DATE: 22-02-24

3G CLASSES
10 (English)
TIME: 3 hrs

English-(All)
MARKS: 80

SEAT NO:

SECTION I : LANGUAGE STUDY

Q.1 (A1) Do as directed. (Any four) (4)

1. Write two compound words of your own.

Write two compound words of your own.

2. Make a meaningful sentence by using the given phrase.

stumble on

3. Spot the error and correct the sentence.

Yes, Squire Jack will coming willingly.

4. Find out 2 hidden words of minimum 4 letters from -

Find out minimum four letter words from the given word.
Conservation

5. Arrange the following words in alphabetical order.

spirits, flattery, grunting, appealing

(A2) Do as directed. (Any two) (4)

1. Direct and Indirect narration.

1) “Sing that back”, he ordered.

2) He said,” You can give me an example, perhaps?”

2. Change the voice.

1) Science accelerates progress and faith curbs it.

2) The judges were not pressing the buttons.

3. Make two sentences of your own to show difference of Homograph/Homonyms:

TRAIN

(B) Do as directed. (Any One) (2)

1. Use the given word as a noun and as a verb in two meaningful sentences.
remains

2. Convert the given sentences into Simple / compound / complex sentences.

It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. (Rewrite as compound
sentence)

SECTION II : TEXTUAL PASSAGES

(Reading Skill, Vocabulary and Grammar)

Q.2 (A) Read the following passage and do the activities.

1 A1) Write whether the statements are true or false. 2

1) The old man demanded that the narrator should go up with him.

2) The young man disliked songs that have words.

3) The young man told him that he liked songs by Bing Crosby.

4) The narrator had heard the song only once.

The old man got up.

“You will come up with me?” he asked. I just
remained seated. “I’m requesting you to come with
me”, he said again.
So I went up with him. He took me to a room
which had a gramophone in it and asked, “What kind
of music do you like ?”
“Well,” I answered, “I like songs that have words,
and the kind of music where I can follow the tune.”
He smiled and nodded, obviously pleased. “You
can give me an example, perhaps ?”
I told him I like anything by Bing Crosby. At
once, I could hear Bing Crosby’s voice filling the room.
“Now, can you please tell me what you just
heard?”, he said.
The simplest answer seemed to be to sing the lines.
So I sang it back to him.
He smiled. “You’re not tone-deaf,” he said.
I told him this was one of my favourite songs,
something I had heard hundreds of times, so it didn’t
really prove anything.

A2) Answer the following : 2

As far as listening is concerned, what difference do you notice between the writer and
Einstein?
A3) i) Grammar based questions : 1

The given words have two different meanings. Write sentences to bring out the two
meanings.
Can
ii) Write adverb form 1

1) Obvious - ...............

2) Real - ...............

A4) Grammar based questions : 2

1) The simplest answer seemed to be to sing the lines. (Change the degree)

2) Rewrite the following in indirect narration”.

“Now, can you please tell me what you just heard? he said.
A5) Personal response. 2

What do you learn from Einstein’s treatment to the young man?

(B) Read the following passage and do the activities.

1 A1) Write whether the statements are true or false. 2

1) The Nobel committee had invited Satyarthi to present an award.

2) The children have frightened eyes.

3) All great religious teach us to take care of our children.

4) Satyarthi does not want to share the voices of the children.

Friends, the Nobel Committee has generously invited me to present a

“lecture.” Respectfully, I am unable to do that. Because, I am representing here - the
sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent
millions of those
children who are left behind and that’s why I have kept an empty chair here as a
reminder.
I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children -
because they are all our children - (gesture to everyone in the audience). I have
looked into their frightened and exhausted eyes. I have held their injured bodies and
felt their broken
spirits.
Twenty years ago, in the foothills of the Himalayas, I met a small, skinny child
labourer. He asked me: “Is the world so poor that it cannot give me a toy and a book,
instead of forcing me to take a gun or a tool?”
I met with a Sudanese child-soldier. He was kidnapped by an extremist militia.
As his first training lesson, he was forced to kill his friends and family. He asked me:
“What is my fault?”
Friends, all the great religions teach us to care for our children. Jesus said:
“Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to
them.” The Holy Quran says: “Kill not your children because of poverty.”

A2) i) Complete the Web 1

ii) Complete the sentence. 1

I represent million of those children ...............

A3) Write synonyms 2

Find the synonyms of the following words from the extract.

i) handsomely ii) use sign language
iii) obstruct iv) fanatic
A4) Grammar based questions : 2

1) The Nobel committee has generously invited me to present a lecture. (Change the
voice).

2) Friends, all the great religious, teach us to care for our children. (Rewrite using a
modal auxiliary showing compulsion)
A5) Personal response. 2

Why has Satyarthi used the metaphor, “the face of invisibility”? Whom is he referring to
?
SECTION III : POETRY
Q.3 (A) Read the following poem and do the activities.

1 A1) Complete the web. 2

If you want a thing bad enough

to go out and fight for it,
work day and night for it,
give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it
If all that you dream
and scheme is about it and life
seems useless and worthless without it
If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it and lose
all your terror of the opposition for it.
If you simply go after that thing that you want with all
of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and
confidence and stern for tenacity
If neither cold poverty, famish or gout
or sickness or pain
of body and brain
can keep you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you be size and beget it,
with the help of GOD you’ll get it!

A2) Answer the following : 2

Every stanza begins with the word “if”. How does it add to the effectiveness of the
poem?
A3) Grammar based questions : 1

Pick out one example of Antithesis and Alliteration from the extract.
(B) Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in (5)
paragraph format.

All the World’s a Stage

All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
 Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

- William Shakespeare

Points:
• The title and the poet of the poem (1)
• Rhyme scheme (1)
• Figures of speech (1)
• Central Idea/Theme (2)
SECTION IV : NON-TEXTUAL PASSAGES

(Reading Skill, Vocabulary, Grammar and Summary)

Q.4 (A) Read the given passage and do the given activities.

1 A1) Match the column : 2

Column 'A' Column 'B'

i) Tiger a) On the floor
ii) A China Hand b) Displayed its springs
iii) Magic Mirrors c) On the glass case
iv) Immodest Magic Hat d) Holding magic cards

It was no common shop this; it was a magic shop. For a moment or so we

were alone and could glance at us. There was a tiger in papier-mâché on the glass
case that covered the low counter; there were several crystal spheres, a China hand
holding magic cards, and an immodest magic hat that shamelessly displayed its
springs. On the floor were magic mirrors; one to draw you out long and thin, and one
to make you short and fat; and while we were laughing at these the shopman, as I
suppose, came in. There he was behind the counter- a curious, sallow, dark man,
with one ear larger than the other. ‘What can we have the pleasure?’ he said,
spreading his long, magic fingers on the glass case; and so with a start, we were
aware of him. ‘I want,’ I said, ‘to buy my little boy a few simple tricks.’ ‘Legerdemain?’
he asked. ‘Mechanical? Domestic?’ ‘Anything amusing?’ said I. ‘Um!’ said the
shopman, and scratched his head. Then, quite distinctly, he drew from his head a
glass ball. ‘Something in this way?’ he said, and held it out. The action was
unexpected.
 A2) Answer the following : 2

1) How did the shopman look?

2) What did the shopman draw from his head?

A3) Vocabulary Based Questions. 2

1) Write adjective forms of:

i. Magic - ............... ii. Moment - ..............

2) Find words:
i. Showed - ............... ii. Many - ...............
A4) Grammar based questions : 2

1) The action was unexpected (Begin ... 'They')

2) It was no common shop (End......... ?)

A5) Personal response. 2

Imagine you are given a magic wand, what would you do for yourself?
(B) Read the comprehension passage given in Q.4 (A) and write the summary of it. Suggest a (5)
suitable title :

SECTION V : WRITING SKILLS

Q.5 Letter Writing : Attempt any one of the following activities. (5)
India is said to be the fastest developing countries today only after China. But one of the
striking underlying facts is the condition of the roads. Since roads indirectly contribute to the
economic growth of the country it is extremely essential that the roads are well laid out and
strong. India is home to several bad roads - be it the metropolitans, the cities or the villages.
Bad road conditions are nothing new to India.

You are Kailash/ Kiran, living at 22, Kailasnagar, Kolkata. Write a letter to your friend, Frenny,
who has fractured her leg when she fell down on a broken pavement though it was a newly
constructed pavement.
OR
You are Kailash/ Kiran, living at 22, Kailasnagar, Kolkata. Write a letter to the Municipal
Commissioner describing the poor condition of the newly constructed pavements which
were constructed at a high cost.

Q.6 (A) Information Transfer : Attempt any one of the following activities. (5)

(A1) Non-Verbal to Verbal :

Write a paragraph of 100 words based on the informationgiven in the following table and
give a suitable title for it.
 OR

(A2) Verbal to Non-verbal :

Mr. Sarfare was checking his expenses and incomes and this is what he found. He earns
Rs. 50,000 a month. 25% of his salary is on house rent. His family eats a lot of fruits and
vegetables. Almost 20% of his salary is spent on that. His office is far but he travels by the
first class local. He spends 8% on office travel and another 5% on holidays when he visits
friends and relatives. His phone bills come to another 5%. His daughter’s school fees are
high and nearly 15% is spent on that every month. Other household expenses come to 10%
of his salary. Whatever remains is his savings. (Draw a pie chart)

(B) View/Counterviews (or) Drafting a speech : Attempt any one of the activities. (5)
(B1) View/Counterviews :

Play is very essential for a child. Indian children must play every day.

OR

(B2) Drafting a speech :

Jai jawan !
[soldiers make our country safe – fight while we enjoy the luxuries of life – away from family
– face many dangers – always ready for battle – ready to face death for his country – role
model]

SECTION VI: CREATIVE WRITING

Q Expansion or News Report : Attempt any one of the following activities.

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(A)

(A1) Expansion of theme (5)

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
― Steve Jobs

OR

(A2) News Report based on the given headline:

India awaits election results.

(B) Story or Narrating an experience : Attempt any one of the following activities.
(B1) Writing a story : (5)

Developing a story

Develop a story in about 80-100 words beginning with the following. Give a suitable title.
One afternoon while I was returning from school I happened to see.................................

OR
(B2) Narrating an experience :

Narrate an experience in about 80 - 100 words with the help of the following beginning.
Suggest a suitable title for it.
Final exams were going on In the morning , I was waiting at the bus stop when
..............................................