To convey information orally to a large gathering of people, forcefully and convincingly

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1 TECNIA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (AN ENGLISH MEDIUM SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL AFFILIATED TO CBSE) F-19, SECTOR-8, ROHINI NEW DELHI-85 TERM I WORKSHEET ( ) CLASS XII COMMERCE SUBJECT- ENGLISH SPEECH WRITING Purpose The purpose of making a speech is: To convey information orally to a large gathering of people, forcefully and convincingly To make the listeners understand the speaker s point of view. To pass on a wide range of information to a wide range of audience orally. To express an opinion, share a point of view, experience, observation, etc. Format Salutation speaker greet chief guests, fellow speakers and listeners. Key sentence carrying the central theme or issue of the speech. Expressing one s views what you feel about the topic Compare and contrast what do others feel and why your views are better Summing up conclude by summing up arguments that highlight your viewpoint. Remember A speech must being with a catchy introduction in the form of an anecdote, quotation, statistical data or thought provoking question. A speech must reflect the speaker s clarity of thought, accuracy of facts and balanced view through a comparison and contrast with other viewpoints. Bring credibility to your views through quoting of adequate supporting data. Infuse humour through anecdotes. Summing up or consolidation of ideas, suggestions / measured to improve the situation, personal observations and predictions must be done. Use language that is persuasive and powerful.

2 Give vote of thanks to the audience. Note The speech must be written in the appropriate format and style. Remember to keep within the word limit. Q. You are Radha / Raman, and are concerned about the rising incidents of ragging in both schools and colleges. As the Head Girl / Boy of the school, deliver a speech, in words, in the morning assembly. Q. You are Sangeeta / Sahil. You have been selected to represent your school in an All India Debate Competition organized by the National Children s Club, Delhi. The topic for the debate is In the opinion of this house, minimization of human wants is the only way to cleanse society of all kinds of corruption. Write a speech is not more than 200 words for or against the motion, giving arguments for your stand.

3 Worksheet 2 ENGLISH SECTION A (READING) Q1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 1. Hundreds of thousands of our qualified youngsters take off from different international airports every year for higher studies or highly lucrative jobs in the UD, the UK, Germany, France and Australia. And most of these Indians prefer to settle down abroad, attracted by the facilities and the higher quality of life provided by these countries. We have been crying hoarse about the brain drain from India over the last five decades or more, without going in for a well set blueprint to check the counter productive phenomenon. Some of the public schools in our metros and our IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) and IIMs (Indian Institutes of Management) are providing world class education. One might wonder that having spent a lot on infrastructure, training and other facilities and the best teaching staff, can the Government and the people of India look away as the talent, assiduously nurtured in India, is utilized by other countries for their development and excellence in different fields. 2. During the decades long debate on the brain drain, it was said that our youngsters leave India just because excellence is neither recognized nor rewarded in India. This could have been partly true at the beginning of this debate. But today, things have changed beyond recognition and talented people can reach the highest position possible if only they are prepared to work hard. 3. Youngsters from India whatever be the field they are working in are today suitably recognized and rewarded. 4. Take the field of sports where many of the celebrities are household names SaniaMirza, NarainKarthikeyan, Sachin Tendulkar, Anju Bobby George, P.T. Usha and several others. Innovation and managerial skill get recognition when Indians can vie with others in excellence from any part of the world. 5. If there is one individual who has catapulted India to the number one position in milk production in the world, it s none other than Dr. VergheseKurien, the father of the White Revolution. A top engineer who completed the Konkan Railway in record time, Mr. E. Sreedharan has built up the world class Delhi Metro. Mr. Amitabh Bachchan is no longer a megastar of the Indian screen only. His presentation of KaunBanegaCrorepati and other ventures have made him a living legend to global proportions. Take the story of the Ambani brothers, the Tatas, the Mittals and others who are having their footprints in different continents. We have had so many Indians who rose to the summit as Miss Universe and Miss World, but none has earned so much acclaim globally, in Bollywood, Hollywood : or the Cannes Film Festival, as Ms. AishwaryaRai. In the wake of globalization, India has produced a galaxy of eminent entrepreneurs in IT; biotechnology, civil aviation, steel production and the like. Just mention a

4 field and we are already in the vanguard or moving ahead at a frenetic pace. A time may come when India would be capable of reversing the so called brain drain to India s supreme advantage. 6. And happily enough, this is already happening now. A report released by a high tech lobbying group in the Silicon Valley in 2005 revealed that the highly skilled Indian born talent that once flocked to the US was returning home, turning America s brain drain into India s brain gain. Titled Losing the Competitive Edge : The Challenge for Science and Technology in the US, the report said that countries like India and China, through the restructuring of their economies, were dramatically increasing the skill sets of their work force, thereby posing a challenge to the US leadership in the technology domain. Public private partnerships (In India) have invested in technical universities and communications infrastructure to create cutting edge technology parks in places like Bangalore in Karnataka. This will make India more competitive and alluring to investors and multinational companies. The report further said : They are dramatically increasing the skill sets of their workforce, investing in research and development, and adopting advanced technologies, all to create wealth and spur economic growth. A1.1. Answer the following questions on the basis of your reading of the passage: (2) (i) (ii) Why do our qualified and talented youngsters leave for abroad? Why has Dr. VergheseKurien been phenomenal? A1.2. Choose the correct option and complete the sentences: (2) (i) The counter productive phenomenon refers to: a) lucrative jobs abroad b) restrictions on foreigners c) problem of unemployment (ii) The author is of the opinion that talent the top if he / she is. a) a throughout first class (b) (c) offered higher salary and perks a public school educated is ready to work hard. A1.3. Find words from the passage that mean the same as: (2) (i) beneficial (para 1) (ii) compete (para 4)

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14 TERM I WORKSHEET ( ) CLASS XII B SUBJECT- ECONOMICS SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (30 to 40 words) 1. Explain the effect of fall and rise in income of the consumer on the budget line. Use diagram. 2. What are the conflicting issues while addressing the problem of how to produce? 3. Explain three sources of supply of foreign exchange. 4. Explain three sources of demand for foreign exchange. 5. Devaluation and Depreciation of currency are one and the same thing. Do you agree? How do they affect the exports of a country? 6. If inflation is higher in country A than in country B and the exchange rate between the two countries is fixed. What is likely to happen to the trade balance between the two countries? 7. Using a diagram, explain what will happen to the PPC of West Bengal, if there are widespread strikes and lockouts? LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS ( 60 to 80 words) 8. Explain the law of returns to scale with the help of a diagram. 9. What does BOP account show? Explain the two parts of BOP account. 10. Explain the conditions of producer s equilibrium in terms of MC MR approach with the help of a numerical example and diagram. 11. What are the official reserve transactions? Explain their importance in BOP.

15 TERM I WORKSHEET ( ) CLASS XII B SUBJECT INFORMATICS PRACTICES 1. State the basic features of OOP. 2. What is event driven programming? 3. What is Java decompiler? 4. What is the argument type of a program s main() method? 5. Can you have multiple main methods in the same class? 6. What is the purpose of System class? 7. What are Escape sequences? 8. What is NetBeans profiler? 9. Create a table explaining the range of all data types. 10. What important point should be kept in mind or remarked while saving a Java source file? 11. What is JFrame? 12. Name four data type modifiers.