HSC Arts (English Medium) इयत्ता १२ वी - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Report Writing:

Your college celebrated its 'Silver Jubilee Celebration, Imagine you are the class representative. Write a report on it with help of following points:

• Preparation for the function
• Chief Guest and his speech 
• Speeches by college staff
• Prize distribution ceremony
• Add your own points.

Report writing:

Your college has celebrated the ‘75^th Anniversary of our National Independence’ by organising various socio-cultural activities between 13^th and 16^th August. Imagine yourself as G.S. (General Secretary) of your jr. college and draft a brief report of the celebration/programme for the local newspapers in about 150 words.

Imagine your class attended a session on “How to win?” conducted by an expert speaker. Write a report on the session especially the relevant points in about 150 words.

Complete the following table. Put a cross if a word-class does not exist.

As a part of the child film festival your college had arranged a screening of some films made for the children. Write a review of one of the films based on the theme of children with special needs. Use some of the points given below to write your review.

• Title of the film and its importance.
• The star cast.
• The central idea of the film.
• Performance by the actors.
• Protagonist (Main character) of the film.
• The message given in the film.
• Your opinion and recommendations

Write a review of the film that you remember you’ve watched and can’t forget easily. Give details about the movie using the following supporting points.

• Title of the film.
• The star cast and production house (if you remember).
• The gist of the plot.
• The reason you like the film.
• Your favourite scene from the movie.
• Your opinion and recommendation.

You have recently read a book. Write a ‘Review’ on the same with the help of the following points:

• Title of the book
• Subject/Story/information
• Language/Style/Presentation
• Benefits/Message

You have recently watched a 05-minute video on YouTube titled “Interesting places to visit”.

Write a ‘Review’ on the same with the help of the following points:

• Type/Purpose of the video
• Content Presentation and Organisation of the video
• Video Presentation & Graphics
• Benefits/Message

You have recently read a famous magazine. Write a ‘Review’ on the same with the help of the following points:

• Title of the magazine
• Subject and Content
• Language/Style/Presentation
• Special features/Attractions

You have recently read a famous book/magazine. Write a ‘Review’ on the same with the help of the following points:

• Title, front page, back page
• Language, features, contents
• Pictures, quality, presentation
• Values, vision and variety

Answer the following question as per instruction:
Speech Writing :
Imagine that your college has organised an 'elocution competition' and the topic of the competition is 'Save Trees, Trees Save'. Prepare a short speech with the help of the points given below :
Providers of human needs, ecological balance, rain showers, etc.

Prepare a speech on 'Father's Day' with the help of the following
points :
(1) Man of practical attitude.
(2) Thinker of the future.
(3) Pillar of family.
(4) Greatest family support.

Imagine you have to give a speech on the topic ‘India’s Changing Villages’. Write a speech on it about 100 words.

Answer the following question as per instruction :

You intend to take part in the intercollegiate elocution contest. One of the topics therein is ‘Stop Cruelty to Animals and Birds’. Prepare a speech on it in about 100 words.

Speech Writing: 

Write a short speech to be delivered in your college on 'Tree Conservation' on the occasion of 'The World Earth Day,' with the help of the following points (about JOO words):
(I) Air, water and noise pollution.
(2) Depletion of natural resources.
(3) Trees prevent soil erosion.
(4) Live in harmony with nature .  

         In more recent times Gandhiji, perhaps, is one who assiduously brushed aside adulation to remain a free ‘nobody’. At the Congress session when he, the star of the session, stunned everybody by cleaning up the latrines, his act was calculated to purge Congress workers of their false sense of status, and so to return the movement to its down-to-earth roots. The point of guarding against becoming a self-defeating somebody applies to the upbringing of children as well. Doting parents often stunt the natural growth of their children through excessive adulation. Common place acts and utterances of the child are praised and quoted beyond reason. Talent that otherwise might have flowered uner proper training, is lauded to the extent of killing it.
     John Stuart Mill’s education and training began very early. At an age when many kids can barely lisp a few words, he had learnt enough Green and Latin to read to classies in the original. Before he was five he had read more than what many scholars normally reac in thei career. Did this make the child John feed heady ? No! Because, he tells us, his father (who was also his tutor) always made him believe that there was nothing extraordinary about his achievement that he was doing only what anybody is capable of doing Mill was made to believe that other boys of his age had, in fact, grossly underestimated their capabilities and were wasting their early years striving for too little.
     The sequence of somebody-nobody holds true, in a way, in respect of institutions and nations as well. C Northcote Parkinson, enunciating one of his famous laws, has tried to read this pattern in the case of great empires worldwide. He connects the raising of imposing palaces to the begining of the empire’s decline.

Read the first activity, read and extract and then do all the activities:
A1. True / False  (2)

Correct the following statements if they are false :
(i) Gandhiji stunned everybody by cleaning up the roads at the congress session.
(ii) Talent is lauded to the extent of killing it.
(iii) Other boys of John Stuart Mill’s age had, in fact, grossly underestimated their capabilities.
(iv) Parkinson without enunciating one of his famous laws, has tried to read the pattern of the sequence of somebody nobody, in the case of great empires worldwide.

A2. Complete the statements — (2)
John Stuart Mill’s father helped his son (how) :
(i) _________________
(ii) ________________

 A3. Elaborate : (2)
“The raising of imposing palaces is the begining of the empire’s decline” Elaborate meaning of this statement.

A4. Vocabulary : (2)
Find out four similar meaning words for ‘admiration’ from the extract.

A5. Personal response : (2)
Express your views on development of children to lead them towards success.

A6. Grammer — (2)
Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed :
(i) He had learnt enough Green and Latin to read the classics in the original.
(Rewrite using ‘as well as’.)
(ii) Doting parents often stunt the natural growth of their children through excessive adulation.
(Rewrite the sentence changing it into passive voice.)

Speech Drafting : 

Your college has organized an elocution competition. One of the topics therein is ‘Importance of Health’. Prepare a speech on it in about 100 words with the help of the  following points :  

• Importance of exercise
• Importance of yoga
• Importance of diet

Your college has organised 'A Health Awareness Programme' to emphasise the importance of healthy food and say goodbye to 'Junk food'.

As a class representative, prepare a speech in about 100 words to be delivered during the inaugural function. You may use the following points :
(1) Importance of healthy food.
(2) Regular and proportional diet, avoiding junk food.
(3) Importance of exercise.
(4) Add your own points.

Prepare a speech on Science and Superstitions.

Write a speech on ‘Courtesy is the light of life’ with the help of the following points.

1. People have a good impression of you.
2. You will be acknowledged and appreciated by all.
3. You will be happier and contented with life.