Note-making

Flexibility and mobility are essential not only to reduce the risk of injuries but to generally feel better. Living a nine to five
desk life can be demanding on health and wellness. Here is how you can keep the most common problems at bay.

2. Even if you are not exercising you need to make sure that you maintain correct posture and sit at your desk in the right
way. It is important that your chair is placed correctly and your legs are not left hanging. Proper alignment ensures that
your neck and back are not strained. Exercises and abdominal crunches two to three times a week can strengthen the core.
It will help take the pressure off your back and will make it easier to maintain good posture. Chairs with a back that support
your upper

3. Constant typing, writing reports, and answering e-mails can exert your wrists leading to long-term damage. The
frequency of your use and how you position your wrists at your keyboard can be a reason. The tell-tale signs of exertion
would be a tingling sensation or numbness. One should not ignore initial signs. Make sure that you rest your wrist at
regular intervals. To relieve tension quickly fold your hands in a NAMASTE in front of your chest with elbows moving out
and lower your hands till you feel a good stretch in your wrists. Also rotating your fists inside and outside provides much
relief to strained wrists.

4. Since those who work on desks spend a lot of time looking at a computer screen, they are at a risk of straining their eyes.
This may also lead to dry eyes and fatigue. Poor eyesight is the result of continued and improper exposure to screens.
Keeping the computer screen at an optimal distance helps a lot in minimising strain to eyes. The screen shouldn’t be too
close or too far. To ease eye strain use good lighting and make it a point to look at a distance away from your screen every
twenty to thirty minutes.

(a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes on it using headings and subheadings.

Use recognisable abbreviations and a format you consider suitable. Also, supply a title to it.

(b) Write a summary of the passage in not more than 80 words using the notes made.

Effects and Solutions to Long Screen Time

1. Importance of flex. and mobility

1.1 to reduce the risk of injuries
1.2 to gen. feel better

2. The msrs. to be fold. for good postures-

2.1 the chair to be placed correctly
2.2 hanging of legs to be avoided
2.3. proper alignment
2.4 exercises to strengthen the core
2.5 using of chairs with a back for support

3. Important aids for wrist relief-

3.1 fold hands for good stretch
3.2 rotation of the fist
3.3 resting the wrist at regular intervals
 3.4 Correct postng of wrist

4. The effects of spending long hrs. of screen time-

4.1 dry eyes
4.2 fatigue
4.3 Poor eyesight

5. Methods to reduce eye-strain-

5.1 keeping the computer screen at an optml. distance
5.2 use of good lighting
5.3 taking breaks at a regular interval

Flex.-flexibility
gen.-generally
msrs.-measures
postng-positioning
hrs.-hours
optml.-optimal

Summary-

Effects and Solutions to Long Screen Time

Flexibility and mobility are important to reduce the risk of injury and to generally feel better. It is important to maintain
good postures like proper alignment of the neck and back. Resting of the wrist and rotation of the fist are some of the
measures to be taken for providing wrist relief. Spending long hours before the screen can lead to dry eyes, fatigue and
poor eye sight. Keeping the computer screen at an optimal distance, using of good lighting and taking breaks in between at
regular intervals can reduce eye strain.

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (Delhi, All India 2011)

1. Everyone needs a holiday, both to relax and to have a change of environment. The holidaymakers
feel relaxed and refreshed at the end of the holiday and look forward to the resumption of their duties,
be it at school, office, or factories, with renewed vigour. This is the reason why all establishments grant
their employees annual leave. With the end of the academic year, the schools and universities grant
their pupils a long holiday during mid-summer. This lasts until early September when the new school
term starts. Of course, the parents will like to take advantage of this and take their leave to coincide with
the children’s vacations. This has become a traditional holiday season in most European countries,
particularly in England.

With the coming of August, the traditional holiday season in Britain reaches its peak point and most of
the holiday resorts are packed to capacity. In order to avoid the crowd, some prefer to take their holiday
a little earlier if facilities so warrant. Those who have already taken their holidays can console
themselves not only with reflections on the happy days spent in the country, at the seaside or abroad
but also with the thought that holiday expenses are over for the year and that by taking an earlier
holiday they have missed the August rush.
The main thing, of course, is the weather and that would be hazardous to prophesy. But whatever the
weather is like, the essence of a holiday for most is the carefree atmosphere in which it can be enjoyed.
“Take all you need but leave your worries behind” is the sound advice for the holidaymaker. Private
worries are not always easy to escape from. However, even the pessimist would admit that for the
moment things appear brighter than they have been.

Holiday time is surely a time for shedding serious pre-occupations and seeking the pleasures that
appeal to us. It is true that we may not always succeed in finding them, indeed there are people who
maintain that the great thing about the holiday is that it gives you an ampler appreciation of home
comforts – a view no doubt more widely held among the elderly than you.

(a) On the basis of your reading the above passage, make notes using headings and subheadings. Use
recognizable abbreviations, wherever necessary. And also suggest a suitable title for it.
(b) Write a summary of the above passage in not more than 80 words using the notes made by you.
Answer:
Importance of Holidays

1. Imp. of holidays-

1.1 to relax
1.2 have fresh mind to be more prd.
1.3 to have a change env.
1.4 to relieve stress

2. benefits of taking early holidays-

2.1avoiding Aug. rush
2.2 cheaper booking

3.The essence of a holiday-

3.1 to enjoy carefree atmosphere
3.2to leave all worries behind
3.3to make things appear brighter

4.Adv. of holidays-
4.1 time to shed serious preocptns.
4.2 to seek pleasures that appeal to us
4.3 to appr. the home comforts

Imp.-importance
Pr
d.- productive
E
nv. -environment
a
ug.-August

Adv.-advantages
 preocptns-preoccupations

appr.- appreciate

Importance of Holidays

Holidays are important because it helps us to relax, to have fresh mind to be more productive and to
relieve us from stress. To avoid the August rush, in Britain some prefer taking prior holidays and enjoy it
at a cheaper rate. Enjoying in the carefree atmosphere, seeking pleasures that appeal to us and
appreciating home comforts are some of the essence and advantages of holidays.