FIRST TERMINAL EVALUATION 2016 SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER ENGLISH Read the following paragraph from the 'Project Tiger' and answer the questions.. Then he crawled from one mark to another, and the cameraman got busy with the lights. It finally dawned upon me that dawned this dwarf was paid to be the dog's stand-in! Every animal in a Hollywood film is well-trained. It is not difficult to train a horse or a dog. But have you ever heard of trained ravens? Not just one or two, but nearly ravens a hundred of them? Even this was made possible in Hollywood, when the creator of some of the best suspense films in the history of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, decided to make a film called Birds. In the story, birds from all over the world start attacking humans. Hitchcock needed a variety of birds, but what was required in the largest number was ravens. Notices were placed in the press all over the United States, asking people to contact the filmmaker if they knew how to get hold of trained ravens. 0. What were the difficulties faced by Alfred Hitchcock while making the film 'Birds' ? 0. How did Hitchcock manage to get a number of ravens? 1. What could you understand about making films with trained birds from this passage? 2. What was the theme of the film 'Birds'? 3. Find out a word from this passage which means ' to appear'.

(1x5=5)

Read the following lines from the song ' Blowing in the wind' and answer the questions. Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist

Before it is washed to the sea?

Yes, and how many years can some people exist

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Before they're allowed to be free?

Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head

And pretend that he just doesn't see?

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

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6. Who may be the 'people' and 'men' referred to in the above lines? 7. Why does the writer say that the answer is blowing in the wind? 8. How is the question about mountain related to the questions about man and people? 9. What, in your opinion , may be the things the man pretends that he just doesn't see? Read the following lines from 'A Girl's Garden' One day she asked her father

To give her a garden plot

To plant and tend and reap herself,

And he said, ‘Why not?’

In casting about for a corner

He thought of an idle bit

Of walled-off ground where a shop had stood,

And he said, ‘Just it.’ 10. Prepare an appreciation note for the above line. Read the following passage and answer the questions.

(4 scores)

The tiger is a very strong and ferocious animal. It looks like a large cat with a round head. The hair on its body is yellowish and marked with black stripes. The tiger has strong teeth, sharp claws in its powerful paws and a long tail . Tigers are generally found in most of the countri es in Asia. But the famous Royal Bengal Tiger found in the Sunderbans of Bengal is the largest and most beautiful of all tigers. 11. Where are the tigers generally found ? 12. Which is the latest of all tigers? 13. What is special about the hair on tiger's body 14. Find out a word from the passage which means "texture from the surface on either side of it." 15. What could you understand about tiger's nature from this passage?

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Answer any one of the following. (7x1=7) 16. a) Prepare a review of the screen play "My sister's shoe" . Or b) Narrate the experience of TH doctor in Vaikom Muhammed Basher's story "The snake and the Mirror". 17. Sathyajit Ray met the manager of the circus for getting a tiger for shooting a scene including a tiger. What would be the likely conversation between them (1x6=6) 18. Prepare a profile of Alfred Hitchcock using the following details. (5 scores) Born

:13 August 1899Leytonstone, Essex, England

Died

:29 April 1980 (aged 80)

Known as :The Master of Suspense Occupation :

Film director, film producer

Famous films : THE BIRDS (1963), MARNIE (1964),THE LADY VANISHES (1938) 19. Vanka was brutally punished by his master. As an unlucky orphan he was upset at this cruelty. Suppose he writes his diary at that night. What would the diary entry be? (5 score) 20. Suppose you are asked to deliver a speech on Child labour in your school assembly. Prepare a speech to deliver on the occasion. (5 scores)

21. Your school has decid to conduct an English Film Fest for public. Many famous English films including "Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock are shown in the Fest. The function is supposed to inaugurated by the famous film actor Mohanlal. Prepare a text for announcement for the fest. (4 scores) 23. After the " snake incident " in the story " The snake and the Mirror ", the doctor and his friends went the room to collect his belongings. But nothing was there. A thief had stollen everything. Suppose he decided to put a complaint to the House Officer of police. Prepare the likely letter of complaint. (5 scores)

24. Read the following conversation and answer the questions. (2 scores) Zahra: How am I going to school without shoes? Ali : You can go to school with my slippers. a) What did Zahra ask? b) What was Ali's reply? 25. Fill in the blanks with appropriate phrasal verbs choosing from the brackets. Vanka can not .................(a) the life in Alyakin's house. So he decided to ..........(b) with his grandfather through a letter. After composing the letter he ........... (c)his jacket and .............(d) to the town. On his way to the town he ................ (e)the butcher in the shop. ( came across, put up with, put across, set off, put on, put off). 26. There are some errors in the following passage. Edit them.

(1x5=5 ) (4 scores)

Once a girl asked his father a plot to farming for herself. Father gave her a idle bit of land which a shop had stand. 27. Complete the following conversation suitably. (6 scores) Reporter : .................................... ? Vanka. : My life is miserable here. Reporter : ....................................? Vanka. : My father and mother died . So I was sent here to learn a job. Reporter : ...................................? Vanka. : No, I am not studying unany school. Reporter : You are trying to escape from here, .............? Vanka. : Yes. But if my master knows about my plan, ............................ Reporter : ................................?

Vanka. : I decided to write a letter to my grandfather. Q28 to 33. Read the news headlines given below and answer the questions. ( 1x5=5) a) Messi Misses Penalty. b) Keala Clubs Face Uncertain Futurw . c) Kerala Needs Palliative Care for Dementia Patients. d) Seizure of 91 kg of Gangs e) 74 Killed in a Stampede f) New Bridges will Ease Traffic Snarls. 28. The headline that tells you the instability of the teams of players is.......... 29. The headline that refers to a tragedy is ...... 30. The headline related to sports is .... 32. Which headline is the peaceful news for the sick people? 33. The headline that tells about a relief for drivers is............. 34. Read the following sentences. a) Mr Thorat gave Ray two tigers ( S+V+O+O) b) They painted the cage yellow ( S+V+O+C) c) Ray placed the camera on the tripod. ( S+V+O+A) Now , make three similar sentences of same patterns. ( 1x=3)

(Prepared by Abdul Jamal. N. E, HSA English, GHS THACHANGAD Mob 8289880321)

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