HSC Arts (Marathi Medium) १२ वीं कक्षा - Maharashtra State Board Important Questions for English

Imagine that you have recently discussed with your friends on ‘the benefits of travelling’, write the same discussion in the form of dialogues that you have experienced. Write suitable dialogues for each participant giving his/her opinion on the given topic.

Imagine that you have recently discussed with your friends on ‘Good Handwriting’, write the same discussion in the form of dialogues that you have experienced. Write suitable dialogues for each participant giving his/her opinion on the given topic.

Imagine that you have participated in the inter-college group discussion contest on the occasion of National Youth Day. There were three other contenders with you in the final round of the contest and the topic of the discussion was ‘Paper Books are better than the E-Books’. Write the same discussion in the form of dialogues that you have experienced. Write suitable dialogues for each participant giving his/her opinion on the given topic.

Group Discussion:

You along with your friends Sujit, Rohit and Kishore discussing their likes and dislikes. But all are fascinated with the reading habit. Write a short group discussion in the form of dialogue telling the importance of reading for enhancing knowledge.

Group Discussion:

Imagine yourself as a participant in a group discussion arranged by an NGO working to promote Swadeshi. The topic is ‘Traditional food provides more nutrition to the children as compared to junk food’.

There are two more participants and evaluator to share their views. Prepare a set of dialogues.

Imagine, your class has attended a guest lecture on “Career Development.” Write the group discussion in the form of dialogues associated with this lecture among 3 to 4 student participants.

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence:

Eighteenth century gifted mankind with _____________

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence:

Novel soon became dominant literary genre as it _____________

The Tale of Genji by Muraski Shikabu was published in the year __________

The first Indian English novel ‘Rajmohan’s wife’ was written by ___________

Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with ___________

The famous trio of Indian writers is ___________

Write in chronological order

1. Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji
2. Greek Romances
3. The appearance of magazines and newspapers
4. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

Write in chronological order

1. Industrial Revolution
2. Drama and Poetry started fading away
3. Novel gained popularity
4. The rise of middle class

Given below are some novels, events and writers of Indian English. Arrange them in chronological order.

1. Rise of famous Indian Trio
2. Nayantara Sahgal, Arun Joshi, Manohar Malgaonkar
3. Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Kiran Nagarkar
4. Rajmohan’s Wife by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya

Given below are some Novels in English literature. Arrange them in their order of their appearance.

1. The Pilgrim’s Progress and Oroonaku
2. Ecologues
3. Pamela and Gulliver’s Travels
4. The Tale of Genji

‘Tale of Genji’ is described as world’s first novel.

Middle class people had a little interest in romances and tragedies.

The struggle in between opposite forces in a story is called as conflict.

Epistolary Novel is a series of correspondence, other documents and diary entries as well.