Std- Xll English [ Writing Skill ]

                         Std- Xll English 
        SECTION- D  Writing Communication

Q.7 (A Framing  Interview Questions : (4)

  Imagine you are going to interview some  important personality prepare set of 8 -10 questions focusing on his/her social behaviour and the activities he/she carries out.

  Ans:  The  social activist Tessa Sadhaha has been in the news for her stand on child abuse and infanticide. if I get a chance to interview her I will ask her the following questions. 

  Madam, you are a daring activist and nothing seems to worry you, except  your fight for Justice.

1] Tell me something about your childhood?

2] What kind of causes did you fight for?

3]  What did you give up a lucrative  career as a lawyer for this?

4] What is your source of inspiration?

5] Why have you focused  your attention on child abuse?

6] What have you done to promote social justice?

7] Your personal life takes back seat, with the kind of work you do. Do you have any regrets?

8] What advice would you give teenagers?

    Thank you for your co-operation.

       Scheme of Marking

      * Questions relevant to

        the situation  -                  2 mark 

     * Proper sequence-            1 mark

     * Accuracy of language -  1 mark

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                   * Total -                 4  marks

Bhiniputra's GORPAN: The Linguistic Beauty In Gor-boli Dialect

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   "Bhimniputra's Gorpan: The Linguistic Beauty In Gor-Boli Dialect"  
 ( International Book)

                  © By-Prof. Dinesh Sewa. Rathod

                                  ( Author /Analyst)
                                       Shakti Nagar,
                            Near Ganpati Nagar Part-1

                         Malkapur Di- Buldana 443101

Dear All English Professors and All Gor-Banjara Brothers

    I am glad to inform you that I belong to Banjara community & Gor-Boli is our  dialect as spoken by almost 12 crore banjara peoples in India and it is  as ancient as Indian other languages. Though Gor-Boli is having no written script but it fulfil all the criterias of language like English, Hindi, and Marathi. It is surviving through the speakers of Gor-Banjara community of the country. Gor-Banjaras  of different part of India have regional language influence on their language and tradition. Hence some Gor-Banjaras who are living in Hindi language fold are detached with Gor-Boli. They incorporated Hindi culture and Hindi language.

 It was influenced by the north Indian languages like Hindi,Kadiboli,Marathi,

Konkani, Apabrhamsh and other similar languages. I have researched and concluded  that , only British scholars who have tried to study the outer sphere of Gor-Boli. There are several reasons for that we had few scholars who could study our language and culture then. Now, I have tried somewhat to formulate a research on Gor-Boli, Gor-Banjara's enriched folk literature, culture  as well as glorious history  and came out with a book, "Gorpan: The Linguistic  Beauty In Gor-Boli Dialect" Where I have  critically analysed & exclusively elaborated it into English labguage to place, update and introduce Gor-Banjara culture, folk literature and Gor-Boli at global platform in this global and modern era. I hope this book will attract the attention of linguists, scholars and intellectuals in India too. 

   I  know, Gor-Boli is associated with our enriched culture, history and ethnic identity. The Gor-Banjara / Lamanis and Roma-Gypsy Banjara communities have its own ethnic and nomadic account, language, culture and history around the globe. Therefore, Gor-Boli is both distinctive and figurative language as one of the main seeds of Gor-Banjara's ethnic identity and it proves our  ancient history. In this context, I not only typically analyzed it  but  exclusively elaborated Gor-Banjara concept, Folk literature, Tandas living system  and therefore, book is an elaborate disquisition on Gor-Boli seems to be fundamental to all points. Person and language is a remarkable formula in social, geographical and cultural context. Literally, by setting the centre of Gor-Boli in linguistics, this book illustrates the excellence of Gor-Banjara, land,  geography and emotions. Hence book is getting many readers and recognition in the world and being sold at large scale  as it is available on onlile  international web portals, viz, bluerose, Amazon, Flipcrat and Shopclues. To the new linguists and those who want to access language space, I hope, the book will  certainly helpful them and  may  power to impact authentic knowledge and information.

   Hence, readers are not only  expected to read this book but to write their own analysis with proper interpretation in about 500 to 2000 words or  and send it with photographs and detail address on my e-mail id. 
profdineshrathod@gmail.com

Your articles will be published in the edited book and this Ed. book will be submitted to the Govt.Of India

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Rapid Reading - The Daisy

                                                                                                      Rapid Reading :  The Daisy 

Q.5. (A)  Read the following extract and do the activities that follow it :                                                                                                (4)

      The poor bird was lamenting: its lost liberty and betting it's wings against the wires: and the little busy could not speak or utter consoling  word, much as it would have liked to do so. So the forenoon  passed. "I have no water", said the captive lark. "they have all gone out and forgotten to give me anything to drink".  My throat is dry and burning. I feel as if I had fire and ice within me and the day and the year is so oppressive. Alas! I must die,  and  part with the warm  sunshine; the fresh  green meadows, and all the beauty that God has created," And you trust its beak into the piece of grass, to refresh itself a little. Then it noticed  the little dizzy and nodded to it,  and kissing with its beak and said:  "You must also fade in here, poor little flower. You and the piece of grass are all they have given me in exchange for the whole world, which I enjoyed outside. Each little blade of grass shall be a green tree for me, each of your white petals a fragrant  flower. Alas!  You only remind me of what I have lost".

    "I wish I could console the poor lark". thought the  daisy. It could not move one of its leaves but the fragrance of its delicate petals streamed forth, and was much stronger than such flower usually have;  the bird notice it, although it was dying with thirst, and its pain tore uo  the green blades of grass, but did not touch the flower.

A1: Choose the most appropriate statements related to the theme of the extract.                                                                                        (2)

 i) This extract is about sacrifice for true love.

ii)  It is about the bird and the cage.

iii) It is about sunshine and the beauty of the nature.

iv)  it is about love between lark and daisy

A2:  Provide a different ending to the extract in about 50 words.

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A1: i) This extract is about sacrifice for true 

      iv) It is about love between lark and  daisy 

A2:  The bird and the daisy remained speechless. The bird was on the brink of death. Partying with daisy was against the will of the bird. Though  the bird was dying it kissed  the flower  The daisy was helpless so It couldn't move forward and give out  fragrance to console the bird. It is an ideal story based on spiritual love.

        Relevance, novelty  and creative 

                  writing -  1 mark 

    Use of language, 

     vocabulary     -   1 mark

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                       Total-  2  marks

                                                                              Compiled by- Prof. D.S. Rathod  [Moderator]

                                                                                             Mpl. J. College of Arts & Science, 

                         Malkapur Di-Buldana                                  http://profdineshrathod.blogspot.com

Rapid Reading- The Daisy

Rapid Reading-- The Daisy

                       STD-Xll  English
                                                                             Rapid Reading
Q. 5 (A) and (B) both carry 4 marks each. The following activities may be used for both Q. 5 (A) and 5(B)
                                                                                                      The Daisy 

Q. Read the following extract and do the activities that follows:
 ....(I have no water.... sorrowfully p. 172)
 1. Select and explain the most appropriate title to the theme of the extract and explain its significance                            (2)
a) The unrequited love
b) The  triangle love
c) Love  that  knows sacrifice

2.  Provide imaginary ending                                                                                                                                                                  (2)
Provide a  different ending to the extent in about 50 words.

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                                                                                 Model Answers

(1) Select and Explain
   Title: Love that knows  sacrifice
  Without water the bird was dying. It felt sad to part with the daisy. Though it was  dying it kissed  the little daisy. The daily tried to move forward to the bird but it couldn't. Then it gave out its fragrance  to console the bird. The love between the bird and the flower is an example of a union of the true  soul.
   Title  -            1 Mark
  Significance -1 Mark
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                           2  Marks

(2)  Provide imaginary ending:
     Though the bird tore up the grass, it could not get any relief. It was completely exhausted and it sat on the floor of the cage. Suddenly it heard  the whistling of The watchman. It collected all its  surviving strength and gave a loud cry for minutes together, the watchman opened  the gate, saw  the dying bird and rushed for water and save it.
 Novelty-  1 Mark
 Style-        1 Mark
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                  2 Marks                                                                   
                Compiled by-  Prof. D.S.Rathod             Mpl. J. College of Arts & Science, Malkapur
                     Di-Buldana

Figure of speech

*FIGURES OF SPEECH*

Figure-of-Speech may be classified as under:

1. Those based on resemblance
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Apostrophe

2. Those based on Contrast:
• Antithesis
• Epigram
* Oxymoron
* Paradox

3. Those based on Association:
• Metonymy
• Synecdoche

4. Those depending on Construction:
• Climax
• Anticlimax

*1. ALLITERATION :* Alliteration refers to the repetition of of an initial consonant sound, at least three times in a sentence. 

*EXAMPLES :*
• A peck of pickled peppers
• Don't delay dawns disarming display. Dusk demands daylight.
• Sara's seven sisters slept soundly in sand.
 • Sally sells sea shells by the seashore”

*2. SIMILE :*  In Simile, a comparison is made between two object of different kinds which have at least one point in common. The Simile is introduced by the word ‘as…as’ or 'like'.

“Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get”

*EXAMPLES:*
• As active as quicksilver
• As afraid as a grasshopper
• As ageless as the sun
• As agile as a cat
• As agile as a monkey
• As alert as a bird
• As alike as two peas
• As alone as a leper
• As alone as Crusoe
• As ambitious as the devil

*3. METAPHOR :* An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common (as if two things were one.)

*EXAMPLES:*
• The camel is the ship of the desert.
• Life is a dream.
• The news was a dragger to his heart.
• Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
• “My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill”

*** *NOTE* : Every SIMILE can be compressed into a METAPHOR, and Every METAPHOR can be expanded into a SIMILE.

*EXAMPLES:*
• Tanaji fought as fiercely as a loin. (Simile)
• Tanaji was a lion in the fight. (Metaphor)

• The waves thundered on the shore. (Metaphor)
• The waves broke on the shore with noise like a thunder. (Simile)

•My love is like a red, red rose,
 That's newly sprung in June. (Simile)
• Love is a rose but you better not pick it. (Metaphor)

*4. ANTITHESIS :* In Antithesis, a striking opposition or contrast of words or sentiments is made in the same sentence. It is employed to secure emphasis.

*EXAMPLES:*
• Man proposes, but God disposes.
• Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more.
• Speech is silver, but Silence is Gold.
• Many are called, but few are chosen.
• To err is human, but to forgive on divine.

*5. OXYMORON :* A figure of speech in which  contradictory terms appear side by side or at once of the same thing.

*EXAMPLES:*
• She accepted it as the kind cruelty of surgeon’s knife.
• It is an open secret.

*6. PARADOX :* A statement that appears to contradict itself in the same sentence.

*EXAMPLES :*
“War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery.” Though we know these things aren’t true, they present an interesting paradox that makes a person think seriously about what they have just read or heard.

*7. IRONY :* The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.  It is often used to poke fun at a situation that everyone else sees as a very serious matter.

*EXAMPLES :*
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

 *8. APOSTROPHE :*  An Apostrophe is a direct address to the dead, to the absent, or to a personified object or idea. This figure is a special form of Personification.

*EXAMPLES:*
• Milton! You should not be living at this hour.
• Friend! I know not which way I must look for comfort.
• Roll on! Thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll.
• Death! Where is thy sting? O Grave! Where is thy victory?

 *9. EUPHEMISM :* Euphemism consists in the description of a disagreeable thing by an agreeable name.

*EXAMPLES:*
• You are telling me a fairy tale. (You are telling me lies)
• He is gone to heaven. (He is dead)
•We have to let you go. (You're fired.)
•You're well fed. (You're fat.)

*10. HYPERBOLE :* Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

*EXAMPLES:*
• Why, man, if the river is dry, I am able to fill it with tears.
• Hmalet! You have not cleft my heart in twain.
•“It was as big as a mountain! It was faster than a cheetah! It was dumber than a rock!”

*11. SYNECDOCHE :* A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole

*EXAMPLES :*
ABCs for alphabet or the whole for a part
England won the World Cup in 1966.
Seeing eyes, helping hands.

*12. ONOMATOPOEIA :* This is the use of a word that actually sounds like what it means.

Onomatopoeia (pronounced ON-a-MAT-a-PEE-a) refers to words (such as bow-wow and hiss ) that imitate the sounds
   
Good examples include “hiss” or “ding-dong” or “fizz.”

*13. PERSONIFICATION :* In Personification, inanimate objects and abstract notions are spoken of as having life and intelligence.

 This is a way of giving an inanimate object the qualities of a living thing.

*EXAMPLES:*
• Death lays its icy hands on King.
• Pride goes forth on horseback, grand and gay.
• Laughter is holding her both sides.
•“The tree quaked with fear as the wind approached”
•“The sun smiled down on her”

 *14. PUN :* A play on words , sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

A form of wordplay using similar sounding words.

*EXAMPLES:*
 “The wedding was so emotional that even the cake was in tiers (tears).”

“Two silk worms had a race and ended in a tie.” - A “tie” can of course either be when neither party wins, but in this pun also refers to the piece of clothing usually made from silk.

“Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert? Because he can eat the sand which is there. But what brought the sandwiches there? Why, Noah sent Ham, and his descendants mustered and bred.” - There are several separate puns, including the pun on “sand which” and “sandwich,” as well as “Ham” (a Biblical figure) and “ham” and the homophonic puns on “mustered”/“mustard” and “bred”/“bread.”

*15. METONYMY :* A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it's closely associated. Metonyms make associations or substitutions.

In some ways it can be seen as a nickname for something else.
However, we all understand the meaning, and so the words are interchangeable.

*EXAMPLES:*
 The place name "Bollywood," has become a metonym for the Hindi film industry.

Using the word “crown” for “king or queen” or “lab coats” for “scientists”.

“The White House said” doesn’t actually mean the White House said it (a house can’t speak!) but that the President of America (who lives in The White House)  said it.

*16. RHETORICAL QUESTION :*  A rhetorical question is a question that is asked not to get an answer, but instead to emphasize a point. They are often used to elicit thought and understanding on the part of the listener or reader.

*EXAMPLES :*
 "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

We also use rhetorical questions in common speech, such as the following statements:

Sure, why not?
Who knew?
Does it look like I care?
Are you kidding me?
Do birds fly?
Is the sky blue?

Unit Test Std.Xll English

Unit Test No. 1
Time – 1.30 Hours Std. XII Marks – 25
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Q.1 (A) Read the extract and do the activities that follow below. (08)

If you accept counsel without getting sore
And re-assess yourself in the light thereof
If you pledge not to be obstinate any more
And meet others without any frown or scoff.
You may be the person I am looking for.
If you have the will to live and courage to die
You are a beacon-light for people far and wide
If you ignore the jeers and, thus, expose the lie
‘That virtue and success do not go side by side.’
You are the person I am looking for.
A.1 Complete the web. (2)

Complete the web giving any four things to do to become an idol.
A2. Poetic Device (2)
 Write the rhyming pairs from the extract.
A3. Personal Response (2)
 Explain your own views why we need an idol or a role model in the society.
You may begin -
I think a role model

A4. Poetic creation (2)

 You are a beacon-light for people far and wide.
 (Frame two new lines to match the rhyming words)
 Hints- guide, ride, pride, hide, side, died etc.
Q.1 (A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities. (12)

A 1. Complex Factual (2)
Complete the information from the extract.
1) The choices to see our cities in 2020 will be ----------or-------------
2) The two key requirements of a city are ----------------and------------
3) -------------------------have reasonably good master plans.
4) --------------must be proactively involved in master plans.
Extract – In just a few--------- facilities too.
(Text Page No. 63 and 64)
A2.Interpretation (2)
 Write the ways to make our cities livable.
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A3. Guessing (2)
 The narrator says we are at a crucial juncture as far as urbanism goes.
 Guess its reasons.
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A4.Vocabulary. (2)
 Match the columns.
1) amalgamation a) disorganized
2) chaotic b) realistic
3) surged c) mix or blend
4) pragmatic d) increased
A5. Personal Response. (2)
 Write your idea about the new needs of city people.
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A6. Grammar (2)
Do as directed.
1) A city must provide equality and also be sustainable.
 (Rewrite using not only -----but also)

2) The first requirement for a city is a pragmatic plan.
 (Choose the correct wh- question from the following alternative that gives underlined words
as answer)
a) Why is the first requirement of a city?
b) What is a pragmatic plan?
c) What is the first requirement for a city?
d) Where is the first requirement for a city?

Q.3. Write a leaflet on Yoga class. Use the following points. (4)
 a) Give importance of Yoga
 b) Venue
 c) Time of the class
 d) Fees
Q.4. Write homophones for---- (1)
a) wood -
b) cot -
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