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NOTE MAKING

ASSIGNMENT
CLASS XI
ENGLISH
1. Read the following passage carefully.
i Good decoration reflects the personality of the people who live in the home. It should, first of
all, be distinctive, just as each person is distinctive. A home should have unity not only within
each room but also throughout the house. Rooms should, to some degree, harmonize with each
other. The colour and styling of each room, particularly, should fit into the colour and styling
of the rooms which run out of it. Attractive home furnishings set the stage for pleasant living.
If they are an expression of yourself, you will have a feeling of satisfaction every time you
enter your home, and friends will share your enjoyment.
ii However, furnishings and surroundings expressive of just the right note of restfulness, gay
informality, or elegant simplicity are not often assembled by accident. Even enthusiasm alone
is not enough. For most home decorators, it takes poring over plans, trying colour schemes,
finding ingenious ways to make the best of what you have, and shopping around to search out
just the right purchases at prices you can afford to pay. But there is keen pleasure in striving
for the perfect result, and great satisfaction in achieving it.
iii A successful house and successful rooms will depend upon the proper relationship of each
element in it to the others and to the whole. Therefore, in selecting each piece it is well to
consider the background, the usage, the draperies, the floor covering, the upholstering
materials, the woods, shapes, colour scheme, and the “feeling” you prefer for the room.
iv Work and plan to enjoy your house. Limit the expenditures of time, effort and money to the
extent of your abilities, so that just running the house doesn’t dominate your life. Elegance and
delicate things may be a drain you can afford only in a limited way. If you can’t afford outside
help, select a house and furnishings that require less care. Plan your activities so that tumult
and upset are limited to a few rooms—an activity room or a bedroom, or a comer of the dining
room.
v You’ll get more pleasure out of a house if you have a hobby connected with it—collecting glass
or antiques, gardening or indoor flower growing ceramics, art, cooking, decorating, flower
arrangements, etc. And you’ll get more satisfaction and a great deal of help from studying
household activities.
You can select a pleasing combination of colours from a wallpaper, a fabric, an oriental mg, a
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flower or scene, or even a picture in a magazine. If you don’t already have the furniture or mgs,
it is a good idea to make up a colour scheme in this way. Let one colour predominate. Limit a
colour scheme to two or three colours, with white or gray tones.
These points will help you:
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(a) Always choose colours that please you personally— subtle, calm colours if you prefer a
restful atmosphere, intense colours if you like liveliness and cheer. Don’t be afraid of colour.
(b) Experimenting on paper will give you confidence. (But remember larger batches of colour
are more intense.) Try out various colour combinations, then live with them—look at them
frequently before you actually start buying.
(c) Colours should harmonize with furniture, draperies, carpets.
(a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it using recognizable 4
abbreviations and format you consider suitable. Also, supply an appropriate title to it.
(b) Write a brief summary based on the notes you created. 4

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