ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
1. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I …
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference”
a) Why does the narrator say, ’And that has made all the difference’?
b) What did the poet wish to do when he takes the road that he hasn’t been able to tread on?
c) What do the roads signify in the poem?
2. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words:
a) Did Margie have regular days and hours for school? If so, why?
b) How does Tommy describe the old kind of school?
c)What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?
3. You are Aniketh/ Anamika. You feel that the youth below 18 without holding valid license rides sports utility motorcycles and cause accidents and death. You decide to write a letter to the Editor of a national daily with your suggestions to implement laws against the menace and minimize the rate of accidents. Write the letter in about 120-150 words.
4. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction as given in the example against the correct blank number in your answe r sheet.
There are some people that are afraid
a) of failures and sometimes they are afraid to
b) themselves, that they avoid take any
c) risks or committing a mistake and taking a wrong step.
VALUE POINTS
1. a) Because he has taken the path which has only less travelled.
b) The poet wishes to travel that road on the other day.
c) The road signifies the life .
2. a) Yes, Margie had regular days and hours for school, because her mother believed that learning at regular hours helped little girls learn better. That was why mechanical teacher was also on at the same time every day except Saturday and Sunday.
b) Tommy describes the old kind of school as a special building where all kids studied together. There hundreds of students were studying and playing together. They used to shout and laugh together in an open yard. They had a teacher who wasn't a mechanical teacher but was a 'man’.
c) : Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers. They were large, black and ugly and flashed on large black screens on which all the lessons were shown and questions were asked. These mechanical teachers had a slot in which the students had to put their homework. Students had to write their answers in a punch code and the mechanical teacher calculated the marks immediately. .
2. Format – 2 Content-3 Expression - 3
3. Incorrect correct
a) to of
b) take taking
c) and or
d)for from
e)some any
f) something nothing
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