HS 2ND YEAR 2024 ENGLISH
IMPORTANT SUGGESTION
THE LAST LESSON
1 MARKS
1) " Why was the called the last lesson?
2) What did M. Hamel write at the end of the class?
3) What did Franz think 'for a moment'?
4) What was written in the new copies brought by M. Hamel for the students in a beautiful round hand?
5) What is the name of the blacksmith in" The Last Lesson"
6) What is the name of the river mentioned in "The Last Lesson.
7) What, according to M. Hamel, is the great trouble with Aslace?
8) What did Franz find so unusual at school that morning?
9) I started for school very late that morning" - who is the 'I' here.
10) What was frenz in great dead of?
2 MARKS
1) What was the commotion that Franz anticipated in the class room?
2) What did M. Hamel say about the French language?
Or
What is M. Hamel’s view’s about the French language
3) Why was the lesson called the last lesson?
4) What had been put up in the bulletin board?
5) What did M. Hamel write at the end of the class?
6) Why did Franz want to spend his day out of doors?
7) Why did M. Hamel not blame Franz alone for his inability to learn?
8) What words did M. Hamel write on the blackboard before dismissing the last class? What did they mean?
9) What would Franz love to do on that sunny morning instead of going to school?
10) Why did Wachter, the blacksmith, tell Franz that he would reach school in 'Plenty of time' ?
5 MARKS
1) Describe the characteristics of M Hamel.
2) Describe the unusual things that Franz noticed on the day of the last lesson.
LOST SPRING
1 MARKS
1) who is the author of Lost spring
2) What does the author of 'Lost Spring' find Saheb doing morning?
3) What is lost spring about?
4) What does Saheb look for in the garbage dumps?
5)What does the 'garbage' mean for the elders of Seemapuri?
6) Why have Saheb and his family migrated to Seemapuri ?
7) Where does Saheb originally hail from?
8) What does Mukesh want to become?
9) Where was the original home of Saheb's family? Where has Saheb come from?
10) Where does Mukesh live?
2 MARKS
1) "Garbage to them is gold." Why does the author say so about the ragpickers
2) What is the irony inherent in Saheb's full name?
3) What does Saheb look for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from?
4) Is Saheb happy working at the tea stall? Why?
5) What does the author of 'Lost Spring' find Saheb doing every morning?
6) Why do the young inhabitants of Firozabad end up losing their eye-sight
7) What is the significance of bangles in an Indian Society?
8) What is the actual name of Saheb? What does it signify?
9) Give a brief description of Seemapuri.
10) What was the promise made by Anees Jung to Saheb?
11) What explanation does the author of 'Lost Spring' offer for the children not wearing footwear?
5 MARKS
1) Describe the miserable plight of the people of Firozabad.
2) Write briefly on the hazard of working in the glass bangles industry.
INDIGO
I MARKS
1) Where is Champaran situated?
2) What did Shukla want Gandhi to do?
3) Who was Sir Edward Gait?
4) Who was Rajkumar Shukla ?
5)What was Gandhi's politics intertwined with?
6)What position did John Rowntree bold before leaving Shillong a few days after independence?
7) Whom did Gandhi and Shukla want to meet at Patna ?
8) Which country had developed synthetic indigo?
9) Where did Gandhi stay in Muzzafarpur?
10) Why was Gandhi visiting Lucknow in 1916 ?
2 MARKS
1) Why do you think Gandhi considered the Champaran episode to be a turning point in his life?
2) What was the incident that prompted Gandhi to raise his voice of protest against the British?
3) Why was the Champaran episode so significant in Gandhi's life?
4) What was the incident that prompted Gandhi to raise his voice of protest against the British ?
5) Why was Professor Malkani's action of offering shelter to Gandhi Extraordinary?
6) Why was Gandhi impressed with Shukla?
7) Why did Gandhi choose to go to Muzzafarpur first before going on to Champaran.
8) Why did Gandhi agree to a settlement of 25 percent refund to the farmers?
9) The battle of Champaran is won Why and when did Gandhi declare so?
10) Where and when was the Annual Conference of the India National Congress party held?
5 MARKS
1) Describe the exploitation of the indigo sharecroppers by the English landlords. How did Gandhi help them to get an honourable settlement?
2) Describe the efforts made by R. K. Shukla to persuade Gandhi to go to Champaran.
GOING PLACES
1 MARKS
1) Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey?
2) Where was it most likely that Sophie and her friend would find work after school?
3) For whom does Sophie ask Danny Casey an autograph?
4) How was Geoff employed?
5)Which country does Danny Cassy play for?
6) Who is Darek?
7) What did Sophie dream of?
8) Who was geoff?
9) Who is the writer of going places?
10) Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?
11) Which is the only occasion that sophie gets to see casey in person?
2 MARKS
1) What job is Geoff engaged in ? Does he entertain wild and impractical dreams like his sister?
2) Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey?
3) Where was it most likely that Sophie and her friend would find work after school?
4) What was incongruous about the delicate bow which fastened the apron strings of Sophie's mother?
5) Why didn't Sophie want Jansie to know about her story with Danny?
6) Why did Jansie feel sad hearing about Sophie's dream?
7) What kind of person was Geoff?
8) What are the other options that sophie dreams of besides owning a boutique?
5 MARKS
1) Describe the character of Sophie's father and the role played by him in the story "Going Places".
MEMORIES OF CHOTA SAHIB
2/5 MARKS
1) What does Rowntree often talk of in Memoirs of a Chota Sahib.
2) Give a brief description of Peacock Island.
3) What was the belief about the dividing channel between Peacock Island and the main land of Guwahati?
4) What does Rowntree state about the large 'Bheel' close to the bungalow at Rajapara?
5) Describe Rowntree's experience of crossing a flooded river on horseback.
6) What does Rowntree say about the river banks in the Manas Sanctuary?
7) Where did John Rowntree and his family make their first home at Guwahati.
8) What is marboat and how is it operated?
MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX
4 MARKS
1) "Driving from my parents
home to Cochin last friday
morning I so my mother
beside me
those open Mouth at her special like that of a crops..."
i) where was the poet driving to?
ii) what did she notice when her mother sat beside her
iii)Find words from passage that means sleeplightly and dead body
iv)why has her mother face like that of a crops.
2) But soon
put that throw away
and looked out at all the young
trees sprinting the Merry children's feeling out of their homes.
i) Who look out at a young trees?
ii) Which thought did the speaker put away?
iii)What do young sprinting trees signify
iv) What did she poet see the children doing
3) But after the Airports
Security Check standing a few years
........................................
smile and smile smile
i) what did the speaker to after the Security Check
ii)Why did the poet compare her mother face to a late winter's moon.
iii) What is the poet childhood fear?
4).... And felt that old
Familiar ache, my childhood fear
............................
Smile and smile......
i) What was the childhood fear that now trouble the poet
ii) what do the poet parting words suggest?
iii) Why did the poet smile and smile?
2 MARKS
1)What is the kind of pain in ache that the poets feels?
2) Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children's feeling out of their homes.
3) Why was the mother been compared to the late winter's moon?
4) what do the young's sprinting trees signify?
5) I saw my mother.......her face Ashen like that of crops? Explain the statement.
KEEPING QUIET
4 MARKS
1) Now we will count to Twelve
And we will all keep still
....................................
And not move our arms so much
i)How long does the poet want to stay still?
ii)Why does he ask us to keep still and not use any language?
iii) What does the poet mean by not move our arms so much?
2) Perhaps The Art can teach us
when everything since dead
.............................................
And you keep quit and i will go
i)What does the earth can teach us?
ii)Why does the poet count up to Twelve?
iii)What will keeping quite help us achieve?
2 Marks
1) What will counting up to 12 and keeping Steel help us achieve?
2) What is the sadness that the poet refers to in the poem
Or
What is 'this sadness' that Neruda talks of?
3)Why does the poet Narula wish to count to Twelve?
4)What is considered to be an exotic moment in the poem?
Or
Why quitness would be an exotic moment for speaker in keeping quite
5)What is Pablo neruda opinion about different kind of wars?
A THING OF BEAUTY
4 MARKS
1)A thing beauty is a joy forever
it is Loveliness increase it will never
and quiet breating.
i) Who is the poet of the above lines and what is the name of the poem?
ii) What is a think of beauty a joy forever?
iii) What is a Bower?
2) Therefore on every morrow, are we wreating
A flowerly band to bind us to the earth
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From our dark spirits
i)Why do we weave a wreath?
ii) What are the evil things that we possess?
iii) what remove the pall from our dark spirits?
iv) Find words
Malice, low spirits from loss of hope or dejection
2MARK'S
1) What is the message that keats wants to give through A thing of beauty?
2) what increases continuously in a thing of beauty
3) What is the Legend on who is the poem A think of beauty is written?
4) What according to keats makes human being love life inspite of all its problems and miseries.
A ROAD SIDE STAND
4 MARKS
1)The little old house was out with a little new shed
...............................................
the flower of sites from Sinking and withering faint
i) Where was the shed put up?
ii)What was it purpose?
iii)Why does the poet use the word pathetic?
iv)Who are the referred to s the flowers of cities?
2) No in country money the country scale of gain
The requistic lift of spirit has never been found
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And offer to put me gently out of my pain.
i) Where do the above lines occur?
ii) Why has the requisite spirit never been found?
iii) What does the voice of the country people seem to say?
iv) What will be great relief for the poet
2 MARKS
1) What is the childish longing that the poet refers to why is it called vain?
2) Who are referred to as the flowers of cities a Roadside Stand?
3)What are being salt in the roadside stand?
Or
Name some of the things that the roadside stand offered for sale?
4) Which things irritated the passersby by who stopped at the roadside stand?
5)Who will soothe the rural poor out of their wits and how?
6) How did the travellers on the highwayto the Roadside Stand?
VISTAS
THE TIGER KING
2 MARKS
1) Who is the tiger king? Why does he get that name?
2) What explanation was given by the Chief astrologer to the query of the little tiger?
Or
What did the chief astrologer predict about the tiger?
Or
What did the astrologer foretell about the tiger king?
Or
What did astrologer foretell when tiger king was born?
3) How did the hundredth tiger take its revenge on the tiger king?
4) How did the hundred tiger die?
5) What did Maharaja decided to do when he remembered the astrologer prediction?
6) How did the tiger king celebrated his victory over the killing of the hundredth tiger?
7 MARKS
1) Draw a character sketch of the tiger king?
OR
Who was the tiger king? Describe briefly about his behavior?
Or
Draw a character sketch of the Tiger King in your own words.
THE ENEMY
2 MARKS
1)Why did the General spare the American soldier?
2)Why did the messenger come to Dr Sadao?
3)Who was hana? What did she notice coming out of the mist?
4)Hana told Yumi to wash the soldier. How did Yumi react?
Or
How did Yumi react when Hana told her to wash the soldier?
7 MARKS
1)Write a character sketch of Dr Sadao Hoki as depicted in The Enemy
2)Why did Dr. Sadao Hoki go to Amerika? Narrate his Experience there ?
ON THE FACE OF IT
2 MARKS
1) Why are not there any curtain in at the windows of Mr lamp house?
2) Who should be friends according to Delhi and Mr lamp?
3) How did Derry get his face burnt?
4) how and why do people comment so painfully about derrys face?
5) Why and how did Daddy enter Mr lamb Garden?
Or
What is that draw Derry towards lamp in spite of himself ?
6) Why did Derry mother warn him not to go to meet Mr Lamp?
7) How didi Mr lamp try to give courage and confiende to Derry?
7 MARKS
1) Though both lamp and Derry suffer from a physical disability their attitude to life a different. justify a relevance to statement with reference to the story on the face of it.
2) Describe how Mr Lamb and Derrys conversation bring about change in Derry view towards life?
MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD
2MARKS
1) What was it colours Idea regarding short singled hair?
Or
What was Zitkala idea regarding short, shingled hair
2) What were Zitkala Sa t kalasa immediate reaction to the cutting of her hair?
3) What did Bama experience untouchability?
4) What did Bama feel terrible set and Provoked?
5) What did Annan say about his community to the narrator?
6) Why was Zitkala Sa in tears on the first day in the land of apples?
7) Why did it take Bama to reach home in 30 minutes instead of 10 Minutes ?
7 MARKS
1) Bama experience is that of a victim of the caste system what kind of discrimination does Zitkala- sa experience depict? What are their response to the respective situations?
2) Compare and contrast the stories narrated by Zitkala Sa and Bama.
MAGH BIHU OR MAGHAR DOMAHI
2 MARKS
1)How is the delicacy Sunga pitha prepared?
2) What is the meaning of Domahi ? What do people usually have for lunch on that day ?
3) What is the belief of the Europeans who lighted lentern and Midsummer fire?
ADVERTISEMENTS
1) You have lost your suitcase / handbag/ bottle/ Watch / nootbook / Mobile phone containing valuable documents while travelling from Tinsukia to Jorhat by train top 10 advertisement in not more then 50 words Publication in an English daily giving details of the suitcase.
2) You are the proprietor of Grassland Resort Kaziranga write an advertisement to be a published in an English newspaper offering attractive discount to holiday package.
3) You are to the personal manager of Hotel Taj International Guwahati you need two Lady receptionist and 5 security guards for the hotel right out and advertisement about 50 words.
NOTICE
1) You are Rahim/ Rahima the sports secretary of kukrazar Senior Secondary School write a note write a notice for your school notice board giving the details for participation of student of football tournament to be organised by your school?
2) you are Rahim/ Rahim secretary of Tezpur Govt Higher Secondary School you are playing to organise a cultural program write a notice for the school notice board invited name students willing the participate?
3) You are Gautam/Geeta, General Secretary of Radhakrishnan College, Guwahati. Your college is organizing an educational trip to Delhi during the summer vacations. Write a notice for the college notice board giving all the details of the trip.
POSTER
1) Designer poster for the World Environment Day greeting awareness among the people about the theatres of Environment Degradation?
2) Design and attractive poster for promoting cleanliness in your neighbourhood?
3) Prepare a poster in not more than 50 words for the interior school on the spot painting competition that the three arts Club of your school is going to organised at your school?
*4) Write a poster in not more than 50 words stressing the need for improving the physical health of the students for a better and happy life?
*5) Design a poster in not more than 50 words to create awareness about the safety measures to be taken during an earthquake.?
*6) Water is precious and each of us must stop its wastage. Prepare a poster in not more than 50 words urging people to employ various methods of rain-water harvesting in their won locality?
REPORT
1) You have witness a train accident / Road Accident / Car and Bus in which year Delhi Bhavan Guwahati Express God detail write a report in 100-125 Words to be published in the sentinel, Guwahati you Aare Jayanta/ Juri.
2) You recently visited some flood affected areas of damaji district as a press reporter open English daily write and report on the flood situation in 100 to 125 words you are Rahim / Rahima?
3) Your school / college has recently celebrated Cleanliness week / World Environment day / Shilpi Divas / Tree plantation week/ Teacher day / Cultural Programme etc organising the numbers program of competition write a report in about 125 words to be published in a local newspaper?
LETTER WRITING
1) Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper on reckless driving you are Rahim Rahima living in Demaji?
2) Write a letter to the editor of an English daily drawing the attention of the authority is concerned to the editor power supply particularly during study hours in your locality you are Rahim/ Rahima?
Or
Or, You are Aruna/Arun living in Amolapatty, Sivasagar. Write a letter to the Editor of "The Sentinel" drawing the attention of the concerned authority to the poor condition of water supply in your locality. ( A little change should be made from the above question)
3) Your Rahim/ Rahima of North Lakhimpur you have seen an advertisement for the post of assistant teacher in mathematics to teach classes IX To XII and goalpara high school. Write a letter to the president of managing committee of the school applying for the job give your detail biodata as well?( A little change should be made from the above question)
Or
You are Asha/Amit. You have seen an advertisement for the post of a Sales Executive in a reputed company. Write an application, along with your detailed resume, to the Regional Director of the company in response to the advertisement applying for the post.( A little change should be made from the above question)
Or
You are Rekha/Ramesh of Barpeta. You have seen an advertisement for the post of a sports teacher in Lakhimpur High School. Write a letter to the President of the Managing Committee of the school applying for the post. Give your detailed bio-data as well.(A little change should be made from the above question)
NARRATION
(You will solve the previous year question from 2000 to 2023)
CORRECT TENSE
(You will solve the previous year question from 2022 to 2023)
PREPOSITION
(You will solve the previous year question from 2022 to 2023)
TRANSFORMATION OF SENTENCE
(You will solve the previous year question from 2022 to 2023)
VOICE CHANGE
(You will solve the previous year question from 2022 to 2023)
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