SECTION -A (READING)

Read carefully and quickly.

Logical reasoning

Comprehension Skim and scan the keywords.

Critical evaluation
Understand the theme.
Inference

Interpretation Analyze, interpret, infer.

Vocabulary building
Answer in your own words.

Section-A To revise lessons

To write a report
(Reading) To plan a speech
Contains facts and data ta
Faculp
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To convey a message
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Informative/descriptive in nature To make a presentation

To summarise a text.
To-the-point answers
Very short

Not written in
Summary is grammatically
prepared correct sentences
Contains opinions
/feedbacks. Main points and
4 to 5 main their supporting
Taken from fiction, Analytical in nature Answers based Argumentative/ points details given
biography, on one's persuasive maximum
autobiography, analysis and in nature. Condensed information
Systematic
travelogue, poem, etc. with judicious use of
interpretation Answers based on one’s arrangement abbreviations
understanding and of points
reasoning

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Disseminating information
Simple but formal language
Clear and brief
Complete information
Written in third person
T
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or to inviteEyecatching

Use slogansEssentialdetailsonlyPersuasivelanguageOnetheme

Publi c announcementsNon-
personal Persuasi veinnat ureEyecat chi ngSi mpl eand
fact uall anguage

Concise

Info
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Name of host

Informal language
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Written in a box

Formal language
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Written in first person

Written in a letter form

Date, time, venue given
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Occasion /function stated

Written in third person
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Date, time, venue given

Occasion/function stated
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poverty and traditions in the Saheb- Ragpicker, of France who put off learning and one
life of a rag picker and a bangle Mukesh-Bangle Maker day realise that their mother-tongue,
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maker which force them to lead (Characters)
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a life of exploitation.
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trapped in the forest, meets the iron- (Genre)
master who mistakes him for his friend Gandhiji, Poets and Pancakes tells about the make
and takes him home for Christmas. His Rajkumar 'Indigo throws light on the problems faced up division of Gemini Studies which was
daughter's kindness transforms the peddler Shukla by sharecroppers and Gandhiji's steps to an example of national integration. People
completely and he leaves his old ways. (Characters) help them come out of the fear from many religions and regions worked
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Helplessness
Kamala Das
Weakness Adrienne Rich (Poet)
(Tone of the poem) (Poet) Sad
The poem depicts the picture of the woman Fear of permanent loss
who suffers greatly at the hands of her
husband. (Tone of the poem)
It throws light on Aunt Jennifer who gives The poem comments
vent to her feelings by embroidering tigers on the relationship between
on a panel a mother and her daughter
(Theme) when they cannot afford
to be together for long.
(Theme)
The poem presents the
lives of poor people (the stall owners on the
roadside) who find it different to make both Stephen Splender
ends meet. They wait for city people to buy (Poet)
their wares.
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(Theme) Literature Compassionate
(Flamingo) Empathetic
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and a feeling of universal harmony
According to the poet, a thing of can solve a lot of our problems. The
beauty is a source of joy forever. poet tries to convey the importance
It takes all kinds of sadness from of quiet introspection and feeling
our minas and fills us with happness of brotherhood
(Theme) (Theme)
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Extract1- Author shares her childhood memory
when her hair was shingled forcefully.
The author describes how he found himself on the
Extract2- Author shares her childhood memory
third level at the Grand central station. Almost everyone
when she learned about untouchability
said that there were only two levels. His psychiatrist
which disgusted her.
friend called it 'a waking dream' wish fulfillment which
(Theme)
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in 'O' level examination Despite all
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authorities, Evans escaped, using his
cleverness. (Theme)
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(Characters) John Updike
An old man Mr. Lamb shows the
Susan Hill (Author) During the World-War II, a Japanese
right way of judging men, taught a (Playwright) Doctor finds an injured American
positive attitude towards life to Father narrates a story to his
young Derry, who was filled with
self-pity and pessimism (Theme)
daughter, to make her realise the
importance of originality and
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individuality. It also suggests that no one Father-Jack
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soldier and decides to save his life
and later helps him escape to freedom.
(Theme)

should be ashamed of his .Mother-Clare

Daughter-Jo
natural attributes. (Characters)
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