GURU NANAK COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 42.

APRIL 2023
23A658
ENGLISH - II
21UENG242
MAX. MARKS: 100
TIME: 3 HOURS
SECTION – A (10 X 3 = 30 MARKS)
Answer Any TEN questions in about 75 words each.
1. What are the steps in film making?
2. What type of poem is 'Mending Wall'?
3. What is the theme of 'Another Bird Story'?
4. Why are women important to the environment?
5. What is the poem 'September ' about?
6. How mothers are inspirational?
7. What is the conclusion of the poem 'Life'?
8. Who is Guru Nanak and what happened in his life?
9. How did the two men spend their time in the hospital room?
10. Explain dream through the poem “Days teach me “.
11. How to be a good citizen?
12. What do the five boons represent?
SECTION – B (5 X 6 = 30 MARKS)
Answer ANY FIVE questions
13. What is the lesson learnt from 'Another Bird Story'? Explain.(150 words)
14. What are the conflicts in Mending Wall?(150 words)
15. Change the sentence from active to passive voice
1. Reporters write news reports.
2. The company hired new workers last year.
3. Michael is baking a brownie.
4. The salesman was helping the customer when the thief came into the store.
5. They have already discussed the book.
6. They were repairing the Machine.
16. Fill in the blanks with correct tenses
1. Janet ______ karate class every Saturday. ( attend )
2. The market ______ usually noisy in the morning. ( be )
3. The delivery man ______ the parcel already. ( deliver )
4. The athletes ______ for Canada tomorrow. ( leave )
5. Anita ______ her room for the past hour. ( paint )

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6. The earth __________around the sun.(move)

17. Write the summary of Swami Vivekananda's speech at the world parliament
of religions in Chicago? (150words)
18. Change the direct speech to indirect speech
1. He said, “I live in the city centre.”
2. He said, “I'm going out.”
3. He said, “I've finished.”
4. He said, “I've been studying a lot.”
5. He said, “I arrived before you.”
6. He said, “I eat two apples.”
19. Why does the poet call the shadow a coward? (150words)
SECTION – C (4 x 10 = 40 MARKS)
Answer ANY FOUR questions.
20. (a) Spot the error from the sentences given below.
1. I hope you will come in New York soon.
2. The price of living in London is very high.
3. I did a phone call to her.
4. Mary work like a waitress on Friday.
5. He gave an exam in spite of being ill.
6. She new how to speak German.
7. He wore a cap made for fur.
8. We have does the work properly.
9. Our guest have arrived half hour ago.
10. The lady spoken for hours at the end.
(Or)
(b) Write a dialogue between a conductor and a passenger (10 Exchanges)
21 (a)Write an essay on “Should plastic be banned”?
(Or)
(b)Write an essay on “A person you admire”?
22. (a)Write a letter to the Oxford publisher ordering books for your department
library.
(Or)
(b)Send an email to the Customer Relations Director of a sofa showroom
complaining about a defect in the sofa purchased from the store.
23. (a) Give a one word substitute for the following:
1. That which against law.
2. A former student of a school or college.
3. Animals living in water.
4. Life story of a person written by himself.

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 5. A grass eating animal.
6. A study of birds.
7. A place where orphans live.
8. The study of stars.
9. One who audits the accounts?
10. Words opposite in meaning.
(Or)
(b) Write sentences using the following homophones
1. Route – Root
2. Cell-Sell
3. Allowed- Aloud
4. Raise -Rise
5. See-Sea
24.(a) Read the following sentences and identify the correct degree of
comparison
1. No other girl is as ___ as Jane (tall/taller/tallest)
2. The pen is_____(more mighty/mightier/more mightier) than the sword.
3. The little girl is quite ___ (brave/braver/bravest)
4. This is the ________(interesting/more interesting/most interesting)book I
have ever read.
5. Sam is a __ friend (good/better/best)
6. He is ____ than his brother. (smart/smarter/smartest)
7. Shobana speaks Spanish_____.(well/better/best)
8. Asia is the _______(large, lager/largest) continent in the world.
9. Shakespeare was_________than any other writer.(wise/wiser/wisest)
10. Somi is the ___ girl in the town ( beautiful/ more beautiful/ most beautiful)
(Or)
(b) Write five words used in different fields.
1. Pollution
2. Film making.
3. Medicine.
4. School.
5. Banking.

25. (a)Write a precis writing for the following paragraph

There are, I suppose, two ways of celebrating a great man's centenary Either we
can take him off his pedestal for the moment, admire his great qualities and say
how much he did to enrich the human race then, having dutifully done this, we
put him back again, if possible a lit the higher up and further out of reach than
before and conveniently forget about him; or we may bring him right down from
his pedestal, examine his life more carefully than before, in the light of a rather

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 longer perspective, and keep him well down among us to inspire us in facing the
world's problems.
In the case of Jinnah especially, the only valid way to celebrate his centenary
is the second. Already he is in danger of being regarded too much as a mere
future on a statue, far off above our heads. Our job during this centenary year is
to bring him down to earth again, as a living man among men, which is the only
thing he ever wanted to be. I am tempted to say: Let us strip him of his
leadership and look at him, if we can, as plain Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah if you
like.

Having said this let me hasten to add that as perspective lengthens, I find that
Jinnah's greatness grows upon me; it does not diminish. Of course he had his
human failings, his errors of judgment and all the rest, like any other man. But
these need not concern us especially today. What we want to see, as far as we
are able, is the long term value of his way of life and of the principles he tried to
live by. And if we are honest in looking at him, we must be prepared for some
shocks. He was always, and must always be, a disturbing man, who tries to
shake us out of our complacency.

Perhaps the main thing to learn from Jinnah's early independence campaigns
is that even people who seem to suffer from a slave mentality can learn to stand
up to overwhelming power. Years before I ever visited Pakistan or met Jinnah a
Pakistani student whom I think that Jinnah has done for us is to show us how to
stand up on our own feet. He has put backbone into us. I think Jinnah wanted all
men to believe that, if they have faith in some great cause, they are not strong
enough. You are as strong as you think you are' he would say, “You are strong
as I am”.

(or)
25. (b) Draft an e-mail to your Professor requesting to grant permission to
participate in an inter-collegiate paper presentation.

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