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1 ACTIVITY HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE GRADE X Question 1 Write a composition in (350-400 words) on any one of the following: a) Most of the ancient monuments are losing their cultural heritage and are converted into commercial activity spots. Throw light on this statement with authentic examples around you. b) Write a short story to explain the proverb Adversity is the best teacher . c) Money causes more harm than good . Express your view either for or against this statement. d) People play a very important role in our lives. Describe in vivid detail, any one person and show how he/she has been a very special influence in your life. e) Study the picture given below. Write a story or a description or an account of what the picture suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or you may take suggestions from it, However, there must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition. Question 2 Select any one of the following: a) Write a letter to the Chief Minister of your State drawing his attention to the urgent need for a Government hospital in your district. OR b) A friend of yours has been out of station for a month and there was an important event/function held in the school while he/she was away. Write him/her a letter describing the event/function and your role in it, and why your friend was missed. Question 3 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. I rested for a moment at the door of Anand Bhavan, on Market Road, where coffee drinkers and tiffin eaters at their tables sat transfixed uttering low moans on seeing me. I wanted to assure them, Don t fear, I am not out to trouble you. Eat your Tiffin in peace, don t mind me You, nearest to me, hugging the cash box, you are craven with fear, afraid even to breathe. Go on, count the cash, if that s your pleasure. I just want to watch, that s all If my tail trails down to the street, if I am blocking your threshold; it is because, I m told, I m eleven feet tip to tail. I can t help pt. I m not out to kill I m too full found a green pasture teeming with food on the way. Won t need any for several days to come, won t stir, not until I feel hungry, unlike human beings who slaughter one another without purpose or hunger To the great delight of children, schools were being hurriedly closed. Children of all ages and size were running helter skelter screaming joyously. No school, no school. Tiger, tiger! They were shouting and; laughing and even enjoyed being scared. They seemed to welcome me. I felt like joining them, and bounded away from the restaurant door and trotted along with them, at which they gleefully cried, The tiger is coming to eat us; let us get back to school! 2 I followed them through their school gate while they ran up and shut themselves in the school hall securely. I ascended the steps of the school, saw an open door at the far end of a veranda, and walked in. It happened to be a headmaster s room, I believe, as I noticed a very dignified man jumping on his table and heaving himself up into an attic. I walked in and flung myself on the cool floor, having a partiality for the cool stone floors, with my head under the large desk which gave me the feeling of being back in the Mempi caves As I drowsed, I was aware of cautious step and hushed voice all around. I was in no mood to bother about anything. All I wanted was a little moment of sleep; the daylight was dazzling. In half sleep I heard the doors of the room being shut and bolted and locked, I didn t care. I slept. While I slept a great deal of consultation was going on. I learnt about it later through my master, who was in the crowd the crowd which had gathered after making sure that I had been properly locked up and was watching. The headmaster seems to have remarked some days later, Never dreamt in my wildest mood that I d have to yield my place to a tiger A wag had retorted, Might be one way of maintain better discipline among the boys. Now that this brute is safely locked up, we must decide , began a ateacher. At this moment my master pushed his way through the crowds and admonished, Never use the words beast or brute , They re ugly words coined by humans in their arrogance. The human being thinks all other creatures are beasts . Awful word! a. Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage. One word answer or short phrase will be accepted. (i) Transfixed (ii) Helter-skelter (iii) Admonished b. Answer the following questions briefly in your own words. i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. What reassurance did the tiger give the coffee drinkers? In what way are tigers different from human beings? Why were the children delighted? What did the headmaster say some days later? What was the wag s response? Which sentence tell us that the tiger s owner had respect for the tiger? c. i) In not more than sixty words describe the tiger s activities from the time it followed the school children till it slept. List the main ideas in point form ii) Give a title to your summary and justify it. 3 Question 4 a) Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space. Example :We were not (0) _______ (allow) to talk during the lecture. Answer :- (0) allowed. The children (1) _______ (sit) in a neat circle and (2) _______ (Begin) (3) _______ (copy) their multiplication tables. Most (4) _______ (scratch) in the dirt with sticks they had (5) _______ (bring) for that purpose. The more fortunate (6) _______ (has) slate boards that they (7) _______ (write) on with sticks (8) _______ (dip) in a mixture of mud and water. b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate word: i) ii) iii) iv) v) vi) vii) viii) c) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and , but or so . i) ii) iii) iv) d) He may turn _______ when we least expect him. They took _______ the company with all its liabilities. She did not come to school because _______ a severe cold. I prefer playing hockey _______ swimming. Pursued by his enemies, he swam _______ the river to safety. They drove him _______ the city in their new car. The frontier Express is running _______ time. His brother fell _______ the well yesterday. He lived in the city for many years. He could not find his way about. She complained that her brother did not know anything. Her brother claimed he knew everything. The coffee isn t strong. It won t keep us awake. I finished my homework. I switched on the TV. Do as directed: i) Do they believe in God? (End with exists ) ii) Who replaced the player after he was injured? (Use substitute instead of replaced ) iii) She said, I am never going to believe you again (Begin She said that ) iv) The price of milk has risen recently. (End with milk ) v) The boy was ill. He went to school. (Use In spite ) vi) He is too poor to buy a scooter. (Remove too ) vii) Tagore was greater than any other poet in India. (Use greatest ) viii) You remembered to buy a loaf of bread, didn t you? (Begin You didn t )
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