English for Polytechnic Students: January 2010

STATE BOARD OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING

MODEL QUESTION PAPER FOR ENGLISH 1st YEAR END EXAMINATION

101 ( Common) ENHANCING ENGLISH & EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 70
Section – A

Answer all the questions. Each question carries 3 marks
10 X 3 = 30
1. a) Match the following root words with their meanings

i) demo ( ) A) woman
ii) gyne ( ) B) mind
iii) psych ( ) C) people

b) Write an example word for each of the above root words.

2. Use the right form of the verb given in brackets
Ram……….(watch) the television when a thief ……….(break) into the house and ………(take) away all the jewellery of his wife. On her return, she ……..(learn) about it and ……..(fight) with him and ……….(file) divorce case in the court of law.

3. Change the following into passive voice.
He lodged a complaint in the police station. Police arrested the thief. They returned the jewellery to him.

4. Change the following into reported speech
“We have to work hard to taste success. You have to shed your laziness”, said the leader to his followers.

5. Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions
I wanted ……….see the movie, Magadheera, so I went……….the theatre well……….advance for tickets.

6. Complete the following sentences.
a) They………(has/have/is/are) missed their last bus
b) He………. (go/goes/gone/went) to collect regularly
c) Neither mother nor the children……….(was/were) present at the party

7. Combine sentences from A & B and write three meaningful sentences using appropriate
linkers
A B
i) You work hard She teaches French
ii) I will meet Jhansi He is present
iii) He is sick You will pass the exam

8. a) Change the following statements into questions using the words given
i) Ramana is my friend. (Who…)
ii) Murthy is going to the library. (Where…)
iii) Vijaya went to the station to receive her brother. (Why…)

b) Add suitable question tags to the following statements.
i) Rakhi dances well
ii) Tagore got the Nobel prize
iii) He isn’t writing the exam

9. Identify the errors in the following sentences and rewrite the correct sentences
a) He is my cousin brother. No error
1 2 3 4 5
b) My uncle has four son-in-laws. No error
1 2 3 4 5
c) He has been playing cricket since two hours. No error
1 2 3 4 5

10. List out the main aspects of resume writing

Section – B

Answer any five of the following out of which Q No 17 & 18 are compulsory 5x8=40

11. a) You are chosen to represent your team at Regional Sports meet to be held in Tirupathi.
You introduce yourself to the organizers of the meet with all the details of your team. (about your name, your branch-your team members – names of events-etc.) Write your introduction in this situation.
b) Describe a cell phone

12. Discuss how a dictionary is useful in learning English language.

13. Do you support the elections for the Students’ organizations in colleges? Take a stance and
write a persuasive essay.

14. Using the details given in the table and the hints provided, describe the performance of the
four major automobile dealers.
Number of Vehicles sold

Year Automobile Sales of different dealers
Pranav Motors Jahanavi Motors Sai Automobiles Vaishnavi Motors
2005 27000 20000 10000 14000
2006 32000 21000 20000 9000
2007 39000 32000 20000 9100
2008 45000 33000 23000 9200

Hints: Pranav motors – highest sales- steady growth-number one in market
Jahnavi motors – second position- a sudden growth in one financial year – due to success of a new model
Sai Automobiles – No 3 in market – slow growth-workers strike – no growth in one financial year
Vaishnavi Motors- growth is minimum – a model – withdrawn

15. Read the following passage, identify the important points and make notes in cue/mapping method.
The action inside a typical beehive appears frenzied but actually is as controlled as a space-shuttle launch. The two categories of residents-house bees and field bees, perform a great variety of chores. The house bees include house keepers, who clear up debris. If an object is too long to move – a mouse for example, that has invaded the hive and been stung to death – the housekeepers remove its hair and mummify it with propolis, a resin gathered from trees. Other house bees include ventilators, who stand near the entrance whirring their wings to air-condition the interior, and undertakers, who remove dead bees from the hive.
Then there are the hive workers whose main job is building new combs to store honey. Beeswax, assort of fat, is extruded from glands on the underside of the builder’s abdomen. After removing the wax with their feet, the bees chew it into tiny balls to build an engineering marvel the two layered, six sided honeycomb used for raising the young and storing honey. Repairer bees mend old combs, while cappers spread wax on newly finished comb layers between and around each comb, moreover, these masterly engineers construct an elaborate road system of “bee spaces” from half a centimetre to a centimetre wide.

16. Read the following text and rewrite it correcting the errors

Hi Malathi I am sending this postural to you because, I would like you to see how the town look like. I’m sorry I haven’t call you before I leave, because I hasn’t got enough time and I didn’t explained to you why I has to moved. Recent I has to moved because, my patents they’re changed their job to this town that why I have to move ones here. And thus town has a beautiful old building. So I hope you will come and visit me room.

17. Write a letter in reply to the following advertisement for the post of a supervisor.

Wanted technicians – qualifications - Diploma in Electrical / Electronics – knowledge of computers essential – Candidates with three years experience are preferred – Apply within 10 days to The Personal Manager, Lanfirst Power Systems, G.K. Street, Bangalore.

18. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Do you know why July 21, 1969 is famous? It is famous because man stood on the moon on that day. Perhaps when you are grown up, you may be able to visit the moon, Stay there in houses under the ground, and travel from the moon to some of the stars.
The moon looks far away in the sky, doesn’t it? But it is the nearest body to the earth. It is about as big as Africa and Europe put together. There is no air on the moon and no water either and this is the reason why nothing can live there. Because there is no air, it is either very hot or very cold on the moon.
There is another strange thing about the moon. A day on the moon is two weeks long and so is the moon night. The moon is not flat, and we can see the dark shadows of mountains when we look at it. They give the moon a face and small children say, “Look at the man on the moon”. The highest mountain on the moon is higher than Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

i) What happened on July 21, 1969?
ii) a) ‘The nearest body to earth is moon’ – State whether this statement is true or false according to the passage.
b) What is the length of a night on the moon?
iii) Is there life on moon? Why ( not) ?
iv) What gives the moon a ‘face’?

S.No	Description	Frequency	Marks	Remarks
1.	End Exam	Annual	70	To be conducted By SBTET
2.	Oral/Viva	Annual	10	To be Conducted by an external examiner
3.	2 Unit Tests (for the Academic Year 2009-10)	Half yearly	15each	Better one to be considered (for the Academic Year 2009-10)
4.	Assignments	Continuous	5	Continuous assessment by the teacher
5	Lessons included in the first unit test for the Academic Year 2009-10			Lessons 1 - 17

S.No.	No. and Name of the lessons	Remarks
1.	7 – Basic Sounds	Deleted and questions will not be asked for the academic year 2009-10.
2.	8 – Syllabification
3.	32 – Discourse Markers	Deleted for the academic year 2009-10
4.	33 – Drawing Inferences
5.	37 – Persuasive Writing
6.	40 – E-mail
7.	41 – Writing Resumes

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