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Your Sanskrit subject teacher, Mrs. Saini has won the National Award for teachers for her outstanding contribution to the teaching of the language. Using the input given below construct a dialogue that you have with her during an interview for the school magazine. Make three sets of exchange. The first one has been done for you.


You: Congratulations Ma'am on receiving the National Award for Teachers!


Mrs. Saini: Thank you!

You: So mam continuing forward, I would like to know that since how long you are serving this industry


Mrs. Saini: Well! I have been in the teaching field since 1988


You: We also know that you received an award from our honourable president for your valuable contribution


Mrs. Saini: Yes it was a wonderful experience and feeling altogether to meet him. It was a momentous occasion


You: So, mam what you would like to give a message to the students of our school? Any special recommendations or tips that you would like the students to follow?


Mrs. Saini: Yes! Be focused, stay calm. Concentrate on what you are doing. There is no shortcut to success. So, give your best shot


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Rearrange the following words or phrases into meaningful sentences. One has been done for you as an example.

a. courage / history/ women / change/have the / mankind’s/ to /the/ course of.


b. equal/ women/ no true / decision making/ at all/there can/ governance and development / participation of / levels of/ be /without


c. limits/ for/success/ any/ women/I / key/think/ set/ the /to/ is/ to not

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The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which a blank has been given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number as given in the example. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied.

 8

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.

‘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.’


(a) Name the poem and the poet.


(b) How does potato digging turn into a procession?


(c) Explain: 'famine god' convey?


(d) What does ‘seasonal alter of the sod’ mean?


(e) Pick out and explain the figure of speech in the last line.

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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.

To be or not to be-that is the question:


Whether ’tis nobler in mind to suffer


The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,


Or to take arms against a sea of troubles


And, by opposing, end them.


(a) Name the poem and the poet.


(b) Which are the two choices that Hamlet can make?


(c) What does the phrase 'outrageous fortune' mean?


(d) Mention and explain the poetic device used in the above lines.