Unit Test 2018

Unit Test Std 12 English

Activity Sheet on '7.2 What Would It Be Like ?'

Read the activity, read the extract and do all the activities.
A1. Complex Factual
Complete the statements by using the appropriate words from the extract.
1. A poverty-free world means that everyone has the ability to take care of ................
2. In such a world ............. would not be the cause of death.
3. ................ is a goal of world leaders for decades.
4. Due to hunger related diseases today ........... die each day all over the world.
Ans :1. A poverty-free world means that everyone has the ability to take care of basis life needs
2. In such a world hunger would not be the cause of death.
3. A poverty- free world / A world without poverty is a goal of world leaders for decades.
4. Due to hunger related diseases today 4000 children die each day all over the world.
To me, a world without poverty means that every person would have the ability to take care of his or her own basic life needs. In such a world, nobody would die of hunger or suffer from malnutrition. This is a goal world leaders have been calling for for decades, but have never set out any way of achieving it. Today 40,000 children die each day around the world from hunger-related diseases. In a poverty- free world, no children would die of such causes. Everybody in every part of the globe would have access to education and health-care services because he or she would be able to afford them. Unlike today, the state would not be required to provide free or subsidized health-care or schooling. All state organizations created to provide free or subsidized services for the poor would no longer be required and could be done away with. Thus, no need for welfare, or local welfare agencies, or the national welfare department. No need for hand-outs, no soup-kitchens, no food stamps, no free schools, no free hospital care, no begging in the streets. State-run safety -net programme would have no rationale for existence because no one would live on charity any more. State-run social security programmes, income-support programmes would be unnecessary. Social structures in a poverty-free world would, of course, be quite different from those that exist in a poverty-ridden world. But nobody would be at the mercy of anyone else, and that is what would make all the difference between a world without poverty and one riddled with it. Finally, a poverty-free world would be economically much stronger and far more stable than the world today.
A2. Interpretation
Complete the Web chart about have’s and haven’t in poverty free world. ( Draw the web chart. )

Ans :

A3 Conclusion / Guess
Differentiate the world without poverty and the world riddled with poverty.
Ans : Social structure in these two world would be different. Everybody would be able to afford basic needs in poverty-free world. But in the poverty riddled world some people would be at the mercy of government and private agencies .
A4. Vocabulary
Match the words in Column A with their meaning in Column B

Column A	Column B
Malnutrition	Sympathy
Decade	Paying part of cost
Subsidized	A period of ten year
Mercy	Under nourishment

A5. Personal Response Type
Poverty-free world will be a reality or dream. Express your views about it.
A6 Grammar
1. Nobody would die of hunger or suffer from malnutrition.
( Choose the two appropriate rhetorical questions for the above statement.)
a. Who would die of hunger or suffer from malnutrition ?
b. Would you not die of hunger or suffer from malnutrition ?
c. Would nobody die of hunger or suffer from malnutrition ?
d. Would anybody die of hunger or suffer from malnutrition ?
Ans : a. Who would die of hunger or suffer from malnutrition ?
d. Would anybody die of hunger or suffer from malnutrition ?
2. The state would not be required to provide free or subsidized health care or schooling. ( Rewrite using neither..... nor )
Ans :The state would neither be required to provide free or subsidized health care nor schooling.

5.3 Under The Yoke

Activities On 5.2 Towards Ideal Villages

Complex Factual/ Global Understanding A1 Complete the flow chart showing revival of Hiware Bazaar .

A1 Complete the web chart about processing of making Adarshgaon.

A1.State whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the sentences if they are false:
i.The aim of the State government's AGY is to make 37 villages 'Adarsh'every year.
ii.Any village that sends the proposal is selected under the AGY scheme.
iii.The decision to become an ideal village is taken by the village panchayat.
iv.Yavatmal was the worst affected district with the highest number of farmer suicides•
v.Financial empowerment is one of the many perks of being an 'Adarshgaon'.
Ans i. False,50 villages ii False, Villages following strict rules is selected under AGY. iii. True iv. True v.False , Banking is one of the many perks of being an 'Adarshgaon'
Interpretation : A2 Choose the statements that state the strategies the villagers employed to come out of poverty.
a. They adopted crash crops.
b. They accepted subsidy from NGOs and governments.
c. They made marketing of their dairy product.
d.They set up factories in the village.
Conclusion/ guess :A3 Prove that Hiware Bazaar got succeeded in creating employment in the village itself. Vocab : A4 Give one word for a. a group of people appointed for a specific function b. occurring before marriage
c. moving from one place to another place to settle d. a surgical procedure for male sterilization or contraception
Ans : committee , pre-marital, migration, vasectomy
PRT: A5 Give your views about behavioral changes among people of Ideal village. Or Write your plan about making your village as an ideal village.
Grammar :
1. Choose the statement which means the same as ' There are no liquor or tobacco shops in the village.
a. There are no liquor but tobacco shops in the village.
b. There are neither liquor or tobacco shops in the village.
c. There are neither liquor nor tobacco shops in the village.
d. There are either liquor or tobacco shops in the village.
2. Identify whether the following sentences are active voice or passive voice
a. Hiware Bazaar has seen a complete revival.
b. Watershed development was adopted to fight the acute water crisis.
c. Vasectomy has been made compulsory.
d. The decision to become an ideal village was taken by the entire village.

Rapid Reading : The Daisy

Complete the statements
1. A little daisy grew at ............
2. The daisy learnt from the sun and from its surroundings ............
3. The daisy felt that it is very rich because.............
4. The daisy thanks God because ...........
5. The bird (lark ) honoured the daisy by ..........
6. The daisy was very glad and grateful because .........
7. The bird was sad because ...........
8. The bird felt that it would die because..........
9. The boys were responsible for the death of the bird because.........
Arrange in order
1. Lark kissed the daisy.
2. Daisy felt ashamed but glad
3. They cut the turf round the daisy.
4. Lark was caged.
5. The daisy felt very grateful.
6. Lark’s song sounded sad.
7. The following morning two boys came to the ditch.
8. Other flowers were vexed.
9. A girl cut the tulips.
10. The girl carried the tulips away.
Pick out the lines that creates suspense.
Pick out the expressions that show the death of lark and daisy.

Read the extract and extend it by adding an imaginary paragraph of your own in about 120 words.
“I have no water,” said the captive lark, “they have all gone out, and forgotten to give me anything to drink. My throat is dry and burning. I feel as if I had fire and ice within me and the air is so oppressive. Alas! I must die, and part with the warm sunshine, the fresh green meadows, and all the beauty that God has created.” And it thrust its beak into the piece of grass, to refresh itself a little. Then it noticed the little daisy, and nodded to it, and kissed it with its beak and said: “You must also fade in here, poor little flower. You and the piece of grass are all they have given me in exchange for the whole world, which I enjoyed outside. Each little blade of grass shall be a green tree for me, each of your white petals a fragrant flower. Alas! you only remind me of what I have lost.”
Extended Para
Clouds gathered in the sky. The wind blew hard. The Cage started to swing. The lark inside the cage felt nervous. The lark tried to get free. It fluttered its wings against the bars of the cage. Suddenly the cage fell down. Three bars of the cage dislocated. The lark saw the opening in the cage. It rolled over in the cage to bring opening to sideways. The lark’s joy knew no bounds. It came out of the cage slowly and safely. “I will not forget the company you gave in the cage,” the lark said to daisy. It said , “Goodbye”. Seeing the lark flying away the little daisy faded calmly and happily.


Composition

Activities On 4.3 A Yawning Divide

A1. Choose the correct alternative
1. Early risers /late risers miss trains on regular basis.
2. It’s almost as if they live in different time zones and different countries/same time zones and different countries.
3. All over the country, things are likely t be much the same/ different in this respect.
4. The writer’s sister, a teacher and her husband, a doctor wake at 4 am/10 am each day.
5. It is learnt that the garbage man turns up at the writer’s house/ his sister’s house every day at five in the morning.
A1 State whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false statement.
1.The media personality goes for morning walk at 1pm.
2.The writer is a late riser.
3.Late risers are the early birds.
. 4.Writer’s sister finishes her household work by 6 am.
5.Differentiate the young and the old.
A2. Choose the correct alternative. Purpose of the text is .. 1. To encourage the people to work hard.
2. To encourage the people to rise early.
3. To highlight the importance of early rising.
4. To tell about the writer’s different relatives’ wake up habit.
Complete the flow chart

A3. Guess the reason
Supply suitable reasons for the following statements.
1. Some people have never seen a sunrise.
2. Father would be left shaking his head.
A4.Find out one word substitutes from the text for the following meanings:
a. Done quickly and with a lot of activity in an unorganised manner = frantic
b. Connected with a house and people living in it = household
c. A person who treats ill and injured people = doctor
d. A group of people or nations who have united for a particular purpose = zones
e. A group of people who meet together regularly for a particular activity = team
f. Means which offer information and entertainment to large number of people i.e. television, radio, newspaper, and internet = media
g. A person who collects waste food, paper. Etc. that you throw away = garbage man
A4 Make a list of 4 compound words( with a hyphen, without a hyphen , using separate words) from the text.
1. Slumber-land, rubbing-eyes
2. Milkman , sunrise, household, newspaper
3. Morning walk, snooze button, media personality, distance calls ,text messages , quality time, operating team
A5 PRT
1.Do you like to rise early? Give reason.
2. Narrate disadvantages of late risers.

Activities On 4.2 16 Killed In Haridwar Stampede

A1. Complete the statements by choosing the appropriate words from the extract.
1. The stampede took place on …………
2. ……people were given the first aid.
3. According to SDM ………might have led to the stampede.
4. The Yagya was scheduled to begin at ………..
Read the columns and match the names with which they are associated

Column A	Column B
i. Manmohan Singh	a)survivor
ii. Senthil Pandian	b) Uttarakhand C. M.
iii.Sarswati Devi	c) Then Prime Minister
iv.B. C. Khanduri	d) District Magistrate

A2. Glance through the extract and say whether the following statements are true or false
Correct the false statements : 1. The number of deaths was 64 in Haridwar stampede.
2. The five-day 'Mahayagya' was attended by nearly two lakh people.
3. SDM Harbir Singh is not sure about the cause of death of pilgrims.
4. Most of the victims were from Danapur, Bihar.
A3 Find the proof for the victims and their kin were given help.
A4. Match the word under column A with their meanings listed under column B.

Column A	Column B
i. ceremony	a)the 100 th anniversary
ii. centenary	b) an inquiry
iii. mishap	c) formal celebration or event
iv. emanating	d) accident
v. probe	e)giving out

A5. Justify an effective disaster management may avert disasters.

A6 Rewrite the sentences as instructed
1. I too fell down and became unconscious . (Begin the sentence " After felling down.......")
2. Identify the voice of the following sentences
a. Devotees started gate crashing at one of exit point.
b. The exact cause of the incident can be confirmed only after an inquiry.
c.The area was overcrowded .
d. Senthil Paandian has ordered a Magisterial probe into the incident.

Activities On Poem 4.1 Old Women

4.1 OLD WOMEN

Old women do not fly on magic wands
nor make obscure prophecies
from ominous forests.
They just sit on vacant park benches
in the quiet evenings,
call doves by their names
and charm them with grains of maize.

Or, trembling like waves
they stand in endless queues in
government hospitals
or settle like sterile clouds
in post offices awaiting mail
from their sons abroad,
long ago dead.

They whisper like drizzles
as they roam the streets
with a lost gaze as though
something they had thrown up
never returned to earth.

They shiver like December nights
in their dreamless sleep
on shop verandahs.

There are swings still
in their half-blind eyes,
lilies and Christmases
in their failing memory.
There is one folktale
for each wrinkle on their skin.

All dawns pass
leaving them in the dark .
They do not fear death,
they died long ago.
Old women once
were continents.
They had deep woods in them,
lakes, mountains, volcanoes even,
even raging gulfs.
When the earth was in heat
they melted, shrank,
leaving only their maps.
You can fold them
and keep them handy :
who knows , they might help you find
your way home.

K. Satchidanandan




1. Webchart

A2. Complete the following statements by choosing the correct alternatives.
1. Old women sit ….. in the quiet evenings.
i. In the chair
ii. In the verandah
iii. On vacant park benches
2.The old women are seen roaming aimlessly because
i. They have lost something.
ii. They have become blind.
iii. They have become insane.
3. ‘They shiver like December nights’ mean ----
i. They undergo trauma.
ii. They don’t have anything to cover.
iii. They shiver because of severe cold.
4. ‘lilies and Christmases in their failing memory’ means ---
i. They like lilies during Christmas festival.
ii. They remember good old days with family members.
iii. They have forgotten about lilies and Christmases.
5. ‘ …. One folktale for each wrinkle on their skin’ mean…
i. Old age with wisdom and lot many experience
ii. Old age with wrinkled skin
iii. Remembering folktales in old age.
2The line 'All dawns pass leaving them in the dark' suggest....
Ans : The line 'All dawns pass leaving them in the dark' suggest that they have lost their youth and now they are old. Their days of happiness are over. Now they are living a miserable life.
3. Pick out the lines that reveal isolation and loneliness of the old women.
4. Pick out the lines that highlight that the old women were living a happy and prosperous life.

Ans :There are swings still
in their half-blind eyes,
lilies and Christmases
in their failing memory.

5 Poetic Devices
I. 'settle like sterile clouds'. Name the figure of speech used .Find similar examples .
2. In the line 'They do not fear death, they died long ago' 'death' has been treated as a human being. Name the figure of speech.
3. You know that an implicit comparison is called a Metaphor. Now find examples of Metaphor from the poem.
4. 'All dawns pass leaving them in the dark'.
A striking opposition or contrast of words or ideas is employed to achieve emphasis. Such a figurative use is called 'Antithesis'.
5. 'They whisper like drizzles'. ' The figure of speech in the line is 'Onomatopoeia'. Name the other figures of speech in it .