English Medium इयत्ता १० - CBSE Important Questions for English Communicative

How did Sebastian Shultz communicate with Michael? What did he say in his last message?

What did Sebastian write in the final e-mail he sent to Michael ?

How did Michael in the last game save Sebastian ?

Why did Michael and his father go to the computer fair?

Why did the news of Shultz's miracle recovery shock Michael?

In ‘Virtually True’ why did the newspaper article “Miracle Recovery” catch Michael’s attention? 

Answer the following question:
How do we know that Michael's father was fascinated by computers?

In the story, Virtually True, Michael said, "That's what I like about computers. The more futuristic they get, the better you can understand the past." Explain what he meant.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

"You must make your public happier :

Give them something, sharper, snappier.

We must aim for better billings."

(a) Identify the speaker of the above lines.

(b) Who does 'we' refer to?

(c) What must be done for 'better billings' 

(d) What trait of the speaker's character is revealed through the above lines?

Even though both, the frog from Vikram Seth’s poem, The Frog and the Nightingale and Abel's children from the play, The Dear Departed, display greed, there are differences. Elaborate, in about 150 words, how the greed of the frog and that of Abel's children differ in motivation, actions, relationship, and consequences.

In “Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments”, how does the poet justify that his verse will live on forever ? 

What feelings does the partially destroyed statue of Ozymandias convey?

What is ironic about the inscription on the pedestal of Ozymandias?

What quality of King Ozymandias does the poem reflect ?

"The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed". Whose hand and heart are referred to in this line ? Why ?

What did the traveller see in the desert?

Did the sculpture of Ozymandias fulfil the purpose for which it had been built ? Give reasons. 

Answer the following in 100-200 words :

Time humbles even the greatest of the great. One should cultivate the quality of humility. Describe how time has reduced the mighty Ozymandias to nothing.

How effective is the use of the phrase "Nothing beside remains" in conveying the theme of the transience and impermanence of power and human achievement, in Ozymandias by P.B.Shelley?

What was the crime committed by the mariner?