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Hard work and punctuality are essential for a happy and successful life. They help in meeting the desired targets of our life. You are Kavya/Kanha. Write an article in 150 – 200 words highlighting the importance of hard work and punctuality in a student’s life.

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In your locality, a blood donation camp was organized by an NGO – ‘For Your Health'. Many people visited the camp and donated blood. Write a report in 150 – 200 words for a local newspaper covering the arrangements, doctors' team, and refreshment served etc.


Article

“Importance of hard work and punctuality in a student’s life”


Hard work and punctuality is the key to get success in life. In the student's life, the importance of both is very exemplary. Students are taught to be disciplined and to be on time for a genuine reason because success deserves those who care for the value of time. A student who has a habit of doing things on time never fails. Being punctual saves you from unnecessary troubles. Being on time helps them to get rid of laziness and negative attitude.


Achievements without hard work are impossible. An idle student can never gain happiness and success in his/her life and will always blame time or other people for their failures but hardworking people never give up even after experiencing failures in their life. Work is a privilege and a pleasure to those who don't consider work as a burden. Working is a part of living which is considered as worship. Students who work hard and make the best use of their time can really achieve their dreams which they have aimed for.


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Report Writing


26th June 2019


Times of India


A blood donation camp was successfully organized by an NGO – ‘For Your Health' in our locality. A team of well-experienced doctors were organizing the camp and the arrangements done by them were excellent. Lots of young people mostly villagers participated and donated blood after the exemplary speech of the head doctor who spread awareness among the people about the importance of donating blood every year that how it can really save a person's life. After the donation, people were provided bananas and juices for keeping them healthy. The names of the donors were registered and also published in the newspaper. This gesture had really motivated many other people to donate blood and become the reason for anyone's life. The camp came to an end with the sharing of lunch.


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Write a debate in 150 – 200 words either for or against the motion: ‘Capital Punishment should be abolished’.

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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

I looked again at her, wan, pale


As a late winter’s moon and felt that old


Familiar ache, my childhood’s fear,


But all I said was, see you soon, Amman,


All I did was smile and smile and smile …


(i) Name the poet and the poem.


(ii) What was the poet’s childhood fear?


(iii) What is the poetic device used in lines 1- 2?


(iv) Explain: ‘late winter’s moon’.


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…… The stunted, unlucky heir


Of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease,


His lesson, from his desk. At back of the dim class


One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream,


Of squirrel’s game, in tree room, other than this.


(i) Who is the unlucky heir?


(ii) What has he inherited?


(iii) Who is sitting at the back of the dim class?


(iv) How is he different from rest of the class?


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(i) Who did M. Hamel blame for the neglect of learning on the part of boys like Franz?


(ii) How did the instructor turn Douglas into a swimmer?


(iii) Why do you think Gandhiji considered the Champaran episode to be a turning point in his life?


(iv) What made the chief astrologer place his finger on his nose?


(v) How did the writer indicate that Dr Sadao's father was a very traditional and conventional man?


(vi) How does Jo want the story to end? Why?