English Core ES I Set 2

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S.NO QUESTION
1. Vidya Bharti School Noida will be providing Value points :
coaching in various sports to students of various
classes. Draft a suitable notice informing Name of Organisation
students of the same. Create necessary details Notice
in not more than 50 words. You are Sumit Date
Dev/Smita Dev, Games Captain of the school Heading
[5 ] Body
Subscription
Answer to 5 Ws

Format:1
Organization of Ideas :1
Content: 2
Accuracy of Spelling &
Grammar : 1
2. Discrimination, violence and crime against Value points :
women is the harsh reality of our times. Write a Sender’s Address
letter to the editor of a daily newspaper Addressee
expressing your views You are Ravi Sethi/ Addressee’s Address
Radhika Sethi of 21/33 Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi. Subject
120-150 words [5] Salutation
Body
State the issue ,list
problems
Cause –Effect
Solutions
Conclusion

Format:1
Organization of Ideas :1
Content: 2
Accuracy of Spelling &
Grammar : 1
LITERATURE
3. The poem, ‘My Mother at Sixty-Six is full of dark Value points :
• Mother dozing –sheer
and dismal images suggestive of mother’s
fragility of body
ageing. What are the images used to describe • Mother’s face ashen like
that of a corpse

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Mother. How do they highlight the mental state • mother as old as she
looked
of the poet?
• poet tries to divert her
.[5] attention by looking
outside the car window
but energy of young
trees and merry children
heightens the physical
decline of the mother
• wan, pale , late winter’s
moon
• Poet feels the familiar
ache of childhood- fear
of mother’s passing
away. Tormented by fear
and anxiety
• Poet masks her growing
uneasiness by smiling
too much and saying,
‘see you soon Amma.’
•
Expression:2
Content: 2
Accuracy: 1
4. Charley’s psychiatrist gives him a reason • Charley unhappy
for his experience of the third level. How • Wants to escape the
modern world full of
does Charley argue that he disagrees? Do insecurity, fear, war,
you feel that the psychiatrist is right? worry etc.
• Charley feels that
everybody wants to
escape but do not
wander into the Third
Level
• Stamp collection an age-
old hobby since prewar
time. President
Roosevelt collected
stamps too
• Psychiatrist is right.
Charley sub consciously
desired regression to the
past so he ventured into
the Third Level.
• He was not frightened
but excited at the Time

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Travel. Wanted to buy

two tickets to Galesburg
Illinois of 1894
• Exchanged savings for
old styled currency
• Later he and Louisa
began to search ardently
for it
Expression:2
Content: 2
Accuracy: 1
5. Read the following extract and answer the 1X 5 =5
following questions:
While I was thinking of all this, I heard my name
called .It was my turn to recite. What would I
not have given to be able to say that dreadful
rule of the participle all through very loud and
clear, without one mistake? But I got mixed up
at my very first words and stood there holding
on to my desk,my heart beating, and not daring
to look up
I. While I was thinking of all this. Franz means
that he had been thinking of

ii. His teacher in his finery and the villagers in

the class
II. The dreadful rule of the participle is the
following figure of speech:
a) Transferred epithet

III. III Franz thinks that he would have given

everything to be able to remember the rule
of the participle because

iii He had let his teacher down

IV. The above extract brings out Franz’s
iii. Slow transformation

V. Franz does not dare to look up as he

ii. He feels sorry for not learning French

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6. Read the following extract and Answer the 1x5= 5

questions that follow
Now I don’t know why this should have
happened to me .I’m just an ordinary guy named
Charley, thirty-one years old and I was wearing
a tan gabardine suit and a straw hat with a fancy
band. I passed a dozen men who looked just like
me. And I wasn’t trying to escape from anything;
I just wanted to get home to Louisa my wife
i. He did not have an extra
i. Why does Charley call himself an
ordinary experience such as
ordinary guy with an ordinary name? Time Travel because he
was an unusual man.
ii. Where was Charley at this point in the
nothing in him warranted
story? such an experience
ii. At The Grand Central
iii. Why does Charley say he was not trying
Station to catch a train
to escape from anything? home after work
iii. His only thought was to
iv. Do you think Charley is happy with
go back home. And the
Louisa? Grand Central Station is an
exit
v. In what way is Charley not an ordinary
iv.. Yes because he was
man? going back to her and he
just wanted that ,nothing
else
v.. His determination in
proving everyone wrong.
His utter belief in himself
(Any other logical answer –
evidence based)