NORTH - EX PUBLIC SCHOOL, JAIN NAGAR

Periodic Test – I, 2019

Subject : English
Class : XII
Time: 90 minutes M.M: 40 marks

Section A

(Writing)

1. As the Head Boy / Head Girl of your school, you are organising a Career Counselling
Session for XI and XII std. Students of your school. Write a notice giving details of it
to be displayed on your school notice board. (Word limit 50) (5)
2. You have lost your wrist watch in a public park. Write a suitable advertisement for
the ‘Lost and Found’ column of a local daily. (4)
Or
Draft a poster for promoting good health through ‘Health Mela’.
3. Write a letter to the Mayor, Mumbai Corporation, requesting him to provide your
colony with proper drinking water facilities. (5)
4. Media has a strong hold on society. Write a speech in 125 – 150 words on how media
influences public opinion to be delivered in the school assembly. (6)
Or
To enforce strict discipline in schools and colleges is a great problem now-a-days. As
Mohan / Mohini, write an article in 200 words for The Hindustan Times, Delhi about
the problems and your views on punishments as a corrective measure.

5. Read the stanzas given below and answer the questions that follow:
‘...but after the airport’s
Security check, standing a few yards
Away, I looked again at her, wan, pale
As a late winter’s moon...’
Question:
a. Who is ‘I’ and why is the she at the airport?
b. Who does ‘her’ refer to? How did she look?
c. Why does the poet ‘look at her again’?
d. Explain ‘wan, pale as a late winter’s moon?

Or

Far far from gusty waves these children faces

Like rootless weeds, the hair torn around their pallor:
The tall girl with her weighed down head.
 Question:
a. Who are these children?
b. Which figure of speech has been used in the first two lines?
c. Why is the tall girl’s head weighed down?
d. What does the word ‘pallor’?
6. Answer the questions in 30 – 40 words. (4 x 3 = 12)
a. How did Franz’s feelings about M. Hamel and school change?
b. What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he
come from?
c. How is Mukesh different from the other bangle makers of Firozabad?
d. What efforts did Douglas make to get over his fear of water and why?
7. Answer any one of the following: (4)
a. How did the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundredth tiger which was
supposed to decide his fate?
b. What did Dr. Sadao do to get rid of the man?
c. Why do you think was Roger Skunk’s mommy angry? Does her anger seem
justified? What did she decide to do?