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(A) We Did Not Know that Mr. Francis Was Retiring and Leaving for Ooty. (B) Little…………………………… - English Language

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(A) We did not know that Mr. Francis was retiring and leaving for Ooty.
(B) Little……………………………

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Little late we got to know that Mr. Francis was retiring & leaving for Ooty.

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2017-2018 (March) English Set 1

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Summers are becoming hotter with each passing year. Write a description of one such very hot day. What did you see and hear as you walked outside ? 

How were birds and animals affected ? 


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 the correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space. 

Example : 

(0) roamed 

Once upon a time, in the days when genies and giants (0) ______ (roam) the land, there (1) ______ (live) a farmer (2) ______ (name) Baba Ayub. He lived with his family in a little village by the name of Maidan Sabz. Because he had a large family to feed, Saba Ayub (3) ______ (see) his days (4) ______ (consume) by hard work. Every day, he (5) ______ (labour) from dawn to sundown, (6) ______ (plow) his field and (7) ______ (turn) the soil and (8) ______ (tend) to his meagre pistachio trees. 


What is universal about the theme – that is, what can we all learn from the poem?


Describe in your own words the poet’s feelings when he sees the host of golden daffodils ?


What thought makes him feel safer?


Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead,
"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me? "....God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.

Read the above lines and amswer the question that follow.

Give an example of Antithesis from the poem ‘The Patriot: An Old Story.’


What message is conveyed in the poem?


What event is referred to in the poem?


Show how the author uses tone and style to reinforce his memories and make an impact upon his audience.


What is the main message of the short story “A Horse and Two Goats” by R.K. Narayan?


(A) Ashita is the most beautiful girt in the class.
(B) No ………………………………..


We have come across words like 'gale' and 'storm' in the account. Here are two more words for 'storm': typhoon, cyclone. How many words does your language have for 'storm'?


Discuss the following statement in groups of four.

“The landscape is an inner one, a spiritual and conceptual space.”


See if you understand what the following words that are parts of a house mean. Look up the dictionary if you don't.

parlour

foyer

lounge

porch

lobby

attic

portico

 


Give reasons for the following.

Satyajit not disclosing his present financial status to his uncle.


1. Given below is a page from a dictionary. Look at it carefully an
(i) find a word which means the same as ghastly. Write down the word and its two meanings.
(ii) find a word meaning a part of the school year.
(iii) find a word that means examination.

2. Now make lists of

(i) all the words on the page (plus any more that you can think of) that begin with terr-
(ii) five words that may follow the last word on the page, that.

(iii) write down your own meaning of the word thank. Then write down the meaning given in the dictionary.


'Organic farming is the need of the time'. Write your views in favour of and against the statement.

Views Counterviews
1.  
2.  
3.  
4.  

Write two lines from this poem which you find most humorous. Justify your choice.


The word in the sentence is jumbled. Write them in order.

I went the towards footprint large.


Connect the pairs of sentences below using and or but.

  1. Everyone has gone to sleep.
  2. I want to read my book.

Use the option to fill in the blank.

The children ______ happy.


Answer the question by looking at the picture.

Example: What is happening in picture 5?

The girl is diving into the water.

What is Mohan practising in picture 4?

He is______


Answer the question by looking at the picture.

Example: What is happening in picture 5?

The girl is diving into the water.
What are the boys doing in picture 1?
______ are ______

Find one word from the story that means

move fast s ______.


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


Fill in the following forms with imaginary details.


How did Jack manage to pay seven pounds eighty and eighty pence out of six pounds?


A certain book/chapter has been included in your syllabus. You have heard that a film version is now available. Write a letter to the Manager of a film theatre near your school, requesting that the film be shown. Tell him/her why it will be beneficial to the students.


What reason does Portia give for refusing the Duke's invitation to dinner?


Imagine someone has invited your family to a programme and you were the only person at home when the invitation was given orally.
Write a note (4-5 lines) to pass on the message to the other people in your family. Or, Write an imaginary conversation in which you pass on the message to your parents.


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