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INTERNATIONAL INDIAN SCHOOL, RIYADH

CLASS - XII

WORKSHEET OF ENGLISH II TERM 2009

(Prose ( Main Rdr.)

Answer the following questions in about 125-150 words each.

1. Talk about any interview you watched on television or read in a newspaper.

How did it add to your understanding of the celebrity, the interviewer and
the field of the celebrity? [NCERTJ 10 ]
Mark : 10
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2.

The medium you like best for an interviewprint, radio, or television.

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Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words each.

Mark: 02
1.What kind of a person was Evans?
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2. What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?
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3.
What request did the Secretary of the Examination Board receive from
the Governor of Oxford prison?
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4.
What facts about Evans did the Governor of Oxford Prison not reveal to
the Secretary of the Examination Board?
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Prose ( Supp. Rdr.)
Answer the following questions in about 125-150 words each.
Mark: 07
1. The two accounts that you have read above are based in two distant
cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
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2. It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of
rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form
cannot escape being noticed even by children?
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Poetry

Mark : 10

1. Read the following stanza carefully and answer the questions that
follow.
Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree:
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
(a) Name the poem and the poet of these lines.
(b) What are Aunt Jennifer's tigers doing? How do they look like?
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(c) Where do they live? Are they fearless? Give an example.

(d) Find words from the stanza which mean:
(i) jump ahead (ii) dwellers (iii) honourable and brave.
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Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words each.

1. How do denizens and chivalric add to our understanding of the tigers
attitude?
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2. Why do you think Aunt Jennifers hands are fluttering through her
wool in the second stanza? Why is she finding the needle so hard to
pull?
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3. What is suggested by the image massive weight of uncles wedding
band?
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PROSE

Mark: 02

1. Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?
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2. What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of? Why does Jansie
discourage her from having such dreams?
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3. Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met
Danny Casey?
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4. Does Geoff believe what Sophie says about her meeting with Danny
Casey?
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5. Does her father believe her story?
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Long Composition

Mark : 10

1. Draft an application for the post of an accountant in Pioneers (Pvt:) Ltd

Co. Hyderabad in response to their advertisement that appeared in The
Times of India dated Ist August 200x.Prepare a biodata to be
enclosed.You are Nipun/Aparna?
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2. The Manager, ICICI Bank, Lucknow requires a few Business
Development Managers, for the credit card section. Write an application
for the post, offering your services, giving your biodata.You are
Pritham/Priti, Nirala nagar, Lucknow.
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Short Composition

Mark: 05

1. You are Ranjeet/Rekha of 751, greater kailash, New Delhi. You want to sell the
first floor of your newly constructed house.Draft an advertisement in not more
than 50 words for Publication in The Indian Express under their classified
column, marked,property. Include all relevant details like location, type of
accommodation and contact address, including telephone number etc.
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2. You are Rohit of 115, Rajour Road, Delhi. You want to sell a portion of your
Bungalow. Write a suitable Advertisement (is not more than 50 words) to be
published in the classified columns of a newspaper.
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3. You are a computer engineer well versed in hardware and software techniques
prepare a suitable advertisement in not more than 50 words for the situations
wanted column offering your services on part-time base
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4. Sports line is a fortnightly sports and features magazine which is offering a 20
per cent discount as well as a gift on subscription for a year. Draft an
advertisement for the same using not more than 50 words
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PROSE (MAIN RDR.)

MARK : 10

Answer the following questions in about 100 words each.

1. I have done something; oh, god! Ive done something real at last. Why
does Andrew say this? What does it mean?
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2. There lies a great difference between textbook medicine and the world of a
practicing physician. Discuss
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3. Do you know any incident when someone has been brought back to life from the
brink of death through medical help? Disscuss medical prodcedures such as
organ transplant and organ regeneration that are used to save human life?
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4. Why was Andrew Manson called in? How did he react to the call of duty?
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Short write task

1. While returning

mark: 04

from school you saw a procession of housewives and some

political activists carrying banners and placards and shouting slogans against
the price-rise of LPG and other petroleum products. Attempt a factual
description of this demonstration by women in 80100 words.
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2. You were traveling from Delhi to Jammu in a Super Fast Express.
Suddenly at night the train stopped with a violent jerk. On coming out of the
coach you found that the train had rammed into a stationary goods train.
Describe the accident in 80-100 words mentioning the following points:

Date-Time-Venue-impact of accident-relief
reactions of passengers & railway staff.

measures-probable

causes-

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3. You were waiting for your school bus at Mayur Vihar stop. Suddenly a
motor cyclist came towards the queue of persons waiting for DTC bus. The
youngman snatched the necklace and the purse from a lady. Describe the
incident (in 80-100 words) mentioning the following points:
Date-Time-Venue-people who were waiting-the motor cyclist's descriptionregistration no. of vehicle-the act of snatching-riding away-reactions of the
lady and others. 4
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4 Vivekanand Model School, Vinay Nagar organised a picnic of senior

students to Badkhal Lake last Sunday. Describe the highlights of the

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excursion as well as the main features of your pleasure trip in 80-100 words.
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Grammar

Mark 8

1. In the following passage, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing
word (a modal) along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it
as given in the example.
We thank our elders for our comfort.
They bear hardships that we not suffer.
We not be ungrateful to our friends either.
They be miles apart now, but they are
close to our hearts. We not sing songs in
their praise, but we be a bit considerate
towards the elders. We show love and affection
to youngers. This way we save many needless
regrets. I hope you be more careful
in future.

Eg: We must thank

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2. In the following passage, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the
missing word (a modal) along with the word that comes before and the word that
comes after it as given in the example.
It was decided that I go abroad for
further studies. I knew my grandmother be upset.
I be away for five long years and
at her age one never tell. But my
grandmother, though she didn't say so.
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e.g. I should go
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She not stop praying. As she kissed my forehead,

I felt it be our last meeting. She looked as
old as she be. I prayed to God that
I be able to see her on my return.

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(e) ___________
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