accidently              accidentally
acommodate                accommodate	acustum                 accustom
addresed                      addressed	adjustement            adjustment
adviseable                   advisable	allready                     already
alright                         all right	assurence                  assurance
athorize                   authorize	balence                     balance
belive                      believe	benefical                beneficial
benifitted                  benefited	bookkeeper            bookkeeper
buoro                      bureau	Calander                   calendar
Changable            changeable	Chargable               chargeable
Cliant                        client	Colum                        column
Comission                commission	Comit                       commit
Committe                   committee	Comidity                    commodity
Comparitive                comparative	Consede                    concede
Conferense                  conference	Concientious         conscientious
Courtous                      courteous	Criticize                      criticise
Dicision                          decision	Deferred                    deferred
Defcit                             deficit	Depreciation            depreciation
Descreption                   description	Desireable               desirable
Devlopment                   development	Discrepansy           discrepancy
Distributer                      distributor	Elgible                        eligible
Embrassment                 embarrassment	Enforcable           enforceable
Equiped                           equipped	Equivelant            equivalent
Exegerate                        exaggerate	Exceed                       exceed
exchangable                     exchangeable	exhorbitant              exorbitant
exort                                 exhort	extention                   extension
feesble                             feasible	financeer                   financier

	Incorrect	Correct	Incorrect	Correct

How to write english exams ?

 English is one of the most difficult   subjects for students in Std X and XII. HSC board exams kick off on February 18 with this 'killer subject', but with a systematic approach to solving the paper students can expect to do fairly well.

Here are certain points students should remember to ensure that they get the maximum marks.

Tackle questions in the order they appear as the simpler ones are usually listed first. This way you do not waste time scanning for 'easy' questions.

The summary section is of four marks of which one mark is given just for writing a title. Putting any simple title will get you full marks there.

For the remaining three marks in the summary section ensure that you do not copy blatantly from the matter given, use your own words.

In the comprehension section write only one sentence for one mark questions. Writing more won't fetch you extra marks and will instead waste your time.

While solving the 'Tree-Diagram' section, use only pencil to draw branches. Inside the box you can write with pen, but only in capital letters.

In the 'Tourist Leaflet' section remember to draw a text box first and write only within that. You will be marked for creating text box. Within the text box write only in bullet points.

While beautiful handwriting enhances presentation remember that speed is of importance. It is a lengthy paper and legible handwriting is all that moderators are looking for .

A Nation's Strength by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Activities On Concrete Jungle

We used to think seven generations ahead
Now we are become selfish
Only thinking about me, myself and I
Only thinking in the present, not learning from the past.
We used to stroll barefoot through the overgrown grass,
Its morning dew tickling our feet
Now we step outside onto the rugged concrete
No more natural than the over processed food we eat
We used to walk down the snow sprinkled trail,
Maybe catch a glimpse of a bobcat, playing eye tricks with its tail
Now there is only one type of bobcat we see
The one that is fur free, clearing the pavement of all debris
We used to walk through a footpath in a forest of pine
The smell intoxicating our lungs and mind
Now the only smell to be found comes from plastic trees
Swaying on my rear-view mirror, labelled pine breeze
We used to watch the valley play hide and seek
Shadowed by the mountain's immeasurable peak
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 the statements : 
1. We would  think.......................... in past.
2  You think about ................nowadays.
A2 Differntiate poet's thinking about the past and present.
A3 Compare the past and the present lifestyle.
A4 Enlist the types of food we eat.
A5 Say whether the following sentences are true or false.
a) We would catch a glimpse of bobcat.
b) The smell in cities intoxicates our lungs and mind.
c) The valley plays hide and seek.
d) The mountain's immeasurable peak is the second largest thing known to man.
A6 Narrate the experience of poet walking through the jungle.
A7 "Its morning dew tickling our feet" Name and Explain the figures of speech.
Pick out an example of alliteration.
A8 "The one that is fur free"Name and Explain the figures of speech.

Pick out an example of personification
A9 Suggest solutions to avoid embarrassing condition of environment.
À10. Enlist the problems referred to in the extract.
A11 State the would be reality of nature  if we continue impractically.
A12 Compose four lines telling importance of jungle.
A13 Arrange these lines as abab rhyme scheme. 
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.

Std XII English : Activity Sheet

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.Orthodontist. Write complete sentence.
b) His mother was ............ by profession. Stockbroker
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.
ANS:Michael in his early age started trading stamps by advertising in stamp magazines. In high school days he used to sell newspaper.
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.
ANS: cbda (Students should write/copy complete sentences as answers)
A4. Find out the words from the extract which mean:
(i) Filled with a quality - imbued (ii) understand - figure out
A5. Put your views about Dell's idea of earning while learning.
(Students are expected to express their views. so answers may be varied students to students.)
(5) Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed:
(i) If you think you have a good idea, try it. (Use ‘Unless)
Ans: Unless you think you have a good idea, don't try it.
(ii) This time Dell made $ 18,000 and bought an expensive BMW car. (Rewrite it as simple sentence.)
This time making $ 18,000 Dell bought an expensive BMW car.

(B) Grammar (Do as directed):

(i) My friend is..... able translator and.......impartial editor as well.(Rewrite it using appropriate article) an,an Write complete sentence.
(ii) I was..........my regular walk through the forest ..........9 a.m. (Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions.)on,at(Write complete sentence.
(iii) I whispered to him hesitantly, “Could you stay here for a day?” Gandhiji said, “It is very difficult.” (Change it into indirect speech.)
Ans:I asked him hesitantly if he could stay there for a day. Gandhiji replied that it was very difficult.



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 1975 because ........ he went to the US for graduate studies.
b) You might languish in a long waiting list and never receive a telephone connection because..........having telephone was a rare privilege

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 .
Ans: Elected members of Parliament had amongst their privileges the right to allocate 15 telephone connections to whomever they deemed worthy.
A3 Differentiate between a ‘trunk call’ and a ‘lighting call’.
Ans : A trunk call was system to call another city.One had to book a call in the morning and wait for three / four hours to get in touch. Lightening call was a similar system in which one could call within half an hour.
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

Ans: i)-c; ii)-a
A5 The cell phone has made us global. Explain.
(Personal Response)
(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.)
Ans:You must pay eight times the going rate for a ‘lighting call’.
(ii) I spent my high school years in Calcutta. (Rewrite it using Past perfect Tense)

Ans:I had spent my high school years in Calcutta.
(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.

Platinum Group of 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:	*_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Platinum Group of Metals

* First encountered	*in Colombia.
* Platinum group metals include	*rhodium, ruthenium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum.
* Nature	* Similar in many ways, extremely rare.
* Availability	*only a gramme of ruthenium in each tone of rock and barely a gramme of rhodium in over a 1000 tonnes of rocks.
* Distinctive properties	*Platinum’s wear and tarnish resistance *high temperature characteristic * resistance to chemical attack * durable, long-lasting
* Platinum groups	*high temperature characteristic
metals used in:	*pens to aircraft turbine

Q.3 (A) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below: (12M) (Each activity carries 2 marks)
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.
Ans : a)False b)True c) True d)True. Students should write given statements also.
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.
Ans: Television brings even the remotest regions of the world together, making the world a small (global) village. 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.
A3. The TV does serve in addition to education and entertainment. Opine.
Ans: TV helps 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 the wonders of God’s creation in any part of the world.

A4. Find out the synonyms of the following words from the extract:
(i) refuse - deny(ii) an activity designed to give pleasure - entertainment (iii) costly - expensive (iv) surprise -wonders


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)
Ans : Our young people do not spend as much time in their classroom as they do before TV sets.
(ii) The TV does serve as a medium of education as well as an entertainment.
(Rewrite it using ‘not only……but also’)
Ans : The TV does serve not only as a medium of education but also as an entertainment.

(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
|_______|____________| |
| | |
Ans: continents , woods, lakes,volcanoes
A2 Point out the examples of geographical imagery mentioned in the extract.
Ans:They had deep woods in them,
lakes, mountains, volcanoes ,
even raging gulfs.
A3 “All dawns pass leaving them in dark.” Identify The figure of speech.
Ans: Antithesis : 'dawns' and 'dark' opposite ideas are used for poetic effect.
A4 Describe your grandmother in poetic manner.
Ans:
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 one 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.
Ans : The narrator and a girl are two characters in the story extract.The narrator is thin and gaunt with rags wrapped around his feet. The girl was little with luminous curls.
Add an imaginary extract after the extract.
(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.
Ans : The language used here in the extract is simple and appropriate to situation.Language used here is befitting the age of the characters.
A2 Convert the extract into a short continuous write-up in about 120 words.
You may begin with:”George wasn’t afraid of the bull-dog….”

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             MKCL                                  2012                          90%             Technology

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.

Rapid Reading and Composition

इयत्ता ११  व १२ English -(MS - BOARD ) च्या प्रश्नपत्रिकेत Section - C (Rapid Reading and Composition) या विभागामध्ये साधारणता चार प्रकारचे प्रश्न विचारले जातात. ते पुढीलप्रमाणे

1 . Imagine that you are "--------" Or Rewrite the extract as if "----" are narrating it.

त्या कहाणीतील पात्राच्या जागेवर आपण स्वतः आहो असे समजून त्या उतार्याचे Composition करावे . या साठी त्या उताऱ्यात असणाऱ्या प्रथम पुरुषी सर्वनामाचे (I , me, my  ) चे रुपांतर तृतीय पुरुषी सर्वनामामध्ये (क्रमशा he/she , him/her/ ,his/her) करावे . तसेच तृतीय पुरुषी सर्वनामाचे रुपांतर प्रथम पुरुषी सर्वनामामध्ये करावे . उताऱ्यातील वाक्ये जशीच्या तशी न वापरता साध्या सोप्या स्व भाषेत (इंग्लिश) मध्येच लिहावे .मुळ उतार्याच्या 60% ते 70 % Composition असावे .
Example: 1 Imagine that you are one of Herman's brother and rewrite the extract as if Herman's brother is narrating it. 2 Marks

An extract from 'The Girl With An Apple' " It was the last I ever saw of her.
My brothers and I were transported in a cattle car to Germany.
We arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp one night weeks later and were led into a crowded barrack. The next day, we were issued uniforms and identification numbers.
“Don't call me Herman anymore.” I said to my brother. “Call me 94983.”
I was put to work in the camp’s crematorium, loading the dead into a hand-cranked elevator.
I, too, felt dead. Hardened, I had become a number.
Soon my brothers and I were sent to Schlieben, one of Buchenwald's sub-camps near Berlin.
One morning I thought I heard my mother’s voice.
“Son,” she said softly but clearly, “I am going to send you an angel.”
Then I woke up. Just a dream. A beautiful dream.
But in this place there could be no angels. There was only work. And hunger. And fear.
A couple of days later, 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 one saw me. I called to her softly in German. “Do you have something to eat?”
She didn’t understand.


We were transported in a cattle car to Germany.We reached concentration camp a week later. The next day My brother Herman and all other inmates were issued uniforms and identification numbers. Herman warned me not to call him Herman any more. He suggested to call him with 94983 the number which was then his identity in the camp. Herman was put to work in the crematorium . He had to load the dead into a hand-cranked elevator. It grieved him but he became hardened. Soon we were sent to Schlieben near Berlin. Herman told me that in his dream he heard mother's voice telling about sending an angel. We didn't believe about this dream coming true in such a place.But a couple of days later Herman met with a girl who didn't understand German.( Later this girl turned into an angel for Herman.)

2. Convert the above extract into a short continuous write-up in about 120 words.

हा प्रश्न Rapid Reading Section मधील One Act Play ला भार मिळावा म्हणूनच समावेशीत करण्यात आला असावा. Dialogue Writing चा counterpart म्हणूनही ह्या प्रश्नाला महत्व आहे . ह्या प्रश्नाचे composition करायचे म्हणजे त्या उतार्यातील व्यक्तींमध्ये झालेला संवाद वर्णनात्मक पद्धतीत मांडावा लागतो . write up सुरु करतांना Begin with .... अशी सूचना दिली असल्यास त्याचा उपयोग करून पुढे सुरुवात करावी . दिलेल्या उताऱ्यातील  कंसा मधील directions  योग्य तो उपयोग करावा. Reporting verbs(pointed out, suggested, requested, called upon, shouted, advised, addressed, informed etc) चा योग्य उपयोग करून direct conversation चे indirect speech करून घ्यावे . सगळेच वाक्य /शब्द composition मध्ये वापरण्याची आवशकता नाही. यात Paraphrase करणे अपेक्षित आहे
.

Example :Convert the above extract into a short continuous write-up in about 120 words. 2 Marks

Extract from R.R 5 NO FEAR pg 189

Tom : (off L.) I say, we’re getting soaked to the skin. We’d better stand in
this doorway out of the rain.
George : (off L.) What’s up? Are you kids afraid of a drop of rain?
Tom : (off L.) I’m not, but young Alfie’s got his best suit on, and if he gets it wet
there'll be a row when we get home. Here, Alfie – get in the doorway. Hello,
I say. The door’s unfastened !
(Enter Tom and Alfie L. Their collars are turned up, and they appear wet
and cold. )
Tom : (glancing about ) Coo ! This is a rum-looking place.
Akfue : (in doorway) You’re not going in, are you ?
Tom : (taking a few cautious steps). I don’t see why not. There’s no one to stop us.
(Calling off L.) Come on, George! Come on, Ginger! Come in here, out of the
rain.
Ginger : (entering L. with George). Suppose we get “run in” for housebreaking?
George : (coming down L. C. and speaking with a very superior air ). Don’t talk
rot, Ginger. We’ve not broken in. The door was unlocked, wasn’t it ?
Tom : (down L.) I shouldn’t think anybody’d mind us taking shelter from a storm
like this. It’s raining cats and elephants.
George : (to Ginger). Just the sort of night you would pick for carol-singing.
Ginger : (L.). Have you got your torch George? It’s that dark I can’t see where
I’m going.
(George flashes a pocket torch. The boys look about them but not so far up
stage as to notice the white models, nor do they see the skull, towards which
their backs are turned.)

Composition  

Tom suggested that as the kids were getting soaked to the skin , they should stand in that doorway. To that George teased if all those kids were afraid of  rain. Tom asserted that he was not afraid but he suggested to get out of the rain because of Alfie's new suit. If Alfie's suit got wet there would be row on reaching home. So he asked Alfie to get in the doorway. He found the door unfastened. Tom glanced about in the house and expressed that the place was rum-looking one. Alfie warned not to go in. Tom didn't heed to his warning . He took few cautious steps. He felt that there was nobody to stop them. He called upon to George and Ginger to come inside the house to get rid of rain. Getting in Ginger expressed his fear of getting caught for housebreaking. George asked him not to talk like that. They have not broken house. The door was already unlocked. Tom also said that nobody would take objection on taking shelter from storm.

3. Read the extract and convert it into dialogue between........

या प्रकारच्या composition मध्ये दिलेल्या दोन  पात्रांमध्ये संवाद तयार करायचा असतो . दिलेल्या उताऱ्यात त्या दोन  व्यक्ती मध्ये  काहीसा संवाद असतो त्याचा उपयोग करून उताऱ्यातील संदर्भ लक्षात घेवून तसेच कल्पनेचा वापर करून dialogue writing करावे .
Read the extract and write a short piece of dialogue between Charles and Oliver. 2  Marks

Frederick had a very famous wrestler, called Charles, in his court. He was champion of the country, and had fought many brave and strong young men. Now, Orlando was a fine wrestler, too, and decided to try his strength against Charles. Charles came to see Oliver about this, asking him to persuade Orlando to give up his idea.
‘I am a professional wrestler, sir,’ Charles explained to Oliver, 'and I must always fight to win, in order to keep my reputation. Anyone who fights me runs the risk of being badly hurt. Please warn your younger brother, and persuade him to change his mind.’
But the wicked Oliver thought this was a good opportunity to get rid of Orlando, so he told Charles all kinds of lies about the young man. He pretended that Orlando was bad and ungrateful, and deserved any punishment which Charles could give him. ‘I would rather you broke his neck than his finger,’ Oliver said, 'and you have my permission to do what you like with the boy.’
So Charles promised to do his best to kill Orlando.



Charles:Hey. Oliver, would you persuade Orlando to give up the idea of wrestling?
Oliver :Why do you warn?
Charles:I'm professional wrestler . And I must always fight to win.Anyone who fights me runs the risk of being badly hurt.
Oliver :But Orlando is ungrateful and deserve the punishment. I would rather you break his neck than finger.
Charles:You want me to hurt him.
Oliver : Yes, You have my permission to do what you like with the boy.
Charles:I promise you to do my best to kill Orlando.

4. Extend the extract by adding an imaginary paragraph of your own in about 120 words.

हा प्रश्न writing skill शी निगडीत आहेच तसेच कल्पना शक्तीला चालना  देणारा आहे. दिलेल्या वेळेत कल्पना करणे व त्यानुसार paragraph लिहिणे  अपेक्षित आहे. त्या उताऱ्यात जे घडले त्या नंतर काय घडेल याचा विचार करून composition तयार करावें . 

Example: 

Read the following extract and extend it by adding an imaginary paragraph of your own in about 120 words.

Extract from "The Girl With An Apple"   'A couple of days later,................................................ I heard her say faintly,"I'll see you tomorrow."