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IV Semester B.A./B.Sc./B.C.A./B.Sc. (FAD) Examination, April/May 2015 (Repeaters) (Prior to 2011-12) LANGUAGE ENGLISH – IV Time : 3 Hours

Max. Marks : 90

Instruction : Mark the question numbers correctly. I. Answer any four of the following in a paragraph each :

(4×5=20)

1) What was the reaction of the model beggar when Erskine gave him a sovereign in “The Model Millionaire” ? 2) Who is the companion of the mirror and what is the relationship between them ? 3) List the belongings of the Director found among the ruins in “The Town by the Sea”. 4) Write a note on the family of Nicola and Jacopo before the war in “Two Gentlemen of Verona”. 5) How does Chenna describe death of Siddhartha in Edwin Arnold’s poem “Siddhartha” ? 6) Describe Margaret’s son as shown in “The Affliction of Margaret”. 7) Which of the two ways of avoiding fear does Bertrand Russell recommend in “How to Escape from intellectual Rubbish” ? II. Answer any three in a page and a half each :

(3×10=30)

1) Justify Alan Trevor’s statement “Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still”. 2) Enumerate the ill-effects of tsunami on the life of the Director in Amitav Ghosh’s “The Town by the Sea”. 3) Why Nicola and Jacopo are called two gentlemen of Verona by A.J. Cronin ? 4) How does Chenna introduce Siddhartha to the miseries of human life ? 5) Compare and contrast the speeches of Antony and Brutus. P.T.O.

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III. Do as directed :

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1) Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word given in the bracket : a) Determination is very important to _______ in life. (success, succeed, successful, successfully) b) She is _________ with intelligence and beauty. (entitled, endowed, charged, subjected) 2) Construct a single meaningful sentence by using the following words in any order : (3×1=3) a) Thief police caught b) Yoga good health necessary c) Principal mobiles banned. IV. Read the following passage and write the summary of it : Gandhiji wrote in Young India (1921) that schools and colleges should become self-supporting. Teaching should be done through arts and crafts, work and play, voluntary activity and self-chosen activity. The method of teaching should be such as it provides to the child freedom, a chance to come into closer contact with the teacher, a chance to be an active investigator, observer and experimenter. Craft-centre teaching and correlation method may be said to be the most important ingredients of the educational method. Correlation method would mean relating the knowledge, of each subject being taught to the craft on the one hand and to the child’s life on the other. Gandhiji’s emphasis was on character formation and spiritual development of the child. Education should lead the individual to selfrealization, realization of God and should develop in him attitudes of self-control, social service, ahimsa, sacrifice, righteousness, brotherhood. There are elements of naturalism and pragmatism too found in his educational philosophy. He considered the child an important element in the process of education and emphasized, like the naturalists, that education should conform to the nature of the child. The child should be allowed freedom. He should be taught in natural environment for “drawing out the best in the child”. Activity, play, experimentation and own experience as the strategies of education were emphasized by Gandhiji. Books alone should not be considered as the means of imparting knowledge to a young child. His emphasis on making education self-supporting and preparing individuals for vocation, craft-centered education, activity centre, teaching, learning through child’s own experience and experimentation, correlated teaching clearly brings him closer to the pragmatists.

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V. You have witnessed the death of H1N1 patient in a government hospital due to doctor’s carelessness. Write a newspaper report in about 80-100 words giving the necessary details.

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VI. Read the poem “Night of the Scorpion” by Nissim Ezekiel and answer the questions given below : (5×1=5) Night of the Scorpion I remember the night my mother Was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours Of steady rain had driven him To crawl beneath a sack of rice. Parting with his poison – flash Of diabolic tail in the dark room – He risked the rain again. The peasants came like swarms of flies And buzzed the name of God a hundred times To paralyse the Evil one With candles and with lanterns Throwing giant scorpion shadows On the mud-baked walls They searched for him, he was not found. 1) Who was stung by the scorpion ? 2) Where was the scorpion hiding ? 3) Who is compared to the ‘swarms of flies’ ? 4) ‘Evil one’ refers to _________ 5) How did the peasants search for the scorpion ? VII. In the lesson “The Model Millionaire” Hughie meets Colonel and tells him that he is in love with Laura and wants to marry her. Colonel agrees on the condition that marriage would take place when Hughie Erskine would have got ten thousand pounds of his own. Develop a dialogue between Hughie and Colonel.

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VIII. Write the following dialogue in the form of narrative :

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Two friends meet accidently after a long time Neetha : Hello Meera ! How nice to meet you after so long. How are you ? Meera : I am fine. How are you ? Yes, it is ages since we met. Neetha : Where are you based ? Are you in Bangalore now ? Meera : Yes, in Jayanagar 4th block. Neetha : Have you taken up a job ? Meera : No, Neetha, right now I am not working. I have two small children Neetha : Oh! I see. How old are they ? Meera : My son is three years old and my daughter is six months old. Why don’t you come home with me now ? We can spend some time together. IX. Write a short story in about two pages based on the points using the dialogue form and the narrative forms. Also suggest a suitable title to the story. A student wanted to learn archery — he was very poor — illiterate — requested a guru — was not accepted — students was determined — kept guru’s bust — practised archery regularly worked hard — became great warrior. OR Imagine that you are the principal of a college. You have to address the first year degree students on the Fresher’s Day. Prepare a speech using the following hints : Welcome the freshers — give details of the facilities in the college — scholarships — library, computer lab and business lab — cultural activities — sports activities — NSS — NCC — other extension activities — endowment prizes and awards participation in various club activities — importance of discipline — compulsory attendance — dress code etc. _______________

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