CBSE Class XII English Sample Paper 1

SECTION – B (Writing)
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 people who have been distresses 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 helps 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, shoe and other items of daily use. This will help to receive 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 and Scouts room when our team visits the school.
Thank you very much.
Yours faithfully
K.C. Katihar
President

4. Read the following notes form 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)

• Request attend urgent meeting
• Meeting in my office – 10 a.m.- today
• Agenda-planning for excursion to Gangotri
• Duration-2 weeks – summer vacations
• Inform-class teachers of X, XI and XII – should attend meeting

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.

HINTS

• Deterioration in civic amenities
• Pollution levels increasing everywhere
• Overcrowding in streets, buses, markets
• Suggest some practical solutions