CBSE Class 12 English Question Paper SA1 2014 (3)

CBSE Class 12 English Question Paper SA1 2014 (3). Students can download the last year question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions. Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations.

Section A                                     

A.1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

1 A young journalist in Kolkotta, had a chance encounter with a friend's five year old son. It waan encounter that was to change Supriyo Chatterjee and his wife Jane's perception of life. The boy showed them a drawing of an elephant in a blue circle, its trunk painted red. The elephant had fallen into a trap, the boy said, and was trying to escape, its trunk flushed red with anger.

2 This set the young couple thinking on what the children might try to say through theirdrawings. After collecting hundreds of children's paintings, they came to a very different conclusion. It also represented a step forward in the unfinished experiment of designing a system of learning in India that matches local temperature while assimilating the best from other countries.

3 The experiment had been an irresistible temptation for many. Across the country,unofficial pedagogues are trying out their own ideas on early childhood education. The Chatterjee couple started their CharChaka Education Resources Centre, with a small group of young people experimenting on an electric menu.

4 CharChaka is an unusual name for an educational group.  'It means four wheels, anallusion to our old jeep that takes us and our teaching material deep into the interiors.' says  Jane, who hit upon the idea with her journalist husband. Jane, a trained child nurse has been living in India for the last six years. Children in the West Bengal villages, where vehicles are a comparative rarity, would call it CharChaka and that became the trademark for the mobile educators.

5 Indeed mobility remains the sacred belief with CharChaka. It has no school of its own and neither do the members want to set up one. 'A school in the city would have been expensive with the land costs, the building, taxes and upkeep. The poor would not have been able to send their children there as travel is both expensive and impractical for them. The purpose of the mission would have been defeated even before we started.

6 Some fundamental truths about the quality of education, especially for rural middleclass that became obvious to the couple were worrisome. The artistic expressions of the middle class children lacked character. They were most part a copy of their art teacher's instructions. Their landscapes were alien to the place theY. lived in, with pine trees and snow mountains but with out paddy fields or the native foliage. The city children drew villages in geometric proportions with tractors, hand-pumps and houses in neat proportions- but never the way the village actually is.

7 CharChaka thought reaching out to the poor children, those who could not afforddrawing instructors. This was the most satisfying experience in the experiment. In the slums, the children reacted first with amusement and then with a frenzy of participation

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