2 T English Kumarbharatl__ MODEL QUESTION PAPER — 4 ENGLISH KUMARBHARATI Total Marks: 80 (A) (Al vi. (A2) iii (A) (al anguage Study Do as Directed (Attempt Any 4): [04 Marks} Make a meaningful sentence by using the following word: a) ‘exceedingly’ Spot the error and rewrite the correct sentence: o I were past caring now. Pick out the Infinitive from the given sentence and use it in a sentence of your own: a She became the first Indian women boxer to qualify in the 51 Kg flyweight category of Box! Identify the Type of the given sentence based on its form: a) Whose children are they who are dying of Ebola? Complete the given Word chain of Abstract Nouns: @ kindness,s_ _ Form two Past / Present Participles where the last letter is doubled: a Do as Directed (Attempt Any 2): 104 Marks} Make two sentences of your own to show the difference of Homograph: @) “book? Rewrite the given sentence in Future Perfect Tense: @) The hermit was frail and weak Change the Voice: @) The wind makes trees dance with unhindered passion. Make a word register of four words related to the given wor @) “telephone” Do as Directed (Attempt Any 1): [02 Marks} Rewrite the sentence as a Complex sentence: @ It was twenty years ago and I was living in Pa Change the Degree of Comparison to Positive: @ His greatest contribution is the establishment of a free residential education system, fo Section II: Textual Passag \ ( (Reading Skills, Vocabulary, Grammar) Read the following passage and do the activities. [0 Marks] Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the extract. @) T went back to the bazaar and sat down in the shelter of the The ____ were damp from the rain. ‘The narrator thought that Anil must have given him two or three rupees to go to the _ When Anil stretched out a hand towards the nar the narrator sa his7 5c 54 Question Papers and Activity Sheets” The night was chilly — it was early ‘Soon it was raining quite heavily. 1 found myself in the mraidan and sat down on & bench. November — and a light drizzle added to my discomfort My shirt and pyjamas stuck to my skin, and a cold wind blew the rain across my face, | went a er. The clock showed yrelter of the clock tow back to the bazaar and sat down in the s} t from the rain, Anil’s money. In the moming midnight. I felt for the notes. They were damp r he would probably have given me two or three rupees t0 80 £0 the cinema, but now I had it all. | couldn't cook his meals, run to the bazaar or learn to write whole sentences any more. | had forgotten about them in the excitement of the thelt Whole sentences, I knew, could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was 4 simple matter (o steal — and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big tan. clever and respected nan, was something else. I should go back to Anil, I told myselt if only to learn to read and write, | hurried back to the room feeling very nervous. for it is much casier to steal Something than to return it undetected. | opened the door quiet! then stood in the doorway, onvpuded moontight, Anil was still asleep. ¥ erept to the head of the bed and my hand came tip wit the notes. | felt his breath on my hand. I remained still or a minute. Then my hand Pine edge of the mattress, and slipped under it with the notes. T awoke late next thomning to find that Anil had already made the tea, He stretched out his hand towards me. seer ie a fifly-rupee note between his fingers. My heart sank, 1 thought | had been discovered (Ad) The narrator decided to return to Anil’s house, Give reasons. @ (A3) Write the synonyms of the following from the extract: Q) i, unease ii, zest iii, rob iv. unseen (Ad) Do as a Direeter @ i, Thad forgotten about them in the excitement of the theft. (Rewrite as a Negative sentence) ‘There was a fifly-rupee note between his fingers. (Add a Question Tag) n? Describe it in brief. @ (AS) Have you ever been caught in an embarrassing situa (B) Read the following passage and do the activiti (BL) Name the followin i. The person with whom the narrator established Apple. ii The name of the narrator's wife. iii, The company that is the world’s largest iv. The company that bought Next. nimation studio, My second story is about love and loss. I found what I loved to do early in life. Wor (Steve Wozniak) and | started Apple when I was 20. tn 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 1 decided lo stert Gver. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginne again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Dae sy years, [ started a company Next, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wi aris now the world's most successful animation studio, Apple bought next. I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at Next isa the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and T have a wo erful family together, Sometimes Tits hits you inthe head with a brick. Don't lose faith, The only ele work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. (B2) A fall was the reason for the rise of the narrator. Justify.i ee T English Kumarbharati (B3) Match the Phrases in column ‘A’ with their meanings in column ‘B’: @ ay Be a,_| 10 be badly beaten ded | 10 be removed from one’ [to be greatly shocked _ (B4) Do as Directed: i. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick, (Change to Present Continuous Tense) ii, Don’t lose faith (Add a Question Tag) (B5) Has life ever hit you in the head with a brick? How did you react? @ Section III: Poets Q3_ (A) Read the following extract and do the activities. [05 Marks} @) (Al) Arrange the following events in the chronological order. @) i, The servant burst five buttons off. The servant tumbled in a fit The servant grinned from ear to ear. ‘The servant's face had a broad grin on it. I wrote some lines once on a time In wondrous merry mood, And thought, as usual, men would say They were exceeding good. They were so queer, so very queer, Haughed as I would di Albeit, in the general way, A sober man am 1 I called my servant, and he came; How kind it was of him To mind a slender man like me, He of the mighty limb. “These to the printer,” | exclaimed, And, in my humorous way, added (as a trifling jest.) “There'll be the devil to pay. He took the paper, and I watched, ‘And saw him peep within At the first line he read, his face Was all upon the grin He read the next; the grin grew broad And shot from ear to ear; He read the third; a chuckling noise I now began to hear. The fourth; he broke into a roar; The filth; his waistband split; The sixth; he burst five buttons off, And tumbled in a fit. (A2) Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct alternatives. 2 i, The poet once wrote 7 (A) some merry lines (B) some wondrous lines (C)_ some funny linesT 5SC 54 Question Papers and Activity Sheets fi, On reading the lines, the poet : (A) grinned from ear to ear (B) laughed as though he'd die (C) felt that he was queer (A3)_ Write the rhyme scheme of the poem. ® (B) Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given Ee Paragraph format, : : Tremember the night my mother ‘was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours of steady rain had driven him to craw! beneath a sack of rice. Parting with hi of diabolic tail he risked the 1 poison ~ flash n the dark room ~ 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 sit 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 desite, 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, Afier twenty hours it lost its sting. My mother only said ‘Thank God the scorpion picked on me ‘And spared my children, -NissimT English Kumarb Qs ‘You can use the follo 1g points for writing the appreciation of the given poem. i Title (A) Poet (Av) Rhyme scheme iO) Figures of Speech Q ‘Theme/central idea (At least 2 to 3 lines) @ Section IV: Unseen / Non-textual Passages (Reading Skills, Vocabulary, Grammar and Summ: (A) Read the following passage and do the activities, [10 Marks} (AI) Name the following: @ i, The city that seemed as sodaswater to the narrator. ii, The country that the narrator calls home iii, ‘The country that was sort of like Arabian Ni iv, The narrator's age. ghis for the narrator | returned from the City at about three o’elock on that May afternoon, pretty well disguste with life. I had been for about three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it, The Weather made me irritable, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick. I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as Mat as sod-water that has been standing in the sun. I made me bite my lips to think of the p Bulawayo. | had got my collection of t ns [had been building up those last years in 1g Mot one oF the big ones. but good enough for me; and | had figured out all kinds of ways of enjoying mysell. My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six, and I had ne of Arabian Nights to me, and I counted on stopping there for the rest of my days, But from the first 1 was disappointed with it, In about a week. H was tired of seeing sights, and in less than a month [had had enough of restaurants and theatres. Uhad no real pal to go about with, which probably explains things. Plenty of people invited me to their houses, but they didn't seem much interested in me. They would fing me a question or two about my hometown, and then get on their own affairs. A lot of ladies asked me 0 tea (0 meet schoolmasters trom New Zealand and editors from Vancouver. and that was the most depressing business of all, Here 1 was, thirty-seven years old, sound in wind and limb, with enough money to have @ good time, yawning my head off all day. 1 had just about settled to clear out and get back to the grassland, for L was the best bored man in the United Kingdom, er been home since: so England was a sort (A2) List evidences from the passage that show that the narrator was fed up with the countryside. @) (A3)_ Use the following phrases to make meaningful sentences. @) i. to figure out ii, to have a good time (A4) Do as Directed: e) i, My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six. (Change the Voice) ii, A lot of Indies asked me to tea to meet schootm mm New ycouver (Frame a Wh-question (0 get the u nd and editors from ied part ay (he answer) (AS) Have you ever felt as bored as the narrator? How did you handle the situation (By) Ww @ ile for it, [05 Marks} a summary of the passage given Qe (A) and suggest a suitable (Section V Writing Skills) Letter Writing: Attempt any one of the folloy You are Lavin/Lavanya Sampat staying at House wlan Lane, Panchavati, Nasik Dist The youth in your locality and the other localities nearby have started taking an active in sporis activities. This has given rise to the need fora multi-purpose stadium in your districtmy ‘SSC 54 Question Papers and Activity She T E Write a letter to your friend, Sukanya, who won the 400-metre race in the inter-state sports competition held in Delhi, informing her about your decision of writing to the District Collector about the need of a multi- purpose stadium in your district. al Letter, 2. Formal Letter 1 Infor Write a letter to the District Collector, suggesting the need of a multi-purpose adium in your district. lor| Ajay Boratne District Collector, Collector's Office, Nasik. ‘ [05 Marks} Q6 (A) Information Transfer: Attempt any one of the following activities:- (Al) Non-verbal to Verbal Write a paragraph based on the following flowchart, Process of Filmmaking Development (Writing the seript) an [ Pe-reduet n (Hiring the actors and crew) \ = | Production (Planning the shooting schedule) Principal Photography (Shooting all scenes) et eee Post-Production | (Editing and Effects) — aS Distribution (Releasing | the film) | oR (A2) Verbal to Non-verb: Study the paragraph given below and prepare a bar-diagram representiny Children are very selective in their choices of fruits. A sample of 100 students from cities was asked about their fruit preferences. This is what was observed. All the 100 students accepted that they loved the most common fruit that is readily available throughout the year, namely, the banana, 80 students confessed that they loved grapes. 60 confessed that they were loyal to the ‘an apple a day’. 45 children favoured oranges, while the least, namely 20 students favoured the king of fruits, the man one of the following activitie (B) 105 Marks} (B1) Speech Writing/View-Counterview: Attempt am Speech Writing Prepare a speech to he delivered in your class duu ‘Following traffic rules can save lives’. You ing ‘Road Safety Week’ on the theme, use the following points: + Number of vehicles is increasing day by + Lack of traffic safety, Patience is key + Following rules is important for safe riding/driving, + Using the privilege of riding/driving wiselyMee T English Kumarbharati OR (B2) View-Counterview Q7 (A) Expand the Theme/News Report: Attempt any one of the following activit Prepare a counterview on the theme, ‘Many Hands M: View Everybody has unique abilities, skills and talents ‘+ The process can be finished earlier than expected ‘The work gets divided and simplified when a bunch of people are working together on a project, There is a higher chance o! - [05 Marks} (Al) Expand the Theme Expand the following proverb: ‘Silence is golden’ OR (A2) News Report @) (B1) Develop a story in about 80 to 100 word Prepare a detailed Report on the headline ‘ Vijayadashami Celebrations in Yogi Society’. Developing a story/ Narrating an experience: Attempt any one of the following activities:- 105 Marks} Juding a suitable title, with the following ending: *..and that’s how Raunak came back defeated but not discouraged.” oR (B2) Narrate an experience with the following beginning, on the topic ‘The person who changed my lif ‘Of all subjects in the school curriculum, I did well in all, except in...”