Saturday, July 10, 2021

Friday, May 7, 2021

Important Vocabularies for Vacancy Announcement (SEE, English) Grade: 10

 

  1. Vacancy announcement: wanted, requirement, advertisement, job opportunity, career opportunity, notice
  2. reputed: popular, renown, famous, prestigious, well known, identified, recognized
  3. company: business house, firm, organization, institution
  4. established: set up, strongly built
  5. looking for: seeking for, searching for, trying to find out
  6. qualified: eligible, capable, able, educated
  7. candidate: person, individual, professional, competitor, applicant
  8. dynamic: active, energetic, enthusiastic, movable, all-rounder, up to date
  9. qualification: eligibility, cognitive work, capacity, academic level
  10. salary: remuneration, perk, emolument, payment, pay scale, monthly income, wages, bonus, profit, benefit
  11. experience: work involvement, knowledge of the same work, practical knowledge
  12. bio-data: curriculum vitae, document, portfolio, personal detail, CV, resume, testimonials
  13. Fluent: smoothly speaking, clearly speaking
  14. deadline: last date, final date, ending time
  15. priority: preference, first choice, emphasis, focus
  16. skills: extra knowledge, out knowledge, other knowledge
  17. hotline: telephone
  18. submit: send
  19. responsibility: duty, work to do, action
  20. basis: ground, limitation
  21. excellent: good, better, best, well
  22. citizen: country man, people/person
  23. discipline: subject, sector
  24. maximum: optimum, highest
  25. wide: broad, large coverage
  26. located: situated, lied
  27. not exceeding: not over, not beyond
  28. petition: application, hand written inquiry, signature
  29. negotiable: can be fixed after discussion
  30. entire: whole, complete
  31. asset: advantage, benefit
  32. dedicated: devoted
  33. sound: healthy, perfect
  34. overly: recently, lately, currently
  35. photocopy: Xerox copy, duplicate copy
  36. advertiser: pioneer, owner, publisher
  37. short listed: listed, selected, chosen
  38. tutor: a private teacher
  39. deputy: assistant
  40. entail: involve
  41. auspicious: holy, special
  42. post: position

Saturday, May 1, 2021

Textual Questions-Answers (SEE) English

This brief solution is for SEE Appearing students who have been highly impacted from coronavirus. All the textual questions from Compulsory English are mentioned in this site. Here, you can click the unit to read the answers of the questions for respective units. This material is only for self-study.

Unit-1: A World Guide to Good Manners: How not to Behave Badly

Unit-2: Using a Single Language Is Better Than Multiple Languages

Unit-3: The Ant and the Grasshopper

Unit-4: Memoirs of My Visit to France

Unit-5: A Letter to Kunsang

Unit-5: Reading-II Movie Review: “2012” is a Perfect Disaster

Unit-6: Did I Miss Anything?

Unit-6: Reading- II Achham

 
 
 
 
 
 

  
  
      
      

  
  
  
  

Thank You !


Unit-19: Reading-II

Unit-19

Reading-II

a.     How many students appeared in the SLC examination in the year 2072-073?

Ans- 436983 students appeared in the SLC examination in the year 2072-073.

b    What is the percentage of students who scored grade C+?

Ans- 7.31 % of students scored grade C+.

c.    Which grade was scored by the majority of the students?

Ans- Grade D was scored by the majority of the students.

d.      What is the total number of students who achieved the grade D+?

Ans- 71125 students achieved the grade D+.

e.      Is the achievement level of the students in the SLC examination satisfactory? Why? Why not?

Ans- No, it is not satisfactory because more than 50% percent of the students have scored D+ (Partially acceptable), D (Insufficient) or E (Very insufficient).

 

Unit-19: Interpreting Tables and Charts

Unit-19

Interpreting Tables and Charts

a.    What kinds of data are presented in the above bar diagram?

Ans- The number of the boys and the girls enrolled to a public school in Ilam each year between the years 2011 and 2015 is presented in the given bar diagram.

b.    How many girls were studying in 2015?

Ans- Six hundred girls were studying in the school in the year 2015.

c.    What was the number of boys that decreased every year?

Ans- The number of boys that decreased every year was one hundred.

d.    What percentage of boys decreased over a period of five years?

Ans- About 17 % of boys decreased over a period of five years

e.    What might be the reason behind the decreased number of boys and increased number of girls?

Ans- Boys might be attracted to English medium schools. At the same time, people are aware of the importance of education for girls.

Unit-18: Habit Cultivation

Unit-18

Habit Cultivation

a.    What comment do we often hear?

Ans- We often hear that this person is just lucky, he touches dirt and it turns to gold or he is unlucky; no matter what he touches, it turns to dirt.

b.    How do some people become perfect in making mistakes?

Ans- Some people become perfect in making mistakes as they keep practicing their mistakes.

c.    Do you consider yourself to be perfect? Why? Why not?

Ans- No, I don’t consider myself to be perfect because I sometimes make a mistake while doing my work.

d.    What are the valuable traits that human beings have to possess?

Ans- Courage in the face of adversity, self-restraint in the face of temptation, happiness in the face of hurt, showing character in the face of despair, and seeing opportunity in the face of obstacles are all valuable traits that human beings have to possess.

e.    How can you form a habit?

Ans- We can form a habit with constant and consistent training both mental and physical.

f.     What type of habit have you decided to form after reading this text?

Ans- I have decided to form a character- building habit.

Unit-17: Sushila's Determination

Unit-17

Sushila's Determination

a.    Why don’t Sushila’s parents want to send her to university?

Ans- Sushila’s parents don’t want to send Sushila to a university because they are not rich and want her to get married.

b.    Was her parents’ marriage a love marriage? How do you know?

Ans- No, her parents’ marriage was not a love marriage. Her mother agreed to marry her father without having seen him before and without even knowing his name.

c.    Why does Sushila say that her mother was ‘lucky’?

Ans- Sushila says that her mother was lucky because her father gave her all the kindness she required.

d.    What’s Sushila’s suggestion about money to pay for her studies?

Ans- She suggests that instead of saving money for her marriage, they should spend it on her education.

e.    If you were Sushila’s parents, what would you do?

Ans- If I were Sushila’s father, I would spend money on education rather than on marriage.

Unit-16: Jitiya Festival

Unit-16

Jitiya Festival

a.    Why is Jitiya festival celebrated?

Ans- Jitiya festival is celebrated for the good fortune and long life for the husband and children by married women.

b.      How long is this festival celebrated?

Ans- This festival is celebrated for three days.

c.      What do married women do on the second day of celebration?

Ans- On the second day, the married women fast the whole day. They go to the river, pond and well and make an idol of Jimutavahana made of kush (the holy grass), and worship the idol. The devotees get together and the ones who know about Jimutavahana, narrate his story. During fasting hours, they sing and dance, too.

d.    How and when do married women scrub their house?

Ans- On the first day of the celebration, women scrub their house with cow’s dung to make their house sacred.

e.      What is the relationship between Masabashi and the Sun?

Ans- Masabashi’s son named Jimutavahana was a blessing son of the Sun.

f.  What do married women offer to Jimutavahana before they break their fast?

Ans- Married women offer some fruits, milk and curd to Jimutavahana before they break their fast.

g.    How can the celebration of Jitiya promote harmony among people?

Ans- The celebration of Jitiya can promote harmony among people by strengthening the good relations among different ethnic groups in a society.

Unit-15: Past and Present

Unit-15

Past and Present

a.    Who composed this poem?

Ans- Thomas Hood composed this poem.

b.    What is the poem about?

Ans- The poem is about the childhood memories of the poet which he compares with his adulthood.

c.    What does the poet remember in the first stanza?

Ans- The poet remembers the house where he was born and the little window through which the sun rays entered his house.

d.    What does he wish in the first stanza?

Ans- He wishes that the night would take his breath away.

e.    What does he remember in the second stanza?

Ans- He remembers red and white roses, violets, lily-cups, robin and laburnum.

f.     How does the poet describe his childhood in the third stanza?

Ans- The poet used to swing, enjoy the breeze. Also, he was all energetic and high in spirit.

g.    Was the poet really closer to the heaven when he was a child? Why does he think so?

Ans- No, the poet was not really closer to the heaven when he was a child. But he thinks he was closer to the heaven because of his childish ignorance.

Unit-14: Reunion of the Family

 

Unit-14

Reunion of the Family

a.    Who was leaving the house?

Ans- Grandmother was leaving the house.

b.    How many members were there in Jayaram’s family and who were they?

Ans- There were five members in his family. They were Jayaram, his mother, his wife, his son, and the housekeeper.

c.    When did Dinesh’s parents realise that their son was not happy at all?

Ans- Dinesh’s parents realised that their son was not happy at all when Dinesh didn’t show any interest in the tablet, which was brought for him as a gift.

d.    Do you have a housekeeper like Naani at your home? If yes, how do you behave towards her?

Ans- Yes, we have a housekeeper like Naani at our home. All the family members in our house treat her like the member of our family.

e.    Why did Pabitra leave the house?

Ans- Pabitra left the house because some misunderstanding arose among her, her son and daughter-in-law.

f.     Why were Naani, Jayaram and Junakiri’s eyes filled with the tears of happiness?

Ans- Naani, Jayaram and Junakiri’s eyes were filled with the tears of happiness because they reunited.

g.    How was Dinesh able to unite his family?

Ans- Dinesh was able to unite his family by showing his intense desire to be with his grandma.

h.    What message did you get from this story?

Ans- All the family members must live together by sharing their ideas and feelings.

Featured Post

Class 11 (Compulsory) An Astrologer’s Day a short story by R.K. Narayan, Words meanings

  Class 11 (Compulsory) An Astrologer’s Day a short story by R.K. Narayan Words Meanings 1. Cowrie shells: small, glossy shells often us...