Assignment class 10

ENGLISH

Writing Skills

Q1. You are organizing an English speaking course for the students of
classes 6 to 10 during summer vacation. As the secretary of the English
Literary Club, Draft a notice in about 50 words informing the students
about it.

Q2. You have observed that the animals are kept hungry for many days
when transported from one place to another by trucks and tramps. They
are treated brutally in the journey. Write a letter to the Director, Wildlife
Department, New Delhi, Drawing his attention to the cruelty towards
animals and requesting him to issue the guidelines in this matter.

Q3. Write a story on the theme “ All that glitters is not gold”. (200-250
words)

Q4. You are Ruchi. You went for a tour to Rajasthan and you noticed that
the girls do not go to school there. Write an article on the relevance of
education of girl child. (120-150 words)

Q5. Look at the picture below and write a story in about 200-250 words
giving an appropriate title :
GRAMMAR

1. In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each
line. Write the missing word with the word that comes before and after
the word. The first one is done as an example

I’ve been to lots restaurants e.g., lots of

restaurants
And they have all seemed to friendly a) _______________
Places. That’s why a recent Monday b) _______________
Night, I stopped at one a cup of coffee. c) _______________
I returning home after an all day car d) _______________
trip and needed something for help me travel e) _______________
the last 45 miles. The places quiet and f) _______________
lonely I entered. After a long wait, a tired g) _______________
looking waitress, approaches me her h) _______________
writing pad.

2. In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each
line. Write the missing word with the word that comes before and after
the word. The first one is done as an example
Kut-kut was hardworking e.g., was a
hardworking
squirrel. She lived a tree-hole. a) ________________
she was the impression that b) ________________
she enough food in store for the c) ________________
bad, until she found that d) ________________
someone been stealing her nuts e)________________
she went the owl to f) ________________
find solution to her problem. g)________________
the old owl to her problem h)________________
patiently

3.The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each
line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet as
given below against the correct blank number.
We know that if we eats the right food, in the right a) _______ _____
Quantities in the right time, our digestive system b)______ _____
must remain healthy. Similarly, if we breathe right c)_______ _____
our respiratory system will function efficiently. As d)______ ______
our hearts are in good shape, and a arteries e)______ ______
ensure that blood reaches which it must, our f)_______ ______
circulatory system is in order. But how do one g)______ ______
keep in shape an invisibly energy system, a h) _____ ______
system which helps us process the life for

4.The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each
line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet as
given below against the correct blank number. The first one is done as
an example
Incorrect Correct

Required Sale Engineer: Graduates or e.g., Sale Sales

Commerce Diploma holders. Should possessed a) _________ _________
Excellent communication skills. Might b)_________ _________
have minimum two year experience. c)__________ _________
in marketing or sales. Only d)__________ _________
serious candidates by relevant e)_________ __________
qualifications need to application. f)__________ __________
The selected candidates should be g)_________ __________
Give attractive remuneration h) _________ ___________

5.Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful

sentences:

a. past three/goes/the last bell/our school/of/at half

b. students/out/their/class/joyfully/rooms/run/off

6.Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful

sentences:

a. To/her/first/Buddha/stand/hard/class/is/studying.
b. Healthy/takes/keep/himself/everyday exercise/ Kamal/to
7.Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate words from the brackets:

“Evans the Breaker”, as the prison officers (a) ________ (call/called) him.
Thrice he’d escaped (b) ______ (from/for) the prison. But (c) _______
(due/mostly) the recent wave of unrest in the maximum security up
north, he would now be (d) _________ (at/in) the Governor’s premises in
Oxford. The Governor (e)________ (was/is) going to make (f)_______ (that/it)
certain that he wouldn’t be disgracing them. He wanted to (g) ________
(make/be) sure that he would not provide any opportunity to such (h)
________ (a/an) cunning fellow like him.

8. Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate words from the

brackets:

Human civilisation have been around (a) _______ (was/for) 12,000 years,
barely a (b) _______ (few/little) seconds (c) ________(on/as) the geological
clock. In that short amount (d)_______ (n/of) tome, we’ve managed (e)
_______(to/on) create quite a ruckus, etching our dominance
(f)_______(above/over) nature with our village, towns, cities and
megacities. Early human civilizations prospered (g)______ (in/at) Egypt,
Greece, China (h)__________ (and/also) India.

LITERATURE

Answer the following questions briefly :-

Q1. How were Nicola and Jacopo different from the other children of
their age group? Give adequate instances from the text.

Q2. Do you think that Louisa Mebbin was devoted to Mrs.Packletide?

Give reasons for your answer.

Q3. Who is Lucia? What is she suffering from?

Q4. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow-
 “You must make your public happier;

Give them something sharper snappier

We must aim for better billings”

a. Who is the speaker of the above lines? Whom is he talking to?

b. Why should the public be made ‘happier?’

c. Why should ‘they’ aim for ‘better billings?’

Q5. “ And ladies with the tiaras glittering

Sat in the interval twittering.”

a. Name the poem and the poet.

b. Who are the ‘ladies’ being referred to here?

c. Where have they come and for what purpose?

Q6. “ Well poor bird she should have known

That your song must be your own.

That’s why I sing with panache”

a. Who is referred to as the ‘poor bird’ in the first line?

b. What is that she should have known?

c. ‘panache’ here means -------------------------

Q7. “How you shot the goat and frightened the tiger to death,” said Miss
Mebbin with her disagreeably pleasant laugh.

a. In the above statement Miss Mebbin is making fun of Mrs

Packletide. Why?
b. What characteristic of Miss Mebbin is highlighted in the above
extract?

c. How did the tiger die ?

Q8. Answer the following in detail-

Justify the title of the story, ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona?’

Q9. As Louisa Mebbin write an informal letter to a friend in about 150

words, sharing the news of your new cottage and the means through
which you have got it.

Q1o. After reaching the pinnacle of success, the nightingale saw her own
downfall. How far was she responsible for it ?

Q11. What does Saki satirizes in the story, ‘Mrs.Packletide’s Tiger’?

Q12. How does Nicola and Jacopo offer a new hope for humanity?