Assignment-1 2021-2022 Marks:20
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A1. Read the extract and complete the
activities given below:(12)
Punctually at midday, he opened his bag and
spread out his professional equipment, which consisted of a dozen cowrie
shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook
and a bundle of Palmyra writing. His forehead was resplendent with sacred ash
and his eyes sparkled with a sharp abnormal gleam which was really an outcome
of a continual searching look for customers, but which his simple clients took
to be a prophetic light and felt comforted. The power of his eyes was considerably
enhanced by their position-placed as they were between the painted forehead and
the dark whiskers which streamed down his cheeks: even a half-wit’s eyes would
sparkle in such a setting. To crown the effect he wound a saffron-coloured
turban around his head. This colour scheme never failed.People were attracted
to him as bees are attracted to cosmos or dahlia stalks. He sat under the
boughs of a spreading tamarind tree which flanked a path running through the
Town Hall Park. It was a remarkable place in many ways. A surging crowd was
always moving up and down this narrow
road from morning till night. A variety of trades and occupations was
represented all along its way: medicine sellers of stolen hardware and junk,
magicians, and above all, an auctioneer of cheap cloth, who created enough din
all day to attract the whole town. Next to him in vociferousness came a vendor
of fried groundnut, who gave his ware a fancy name each day, calling it “Bombay
Ice Cream” one day and on the next “Delhi Almond”, and on the third “Raja’s
Delicacy,” and so on and so forth, and people flocked to him.
A1. Complete the web with the professional
equipment mentioned in the extract.
(2)
A2 .Describe the market place in 50 words.
(2)
A3. The prophet made special arrangements to attract people. Find
its proof from the extract. (2)
A4. Write in 50 words about the career you like to choose in your
life.
(2)
A5. Do as Directed:
(2)
a)
This colour scheme never
failed. (Make affirmative without changing the meaning.)
b)
To crown the effect, he wound a
saffron-coloured turban around his head. (Make compound sentence.)
A6. Match the words given in column ’A’
with their meanings given in ‘B’. (2)
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A2.Do as Directed:
(8)
a)
Or let autumn fall- silencing
bird on tree. (Identify the figure of speech.)
b)
They found the boy. He was very
weak. (Combine the sentences using an appropriate conjunction.)
c)
the mother said to her son come
into the kitchen I shall give you something to eat.
(Punctuate the following sentence.)
d)
i) Spend ii) Lend
(Write the Past Participles of the given words.)
e)
He is not clever. (Add a
Question Tag.)
f)
The boy said,”How happy I am.”(Change
the speech)
g)
English is taught to us by Mr.
Robert. (Change the Voice.)
h)
The doctor must come at once or
the patient may die.(Make it Complex.)