Balbharati solutions for English - Yuvakbharati 12 Standard HSC Maharashtra State Board chapter 1.5 - The New Dress [Latest edition]

Write in Column ‘B’ the description of the clothes you would choose to wear for the occasions given in Column ‘A’.

Discuss the criterion of the choice of your clothes with the help of the following points:

1. Occasion
2. Society (people you may meet at the venue)
3. Availability
4. Fashion
5. Your wish/whim
6. A suggestion or advice by someone (mother, sister, friend, etc.).
7. Any other than the above mentioned reasons.

Divide the class into groups. Discuss the role of costumes in enhancing your personality.

State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement and discuss the reason.

A simple dress makes one's personality look dull.

State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement and discuss the reason.

We should not judge ourselves from the comments we receive from others.

State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement and discuss the reason.

A fashionable and costly dress makes you look rich, intelligent and beautiful.

State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement and discuss the reason.

We should choose a dress according to the fashion rather than our choice.

Narrate in your words the picture imagined by Mabel as she thinks herself in the party as a fly at the edge of the saucer.

There are a few other characters mentioned in the story. Discuss the way their reactions help us to understand the inferiority complex of Mabel.

Pick out the sentences from the story which describe the ambience of the party at Mrs. Dalloway’s place.

Mabel is thinking too much of her dress. Propose five sentences supporting the above statement.

Conchology means the scientific study or collection of mollusc shell. Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of Archaeology.

Critically analyse Mabel’s weak economic conditions in the past as one of the reasons that led her to choose the old-fashioned dress.

The cause of Miss Mabel’s disappointment is not only her poor background in the past but her too much bookishness also. Substantiate

Do you appreciate Mabel’s tendency of deciding her own value from the comments given by others? Explain your views.

Write the synonyms for the word ‘dress’ by filling appropriate letters in the blank.

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Write the synonyms for the word ‘dress’ by filling appropriate letters in the blank. 

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Write the synonyms for the word ‘dress’ by filling appropriate letters in the blank.

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Write the synonyms for the word ‘dress’ by filling appropriate letters in the blank.

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Write the synonyms for the word ‘dress’ by filling appropriate letters in the blank. 

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Conchology means the scientific study or collection of mollusc shell. Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of Etymology.

Conchology means the scientific study or collection of mollusc shell. Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of Archaeology

Use the correct tense form of the verb given in the bracket and rewrite the sentence.

She ________ that old fashion book of her mother a few months back.

Use the correct tense form of the verb given in the bracket and rewrite the sentence.

She ________ at her left shoulder for quite some time.

Use the correct tense form of the verb given in the bracket and rewrite the sentence.

One human should _______ this for another always.

Use the correct tense form of the verb given in the bracket and rewrite the sentence.

All this ________ destroyed in a few years.

Use the correct tense form of the verb given in the bracket and rewrite the sentence.

She ______ like a dressmaker’s dummy standing there.

Do as directed.

Lata will sing tonight.  (Make it less certain)

Do as directed.

You should wear your uniform.  (Show ability)

Do as directed.

Sandeep may study to clear the examination. (Make it obligatory/compulsory) 

Do as directed.

I can do it.  (Make a sentence seeking permission)

Frame three rules for the students of your college.

Frame three sentences giving advice to your younger brother.

Fill in the blank with appropriate modal auxiliaries according to the situation given in the following sentence.

Take an umbrella. It _______ rain later.

Fill in the blank with appropriate modal auxiliaries according to the situation given in the following sentence.

People _______ walk on the grass.

Fill in the blank with appropriate modal auxiliaries according to the situation given in the following sentence.

_______ I ask you a question?

Fill in the blank with appropriate modal auxiliaries according to the situation given in the following sentence.

The signal has turned red. You _______ wait.

Fill in the blank with appropriate modal auxiliaries according to the situation given in the following sentence.

I am going to the library. I _______ find my friend there.

Read the sentence ‘we are all like flies….’. The paragraph describes the dejected thoughts that Miss Mabel carries in her mind. All the earlier paragraphs are in a continuity of a storyline. The next paragraph begins with, ‘I feel like….’ again resumes to a story. The author has moved in the mind of the character and out of it very smoothly without any intimation or change in the language or tense. Similarly, she has moved in the past years of Miss Mabel’s life. This is called ‘stream of consciousness’ technique.

Read the sentence from the text  What a hideous new dress!
This is an exclamation. It can be written as a simple sentence ‘The new dress is very hideous.’
Find out few more exclamatory sentences from the passage and transform them into assertive sentences.

Virginia Woolf has created many characters other than Miss Mabel with great skill. Write a character sketch of any one of them.

‘Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.’ Expand the idea in your own words.

Go to library and read the following book:

‘A Haunted House’ by Virginia Woolf

Go to library and read the following book:

‘Mrs. Dalloway’ by Virginia Woolf

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Fashion designing

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Dress designing

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Textile industry

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Garment industry

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Image consultancy

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