MODEL EXAMINATION 2010
Communicative English
HSE(1) Total Score:60
Time:2 ¼ hrs
Q1. You are working as an anchor for a phone-in programme in a popular television channel. Prepare a script of the programme for five minutes.[Minimum 2 callers]
(5 marks) Q2. Write a letter to the Chairman of Thiruvananthapuram Municipal City Corporation
(TMCC) about the nuisance of stray animals, esp. the dogs in your locality. Use the information from the verbal input given below:
[Hints: stray animals-nuisance-roll about garbage pits-garbage in the street- block traffic- cause accidents-dirty the place-bark-disturb at night-put in shelters] (5 Marks)
Q3. A newspaper reporter has been sent to report on a road accident. Below you can see one page of his notes. Use the information to complete the report he wrote for his newspaper. Do not add any new information.
[Hints:14/12/20xx, 6.35 pm
Varkala, Crash- tempo in ditch, local bus-high speed-middle of road
Tempo braked to avoid collision-hit tree& overturned, tempo driver Ravi kumar(35yrs)
killed instantly, 3 injured-taken to hospital. (5 marks)
Q4. You are Shahin. As Secretary of the Social Service League of your school you have organized a cultural benefit show in aid of mentally handicapped children of your city. Write a notice for your school notice board, giving necessary information about the programme. Give the notice a good heading. [Hints: ABN Model School, New City- date time, venue, entry by tickets] (3 Marks)
Q5. Respond to the following advertisement that appeared in Bharat Time dated 25th
November, 20xx through a job application letter. Attach CV.
“Application for the post of Junior Executives in Jyoti Industries Limited, Mahatma
Gandhi road, Pune-420052. The candidate should be a graduate in any discipline and
should have an aptitude for management. Apply within 15 days to the Personnel manager of the company” ( 5 Marks)
Q6. Phonetically transcribe the following words (5marks)
1. Allow
2. Paper
3. Letter
4. Market
5. Heart
Q7. Write a conversation between two friends talking about the cultural programme that they have just witnessed. Write a minimum of 5 exchanges. (5 Marks)
Q8.Here are a few details about Gandhiji. Use this information to make a paragraph. Write your answers in the answer sheet against the correct blank numbers .(5 marks)
Birth 2.10.1869
Residence - Rajkot-Gujarat
Parents father- Diwan, mother-religious woman
Education- India and England
Profession lawyer-South Africa
Gandhiji was…………………………………They lived in…...…………………………………………………… His father………………………………………………… He got his education……………………………………… He became…………………………………………………
Q9. You are Rakhi living at 13, Golf Links, Trivandrum. You are not in a position to attend the marriage of your friend’s sister at 27, Gandhi Nagar, Calicut. Draft a telegram to be sent to your friend using not more than 25 words. Your friend’s name is Aditi.
(3 marks)
Q10. Read the telephonic conversation between Varun and Arun. Varun: Can I speak to mummy?
Arun: No, she has gone to the market. Varun: When will she be back?
Arun: In about half an hour.
Varun: Please tell her that I would be late to get back from work.
Varun: O.K. Bye.
As Arun has to leave for his friend’s home he leaves a message for his mother. Write
down the message in not more than 50 words. (4 marks)
Q11. Imagine you are Louise. Make a diary entry Writing down your sorrow, grief and fear after you read the reports of the Haiti Earthquake. (3 Marks)
Q12. Read the following passage and answer the given questions. (5 Marks)
Avatar is a 2009 American science fiction epic film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez and Stephen Lang. The film is set in the year 2154 on Pandora, a moon in the Alpha Centauri star system. Humans are engaged in mining Pandora's reserves of a precious mineral, while the Na'vi—a race of indigenous humanoids—resist the colonists' expansion, which threatens the continued existence of the Na'vi and the Pandoran
ecosystem. The film's title refers to the genetically engineered bodies used by the film's characters to interact with the Na'vi.
a. What kind of a film is Avatar?
b. What is Pandora?
c. What are the humans doing in Pandora?
d. Who are the Na’vi?
e. What does the film’s title refer to?
Q13. Given below are the ingredients required to prepare lemon juice. Write down the process in a simple paragraph. (3 Marks)
4 Fresh Lemon ,Sugar, Water, A pinch of salt( if desired), Ice cube/crush
Q14. Read the following passage and make notes. (4 marks) The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of
Mauritius. Related to pigeons and doves, it stood about a meter (3 feet) tall, weighing
about 20 kilograms (44 lb), living on fruit and nesting on the ground.
The dodo has been extinct since the mid-to-late 17th century. It is commonly used as the archetype of an extinct species because its extinction occurred during recorded human history, and was directly attributable to human activity.
