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You are Arpit /Arpita of Tejaswi Public School, Udaipur. You observed that small children who should be going to school are engaged in begging at different traffic signals in your city. Spread a message against such inhuman conditions which deprive these kids of their innocent childhood. Write an article on Beggary: a stigma on society in about 150-200 words.

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You are Nirwan /Nisha of B.P.L. Public School, Patna. Write a debate in favour or against the motion on ‘Mobile should be allowed in Educational Institutes’ in about 150-200 words.


Begging is one of the most important issues that need the utmost attention. There are beggars who are handicapped and are not capable of doing their work. There is various individual along with their family who begs to earn their livelihood. Some had made begging as their profession. Children from poor families beg rather than going to school. Their parents don’t have sufficient fund to feed the entire family. So they opt to beg.


Many of them prefer begging as the simplest profession like others. It has become a racket in the entire country. Many of them earn in thousands and lakhs and much more than the average middle-class family. Innocent children make their faces dirty and are trained to beg. Babies are drugged and are carried by the woman from one area to another to beg. In such situations, people are forced to give them money.


Thus, begging has grown significantly in India. Various measures have been taken to abolish the same. So, being the citizen it is our moral responsibility to stop this practice and save the children of today and encourage them to become successful. Thus begging can be completely uprooted from the nation.


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Good Morning to one and all present over here. Today I am here to speak against the motion i.e. Mobile should not be allowed in Educational Institutes.


Mobile phones should be banned as it causes distractions to both the students and the teachers. If a student is found with mobile, it won’t be possible to maintain the decorum of the class and the whole class might get disturbed. The students will lose their track and won’t be able to concentrate.


Also, there may the situation that the students may browse irrelevant information, unauthorized web pages, and unnecessarily waste their time that was supposed to be devoted to studies. Also, it will hamper their overall growth and may get negatively influenced by the content of those sites. It will change their mindset and thus hamper their personality as well.


Most of the students will start using phones for cheating purposes and thus criminal cases will be recorded against them. They will start taking pictures and videos that won’t be useful for the students and their career. Thus, it will raise the financials of the family as the students will demand the latest phones. Parents will be under pressure of the demands of the students. Thus, for the overall growth of the students, mobile phones should be banned completely in schools as there are more cons of it rather than pros.


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1

Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follows:

The Poet’s Farewell to Life


The fire of this life’s poison has gone out,


No more does it look forward


To the coming of new leaves


In the grove of the heart,


Burns the lamp of hope;


The path envelop’d in darkness, lighted


By a single ray of light,


As direction is found


By the pole -star


Among the cluster of stars


Time to wrap up life’s play


Like the yogi fulfilled,


Or like the common man:


Bhishma watching it all


From his hard bed of arrows


Mellow’d is the summer’s heat, the rain over,


Past is life’s autumn, covered over with golden hair;


Gone the biting winter, the drunken spring,


Filled with the pleasure mangoes bring.


Spent is the expedition fourfold,


The poet’s assault on life, conquering quarters four


Rich with movement, rhythm and vision,


With sound full of significance,


Endowed with imagery, emotion of art and love:


The ringing arithmetic of music, rhyme, meter,


Has already slipped from these fingers


Playful acts turned to shame-faced silence,


Fatuous the attacks of rival wrestlers with words,


They’ve gone wide of the mark.


This skin, once taut as a leather-shield,


Hangs in folds from the body


Come morning once again,


Let it be another round of life. (206 words)


(Nirala)


(a) What does the poet mean by ‘The fire of this life poison’?


(b) What is directing the poet now?


(c) Explain ‘spent in the expedition fourfold’?


(d) What makes the sound significant?


(e) With what has the skin been compared to?


(f) Give the gist of the poem in a sentence


(g) Give the meaning of ‘fatuous’.


 2

(i) You are Sumant /Sumedha of Aryan Public School, Mathura. Write a speech to be delivered in morning assembly by the head boy/girl on “Importance of Self Discipline in Student’s life in about 80 -100 words.

(ii) You are Sumant /Sumedha of 186-E, Ekta Apartment, Jaisalmer. Write an article to be printed in local Newspaper on “Cleanliness is a Habit Reflected by the City” in about 80-100 words.


 3

In the paragraph given below, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.


 3

Read the conversation given below and complete the paragraph that follows.

Man: Don’t hand me over to the police. Was not born a thief but circumstance forced me to become one. I was left an orphan when I was only four years old.


Priest: Will you promise not to steal again?


Man: Certainly I will never steal again.


The man requested the priest (i)__________. He added that he was not born a thief but circumstances (ii)______________. He further said that (iii)____________only four years old. The priest asked him if (iv)____________. The man promised (v ) __________