Specimen Activity Sheet
Std. XII English
SECTION-1
(Reading Skills, Grammar, Vocabulary, Note-mnaking and Summary) 12 Marks
(Seen extract)
Q1 (A) Read the first activity, Read the extract and then do all the activities.
A l. True / False (2)
Read the following sentences and write down true sentences.
I) Reuben wanted to buy gold necklace.
ii) He needed five dollars.
iii) Reuben's father could give him five dollars to keep the thing aside for him.
iv) Reuben requested the shopkeeper to keep thw thing aside for him.
In 1945 in Bay Roberts, Canada, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price-five dollars-was far beyond Reuben Earle's means Five dollars would buy almost a weck's groceries for his family. Reuben couldn't ask his father for the money. Everything Mark Earle made fishing, Reuben's mother, Dora, stretched like elastic to feed and clothe their five children. Nevertheless, he opened the shop's weathered door and went inside. Standing proud and straight in his flour-sack shirt and washed out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, "but I don't have the moncy now. Can you please hold it for me?" "I'l try." the shopkceper smiled. "Folks around here don't usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should keep for a while." Reuben respectfully touched his wom cap and walked out into the May sunlight.
The bay rippled in a freshening wind that ruffled his short hair. There was purpose in his loping stride. He would raise the five dollars and nott tell anybody. Hearing the sound of hammering from a side street, Reuben had an idea. He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails purchased in burlap sacks from a local factory. Sometimes the sacks were discarded in the flurry of building, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents apiece. That day he found two sacks, which he took to the rambling wooden factory and sold to the man in charge of packing nails The boy's hand tightly clutched the small five-cent pieces as he ran the two kilometers home. Near his house stood the ancient barm that housed the family's goats and chickens. Reuben found a rusty baking-soda tin and dropped his.coins inside. Then he climbed into the loft of the barn and hid the can bencath a pile of sweet-smelling hay.
A2 Find Out
Find out income sources of Mark Earle's family from the extract (2)
A3. Suggest
Read the following sentence and write down what the words folks" and 'things' suggest.
Folks around here don't usually have that kind of money to spend on things'. (2)
A4. Vocabulary
Match the words in columo A' with their meanings in column 'B'
Column " A " Column "B
1) flurry a)made waves
2) folk b) part of sea that cuts into a shoreline
3) rippled c) people
4) bay d) short sudden spell of activity
A5 . Personal Response (2)
Explain the kind of relationship that you have with your pareats.
A6. Grammar (2)
Rewrite the following sentences in the ways Instructed :
1) Reuben could not ask his father for money. (Use 'be able to)
2) Hearing the sound of hammering from aside street, Reuben bad an idea.
(Rewrite it using 'and')
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Specimen Answer Sheet
Q.1. (A) A1. True/False
ii) He needed five dollars.
iv) Reuben requested the shopkeeper to keep the thing aside for him.
A2. Find out
I) fishing
ii) tending goats and chickens
A3. Suggest
I) The folks were very poor.
ii) The things were very expensive.
A4. Vocabulary
Match the words in column 'A' with their meanings in column 'B
Column 'A' Column 'B'
1) flurry ( d) short sudden spell of activity
2) folk (c)people
3) ripped (a) made waves
4) bay b) part of sea that cuts in a shoreline.
A5. Personal Response
Accept any reasonably correct answer.
A6. Grammar
1) Reuben was unable to ask his father for money.
Reuben was not able to ask his father for money.
2) Reuben heard the sound of hammering from aside street and he had an idea.
