ENGLISH WRITING SECTION (Class-10)

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ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE (COURSE-A)

WRITING SECTION (Class-10)

3. Ashwani/ Aastha Sharma, in charge of the NSS Club of St. Andrew’s School, Kashipur , is

given the following letter to write a notice to be put up for students on the school notice board.

Write the notice in not more than 50 words, including relevant details from the letter in your

notice so that students may contribute generously . Do not give extra information. Put the notice in

a box. (5 marks)

The Philanthropic Society

5-Mount Hill Road

Dehradun

5 August, 2004

The Principal

St. Andrew’ s School

Kashipur , U .P .

Dear Sir,

We are a charitable organization working for helping the distressed people due to natural calamities

like the earthquakes, floods etc.

We would acknowledge it as a gesture of great benevolence if your students contribute to the cause

of rendering help to the hill people of Uttranchal who have experienced a terrible flood and have

been displaced by it. The students can contribute food articles, medicines, money, clothes, shoes

and otheritems of daily use. This will help to relieve the distress of the people of this area greatly.

These items may be collected next Saturday at about 1 p.m. in the school’ s NCC & Scouts room

when our team visits the school.

Thank you very much.

Yours sincerely,

K.C. Katihar

President

4. Read the following notes from the note-pad of Shri B.L. Sharma, the principal of St. Anthony

School, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. He asks his assistant to draft a message on his behalf for Mr . K.

Makkar , the vice principal of the school. Using the information from the note-pad, draft the

message, in not more than 50 words. Put the message in a box. (5 Marks)

1. Request to attend urgent meeting - in my office at 10.00 am today

2. Class teachers of X, XI & XII also to participale in the meeting

3. Agenda-planning for a two-week excursion to Gangotri during summer vacation.

5. Anil/ Anjali Diwan of Model Town, Delhi reads ‘,the following advertisement in the newspaper

about Help The Old, an organization for helping the aged of India. He/ she writes a letter saying

he/she along with a group of NSS students would like to help the aged in some way. As Anil/ Anjali

write the letter in not more than 150 words. Ask for the programmes you can .join, the kind of

service you and your schoolmates can provide. Also ask for information about the ways you can

collect or donate money to them. (10 marks)

6. Rosa Nair, a student of S.D. Public School. Hamirpur (H.P.) has to take part in a speech

competition on the topic “Stop Crowding Hamirpur”. During the last decade it has grown from a

lovely green hill station into a heavily populated industrial town. Using the ideas from the table and

the hints given below, ideas from the unit on “Environment” and your own ideas, write Rosa’s

speech in not more than 150-200 words. (10 marks)

HAMIRPUR (1994-2004)

HINTS:

* Deterioration in civic amenities

* Pollution levels increasing everywhere

* Overcrowding in streets, buses, markets

* Suggest some practical solutions