CBSE Class 11 English Articles Assignment

Write article on the following topics:-

1. Role of youth in fighting corruption

2. Growing violence among youth.

3. Living in a Metro

4. You and Ashok/ Asha of Class XI. Recently many inter school competition and matches have been organized in your zone. Writing an article on the importance of participation in games and sports highlighting the dictum ‘ A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body’

5. The younger generation has lost its regard towards the older generation. In the modern race of money and luxury the youth of now a days has forgotten the old. Write an article on the loneliness and the feeling of isolation the older go through. (100-150 words)

6. Deforestation has become a big problem for mankind these days. Man is totally insensitive towards the Mother Nature and is causing irreparable damage to it by calling and then not replacing the trees again. Flood, change in climate and rainfall and a sharp rise in temperature would very soon be out of central for him. Write an article on this problem. (100-150)

7. You are Sumit/Savita. You come across a group of children who were trying to imitate the stunts of cartoon characters and even their hero. They pounced; they boxed in a mindless manner.

Write an article on this issue of growing violence in children by watching TV indiscriminately and imitating their heroes thoughtlessly.

8. You are Rita/Ritesh write an article on the responsibility of the parents to educate their children about the hazard of fire-crackers on the festival of Diwali. (125-150 words)

9. You are Samar/Samir. You came across these these news headlines. Greatly disturbed about the issue you decide to write on article for your newspaper:-

a. Dowry monsters kill innocent bride

b. Daughter In Law tortured for Money and TV

c. Daughter In Law could not get car- Thrown in a well.

10. You are student of class XII-A. You feel very disturbed. When you read about the innumerable cases of crime against women. Write an article in about 150 words.

 
LETTERS

Write letters in following context:

1. You are a resident of B-3, Saket, New Delhi.. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper drawing attention of authorities toward the insanitary condition prevailing in your neighborhood due to garbage thrown by weekly bazaar vendor who never care to pick up the garbage.

2. You plan to join an advance course in ‘Speaking English’ offered by the British council. You are Anil/Shobha of Dhruva Apartments, Patparganj. Write a letter to the manager requesting to send you the information of the courses offered, fees and duration of the courser etc.

3. Look at the advertisement below :

EDUCATIONAL
CLASSES AVAILABLE
FOR GERMAN LANGUAGE

Ad Rama write a letter to a person who has given the advertisement and ask for complete information about the tuition.

4. You are Shubhra/Shubham of Mumbai Scottish Schol. For the post ten days because of heavy rains, a section of your school is not getting electrical supply. The Science Laboratory, the Computer room and the Principal’s office all are situated in the section of the school. As the Head Girl/ Head Boy, write a letter to the chairman of the electricity board, complaining about the problem asking him to send a team of technicians to repair it immediately.
5. This summer you are planning to visit Shimla. Write a letter to a travel agency in Shimla requesting them to book you a room in a Five star hotel. Give other detail of your journey and facilities you require there. You are mohan, C15, Guwahati Assam.
6. You are Kunal/Kirti. You have heard of so many young-students who have gine abroad to pursue higher studies. There are number of arguments they give in favor of studying abroad.

Write a letter to the editor giving your opinion in about 150 Words.

REPORT WRITING

Q. Write a report on following

1. Write a report on the environment day celebrated in your school. Write about 80-100 words for school magazine.

2. Last week your school celebrated library week as a head boy of XYZ School. Write a report for school magazine

3. You are Hari/Neha of Class XI- E, Sports secretary of your school. Your school organized sports day last week. Write a report about sports day in school magazine.

4. Your school celebrated Enviorment day last month on the occasion of Earth Day. As a Head Boy write a report about the same.

5. Your school organized blood donation camp last week. As the first aid incharge write a report in school magazine.

6. You were an eye witness to an accident on the road. Write the report about the happening of the accident. You are a reporter of Times of India.

7. You witnessed a train accident at the Kanpur Station. Give a report about the same. You are reporter of Hindusthan Times.

8. There was a fire near your house. You witness the whole accident. Write a report about 80-100 words for the local newspaper.

9. You are a victim of the terror strike in New Delhi High Court. Write a report about the accident in about 80-100 words for times of India.

10. You are a resident of Jammu and Kashmir. Write a report about how the terror of terrorist is reducing due to the Indian army. And the rehabilitation work done by Army. Write a report about it for the Jammu and Kashmir Times.

I. You are Anubhav or Abhilasha, a student of class xii, and you are disappointed to see young children picking rags, working at tea-stalls, labouring at construction sites. Write an article on the issue of child labour and poverty highlighting the major causes and likely repercussions for the society at large.

Question. Which of the following options best describes the effects of such an evil:
(a) Population, pollution, increase in GDP, social development
(b) Persistent poverty, lack of development, social unrest, increase in crime rate
(c) High ethics, poverty, inequality and social injustice
(d) Proper implementation of laws, poverty, free education

Answer: B

Question. Which of the following options best describes the way to eliminate such evils?
(a) By providing free education and free meals to such children
(b) By punishing the business firms that employ children in hazardous industries
(c) By punishing the children who work at shops or do rag-picking
(d) Both (a) and (b)

Answer: D

Question. What would make this article complete?
(a) Introduction of the problem and its causes
(b) Introduction of the problem, causes, effects, possible solutions and conclusion
(c) Title, by-line. Introduction of the problem, causes, effects, possible solutions and conclusion
(d) Title, by-line and conclusion

Answer: C

Question. The most apt title for such an article would be—
(a) Children at Tea Stalls
(b) Child Labour: An Undying Evil
(c) Children of our society
(d) Cruel Society and Children

Answer: B

Question. Which of the following options rightly states the causes of the problem:
(a) Lack of values in society, poverty, greed of businessmen, lack of awareness
(b) Hobby, habit, forced learning, social pressures
(c) Great society, lack of education, good policies, gap between the rich and the poor
(d) Free education, fun, laws, government

Answer: A

II. The mind and heart do not act according to ………………(1).There is nothing like the perfect colour. We are the ones who have brought the notion into our minds that having a fairer skin is what everyone needs. Is it the looks that matter or ……………………..(2)?
In India, there is a craze for fair complexion people. Everyone wants to have a fair and clear skin.
There are products used by the people to make their skin fairer. These products are sold in tons on a daily basis. For once, we should notice that we indirectly give profits to those companies which
manufacture such harmful and fake products with the fake promises of lightening our complexion. In the West, the people are crazy about getting tanned skin in summers and they pay to get all this.
Then from where did Indians feel the urge to do all this? The dark skin has its own beauty and suits us. We are all ………………………(3). We are made that way. What matters is if we are beautiful from
the inside. A person might be fair and beautiful from outside but what if he/she is not nice from inside? We need to focus on being good human beings, only that will take us somewhere in life. Beauty lies
……………………….(4). It is created by the observers the way they see us and people generally first
see our attitude. Looks are something which will stay only for a short time but character and inner beauty is something that will be with us till our death. So, that is something we should work on and not
on our looks. Our behaviour in society is what matters and not whether we dress well for an event. People judge us by our actions and not by what we are from outside. Always remember that mirrors
lie, they do not show what you are from inside. So, it is high time we stopped the discrimination of
people based on……………………(5).

Question. Complete the proverb “Beauty lies in………………..”
(a) in the attitude
(b) in the behaviour
(c) in the eyes of the beholder
(d) in the fair complexion

Answer: C

Question. So, we can conclude from the article that we should promote………………….in our children and not ………………
(a) ethics, pretentiousness
(b) ethics, love of humanity
(c) looks, values
(d) passion for fashion, desire for knowledge

Answer: A

Question. Let us not allow……………… to affect our principles of life.
(a) Morality
(b) Consumerism
(c) ethics
(d) Euro-centrism

Answer: B

Question.
(a) the complexion of one’s skin
(b) one’s ideology
(c) One’s heredity
(d) All of these

Answer: A

Question.
(a) Complexion
(b) virtues
(c) economic status
(d) social status

Answer: B

Question.
(a) different
(b) the same
(c) unique
(d) both (a) and (c)

Answer: D

III. You are Amit/Amita, a student of class xii and you feel that increasing environmental pollution is a cause of concern for all. It has started affecting the human health now.

Question. Effects of pollution can be observed in the form of—
(a) Global warming and climate change
(b) Deforestation
(c) Increasing population
(d) Recycling of resources

Answer: A

Question. Statement I: Forests precede mankind and deserts follow.
Statement II: Human activities are focused on thoughtless consumption of resources.
(a) Both I and II are true but unrelated
(b) I is true but II is false
(c) II is true but I is false
(d) Both I and II are true and directly related

Answer: D

Question. Choose the most appropriate title for your article from amongst the following:
(a) Pollution and Human Existence
(b) Population a cause of Pollution
(c) Ban on Use of Plastics
(d) Environment Conservation

Answer: A

Question. Choose the option that states causes of pollution:
(a) • Lack of job opportunity • Poverty • Plantation, population
(b) • industrialisation • deforestation • Improper disposal of waste • Overconsumption of resources
(c) • Urbanisation • education • global warming • lack of awareness

Answer: B

Question. What can be a way of controlling pollution?
(a) Rapid development
(b) National development
(c) Sustainable development
(d) Suitable development

Answer: C

Question. “What goes under the pot now costs more than what is cooked inside”. It implies---
(a) Firewood is costlier than the food we cook with it
(b) The gas stove is very costly
(c) The food is costlier than the fuel
(d) None of these

Answer: A

IV. During the recent pandemic of Covid-19, you noticed that all the people do not have equal access to technology and its benefits. So such testing times expose the deep-seated inequality in other society. It is just another form in which the prevalent inequality in our country becomes known. This has been called the Digital Divide. When you write an article to raise concern about this menace facing our society, you would surely cover its causes and the possible remedies.

Question. Which of the following can possibly bridge this wide divide?
(a) Provision of subsidies
(b) Provision of free universal internet access and low-cost devices
(c) Enactment of laws
(d) None of these

Answer: B

Question. How did on-line education affect the elementary education during the pandemic?
(a) They could get over-all development sitting at home
(b) They learned to use digital gadgets
(c) Their parents became techno-friendly
(d) They were almost cut-off from schooling

Answer: D

Question. How has this divide negatively affected the students in these trying times?
(a) They have got easy access to education
(b) It has further deprived the already deprived students of poor section of society
(c) Learning was free of cost
(d) It improved their health

Answer: B

Question. What can be concluded about digital education in the present circumstances?
(a) It can be used as an aid in physical classrooms but over-reliance on it is not viable
(b) It can replace the brick-and-mortar classrooms
(c) Both (a) and (b) are correct
(d) Only (a) is correct

Answer: A

Question. The digital divide is a manifestation of our deep-lying:
(a) Unity
(b) Inequalities
(c) Social equality
(d) Political Vision

Answer: B

Question. Which amongst the following best describes the causes of Digital divide in India;
(a) Poverty, remote location, unemployment, digital illiteracy
(b) Poverty, plantation, urbanization, digitalisation
(c) NEP, lack of technical education and poverty
(d) High fee structure, expensive devices and good quality education

Answer: A