WBBSE Madhyamik English Suggestion 2020
Question pattern and Marks distribution:
Topics Marks
Prose (Seen) 12
Poetry
(Seen)
8
Unseen
20
Grammar & Vocabulary 20
Writing
Skill
30
Total 90
Section –A (Seen & Unseen)
Prose: The Cat, Our Run Away Kite
Poem: Snail, Sea Fever
Unseen Passage: Practice Regularly
Section –B (Grammar & Vocabulary)
Voice Change, Narration Change, Degree Change, Simple & Complex, Negative, Affirmative, Interrogative.
Example:
1.We must respect all life forms. (Voice Change)
Ans: All life forms must be respected by us.
2. They will have to make it. (Voice Change)
Ans: It will have to be made by them.
3. The little girl said, “What a big snake!” (Narration Change)
Ans: The little girl exclaimed with wonder that it was a big snake.
4. She could not but tears. (Omit ‘but’/ use ‘help’)
Ans: She could not help shedding tears.
5. He is never on time. (Affirmative)
Ans: He is always late.
6. Everyone loves his motherland. (Interrogative)
Ans: Does everyone not love his motherland?
Or,
Who does not love his motherland?
7. The boy is shorter than the girl. (Degree Change/ Negative sentence)
Ans: The girl is not as short as the boy.
8. He doesn’t like tea. He doesn’t like coffee. (Neither….nor)
Ans: He likes neither tea nor coffee.
Phrasal Verb:
set in : start a journey,
turn down : reject,
give in : surrender,
bring out : publish,
put out : extinguish,
bear away : tolerate/ endure,
take after : resemble,
take away : remove,
run after : chase,
come off : borne,
put up with : tolerate/ endure,
make out : understand,
break down : collapse/ overcome
give off : emit
do away with : tolerate/ endure,
call up : remember,
carry out : obey,
fall out : quarrel,
give away : distribute,
look through : peep,
get over : recover from something ,
stand by : wait for further developments,
put off : extinguish,
come round : cure,
pass away : die,
bring out : publish,
look for : search,
turn up : arrive,
ring up : to telephone/ to call,
carry out : obey.
Section –C (Writing Skill)
Newspaper report
1.Write a newspaper report on recent flood in the districts of North Bengal.
Event reporting
1.Write a report on the celebration of Kanyashree Divas in your school.
2.Report about “Tree Plantation Programme” in your school.
3. Write a report on a ‘farewell meeting that was organized in your school’.
4. Write a report on a “Blood donation camp” organized in your locality.
Letter Writing
1.Letter to your friend telling how your school has celebrated 150th birth anniversary of Sister Nivedita.
2.Letter to a friend advising him to visit the local library as many times as possible.
3.Letter to your brother advising him not to waste time uselessly surfing the social network sites.
4.Letter to the Headmaster requesting him for providing reference books in your school library.
Editorial letter:
1.Letter to the Editor of an English daily about anti-social activities in your area.
2.Letter to the editor about the increase of Road Accidents
3.Letter to the editor of a newspaper stating the scarcity of water in your locality and ask for necessary solution/action.
4.Letter to the editor of a newspaper expressing your grievance about the ever rising price of essential commodities.
5.Letter to the Editor of an English daily on drug addiction.
6.Letter to the Editor of an English daily on irregular clearance of garbage. .
7.Letter to the editor of an English daily about the disturbance caused by the thoughtless use of loudspeakers.
8.Letter on Nature study camp.
9.Letter to the Editor of an English daily expressing your concern on indiscriminate use of carry bags.
10.Letter to the editor of a newspaper about the disturbances caused by traffic congestion in your locality.
Paragraph:
1.Write a paragraph on “Digital India”.
2.Global warming
3.Travelling as a part of Education.
4.Paragraph on “Kanyashree Prakalpa”
5. Duties of Students
6.Benefits of using good dictionary.
7.Importance of libraries in educational institutions
8.Benefits of early morning exercise.
9.Your Aim in Life
10.Early rising.
11.A film that you have recently watched.
12.A book that you have recently read.
13. Safe Drive Save Life.
14. Save Water Save Life
Biography
1.APJ Abdul Kalam
2.Mahasweta Devi
3.M.S. Dhoni
4.Sister Nivedita
5.Swami Vivekananda
Dialogue writing:
1.Dialogue between two friends on the uses and abuses of mobile phones.
2.Suppose your bicycle has a sudden tyre puncture in your way to school. You have taken the cycle to a repair shop. Write an imaginary dialogue between the shopkeeper and you.
3.Dialogue between two friends about the prohibition on the use of mobile phones within the school premises during the school hour.
4.Dialogue between two friends on the “Pass – Fail System”.
5.Dialogue between two friends on their preparation for the ensuing Madhyamik Examination.
6. Dialogue between two friends about the introduction of Midday-meal programme in your school.
7. Dialogue between two friends about the tree plantation and forest reservation.
8. Dialogue between two friends about the blood donation utility.
Notice writing:
1.As the secretary of the local club you are directed to write a notice to the members of the club inviting them to actively participate and donate books that the club expects from the willing members to open a library.
2.Notice as a school captain informing students that an awareness programme about the use of mobile phones will be held in your school campus.
3.Notice prohibiting the use of mobile phones within the school premises during the school hour.
4.As the secretary of the “Eco-club” of your school write a notice for the students of your school requesting them to take part in the “Mission Nirmal Bangla Abhiyan” to be held in your school.
5.Notice about a ‘sit-and-draw’ competition to be held in your school.
6. As the secretary of the local club you are directed to write a notice on behalf of a member of National Relief Fund inviting the local people to actively participate and donate necessary things according to their ability to help the flood-stricken people in North –India states.