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The document provides instructions for four writing exercises: 1. Draft a 50-word advertisement to sell a newly built flat. 2. Design a poster with 50 words or less advertising a school's annual winter carnival. Slogans can be used. 3. Write a 150-200 word article about how modern gadgets have improved lifestyle and given abilities to disabled people. 4. Write a letter as a concerned citizen to the municipal commissioner regarding the poor water supply and suggestions to conserve water.

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The document provides instructions for four writing exercises: 1. Draft a 50-word advertisement to sell a newly built flat. 2. Design a poster with 50 words or less advertising a school's annual winter carnival. Slogans can be used. 3. Write a 150-200 word article about how modern gadgets have improved lifestyle and given abilities to disabled people. 4. Write a letter as a concerned citizen to the municipal commissioner regarding the poor water supply and suggestions to conserve water.

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SUBJECT: ENGLISHCORE

WRITING SKILLS

1. You are Mohan/Mehul of 52, I. P. Colony, Nagpur. You want to sell your newly built flat. Draft a suitable
advertisement in not more than 50 words to be published in the classified columns of ‘The Hindu’ giving all
the necessary details. (5)

2. Design a Poster for your school’s Annual Winter Carnival to be held in December in not more than 50
words, giving all the necessary details. You may use slogans.
(5)

3. From the time we get up till we go to bed we use gadgets to make our life more comfortable and
leisurely. It has been rightly said that Science has given eyes to the blind, ears to the deaf and limbs to the
cripple. You are Sangeeta / Sandeep of Roop Nagar, Delhi. Write an article in about150‐200 words on the
topic, Life Style with the Modern Gadgets. (8)

4. You are Sadhana / Shubham. Summer time is a difficult time for all the people of Delhi because of the
acute shortage of water as well as the supply of polluted water. In some areas, the water, even after process
of filtration is not safe for consumption. Write a letter to the Municipal Commissioner to take effective steps
for proper supply of clean water and make arrangements to store rain water that can be utilized in other
work. Also give suggestions to create awareness among the people to save water. (7)

GRAMMAR

5. Use the correct forms of the words given in brackets to complete the passage given below.
(1/2 x8 =4)
Last Sunday when I (a) ………….. (return) home, I was shocked to find my house unlocked.
Someone (b) …………………….. (break) into my house in my absence. All the boxes (c) ……………… (be) open.
(d) …………………… (check) for the locker in which I (e)………………………. (put ) my money, but it was
nowhere.
(f) ……………. (report) the matter to the police. They (g)………………. (take ) some time to register my case.
By that time the thief (h) …………… (run ) away.

6. The following passage has errors. Identify the errors in each line and write them along with the
corrections as shown in the example: (1/2 x 8 = 4)

Incorrect Correct
According to the UNICEF report more than the a
(a) a third of the world child brides are from India,
(b) leaving children at an increased risk on exploitation
(c) despite the country’s growing modernity but economic
(d) wealth. Nearly 25 million women over India were married
(e) in 2007 by the age of 18, said the report who noted that children in India were sometimes married
before they turned 10.Millions of children are
(f) also being forced to work in harmful condition, or face violence
(g) and abuse at home and outside, suffer physical and
(h) psychological harm beside wide‐reaching effects, the report said.

7. Rearrange the following words into meaningful sentences: (1/2 x 4 = 2)

(a) old daughter / cannot / Mini / live / my / five‐year /chattering / without


(b) vexed / at / her mother / this / is often
(c) like to / prattle / I / but / would not / stop her / she / would(d) has / a minute / her life / Mini /
not spent / in all / in silence/even

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