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Time: 3 Hrs.] ACTIVITY SHEET-1 Max Marks: 100

SECTION - 1: LANGUAGE STUDY

Q.1(A1)Do the activities as instructed: [8 Marks]

(1) Without any effort (Make a meaningful sentence by using the phrase.) (1)
(2) quietly - (Use the given adverb in your own sentence) (1)
(3) He became the ........... chief of the Air force (vice, wise)
(Choose the correct homograph from the bracket) (1)
(4) Singh has the distinctions of having the longest tenure.
(Spot the error and correct the sentence) (1)
(5) Use the letters in the given word minimum four words of 4 letters.
Obstinately – (1)
(6) I don't remember anything. (Identify the sentence) (1)
(7) Why is he .............. outside, he has to ..............
(Fill in the blanks with either to work, to rest, working, resting) (1)
(8) Today we see thousands of nelson mandelas and mahatma Gandhis
(Punctuate the sentence) (1)

(A2) Do as directed : [8 Marks]

(1) How .............. I learn to do the right thing
(Use the correct model auxiliary - could, can, may) (2)
(2) 'Don't soar too high or the sun will scorch your wings just follow me, and do what
I do "ordered Dadelus to his son. (Change to reported speech) (2)
(3) (i) King Minos fed the monster on a group of young Athenian men and women.
(Rewrite by changing the voice) (1)
(ii) He lived with a broken heart that he could not even mend.
(Pick out the clause and identify it) (1)
(4) Solve the crossword puzzle. (2)
Clues:
Across:
(a) Anant's sister ............
(b) Dr. ............ a great scientist.
Down:
(i) Ravi Shankar a ........ player.
(ii) King ............. fed the monster.
Q.1.(B) Do as directed : [4 Marks]
(1) Light – (Use the word as noun and verb in your sentence) (2)
(2) The predicament caught the attention of a California Computer Programmer.
(Rewrite as complex sentence) (2)

SECTION - II : TEXTUAL PASSAGES

(Reading Skill, Vocabulary and Grammar)

Q.2.(A) Read the extract carefully and do the given activities : [10 Marks]
A1 Say whether the statements are true or false and correct the false statements.
(2)
(a) Mary-Kom's father was a keen boxer in his younger age.
(b) Mary-Kom was only 18 years old when she made her international debut at the
first woman's World Boxing Championship.
(c) Mary-Kom is a legend and an idol.
(d) Kom grew up in luxurious surroundings.

There had to be one successful story if Indian were to survive in sports and we
have that story now. Enough has been said about this great warrior who conquered the
world. This warrior is none other than Mary Mangte kom-the Komqueror and the
Komrade. She is famed as a five times World Boxing Champion and the only boxer to
win a medal in every one of the six world championships. In the 2012 Olympics, she
became the first Indian woman boxer to qualify and win a bronze medal in the 51 kg
flyweight category of Boxing.
Kom was born is Kangtheri village. Moirang Lamkhai in Churachandpur district
of rural Manipur eastern India. She came from a poor family. Her parents, Mangte
Tonpa Kom and Mangte Akham Kom were tenant farmers who worked in jhum fields.
Kom grew up in humble surroundings, helping her parents with farm related chores,
going to school and learning athletics intially and later boxing simultaneously. Her father
was a keen wrestler in his younger age.
She had an eager interest in athletics since childhood and the success of Dingko
Singh a fellow Manipuri returned from the 1998 Bangkok Asain games with a gold
medal. Kom recollects that had inspired many youngsters in Manipur to try boxing and
she too thought of giving it a try.
Mary Kom's career started in 2000 after her victory in the Manipur state
women's boxing championship and the regional championship in West Bengal. In 2001,
she started competing at international level. She was only 18 years old when she made
her international debut at the first. AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship in
United States, winning a silver medal in the 48 kg weight category. Her greatness is
reinforced by the way she apoligized to the whole nation for not being able to win the
Gold. She is a legend for sure and an idol for all the sportswomen to look up to.
A2 Fill in the gaps appropriately. (2)
Mary Kom
Born in ................................... village
..…………….................. district
..................................... state
Type of family .................................... family.
Name of father.............................
Name of mother ..........................
A3 (a) Give the antonyms of: (1)
(i) perish (ii) defeat (iii) urban (iv) unsuccessful
(b) Pick out words from the extract that mean the following: (1)
(i) at the same time (ii) routine household tasks
A4 Do as directed : (2)
(1) Mary Kom's career started in 2000. (Use a question tag)
(2) She came from a poor family. (Rewrite as negative)
A5 Explain in your own words how Mary Kom's career persistently moved ahead. (2)

Q.2.(B) Read the extract carefully and do the given activities: [10 Marks]
B1 Fill in the blanks with words/ phrases from the extract. (2)
(a) Sometimes life hits you in the head ……..............
(b) You can't connect the dots ………………….
(c) I decided to ...................
(d) ..................... was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner.

You can't connect the dots looking forward: you can only connect them looking
backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have
to trust in some things-your destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me
down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz
(Steve Woznisk) and I started Apple when I was 20. In 10 years Apple had grown from just the
two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company. And then I got fired. It was devastating.
But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. And so I decided
to start over.
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner
again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years. I started a company Next, another company named Pixar,
and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar is now the world's
most successful animation studio. Apple bought Next, I returened to Apple, and the
technology we developed at Next is at the heart Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene
and I have a wonderful family together.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. The only way to do
great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
B2 Answer the following questions in just a word or a phrase (2)
(1) What was the narrator's second story about?
(2) What is the names of the companies that Steve Job started.
(3) With whom does Steve Job have a wonderful family together.
(4) At what age did Steve Job start 'Apple'.
B3 (a) Form nouns from (1)
(i) amazing (ii) wonderful (iii) great (iv) devastating
(b) Give the antonyms of (1)
(1) forward (ii) difference (iii) slowly (iv) sometimes
B4 Do as directed : (2)
(1) My second story is about love and loss. (Rewrite using a subordinator)
(2) You have to trust in something. (Rewrite as Interrogative)
B5 How do you think Steve Job began once more after he was fired from Apple? (2)

SECTION - III : POETRY

Q.2.(A) Read the extract carefully and do the activities : [5 Marks]
A1 Match the phrases in column 'A' with their images in column B. (2)

Column A Column B
(1) The head is held high (a) clear thinking
(2) Clear stream of reason (b) a person with self respect and proud of possessing it.
(3) Stretches its arms (c) narrow mindedness
(4) Narrow domestic walls (d) aims of perfection

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by Thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore

A2 What does the poet pray to the Almighty? (2)

A3 Name and explain the figures of speech. (1)
(a) Into the dreary desert of dead habits.
(b) Where the world has not been broken up into fragments.
Q.3.(B) Read the following poem and write an appreciation with help of the given
points in paragraph format. [10 Marks]

I remember the night my mother

was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours
of steady rain had driven him
to crawl beneath a sack of rice.

Parting with his poison - flash

of diabolic tail in the dark room –
he risked the rain again.

The peasants came like swarms of flies

and buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyse the Evil One.

With candles and with lanterns

throwing giant scorpion shadows
on the mud-baked walls
they searched for him: he was not found.
They clicked their tongues.
With every movement that the scorpion made his poison
moved in Mother's blood, they said.

May he wit still, they said

May the sins of your previous birth
be burned away tonight, they said.
May your suffering decrease
the misfortunes of your next birth, they said.
May the sum of all evil
balanced in this unreal world
against the sum of good
become diminished by your pain.
May the poison purify your flesh
of desire, and your spirit of ambition.
they said, and they sat around
on the floor with my mother in the centre,
the peace of understanding on each face.

More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours

more insects, and the endless rain.
My mother twisted through and through.
groaning on a mat.
My father, sceptic, rationalist,
trying every curse and blessing.
powder, mixture, herb and hybrid.
 He even poured a little paraffin
upon the bitten toe and put a match to it.
I watched the flame feeding on my mother.
I watched the holy man perform his rites to tame the
poison with an incantation.
After twenty hours
it lost its sting.

My mother only said Thank God the scorpion picked on me

And spared my children.

- Nissim Ezekiel

SECTION - IV : NON-TEXTUAL PASSAGES

(Reading Skill, Vocabulary, Grammar and Summary)
Q.4.(A) Read the following passage carefully and complete the activities given below:
[10 Marks]
A1 Fill in the web describing the father. (2)

The father

When my father came home there was laughter, rollicking rolling laughter. He was
strong and handsome his thick black, wavy hair fell into his black, laughing eyes. When he
kissed me. I pushed his bristled moustache from my tender skin. His hands, thick and
squared off at the tips, smelt of the sweet horsehair at the upholstery factory. His finger
nails carried the cotton lints he used to stuff satin sofas.
He signed his name, Benjamin, but no one called him that, I called him Daddy Ben.
People who could hear called him Benny.
My father, like my mother, was dent. So I grew up living in two world, our private
world and the hearing world outside. I was on intimate terms with silence and the
language of silence.
 My mother was born deaf, and so I though, was my father. Then one day he
mentioned that he had not always been deaf. "You weren't? How did you become deal? my
hands asked. "I was sick, a long time. Ask Grandma," he replied.
When Grandma Lizzie came to our apartment, I rushed to her demanding an
answer. She said, "Spinal meningitis and told how my father had been stricken with the
disease when he was two. As he approach school age, his hearing diminished until there
was none, not even the memory of sound.
He was a bright child, hut his intelligence was locked away. Without normal speech
at the age when children begin to play with syllables and sounds, my father was separated
from his own wit. His other senses did become more acute with time. But he never
recovered from early verbal neglect, he could not read a book page by page. The flowing
language, line after line, chapter after chapter, was too difficult to sustain. Even so. Daddy
Ben was undefeated. He transformed pain into humour, "It is better to laugh at life," he'd
say, "It makes easier a hard time.”

A2 Answer in a word or phrases (2)

(1) Where did the writer's father work?
(2) What disability did Ruth's parents suffer from?
(3) What were the different names by which dad was known
(4) Speaking of father and mother, who was born deaf.
A3 (1) Pick out words from the extract that describe Ben's (1)
(a) hands (b) eyes
(2) Pick out words from the passage that mean the following.
(a) noisy (b) very close (1)
A4 Do as directed:
(a) It was too difficult to sustain. (Remove adverb ‘too’) (1)
(b) People who could hear, called him Benny. (Change the voice) (1)
A5 Personal response: (2)
What do you understand about the writer's relationship with her parents?

Q.4. (B) Read the passage and write a summary. Give a suitable title. [5
Marks]
Many cigarette smokers do not enjoy smoking, especially when they think of the
risk of illness, but they are unable to stop. People continue to smoke not so much because
they enjoy it but because they do not enjoy not smoking. For them, cigarette smoking is
not a habit, like reading the daily paper or watching the 9 O'clock news: it is an addiction.
When a person becomes addicted to a substance, his link with it becomes physical. When
he stop taking that substance, his body suffers, Tobacco addicts feel tense and edgy when
they stop smoking. Their muscles are uncomfortable and their stomach gets upset. The
chemical which is addictive is most probabily nicotine. Addiction can be overcome by will
power, even opium addiction, but it is not easy. The strength of addiction to cigarette
smoke varies from person to person. A few smokers can give up easily but the majority
find it very difficult.
 SECTION - V: WRITING SKILL
Q.5. (A) Letter Writing : [5 Marks]
Attempt any ONE of the following letters with the help of the given news headline.

BAD CONDITION OF ROADS DURING RAINS LEADS TO MISHAPS

A1 Write a letter to your friend about the conditions of roads and the care to be
taken. (5)
OR
A2 Write a letter to the newspaper, editor highlighting the condition of Roads in your
area and suggest suitable measures. (5)

Q.5.(B) Dialogue writing / Interview Questions : [5 Marks]

B1 Write a conversation between a patient and a doctor regarding eye donation. (5)
OR
B2 Dr. Narvekar was the chief guest of the Science Exhibition held in ANZA school.
Prepare a list of ten questions. (5)

Q.6.(A) Information Transfer [5 Marks]

A1 Observe the following bar-graph and write a paragraph describing it : (5)

Series 1
30 28.5
What is the
25 most
21.4 important
20 factor that
15.2 determines a
15 person’s
9.8
8.9
success?
10
5.4 5.4 5.4
5

OR
A2 Read the following paragraph and transfer the information in the form of a tree
diagram: (5)
We all read for variety of reasons. Our basic reason for reading is probably pleasure. We
read literature mostly because we enjoy it. Reading for pleasure may take various
forms. We may read just to pass the time. We often read for information and
knowledge. We find pleasures in learning about life in the Swiss Alps or the
 Mississippi river. We also read simply for enjoyment. We get pleasure from the
arrangements of words. We can find pleasure even in syllables just as children like the
sound ‘Ring around the Rosie’ although they may not know what the words mean.

Q.6.(B) Speech Writing / Counterview : [5 Marks]

B1 Prepare a speech to be delivered by you on the occasion of ‘Independence Day’
laying stress on the ‘value of freedom’. (5)

Sacrifice of
150 years of freedom fighters
subordination

Democracy to
be cherished.

OR
B2 Write a counterview in one paragraph on the topic ‘Crackers should be burst to
express happiness.’ Begin your paragraph like this ‘ I strongly oppose ….. (5)

SECTION – VI : CREATIVE WRITING

Q.7.(A) Expand the theme : [5 Marks]
Expand your ideas on any ONE of the following.
(a) Work is worship.
(b) Books our Best Friends.

OR
Q.7.(A) Report/news based on the headline : [5 Marks]
Write for your school, Magazine a report of about 20 lines on a ‘Dog Show’ held in
your city.

Q.7.(B) Developing a Story : [5 Marks]

Develop a story in about 80-100 words with the following ending. Give a suitable
title.
…………………. Hard work and perseverance must be our weapons to attain success.

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