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You are Amir/Shikha and you love comics. Write an article in 150 – 200 words to be published in ‘The National Times’ on ‘Children’s love for comics and the role that comics play in every child’s life’.

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You are Yogita/Vignesh, Sports Captain, Maywood School, Chandigarh. You are very excited on hearing that Indian women wrestlers, Geeta and Babita have won many medals in Wrestling in Commonwealth Games. Write a speech in 150 - 200 words, which you will deliver in the school assembly on the occasion of your school’s Sports Day, in which you show your appreciation of the achievements made by Geeta and Babita under adverse circumstances and how they have become role models for women athletes in future.


Children’s love for comics and the role comics play in every child’s life


Be it the yesteryears when we all awaited for the day of the week when our favourite comic would come back to the stores with a new story, or the present times when kids cannot keep the smartphone away before finishing the last page of their favourite character’s story, the love for comic books has remained uniform.


Children like me love comic books for several reasons, the chief ones being that comics bring life to stories and make it easier for us to imagine the scene in our heads, thanks to the use of attractive graphics and presentation. Besides, comics are mostly about superheroes or animals, which makes things even more fascinating for kids like us.


Comics can also play a very positive role in the mental growth of children, for they often send out messages in the form of their stories. It is a fun and interactive way of inculcating values in children these days, who love digging into their favourite comics as a pastime.


- Shikha Pandey.


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Good morning teachers and fellow students. I, Yogita Vashisth, Sports Captain of the School, wish you all a very good morning on the occasion of the Annual Sports Day of the school. Before we begin, I would like to share some food for thought.


Indians have made a mark for themselves wherever they have stepped foot – be it a foreign country or even on the Moon. When it comes to Indian women, however, things sound a little more special, considering the long history of patriarchy the country has seen and faced. Two women stalwarts, coming from a village in Haryana, have proved to us time and again that the strong Indian women is capable of doing everything they were told they couldn’t.


Geeta and Babita Phogat need no introduction. Competent wrestlers, the pride of the nation, and a household name after the movie ‘Dangal’ based on their life story reached Indian homes – they are true examples of pride of the nation. At the recent Commonwealth games, they have managed to procure many medals for their country. What we need to learn from them today is the spirit of sportsmanship, which made them surpass all adverse situations and reach the position they are in today. Let us begin this Sports Meet with the kind of enthusiasm they have for their sport. Jai Hind!


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You are Shahneela/Sameer Malik living at No. 4, Zakir Bagh, Meerut. You and your friends decide to host a dinner to honour the teachers who have taught you in Class XII. Draft a formal invitation in not more than 50 words to all your teachers to a grand dinner at your residence.

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You are Sutapa/Damodar Dey of 22, Kalinga Nagari, Bhubaneswar. You want to sell your car as you plan to buy a new one. Draft a suitable


advertisement in not more than 50 words to be published in a local newspaper in the classified columns.


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You are Bhai Bajrang/Radha Joshi, Principal, Basant Public School, Nashik. Your school has just decided to plant trees along the boundary wall of your school, for which you need saplings. You also want to place a large number of potted plants in all the corridors to help make the school green and reduce pollution. Write a letter in 120 – 150 words to the proprietor of Masjid Nursery, Nashik, wholesale suppliers of all kinds of saplings and indoor/outdoor plants, placing an order for saplings of plants for the school.

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Blue Waters Public School, Port Blair, urgently requires a Physical Education Teacher to teach the senior classes. The instructor should also be able to teach swimming. The school places an advertisement in ‘The National Express’. You are Bharat/Madhu Sharma, from 21, First Cross Street, Chennai. Draft a letter in 120 – 150 words along with your biodata for the advertised post.


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The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a sanitation programme that has caught everybody’s attention. Your school held a sanitation programme where students cleaned the school as well as the streets in the neighbourhood and collected and segregated garbage. You are Vinod/Asha of St. Agnes School, Kanpur. Write a report in 150 - 200 words for your school magazine giving details of the programme that was held. Add details wherever necessary.

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Write a debate in 150 – 200 words either for or against the motion:


‘A person himself is his own best career counsellor’.


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

Those who prepare green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire,


victory with no survivors, would put on clean clothes


and walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing.


(a) Who are ‘those’ in line 1?


(b) What are ‘green wars’?


(c) Explain : ‘victory with no survivors’.


(d) What is the significance of: ‘put on clean clothes’?


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And yet, for these


Children, these windows, not this map, their world.


Where all their future’s painted with a fog,


A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky


Far far from rivers, capes, and stars of words.


(a) Who are these children?


(b) What future do these children have in store for themselves?


(c) What does ‘lead sky’ symbolize?


(d) What facilities are these children deprived of?