SSC (English Medium) 10th Standard - Maharashtra State Board Important Questions for English

Read the following text and present the information in a tabular form:

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a zealous social worker holding modern and progressive views. He firmly stood against social bigotry, conservation, and superstition and advocated English and Western Education for his fellowmen. He knew many languages viz English, Persian, Arabic, Latin, French, and even Hebrew. He was born in 1772 in West Bengal. He joined East India Company in 1805. The title ‘Raja’ was conferred on Ram Mohan Roy by the Mogul Emperor. In 1814 he founded the Atmiya Sabha and in 1828 the ‘Brahmo Samaj’. He abolished ‘sati’, child marriage and the purdah. He is rightly called the ‘father of Indian Renaissance’ or the ‘Father of Indian Nationalism’. He died on 27 Sept. 1833 in England. 

Transfer the information into a paragraph:
 Read the following web diagram to transform into a paragraph: 

Attempt any one of the following:
Speech:
Prepare a speech to be delivered in the school assembly on ‘Science and spirituality go hand in hand’. Use the following points:

• Can work together
• Can explain lot of things of life.
• Gives scope for reasoning and thinking.
• Can give scope for intelligence and creativity.
• Can make more and more discoveries. 

Computer has modernized education 

Prepare a paragraph of counterviews on the given topic. Use the following view to write your counterview.

• Information is easily available. 
• Online study possible. 
• Audio-visual studies available. 
  (Add more details and write a paragraph)

Do anyone of the following: 
Expand the theme:
Expand the following idea into a paragraph of 100 words:
“Bad workman blames his tools”. 

Write a news report based on the given headline:

‘Snatch Theft is on the Rise’.
Use the given information:
While shopping in your local market you witnessed a theft take place. The thief was not caught. 

Points:

• When and where the theft take place?
• How the theft was carried out?
• A description of t thief.
• Which other people were present and what they did? 

Do anyone of the following:
Developing a story:
Develop a story suitable to the conclusion/end given below. Suggest a suitable title.  _______ in this way his sons learnt, ‘united we stand divided we fall’. 

Narrate an experience:
Narrate an experience of your own that has helped you to realize that ‘patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet’. Write it in about 100 words.

 Informal :
Write a letter to your friend informing about the house on rent. Add your own points. 

 Formal :
Look at the following advertisement from the classified section of the newspaper and develop a letter addressing the owner and asking for more information.

Do anyone of the following activities:
  Report :
 You had visited “Thasa’ exhibition. Based on the advertisement given, prepare a report. You may add your own points. 

Interview:
Prepare a list of 10 questions to interview Amisha Jain, the artist seeking her guidance as you want to make a career in ‘art’.

Warli Painting
“Theresa’ is an exhibition of Warli paintings organized by the Raja Kelkar Museum. On display are paintings of Amisha Jain. On this occasion, the museum provides guidance and a platform for young people who want to cultivate their hobbies and art.
 Date          - October 23 to 29
 Time from -10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
 Venue       - Raja Kelkar Museum,
                    Bajirao Road, Pune. 

 Transfer the information into a paragraph about ‘Average Annual Tea Consumption Per Person’ as shown in the table given below : 

Extend the following extract by adding an imaginary paragraph of your own {about 120 words):
My mother brought me up-to-date on events in Dehra. "Padre Dutt managed to retrieve the skeleton from police. custody. and it was interred in a comer of the cemetery not far from your grandfather's grave. I attended the funeral with two or three other old-timers who had known the Greens Miss Kellner is bedridden now and could not come. Padre Dull is gelling on too, and is a little absent-minded. It was raining heavily) during the funeral service and by mistake he read out the 'Burial al Sea· Not that anyone seemed to notice. Anyway, he had arranged for a decent coffin, and there's to be a tombstone too. paid for out of church funds and with a contribution from our Sardarji, the present owner of the hotel. So poor Mrs. Green has found a final resting - place. May she rest in peace!" 

Read the following extract and convert it into a continuous writeup.
[ You may begin with: "The writer's mother asked the pink lady if she required a room ..... "]
"May I come in?" asked the pink lady.
"Please come in," said my mother."Do sit down. Do you require
a room?"
"Not today, thank you. I'm staying with Padre Dutt. He insisted on putting me up. But I may want a room for a day or two - just for old times' sake."
"You've stayed here before."
"A long time ago. I'm Mrs. Green, you know. The missing Mrs
Green. The one for whom you put up that handsome tombstone in the cemetery. I was very touched by it. And I'm glad you didn't add 'Beloved wife of Henry Green' because I didn't love him any more than he loved me."
"Then - then - you aren't the skeleton?" stammered my mother.
"Do I look like a skeleton?"
"No!" we said together.
"But we heard you disappeared," I said, "and when we found that skeleton -"
"You put two and two together.''
"Well, it was Miss Kellner who convinced us," said my mother.
"And you did disappear mysteriously. You were missing for years. And everyone knew Mr. Green was a philanderer." "Couldn't wait to get away from him," said the pink lady."Couldn't stand him anymore. He was a lady-killer, but not a real killer."
"But your father came looking for you. Didn't you get in touch
with him?"
"My father and I were never very close. Mother died when I was
very young, and the only relative I had was a cousin in West Africa. So that's where I went- Sierra Leone!''

Speech:
 You are selected as the head boy/girl of your school. You are expected to appeal to the students for growing more trees. Look at the following news to prepare your speech. You may use your own points.

Patan: The fast deforestation in the vicinity is resulting in serious changes in the weather conditions. Scanty rain, migration of birds, rising level of mercury is all due to the loss of proper environment. If we don’t take proper steps in time, we will have to face the penalty

Views :
Develop a paragraph on the view by using the points given below : 

(i) A stitch in time saves nine.
(ii) Female infanticide-stigma on society.
(iii) _______ that's how we reached at the airport from Kedarnath. 

Read the following paragraph and transfer the information in the form of a tree diagram:

Attempt the following letters with the help of the following leaflet: 
Look at the notice issued by the Supervisor of your school. 

Formal Letter
Write a letter to the Mayor of your city requesting him/her to provide better facilities to face water shortage.