English Core XII ES I Set 1

ANSWER KEY .Marking Scheme

Total Marks: 30

QUESTION
S.NO
1. You are Sumit Dev/Smita Dev, the head Value points
boy/head girl of the Vidya Bharti School, New
Delhi. You wish to inform the students about a Name of Organization
workshop on Time Management that will be Notice
conducted by experts from the field of education. Date
Draft a notice in not more than 50 words. Create Heading
all necessary details. Body
[5] Subscription
Answer to 5 Ws

Format:1
Organization of Ideas :1
Content: 2
Accuracy of Spelling &
Grammar : 1
2. Public places in our country are crowded due to Value points :
encroachments. One can see encroachments Sender’s Address
on pavements, in market places, on government Addressee
land. There are illegal squatters everywhere. Addressee’s Address
Write a letter to the Editor expressing your views Subject
on the same. You are Ravi Sethi/ Radhika Sethi Salutation
of 21/33 Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi. 120- 150 Body
words State the issue ,list
[5] problems
Cause –Effect
Solutions
Conclusion

Format:1
Organization of Ideas :1
Content: 2
Accuracy of Spelling &
Grammar : 1
LITERATURE
3. Describe the effect of the last French lesson Value points :
on the different characters in the story, The • Franz- slow
Last Lesson. [5] transformation- guilt and
regret, feelings towards

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ANSWER KEY .Marking Scheme
Total Marks: 30

his book changes , sorry

for not learning rules of
Participle, feels the
injustice-‘ will they make
them sing in German,
the pigeons too’
• The students in the
class-work in silence
tracing the fish hooks of
French letters,
attentively recite the ba,
be ,bi, bo, bu
• M.Hamel –regrets not
teaching French
wholeheartedly,
introspects on the
failings of the
community, becomes
kinder, and gives out
message of resistance
to foreign rulers by
holding steadfast to
language.
• Villager elders- The
former Mayor, Old
Hauser, Postmaster –
attend last lesson to pay
tribute. Old Hauser has
a primer on his lap
Expression:2
Content: 2
Accuracy: 1
4. Describe the world of 1894 as Charley Fewer ticket windows &train
gates
experienced it at the third level
Wooden information booth,
old styled
Man at ticket booth wore a
green eyeshade ,sleeve
protectors
Open flame gaslights
Brass spittoons on the floor
Men fashion-four button
suits, tiny lapels, men –
handlebar moustache,
beards, sideburns

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Woman –long dress with

leg-of –mutton sleeves, high
buttoned shoes,
Currier & Ives locomotive
with a funnel shaped stack
Newspaper-the world
Old style currency
Expression:2
Content: 2
Accuracy: 1
5. Read the following extract and answer the 1X 5 =5
following questions:
I looked again at her as a late winter’s moon
and felt that old familiar ache but all I said was
see you soon Amma
I In the above extract the poet late winter’s moon
signifies
i. The worth of the mother and her decline
II A Wan,pale as a late winter’s moon uses the
following figure of speech:

IV. Simile

III But all I said was … brings out the fact that
iii. The poet is leaving a lot unsaid
IV See you soon Amma
These lines bring out the poet’s
iii. Her uneasiness

V I looked at her again

The poet is looking at her mother again as she
could be
ii. Revisiting the signs of ageing of her
mother

6. Read the following extract and Answer the 1x5= 5

questions that follow

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Louisa was pretty worried when I told her all

this and didn’t want me to look for the third
level anymore, and after a while I stopped; I
went back to my stamps .But we now we’re
both looking every weekend i. Exchanged his currency
for old styled ones. Had
i. What had Charlie been doing?
been searching for the Third
ii. Had Charley told anyone else apart from Level
ii. He had told the
Louisa?
psychiatrist
iii. Why was Louisa against what Charley
iii. She believed Charley
was doing?
had imagined the Third
iv. What does the fact ‘going back to the Level. His obsessive
searching for it was not
stamps’ suggest about Charley?
mentally healthy
v. Now we’re both looking. Why are they
iv. Charley was finding
looking?
solace in retreating to the
past via his stamp collection

v. Louisa was convinced of

the time travel and Third
Level after Charley found a
first day cover from Sam,
his psychiatrist addressed
to his grandfather in 1894