SUMMATIVE ASSESSEMENT -(II) 2015-16

ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE MAXIMUM MARKS- 70

TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS

CLASS-IX

THIS PAPER CONSISTS OF THREE SECTIONS:

Section A Reading (10 Marks)

Section B Writing& Grammar (25 Marks)

Section C Literature & Long Reading Text (25 Marks)

1. Attempt all questions.

OTBA (10 Marks)

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

1. All the answers must be correctly numbered as in the question paper and written in the answer sheet.
2. Attempt all questions in each section before going on to the next section.
3. Read each question carefully and follow the instructions.

SECTION A: READING (10 marks)

1 READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE CAREFULLY:

Children's social and cultural environments will affect the extent and use of their oral language. A large number of children come from homes in which English is not the primary language spoken. The most significant variation among children, however, will be in the amount and quality of their previous literacy experiences. Some children will have read regularly and will be familiar with many books and stories. Their homes are literate environments in which reading and writing occur daily and are frequently modeled, as they observe their parents and others reading newspapers, magazines, and books and writing letters, notes and lists. Such children are likely to emulate these behaviours. In contrast, other children will come to preschool or kindergarten with very different experiences. They have seen print in the environment (on street signs and food containers, for example) and on television. However, their parents have not read to them, and they have not seen reading and writing modeled functionally by adults. Effective early literacy programme acknowledge and extend children's previous experiences, whatever they are, and relate them to the world of print.

On the basis of your reading of the above passage, answer the following questions:

1. What affects the oral language of children?
2. ----- causes 'variation' among children.

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1. 'Such children are likely to emulate' ----- Who are 'such children'?
2. 'They have seen print----- 'They' means?
3. The word 'containers' means.

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2. READ THE FOLLOWING POEM CAREFULLY:

Wind, come softly.

Don't break the shutters of the windows.

Don't scatter the papers.

Don't throw down the books on the shelf.

There, look what you did- you threw

Them all down.

You tore the papers of the books.

You brought rain again.

You're very clever at poking fun at

Weaklings.

Trail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood,

Crumbling bodies, crumbling lives,

Crumbling hearts-

The wind God winnows and crushes them all.

He won't do what you tell him.

So, come, let's build strong homes,

Let's join the doors firmly.

Practice to firm the body.

Make the heart steadfast.

Do this, and the wind will be friends with us,

The wind blows out weak fires.

He makes strong fires soar and flourish

His friendship is good.

We praise him every day.

On the basis of your reading of poem , answer the following questions:

1. What does the poet want the wind to do?
2. How does the wind look at the weak?
3. With whom is the wind friendly?
4. What advice does the poet give?
5. Find a word from the poem which means 'strong'.

SECTION - B: WRITING AND GRAMMAR

(25 Marks)

1. The Zonal Exhibition On Art and Craft was held in your school. Mentioning the aim of the exhibition, the number of

participating schools, the activities such as doll making, rakhi making and thali decoration competitions held, write a letter to your aunt in 120-150 words. You are the Zonal Convener of the event. (5marks) OR You are Raman/Deepika, a student of a School in Patna. You have come across the following data of internet users in India. You feel 'Excess of Anything is Bad'. Chatting on Internet, using social sites such as Facebook, what's app, we