HSE I Part III
January – 2010 COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
Maximum : 60 Scores
Time : 2 hrs
Cool-off time : 15 mnts.
General Instructions to candidates :
™ Read the questions carefully before answering.
™ You are not allowed to wirte your answers nor to discuss anything with others during the cool-off time.
™ Use the cool-off time to get familiar with question and to plan you answers.
™ Choice question is given. Attempt anyone of them.
1. Imagine that you are the co-ordinator of the seminar conducted in your school. One of the talkers exceeds the allotted time. Write a short message to inform the speaker concerned.
(3 marks)
2. A group of foreign tourists went trekking in Thenmala when one of them fell down and broke his leg. You being their tourist guide, send a telegram message to the manager of your company telling about the accident and the medical aid provided. (3 marks)
3. Given below is a conversation between David and his friend Meenu. Complete the dialogue in a suitable way..
David : Hello, Is this 2446321? Meenu : Yes……………….?
David : To Meenu. I am her friend David. Meenu : David! It is Meenu …………………?
David : I am calling from Indira Gandhi International airport. I am here for a visit. Meenu : That’s great ………………………? ………………………..?
David : I wanted to give you a surprise.
Meenu : When did you arrive? ………………………….?
David : I just got here and I am alone. (5 marks)
4. Imagine that while traveling by bus in your town, you lost a bag containing your certificates.
Write a classified advertisement for a news paper. The heading would be “Lost and found”. Supply all the necessary details; the date and the time of your journey, the bus service and the route, description of the bag and the route, description of the bag and so on. (5 marks)
5. You have to go to Singapore to work on a software project for your company in Bangalore.
Send an email message to Sandeep Travels (Sandeep tours@sandeep.com) asking them to make travel arrangements for you to go to Singapore by air and return after a week. You want to travel by Singapore Airlines.
OR
The Chief Editor
Deccan Herald
Hyderabad
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Sir,
………………………………………………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………………………………………….
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Yours faithfully
Sd/-
Name (6 marks)
6. Edit the passage given below and correct the mistakes.
humans it is said are talking animals. conversation is a important part of or social life. It is indeed an activity that characterize humankind. (3 marks)
7. Give the phonetic transcription of the following words.
Mark question answer paper pen. (5 marks)
8. You are the anchor of a T.V. reality show. Write down three expressions you may use while anchoring the programme.
[eg. inviting the participants, congratulating them, encouraging words) (3 marks)
9. In the basis of the hints given, develop a story in not more than 150 words. Give a suitable title too.
A rainy day …………around 8.30 p.m. ………. going back home after a cricket match
……………. Suddenly declared harthal …………………. Streets deserted ……………… heavy rain ……………… sits on a park bench …………… drenched and shivering. Somebody touches your shoulder …………… a young woman in a white sari
………………. Now complete the story.
10. Your school is conducting an year long campaign to make the public aware of the ned for protecting the environment. The inauguration of the compaign is being done in your school.
Imagine that you are Arun the school leader. Prepare varun’s felicitation speech to be delivered on the occasion. (5 marks)
11. You are a T.V. reporter. You visit a flood hit area. Prepare a T.V. report in about hundred words to be telecast on the channel you represent. (5 marks)
12. Read the following paragraphs and make notes. Give a suitable title too.
One of the most controversial subjects being debated all over the world today is cloning. When scientists in scotland created the first cloned mammal, Dolly, in 1997, many people saw in it an epoch making step in the history of science. But when it came to the question of cloning human beings, there were protests.
People in many countries questioned the morality of creating life, same God alone is the creator. Some argued that it was ‘sinful’ to create a child outside marriage. A child is to be born out of the loving union of a husband and wife, and scientists who interfere with God’s will commit a sin.
Before Dolly was successfully cloned, several trials had failed: the number runs to hundreds. Of those implants that survived, many died in a few days. Protesters said that this was tantamount to killing babies. Similar destruction of human life would be unimaginable. They felt that scientists had no right to play with human life in this manner.
A similar view is taken by protesters give social and psychological reasons to ban clone. If a cloned child lives in society, what will its status be? Without parents, it will be denied the joys of being a member of a loving family. There is also the question of what the personality of the cloned human being would be.
But supporters of cloning believe that these fears are exaggerated. There are benefits that humanity can get from cloning, and with further research cloning could become safer. Cloning can help us to remove genetically inherited diseases, to produce human beings with desirable characteristics and even to select our offsprings. (6 marks)
13. Read the following poem carefully one evening after work groping in the mail box
for messages, letters from nowever. my fingers encountered
springs, twings and eggs. A bird had nested
Right inside my mailbox. Annoyed, I cleared it all except for the eggs.
Later in the evening
A squall had me out
Hartily gathering, clothes left drying
In the garden, hopping
in clumsy hurry, was a mainah balancing in its yellow beak twings and slender sticks heading for my mail box laboriously to rebuild
the cosy nest I had wrecked.
My vision blurred in the heavy showers
The message I had missed
Quite clearly I read
In the incongruous nest hidden in the wooden box. A slow persecution
through a denuding of its habitat leaving no room to rest
Except in wooden post boxes nailed to concrete walls.
Now answer the questions given below in one or two sentences each.
a) What did the poet do on reaching home after work?
b) Did he find any letter? What did he find instead?
c) Why was he annoyed and what did he do?
d) What was the mainah doing in the squall?
e) Explain – “My vision blurred in the heavy showers.”
f) What was the message he had missed earlier?
g) What is the theme of the poem? (6 marks)
