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Education today is no longer limited to academic excellence. There is an emphasis on mental, emotional and cultural development of our youth so that they become responsible and concerned citizens. Write an article in 150- 200 words titled - ‘Education: A New Perspective’. You are Manish/Meera.

You may use the following input:


•need for personality development as an essential component of education


•integral part of school curriculum


•need to develop social awareness


•programmes on life skills


•flexible examination system


OR


India is standing at the threshold of joining the developed nations but that is not possible until we achieve complete literacy in the country. In order to do so, students can play a very significant role by volunteering a few hours a week to be part of the ‘Each One Teach One’ initiative. Write an article in 150- 200 words expressing your views on ‘Teaching the Masses- A Student’s Commitment’. You are Manish/Meera.


EDUCATION-A NEW PERSPECTIVE

Education is the basic need to develop an individual’s character in many ways. Earlier the context of education is only based upon the knowledge and score card of anyone but today it has become all different. A person’s education has gone far enough than his academics records and begun to approach a progressive education in mental, emotional and cultural development. Advanced and technical education has become an integral part of every school which provides a constant push through the limits of teachers and students in a beneficial way. The co-curricular section has given students development in their personalities on a personal as well as on a social basis. Awareness about social and scientific facts through learning has appreciated by both students and their families. It is felt like students are not forced to learn and adapt anything. In fact the combination of learning while having fun is a new trend and has proved to be a huge success in the field of advanced education.


BY MEERA


OR


TEACHING THE MASSES- A STUDENT’S COMMITMENT


“Each One Teach One” is a very inspirational platform for the students and it constantly motivates the educated person to bring and achieve complete literacy in our country. Our society is not equally privileged for every person hence this platform provides a social responsibility of teaching at least one illiterate person which can make a big difference in our society.


Students can play a vital role in developing the literacy rate of the country as the young generation believes in the advanced education system rather than the prejudices and the oppressions prevailed in earlier times that education is not made for the lower classes. Today the government has also passed many rights and laws to provide education with the underprivileged children and made attempts to reduce illiteracy. The initiative of this organization is done by a student who has set a bench mark on our society and indeed it should be a priority of every student to educate every poor and less privileged section and in fact everyone should come forward to teach poor children and make them aware of the basic health, hygiene and help them to become a responsible citizen of our country.


By MEERA


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Television today has reached every home, even in the remotest villages. The number of news channels is also increasing and the common man is aware of what is happening around him. Write a letter in 120 - 150 words to the Editor, National News, Delhi, expressing your views on the need for a responsible media that does not sensationalize news. You are Amrit/Amrita, 12-B Mall Apartments, Delhi.


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Your school recently organized an Art and Craft Exhibition. The highlight of the exhibition was a section called ‘I-SPACE’ put up by students from classes sixth to twelfth. In addition, there was the sculpture section titled, ‘Best from Waste’ and a 10-foot high statue of the Buddha made by the Fine Arts Department. Renowned painter, Meera Menon, was the Chief Guest. As Chief Editor, write a report on the inauguration and exhibition in 150-200 words for the school magazine. You are Shaurya/Shirin.

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You recently attended a week-long Student Leadership Camp at Greenville School. 23 schools from India and abroad participated in the camp. The theme of the camp was ‘Be the Change’. The camp organized panel discussions followed by question and answer sessions. A workshop on leadership and need of community service was held followed by a cultural show. Based on your experience of participation, write a speech in 150-200 words on the importance of community service and the role of students in organizing it. You are Shaurya/Shirin.


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(a) Rearrange the following sentences sequentially to make complete sense:

(i) Pour some water in a pan and set it to boil.


(ii) Cover the pan with a lid and let the tea brew.


(iii) After a few minutes pour the tea into the teapot.


(iv) Making a cup of tea is not a difficult task.


(v) Next add tea leaves to the boiling water.


(vi) Do not forget to add sugar and milk according to taste.


(b) As a student of class 12, you have to complete an economics project. In this regard you have to interview a leading businessman on his struggles and successes. Frame 6 questions you would like to ask him.


You may use the following clues:


(i) Childhood


(ii) Education


(iii) Inspiration/benefactor


(iv) Challenges


(v) Rise to the top


(vi) Service to the community


(c) The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the error and the correction in your answer book against the correct blank number. The first one has been done as an example.



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Choose any two of the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

a) Their dreams that drip with murder; and they’ll be proud


Of glorious war that shatter’d all their pride...


Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;


Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.


(i) Name the poem and the poet.


(ii) Whose dreams is the poet referring to?


(iii) How did the war shatter their pride?


(iv) Explain the phrase ‘grim and glad’.


(v) Why are the men referred to as children in the last line?


(b) Heads bow, trunks bend, hands fumble towards the black


Mother. Processional stooping through the turf


Turns work to ritual. Centuries


Of fear and homage to the famine god


Toughen the muscles behind their humbled knees,


Make a seasonal altar of the sod.


(i) Who are the people described in these lines?


(ii) What does the ‘Black Mother’ refer to?


(iii) Why does the poet describe the ‘work’ as a ‘ritual’?


(iv) What is their fear?


(v) Why does the poet use religious references in these lines?


(c) Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,


While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,


And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;


Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn


Among the river sallows, borne aloft


Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;


(i) What are ‘them’?


(ii) Name the figure of speech used in line 2.


(iii) What are stubble-plains?


(iv) Who are singing in the wailful choir?


(v) What raises and lowers the music of the choir?