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COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ENGLISH

IMax. Marks : 100

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Answer to question no. I and 2 are based on the prescribed text book.

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Define'CareerPlanning'.

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How do connections help in searching for a suitable job

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How are Indians,exposed to comrption from their childhood onwards

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How dqes the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air increase

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What did Nooyi's mother threaten Nooyi with

List out the factors igfluencing career decisions.

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What has startled global experts

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Why has the content o{our films changed, according to the author

Define the greerl liorise

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What are gome of the sfeps that can be taken to save our enviroriment

What made the doctor curious about the farmer

almost 'faint in shock'

What {id Nooy's mother qay when she was to16 fl1s :good news'

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What is needed to avoid'farmers' suicides

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Write short notes on any three of the following:
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(a) How does career planning play a major role in making career choices ?
(b) How does our environment contribute to our numbness to injustice ?
(c) Discuss the causes and effects of global warming.
(d) How did Nooyi's mother try to teach Nool the role of a woman in the family ?
Do you agree with the mother's views ?
(e) The Poem 'The Farmer's Wife', contrasts the characters of tt-re farmer and his
wife. What are these contrasts ? How are they different from each other ?

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He works hard.

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obey your elders.

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best policy.

Identify the tense of the verbs in the following sentences

(a) He will be meeting us next week.
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He went to Goa last week.

They have been playing since four o'clock.

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Ouch'! that hurts.

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He alwa)rs tries to do his best.

She is a cleVer

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I have sold my car.

My watch has been stolen.'
The peon is opening the gate.
The building was damaged by the fire.

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The cinema will begin

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Give short form answers to the following

(a)
(b)
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I have accepted his invitation, _'
They prayed for you, _?

He would not come

Have you consulted the doctor ? (Affirmative)

Add a Prefix and a Suffix to the following to form a meaningful word

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Neither food nor water

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Gold and Silver

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Composition:
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Describe your best friend.

Describe your college day celebrations.

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follow :The manager of an office in Shelford was a hard-working man who never
arrived late and never left early. He was honest, clean, well-dressed and clever. But
one very important quality in men of good position he had never learnt, and that

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quality was politeness. He never took the trouble to be polite; he never considered the
feelings of his staff. If he wanted something done, he did not say,
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doing this ?' He gave an order; 'Do this and be quick about it.' When he failed to
hear a question he was asked, he never said, 'l beg your pardon ? He just shouted,
'What ? 'The words 'Please' and 'Thank you' formed no part of his conversation.
If he had spoken gently, the work of the office would have been done just as
well, and probably better; for the staff were good. But one after another they left and
found work else where. No one could explain to him why they did not stay. [t was
difficult to go to the manager and tell him that he ought to spe'ak more politely. So, he
neYer understood the cause of the frequent changes in the office stafi and
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did not know how impolite he was.
Even his chief clerk, Hollis, who had been with him for many years, was
getting tired of his rough way of speaking. The secretaries, the typists, and even the
office-boy, had often complained to Hollis and begged him to tetiifre manager about
it; but he never had the courage to do this until one Friday evening, when heiuddenly
took his opportunity.

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Hollis had worked hard for several nights on some difficult papers that the
manager wanted on Friday. It had needed a great effort to get them finished, but
Hollis had succeeded. With great satisfaction he brought them into the manager's

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office and laid them on his desk, thinking that this time he might receive a word of
praise. The manager looked at them and said nothing.
As the chief clerk reached the door on his way out of the office he turned round
and said, 'I beg your pardon, Sir ?' 'I didn't speak' said the manager shortly. .oh !,
said Hollis. 'I thought you said "Thank you',.

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Unfamiliar words :
Polite - respectful, considerate tow4(s others
Pardon - an action of forgiving someone for an error or offence
Beg - ask humbly

Praise

express admiration

Questions :
( I ) What kind of man was the manager ?
(2) Mention the words which do not form part of manager,s conversation.
(3) Why did the staff leave the Job ?

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Who often complained to Hollis ?

Why did Hollis say, '[ thought you said..Thank you',

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