- Que-I Read the first activity and read the following extract and do all the activities 12 Marks
- A1 Which of the following statements show positive attitude of Kiwi? 2
- A. I am disable.
- B. Disability is a state of mind.
- C. I’m a double amputee.
- D. I don't tell them.
- A heavy blizzard at New Zealand's Mt cook, where he was a 23 year old search and rescue mountaineer, relegated Inglis to an ice cave for 13 days. Following his rescue, a major media event, both his legs had to be amputated knee-down because of sever frostbite. " I don’t tell them I am disable. Disability is a state of mind. I say I’m a double amputee", says the Jolly Kiwi, who is in the city to deliver a series of motivational lectures to corporates, schools and whosoever is willing to borrow inspiration from his survival story.
- A2. Complete the statement : The amputation of Inglis' legs was caused because - - - - - - - -
- A3 Conclusion :
- Disability is a state of mind. Explain it in your words. You may begin with 'Physically challenged people............. 2
- A4 Vocabulary : 2
- Give opposites of the following words from the extract.
- 1. Minor
- 2. light
- 3. able
- 4. lend
- A5 : Personal Response : 2
- Would you advise an amputee to do heavy work? Give reasoned answer.
- A6 Rewrite the sentences in the ways instructed. 2
- 1 Disability is a state of mind (Rewrite as rhetorical question)
- 2 I am not disabled. (Make it Affirmative)
- B. Do as directed 2
- 1. ..... the end bonding ....... the mother and daughter got strengthen. (Fill in the blanks by using suitable prepositions.)
- 2 .........Ganga is ........ longest river in India (Rewrite filling the gaps with suitable articles .)
- Que-II Read the following extract and do all the activities 8
- Start where you stand and never mind the past
- The past won't help you in beginning a new
- If you have left it all behind at last
- Why ,that's enough, you've done with it, you're through
- This is another chapter in the book,
- This is another race that you have planned.
- Don’t give the vanished days a backward look,
- Start where you stand.
- The world won’t care about your old defeats
- If you can start anew and win successes;
- The future is your time, and time is fleet
- And there is much of work and strain and stress;
- A1 Complete the diagram 2
- New beginning compared to
- 1 2
- A2 Poetic device
- "Start where you stand".
- Name and explain figures of Speech and give similar example 2
- A3 Personal Response
- Will this Poem help you to overcome strain and stress in your life ? Explain 2
- A4 Poetic Creation
- Compose a poem of four lines by using words book, look, race, face 2
- Que. 3 Prepare your speech in 120 words on the topic “Life in Cities Not Easy-going” You have to deliver in the speech competition organized in your college. 3
