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Artifical Intelligence Class 10th
Artifical Intelligence Class 10th
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
QUESTION BANK – CLASS 10
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO AI: FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS
True/False:
1. A machine is artificially intelligent when it can accomplish tasks by itself. (True)
2. Is a smart washing machine an example of an Artificially Intelligent devices? (False)
3. Platforms like Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, YouTube etc. show us recommendations on the
basis of what we like. (True)
Direct Question:
1. What do you understand by linguistic Intelligence?
Linguistic intelligence means intelligence to understand and interpret human natural
language and try to extract meaning out of it.
OR
Linguistic Intelligence refers to the ability of an individual to understand both written
and spoken language and the additional ability to write and speak the language too.
OR
This is the intelligence of language and communication. It includes the ability to speak,
articulate, and express, and convey one’s thoughts and feelings to the outside world in
one or more languages. This can be at an oral and written level. It also includes the
ability to listen to and to understand other people.
3. Mention four examples of machines that are not AI but confused with AI.
Or
Mention four examples of machines that are smart but not AI.
Automatic gates in shopping malls / remote control drones/ a fully automatic washing
machine/ Air Conditioner/ Refrigerator/ Robotic toy cars/ Television etc.
1. What is Intelligence? Explain in brief any three types of intelligence that are
mainly perceived by human beings?
Intelligence is the ‘ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge
to be applied towards adaptive behavior within an environment or context.’
OR
Intelligence is the ability to interact with the world (speech, vision, motion,
manipulation), ability to model the world and to reason about it, ability to learn, ability
to make decisions and to adapt.
OR
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: It involves abstract reasoning, mental
representation, problem solving, and decision making, the ability to learn, emotional
knowledge, creativity, and adaptation to meet the demands of the environment
effectively.
2. Differentiate between what is AI and what is not AI with the help of an example?
AI Machine Not AI machine
1. AI machines are trained with data 1. Smart machines which are not AI, do
and algorithm. not require training data, they work on
2. AI machines learn from mistakes and algorithms only.
experience. They try to improvise on 2. Smart machines work on fixed
their next iterations. algorithms and they always work with
3. AI machines can analyses the the same level of efficiency, which is
situation and can take decisions programmed into them.
While we see a lot of AI applications around us, there still exist a lot of them which are
smart but not intelligent.
An AI enabled machine should not only recognize, but should also do something with
its gathered information. Artificial intelligence” must mean a human-made interface
with the power to reason and integrate knowledge. AI must demonstrate at least some
of the following behaviors associated with human intelligence: planning, learning,
reasoning, problem solving, knowledge representation, perception, motion,
manipulation and, to a lesser extent, social intelligence, and creativity.
Most IOT items are ordinary things outfitted with sensors and connected to the
Internet. For example, sensors in your office can recognize shadows or movements,
but that doesn’t make them an example of artificial intelligence. A fully automatic
washing machine can work on its own, but it requires human intervention to select the
parameters of washing and to do the necessary preparation for it to function correctly
before each wash, which makes it an example of automation, not AI.
3. How can AI be integrated with non-AI technologies? Explain with the help of an
example.
Today’s world is changing with the adoption of IOT (Internet of Things). IOT is helping
in prominently capturing a tremendous amount of data from multiple sources. The
convergence of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IOT can redefine the way industries,
business, and economies function. AI enabled IoT creates intelligent machines that
simulate smart behavior and supports decision making with little or no human
interference.
While IOT provides data, artificial intelligence acquires the power to unlock responses,
offering both creativity and context to drive smart actions. Here are some examples:
Ex. 1: Self-driving Cars: Tesla’s self-driving cars are the best example of IoT and AI
working together. With the power of AI, self-driving cars predict the behavior
of pedestrians and cards in various circumstances. For example, they can
determine road conditions, optimal speed, weather and getting smarter with
each trip.
Ex. 2: Robots in Manufacturing: Manufacturing is one of the industries that already
embraced new technologies like IoT, artificial intelligence, facial recognition,
deep learning, Robots and many more. Robots employed in factories are
turning smarter with the support of implanted sensors, which facilitates data
transmission. Moreover, as the robots are provisioned with artificial
intelligence algorithms, they can learn from newer data. This approach not only
saves time and cost but also makes the manufacturing process better over time.
*Any one example from above or any other matching example can be given
4. Read the given scenario and answer the questions that follow:
A farmer keeps rabbits in three large hutches that stand in a row in his backyard.
Each of the hutches is painted different colours – red, yellow and green. Until
recently, the number of rabbits in the green hutch was twice as large as the
number of rabbits in the yellow hutch. Then, one day, the farmer took five rabbits
out of the left-side hutch and gave them away to the local school’s pet corner. He
also took half of the rabbits that remained in the left-side hutch and moved them
to the red hutch.
a. What was the colour of the left-side hutch? Justify your answer with
explanation.
The answer is yellow.
Explanation: As we already know at the outset the number of rabbits in the green
hutch was twice as large as the number of rabbits in the yellow hutch. This means that
the number of rabbits in the green hutch was an even number. After the farmer
removed five rabbits from the left side hutch, then the number of rabbits that
remained there also became an even number. This is proven by the fact that it was
divisible by 2. Therefore, before those five were removed, the left side hutch contained
an uneven number of rabbits hence the left side hutch cannot be the green one, but
based on the given information, it cannot be the red one. Hence it is yellow.
5. A scenario is given to you below. Read it and answer the questions that follow:
Late one night, a car ran over a pedestrian in a narrow by street and drove away
without stopping. A policeman who saw the vehicle leave the scene of the accident
reported it moving at very high speed. The accident itself was witnessed by six
bystanders. They provided the following conflicting accounts of what had
happened:
- It was a blue car driven by a man;
- The car was moving at high speed and its headlights were turned off;
- The car did have license plates; it wasn’t going very fast;
- It was a Toyota and its headlights were turned off;
- The car didn’t have license plates; the driver was a woman;
- It was a grey Ford.
When the car and its driver were finally apprehended, it turned out that only one
of the six eyewitnesses gave a fully correct description. Each of the other five
provided one true and one false piece of information. Keeping that in mind, can
you determine the following:
Explanation: Out of the statements of 6 bystanders, the third statement becomes false
as the policeman who saw the vehicle leave the scene of the accident reported it
moving at very high speed. Then eliminating all false statements of bystanders, the
above results can be extracted.
6. A firefighter has to get to a burning building as quickly as he can. There are three
paths that he can take. He can take his fire engine over a large hill (5 miles) at 8
miles per hour. He can take his fire engine through a windy road (7 miles) at 9
miles per hour. Or he can drive his fire engine along a dirt road which is 8 miles at
12 miles per hour. Which way should he choose? (speed=distance/time)
To reach the destination quickly, the fire fighter has to calculate the time required on
the basis of given data. Driving his fire engine 5 miles at 8 miles per hour takes 37.5
minutes. Driving his fire engine 7 miles at 9 miles per hour takes about 47 minutes.
Driving his fire engine 8 miles at 12 miles per hour takes 40 minutes So he should
choose to drive his fire engine over the hill.)
7. A thief has just found a pair of ancient treasure caves. One of the caves is filled
with unbelievable treasure and the other has a fire breathing monster that will
eat anyone who opens that cave. One cave has a black door decorated with
diamonds and the other cave has a brown door decorated with sapphires. Each of
the doors has an engraved description on top. The descriptions say:
a. Black Door: Monster is here.
b. Brown Door: Only One Door speaks the truth.
Which door should the thief open?
The treasure is in the Black door.
Explanation: Let us look at the description on the Brown door. It can be correct or
wrong.
Scenario 1: The description on the Brown door is true. Then the description on the
Black door has to be false. That means that the inscription on the Black door is false
and the cave with black door contains the treasure!
Scenario 2: The description on the Brown door is false. Then either both the
descriptions are false or both are true. Both cannot be true as that is impossible and
not consistent. That means that both descriptions are false.
True/False:
3. All the apps collect some kind of data. (True)
Direct Questions:
4. What do you understand by Machine Learning?
Machine Learning is a subset of Artificial Intelligence which enables machines to improve
at tasks with experience (data). The intention of Machine Learning is to enable machines
to learn by themselves using the provided data and make accurate Predictions/
Decisions.
OR
Machine learning focuses on the development of computer programs that can access data
and use it to learn for themselves.
OR
Machine learning is a data analytics technique that teaches computers to do what comes
naturally to humans and animals: learn from experience.
New Addition
MCQ (Correct answers are highlighted)
11. Snapchat filters use _____ and _____ to enhance your selfie with flowers, cat ears etc.
a) machine learning and deep learning
b) data and image processing
c) augmented reality and machine learning
d) NLP and computer vision
12. Based on the image below, choose the correct domain or domains of AI required for it:
13. Rock paper and scissors game is based on the following domain:
a) Data for AI
b) Natural Language Processing
c) Computer Vision
d) Image processing
a) Data Science
b) Natural Language Processing
c) Computer Vision
d) Rule Based
For example: a company that has petabytes of user data may use data science to develop
effective ways to store, manage, and analyze the data.
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2. What is Computer Vision? Give an example of it.
Computer Vision, abbreviated as CV, is a domain of AI that depicts the capability of a
machine to get and analyze visual information and afterwards predict some decisions about
it. The entire process involves image acquiring, screening, analyzing, identifying and
extracting information.
OR
Computer vision is an interdisciplinary field that deals with how computers can be made to
gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos.
OR
The Computer Vision domain of Artificial Intelligence, enables machines to see through
images or visual data, process and analyze them on the basis of algorithms and methods in
order to analyze actual phenomena with images.
For Example: Email filters, Smart assistants: - Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa
Example:
Price Comparison websites- They collect data about a product from different sites and then
analyze trends out of it and show up the most appropriate results.
Data privacy or information privacy is a branch of data security concerned with the proper
handling of data – consent, notice, and regulatory obligations. More specifically,
practical data privacy concerns often revolve around: Whether or how data is shared with
third parties
Note: This is an open-ended question, so both the answers yes/no will be considered right
with correct justification.
2. What do you understand by Data Privacy? Discuss in detail with some examples.
Data privacy, sometimes also referred to as information privacy, is an area of data
protection that concerns the proper handling of sensitive data including,
notably, personal data but also other confidential data, such as certain financial data and
intellectual property data, to meet regulatory requirements as well as protecting the
confidentiality and immutability of the data. It focuses on how to collect, process, share,
archive, and delete the data in accordance with the law.
Privacy, in the broadest sense, is the right of individuals, groups, or organizations
to control who can access, observe, or use something they own, such as their bodies,
property, ideas, data, or information.
Control is established through physical, social, or informational boundaries that help
prevent unwanted access, observation, or use. For example:
A physical boundary, such as a locked front door, helps prevent others from entering a
building without explicit permission in the form of a key to unlock the door or a
person inside opening the door.
A social boundary, such as a members-only club, only allows members to access and
use club resources.
An informational boundary, such as a non-disclosure agreement, restricts what
information can be disclosed to others.
Privacy of information is extremely important in this digital age where everything is
interconnected and can be accessed and used easily. The possibilities of our private
information being extremely vulnerable are very real, which is why we require data
privacy.
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3. What do you understand by AI, ML & DL? How are they different from each other?
6. As Artificially Intelligent machines become more and more powerful, their ability to
accomplish tedious tasks is becoming better. Hence, it is now that AI machines have
started replacing humans in factories. While people see it in a negative way and say AI
has the power to bring mass unemployment and one day, machines would enslave
humans, on the other hand, other people say that machines are meant to ease our lives.
If machines over take monotonous and tedious tasks, humans should upgrade their
skills to remain their masters always.
What according to you is a better approach towards this ethical concern? Justify your
answer.
● AI taking over laborious jobs won’t create unemployment. It is just a groundless fear.
The standard view of technical change is that some jobs are displaced by the
substitution of machines for labour, but that the fear of total displacement is misplaced
because new jobs are created, largely due to the technology-fuelled increase in
productivity. Humans have always shifted away from work suitable for machines and to
other jobs.
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● The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. If this level of AI revolution
will happen, lots of job opportunities will be created. For example: 20-30 years ago,
being an accountant was a lucrative job, AI took over this job but this created a lot of
opportunities, it raised the demand of a software engineer, data scientist, etc.
● It will open doors to skillful jobs rather than doing laborious tasks.
● Thus, we will be able to cope with the level of major unemployment, if AI took over
laborious jobs.
7. List down various sensors that are present in a smartphone. Also list down the type
of data which gets collected through them.
ACCELEROMETER [ helps running AR applications and track steps]
GPS [ Location Data]
Gyroscope [Orientation Data]
Magnetometer [ Direction and Magnetic Field Data]
Biometric Sensors [Fingerprint ,Iris, Face data]
New Additions
1. (Case Study) AI and robotics have raised some questions regarding liability. Take for
example the scenario of an ‘autonomous’ or AI-driven robot moving through a
factory. Another robot surprisingly crosses its way and our robot draws aside to
prevent collision. However, by this manoeuvre the robot injures a person.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
QUESTION BANK – CLASS 10
CHAPTER 3: AI PROJECT CYCLE
1. What are the two different approaches for AI modelling? Define them.
There are two approaches for AI Modelling; Rule Based and Learning Based.
The Rule based approach generates pre-defined outputs based on certain rules
programmed by humans. Whereas, machine learning approach has its own rules based
on the output and data used to train the models.
OR
Rule Based Approach Refers to the AI modelling where the relationship or patterns in
data are defined by the developer. The machine follows the rules or instructions
mentioned by the developer, and performs its task accordingly. Whereas in Learning
based approach, the relationship or patterns in data are not defined by the developer.
In this approach, random data is fed to the machine and it is left to the machine to
figure out patterns and trends out of it
2. What is a problem statement template and what is its significance?
The problem statement template gives a clear idea about the basic framework
required to achieve the goal. It is the 4Ws canvas which segregates; what is the
problem, where does it arise, who is affected, why is it a problem? It takes us straight
to the goal.
3. Explain any two SDGs in detail.
1. No Poverty: This is Goal 1 and strives to End poverty in all its forms everywhere
globally by 2030. The goal has a total of seven targets to be achieved.
2. Quality Education: This is Goal 4 which aspires to ensure inclusive and equitable
quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. It has 10 targets
to achieve.
* (Any two goals can be defined)
4. Mention the precautions to be taken while acquiring data for developing an AI
Project.
It should be from an authentic source, and accurate. Look for redundant and irrelevant
data parameters that does not take part in prediction.
5. What do you mean by Data Features?
The type of data to collect,It should be relevant data.
6. Write the names for missing stages in the given AI project cycle:
14. What are the different types of sources of data from where we can collect
reliable and authentic datasets? Explain in brief.
Data can be a piece of information or facts and statistics collected together for
reference or analysis. Whenever we want an AI project to be able to predict an output,
we need to train it first using data There could be many ways and sources from where
we can collect reliable and authentic datasets namely Surveys, Web scrapping,
Sensors, Cameras, Observations, Research, Investigation, API etc.
Sometimes Internet is also used to acquire data but the most important point to keep
in mind is that the data should be taken from reliable and authentic websites only.
Some reliable data sources are UN, Google scholar, Finance, CIA, Data.gov etc.
2. Explain the relation between data size and model performance of an Artificial
Neural Network.
The basis for any kind of AI development is BIG DATASET. The performance of any AI
based application depends on the data supplied
ANN models are also known as Learning models and are used for prediction purposes.
These are mostly developed without paying much cognizance to the size of datasets
that can produce models of high accuracy and better generalization. Although, the
general belief is that, large dataset is needed to construct a predictive learning model.
To describe a data set as large in size, perhaps, is circumstance dependent, thus, what
constitutes a dataset to be considered as being big or small is somehow vague.
In fact, the quantity of data partitioned for the purpose of training must be of good
representation of the entire sets and sufficient enough to span through the input
space. It must be authentic and relevant to give better model performance.
3. Draw the 4Ws problem canvas and explain each one of them briefly.
The 4Ws problem canvas is the basic template while scoping a problem and using this
canvas, the picture becomes clearer while we are working to solve it.
a) Who: The “Who” block helps you in analyzing the people getting affected directly or
indirectly due to it? Under this, you find out who the ‘stakeholders’ to this problem are
and what you know about them. Stakeholders are the people who face this problem
and would be benefitted with the solution.
b) What: Under the “What” block, you need to look into what you have on hand. At this
stage, you need to determine the nature of the problem. What is the problem and how
do you know that it is a problem?
c) Where: In this block, you need to focus on the context/situation/location of the
problem. It will help you look into the situation in which the problem arises, the
context of it, and the locations where it is prominent.
d) Why: in the “Why” canvas, think about the benefits which the stakeholders would get
from the solution and how would it benefit them as well as the society.
9. Five sustainable Development Goals are mentioned below. Write 2 problems under
each goal that you think should be addressed for achieving the goal.
a. Quality Education
b. Reduced Inequalities
c. Life on Land
d. No Poverty
e. Clean Water and Sanitation
a. Quality Education:
i. Providing education remotely, leveraging hi-tech, low-tech and no-tech approaches;
ii. Ensure coordinated responses and avoid overlapping efforts;
iii. Ensuring return of students to school when they reopen to avoid an upsurge in
dropout rates.
b. Reduced inequalities:
i. Reduction of relative economic inequalities inequality in some countries having
poorest and most vulnerable communities.
ii. Improving the situations in countries with weaker health systems.
c. Life on Land:
i. Prevention of Deforestation caused by humans and restoration of land
ii. Preventions and cure of diseases that are transmissible between animals and humans
d. No Poverty
i. Creation of Strong social protection systems to prevent people from falling into
poverty
ii. Reduction of social exclusion, and high vulnerability of certain populations to disasters
and diseases.
iii. Responsible distribution of resources.
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e. Clean Water and Sanitation
i. To increase access to clean drinking water and sanitation mostly in rural areas
ii. Managing our water sustainably to manage our production of food and energy.
1. What is a Chabot?
A chatbot is a computer program that's designed to simulate human conversation
through voice commands or text chats or both. Eg: Mitsuku Bot, Jabberwacky etc.
OR
A chatbot is a computer program that can learn over time how to best interact with
humans. It can answer questions and troubleshoot customer problems, evaluate and
qualify prospects, generate sales leads and increase sales on an ecommerce site.
OR
A chatbot is a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users.
A chatbot is also known as an artificial conversational entity (ACE), chat robot, talk bot,
chatterbot or chatterbox.
OR
A chatbot is a software application used to conduct an on-line chat conversation via text
or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent.
1. What are the types of data used for Natural Language Processing applications?
Natural Language Processing takes in the data of Natural Languages in the form of
written words and spoken words which humans use in their daily lives and operates on
this.
Script-bot Smart-bot
A scripted chatbot doesn’t carry Smart bots are built on NLP and
even a glimpse of A.I ML.
Script bots are easy to make Smart –bots are comparatively
difficult to make.
Script bot functioning is very Smart-bots are flexible and
limited as they are less powerful. powerful.
Script bots work around a script ● Smart bots work on bigger
which is programmed in them databases and other resources
directly
No or little language processing ● NLP and Machine learning skills
skills are required.
Limited functionality ● Wide functionality
8. Which words in a corpus have the highest values and which ones have the least?
Stop words like - and, this, is, the, etc. have highest values in a corpus. But these words
do not talk about the corpus at all. Hence, these are termed as stopwords and are mostly
removed at the pre-processing stage only.
Rare or valuable words occur the least but add the most importance to the corpus.
Hence, when we look at the text, we take frequent and rare words into consideration.
9. Does the vocabulary of a corpus remain the same before and after text
normalization? Why?
No, the vocabulary of a corpus does not remain the same before and after text
normalization. Reasons are –
● In normalization the text is normalized through various steps and is lowered to
minimum vocabulary since the machine does not require grammatically correct
statements but the essence of it.
● In normalization Stop words, Special Characters and Numbers are removed.
● In stemming the affixes of words are removed and the words are converted to their base
form.
So, after normalization, we get the reduced vocabulary.
10. What is the significance of converting the text into a common case?
In Text Normalization, we undergo several steps to normalize the text to a lower level.
After the removal of stop words, we convert the whole text into a similar case,
preferably lower case. This ensures that the case-sensitivity of the machine does not
consider same words as different just because of different cases.
As shown in the graph, occurrence and value of a word are inversely proportional. The
words which occur most (like stop words) have negligible value. As the occurrence of
words drops, the value of such words rises. These words are termed as rare or valuable
words. These words occur the least but add the most value to the corpus.
16. What are stop words? Explain with the help of examples.
“Stop words” are the most common words in a language like “the”, “a”, “on”, “is”, “all”.
These words do not carry important meaning and are usually removed from texts. It is
possible to remove stop words using Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), a suite of
libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing.
2. Classify each of the images according to how well the model’s output matches the
data samples:
Here, the red dashed line is model’s output while the blue crosses are actual data
samples.
● The model’s output does not match the true function at all. Hence the model is said to be
under fitting and its accuracy is lower.
● In the second case, model performance is trying to cover all the data samples even if
they are out of alignment to the true function. This model is said to be over fitting and
this too has a lower accuracy
● In the third one, the model’s performance matches well with the true function which
states that the model has optimum accuracy and the model is called a perfect fit.
Sentence Segmentation - Under sentence segmentation, the whole corpus is divided into
sentences. Each sentence is taken as a different data so now the whole corpus gets
reduced to sentences.
Tokenisation- After segmenting the sentences, each sentence is then further divided into
tokens. Tokens is a term used for any word or number or special character occurring in
a sentence. Under tokenisation, every word, number and special character is considered
separately and each of them is now a separate token.
Removing Stop words, Special Characters and Numbers - In this step, the tokens which
are not necessary are removed from the token list.
Converting text to a common case -After the stop words removal, we convert the whole
text into a similar case, preferably lower case. This ensures that the case-sensitivity of
the machine does not consider same words as different just because of different cases.
Stemming In this step, the remaining words are reduced to their root words. In other
words, stemming is the process in which the affixes of words are removed and the
words are converted to their base form.
Lemmatization -in lemmatization, the word we get after affix removal (also known as
lemma) is a meaningful one.
With this we have normalized our text to tokens which are the simplest form of words
present in the corpus. Now it is time to convert the tokens into numbers. For this, we
would use the Bag of Words algorithm
6. Through a step-by-step process, calculate TFIDF for the given corpus and mention
the word(s) having highest value.
Document 1: We are going to Mumbai
Document 2: Mumbai is a famous place.
Document 3: We are going to a famous place.
Document 4: I am famous in Mumbai.
Term Frequency
Term frequency is the frequency of a word in one document. Term frequency can easily
be found from the document vector table as in that table we mention the frequency of
each word of the vocabulary in each document.
Talking about inverse document frequency, we need to put the document frequency in
the denominator while the total number of documents is the numerator. Here, the total
number of documents are 3, hence inverse document frequency becomes:
7. Normalize the given text and comment on the vocabulary before and after the
normalization:
Raj and Vijay are best friends. They play together with other friends. Raj likes to
play football but Vijay prefers to play online games. Raj wants to be a footballer.
Vijay wants to become an online gamer.
Likes -s Like
Prefers -s Prefer
Wants -s want
2 Self-Management Skills - II 2 1 3
3 ICT Skills - II 1 1 2
4 Entrepreneurial Skills - II 1 1 2
5 Green Skills - II 1 1 2
TOTAL QUESTIONS 6 5 11
6 Natural Language 5 1 1 7
Processing
7 Evaluation 5 1 1 7
TOTAL QUESTIONS 24 6 5 35
General Instructions:
1. Please read the instructions carefully.
2. This Question Paper consists of 21 questions in two sections: Section A & Section B.
3. Section A has Objective type questions whereas Section B contains Subjective type questions.
4. Out of the given (5 + 16 =) 21 questions, a candidate has to answer (5 + 10 =) 15 questions in the
allotted (maximum) time of 2 hours.
5. All questions of a particular section must be attempted in the correct order.
6. SECTION A - OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS (24 MARKS):
i. This section has 05 questions.
ii. Marks allotted are mentioned against each question/part.
iii. There is no negative marking.
iv. Do as per the instructions given.
7. SECTION B – SUBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS (26 MARKS):
i. This section has 16 questions.
ii. A candidate has to do 10 questions.
iii. Do as per the instructions given.
iv. Marks allotted are mentioned against each question/part.
i. “M D Gulati started with a small shop with his focus, dedication and clear ideas, MDH 1
became one of the most popular brands in India besides having a good reputation all
over the world”.
Which self-management skill is clearly visible in the given statement?
ii. When you bring the mouse over a file in File Explorer, it will show the details of that file. 1
This is known as
(a) Drag and drop
(b) Double click
(c) Hover
(d) Single click
iv. _______ the work is all about identifying and noting how we spent our time, and 1
analysing how to spend our time effectively.
(a) Organising
(b) Prioritising
(c) Controlling
(d) Tracking
v. Remya traveled to Sweden from India to pursue her higher education. But she doesn't 1
know how to speak Swedish (language of Sweden). Because of this, she was unable to
find a part time job. This is an example of _____________
(a) Interpersonal barrier
(b) Physical barrier
(c) Organisational barrier
(d) Linguistic barrier
vi. “Efforts are made to increase the solar power generation so that our electricity needs are met 1
and at the same time we do not pollute the environment or use up natural resources”.
Which SDG can you relate this statement to?
(a) Life on land
(b) Clean water and sanitation
(c) Affordable and clean energy
(d) Reduced inequalities
i. Assertion (A)– One can be a good singer while the other can be a great athlete. 1
Reason(R) – Humans possess different types of intelligences but at different levels.
(a) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is correct but R is not correct
(d) A is not correct but R is correct.
ii. The Indian Government banned a few apps stating – “servers in the hostile nation are 1
receiving and using the acquired data improperly”.
Which terminology suits best for this action?
(a) AI Ethics
(b) Data Privacy
(c) AI Bias
(d) AI Access
vi. A corpus contains 4 documents in which the word ‘diet’ was appearing once in 1
document1. Identify the term in which we can categorise the word ‘diet’.
(a) Stop word
(b) Rare word
(c) Frequent word
(d) Removable word
iv. ____ is the process of finding instances of real-world objects in images or videos. 1
(a) Instance segmentation
(b) Object detection
(c) Classification
(d) Image segmentation
i. Srishti learnt about AI terminologies but was not able to recollect the term that is used 1
to refer to machines that perform tasks with vast amounts of data using neural
networks. Help her with the correct term.
v. Which feature of NLP helps in understanding the emotions of the people mentioned 1
with the feedback?
(a) Virtual Assistants
(b) Sentiment Analysis
(c) Text classification
(d) Automatic Summarization
vi. Sarthak made a face mask detector system for which he had collected the dataset and 1
used all the dataset to train the model. Then, he used the same data to evaluate the
model which resulted in the correct answer all the time but was not able to perform
with unknown dataset.
Name the concept.
i. Aditi, a student of class XII developed a chatbot that clarifies the doubts of Economics 1
students. She trained the software with lots of data sets catering to all difficulty levels.
If any student would type or ask questions related to Economics, the software would
give an instant reply. Identify the domain of AI in the given scenario.
(a) Computer Vision
(b) Data Science
(c) Natural Language Processing
(d) None of these
ii. Which evaluation parameter takes into consideration all the correct predictions? 1
iii. ______ means a picture element which is the smallest unit of information that makes 1
up a picture.
(a) Vision
(b) Pics
(c) Pixel
(d) Piskel
vi. Which one of the following scenario result in a high false positive cost? 1
(a) viral outbreak
(b) forest fire
(c) flood
(d) spam filter
Q. 8 “The Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks during the 2
Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war”.
What does Trojan horse mean in computer terminology?
Q. 12 Sirisha and Divisha want to make a model which will organize the unlabeled input data 2
into groups based on features. Which learning model should they use and why?
Q. 13 Ajay wants to access data from various sources. Suggest him any two points that he 2
needs to keep in mind while accessing data from any data source.
Q. 15 Identify any two stop words which should not be removed from the given sentence and 2
why?
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Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions in 50– 80 words each (4 x 3 = 12 marks)
Q. 17 Your grandmother watches you use AI applications. She wants to understand more 4
about it. Help her understand the term artificial intelligence by giving the right definition
and explain to her with an example how machines become artificially intelligent.
Q. 18 Akhil wants to learn how to scope the problem for an AI Project. Explain him the 4
following:
(a) 4W Problem Canvas
(b) Problem Statement Template
Q. 19 Identify and explain the types of the learning-based approaches in the figures given 4
below.
Figure 1
Figure 2
Q. 20 We, human beings, can read, write and understand many languages. But computers can 4
understand only machine language. Do you think we might face any challenges if we try
to teach computers how to understand and interact in human languages? Explain.
Q. 21 An AI model made the following sales prediction for a new mobile phone which they 4
have recently launched:
Reality
Confusion Matrix Yes No
Yes 50 40
Prediction
No 12 10
(i) Identify the total number of wrong predictions made by the model.
(ii) Calculate precision, recall and F1 Score.
1 Self-Management Skills - II 2 2 4
2 ICT Skills - II 2 1 3
3 Entrepreneurial Skills - II 2 2 4
TOTAL QUESTIONS 6 5 11
1 Introduction to AI 6 2 2 10
2 AI Project Cycle 6 1 1 8
Natural Language
6 6 2 1 9
Processing
7 Evaluation 6 1 1 8
TOTAL QUESTIONS 24 6 5 35
NO. OF QUESTIONS
20 Any 4 Any 3 27
TO BE ANSWERED
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CBSE | DEPARTMENT OF SKILL EDUCATION
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (SUBJECT CODE - 417)
General Instructions:
1. Please read the instructions carefully.
2. This Question Paper consists of 21 questions in two sections: Section A & Section B.
3. Section A has Objective type questions whereas Section B contains Subjective type questions.
4. Out of the given (5 + 16 =) 21 questions, a candidate has to answer (5 + 10 =) 15 questions in the
allotted (maximum) time of 2 hours.
5. All questions of a particular section must be attempted in the correct order.
6. SECTION A - OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS (24 MARKS):
i. This section has 05 questions.
ii. Marks allotted are mentioned against each question/part.
iii. There is no negative marking.
iv. Do as per the instructions given.
7. SECTION B – SUBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS (26 MARKS):
i. This section has 16 questions.
ii. A candidate has to do 10 questions.
iii. Do as per the instructions given.
iv. Marks allotted are mentioned against each question/part.
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SECTION A: OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
i. Pranjali gets up at 5 am and goes to her badminton classes. Then she comes home 1
and finishes her homework before going to school. She does this all by herself. No
one tells her to do it. This is an example of
(a) Self-motivation
(b) External motivation
(c) Both self and external motivation
(d) Not any specific type of motivation
iii. What is the term used when you quickly click the left mouse button twice? 1
(a) Hover
(b) Drag and drop
(c) Double clicking
(d) Moving
iv. Ravi learnt that if a laptop gets overheated, the internal parts get damaged. What 1
happens if he leaves his device plugged in even after it is charged 100%?
(a) It can break
(b) It can stop functioning
(c) It can overheat
(d) Data can get corrupt
v. Srishti is a young woman who makes earrings. She buys jute from a farmer and 1
makes earrings from that. She sees that most women in her village do not work. So,
she hires two women to help her. As her orders increase, she hires three more
women to work for her. How was she helping her village grow?
(a) By selling earrings to women without a job
(b) By purchasing earrings from the local market
(c) By buying jute from the local farmer and by providing jobs to local women
(d) By attracting the women in her village with her creative earrings
vi. Mary has two people who work for her. Every day, she spends one hour with them 1
to learn about what they’ve done that day.
(a) Creates a new product
(b) Divides income
(c) Manages the business
(d) Takes risks
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Q. 2 Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions (1 x 5 = 5 marks)
ii. “This type of intelligence measure’s one’s awareness of the natural world 1
around them and their sensitivities to any changes that occur. It allows us to
identify the variation among two different species and understand how they are
related”.
Identify the type of intelligence described in the above sentence.
iv. Search engines not only predict what popular searches may apply to your query as 1
you start typing, but it looks at the whole picture and recognizes what you’re trying
to say rather than the exact search words. This is an example of
(a) Computer Vision
(b) Data Sciences
(c) Natural Language Processing
(d) Natural Language Understanding
v. When a user installs an app in the smartphone, it asks for access to gallery, contacts, 1
etc. After accepting this, it gives the user agreement which most users accept
without realizing the implications. What is the concern here?
(a) Data Privacy
(b) Unemployment
(c) AI bias
(d) No concern
i. __________ helps us to summarise all the key points into one single Template so 1
that in future, whenever there is a need to look back at the basis of the problem, we
can take a look at this and understand the key elements of it.
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ii. Divya was learning neural networks. She understood that there were three layers in 1
a neural network. Help her identify the layer that does processing in the neural
network.
(a) Output layer
(b) Hidden layer
(c) Input layer
(d) Data layer
iii. Smita is working on a project that involves over a lakh of records. Which of the 1
following should she use to make the best project?
(a) Traditional programming
(b) Manual processing
(c) IoT
(d) Neural networks
vi. 1
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Q. 4 Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions (1 x 5 = 5 marks)
ii. Which of the following is the type of data used by NLP applications? 1
(a) Images
(b) Numerical data
(c) Graphical data
(d) Text and Speech
iii. Ayushi was learning about NLP. She wanted to know the term used for the whole 1
textual data from all the documents altogether. Help her in identifying the term used
for it.
v. A corpus contains 12 documents. How many document vectors will be there for 1
that corpus?
a. 12
b. 1
c. 24
d. 1/12
vi. Identify the type of chatbot with the information given below: 1
These bots work on pre-programmed instructions inside the application/machine
and are generally easy to develop. They are deployed in the customer care section
of various companies. Their job is to answer some basic queries that they are coded
for and connect them to human executives once they are unable to handle the
conversation.
ii. _____________ is used to record the result of comparison between the prediction 1
and reality. It is not an evaluation metric but a record which can help in evaluation.
iii. Raunak was learning the conditions that make up the confusion matrix. He came 1
across a scenario in which the machine that was supposed to predict an animal was
always predicting not an animal. What is this condition called?
(a) False Positive
(b) True Positive
(c) False Negative
(d) True Negative
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iv. Which two evaluation methods are used to calculate F1 Score? 1
(a) Precision and Accuracy
(b) Precision and Recall
(c) Accuracy and Recall
(d) Precision, F1 score
vi. Priya was confused with the terms used in the evaluation stage. Suggest her the term 1
used for the percentage of correct predictions out of all the observations.
(a) Accuracy
(b) Precision
(c) Recall
(d) F1 Score
Q. 7 Sameera is always punctual at school. She has a regular schedule that she follows 2
every day. She plans for study and play time in advance. Enlist the four steps Sameera
must have followed for effective time management.
Q. 9 What do entrepreneurs do when they run their business? Mention any two points. 2
Q. 10 Raj has a small convenience store in his locality. There are many other convenience 2
stores in the area. Yet, Raj’s store survives the competition and does well.
Which stage of an entrepreneur's career process can you relate this to? Explain.
Q. 12 If you do an image search for vacations on a popular search engine, the first few 2
searches mostly return the picture of beaches. What is the concern here? Explain.
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Q. 13 Suhana works for a company wherein she was assigned the task of developing a 2
project using AI project cycle. She knew that the first stage was scoping the problem.
Help her list the remaining stages that she must go through to develop the project.
Q. 14 What will be the results of conversion of the term, ‘happily’ in the process of 2
stemming and lemmatization? Which process takes longer time for execution?
Q. 16 People of a village are totally dependent on the farmers for their daily food items. 2
Farmers grow new seeds by checking the weather conditions every year. An AI
model is being deployed in the village which predicts the chances of heavy rain to
alert farmers which helps them in doing the farming at the right time. Which
evaluation parameter out of precision, recall and F1 Score is best to evaluate the
performance of this AI model? Explain.
Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions in 50– 80 words each (4 x 3 = 12 marks)
Q. 17 Ashwat is amazed to learn about his sister Ananya who is multi-talented and has 4
excelled in academics, music, dancing, sports and painting. He was quite curious
when Ananya told him that he too possessed all these intelligences like every human
being does, but only at different levels. He wondered which intelligence she was
talking about. Can you help Ashwat in learning about different types of intelligences
by naming and explaining any four types of intelligences?
Q. 18 Samarth attended a seminar on Artificial Intelligence and has now been asked to 4
write a report on his learnings from the seminar. Being a non-technical person, he
understood that the AI enabled machine uses data of different formats in many of
the daily based applications but failed to sync it with the right terminologies and
express the details. Help Samarth define Artificial Intelligence, list the three domains
of AI and the data that is used in these domains.
Q. 19 Neural networks are said to be modelled the way how neurons in the human brain 4
behave. A similar system is mimicked by the AI machine to perform certain tasks.
Explain how neural networks work in an AI model and mention any three features
of Neural Networks.
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Q. 21 Automated trade industry has developed an AI model which predicts the selling 4
and purchasing of automobiles. During testing, the AI model came up with the
following predictions.
Reality
Confusion Matrix
Yes No
Yes 60 25
Predicted
No 05 10
(i) How many total tests have been performed in the above scenario?
(ii) Calculate precision, recall and F1 Score.
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CBSE | DEPARTMENT OF SKILL EDUCATION
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (SUBJECT CODE - 417)
Blue-print for Sample Question Paper for Class X (Session 2023-2024)
Max. Time: 2 Hours Max. Marks: 50
PART A - EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS (10 MARKS):
OBJECTIVE TYPE SHORT ANSWER
UNIT QUESTIONS TYPE QUESTIONS TOTAL
NAME OF THE UNIT
NO. QUESTIONS
1 MARK EACH 2 MARKS EACH
2 Self-Management Skills - II 2 1 3
3 ICT Skills - II 1 1 2
4 Entrepreneurial Skills - II 1 1 2
5 Green Skills - II 1 1 2
TOTAL QUESTIONS 6 5 11
6 Natural Language 5 1 1 7
Processing
7 Evaluation 5 1 1 7
TOTAL QUESTIONS 24 6 5 35
General Instructions:
1. Please read the instructions carefully.
2. This Question Paper consists of 21 questions in two sections: Section A & Section B.
3. Section A has Objective type questions whereas Section B contains Subjective type questions.
4. Out of the given (5 + 16 =) 21 questions, a candidate has to answer (5 + 10 =) 15 questions in the
allotted (maximum) time of 2 hours.
5. All questions of a particular section must be attempted in the correct order.
6. SECTION A - OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS (24 MARKS):
i. This section has 05 questions.
ii. Marks allotted are mentioned against each question/part.
iii. There is no negative marking.
iv. Do as per the instructions given.
7. SECTION B – SUBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS (26 MARKS):
i. This section has 16 questions.
ii. A candidate has to do 10 questions.
iii. Do as per the instructions given.
iv. Marks allotted are mentioned against each question/part.
i. “M D Gulati started with a small shop with his focus, dedication and clear ideas, MDH 1
became one of the most popular brands in India besides having a good reputation all
over the world”.
Which self-management skill is clearly visible in the given statement?
ii. When you bring the mouse over a file in File Explorer, it will show the details of that file. 1
This is known as
(a) Drag and drop
(b) Double click
(c) Hover
(d) Single click
iv. _______ the work is all about identifying and noting how we spent our time, and 1
analysing how to spend our time effectively.
(a) Organising
(b) Prioritising
(c) Controlling
(d) Tracking
v. Remya traveled to Sweden from India to pursue her higher education. But she doesn't 1
know how to speak Swedish (language of Sweden). Because of this, she was unable to
find a part time job. This is an example of _____________
(a) Interpersonal barrier
(b) Physical barrier
(c) Organisational barrier
(d) Linguistic barrier
vi. “Efforts are made to increase the solar power generation so that our electricity needs are met 1
and at the same time we do not pollute the environment or use up natural resources”.
Which SDG can you relate this statement to?
(a) Life on land
(b) Clean water and sanitation
(c) Affordable and clean energy
(d) Reduced inequalities
i. Assertion (A)– One can be a good singer while the other can be a great athlete. 1
Reason(R) – Humans possess different types of intelligences but at different levels.
(a) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is correct but R is not correct
(d) A is not correct but R is correct.
ii. The Indian Government banned a few apps stating – “servers in the hostile nation are 1
receiving and using the acquired data improperly”.
Which terminology suits best for this action?
(a) AI Ethics
(b) Data Privacy
(c) AI Bias
(d) AI Access
vi. A corpus contains 4 documents in which the word ‘diet’ was appearing once in 1
document1. Identify the term in which we can categorise the word ‘diet’.
(a) Stop word
(b) Rare word
(c) Frequent word
(d) Removable word
iv. ____ is the process of finding instances of real-world objects in images or videos. 1
(a) Instance segmentation
(b) Object detection
(c) Classification
(d) Image segmentation
i. Srishti learnt about AI terminologies but was not able to recollect the term that is used 1
to refer to machines that perform tasks with vast amounts of data using neural
networks. Help her with the correct term.
v. Which feature of NLP helps in understanding the emotions of the people mentioned 1
with the feedback?
(a) Virtual Assistants
(b) Sentiment Analysis
(c) Text classification
(d) Automatic Summarization
vi. Sarthak made a face mask detector system for which he had collected the dataset and 1
used all the dataset to train the model. Then, he used the same data to evaluate the
model which resulted in the correct answer all the time but was not able to perform
with unknown dataset.
Name the concept.
i. Aditi, a student of class XII developed a chatbot that clarifies the doubts of Economics 1
students. She trained the software with lots of data sets catering to all difficulty levels.
If any student would type or ask questions related to Economics, the software would
give an instant reply. Identify the domain of AI in the given scenario.
(a) Computer Vision
(b) Data Science
(c) Natural Language Processing
(d) None of these
ii. Which evaluation parameter takes into consideration all the correct predictions? 1
iii. ______ means a picture element which is the smallest unit of information that makes 1
up a picture.
(a) Vision
(b) Pics
(c) Pixel
(d) Piskel
vi. Which one of the following scenario result in a high false positive cost? 1
(a) viral outbreak
(b) forest fire
(c) flood
(d) spam filter
Q. 8 “The Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks during the 2
Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war”.
What does Trojan horse mean in computer terminology?
Q. 12 Sirisha and Divisha want to make a model which will organize the unlabeled input data 2
into groups based on features. Which learning model should they use and why?
Q. 13 Ajay wants to access data from various sources. Suggest him any two points that he 2
needs to keep in mind while accessing data from any data source.
Q. 15 Identify any two stop words which should not be removed from the given sentence and 2
why?
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Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions in 50– 80 words each (4 x 3 = 12 marks)
Q. 17 Your grandmother watches you use AI applications. She wants to understand more 4
about it. Help her understand the term artificial intelligence by giving the right definition
and explain to her with an example how machines become artificially intelligent.
Q. 18 Akhil wants to learn how to scope the problem for an AI Project. Explain him the 4
following:
(a) 4W Problem Canvas
(b) Problem Statement Template
Q. 19 Identify and explain the types of the learning-based approaches in the figures given 4
below.
Figure 1
Figure 2
Q. 20 We, human beings, can read, write and understand many languages. But computers can 4
understand only machine language. Do you think we might face any challenges if we try
to teach computers how to understand and interact in human languages? Explain.
Q. 21 An AI model made the following sales prediction for a new mobile phone which they 4
have recently launched:
Reality
Confusion Matrix Yes No
Yes 50 40
Prediction
No 12 10
(i) Identify the total number of wrong predictions made by the model.
(ii) Calculate precision, recall and F1 Score.
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(iv)
(vi)
(viii)
Introduction
In the present time, a thorough knowledge
of language with communication skills
is very important in any occupation or
business. As a student, you may study
any language, but it is important that you
are able to read, write, speak and listen
well in order to communicate properly.
Speaking more than one language can
help you to communicate well with people
around the world. Learning English can
help you to communicate with people who
understand English besides the mother
tongue i.e., the language one has been
exposed to since birth.
Information/ Behaviour/
Input Output
The Channel—
What speaking, writing
I mean graphic, video, etc. What
I understand
The The
At least some
Messenger Recepient
code in common
Sender sends a
message
Giving Information
Message
(Encoding) channel
Sender Receiver
Communication A Channel is
starts with used to transfer
sender the message
Reply to Sender
(Encoding)
Communication Skills 3
Practical Exercises
The teacher will facilitate these activities by showing you the
e-learning lesson at http://www.psscive.ac.in/stud_text_book.
html. This will include videos and e-content for the above topics
as well as detailed instructions for some activities below.
Initial Thinking Activity
After watching the initial video in the e-learning lesson for
this topic, write the answer of the following question: Why is it
important to communicate effectively?
Activity 1
Role Play on Communication
Procedure
• Form groups with four students in each group.
• The situation is that a student is Sales Executive at a
toy store and he or she is supposed to communicate to
customers about the various types of toys available with
the store for different age group.
• The other students will reach the Sales Executive one by
one and ask different types of questions related to toys.
• Develop a script for the role play and act on the same.
• Discuss what you all learned from this activity.
Communication Skills 5
B. Subjective question
Communication Skills 7
Practical Exercise
The teacher will facilitate these activities by showing you the
e-Learning lesson at http://www.psscive.ac.in/stud_text_book.
html. This will include videos and e-content for the above topics
as well as detailed instructions for some activities below.
Activity 1
Group-Practice: Role Play of a Telephonic Conversation
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Form groups with three students in each group.
• Write a phone conversation based on a given scenario of a
student calling a university academic coordinator to know
about study courses and admission procedure.
• One student acts as caller and the other as receiver.
• Read out the conversation by enacting the roles.
• The third student gives feedback based on the 7Cs of
communication (clear, concise, concrete, correct, coherent,
complete and courteous).
Activity 2
Group-Practice on Public Speaking
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Form groups with three students in each group.
• Within the group, choose a topic for a short speech.
For example, Importance of Punctuality, Healthy Food
Habits, etc.
• Each person should make a speech to the others in the
group; who then give feedback based on whether the
person was able to communicate properly.
• One student from the group volunteers to give the same
speech in front of the class.
Communication Skills 9
B. Subjective question
Communication Skills 11
Visual Communication
Visual communication proves to be effective since it
involves interchanging messages only through images
or pictures and therefore, you do not need to know any
particular language for understanding it. It is simple
and remains consistent across different places. Some
common types of visual communication are shown in
Table 1.6.
Table 1.6: Examples of Visual Communication
Visual Communication: Exchanging Information through Images
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Communication Skills 13
Practical Exercises
The teacher will facilitate these activities by showing you the
e-learning lesson at http://www.psscive.ac.in/stud_text_book.
html. This will include videos and e-content for the above topics
as well as detailed instructions for some activities below.
Initial Thinking Activity
After watching the initial video in the e-learning lesson for this
topic write down how could Rohit understand something was
wrong with Amar? Can you understand how your friends are
feeling even when they do not tell you anything?
Activity 1
Group-Practice: Role-play on Non-verbal Communication
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Form groups with three students in each group.
• Prepare the script for the role play, based on the given
scenario. For example, a hearing impaired salesperson is
attending a female customer at an apparel store.
• Act it out in front of your group.
• One group volunteers to act before your whole class.
Discuss how students used non-verbal communication.
Was this communication effective?
Activity 3
Individual-Practice: Comparing Methods of Communication
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Discuss the three methods of communication (Verbal,
Non-verbal and Visual).
• Ask each student to write a list of the advantages and
disadvantages of each method.
• Practice: In all your conversations at home and school,
pay attention to the non-verbal signs others are using.
Practice using the non-verbal methods you learnt here in
the right manner.
Communication Skills 15
B. Subjective question
Feedback
Feedback, if shared properly, can help reinforce existing
strengths and can increase the recipient’s abilities to
Communication Skills 17
Importance of Feedback
Feedback is the final component and one of the most
important factors in the process of communication since
it is defined as the response given by the receiver to
the sender. Let us look at certain reasons why feedback
is important.
• It validates effective listening: The person
providing the feedback knows they have been
understood (or received) and that their feedback
provides some value.
• It motivates: Feedback can motivate people to
build better work relationships and continue the
good work that is being appreciated.
• It is always there: Every time you speak to
a person, we communicate feedback so it is
impossible not to provide one.
• It boosts learning: Feedback is important to
remain focussed on goals, plan better and develop
improved products and services.
• It improves performance: Feedback can
help to form better decisions to improve and
increase performance.
Activity 1
Role Play on Providing Feedback
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Form groups with five students in each group.
• Two volunteers in the group should act out a role play
of a hotel staff. For example, Volunteer A can act as a
front desk executive and Volunteer B as a guest enquiring
availability of rooms.
• After the role play, remaining members of group will give
constructive feedback to both the volunteers.
Activity 2
Group-Practice on Constructive Feedback
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Form groups with five students in each group.
• Each member in the group should write down three
sentences showing how feedback should NOT be given.
• Then, each group forms a circle. One person in the circle
starts by saying a sentence or feedback. The next person
in the circle tries to make the feedback more constructive.
• Keep repeating until all written feedback have
constructive alternatives.
Communication Skills 19
B. Subjective question
Linguistic Cultural
Barriers to
Communication
Physical and
Interpersonal
Organisational
Linguistic Barriers
The inability to communicate using a language is known
as language barrier to communication. Language
barriers are the most common communication
barriers, which cause misunderstandings and
Communication Skills 21
Practical Exercise
Activity 1
Role Play on Barriers to Effective Communication.
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Form groups with five students in each group.
• Two volunteers from the group should act out a role play of
a salesperson in a shopping mall. For example, Volunteer
A can act as a sales executive, and Volunteer B as a
customer enquiring about a television set. The customer
is from a foreign country.
• Enact the communication barriers or challenges the
customer or salesperson may face while interacting with
each other.
Activity 2
Group practice: Overcoming Barriers
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Form groups with five students in each group.
• Each member in a group should write down three ways
to overcome barriers to effective communication. The
group members will then stand in a circle. Each student
should say aloud one point each; till all the ways have
been discussed.
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B. Subjective question
Capitalisation
We know that all sentences begin with capital letters.
However, there are certain other points in a sentence
where we should use capital letters. ‘TINS’is a set of
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Punctuation
Certain set of marks, such as full stop, comma, question
mark, exclamation mark and apostrophe are used in
communication to separate parts of a sentence for
better clarity of message. Some common punctuation
marks and their rules are shown here in Table 1.8.
Table 1.8: Punctuation Marks
Punctuation Sign Use Example
name
Full stop . • Used at the end of a Omar is a professor. His students
sentence. call him Prof. Omar.
• Used with short form of
long words.
Comma , • Used to indicate a pause After getting down from the bus, I
in the sentence. walked towards my school.
• Used to separate two or The grocery store had fresh
more items in a row. kiwis,strawberries and mangoes.
Question mark ? • Used at the end of a Where is your book?
question.
Exclamation mark ! • Used at the end of a What a beautiful dress!
word or a sentence to Hooray! We won the match.
indicate a strong feeling.
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Adverbs Pronouns
(slowly, (He, she,
quickly, etc.) you, I)
Adjectives
Verbs (Walk, (Salty, Spicy,
Talk, etc.) etc.)
Let us now see how these words are used. Read aloud
the sentence given below.
Hooray! Shyam and his team won the exciting
match yesterday.
We already know that Shyam, team and match are
nouns. ‘Exciting’ is an adjective here because it describes
the noun match, the word won is a verb because its
hows an action and the word ‘yesterday’ is an adverb
because it describes when they won the match.
But what about the remaining words in this sentence:
Hooray, the, and? Such supporting words are used to
join the main parts of speech together and also to add
information to the sentences. Let us now look at some
types of these supporting words.
Supporting Parts of Speech Types
Articles (a,
an, the)
Interjection
Conjunctions
(wow, oh no,
(and, but, etc.)
etc.)
Preposition
(in, on, etc.)
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Practical Exercise
The teacher will facilitate these activities – by showing you the
e-learning lesson at http://www.psscive.ac.in/stud_text_book.
html. This will include videos and e-content for the above topics
as well as detailed instructions for some activities below.
Initial Thinking Activity
After watching the initial video in the e-learning lesson for
this topic, write down what do you think was wrong with
Seema’s letter?
Activity 1
Identifying Parts of Speech
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Form groups with five students in each group.
• In the paragraph given below (taken from from ‘La Bamba’—
a short story; Gary Soto pp. 115), identify the different
parts of speech and write them down accordingly.
“manuel walked on stage and the song started immediately
glassy-eyed from the shock of being in front of so many
Activity 2
Pair Activity: Sentence Construction
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Form pairs of students.
• List out nine parts of speech that you learnt in the lesson.
Select any three of them and create five simple sentences
which use these parts of speech.
• For each part of speech, a volunteer reads out their
sentences. The other students share if it is correct.
Activity 3
Group Practice: Identify Name, Place, Animal, Thing
Material required
Notepad and pens
Procedure
• Number yourselves from 1 to 5.
• One set of 1–5 is in one group and so on.
• Each member of a group has to say a word that is either a
name, place, animal, thing or feeling; the fifth member has
to perform any kind of action.
• Each group gets 30 seconds to think what they are going
to say and do.
Discussion
The class discussion will highlight different words that are used
to name a person, place, animal, thing, or feeling and their role in
a sentence as parts of speech. The discussion will also highlight
the role of action words as parts of speech
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Nouns Verbs
Boy, Ms Sen, Rahim, Children, Swimming, Driving, Writing,
Cat, Students Teaching, Eating, Playing
C. Subjective question
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Types of Objects
In a sentence, there can be two types of objects — Direct
and Indirect. The objects provided in the above
examples are called direct objects since they are
directly ‘acted on’ by the verb. On the other hand,
an indirect object answers questions, such as ‘to/
for who.’
For example, in the sentence “She bought a bicycle
for her son.” The verb is ‘bought’.
What did she buy? A bicycle. For who? For her
son. Here, ‘bicycle’ is the direct object and ‘her son’
is the indirect object. Some sentences only have
direct objects while some have both direct and
indirect objects.
Read aloud the examples given in Table 1.12 and
practice finding the direct and indirect objects.
Table 1.12: Direct and Indirect Objects
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Paragraph
By now, you have understood how to form correct
sentences by identifying the various components that
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Practical Exercise
The teacher will facilitate these activities by showing you the
e-learning lesson at http://www.psscive.ac.in/stud_text_book.
html. This will include videos and e-content for the above topics
as well as detailed instructions for some activities below.
Initial Thinking Activity
After watching the initial video in the e-learning lesson for this
topic write down if you think that Sanjay and Dia were able to
make correct sentences?
Activity 1
Pair-work: Making Sentences
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Form pairs of students.
• First, write down five sentences that contain direct objects.
• Then, write down five other sentences that contain both
direct and indirect objects.
• Use different colours to mark the different parts of each
sentence. (Subject, Verb, Object). One volunteer shows
their list to class, who correct them, if needed.
Activity 3
Individual Work: Types of Sentences
Material required
Notebook, pen
Procedure
• Each student will make a list of minimum 12 sentences.
• These should have at least three sentences of each type —
declarative, interrogative, exclamatory and imperative.
• For each type of sentence, different volunteers read out
their sentences to the class.
• The class gives feedback on the correctness of
the sentences.
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B. Subjective questions
Introduction
Self-management, also referred to as ‘self-control,’
is the ability to control one’s emotions, thoughts and
behaviour effectively in different situations. This also
includes motivating oneself, and setting goals. People
with strong self-management skills are better in doing
certain things better than others.
Therefore, employers too strongly prefer
people with good self-management skills.
Basics of Self-management
To perform well at work and life in
general, you must be able to manage
and improve yourself in various skills
including discipline and timeliness,
goal-setting, problem solving, teamwork,
professionalism, etc. Once you develop
your personality and abilities in these
areas,you will be able to succeed in
personal as well as professional life.
Figure 2.1 Self-management
What is Stress?
Stress can be defined as our emotional,
mental, physical and social reaction to any
perceived demands or threats. These demands
or threats are called stressors. Stressors are
Figure 2.2 Stress the reason for stress.
Stress Management
Stress is a part of everyday life. There are many
instances when stress can be helpful. A fire alarm
is intended to cause stress that alerts you to avoid
danger. The stress created by a deadline to finish a
paper can motivate you to finish the assignment on
time. But when experienced in excess or for a long
period of time, stress has the opposite effect. It can
harm our emotional and physical health, and limit our
ability to function well at home, in school and within
our relationships.
Managing stress is about making a plan to be able to
cope effectively with daily pressures. The ultimate goal
is to strike a balance between life, work, relationships,
relaxation and fun. By doing this, you are able to deal
with daily stress triggers and meet these challenges
head on.
Always keep in mind the ABC of stress management
A: Adversity or the stressful event
B: Beliefs or the way you respond to the event
C: Consequences or actions and outcomes of the event
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Management Techniques
Here are a few simple stress management techniques.
• Time management: Proper time management
is one of the most effective stress-relieving
techniques.
• Physical exercise and fresh air: A healthy lifestyle
is essential for students. Stress is generally lower
in people who maintain a healthy routine. Doing
yoga, meditation and deep breathing exercises
help in proper blood circulation and relaxes the
body. Even taking a walk or playing in the park
will help you get a lot of fresh oxygen, which will
help you become more active.
• Healthy diet: Having a healthy diet will also help
you reduce stress. Eating a balanced diet, such
as Dal, Roti, vegetables and fruits will give you
the strength to do your daily work efficiently.
• Positivity: Focussing on negative aspects of life
will add more stress. Instead, learn to look at
the good things and stay positive. For example,
instead of feeling upset over a scoring less in a
test, try to maintain a positive attitude and look
at ways to improve the next time.
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and
manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions
of others. It is generally said to include at least
three skills:
• Emotional awareness : the ability to identify and
name one’s own emotions.
• Harnessing emotions : the ability to harness
and apply emotions to tasks like thinking and
problem solving.
• Managing emotions : the ability to regulate one’s
own emotions when necessary and help others to
do the same.
Knowing how to manage one’s emotions is critical
for all of us. You can manage stress, keep your brain
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Practical Excercise
The teacher will facilitate these activities by showing you the
e-learning module for this lesson via http://www.psscive.ac.in/
Employability_Skills.html. The module will include videos and
e-content for the above topics as well as detailed instructions for
some activities below.
• After watching the video ‘Have you faced this situation?’ in
the e-learning lesson, discuss what you have learnt from
the video. Do you think Priya was worried that she will
not meet her goal? What would you do differently in her
situation?
• After watching the video ‘Managing Stress at Work’ in the
e-learning lesson, discuss the various stress management
techniques that were used in the video by Gaurav to
improve his situation.
Activity 2
Self-reflection
Material required
Pen or pencil
Procedure
• Complete the below table by listing the situation(s) that
can cause stress and what will you do to avoid stress in
such situations.
• Use the stress management techniques shared in the
lesson to complete the exercise.
Stress Management
Stress Causing Situation(s)
Techniques
Activity 3
Benefits of taking a holiday
Material required
Pen or pencil
Procedure
• Write an essay to describe the place and your experience
during a holiday trip or summer camp.
• Highlight how the trip helped you de-stress.
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Knowing Yourself
Understanding who you are, what
Beliefs you like or dislike, what are your
beliefs, what are your opinions,
what is your background, what
Background
you do well and what you do not
do well is important because only
Who am I? Opinions then can you actually measure
your strengths and weaknesses
(see Figure 2.4).
Likes/dislikes
Strength and Weakness
Analysis
Values
Understanding who you are
Figure 2.4 Knowing Yourself means looking outside your usual
Examples of strengths
• I am good at creative writing.
• I am confident of speaking in front of an audience.
• I play guitar very well.
Examples of weaknesses
• I find it difficult to solve mathematics problems.
• I would like to speak English fluently.
• I do not like to lose in any game or sports.
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Finding Weaknesses
• Point out the areas where you struggle and the
things you find difficult to do.
• Look at the feedback others usually give you.
• Be open to feedback and accept your weaknesses
without feeling low about it. Take it as an area
of improvement.
You can find your strengths and weaknesses once
you find answers to the questions given here.
• How am I different from others?
• What do I do better than others?
• What do other people admire in me?
• What makes me stand out?
• Where do I worry and struggles?
• Where, how and why do others perform better
than me?
• What advice for improvement do I often receive
from others?
Activity 1
Pair Activity: Aim in Life
Material required
Pen, notepad or sheets of paper
Procedure
• Form pairs of students.
• Each student will make a list of things that they can do
well based on the given format.
• Share your notes with your partner.
• One volunteer from the pair comes and reads, in front of
the class.
Here is the format for you to fill in
I am
I can (abilities)
I will (plan)
My aim is
Activity 2
Individual Activity: Interests and Abilities Worksheet
Material required
Student textbooks, pen
Procedure
• Each student has to complete the given worksheet,
containing a list of statements and questions.
• Each student has to be real and honest when filling
the worksheet as it is for their own understanding
of themselves.
• If they are not real and honest, they will get incorrect
results about their own interests and abilities.
Worksheet - My Interests and Abilities
I am happiest when
My idea of a perfect day
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Types of Motivation
Internal Motivation: LOVE
We do things because they make us happy, healthy
and feel good. For example, when you perform on
your annual day function and you learn something
new, such as dancing, singing, etc., you feel good.
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Know what they want Are focussed Know what is Are dedicated to fulfill
from life important their dreams
Figure 2.8: Qualities of self-motivated people
Building Self-motivation
There are four steps for building self-motivation, which
are as given below.
Stay loyal to
Develop a plan your goals
to achieve
your goals
Set and focus
on your goals Work towards
Find out your Plan and set timelines
achieving your goal,
strengths even when you are
to achieve your goals, facing difficult time.
Plan a list of activities For example, even
Define the goals that you will do to
you want to though I did not clear
achieve each goal. For the Hotel Management
Identify your likes achieve and example, after schooling,
focus all your entrance exam, I will
and dislikes. you may be required to find out other ways to
Understand what energy to achieve appear for a competitive
your goal. For become a chef.
makes you happy. examination to join Hotel
For example, I example, I want Management Institute.
love cooking. to be a chef.
Activity 1
Staying Motivated (Group Discussion)
Material required
Pen, notepad or sheets of paper, chart paper
Procedure
• Form groups of three.
• Choose any one of the following situation and write down
the steps you would take to motivate yourself.
• Your teacher gives you feedback on the essay you had
written. There are a lot negative remarks. What will
you do to motivate yourself to improve the essay?
• Your father has given you the responsibility of
arranging for a birthday party for your little sister who
is turning 3 years old. You do not want to do this task.
How will you motivate yourself to do the work?
Activity 2
Self Reflection
Material required
Pen or pencil
Procedure
• Make a list of reasons that stop you from being motivated.
• Write down ways by which you will motivate yourself to
overcome them.
Reasons for not Ways to overcome
being motivated
For example: People For example: I will learn to speak English
make fun of the way correctly by attending classes after school.
I speak English.
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Practical Exercise
The teacher will facilitate these activities by showing you the
e-learning module for this lesson via http://www.psscive.ac.in/
Employability_Skills.html. The module will include videos and
e-content for the above topics as well as detailed instructions for
some activities given ahead.
• After watching the initial video ‘Introduction’ in the
e-learning lesson, discuss the in the class: Why did Amit
feel he was not prepared for the future?
• After watching the video ‘Setting SMART Goals’ in the
e-learning lesson, discuss what you have learnt from
the video.
Activity 2
Long-term Goals and Short-term Goals (Peer Feedback)
Material required
Pen, notepad or sheets of paper
Procedure
• Form groups of four. Work individually in your group and
complete the below table. Once completed, share with
your group and seek feedback on your goals. Share your
feedback when other members of the groups are presenting
their goals.
Short-term Goals (What are Long-term Goals (What are
your goals in the next 6 your goals in the next 5
months to 2 years?) years?)
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3.
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Practical Exercise
The teacher will facilitate these activities by showing you the
e-learning module for this lesson via http://www.psscive.ac.in/
Employability_Skills.html. The module will include videos and
e-content for the above topics as well as detailed instructions for
some activities given below.
After watching the video ‘ Time Management’ in the e-learning
lesson, discuss — What you have learnt from the video? Which
steps of time management were followed in the video?
Activity 2
Managing your time to reach school on time
Material required
Pen
Procedure
• List out the to-do plan with timing to make sure you reach
school on time.
To-do List
1.
2.
3.
4.
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Starting a Computer
What is the first thing you do after you wake up in
the morning? What if your father tells you to do your
homework immediately? Can you do it? Normally you
would do some daily activities and get ready before you
start working? Similarly, when a computer is switched
on, it performs some basic processes/functions before
it is ready to take instructions from the user.
To start a computer, press the Power button on the
CPU. This will start the operating system and display
the Ubuntu desktop as shown in Figure 3.4 or the main
Figure 3.4: Power Button screen on the monitor.
Function Keys
Keys labeled from F1 to F12 are function keys. You
use them to perform specific functions. Their functions
differ from program to program. The function of the F1
key in most programs is to get help on that program.
Some keyboards may have fewer function keys.
(a) Control keys: Keys, such as Control (CTRL),
SHIFT, SPACEBAR, ALT, CAPS LOCK and TAB,
are special control keys that perform special
functions depending on when and where they
are used.
(b) Enter key: The label on this key can be either
ENTER or RETURN, depending on the brand of
computer that you are using. You use the ENTER
or the RETURN key to move the cursor to the
beginning of a new line. In some programs, it is
used to send commands and to confirm a task on
a computer.
Double-click
Double-clicking means to quickly click the
left mouse button twice. When we double-
Figure 3.11 Drag and Drop click on a file, it will open the file.
Practical Exercise
The teacher will facilitate these activities by showing you the
e-Learning lesson athttp://www.psscive.ac.in/stud_text_book.
html ->Using a Computer. This will include videos and e-content
for the above topics as well as detailed instructions for some
activities below.
Initial Thinking Activity
After watching the initial video write what do you think happens
when you start a computer and enter data using a keyboard
and mouse?
Activity 1
Group Demo on Use of Computer
Material required
Pen, notebook, computer
Procedure
• Form groups depending on the number of computers
available. One student starts the computer and logs in.
• Another student identifies the keys on the keyboard.
A third student then performs all the functions of the
mouse such as hover, click, double-click, etc.
• Discuss and note differences between hardware and
software and also how they work together to perform a
task on the computer.
Activity 2
Group Practice: Using the Keyboard
Material required
Computer
Procedure
• Form groups depending on
the number of computers
available.
• Open a text editor in
Ubuntu by typing ‘editor’ Figure 3.12 Typing
in the search bar and then
selecting the Text Editor. You can also open Notepad in
Windows by typing Notepad on the Windows Search bar
and then selecting Notepad from the search result.
• One student positions his or her hands on the keyboard as
shown in Figure 3.12 and types the following paragraph
in the text editor.
“People use computers at work, at school and at home every day.
In factories computers are used to control the manufacturing
process and in offices to make documents, such as reports. We
also use computers for sending e-mails and playing games.”
Now, another student in the group will check the paragraph
and correct the grammar and spelling mistakes.
B. Subjective questions
1. What is the function of the ENTER key?
2. How will you prevent others from using your computer?
Figure 3.17: Choose the File Option Figure 3.18: File Explorer
Figure 3.19: Right-click on Desktop and Figure 3.20: Type Demo as the name of
click New Folder the new folder
Activity 1
Creating a folder
Material required
Pen, notebook, computer
Procedure
• Form groups depending on the number of computers
available. Each member of the group creates a new folder.
Others can watch and give feedback on what was done
correctly and what can be improved.
• Open a text editor in Ubuntu or Notepad in Windows
• Create a 2 folders Demo1 and Test1
• Now delete the folder Test1
Each group can study the following shortcut commands together.
CTRL+z — undo CTRL+c — copy
CTRL+y — redo CTRL+v — paste
CTRL+a — select all CTRL+p — print
CTRL+x — cut CTRL+s — save
B. Subjective questions
1. How is a computer file system similar to our physical file
system in a school?
2. What are the steps you will perform to save a text file in
Ubuntu?
Practical Exercise
Activity 1
Making a Chart
Material required
Pen, notebook, chart paper, pictures.
Procedure
• Form groups and make a chart to list down all the
ways in which a device can be damaged and how it can
be prevented.
• Make sure all students in the group get a chance
to participate.
B. Subjective questions
Threats to Computer
Threats are the ways in which personal
information can be leaked from a computer
without our knowing.
(a) Theft: Theft means stealing of
information or hardware. These maybe
of three types:
Figure 3.31: Physical stealing
• Physical: Where a person may
steal your desktop computer or
laptop.
• Identity: Where a hacker steals
your personal information and
assumes your identity. Using this
false identity, the hacker can gain
access to your account information
or perform illegal activity.
• Software Piracy: This is stealing
of software and includes using
Figure 3.32: Online stealing
or distributing unlicensed and
unauthorised copies of a computer
program or software.
(b) Virus: Viruses are computer programs that can
damage the data and software programs or steal
the information stored on a computer. Major
types of viruses are Worms and Trojan Horse.
• Worms: These are viruses that replicate
Figure 3.33: Worm virus themselves and spread to all files once they
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Practical Exercise
The teacher will facilitate these activities by showing you the
e-learning lesson athttp://www.psscive.ac.in/stud_text_book.
html. This will include videos and e-content for the above topics
as well as detailed instructions for some activities below.
Initial Thinking Activity
After watching the initial video write down the type of risk present
to the data available in different places, for example in a school,
hospital, bank, etc.
Activity 1
Group Chart Making
Material required
Pen, notebook, computer, Chart paper, colours
Procedure
• Form groups depending on the number of students
available. Make a chart to show all the different threats
faced by a computer and how you can protect a computer
from such treats.
B. Subjective questions
Introduction
Entrepreneurship is being talked about a lot in the
world today, and especially in India. Entrepreneurship
is the type of self-employment where one is running a
business to satisfy the needs of people and looking for
ways to make the business better to make profits. This
unit focusses on encouraging students to learn about
entrepreneurship and its functions from the world
around them.
Entrepreneurs are all around us. We would have
spoken to a lot of them through the course of this
module. We also learnt that successful entrepreneurs
have the following qualities.
• They are confident. They believe in themselves
and their abilities.
• They keep trying new ideas in their business.
• They are patient.
• They are creative and think differently about
business ideas.
• They take responsibility for their actions.
• They take decisions after thinking about them.
• They work hard.
• They do not give up when they face a difficulty.
Practical Exercise
Activity 1
Entrepreneurs I know: Individual Practice
Procedure
• In this activity, we will think of the entrepreneurs we know.
Instructions
1. Think of 4 entrepreneurs whom you know or have seen.
2. Draw circles and in each circle write the name of that
entrepreneur, what business they run, and one thing
that you really like about their business.
3. After writing, share the details of the entrepreneurs with
your class.
Help Society
Entrepreneurs have a positive relationship with society.
They make profits through activities that benefit
society. Some entrepreneurs work towards saving the
environment, some give money to build schools and
hospitals. This way, the people and area around them
becomes better.
These are the roles that entrepreneurs do in a society.
How do you think entrepreneurs affect the society they
live in? Let’s read.
Create Jobs
With the growth of a business, entrepreneurs look for
more people to help them. They buy more material, and
from more people. The also hire more people to work for
them. In this way, more people have jobs.
Sharing of Wealth
Wealth means having enough money to live a comfortable
life. As entrepreneurs grow their business, the people
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Practical Exercise
Activity 2
Field Work : Let’s be an Entrepreneur
Procedure
• In this activity, students will find problems on their school
campus that can be turned into business opportunities.
Instructions
1. Form groups of 3 each.
2. Take 30 minutes to go around your school.
3. Note down 2–3 problems you see on your school campus.
4. Write down some business ideas to solve these problems
in the table given below.
5. Also think about how your business ideas will help the
school. One example has been written for you.
Problem Business ideas How will this help the
school?
For example, 1. Make plant 1. The school will look
plastic cola pots out of green and beautiful.
bottles bottles and sell The air will be fresh.
from the to students and
canteen are parents. 2. The canteen owner
harming the will spend less money
environment 2. Sell cola in on buying glass
glass bottles. bottles because they
can be used again.
Qualities of an Entrepreneur
Quality is a way in which a person acts or behaves.
Some examples of qualities in people are hardworking,
nice, rude, etc. Read the comic strips in Figures 4.2 and
4.3 and learn about the qualities of an entrepreneur.
Qualities of an Entrepreneur
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Figure 4.3
Practical Exercise
Activity 1
My Entrepreneurial Qualities: Self-assessment
Procedure
• In this activity, the students will rate themselves on the
entrepreneurial qualities mentioned below.
Y N Y N
I believe in myself and what I can I keep trying new ideas.
do. I am confident.
I think of different ways to
Problems take time to get solved. solve a problem. I am creative.
I am patient about solving them.
I think before I make a decision.
I take responsibility for my
I do not give up when I face a
actions and mistakes.
problem.
I work hard on every task.
Figure A
Activity 2
Let us Solve a Problem!
Procedure
• In this activity, students will try and solve a problem in
their vicinity.
Instructions
1. Similar to Activity 1.2, select a problem in the area
near your home. This could be a problem that really
bothers you.
2. Make a 5-step plan for how you will solve the problem.
3. Implement step 1 of your solution!
4. After that, try implementing all the steps. Try your
solution for a week.
5. At the end of the week, rate yourself again on the
entrepreneurial qualities you rated yourselves on in
Activity 2.2.
Questions for Discussion
Are your ratings on your entrepreneurial qualities before doing
the activity and after doing the activity different?
What qualities did you see yourself apply in the activity? You
would have applied some or all of these entrepreneurial qualities
while implementing your solution. You did not implement a
business solution, but you exercised these qualities anyway.
These are ideal qualities than an entrepreneur has.
However, any individual who is trying to solve a problem can
be entrepreneurial. If employees of a factory or company work
hard to try new ideas to make their company’s products better
or find creative ways to get work done, they are also showing the
qualities of an entrepreneur. They are also being entrepreneurial.
If your mother or father work in a company, ask them if they
show these qualities.
Functions of an Entrepreneur
If you were to become an entrepreneur, you now know how you
would think and act. But, what would you actually be doing in
your business? What work will you do every day? Let’s find out.
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Figure a
Figure b
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C. Subjective question
Misconception 1
Practical Exercise
Activity 1
Identifying Everyday Heroes
Procedure
• In this activity, the teacher will make chits about different
professions and the students will act them out. There will
be a discussion after that. The professions are
1. a vegetable seller not using plastic bags
2. a businesswoman running a delivery system
3. a chai wala selling fruit flavoured tea
4. a gold seller selling gold teeth
Instructions
1. There will be professions of different people written on
each chit of paper. The student reads the profession and
acts it out for the class.
2. Identify what each person is doing differently in
their business.
Questions for Discussion
1. Are all these people entrepreneurs? Why or why not?
2. Being a vegetable seller, selling chai or selling gold —
How many of these are new business ideas? How many
of these are common business ideas?
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Practical Exercise
Activity 2
Talking to Entrepreneurs: Interview
Procedure
• In this activity, students speak to entrepreneurs and learn
about the money needed to start a business and how
to raise money needed for the business. Students should
find out how the entrepreneur raised the money for
their business.
Instructions
1. Identify three different types of successful entrepreneurs
in your area.
2. Ask them how much money they started their
businesses with.
3. What are the sources?
4. How did they raise the money?
5. Caution — not everyone likes talking about money.
Please ask your questions with respect. If someone does
not want to answer, let it be!
6. Fill ‘ Table a’ after the conversation.
Table a
Entrepreneur E.g. Kashish
Name
Type of business Lightbulb shop
Capital ` 50,000 –
` 1,00,000
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Practical Exercise
Activity 3
Make and sell
Procedure
• In this activity, students make an item in class and step
out to sell it to someone.
Instructions
1. Form groups of 5 people each. The group should have a
mix of boys and girls.
2. Look into your bags and desks and find any three items.
Put them on your desk.
3. With the materials you’ve collected, make an object.
Take 15 minutes to do this.
4. Now, take 30 minutes to sell it for money, to someone
in school.
Questions for discussion
Were you able to do it? What do you now think — can you be
an entrepreneur?
Story Misconception
Ramu owns a large clothes (a) Every business idea needs
shop. Shamu has a small to be unique or special.
store selling handmade
sarees. Shamu does not call
himself an entrepreneur.
Anna has a great idea for a (b) Entrepreneurs are born,
website. She has ` 5,000. She not made.
is waiting for ` 20,000 more,
so that she can start it.
Session 4: Entrepreneurship as a
Career Option
So far, we have discussed the effect of entrepreneurship
on society the qualities and functions of an
entrepreneur and misconceptions we might have about
entrepreneurship.
In this section, we shall think about entrepreneurship
as a life choice.
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Practical Exercise
Activity 1
Talking about entrepreneurship as a life option
Procedure
• In this activity, you will compare entrepreneurship and
wage employment.
Instructions
1. Get into pairs.
2. Imagine five years in the future — one person in the
pair is wage employed and the other person is an
entrepreneur. Discuss how your lives are similar and
different from each other.
3. Have a debate with your class and your teacher.
Activity 1
Presenting about the Power of Entrepreneurship
Procedure
• In this activity, students shall prepare and present why
they think entrepreneurship is a good life option for a
person and for the society
Instructions
1. Get into groups of 5 each.
2. Imagine you believe that people should become
entrepreneurs. You are speaking at your school
assembly. You have to talk to the audience about the
power of entrepreneurship. Prepare a presentation for
the same.
3. You can use any way to present - talk, draw, act, sing,
or dance.
4. You have 15 minutes to prepare. You will have 5 minutes
to present.
Things to remember
1. An entrepreneur does a lot of work in his or her
business. One has to learn and practice these actions
before they try it out in their business. This can be
done by either learning them in school and college
or practicing them while working for someone.
2. If you believe in your idea, start your business.
3. Being an entrepreneur can be risky. But if you do
not try, you will not know!
Introduction
The environment around us affects all aspects of our
life; and all our day-to-day activities also affect the
environment. Those who live in cities get their food
supply from surrounding villages and in turn, are
dependent on forests, grasslands, rivers, seashores, for
resources, such as water, fuel wood, fodder, etc. We use
natural resources for food. Everything around us forms
our environment and our lives depend on the natural
world around us.
Over the years, with economic development, there
has been an increase in environmental pollution.
For example, with the introduction of high input
agriculture, we can grow more food by using fertilisers,
pesticides and hybrid crops. But it has led to soil and
environmental degradation. We need to plan the use of
resources in a sustainable manner so that we and our
future generations can enjoy the good environment
Sustainable Processes
Some practices, such as organic farming, vermi-composting
and rainwater harvesting are being used to help preserve
the environment.
Organic farming is where farmers do not use chemical
pesticides and fertilisers to increase their production.
They use organic and natural fertilisers, such as cow
dung to help in growing crops. This helps in better
quality chemical free crops while at the same time
maintaining the soil quality for future use. This is a true
example of sustainable developmen where we are not
only using the earth resources but are also preserving
it for our future generations.
Practical Exercise
Activity 1
Create a Garden in School or Plant Trees
Material required
Seeds, garden waste, sprinkler, gardening tools
Activity 2
Discussion on How to Prevent Wastage.
Procedure
• Form groups depending on the number of students
available.
• Every student in the group will name way in which wasting
of water and food can be stopped or prevented.
• Make a list and share it with the rest of the class.
B. Subjective questions
Quality Education
Education is the most important factors for sustainable
development. Children who have gone to school will be
able to do jobs so that they can take care of themselves
and their families. Education helps us become aware of
our role as a responsible citizen. We should
1. use the facilities present in our areas.
2. take our friends to school.
3. help friends study.
4. stop friends from dropping out of school.
Reduced Inequalities
To reduce inequalities we can
1. be helpful to one another.
2. be friendly with everyone.
3. include everyone while working or playing.
4. help others by including everyone whether they
are small or big, girl or boy, belong to any class
or caste.
Practical Exercise
Activity 1
Group Discussion
Procedure
• Form groups depending on the number of students
available.
• Every student will describe one way in which they can
work to conserve and protect the environment.
• Make a list and share it with the rest of the class.
Activity 2
Make art project using waste
Material required
Plastic bags, used bottles, papers cups, paper, wire, etc.
B. Subjective questions