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Go through the following web that highlights the essential qualities of a compere. Discuss with your partner the essential qualities and also the precautions that a compere should take - English

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Go through the following web that highlights the essential qualities of a compere. Discuss with your partner the essential qualities and also the precautions that a compere should take while compering a program.

Precautions to be taken :

  1. __________________________
  2. __________________________
  3. __________________________
  4. __________________________
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उत्तर

The precautions to be taken are:

  1. A compere should always be in control of sentiments and avoid getting carried away by emotions.
  2. A compere should always keep a check on the choice of words and bear in mind at all times the tone and mood of the event.
  3. A compere should engage in light-hearted humour and refrain from making any demeaning comments for the sake of being funny.
  4. A compere should also be attentive to the audience’s demands in a way that the audience never feels uncomfortable and detached.
  5. A compere should always be aware of the schedule of the proceedings and control the length of the event as deemed necessary.
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पाठ 3.6: The Art of Compering - Ice Breakers [पृष्ठ १२२]

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बालभारती English Yuvakbharati [English] Standard 11 Maharashtra State Board
पाठ 3.6 The Art of Compering
Ice Breakers | Q 2 | पृष्ठ १२२

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

A1. True or False
State whether the following statements are true or false: 
(1) The author's new house was situated at Bangalore.
(2) The writer was delighted because their new house, was the biggest they ever lived.

One of the advantages of growing up in an Army household was the frequency with which we moved. 'Postings' came with predictable regularity every three years. What was unpredictable and therefore exciting was the suspense. Where would we go this time? Ambala, Pune, Dehradun, Allahabad, Tejpur, Bangalore, Yo! ............ In my short span of thirteen years we had moved lock. stock and barrel eleven times!
Every move meant change. New journeys, new places, new schools, my new books, new uniforms, new friends and new houses. We lived in tents, bashas, Nissen huts, flats and bungalows. No matter what the shape and size of the dwelling, mother soon put her own special stamp on it and transformed it into a familiar place - our home - complete with bright yellow-curtains, coffee-brown carpet, assorted pictures, hanging ferns and potted palms - providing a comforting sense of continuity in our essentially nomadic life.
I was thirteen, the year we moved to the Cantonment at Allahabad. In stark contrast to the razzle-dazzle of the city's commercial areas like Katra and Chowk, the Cantonment was a quiet, orderly place with broad tree-lined roads that still carried the names of long-dead Britishers. Our bungalow was on a sleepy by-lane called MacPherson Road. When we first saw it, my brothers and I were delighted. It was by far the biggest house we had ever lived in. The task of furnishing those huge, echoing rooms daunted Mother.

A2. Complete 
a. The broad tree-lined roads were named after.............................
b. Katra and Chowk are .............................
c. Mother was daunted with the task of................................. .
d. The suspense was exciting because the posting was.........................

A3. Personal response
What do you think are the problems faced by those who change households frequently.


Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:    

...........On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, life bottle bits on stones. 
(a) Name the poem and the poet.
(b) Explain: 'slag heap'.
(c) What future awaits these children?
(d) Name the figure of speech used in the third line.

What do elephants do to prevent water from evaporating ? 


What caused a blow to man’s ego ?


Read the passage and complete the activities given below
B1 Complete the table :
A few facts about the Mehendi rituals during marriage ceremonies are given below :
Write them into appropriate columns :
(i) A simple family affair.
(ii) Song and dance performances accompanied by lavish food and entertainment.
(iii) Creative family members, apply Mehendi to the bride.
(iv) Beauticians are appointed to apply Mehendi to the bride.
Fill in the table as :

Yesteryears Present times
(i) (i)
(ii) (ii)

Mehendi enjoys special attention during the wedding. In India, the day before the wedding is devoted exclusively to the elaborate ritual of applying Mehendi on the hands and feet of the bride. This practice is followed in Arab countries as well, except that it is held a few days prior to the wedding day. Songs are woven around the healing properties and lucky omens associated with mehndi are sung by the bride’s family and friends. An age-old belief handed down to generations lays great emphasis on the color of the bride’s Mehendi – a darker color suggests bountiful love and affection from the future in-laws and husband, and for this reason, brides take the pain to ensure that only the best quality henna is used for her wedding day.

The ritual of adorning the bride with henna is a sacred one and in some communities requires the initiation by the mother-in-law. A popular game during marriage function is the search for their names, by the bride and groom hidden within the elaborate pattern on the bride’s hands.

In certain parts of India, the bridegroom has his hands decorated with henna. The Mehendi function during marriages has evolved from simple family affairs of yesteryears to elaborate events of today. A lavish spread of food and entertainment in the form of song and dance performances have transformed it from a small function to a gala prelude. In earlier days, the task of applying Mehendi on the bride was the sole prerogative of creative family members. The demand for intricate and different style now, sees this job outsourced to beauticians skilled in this art. Beauty salons charge according to the style and complexity of pattern desired by the clients.

B2 What is the age-old belief related to the bride’s Mehendi color and its significance?

B3 Find the words :

Find the words from the passage :

The first letter of each word is given as a clue :
(i) Nowadays a lot of e .......... is given to the use of Information Technology in school.
(ii) Temples and mosques exhibit i .......... carving on their walls.
(iii) The minister announced the i .......... of the National Polio Eradication Programme.
(iv) Villages have t .......... to towns.
 
B4 Complete the table : 
Noun Verd Adjectives
(i) attention attend _______________
(ii) creation _________________ creative
Select any one word and use it meaningfully in a sentence of your own.
 
B5 Personal Response :
A lot of money is spent nowadays on marriage ceremonies. What is your opinion about it? 

Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.

  • honing our seafaring skills

  • ominous silence

  • Mayday calls

  • pinpricks in the vast ocean

  • a tousled head


Combine related points.


Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.

  • blow-by-blow account

  • morale booster

  • relegated to

  • political acumen

  • de facto

  • astute

  • doctored accounts

  • gave vent to


Why is the quality of pity earth-bound while the other two passions are elevating?


Many sentences and paragraphs in the excerpt begin with the word ‘And’. To what extent does this contribute to the rhetorical style of the lecture?


Comment on the capitalisation of all the words in the line:

'Children Must be Disciplined'.


Select any one of the famous personalities mentioned in ‘Warming up 1’ on page no. 5. From the library or internet find out their success story. Write it in your own words in about 20 to 30 lines of your notebook.
Give your write-up a suitable title.


Say why the speaker of the poem wishes to be a -

watchman


Answer the given question in your own words.

What was the first task given to the Swallow?


In the following sentence, point out the Main Clause and Subordinate Clause. Encircle the Subordinator.

Old Behrman was a painter, who lived on the ground floor.


Go through the poem and state whether the following statement is true or false.

Planners are concerned about the environment of the area.


Ask your parents to show you TV programs on animals, wildlife and conservation on channels like the following:

DD National, National Geographic, Discovery, and Animal Planet.


The whole world is happy because children are going to school. Why is it so? Discuss it in the classroom.


Write about how your family supports you to go to school.


Read the passage and answer the following question:

What is seen on the obverse and reverse of the PVC medal? 


Wash your handkerchief clean. Hang it with a peg to dry in the wind. Watch how it flutters.


There are some dialogues that are short, but quite effective. They give us enjoyment and add beauty to the main story. Find some more from the text.


Draw a diagram to show how life returned to the island. Label the diagram.
(Use the technique of drawing diagrams when you study science, geography, etc.)


Give reasons :

Oberon and Titania fight for the custody of the Indian boy because - Oberon wants __________________.


Complete the following sentence using your idea:

I can ______.


Shylock was not at all generous.


Visit a library:
Find and read stories and poems written by Edith Nesbit.


Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage:

Gautama, the Buddha, was born over two thousand five hundred years ago, as ______.


Find the meaning of the following word.

thee


Gather information about your favourite great historical personality. You may use the internet. You may also gather photographs, pictures, etc. Prepare a collage using the pictures, inspirational quotes, and a brief description of the person’s importance. Hold an exhibition of your collages in the classroom. 


List the lines that begin with 'Here' or 'And here'.
Also, list the sentences or phrases that begin with ‘And there’.
These phrases and sentences tell us about things that appear one after the other as the carriage moves. Can we tell which ones are closer to the train and which ones are at a distance? How?


Answer the following question and write in short, why the parody sounds funny.

What does the bee stand for?


Answer in your own words.

What did Neel realise from his encounter with his ancestors?


Fill in the blank choosing the appropriate word/idiom from the lesson.

The ______ solved the mysterious crime.


What was the businessman looking for? Why?


What is the world wide web?


Guess the meaning of on the wing. 


What are the common Rangoli designs or motifs?


Answer the question in a paragraph of about 100 – 150 word.

Narrate how Prospero made his enemies repent to restore his dukedom.


Who were the narrator neighbours?


How did the Bodwells react, when a shoe was thrown into their house?


Identify the speaker/character.

He'll have to be given artificial respiration and kept warm.


Gulliver was the captain of the ship.


Gulliver was hailed as a hero because he ______.


Read the events of the story. They are in the wrong order. Put them in the correct order.

1. And it charged straight at the cavalry officers on horseback.
2. And so she flew onto the back of the cow.
3. So everybody panicked and made a  general rush to safety
4. The startled cow charged off in fear
5. She applied brakes, but was thrown off the cycle.
6. Just then she saw a lone cow in the middle of the road.
7. Finally the cow fell into a ditch and dislodged the girl.
8. The girl cried out in delight as she overtook her brother on her cycle.

The battle of Nauranang lasted for three days.


The hen-pigeon got dry _______ for the bird catcher.


Some words sound the same but their spelling and meaning are different. Such words are called homophones. There are many homophones.


Choose and write the adverbs to complete the sentence.

The lion fought _____.


Pick and write the adverbs to complete the sentence.

A jackal cheated the crow ______.


Does the poet want diversity? why?


Did the seeds given to Ani sprout? why?


Choose the word with same meaning.

Kingdom- ______


Read the passage 3 times and colour the trees for each time.

Trees help us in many ways. The colour green is calming and heals your worries. By planting and caring for trees, we help improve our surroundings, as they give fresh air. When air is dirty the people of Delhi suffered a lot. But people of Madhubani district in Bihar have shown how art can be used to make our air clean. So that people made paintings on trees to stop people from cutting the trees.


Why did everyone support Megala?


Choose the right word.

Tansen was a famous ______.


How does Tagore acknowledge Gandhi’s noble work?


What should parents do to ensure the safety of children in cyber space?


Read the passage below:

1. Our history makes it evident that the Indian Plastics Industry made a vigorous beginning in 1957 but it took more than 30 years for it to pervade Indian lifestyles. In 1979, "the market for plastics' was just being seeded by the state-owned Indian Petro-Chemicals and it was only in 1994 that plastic soft drink bottles became a visible source of annoyance.
2. In the same year, people in other cities were concerned about the state of public sanitation and also urged regulatory bodies to ban the production, distribution and use of plastic bags. However, the challenge was greater than it appeared at first.
3.

The massive generation of plastic waste in India is due to rapid urbanisation, spread of retail chains, plastic packaging from grocery to food and vegetable products, to consumer items and cosmetics. The projected high growth rates of GDP and continuing rapid urbanisation suggest that India's trajectory of plastic consumption and plastic waste is likely to increase.

4. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report of 2018, India stands among few other countries like France, Mongolia and several African countries that have initiated total or partial nationallevel bans on plastics in their jurisdictions. On World Environment Day in 2018, India vowed to phase out single-use plastics by 2022, which gave a much needed impetus to bring this change
5. In this context, thereafter ten states (Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu) are currently sending their collected waste to cement plants for co-processing, twelve other states/UTs are using plastic waste for polymer bitumen road construction and still four other states are using the plastic waste for waste-to-energy plants and oil production. A world of greater possibilities has now opened up to initiate appropriate and concrete actions to build up the necessary institutions and systems before oceans turn, irreversibly into a thin soup of plastic.
6. However there is no one single masterstroke to counter the challenges witnessed by the staggering plastic waste management in the country. The time is now to formulate robust and inclusive National Action Plans and while doing so, the country will establish greater transparency to combat the plastic jeopardy in a more sustainable and holistic way.

Based on your understanding of the passage answer any six out of the seven questions given below:

  1. What does the writer mean by 'visible source of annoyance'?
  2. Why did people demand a ban on plastics?
  3. What created a demand for plastics in India?
  4. With reference to the graph write one conclusion that can be drawn about the production of plastics in 2019 (approximately).
  5. What does the upward trend of the graph indicate?
  6. What does the line, oceans turning 'irreversibly into a thin soup of plastic', suggest?
  7. What step must be taken to combat the challenges of plastic waste management? What will be its impact?

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