The Queen's Language

  Recently your school held a Seminar on the Conservation of Water as a part of World Water Day celebrations. As the Head Boy/ Head Girl of your school, who participated in the event, write a report for a local newspaper in 120- 150 words. You are Ravi/ Ravina.  Report  Value points:  Details of the date, time, venue, chief guest must be included; use of passive voice and a formal tone in the writing must be present. Write in Highly effective style capable of conveying the ideas convincingly with the appropriate layout of a newspaper report viz. headline and by-line, place, date.  • Carefully structured content with organised paragraphing presented cohesively.  • Highly effective register (formal tone, tense, and vocabulary), relevant and appropriate sentences for conveying the ideas precisely and effectively.

 Case study of museums 1 .We don’t go to museums. We prefer malls, cinema halls, and restaurants. Visiting a museum is best left to schools which make it mandatory. After all, it is an academic exercise. And what entertainment can these places possibly offer? India doesn’t boast the greatest of museums, but one can’t doubt the collection of artifacts in these repositories of heritage, even for a second. Our eventful history has handed down us numerous masterpieces, but unfortunately, we don’t find them compelling enough. Cultural historian and museologist Jyotindra Jain says that the habit of going to museums has just not been inculcated in us. One of the best museums in the country, National Museum in Delhi charges a mere Rs. 20. According to Joyoti Roy, outreach consultant, National Museum, it receives between 6,00,000 to 7,00,000 visitors each year and anything between 2,500 and 3,000 per day. The mix includes Indians, foreigners, and school students. For an Indian museum, it is...

  A Thing of Beauty is an excerpt from John Keats' poem ‘Endymion. The poem reflects his attitude towards beauty. The poet believes that beauty is intransient and gives joy forever It provides us with eternal happiness and never fades away.  A  thing of beauty is a joy forever. It transcends time. It will never fade away. Beauty has the power to remove darkness and gloom. In spite of treacherous and deceitful people and negativity and distress all around, there is some beautiful thing that removes the sadness and makes us happy. There  are a number of beautiful things that have the power to uplift our spirits like the sun, the moon, and old and young trees. The trees sprout and spread their branches to provide shelter within their green covering (shade) for the simple sheep Similarly, the sight of daffodils blooming within their green surroundings, the clear and small streams of water which make a cooling shelter for themselves against the hot season, the thick mass ...