HSC Arts कक्षा ११ - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions for English

You have recently attended a seminar on ‘Science and Literature’ in which writers presented papers on Science Fiction and Literature and focused on the creativity of young writers. Write a short report about it for a leading newspaper in about 100-120 words.

You are the School Pupil Leader. Your school organised an Inter-School Sports event at Nehru Stadium. Write a report on the special events conducted, in about 100-120 words for the school souvenir

Given below is a list of tools and equipment. Associate them with the appropriate profession and complete the table.

plough, hammer, oven, thermometer, voltmeter, wood, chisel, seed drill, voltage, detector, cutting boards, stone picker, spatula, cultivator, nail puller, wire strippers, framing square, fork, flashlight

Complete the summary of the play, choosing the appropriate words from the list given below the passage.

A number of patients wait at the (1) ______of a dentist’s clinic. Everybody is tensed at the thought of a painful (2) ______being extracted. One of the women is bent on showing everyone her (3) ______. After the arrival of the dentist, Joe, the first (4) ______is called in. Sometime later, the nurse comes out and goes in with a (5) ______. Everyone is (6) ______at this, imagining Joe being subjected to a lot of hammering in the process of his tooth being pulled out. Once again the nurse comes out to fetch a large pair of (7) ______and later on she takes in a (8) ______. A little boy confesses that he pretended to have (9) ______, because he did not wish to go to school. The loud (10) ______and screeching from within the room makes everyone leave the (11) ______, one by one. Finally there are only two women in the waiting room, one of them being Joe’s wife. She weeps (12) ______about her husband. But Joe comes out and explains that he had shifted his (13) ______to the evening and had been given some pills for the pain. After they leave, the dentist comes out and locates the key of his tool (14) ______. He had been trying to open it using the hammer, the pliers and the hacksaw only in vain. The woman with the photographs is surprised to see that the (15) ______had moved quickly and she was the next patient to go in.

Based on your understanding of the play, complete the Graphic Organiser (GO) suitably.

Who were the patients waiting for?

How did Woman 5 spend her time in the waiting hall?

How did the other Women react to Woman 5?

Are children afraid of visiting the dentist? Give reasons.

What were the strange instruments the nurse carried to the surgery? How did the waiting patients interpret her act?

Bring out the people’s reaction to the noises from the surgery.

Why did they sympathize with the first patient?

Why did Woman 1 panic more than the others?

Woman 5 was not aware of what was happening. Why?

How did Woman 5 move ahead in the waiting list of patients?

Why do patients leave the clinic without meeting the dentist?

What had really happened in the dentist’s room?

Read the information in the table below and answer the following questions.

1. What kinds of natural disasters have occurred before 2005?
2. Name the disasters that are common in India.
3. Mention the states often affected by disasters.
4. List out the disasters that are common in North India
5. Write three sentences on your inference about the data given.

Study the pie-chart carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Percentage of people who speak each language as their first language.

1. Which language is spoken by most people?
2. What are the Indian languages that rank among the top five spoken languages?
3. Which are the languages that are spoken by less than three percent of people?
4. With the help of the questions and answers, draw your own conclusions from the pie chart. Then, write a paragraph on the popular spoken languages.

Write conversation on the following situation.

Between two friends about uses and abuses of mobile phone