WORKSHEET # 1

READ THE PASSAGE GIVEN BELOW:-

1.Suspense was over when my high school results finally came out. But I was upset. I hadn’t done

as well as I had expected. My father tried to console me. “Why are you worried ? You have done

very well, my dear.” “No, I haven’t, Baba,” I protested, controlling my tears, and wondering if I

had disappointed him. “It doesn’t really matter,” he assured me. “Do you know what I got when I finished

high school ?” I looked into Baba’s face and waited for the answer to his own question. “You know,”

he told me. “I’ve never told you this. I got just a third division. But, look at me, I’ve done quite well.” Baba

got a third division !

I was almost in shock, but the thought of my having done a lot better than that made me realize that I

had no reason to complain. I certainly felt better ! “Everything is under control !” said Baba,

smiling. That was his favourite phrase. Posted in Kolkata, my father was then a senior official in

the Indian Railway Service, and an expert in goods traffic operations. He was soon to become a

director with the Railway Board. By the time he retired in 1981, he was general manager of the

Central Railways. By the time Baba passed away in November 2000, his name had found place in

several hearts as well. He was open, easy to know, and full of life. We were extremely close, but

I had so much more to learn about him from many things I came to know after his death.

2. In September 2000, he was in hospital for treatment of cancer and given just two months to live.

When he found out, his reaction was an extremely rational one. He asked me to fetch files from his

cupboard, so that he could explain the details of my mother’s pension. He also dictated his will from his

hospital bed. “Everything is under control !” After Baba’s death, Satish, our old family retainer, was

inconsolable. We tried to cheer him up. “Your Baba had scolded me only once in all these years !”

he cried. Satish pointed to the watch on his left hand. “I had been coming late for work and

everyone in the family was complaining about it,” said Satish. “Then, one day, your Baba gave me

this watch and told me, ‘now that you have a watch, you can’t be late.’” That was the scolding Satish

received. On the fourth day after Baba’s death, my sister and I had to perform a ceremony. Since

several relatives were expected, we decided to order lunch from a caterer in our locality, reputed

for his home cooked food. But, when we went to pay the owner, we got a surprise. He refused

to accept any money ! “When I wanted to start my catering business, it was your father who lent me

money,” he told us. It seems Baba never asked for it back. Now, after four or five years, the caterer

wanted to repay that debt.

Of course, we made him accept the full payment for the fine food and service. ‘It was Baba’s gift and it

ought to remain so,’ I told him.

3. Some days later, there was yet another piece of information as we were preparing for the main

ceremony. Vikram, my brother drove me to the local market. On recognizing our car, the parking

assistant, in his twenties, came running towards us and asked why he had not seen its owner for long.

We had to break the news to him and to our utter surprise, he started crying. We were really surprised

by this reaction from a stranger – until the man told us that Baba used to pay his daughter’s school

fees and buy her books. It seems, it was on my father’s advice that he’d even started sending the child

to school. More than three years after Baba’s death, as we were looking into Baba’s personal things,

we came across an old file with Baba’s certificates and I found among them, his high school diploma

from 1937, the one he’d told me about 30 years earlier, about the third division that had made no

difference in his life or career. It had made me see beyond mere marks and first classes as the main

road to success. But there was one more fact. Baba had actually got a first division, a rare

achievement in his day. Today, years after his passing, when I think of Baba, I see a man who was

able to sympathise with others so easily and touch their lives in such a special way.

1.1. On the basis of your understanding of the passage answer the following questions by choosing

the most appropriate options : 1 × 4 = 4

(a) Why was the narrator in tears when her school results came out ?

(i) She did better than she expected.

(ii) She did not do as expected.

(iii) Her Baba had not done well.

(iv) Her Baba had done better than her.

(b) On knowing the result ,how did the narrator’s father react?

(i) He scolded her.

(ii) He beat her.

(iii) He consoled her.

(iv) He made fun of her.

(c) Why did the narrator say that she had nothing to complain ?

(i) She had done better than her father.

(ii) She had done as well as her father.

(iii) She had topped in her school.

(iv) She had not worked hard at all.

(d) Choose the option that is not correct :

(i) Baba was a senior official in the Indian Railway Service.

(ii) Baba was to become a director with the Railway Board.

(iii) Baba was the general manager of the Central Railways.

(iv) Baba had got a third division in high school.

1.2 Answer the following : 1 × 6 = 6

(a) Why did the narrator’s sick father want her to fetch files from his cup- board ?

(b) Why did Baba buy Satish a watch ?

(c) Why did the caterer not want to take money from the narrator ?

(d) Why were the narrator and her brother surprised on meeting the parking assistant ?

(e) Today years after his passing away what has the narrator realized about her Baba ?

(f) What was the story that Baba had invented on the day the narrator’s results were published

1.3 Find words from the passage that mean the same as the following: 1x2

(i) Tension /anxiety (para1)

(ii) servant (para 2)

WORKSHEET # 2

1. You are Manav /Manasi working as a Students’ Representative for the School Development Committee .The committee is going to meet next week to prepare a

calender of activities for the school for the year 2018-2019 . To ensure that you play your

role effectively at the proposed meeting you have decided to invite the students’

suggestions on this subject. Write a notice in this regard in not more than 50 words to be

put up on your school notice- board.

2. Rishi Roy is the Head Boy of Vasant Public School .On April 28 ,he had a meeting with the Principal and Discipline Incharge of the school regarding the selection and the

interviews of prefects for the current academic year It was decided that students would

face two interviews -one with a panel of teachers and the final one with the Principal.

Besides ,only those students who scored above 80%in the previous academic year would

be eligible for candidature . Later he drafted a notice informing interested students of classes X to XII to give their

names. Draft Rishi ‘s notice giving necessary details in not more than 50 words.Put the

notice in a box.

3. You are Rohit/Ritu ,Secretary ,Welfare Association ABC Colony, Chennai .Write a

notice in not more than 50 words to be placed on the noticeboard informing the residents

that there would be no water supply for two days in your colony due to major pipe-line

repair work.

4. You are Amit/ Amrita of Banglore. You are disturbed at the non-availability of essential

commodities in the Fair Price shops of your area. Write a letter to the Editor of “The

Hindu” drawing the attention of the authorities to the irregularities in the Fair Price

shops. (Word limit 150 words)

5. You are Rohit/Rohini of Mahatma Gandhi Road, Delhi. You feel depressed at the poor

performance of India at Olympics and feel that poor facilities and the discouraging

attitude of the government are the root cause. Write a letter to the Editor, “The Times of

India” expressing your views on how the standard of performance in the sports can be

improved in India.

6. Write a letter to the Editor, ‘The Indian Express ’drawing attention of the concerned

authorities towards the misused and poorly maintained subways in Chennai. Give your

suggestions. You are Ram/ Rani living at 10, Kamraj Street, Chennai.

7. Write a letter to the Editor of ‘Deccan Herald’ about the poor city bus services and the

indifference of drivers and conductors towards the traffic rules. Also suggest ways to

improve the services. You are Mohit/Mohini of No. 2,Clement Town ,Banglore.

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THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

(1) Give a pen-picture of the narrator’s grandfather as he appeared in the portrait ?

(2) Explain: ‘Old ,so terribly old that she could not have grown older,…….’

(3) How could the grandmother be ‘beautiful’ without being ‘pretty’?

(4) What was the turning point of their friendship?

(5) The author’s grandmother was a religious person. Give three instances to substantiate it?

(6) How did the sparrows express their sorrow at the death of the grandmother?

(7) The word ‘ hobble’ means to walk with difficulty because the legs and feet are in bad

condition.

Explain the manner of walking of the words given:-

Shuffle, stride ,waddle, paddle ,swagger, trudge, slog

(8) “As the years rolled by we saw less of each other”.Why?

(9) Notice the following uses of the word ‘tell’in the text:

(a) Her fingers were busy telling the beads of her rosary.

(b) I would tell her English words and little things of Western science and learning .

(c) At her age one could never tell.

(d) She told us that her end was near.

(10)Given below are four different sense of the word ‘tell’.Match the meanings to the

uses listed above .

1.make something known to someone in spoken or written words

2.count while reciting

3.be sure

4.give information to somebody

Worksheet-4

A Photograph

1. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:-

Some twenty –thirty –years later

She’d laugh at the snapshot.”See Betty

And Dolly ,she’d say, ”and look how they

Dressed us for the beach.”The sea holiday

Was her past, mine is her laughter .Both wry

With the laboured ease of loss.

(A) Who is ‘she ‘ in the passage ?

(B) Who were Betty and Dolly ?

(C) Why did the mother laugh at the snapshot?

(D) What is the irony for both of them?

(E) Explain: ’laboured ease of loss’.

2. Answer the following questions

(A) ‘The sea ,which appears to have changed less, washed their terribly transient feet’

How does the poet contrasts the girls’ ‘terribly transient feet’ with the sea?

(B) What does the cardboard show?

(C) Describe the three girls standing at the beach?

(D) How did the poet’s mother die?

(E) What has she to say about her mother’s death?

(F) Explain “ The sea holiday was her past,mine is her laughter.”

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WE’RE NOT AFRAID TO DIE……

Q. 1 ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BRIEFLY

(A) Justify the title; ‘We’re Not Afraid to Die…….’

(B) How did they spend the first part of the journey?

(C) Why did the search for the island begin?

(D) How was the respite short-lived?

(E) What did Jonathan say to his father about dying?

(F) Why did Mary and the narrator feel that the end was near?

(G) What precautions did the captain take to save the boat?

(H) “ We’re Not Afraid to Die” is a saga of patience and bravery. Comment.

(I) Why did Jonathan ask for a hug and call him the best daddy and the best captain in the world?

(J) How did Suzzanne hurt herself and how did she bear the injury?

(K) How did the story suggest that optimism helps to endure ‘the direst stress’?

Q. 2 The following words used in the text as ship terminology are also commonly used in another sense .In what contexts would you use the other meaning?

knot, stern , boom, hatch, anchor

Q. 3 The following three compound words end in –ship. What does each of them mean?

airship, flagship, lightships

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THE SUMMER OF THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE HORSE

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1. What is nostalgia? Describe the nostalgic beginning of the story.

2. Describe the Garoghlanian family. Why and what were the members of the family proud

of?

3. Why couldn’t the narrator believe that his cousins Mourad couldn’t have bought the

horse?

4. Why did Aram conclude that Mourad had stolen the horse?

5. Why did the narrator believe that stealing a horse for a ride was not the same thing as

stealing?

6. Who had the crazy streak in the family and who was the natural descendant of that streak

in the tribe?

7. Describe the first experience of the narrator when he rode the horse alone?

8. Why did the narrator insist on keeping the stolen horse for a year? What did Mourad

think about it?

9. Where did they hide the horse and why?

10. Did the boys return the horse because they were conscience-stricken or because they

were afraid?

कार्य प्रपत्र – 1 (सत्र 2018-19)

कक्षा – 11 (ह िंदी)

आरो - गद्य खिंड – 1. नमक का दरोगा (प्रमेचिंद) प्रश्न – 1 पिंडडत अलोपीदीन के डगरफ्तार ोने पर लोगों की क्र्ा-क्र्ा प्रडतक्रिर्ाएिं हुई थी ?

डलडखए ।

प्रश्न – 2 माडसक वेतन को पूर्यमासी का चााँद क्र्ों क ा जाता ै? सौदा रर् समझाइए ।

प्रश्न – 3 ‘नमक का दारोगा’ क ानी धन पर धमय की डवजर् का प्रतीक क्रकस प्रकार ै?

समझाइए |

प्रश्न – 4 पिंडडत अलोडपदीन के चररत्र की डवशेषताएिं बताइए ।

प्रश्न – 5 विंशीधर की चाररडत्रक डवशेषताओं का वर्यन कीडजए ।

प्रश्न – 6 ‘नमक का दारोगा’ क ानी के अिंत में अलोपीदीन के विंशीधर को मैनेजर डनर्कु्त करने

के पीछे क्र्ा कारर् ो सकते ैं ? तकय सड त उत्तर दीडजए ।

प्रश्न 7 ‘नमक का दारोगा’ क ानी में आए पात्रों के नाम डलडखए ।

प्रश्न 8 वृद्ध मुिंशीजी ने विंशीधर को जो सला दी थी वो आपके अनुसार क ााँ तक उडचत ै?

रचनात्मक लखेन प्रश्न – 9 क्षेत्र में बढ़ र ेअपराधों की रोकथाम के डलए अपने डजले के पुडलस अधीक्षक को

एक पत्र डलडखए ।

प्रश्न – 10 डनबिंध लेखन –

लोकतिंत्र में चुनाव

अथवा

परोपकार

कार्य प्रपत्र – 2 (सत्र 2018-19)

कक्षा – 11 (ह िंदी)

आरो - गद्य खिंड – 2. डमर्ााँ नसीरुद्दीन (कृष्र्ा सोबती)

प्रश्न – 1 डमर्ािं नसीरुद्दीन की अख़बार वालों के बारे में क्र्ा रार् ै?

प्रश्न – 2 डमर्ािं नसीरुद्दीन क्रकस कला में माड र थे ?

प्रश्न – 3 ‘डमर्ािं नसीरुद्दीन पाठ में लेडखका ने डमर्ािं नसीरुद्दीन का जीविंत शब्द डचत्र खींचा ’ै

कैसे ? समझाइए ।

प्रश्न – 4 बीते हुए ज़माने और आज के ज़माने के बारे में डमर्ािं नसीरुद्दीन की क्र्ा रार् ै?

प्रश्न – 5 डमर्ािं नसीरुद्दीन ने सच्ची तालीम क्रकसे क ा ैऔर क्र्ों ?

प्रश्न – 6 डनम्नडलडखत मु ावरों का अथय डलखकर वाक्र् प्रर्ोग कीडजए ।

(क) रिंग लाना

(ख) डखल्ली उड़ाना

(ग) बाल की खाल डनकालना

रचनात्मक लखेन प्रश्न – 7 अपने डमत्र को बोडय परीक्षा में प्रथम आने पर बधाई एक बधाई-पत्र डलडखए ।

प्रश्न – 8 डनबिंध लेखन –

जीवन में खेलों का म त्त्व

अथवा

चािंदनी रात में नौका डव ार

कार्य प्रपत्र – 3 (सत्र 2018-19)

कक्षा – 11 (ह िंदी)

आरो - पद्य खिंड – 1. कबीर (पद)

प्रश्न – 1 मानव शरीर का डनमायर् क्रकन पिंच तत्त्वों से डमलकर हुआ ै? नाम डलडखए ।

प्रश्न – 2 ‘गुरु के सड त डसख्र् सब बूड़’े से क्र्ा आशर् ै

प्रश्न – 3 कबीर ने जग को पागल क्र्ों क ा ै?

प्रश्न – 4 कबीर ने अपने को दीवाना क्र्ों क ा ै?

प्रश्न – 5 कबीर की दडृि में क्रकन लोगों को आत्मबोध न ीं ो पाता ै?

प्रश्न – 6 कबीर ने ऐसा क्र्ों क ा ैक्रक सिंसार बौरा गर्ा ै?

प्रश्न – 7 अज्ञानी गुरुओं की शरर् में जाने पर डशष्र्ों की क्र्ा गडत ोती ै?

प्रश्न – 8 कबीर के पदों की डशल्पगत डवशेषताएिं डलडखए ।

रचनात्मक लेखन

प्रश्न – 9 सडचव, केन्द्रीर् माध्र्डमक डशक्षा बोडय, न्द्र्ू क्रदल्ली को कक्षा 12 की डुप्लीकेट

अिंकताडलका के डलए एक पत्र डलडखए ।

प्रश्न – 10 डनबिंध लेखन –

स डशक्षा

अथवा

भारत के प्रमुख पवय

कार्य प्रपत्र – 4 (सत्र 2018-19)

कक्षा – 11 (ह िंदी)

आरो - पद्य खिंड – 2. मीरा (पद) प्रश्न – 1 ‘भगत दडेख राजी हुई, जगत दडेख रोर्ी’ – पिंडक्त का आशर् स्पि करे ।

प्रश्न – 2 कुल की काडन से क्र्ा अडभप्रार् ै?

प्रश्न – 3 लोग क ,ै मीरािं भई बावरी, न्द्र्ात क ैकुल-नासी – मीरा के बारे में समाज और कुल

की ऐसी धारर्ाएिं क्र्ों ै?

प्रश्न – 4 मीरा कृष्र् की उपासना क्रकस रूप में करती ै? व रूप कैसा ै?

प्रश्न – 5 मीरा ने ‘स ज डमल ेअडवनासी’ क्र्ों क ा ै?

प्रश्न – 6 पग घुिंघरू बािंडध मीरािं नाची…..... पद में मीरा की कौनसी भावनाएिं व्यक्त हुई ै?

प्रश्न – 7 लोग मीरा को बावरी क्र्ों क ते ै?

प्रश्न – 8 मीरा के पदों की काव्यगत डवशेषताएिं डलडखए ।

रचनात्मक लेखन प्रश्न – 9 अपने डपताजी को एक पत्र डलडखए डजसमें क्रकसी रमर्ीर् स्थल का सिंडक्षप्त वर्यन

क्रकर्ा गर्ा ो ।

प्रश्न – 10 डनबिंध लेखन –

आत्मडनभयरता

अथवा

धमय और डवज्ञान

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Class -XI ( Political Science)

Topic -Constitution–Why and How?

1. What is a constitution?

2. What kind of constitution does United Kingdom have?

3. In many countries constitution remain defunct. Why?

4. Which provision of Indian constitution passed without any debate?

5. What do you mean by Universal Suffrage?

6. State the provisions borrowed from the constitution of United Kingdom?

7. What does the Quasi federal form of government mean?

8. For which country’s constitution Indian constitution became an exemplar?

9. Which constitutional measures enable the Indian government to fulfil the

aspirations of society?

10. Explain the most common way of limiting the powers of the government

by the constitution.

Answer in 100-120 words.

1. Explain the composition of the constitution assembly of India?

2. Why it is necessary for a country to have clear demarcation of powers and responsibilities in the Constitution?

3. Why is the authority of the constitution considered higher than that of the parliament?

4. Support the following conclusions with the help of examples:

a) The Indian constitution was made by the credible leaders who commanded people’s respect.

b) b) The Indian constitution has succeeded in giving us a framework of democratic government.

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Class -XI (Political Science)

Topic - Rights in the Indian Constitution

Answer in 30 to 40 words.

1. What is “bill of Rights”?

2. From whom does a constitution protect the Rights of a person?

3. when did Motilal Nehru committee had demanded a bill of rights?

4. Define Fundamental rights?

5. Name the provisions which are common in Indian and South African constitution?

6. What does liberty means?

7. Mention the articles under which Right to Freedom granted in constitution ?

8. Write any two fundamental duties of Indian Citizens?

9. What is the meaning of the term Directive Principle of State Policy?

10. What does Right to Freedom of Religion mean?

Answer in 100 to 120 word.

1. Differentiate between fundamental rights and ordinary rights?

2. Why is not paying minimum wages considered a violation of Fundamental Rights?

3. What do the Directive principles of state contain.Explain in brief?

4. Why is the Right to Constitutional Remedies considered the heart and soul of the Indian Constitution?

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CLASS – XI (HISTORY)

CHAPTER :1 FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME

Fill in the blanks :- 1. ………………,when Charles Darwin’s on……………….was published.

2. By about 24 MYA, there emerged a subgroup amongst primates, called…………

3. Hominids have an ……………………and ……………………………

4. Hominids belongs to a family know as ……………………………..

5. Olduvai has come to be identified with ………………………………

6. The earliest fossils of Homo Erectus have been found both in……………………

7. …………….would involve collecting plant foods such as seeds, nuts, berries, fruits, and tubers.

8. Invention of sewing needles was in …………………….

Answer in 30 to 40 words.

1. Distinguish between Hominids and Hominoids?

2. Define Hominoids.

3. When and how did man appear on earth?

4. What is meant by‘Anthropology’ ?

5. How does an anthropologist help the historian?

6. Why were apes, like humans unable to make the tools and use them?

7. What was the main food of the Hadza people of Africa?Which animal meat they didn’t eat?

8. Write two consequences of end of the last ice age?

Answer in 100 to 120 word.

1. What progress did man make in respect of shelter clothing, tools & weapons?

2. What benefits did man get from his erect position?

3. Write a note on the development of language by the humans?

4. How do invention of fire influence the life of early man?

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CLASS – XI (HISTORY)

CHAPTER :2 WRITING AND CITY LIFE

Fill in the blanks :-

1. Archaeology in Mesopotamia began in the .…………………

2. During the Mesopotamian civilisation, Babylon became an important city

after the year……..

4. The technological landmark witnessed by the urban economy of the city of

Uruk was……………….

5. In the Masopotamian civilisation, agriculture was most productive in the……….

6. The earliest town temple of the Masopotamian Civilisation belongs to the

period……

7. Archaeological evidences show the burial of the kings and queens in……….

8. The earliest cities of the Mesopotamian Civilisation date back to the………

Answer in 30 to 40 words.

1. How were the cities and towns originated?

2. In which city of Masopotamia, the Warka Head has been found?With

which thing was it made?

3. What is meant by a sump?

4.Write three features of Ur city?

5. How did the Mesopotamian people divide time?

6. What is the greatest legacy of Mesopotamia to the world?

7. What were the burial practices in Mesopotamia?

8. What was the system of education in Mesopotamia?

Answer in 100 to 120 word.

1. What does the story of the flood mentioned in Bible tell?

2. What is the importance of division of labour in urban life?

3. Write a short note on animal herders of Mari?

4. Describe briefly the palace of King Zimrilim at Mari?

PHE WORKSHEET FOR CLASS XI

Practical-1: Labelled diagram of 400 M Track & Field with computations. Practical-2: Computation of BMI from family or neighbourhood & graphical representation of the data. Practical-3: Explanation & list of current National Awardees (Dronacharya Award, Arjuna Award & Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award) Practical-4: Pictorial presentation of any five Asanas for improving concentration. Practical-5: Labelled diagram of field & equipment of any one game of your choice out of the below list.

Games: Badminton, Table Tennis, Taekwondo