Unseen passages for Note making and summarising:

III. Note Making and Summarization based on a passage of approximately 200-250

words.
i. Note Making: 5 Marks
 Title: 1
 Numbering and indenting: 1
 Key/glossary: 1
 Notes: 2

ii. Summary (up to 50 words): 3 Marks

 Content: 2
 Expression: 1

NOTE MAKING
Characteristics of Notes
1. Short, no full sentences, only points
2. Only the important information included
3. Logically presented in sequence
4. Organized appropriately under Heading and Sub Heading.
Mechanics of Note-Making
1. Use of Abbreviations:
(a) Capitalized first letter of words: UNO. CBSE, NCERT etc.
(b) Arithmetic symbols: (><, --------------, kg, % etc.)
(c) Commonly used: (in newspapers, magazines etc.): govt. etc., e.g.,
(d) Invented: First and last few letters of the world with a dot at the end (edun., poln., popn,
Mfg.)
2. Proper indentation
Heading Title
(1) Main point..............
1.1 Sub Point
1.2 Sub Point
1.3 Sub Point

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 1.3.1 Sub Sub Point
1.3.2 Sub Sub Point
3. Make use of words and phrases only. Avoid full length sentences.
4. Give Appropriate Title: The title may be given at the beginning.
The notes are of 3 marks and should not be more than 1/3 of the passage’s length.
Marking Scheme / Pattern for Note Making and Summarising:
(a) Note-Title 1 Marks
(b) Abbreviation/Contraction 1 Marks (Minimum four)
(c) Sub-Headings (Four as per 3 Marks & the requirement) along with 2-3 points
Summary Writing
Content 2 Marks
Expression 1 Marks
(Standard word limit for summary is 50 words)
Q.1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. How does television affect our lives? It can be very helpful to people who carefully choose
the shows that they watch Television can increase our knowledge of the outside world; there
are high quality programmes that help us to understand many fields of study, science, medicine,
and the arts and so on. Moreover, television benefits very old people who can’t often leave the
house, as well as patients in hospital. It also offers non-native speakers the advantage of daily
informal language practice. They can increase their vocabulary and practice listening.
2. On the other hand, there are several serious disadvantages to television. Of course, it provides
us with a pleasant way to relax and spend our free time, but in some countries, people watch
the ‘boob-tube’ for an average of six hours or more a day. Many children stare at a television
screen for more hours each day than they do anything else, including studying and sleeping.
It’s clear that the tube has a powerful influence on their lives and that its influence is often
negative.
3. Recent studies show that after only thirty seconds of watching television, a person’s brain
‘relaxes’ the same way that it does just before the person falls asleep. Another effect of
television on the human brain is that it seems to cause poor concentration. Children who view
a lot of television can often concentrate on a subject for only fifteen to twenty minutes. They
can pay attention only for the amount of time between commercials.
4. Another disadvantage is that television often causes people to become dissatisfied with their
own lives. Real life does not seem as exciting to these people as the lives of actors on the
screen. To many people television becomes more real than reality and their own lives ... boring.
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Also many people get upset or depressed when they can’t solve problems in real life as quickly
as television actors seem to.
5. Before a child is fourteen years old, he or she views eleven thousand murders on the tube.
He or she begins to believe that there is nothing strange about fights, killings and other kinds
of violence. Many studies show that people become more violent after certain. Programmes.
They may even do the things that they saw in a violent show.
1.1. Make notes on the above passage using proper abbreviations (04) and suggest a
suitable title. (3 + 1 + 1 = 05 Marks)
1.2. Write a summary of the above passage in about 50 words (03 Marks)
1.1 Note Making
Title : The Impact of Television
1. Benefits of T.V.
1.1 Inc. our know. Of o/s world
1.2 High qty prog
1.2.1 Fields – science, medicine, arts
1.3 Old people, patients – can’ t leave house
1.4 Non-native speakers – daily informal long. Prac.
1.5 Inc. vocabulary, listening
2. Disadvantages of T.V./Boob-Tube on body
2.1 Long Duration of viewing – affects eyes
2.2 Human brain
2.2.1. gets drained
2.2.2. poor concentration
2.3 Effects of violent shows on adults/behaviour
3. Effects of T.V. on children
3.1. Lack of concentration in studies
3.2. gets used to violence
3.3. Loses discretion / understanding
4. Other effects
4.1 People become dissatisfied
4.2 Unable to diff. b/w reel and real life
4.3 Real life seems boring
4.4 Imitate actors
4.5 Get upset/depressed – unable to solve problems
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Key to Abbreviations
1. Inc. – increases
2. o/s – outside
3. know – knowledge
4. lang. – language
5. prac. – practice
6. T.V. – television
7. difft. – differentiate
8. b/w – between
1.2 SUMMARY WRITING
The Impact of Television
Television viewing is both a boon and a bane. It’s an easily available source of entertainment
for everyone, even old people and patients. It offers high quality educational programmes. But
it has a bad side too; it drains our brain of energy and causes poor concentration in students.
Violent shows often lead to violent behaviours in real life among children and adults. (62
Words)

Q.2 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
In Delhi where 80% of the people are pedestrians in some stage of their commuting, least
attention is paid in pedestrian paths. Delhi’s sidewalks are too narrow, very poorly maintained
and full of potholes, poles, junction boxes and dangerous electrical installation, not to speak of
the garbage dumps that stink and stare at the pedestrian. Ashram Chowk is a good case in point
where thousands of pedestrian change direction from the Mathura road radial to the Ring Road.
A flyover facilitates the automobiles, while the pedestrian is orphaned by the investment
hungry authorities. One corner of the Ashram Chowk has a ridiculous imitation wood sculpture
with an apology of a fountain and across the same Chowk you have the open mouthed massive
garbage dump right on the pedestrian path in full exhibition for the benefit of the public. These
symbols of poor taste and object apathy are then connected by narrow dangerous and often
waterlogged footpaths for the helpless pedestrian to negotiate. In the night street lighting in the
central median light up the carriageway for cars and leave the pedestrian areas in darkness.
Delhi’s citizens leave and want to get to their destination as fast they can. No one wants to
linger on the road, no leisure walks; no one looks a stranger in the eye. It is on the pedestrian
path that citizen encounters head on the poor public management and the excuse called
multiplicity of authorities One agency makes the road, another digs it up to lay cables, third
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one comes after months to clear up the mess and the cycle of unaccountability goes on.
Meanwhile crores are spent in repairing the carriageway for vehicles and in construction of the
flyovers without a care for the pedestrian below. Solution offered is to make an expensive
underpass or an ugly foot over bridge, ostensibly for facilitating the pedestrian, while in reality
they only facilitate the car to move faster at the expense of the pedestrian. Take Kashmiri gate,
ITO, Ashram Chowk, AIIMS. or Dhaula Kuan, at all these important, at pedestrian crossover
points the story is the same. They have pulled the sidewalk from the pedestrian’s feet.
In modern cities across the world, the pedestrian is king. The floor of the city is designed and
maintained as an inclusive environment, helping the physically challenged, the old and the
infirm children and the ordinary citizens to move joyful across the city, Delhi aspires to be
world class city Hopefully the authorities would look once again at the floor of Delhi. The
pleasure of strolling on the road is deeply connected to our sense of citizenship and sense of
belonging. Pride in the city grows only on a well-designed floor of the city.
2.1. On the basis of your reading of the above passage make-notes on it using heading
and sub-heading. Also use recognized abbreviation wherever necessary (minimum 4)
Supply a suitable title. (1+1+3-05 Marks)
2.2. Write the summary of the passage. (03 Marks)
2.1 Note making
TITLE: ‘PEDESTRIAN IN DELHI’
1. Delhi: a major city for pedestrian
1.1 Poor maint. of sidewalks.
1.2 dangerous elect installation.
1.3 garbage dump.
1.4 Waterlogged footpaths.
2. Life in Delhi for citizens.
2.1 Fast life
2.2 Poor public mgmt.
2.3 Multiplicity of auth.
2.4 Unaccountability
2.5 Costly constructions but useless.
3. Pedestrian in the modern city.
3.1 Pedestrian; a king
3.2 Floor of the city to provide great help.
3.3 Facilities to the challenged old and the infirm children.
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Key to Abbreviations
1. Maint. – Maintainance
2. Elect. – Electrical
3. Mgmt. – Management
4. Auth. – Authorities
2.2 Summary writing
‘DELHI UNSAFE FOR PEDESTRIANS’
Delhi, although is a major city for the pedestrians, provide least attention in the matter of
facilities. The sidewalks are dangerous, narrow, poorly maintained, and full of potholes,
garbage dumps, dangerous electrical fittings and stinky urinals. Public management is poor.
For making Delhi world class, the authorities would once again look at the floor of Delhi.
(56 Word)

Q.3 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
(a) Fashion is a force-a powerful force of constantly altering patterns of change and
growth. Its constant movement affects the fate of the designers and manufacturers,
who distribute it and of course, the lives of the consumers, who follow what it
dictates. All of its facets taken together add up to a multimillion dollar industry.
Fashion today means mega bucks.
(b) Fashion is also a science. It involves known facts and basic principles, and its
actions and reaction can be predicted as these are based on those facts and
principles. Fashion is one of those distinct and unique trades that is highly
dependent on the environment and the changes that are continuously taking place in
it.
(c) As the power of fashion to influence our lives grows, a number of misconceptions
about it continue to abound. The most common of these is that the designers and the
retailers dictate what the fashion will be, and force their fancies on the helpless
consumers. In reality it is the consumers themselves, who dictate what the fashions
will be, by either accepting or rejecting the styles and trends that are offered. They
are truly, as one ‘fashion guru’ once said, “Variety vultures.”
(d) The second misconception is that fashion acts as an influence on women only. Men
today, are as much influenced by and, responsive to fashion, as women. In point of
fact, the male fashion industry has been growing at a dizzying rate. Yes, there was a

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 time when menswear was not exactly worth talking about. It was staid and
unimaginative. But that does not mean that men did not dress-up according to the
latest trends of the day.
(e) Fashion today is more lifestyle oriented and quite practical. The modern male and
female want to dress differently for office and leisure. Designers are becoming more
daring, the women as well as the men folk have a wide choice. There are different
designs for every moment of a busy social schedule-from work, lunch to afternoon
tea, cocktails, dinner and gala banquets.
(f) Lastly, fashion is the force that causes women to straighten or fizz their hair and
change from sportswear to dressy clothes. Fashion is, also that force that influences
men to grow or shave off their moustaches and beards, choose wide or narrow ties
and lapels and change from casual jeans into three piece suits and tuxedo. It is indeed
this dynamic and varied force that adds spice and colour to our life.

3.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage make notes on it using recognisable
abbreviations wherever necessary. 5

3.2 Write a summary of the above passage in not more than 50 words. 3
3.1 Note making
(i) Fashion – a force

(a) Constant altering patterns affect

(i) designers

(ii) manufacturers

(iii) lives of consumer

(b) fashion means multimillion dollar industry

(ii) Fashion – a sci.

(a) facts and basic principles

(b) action and reaction predicted

(c) dependence on envir.

(iii)Fashion – Misconception

(a) Designers and retailers dictate fashion

(b) but it is consumers who dictates

(c) influence not only on women but men

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 (iv) Fashion – changes

(a) life – style oriented and practical

(b) every occ. Diff. dress

(c) adds spice and col. to our life

Abbreviations:
(a) sci. - science
(b) envir. - environment
(c) dis. - discover
(d) occ. - occasion
(e) col. - colour
(f) diff. - different

3.2 Summary writing

Fashion: The Mission of Modernity
Fashion is a science, based on facts and principles, which keeps changing and affecting all
those people who are related to it. To remain on top in fashion business, designers have to
continually innovate. Fashion is not meant only for women; but for men also. Fashion adds
spice, flavour and colour to our lives. (54 Words)
Q.4 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
This isn't a mountain region of mere subjective beauty. Nor one, which claims its greatness,
based on just an overwhelming opinion of a large majority, for Sikkim is a treasure that few
know about. However, the facts of its remarkable geography bear enough testimony to pitch
Sikkim in a slot that no other mountain region, anywhere in the world, could duplicate or rival.
What Everest is to peaks, Sikkim is to the mountains. Tragically, a region so wild and exotic
and with such geographic and climatic extremes, that its amazing wilds and not its
unremarkable hill stations, ensure its accessibility to the adventurous only.
Just delve on these facts a bit. From the plains, in a mere 80 kms as the crow flies, the altitude
reaches 28,168 feet at the very top of Kanchenjunga, the third highest peak in the world. Such
a sharp elevation is unrivalled anywhere else and is the first geographical claim of Sikkim.
The second is an offshoot of the first. Nowhere else do so many 7,000 meter plus peaks crowd
up such a confined space? And the third is really a consequence of the first and the second with
the sharp gradation creating the most variegated flora and fauna possible anywhere in the

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mountains. The fourth uniqueness is also a consequence of the first and the second and lies in
the extremes of the climate which ranges from the tropical to the typical arctic type. And the
fifth claim is its thin permanent population and relatively fewer travellers by virtue of its remote
far-eastern Himalayan location.
The startling facts about Sikkim never seem to end. For starters, all of Sikkim lies in a mere
110 kms. by 65 kms. of mountains, peaks, glaciers, rivers and forests. A little dot on the map
at a latitude 27 degrees North and longitude 88 degrees East. Its 7,000-sq kms make it about as
large as the National Capital Region of India! To the North and extending to the East of Sikkim,
is Tibet / China and to the West is Nepal. To the South are the Himalayan and sub Himalayan
regions of West Bengal.
Adapted from a travelogue by Ashish Kaul, Travel Writer

(a) On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, make notes on it using
headings and sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations (wherever necessary-
minimum four) and a format you consider suitable. Also supply an appropriate title to
it. 5
(b)Write a summary of the passage in about 50 words. 3
4.1 Note making
Title: Sikkim
1. Remarkable Geography
1.1 a mere 110 kms. - 65 kms of mountains, peaks, glaciers, rivers and forests
1.2 latitude 27 degrees N and longitude 88 degrees E
1.3 in a mere 80 kms. altitude reaches 28,168 feet
1.4 Kangchenjunga-3rd highest peak in the world
2. Unique Features
2.1 7,000 meter + peaks crowd up
2.2 most variegated flora and fauna
2.3 extremes of the climate
2.4 thin permanent popn.
3. Boundaries of Sikkim
3. N-E – Tibet and China
[Link]- W.B
[Link]- Nepal

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 Abbreviations:
(g) kms. - kilometres
(h) N - North
(i) E - East
(j) + - plus
(k) W.B - West Bengal
(l) popn. - population

4.2 Summary writing

SIKKIM : PARADISE OF NORTH EAST INDIA
Sikkim is a treasure with its remarkable geography that no other mountain region, anywhere in
the world, could duplicate or rival. Kangchenjunga, the third highest peak in the world is
located in Sikkim and more than 7,000 meter plus peaks crowd up such a confined space.
Sikkim is beautified with mountains, peaks, glaciers, rivers and forests. (56 Words)

Q.5 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1 Leadership does not exist without followership. A leader has to be accepted by the group
which the former is supposed to lead. To gain acceptability the leader should cause an
emotive impact on the group members.
2 The characters exhibited by leaders make them dear to their followers. A leader is one who
effectively inspires employees to achieve worthwhile things. What character of the leader
motivates the followers? It is not pomp and show nor flattery nor sanctioning more
incentives. Pomp and show creates a sense of awe and the leader is deified rather than
emulated. Flattery is unrealistic, and cannot serve as a long term motivational tool. A
leader’s style should be one that can be emulated by all irrespective of cadre, class and
calibre. Simplicity in one’s day-to-day conduct is the only thing that can be adopted by all.
When the leader is simple, he is counted as one belonging to the group of which he is the
leader. That’s enough to motivate the people. Motivation is the innate quality that enables
an individual or group, to contribute unlimitedly with limited means. It is the proud
prerogative of enlightened human beings.
3 A leader needs to assume the role of a guide: quintessential to fulfilling the role is
knowledge ability. Technical and administrative knowledge of the guide in balanced
quantity and of right kind are essential. The technical knowledge is too vast to acquire by

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 a leader. At best he is either ‘Jack of all’ or ‘Master of few’. But he has to master the human
relations aspect of administration in all details. And when the leader is good at this, his
guidance is sought and accepted, and then he fulfils the role of a guide. The leader is a
negotiator within and outside the organization.
4 The leader shapes people and moulds character. To achieve this, the leader should maintain
equanimity.
5 Equanimity is keeping oneself poised and balanced at all times. A leader is simply great, if
he can mould his followers with this frame of mind. He does this by his own example.

5.1 Make notes on the above passage using suitable format and abbreviations. (5)
5.2 Write a summary of the above passage. (3)

5.1 Note making

Title: Attributes of a Good Leadership.

1) Leadership
1.1 not without followership
1.2 needs grp. acceptability
1.3 must have emotive impact.
2) Ldr. inspires public
2.1 to achieve worthwhile things
3) Attributes to motivate
3.1 no pomp & show
3.2 No flattery
3.3 Simplicity and good conduct
3.4 Technical & admst knowlg.
3.4.1 in balanced quantity and rgt kind
3.5 mastery of human relations
3.6 good negtg skill
4) Ldr. to shape and mould pub needs
4.1 maintain equanimity
4.1.1 being poised and balanced
4.2 Possessing qualities of ldrshp.

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 Key to Abbreviations.
1) Grp. – group
2) Ldr. – leader
3) Admst. –administrative
4) Rgt. - right

5.2 Summary Writing

LEADERSHIP
No leader can exist without followers or without the acceptance of the group and to gain
acceptability he must be able to have an emotive impact on his group. To rouse this emotive
impact he should be able to motivate his people without adopting pomp. A good leader must
be balanced, technical and with administrative knowledge. (56 words)

Passages for Practice

Q.1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The art of listening has become one of the most important skills in modern life-more important
even than the ability to read. Increasingly, communication is by spoken word in personal
conversation, group addresses, in communication by telephone, in reception of news and
announcements over the radio and through the cinema or television. The liveliness and
activeness of response is a matter of habit born of proper training.
Great, though the differences between them, many people do not discriminate between hearing
and listening. The former is merely the exercise of one of the senses while the intellect remains
passive. Certain sounds strike the ears, and we may or may not attach meaning to them. In any
case, we do not exert ourselves in the matter. Pupils in our schools ‘hear’ what popularly passes
for ‘English’, and continue speaking a jargon of their own-usually a mispronounced amalgam
of shoddy Americanism sentence patterns based on prevailing language of the region.
Listening can go a long way towards correcting this situation. In listening, we hear with a
purpose, with a consciously directed intellect. In listening comprehension as applied to English,
our aim should be to train the pupil to understand the language, the type of speech that Professor
LIyod James suggests,’ can be heard anywhere without causing discontent’.
Such English is not ‘elocution’, Oxford’, or even B.B.C English. The last type is ‘Standard
English’-the kind that can be understood wherever the language is spoken. Most of our pupils
will never attain to that type in their own speech. They may even after all the training we can
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give them, retain regional peculiarities of cadence and stress-a sort of Modified Standard
English.
Assuming such English in the teachers at our schools, we suggest the following:
We ought to distinguish between ‘Listening for comprehension of content ‘and ‘listening to
the sounds of English with a view to imitation and reproduction i.e. learning to speak well.’
Both kinds of listening must be cultivated, but with more attention to the latter in the earlier
stages and with more attention to the former as pupils progress towards the senior classes.
‘Listening, pen in hand ‘may be instituted, to be completed with instruction and practice in the
proper method of intelligent note-making that testifies to intelligent listening.
a) On the basis of your reading of the passage, make notes on it in a suitable format. Use
recognizable abbreviations, wherever necessary. Give a title to your notes. (5)
B) Write the summary of the above passage. (3)

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 SECTION -B CREATIVE WRITING

Q.5 (i) CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

An ADVERTISEMENT is a kind of public notice asking for or offering services or buying

and selling property, goods etc., or providing information about missing persons, pets etc.
There are two kinds of advertisements: 1. Classified 2. Commercial

You will come across classified advertisements in the columns of newspapers and magazines.
The important features of a Classified Advertisements are—
* No blocks, no design and language to be factual.
* Simple and formal and to the point
* Comprehensive; yet must leave out no important matter.
* Never be too lengthy (confine to the word limit)
IMPORTANT POINTS TO BE FOLLOWED:
* Clearly state the category at the top-e.g.-For Sale, To Let etc.
* Give all necessary details in points using commas.
* Give contact address, name, and telephone number.
* Put the matter in a box.
KINDS OF CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
I. Situation Vacant/Wanted 2. Lost and found 3. Sale and purchase
4. Accommodation wanted 5. Educational 6. Placement services
7. Matrimonial 8. To-Let 9. Tuitions 10. Packers and Movers
11. Kennel 12 Travels and Tours 13. Public Appeal
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS
FORMAT: 1 Mark
CONTENT: 1 Marks
EXPRESSION: 1Marks
(1.) You are Suresh Patel, a resident of 25 Amar society, sector 19, Gandhinagar. You
wish to sell your car bought just three years ago. Draft an advertisement providing
necessary detail for the ‘For Sale’ section of the newspaper in not more than fifty words.
(3)

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