Reliance Foundation School, Mouda

Summer Assignment

ENGLISH

Class XII Date: 21/05/2021

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LITERATURE:

1. The bangle makers of Firozabad make beautiful bangles and make everyone happy
but they themselves live and die in squalor. Explain.
2. How in your views can Mukesh realise his dream?
3. ‘Garbage to them is gold”. How do the rag pickers of Seemapuri survive?
4. What do you know about the city of Firozabad?
5. Is it possible to carry pride in one’s language too far? Explain ‘linguistic chauvinism’:
6. Everybody during the last lesson is filled with regret. Comment.
7. Desire, determination and diligence lead to ‘success. Explain the value of these
qualities in the light of Douglas’ experience in ‘Deep Water’?
8. Justify the title ‘Deep Water’.

WRITING SKILLS

9. Principal, Sunrise Global School, Agra requires a receptionist for her school. Draft a
suitable advertisement in about 50 words to be published in the classified columns
of a national newspaper giving all the necessary details of qualifications and
experience required in the receptionist.
10. You are Sumita/Rajan running a telephone booth in the Central Market, Bhopal. Give
a suitable advertisement for a telephone operator in ‘Situation Vacant’ column of
Bhopal Times offering attractive remuneration.
11. You are P.K. Bansal of 57 Rajendra, Park, New Delhi. Your pet dog Scabbie is missing.
Write an advertisement for the ‘Missing Pet Animals’ columns of a newspaper.
12. Your younger brother Sirish Mathur, aged 15, 145 cms tall, fair coloured with a. scar
on left forehead and dressed in blue jeans and white shirt has been missing for a
week. Draft a suitable advertisement for the. ‘Missing Persons’ column of a
newspaper in about 50 words.