SSC (English Medium) 8th Standard - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Imagine that you are the fellow pilgrim and you wish to share your experience of the incident in the poem.
Write a short article about it for a magazine/journal. Also, convey what change it has brought in your life.

Imagine that Revathi’s father is abroad on business and she wishes to convey the news of her prize - winning plants. Draft an email for the above subject.

(Use an email format.)

What vocation / profession / business would you like to take up in the future? Prepare a fact file for the same using the following points.

1. Name of the vocation / profession / business ____________
2. Educational qualifications required ____________
3. Work profile / description ____________
4. Opportunities for advancement ____________
5. Your personal skills / talents for the choice ____________

Read and understand the following poem ‘Paper Boats’ and write its paraphrase in your own simple language. (You may take the help of a dictionary or the internet.) The first line is done for you.

(Day after day, one after another, I sail paper boats on the stream of flowing water.)

Read the following lines. Imagine it is the beginning of an instance you have experienced. Complete the incident using your imagination. Give it a positive ending.

I had often noticed that in my neighbour’s family, the son was greatly pampered, but the daughter was treated unfairly. I could not bear this. So one day I decided to ............................

Continue the write-up, with your own ideas, in about 12 - 15 lines.

Frame a pointwise Analysis of the poem ‘The worm’. Use the following points.

1. Poem and poet:
2. Theme:
3. Tone:
4. Structure and stanzas:
5. Rhyme and Rhythm:
6. Language and Imagery:
7. Figures of Speech: 

‘Even small things in nature play a big role. So protect nature!’

Frame some slogans based on the above topic.

Complete Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s profile with information picked from the lesson.

PROFILE - Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

1. Title:
2. Profession:
3. Branch of science:
4. Important position in Government held:
5. His three visions for India: 

'Even small things in nature play a big role. So protect nature!'

Draft a short speech on the above topic, which you could give at your school assembly.

Use the following steps while drafting.

• Greeting
• Salutation
• Self - Introduction
• Introduction of the topic
• Body of the Speech
• Conclusion
• Expression of gratitude to audience

If you could change the end of the story i.e. after the Swallow refused to fly to Egypt, how would you change it? Summarise your idea in 10 to 12 lines.

You have just returned after your first experience of the kite - festival in Gujarat/Ahmedabad. You were thrilled with the festivities.

Write a short report about the kite - festival for your local newspaper. Give an attractive headline, a dateline, and an account of the kite - festive. Write the report in the third person with more use of Passive voice.

You have just returned after your first experience of the kite - festival in Gujarat / Ahmedabad. You were thrilled with the festivities.

You have a friend who lives abroad. Write a letter to your friend describing how you enjoyed the kite-festival.

Compose an imaginary dialogue between Sue and Johnsy, when they realise about what Behrman had done for Johnsy.

Make a paraphrase of the poem ‘Leisure’ in your own simple words. Write it down in your notebook.

Gather information about the following insects. Draw their images or get pictures. On one sheet each, fix the image/picture and below it write the information. Compile these pages and make a file of ‘Insects - our friends’.
Insects: Bee/Praying mantis/Butterfly Beetle/Wasp/Dragon-fly

A brilliant student from your school has won a Mathematics Quiz at the National Level.

Frame questions to interview him/her when the school felicitates him/her. Follow the steps given below.

1. Greetings
2. Introduction of the interviewee and achievements.
3. 2 or 3 questions about growing years.
4. 4 to 6 questions about the achievements.
5. 2 or 3 questions about future plans and prospects.
6. Expression of thanks and good wishes.

• Read the first three paragraphs on Page 92. (From......... ‘One morning .............. up to ............ a discussion after hall)
• Re-read the same noting down only important points.
• Rewrite the important points in your own simple language, in your notebook.
• Make certain that your summary is less than half the length of the original passage.

Understand the quotation and expand it in a paragraph format.

'Pride goes on horseback, but returns on foot'.

Think, choose and fill up the labels with what a 'sunrise' symbolizes.

(jewellery / art / hope / birth / anger / new opportunities / good manners / inspiration / new achievements / happiness / misery / bright moments / new aims / money / new surprises)

An acrostic is a poem or a write· up in which the first letter of each line forms a word. when it is read vertically.

For example, 
Faithful
Reliable
Inspiring
Encouraging
Noble
Dedicated

With your benchmate / group, complete the acrostic of BELIEVE and FAITH.
(Please note that the words / phrases should be more or less related to the topic. You can use a thesaurus.)

Be certain of
E ......................          
L ......................          
I ......................
E ......................
V ......................
E ......................
F ......................
A ......................
I ......................
T ......................
H ......................