SSC (Marathi Medium) 10th Standard Board Exam [इयत्ता १० वी] - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English (Second/Third Language)

Write about a day when you felt very happy. Use the following questions to help you. Think/Recollect a day ____________

Note down the points.

1. Do you remember the exact day and date?
2. Was it a special occasion or celebration?
3. What happened on that day?
4. How did you react to the things that happened on that day?
5. How did other people react when they saw you were so happy?
6. What did you do next ?
7. What happened in the end?
8. Describe any other emotions you felt that day

Now, with the help of the guidelines write a short paragraph of at least 100 words about that happy day. Give a suitable title for your narrative/write up.

Expand the theme in a write-up of about 20 lines.

‘Books are our real friends’

Expand the theme in a write -up of about 20 lines.

‘Rumours are spread by fools and accepted by greater fools’.

You happen to meet a successful person who is a disabled. Write an imaginary dialogue between you and him/her. You can take support of the hints provided.

1.  introduction/welcome/greetings
2. congratulating/honouring 
3. cause/reason for the disability
4. decision/plan/organisation/implementation
5. idols in life
6. parents/friends - support if any
7. success stories/accomplishments
8. conclusion/final message if any

Look inside your thinking hat. Read the evidence/sentences given below and offer a possible explanation of what happened in this house? Make up some questions to gather more information. Now collect all your evidences and write a story in your notebook. Give a suitable title.

Write a complete review on any book that you have read recently. Use the following points for your Book Review.

1. Introduction
2. Selectivity of contents
3. Subject/Title Apporpriacy
4. Sequence of Contents
5. Language Appropriacy/Type
6. Good Points/Novelty in the book.
7. Advantages/Scope of the book. (if any)
8. Demerits/Shortcomings (if any)
9. Message/Opinion/Views (Personal)
10. Conclusion (in short)

Following are the ways to preserve ‘World Heritage Sites.’ Transfer these points into a small paragraph. Suggest a suitable title.

1. Practical conservation of posterity
2. Human/animal trespassing
3. Unmonitored/uncontrolled/unrestricted access
4. Threat of local administrative negligence

Prepare a ‘tourism leaflet’ on any one of the following.

1. Your Home Town
2. A Historical Place
3. A Place of Natural Beauty
4. A Place of Pilgrimage

Divide the class in four groups. Collect four different stories written by Sudha Murthy. Select a story for every group and write it in the form of a play. Enact it in front of the class.

Prepare a set of questions to interview-

a person who has just returned from a trek in the woods

Prepare a set of questions to interview-

a person who has recently scaled Mt. Everest.

How can you prove this maxim to be incorrect - ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth’. Write a counterview on the given topic. (Clue -Teamwork)

You have an Environment Protection Week to be celebrated in your school. You have invited an environmentalist. You have to interview him/her about how to save environment. Frame about 10-12 questions for the interview.

Write a news report on the ‘Environment Day’ celebrated in your school.

Among your classmates, one is unable to walk properly, the second one can’t hear properly and the third one can’t see this beautiful world. All of them are facing lots of difficulties in life. Compose a dialogue among them, about the problems and difficulties faced by them. You can take the help of the following dialogue to expand your ideas.

(Now continue in your notebook.)

Divide the class into groups and conduct a poster-making competition for an Eye /Blood Donation Camp. Fix up the details of the above camp, like time, place, etc.

Expand the proverb in about 12 to 15 lines, ‘Where there is a will, there is a way.’

Steps:

1. Explanation of the proverb in simple words.
2. Examples/Experiences to prove the proverbs.
3. Conclusion

Read the extract beginning from -
“Her name was Sulekha..... find bridegrooms for them.” Narrate this extract in short, making Sulekha (Bholi) the narrator. Write it in your notebook. Begin with “I was named Sulekha __________________ ”

Interview

Prepare a set of 10-12 questions that you would ask at an interview of a person who has strongly acted against social injustice and has achieved success inspite of a long struggle against so many odds in his/her life. Write them down in your notebook.

The poem describes the sad demise of the Captain. How would you console the son of the Captain? Write a short paragraph using the points given below.

1.  Expressing grief on the death.
2. An act of God.
3. Words/sentences giving strengths and courage to face the situation.
4. Add your own points.