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Question paper pattern & Model Paper Sem- III
( Internal=15, Written =60, Total=75)
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Instructions:
Don’t forget to write proper question number, before you begin to answer.
Remember Quantity is secondary, Quality of answer is primary.
Never use mother tongue / SMS language.
Maintain good hand writing. It must be legible.
Use side headings if necessary, draw margins.
Use two colour pens, blue and black pen to highlight important points.
Note: We don't have annotations in this semester.
MATERIAL
Section-A (20marks)
Q.No.1 Fill in the blanks with suitable Prepositions. 5x1= 5
1. The guests will arrive_____ Six O'clock this evening.
3. He lives ____ Bombay.
4. _________ Spanish, she speaks English fluently.
5. Rajesh is good ___ mathematics.
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Q.No.2 Fill in the blanks with suitable Phrasal Verbs from the given bracket. 5x1=5
2. My mother ______ my children very well.
3. Please ____ the lights, i want to sleep.
4. My friend __________ suddenly after a week.
5. His new novel was _____ by the publisher.
(Turned doen, broke down, turn off , looks after, turn up )
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Q.No.3 Write the Antonyms for the following words 5x1= 5.
2. Rich X ______
3. Affirmative X ______
4. Abuse X ______
5. Incognito X ______
Q.No.4 Rewrite the following sentences by correcting the underlined part 5x1= 5.
2. These furnitures are costly.
3. My house is besides the post office.
4. He lives at Warangal.
5. He distributed the sweets between his friends.
a. The male-female wage gap has been increasing.
b. India’sGDI is disappointing.
c.Crimes against women are decreasing.
2.What is meant by Patrilineality? [ b ]
a. inheritance through male descendants
b. married couples living with or near the husband’s parents
c.relating to a system of society controlled by men.
4. The percentage of wage gap in white collar jobs is ____________
Q 1) Why did the old woman move to an old age home?
Q 2) How did she react when the attendant gave a description of the room she had to live in?
Q 3) What does the story tell about the old woman?
Q 4) find out the one word substitute for "Unlimited"
Q 5) Find the antonym of the "dead"
Question No: II Attempt either A or B. (5marks)
Q.No.1 Rewrite the following sentences in the Passive Voice 5x1= 5
1. The old man gave many a suggestion to the youth.
2. He ate mangoes.
3. she loves me.
4. open the door
5. Did he take tea?
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Q.No.2 Write the meanings of the following expressions related to work and business 5x1= 5
2. GST
3. overdraft
4. Balance Sheet
5. Financial Year
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Question No: III Attempt either A or B. (5marks)
Q.No.1 DEVELOP HINTS INTO PARAGRAPH (CONNECTIVES)
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Q.No.2 Complete the following sentences by using suitable Idioms from the given brackets 5x1= 5
2. She does not like the logic and keeps her ____ all the time.
3. Are you telling the truth or just.......?
4. A task that can be accomplished easily......
5. A situation you haven't decided yet.
(a piece of cake, spinning a yarn, black sheep, on the fence, head in the clouds)
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Question No: IV Attempt any two (2 x7.5=15)
Two out of three from given questions from PROSE sections of Unit – I, II, or III
Achieving Gender Equality in India: What works and What Doesn’t -Smriti Sharma.
About the author: Smriti Sharma is a lecturer in Economics at a famous college in UK. Her research focusses on Economics and Caste, Gender-based discriminations. In this essay she highlights the causes of Gender inequality and provides with some suggestions for achieving Gender Equality in the society.
What is Gender Equality? Gender equality means that women and men, and girls and boys, enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities and protections. But Gender inequality or the discrimination against women and girls in Indian Society is at every level. It is a known fact that, India’s GDP is increasing, but the Gender Development Index (GDI) is disappointing. Crimes against women is increasing day by day such as rape, dowry deaths, honour killings, women trafficking etc. The male- female wage gap is stagnant at 50%, and even in white collar jobs it is 27%. Socially prescribed gender roles such as Domestic works at home are unpaid. These domestic works are making them as “Rabbits in the Kitchen”, and hindering their opportunities.
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Dalit Child Bride to $112 Million CEO: The Wonder Story of Kalpana Saroj
-Rakhi Chakraborty
About the author: Rakhi Chakraborty is an independent Journalist and Sustainable activist.
Kalpana- The Original Slumdog Millionaire: The Wonder story of Kalpana Saroj is a about a Dalit girl who faced many difficulties since birth, poverty, inhuman abuse of the society, suffered the trauma of child marriage, got a job of two rupees a day and she drank poison for a time to end herself, but today the same Kalpana Saroj is the CEO of $112 million business. Her life journey is seen realizing the film “Slumdog Millionaire”
Early life: Kalpana was born in 1961 in the poor Dalit Buddhist family of Ropar Kheda, in Akola district, Maharashtra. Kalpana’s father was a police constable. Kalpana was the eldest of three sisters and two brothers. Kalpana used to go to a nearby government school, she was intelligent in studies but due to being a Dalit, she had to face neglect of teachers and classmates too. She was not allowed to play with neighbours.
Child Marriage: She was pulled out of school in class 7 and married off at the age of 12. She arrived in the slum of Mumbai from Vidarbha. Kalpana used to get beaten up at the slightest lapse in domestic work in her in-law’s house. After suffering from physical abuse, her father dared to return a married girl to home. She went back to her village to live with her family.
A Second Chance: She tried suicide when her family was excluded from society as she thought that was shame and there is no purpose left to live. She tried to kill herself by drinking three bottles of pesticide but then saved by her relative. Kalpana says that the attempt to suicide had brought a big twist in her life. She thought why and for what she is dying? Why doesn’t she live for herself, by thinking about how she can achieve something new?
A New Life: At the age of 16, she returned to Mumbai to start a new life. As she was having skills in stitching clothes, she got a job in a garment company. During that Kalpana saw that there is a lot of scope in tailoring and boutique work. Her sister’s hospitalization made her to realize that life without money was useless. She took a loan provided by Government to the Scheduled caste people and bought a sewing machine. She also opened a boutique shop and started doing hard work day and night. With the savings of money, Kalpana also set up a furniture store and purchased land. Along with this, she also opened a beauty parlour and She taught work to her roommates.
Kamani Tubes: Kalpana’s struggle and hard work became acquainted and getting recognition in Mumbai. Eventually, Kalpana came to know that ‘Kamani Tubes’, which has been closed for 17 years, has been asked by the Supreme Court to start with its workers. Kamani Tubes is the first to transfer ownership from legal heirs to workers union. The company’s workers met Kalpana and appealed to help the company restart. When Kalpana entered the Kamani Tubes the company, her knowledge about the company was nil, but there were 140 litigation cases on company, two unions were fighting over supremacy and a debt of 116 crore had been incurred. The court made her the owner of ‘Kamani Tubes in 2006. The court ordered that Kalpana be directed to repay the bank loan of Rs.116 crores in 7 years, which she paid in 1 year. The court also asked them to pay the wages of the workers in three years, which she paid in three months. She then began to modernize the company and gradually moved it out of a bankrupt company into a profitable company. It was a hard work of Saroj that today Kamani Tubes has become a company with 700 crores turnover.
Awards: For her great achievement, she was awarded the ‘Padma Shri’ in 2013. Despite having no banking background, she was appointed by the government as the Board of Directors of Bharatiya Mahila Bank. Besides being a woman entrepreneur, Kalpana Saroj also serves as a Board of Governor of IIM Bengaluru. Though she is alone, she is strong, brave, and at the same time she has a tender heart which instantly reaches out to help the needy. She started an NGO to help the needy. She is also known as a TEDx speaker.
Message: Truly, the story of Kalpana Saroj, inspires us that it doesn’t matter whether we are educated, illiterate, poor or rich, what does matter is our vision and hard work that can change our life and making impossible things possible to fulfil our dreams. She insists that Fancy MBAs can’t make an entrepreneur, instead grit, perseverance, courage, faith in yourself does.
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What is my Name-P. Satyavathi
About the author: P.Satyavathi is a Telugu feminist writer. Her stories depict the lives of middle-class people. She published 5 novels, 4 short story anthologies and a collection of essays. Original Telugu title of the poem is “Illalakagane Pandagouna?”
‘What is my name?’
is a parody of a children’s story where a fly forgets her name. Here the
story of a housefly is converted into the story of a housewife.
Introduction: This story depicts the plight of women in the
kitchens. Identity of a women in the main theme of the story. Before her marriage a women may be an artist,
a good singer, good player or she may want to become a doctor, teacher,
engineer or IAS officer. But after her marriage, she forgets everything and
dedicate their entire life to the kitchen.
Here, the author’s
version of forgetting the name may seems funny, but that doesn’t mean that they
forget their name, instead they forgot their identity (that is everything
related to her past life, her dreams, her abilities, her achievements).
Plot
of the short story: A young woman, before a marriage, was a woman educated,
cultured, intelligent, quick-witted, with a sense of humour and elegance. By
her beauty and intelligence, and also the dowry given by her father, a man
named Satyanarayana Murthy married her. He made
her housewife to a household and said “Look Ammadu, this is your house”.
The young lady started cleaning, swabbing the house and decorated with muggulu designs.
By seeing her talent, her husband said “Sabash, Keep it up!”. So she began
living with swabbing as mission in her life.
One day while
scrubbing the house, she suddenly asked herself, “What is my name?”. She saw a
name board in front of their house and scolded herself that how she can forget her name so easily. She asked
the maid about her name. The maid said that she we do don’t need the owner`s
name. Then her children came to eat lunch. The housewife asked her two little
children about her name. The children laughed at her and said that they would
always address their mother only by using the word `Amma`. A neighbour
came to her house to invite her for a kum-kum ceremony. The housewife
asked the neighbour about her name. Her neighbour giggled and replied that they
would address her by right-handed side, white storied building down floor lady
or by using the fair and tall lady or the wife of manager of pharmaceutical
industry. During the night meal, she asked her husband to tell her name. He laughed
and surprised to listen this from his wife. He said that since they were married,
he used to call his wife as yemoi as she never told him to address him
with her name.
He said that everyone addresses her as Mrs. Murthy and it is
sufficient for her. Her husband also suggested her to keep some name or the
other, but she did not listen to him and said that she wanted her own name.
Murthy gave her an idea to verify her certificates. The wife started searching
all through the house but she did not find them. Then she remembered that she
had left all the certificates in her parent`s house and did not even bother
about them. Then the wife asked her husband to give permission to go her
parent`s house. Murthy rejected her proposal and said that who would scrub the
house these two days. The wife said to her husband to manage these two days somehow
or the other.
She went to her parent`s house and her parents were shocked
to see her coming alone and they stared asking the questions. She explained
them about the purpose of her immediate visit and asked her mother to tell her
name. Then her mother exclaimed that the housewife was their elder daughter,
educated up to B.A., married with Rs.50000 as dowry, and they bore the expenses
of two deliveries. The house wife said that all she said was her history and
she only wanted her name. She asked to at least show her certificates. Her
mother replied that all the old papers inside their almirah were cleaned out and
the papers which were considered as important were kept in the attic. She
suggested her daughter to take a bath and have good meal and search for them
tomorrow. The housewife took a good bath and ate her meal,
but she could not sleep.
Next day morning, she went to the school and college where
she had studied. She asked everyone she met: the trees, the anthills, the pond but
she could not know her name. She met her old friend who was also married and a
housewife, but scrubbing was just only a part of her life. The old friend remembered
the names of all her friends. The old friend shouted, “Sarada! My
dear Sarada!” and embraced the housewife. Old friend said
that the housewife was Sarada, she came first in their school in tenth class,
she got first prize in singing competition, she used to paint good pictures too,
and she was the only person living incognito. Sarada thanked
her friend Pramila, returned home and saw her achievements,
her paintings, prizes etc., in the attic.
Overjoyed, she returned to husband’s home. Her husband
claimed that the whole house was not dusted for two days and he felt like a
festival by her presence. Sarada said that just scrubbing
the floor would not make festival. And she told him to call her as Sarada instead
of yemoi and geemoi. For the first time, she sat on the sofa
which contained so much dust and showed her children, an album of her
paintings. Sarada recognized that more than scrubbing and cleaning
her identity was more important i.e., her name. A woman without identity does
not make sense to her living.
Conclusion: Women must know their identity. They should not forget what they want to become or what are their dreams. They must make the kitchen as part of life, not the whole life. She calls every woman must come out of kitchen and build their identity.
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Question No: V Attempt any two (2 x7.5=15)
Two out of three from given questions from POETRY sections of Unit – I, II, or III
They shut me up in Prose- Emily Dickenson
About the poet: Emily Elizabeth Dickenson (1830-86) is American writer. She spent all her life alone and she never got married. She wrote many poems. But she never became famous in her lifetime, because she did not publish any poems in her life time. All her poems were published after her death, and she became one of the greatest writers of America. Her themes include loneliness, depression, death and immortality.
She frequently uses capital letters (to highlight particular words); and dashes (to indicate pause or break in thought) in her poems. This poem is more cheerful than many of her famous poems. This poem, They Shut me up in Prose” was borrowed from her Unpublished Poems. Through this poem, she comments on the male domination against women.
Background: “They shut me up in Prose –” is a famously rebellious poem. It is a poem about the difficulties of the female artist. The theme of this poem is gender discrimination. Male writers of her age believed that writing poetry is highly intellectual task that women are unfit. In fact, writing poetry is not at all related to gender. Here, the poet was restricted by men writers of that age to stick to the prose writing instead of writing poetry. But Dickinson disobeyed their restrictions and wrote wonderful poetry.
Introduction: Dickinson, in a rebellious voice, is questioning the male domination in writing. She says that they wanted her to stop writing poetry and to write prose only. The men writers compared her to a girl child, because children act as if they don’t listen to their elders. They wanted her to be still, duly following the restriction laid by them or without questioning them.
They also compared her to a bird in the cage as if she committed a big crime. But the writer explains that the bird in the cage can be stopped from moving out of it, but the mindset of the bird cannot be stopped. In the same means, the men writers could physically imprison her to stop her from writing poetry but her imaginations were moving around like a star in the sky with greater speed than she could move. She also says that a bird in the cage laughs at her captor and our poet also laughed at the foolishness of male writers who thought of putting her in the prison to stop her from writing Poetry.
In this poem, Dickinson is compared herself to a bird which is in cage which cannot move freely. (This comparison is called as simile).
In General, the society, most likely, does not shut the adult speaker up in the cage, but “in Prose.” This is not the only poem in which Dickinson compares prose unfavourably to poetry, specifically because poetry is more open, freer. Perhaps, here, they want Dickinson to write only letters, correspondence, not to try her hand at the male-dominated art of poetry, which she uses to such powerful effect.
This poem’s tone is scornful—the bird laughs at its captors, Dickinson scoffs at them for thinking they could keep her “Still!”—and the poem itself is a part of that scoff. For the very existence of this poem shows that “They” have failed, and is thus a kind of ironic defiance. They have not shut her up in prose, they have in fact only inflamed and inspired her, by trying to keep her captive, to write this very poem.
Conclusion: Writing poetry is no way related to gender. It is not true that only men can write poetry and women cannot. Dickinson raised her voice against the male writer’s domination and proved that women can write beautiful poems.
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Kitchen -Vimala
About the poet:
The Poem Kitchen is
a feministic poem written by Vimala in Telugu and translated
into English by BVL Narayana Rao. Telugu version of the poem is vantillu.
Background:
The poem is about sufferings
of women in the kitchen. They are called as "Rabbits in the
kitchen" and imprisoned in the kitchen for ages. They never allowed moving
out of kitchen and do jobs or starting business of their own. Moreover, they
were not paid for the domestic works. The poet advises women to make the
kitchen as part of life, instead their whole life.
Summary:
The
speaker (girl) begins the poem by recalling her memories related to kitchen. The
poet describes the daily routine of a mother in the kitchen. Her day begins
with kitchen works such as washing the dishes, churning the butter, decorating
the stove, cooking food etc. The memories such as mouth-watering
dishes made by her mother; the smell of the seasonings; the aroma of incense
sticks from prayer room (usually a part of kitchen); games played with lentils
and jiggery; and mother and father game etc., made her to feel the kitchen as a
magic or dream world for an unmarried girl. For a grownup girl, the
kitchen is no longer playground instead it is a prison.
The
speaker (girl) is worried about the situation of her mother. She
compared the kitchen to a mortuary; her mother to a ghost; all the pans,
tins to dead bodies; and the smoke of the kitchen to clouds. The mother of the
speaker is compared to a blazing furnace; or a caged tiger that paces in the
cage (kitchen) restlessly. The speaker (girl) says that her mother
is the queen of the kitchen, but names engraved on the pots and pans
are her father's.
She is very sad about
the behavior of the family members as no one recognizes her work. They only
visit the kitchen to eat. No family member helps her in the kitchen. They have
their own works. Husband goes to work, and children to school. They say that “the
kitchen job is easy”, her mother is doing nothing. But, No one cares her,
No one helps her.
After her marriage, all her family members felt happy because the girl is in a big modern kitchen now. But the speaker (girl) understood that there is no change in her situation when she compared her life to her mother. She has become the rabbit in the new kitchen. Unlike her mother, now she is making new sweets, cakes (instead old fashioned dishes); her day wakes up with whistle of cooker (instead churning of butter), even though the names engraved on the pots and pans are her husband's.
She (all women like her and her
mother) dedicating their entire life to the kitchen. Before marriage the kitchen
is seen as dream world, but in fact it is a prison for her. These kitchens are
destroying the dreams, ambitions and talents of all the women. Even in the
dreams, kitchen haunts them and she feels the smell of seasonings in
jasmine.
Conclusion:
The poet describes how a woman dedicates her entire
life to the kitchen. She is suggesting the women to make the kitchens as part
of her life, but not the mission of their life. She compared it to mortuary.
She is the queen of the kitchen but the names on pots are her father’s or
husband’s. No one helps her in the kitchen. No one enters into the kitchen
except to eat.
So, finally she warns us not to send our children into these dangerous
kitchens which grab the dreams of our children. She urges all the
women to come out of kitchens and make the kitchen a part of life (not whole
life). She also calls us to remove the names engraved on pots and tins
and destroy the lonely kitchens.
Voice of The Unwanted Girl- Sujatha Bhatt
About the author: Sujata Bhatt is one of the finest living
poets. In this poem, she has voiced her concern about the gender-bias. The present
poem is about infanticide or foeticide (abortions). The speaker is the unborn
child; and the speaker is addressing her mother.
Voice of unwanted girl: The speaker in the poem is an unwanted girl who was destroyed before she was born. She is speaking to her mother. She says that no one wanted to touch her, except the doctor who conducts post mortem. She requests her mother at least to see her face once.
The voice of the unwanted girl is addressed to the mother. The voice of the unwanted girl questions the mother’s conscience because she did not object female infanticide. When the doctor told the pregnant mother that a girl child would be born to her, she instructed the doctor to destroy the female child in the womb. The infant was killed with the help of injection. This is the pathetic voice of an unborn girl which haunts the imagination. This is a living story in the form of poem. This is the incident of Mumbai where there was heavy traffic and the monsoon set in. The wind is sulking through Mumbai. The poet realised these things and presented it in her poem.
In an autopsy, room, the medical examination of – a dead person is carried out to discover the cause of death. In the autopsy room, the unborn child in the womb was examined. The doctor knew that the mouth of the unborn child would not search for anything and her head would be measured and cut apart. No one wanted to touch the unborn girl. The girl says further that she looks like a sliced pomegranate. This fruit was never touched by you. She addresses her mother and says that she is the one she killed her. When the doctor told her that she was going to bear a girl child. This is the second girl child. Afterwards as soon as she put on her grass green sari, the orange stems parijatak blossoms and they are glistening to her hair. This tragedy was happened when the doctor told the mother that her second child would be a girl.
Conclusion: The theme of this poem is foeticide or infanticide. This poem is written in the form of monologue by a unwanted girl who is killed by her parents and doctors in the womb. The unwanted girl describes her experience in the womb of her mother. She also describes how brutally they killed her. The girl has only one wish. She wishes her mother to look at her face. She again and again tells her to realise her great mistake as well as a great crime
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