English Paper 2010 -Class X

                              ENGLISH 2010 (Course B)

                             SECTION B – (Writing)

3. You are the sports secretary of your school. There will be a football match between Jawahar School and your school. Put up a notice on the notice board asking students who are interested in joining the team to come for selection. Write the notice in not more than 50 words.

4. You are P.A. to Mr. Sharma, secretary of T.K. Group of Institutions. He wants you to draft a message to be sent to all schools in his group. Using the following notes left by him, draft the message in not more than 50 words. Do not add any new information.

·        Principals, Vice Principals – attend meeting

·        At the corporate office

·        10 a.m. 22^nd April

·        Topic of discussion – conduct of interschool cultural competitions

5.You are Rajat/ Rashmi living at 10, Dilshad Garden, Delhi. As you commute to school, you happen to see garbage heaped on the roadsides spilling into drains causing them to overflow. As a concerned citizen, write a letter in 150-175 words to the editor of a newspaper on the need for civic sense among the people. Use the notes given below.

• Garbage free environment
• Health hazards
• Outbreak of epidemics
• Children to be educated in civic sense from a young age.

6.The picture given below shows (Mobile phones – email & internet-FM radio-

   Still/Video imaging- 3D gaming- Personal organizer) the change in lifestyle brought about by the technology of today. But it has also brought with it a lot of negativities.

  

Write an article in 15-175 words for a magazine on how technology is being over-used by the youth of today. Use ideas from unit on ‘Science’ and your own ideas. You are Kavi / Kusum.

 

SECTION C – (Grammar)

7. Look at the notes given below and complete the paragraph that follows. Do not add any new information. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.

Mrs. Gupta – alone - flat – a man knocked – opens – three men enter – Revolvers – tied up – Jewellery worth 50000 – disconnect telephone

Mrs. Gupta was (a) ___________  . A man knocked at her front door. When she opened the door (b) _________________ .  At gunpoint they tied up Mrs. Gupta and (c) ___________________ worth Rs 50,000/-. They also (d) __________ .

8.The passage below has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. The first one is done as an example.

People should think twice when they              e.g. when before

Adopt a pet. Pets became adopted                (a)

member of the family. One cannot                 (b)

think at ill-treating them.                             (c )

They had to be given wholesome                   (d)

Food. In case they fell sick                            (e)

They should be taken for a vet.                      (f)

Some people acquire pet and                         (g)

now neglect them.                                       (h)

9. Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences. The first one has been done as an example. Write the answers against the correct blank numbers in your answer sheet.

Join college / decided to / at the / I / thirty-five / age of 

I decided to join college at the age of thirty- five

(a) worried / to work/ about / my ability / not / I was

(b) confused teenager / not a / grown-up / was a / woman and / I

(c ) I realized / than me / the teenagers / very soon / that / better / were

(d) had all their / bright condition / they still / classroom skills in

10. Fill in the blanks in the following passage with one word only in each blank. Write the correct word in your answer sheet against the correct blank number.

The people in the restaurant seemed (a) __________ lonely as the place itself. Two men (b) ____________ untidy work shirts sat at the counter, staring wearily (c) _______ cups of coffee. I thought  that they (d) ____________ shift workers (e) _________, for some reason, didn’t want to go home. A little away (f) __________ them sat a couple. The man was staring into space, idly tapping his spoon (g) _____________ the table while the woman drew aimless parallel lines on her paper napkin (h) _______, a fork.

11.Read the conversation given below and complete the passage that follows. Write the answers against the correct blank numbers. Do not copy the whole numbers.

Anil :Why is there such a big crowd on that street ?

Ravi : A new shop selling sports goods is opening today.

Anil :Is a film star doing the opening ceremony?

Ravi : I heard that Sachin Tendulkar is inaugurating it.

Anil asked  Ravi (a) ________. Ravi replied that a new shop (b) ____________. Anil enquired (c) _________________. Ravi told him that (d) _______________.

SECTION D – ( Literature)

12. Read the extract give below and answer the questions that follow. Write the answers in your answer sheet in one or two lines only. Number the answers correctly.

Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart.

(a)Name the poem and the poet.

(b)How does the speaker spend his time ?

(c) What does ‘pink, with speckles’ mean?

13.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write the answers in your answer sheet in one or two lines only. Number the answers correctly.

Other creatures loathed his voice,

But, alas, they had no choice,

And e crass cacophony

Blared out from the sumac tree

(a)Who is the singer referred to here?

(b)How did the other creatures react to the song?

(c) What does ‘crass cacophony’ mean?

OR

May he sit still, they said.

May the sin of your previous birth

Be burned away tonight, they said.

(a)Who are ‘they’?

(b)Why had they come to the poet’s house?

(c) What do their words tell us about them?

14. Answer the following in 50-75 words.

How does ‘Ode to the West Wind’ reveal the characteristics of an ode?

OR

What traits of the ancient mariner’s character are revealed in the poem, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’s’?

15. Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow in one or two lines only.

You know not what you do: do not consent

That Antony speak in his funeral :

Know you how much the people may be moved

By that which he will utter?

(a)Who advises whom? Whose ‘funeral’ is referred to?

(b)What light do these words throw on the character of the speaker?

16. Answer the following in 50-75 words.

Pick out instances from the play, ‘A Christmas Carol’ to bring out the most attractive traits of Tiny Tim’s personality.

OR

How did Antony convince the Roman mob that Caesar was not ambitious?

17. Answer  the following in 50 – 75 words.

What information does Ch-tsal  give Christopher about his planet in the lesson, ‘ Cutie Pie’ ?

OR

Describe the circumstances under which Ali, the hunter, becomes the embodiment of love and patience.

18. Answer the following in 150-175 words.

As Babuli’s second brother, make a diary entry on the night after the partition, expressing your opinion about the actions of your brothers.

OR

Imagine that you are the grandfather in ‘The Ultimate Safari’. You have arrived at the camp. Make a diary entry on the hardships you had undergone in the Kruger Park.