SSC (English Medium) इयत्ता १० वी - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

View and Counterviews
Write a paragraph using the points given in the box expressing the views on: 
‘Overuse of Electronic Gadgets - ‘Electronic Gadgets are Hazardous to Health’. 

‘What men can do, women can do better.’
Divide your class into 2 groups. Let one group offer points ‘For the topic’ and the other, ‘Against the topic.’ Note down the points in your notebooks and expand the points in two separate write-ups, as views and counterviews. Suggest suitable titles for each.

Divide the class into two groups. One group should offer points in favour of (views) and the other against (counterviews) the topic ‘Life of an animal is better than that of a human being.’

Later, use the points to express your own views/counterviews in paragraph format in your notebook.

Hold a healthy discussion on the given topic. Encourage and habituate the students to accept others’ opinion, with respect.

Divide your class in two groups and have a Debate on the topic ‘Science and Spirituality can go hand in hand’.

Write your counterview on the topic “Internet will soon replace books”.

Points:

1. easily accessible
2. time-saving
3. economical
4. authentic
5. storehouse of information

Counterview:

Write your counterview on the topic

Science and technological development have made our life very comfortable.

Points:

• Has made life comfortable and happy.
• Life being lengthened
• Increased agricultural production
• World is brought closer through communication and transport systems
• modes of entertainment

Counterview:

Write your counterview on the topic:

‘Home cooked food cannot compete the readymade, restaurant food.’

Points:

• Simple
• Hardly mouth watering
• Consumes time and energy
• Less variety

Write your counterview in a paragraph on the topic ‘Short cuts to success is not a wrong choice’:

Use the following points:

• Followed by people with wrong principles.
• Quality of work will suffer.
• The result will not last long.
• Limitations to creative thinking.

Write your counterview on the topic “Life in village is better than life in a city.”

Points:

• adaptability
• employability
• progress
• education

Give the view and counterview on the topic-

"Kids should not be burdened with homework".

Prepare a paragraph with an appropriate title to be used for the Counterview Section on the given topic:

"Demonetization : A trap to catch a lion or mouse ?"

You can take the help of the following points from the View Section.

1. Demonetization helps the government to track people who are having large sums of unaccounted cash.
2. Black money, illegal activities like terrorism funding, gambling, and also inflating will get reduced.
3. Government gets a good amount of tax revenue which it uses for the betterment of society by providing good infrastructure.

Give views and counterviews on the topic: "Duties should be without rights".

Exploitation of right - right to protest - manipulation of laws - anti-social elements prevent exploitation of public - difficult to follow duties - basic right keep a check on laws.

Dog; Man's Best Friend.

Prepare a paragraph of counterviews on the given topic. Use the following viewpoints to express your counterviews:

Viewpoints:

• Friendly and playful
• Safeguard our homes.
• Stress busters.
• Honest and faithful to their masters.
• Create liveliness in the family.
• Add your own points.

Write your counter-view in a paragraph on the following views.

"Social networking sites are not a necessity."

Views:

• There are other ways of connecting and staying in touch.
• People may resort to dishonesty.
• Cyber crimes are on the rise.
• Vital personal information may be misused.
• Add your own points
  (Write in a paragraph)

Write on'any ONE of the following items as directed : (4)
(Write a short tourist leaflet on any hill station you know with the help of the following points:
(i) How to reach there?
(ii) Where to stay?
(iii) What to see?
(iv) Shopping attractions.
(v) Add your own points.

Write a short tourist leaflet on any one of the hill stations in Maharashtra, with the help of the following points :

(i) Importance of the place
(ii) How to go there
(iii) Accommodation and the best time to visit
(iv) What to see
(v) Shopping attractions
(vi) Add your own points.

Write a ‘tourism leaflet’ on the following:

Your home town

Make use of the following points:

1. How to reach there?
2. Accommodation facilities
3. What to see and visit?/Attractions of the place
4. Places of interest nearby
5. Best time to visit
6. Shopping Attractions
   Add your own points.

From the following sentence, underline the Nouns and encircle their Determiners that specify the nouns in a noun phrase.

(articles/possessive pronouns/demonstratives or quantifiers)

He lost his voice for good.

From the following sentence, underline the Nouns and encircle their Determiners that specify the nouns in a noun phrase.

(articles/possessive pronouns/demonstratives or quantifiers)

Over the years, Hawking has written 15 books.

From the following sentence, underline the Nouns and encircle their Determiners that specify the nouns in a noun phrase.

(articles/possessive pronouns/demonstratives or quantifiers)

These three books articulate his search for science’s Holy Grail.