REHDON COLLEGE
DASHAIN HOMEWORK-2074
ENGLISH-MGMT-XII
Q. No.: 1 Read the following passage and answer the
questions that follows: 15
Go into
the coffee bar, sit down, relax and try to talk to someone. It may look to
others as though you are wasting your time. It may even feel that way to you.
But so long as you are doing this in a foreign country, where you speak the
language badly or not at all, you are probably acquiring a new language better
than you ever could by formal study with a teacher and a textbook.
The social
situation, properly used, beats the classroom hollow. It is full of native
speakers asking you questions, telling you to do things, urging you to take an
active part in conversation, and using gestures freely to make their intention
clearer – just like your
parents did when you were an infant. So plunge in. All you have to do is talk
balk.
The
proposition that infants can acquire languages by prolonged exposure to them is
self-evidently true: it is the only way available to them. Older children and
teenagers who move to a different country can pick up a new language with a
speed that baffles their parents. But in adulthood we find ourselves envying
our rare contemporaries who can still acquire languages easily.
There may be biological reasons why
the capacity to learn languages falls away with age, even more than the
capacity to learn other things. The brain maybe designed to do its best
language-learning in infancy, and then to redeploy its resources at puberty.
But psychological factors play a big part too. As we get older, we get more
self-conscious, more inhibit, more dependent on other people's judgments. This
process may undermine our capacity to acquire a new language, because language
underpins our sense of personality and identity. We fear to make mistakes in
it.
Stepen Krashen, an expert on
second-language acquisition, makes a strong case for the dominance of
psychological factors. According to him, people with outgoing personalities do
best at learning a new language because 'they have the ego to make the
necessary mistakes involved in learning'.
When we want to learn a new
language in mid-life for reasons of career or curiosity, we commonly but
wrongly tackle it with the sense of doing something difficult and unnatural. We
turn to grammar books and compact discs expecting a fight. We are going to
'struggle' with the language. We will 'master' it, unless it defeats us. And
that sort of attitude, it probably will.
All other things being equal, the
better learner will be the person who is the most relaxed in conversation, and
the most self-confident.
Questions:
a. What type of reader do you think
would be most interested in this passage?
b. Do you think the biological
factors affect in the capacity of language learning?
c. What is the finding of Stephen
Krashen?
d. Does the passage present facts,
views or mix of the two?
e. Give the text a suitable title,
and justify it.
Q. No: 2 Ask a question for each of the situation below using,
‘Have you ever..?’ 5
a)
I’ve travelled by train. Have you ever travelled by train?
b) They asked me to help them. c) They searched my bag last week.
d) My friend locked me in the toilet
once.
e) Somebody has stolen my pen time
and again.
f) I usually eat mo:mo as my snacks.
Q. No: 3 Continue the
remarks below with a sentence using ‘be (not) used to + -ing’. 5
a)
The traffic doesn’t wake the street boy up at night….
He’s used to sleeping in the
street.
b)
He won’t mind if
you stare at him….
c)
Ooh dear. I’ve
got a stomach-ache….
d)
I get a bit
lonely sometimes, now that she’s gone….
e)
She was quite
surprised when I gave her some flowers….
f)
You can bring as
many friends as you like home to dinner….
Q. No: 4 Fill in the gaps in
the sentences below with
‘for, in by or until’. [5]
a)
They got the lunch ready ……… 12:30.
b)
He stayed in bed …..…. lunchtime.
c)
I dug the garden ………. a couple of hours.
d)
We discussed politics …….. 3 in the morning.
e)
They lived in Dharan ………. 5 years.
Q. No: 5 Continue the
following remarks with ‘look, sound,
smell, taste, or feel’ + like . [5]
a)
Do you think this is tea? It tastes like coffee to me.
b)
This material is very soft. …..
c)
They have got similar faces. …….
d)
I wonder who has written this music. …..
e)
I don’t think this cake is home made. ……
f)
What are you preparing for our meal?..........
Q. No: 6 Join the following sentences together
using a non-defining relative clause. [5]
a) Finally Brown (Willis had been sharing an office with him)
decided to retire.
Finally
Brown, with whom Willis had been sharing an office, decided to retire.
b) Bibek (his
parents had been in the theatre) decided to become an actor himself.
c) He became
quite fond of Central Prison (he had spent so much of his life there).
d) The old house
(the family had lived in it for 300 years) was finally sold.
e) Mary noticed
that he was wearing her ring (she had lost it five years before).
f) In 2001 (he was
still a student then) he joined the Congress party.
.
Q. No.: 7 How would you define
the person who …………. [5]
a) thinks about himself?
b) never loses his temper?
c) jokes about everything?
d) gives away lots of money?
e) has high opinions of himself?
Q. No: 8 Write some paragraphs
on ‘Life and Art’. [10]
Q. No: 10. Write a couple of paragraphs
narrating the events when either something exciting or embarrassing happened to
you. [5]
Q. No.11. Write a magazine article describing the
changes you would like to bring about in our education system. [5]
Q. No. 12 Answer ANY FIVE of the following
questions: [3x5=15]
a. Describe the
relationship between Uncle Thomas and his wife.
(A Story)
b. Is death
meaningful in the poem “Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies”?
c. When is the
physical action replaced by the other kind?
(Travelling Through the Dark)
d. What is
wrong, in his view, with treeless Nepal?
(Two Long Term Problems: ……..)
e. Explain the
title of the poem “The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner”.
f. What are the
effects of ‘unexpressed love’ on Anna and Alyohin?
(About Love)
Q. No. 13 Answer ANY ONE of the following: [10x1=10]
a. What images does the poet use to describe his grandmother? What senses
do they appeal? Explain. (The Grandmother)
b. What did the authors find in the exploration of the Karnali region? Explain. ( Hurried Trip To Avoid A Bad Star)
Q. No.: 1 Read the following passage and answer the
questions that follows: 15
Go into
the coffee bar, sit down, relax and try to talk to someone. It may look to
others as though you are wasting your time. It may even feel that way to you.
But so long as you are doing this in a foreign country, where you speak the
language badly or not at all, you are probably acquiring a new language better
than you ever could by formal study with a teacher and a textbook.
The social
situation, properly used, beats the classroom hollow. It is full of native
speakers asking you questions, telling you to do things, urging you to take an
active part in conversation, and using gestures freely to make their intention
clearer – just like your
parents did when you were an infant. So plunge in. All you have to do is talk
balk.
The
proposition that infants can acquire languages by prolonged exposure to them is
self-evidently true: it is the only way available to them. Older children and
teenagers who move to a different country can pick up a new language with a
speed that baffles their parents. But in adulthood we find ourselves envying
our rare contemporaries who can still acquire languages easily.
There may be biological reasons why
the capacity to learn languages falls away with age, even more than the
capacity to learn other things. The brain maybe designed to do its best
language-learning in infancy, and then to redeploy its resources at puberty.
But psychological factors play a big part too. As we get older, we get more
self-conscious, more inhibit, more dependent on other people's judgments. This
process may undermine our capacity to acquire a new language, because language
underpins our sense of personality and identity. We fear to make mistakes in
it.
Stephen Krashen, an expert on
second-language acquisition, makes a strong case for the dominance of psychological
factors. According to him, people with outgoing personalities do best at
learning a new language because 'they have the ego to make the necessary
mistakes involved in learning'.
When we want to learn a new
language in mid-life for reasons of career or curiosity, we commonly but
wrongly tackle it with the sense of doing something difficult and unnatural. We
turn to grammar books and compact discs expecting a fight. We are going to
'struggle' with the language. We will 'master' it, unless it defeats us. And
that sort of attitude, it probably will.
All other things being equal, the
better learner will be the person who is the most relaxed in conversation, and
the most self-confident.
Questions:
a. What type of reader do you think
would be most interested in this passage?
b. Do you think the biological
factors affect in the capacity of language learning?
c. What is the finding of Stephen
Krashen?
d. Does the passage present facts,
views or mix of the two?
e. Give the text a suitable title,
and justify it.
Q. No: 2 Ask a question for each of the
situation below using,
‘Have you ever..?’ [5]
a)
I’ve travelled by train. Have you ever travelled by train?
b) He asked me to help him. c) They searched my home last week.
d) My brother locked me in my study
room once.
e) Somebody has stolen my note copy.
f)
I usually eat toast and omlete as my snacks.
Q. No: 3 Continue the remarks below with a
sentence using
‘be (not) used to + -ing’. [5]
a)
The traffic doesn’t wake the street boy up at night….
He’s used to sleeping in the
street.
g)
My feet are
killing me….
h)
Ooh dear. I’ve
got a head-ache….
i)
I get a bit
lonely sometimes, now that he’s gone….
j)
She was quite
surprised when I gave her some flowers….
k)
I’m not surprised
he’s out of breath….
Q.
No: 4 Fill in the gaps in the sentences below with ‘for, in by or until’.
[5]
a)
They talked on the telephone ……… 20 minutes.
b)
She painted the bathroom ceiling …..…. 6 o’ clock.
c)
We played basketball ………. the third period began.
d)
We discussed politics …….. 3 in the morning.
e)
They waited at the buspark ………. 5 hours.
Q. No: 5 Continue the
following remarks with ‘look, sound,
smell, taste, or feel’ + like . [5]
a)
Do you think this is tea? It tastes like coffee to me.
b)
I wonder who has written this music. …..
c)
I don’t think this cake is home made. ……
d)
What are you preparing for our meal?.......
e)
I’ve got something in my shoe ……………
f) They have got similar faces.
…….
Q. No: 6 Join the following sentences
together using a non-defining
relative clause. [5]
a) Finally Brown (Willis had been sharing an office with
him) decided to retire.
Finally
Brown, with whom Willis had been sharing an office, decided to retire.
b) Bibek (his
parents had been in the theatre) decided to become an actor himself.
c) He became
quite fond of Central Prison (he had spent so much of his life there).
d) The old house
(the family had lived in it for 300 years) was finally sold.
e) Mary noticed
that he was wearing her ring (she had lost it five years before).
f) In 2001 (he was still
a student then) he joined the Congress party.
Q. No.: 7 How would you define
the person who …………. [5]
a) doesn’t boast?
b)
lets people down?
c) likes going to parties?
d)
only thinks about himself?
e) doesn’t joke about anything?
Q. No: 10 write a couple of paragraphs narrating the
events when either something exciting or embarrassing happened to you. [5]
Q.N.11.
Write an essay on youth and age. (in above 250 words). [10]
Q. No: 12. Answer ANY FIVE questions in short: [5x3=15]
a. Explain the meaning of ‘swerve’?
Does the Speaker Swerve?
(Travelling through the Dark)
b. What is the central idea of the
poem?
(The
Lamentation of The Old Pensioner)
c. What leads
Nissani to the belief that the world is facing overpopulation crisis? (Two Long Term Problems:…..)
d. Find the
examples of onomatopoeia and alliteration in the poem and explain the effect. ( Full Fathom Five……)
e. What is Silajit? What are its uses? (Hurried Trip to Avoid ……)
f. How does the poet feel towards
his grandmother? ( The
Grandmother)
Q.
No: 13. Answer ANY ONE of the
following questions: [1x10=10]
a. Why is Alhoyin said to be running
around ‘like a squirrel in a cage’? Explain.
(About
Love)
b. Describe the outing made by Uncle
Thomas and his friends.
(A Story)
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