Assignment No. 3 and 4 for B. Tech and B. Arch Sem I

Assignment No. 3 for B. Tech Sem I

1.       Do as directed:

i.                     Use the following words in sentences as indicated against each:

Challenge (verb and noun)

Fair (noun, adjective)

Fare (verb, noun, adjective)

Right (verb, noun, adjective)

Row (noun, verb)

Bow (verb, noun)

Brake (verb, noun)

Break (verb, noun, adjective)

Care (verb, noun)

Fight (verb, noun)

Fall (verb, noun)

2.       i. What can save him now? (Change into an assertive sentence.)

ii.                   Nobody knows what may happen tomorrow. (Change into a rhetorical question)

iii.                  Where are dinosaurs to be found now? Change into an assertive sentence.)

iv.                 He knows everything. (Change into a rhetorical question)

v.                   The pain was not bearable. (Change into an affirmative sentence)

vi.                 Cowards are afraid of death. Change into a negative sentence)

vii.                India is stronger than any of her neighbours. (Change into a negative statement.)

viii.              America is the most industrially advanced country in the world. (Reframe the sentence using the comparative and positive degrees of the adjective.)

ix.                 The sun rose and all the land was bathed in light. (Change the sentence into a simple sentence.)

x.                   He is working hard so that he may be able to get rid of poverty. Change into a simple sentence.)

xi.                 The brave taste of death but once. Change into a complex sentence with a subordinate adjective clause.)

xii.                We arrived at the station before him. (Change into a complex sentence with a subordinate adverb clause.)

xiii.              The boy jumped down from the roof. He suffered a fracture in the leg. (Combine the two sentences into a compound sentence.)

xiv.              The boy stood on the burning deck. All except him had fled from there. (Combine the two sentences into a complex sentence.)

xv.                He is very intelligent. Still he failed to see through my trick. (Combine the two sentences into a complex sentence, a compound sentence and a simple sentence.)

Assignment No. 4 for B. Tech. Sem. I

1.       Name the different organs of speech and describe their role in the articulation of speech sounds.

2.       Classify consonants according to their place of articulation as well as their manner of articulation.

3.       Phonetically transcribe the following words:

i.                     Frame                   ii. Ground            iii. Breed              iv. Crawl               v. Shrink

Assignment No. 3 and 4 for B. Arch. Sem. I

Assignment No.3

Q. 1. How should one proceed while delivering an oral presentation?

Q. 2. When is an inspection report required to be written? What kind of information does it contain?

Assignment No. 4

The medium of education will remain a debatable issue in a country as diverse as India till policy makers shift their focus to substance. Linguists and pedagogues across the world agree that if a child receives his/her primary education in his/her mother tongue, his/her cognitive skills and ability to learn a second or third language are enhanced. Their findings are based on empirical evidence; nowhere do they talk of scrapping other languages. Therefore, the recommendations made by the RSS affiliated Shikhsha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas to the HRD Ministry that no foreign language should be offered as an alternative to Indian languages and that the medium of education should be the mother tongue alone take a step backwards.

May be, such noises about the monopoly of the mother tongue and glorification of the Indian culture, to the exclusion of others perhaps, make good politics; they cannot translate into either providing jobs, or creating a rich pool of knowledge. They are not worth consideration for the new education policy currently under formulation. Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi Vishavavidyalya, the Hindi only university in Bhopal, received only three applications for its engineering courses. And despite their uproar against English and in favour of Konkani and Marathi in Goa, post-election, the BJP has gone soft on English-medium education.

The three language formula followed in schools emphasises elementary learning in the mother tongue only. Yet students are moving to English medium schools to improve their chances of employment. India has been able to take advantage of call-centre jobs that require a working knowledge of English. The insistence on the mother tongue may deny Indians the sole advantage they enjoy over other Asians. Presumably, the Shakha members too send their own children to English medium schools. By putting a reverse gear on education, they seek to check Indians out of the global job market. The NCERT suggests better pedagogy in teaching languages, including English, across schools to improve students’ employment potential in the global job market. Last week, HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar, insisted that “the government’s role must be that of a facilitator and not a controller”. He should reject these recommendations and act on his own words.

Read the above passage and then answer the following questions:

1.       Why is it not possible to settle the question of the medium of education in India once for all?

2.       When will it stop to be the focus of attention?

3.       What according to the language experts is the effect of providing early education in the mother tongue on the child’s ability to learn other languages?

4.       What is the basis of their opinion?

5.       Are the language experts in favour of teaching the children no other language except their mother tongue?

6.       What recommendation has the Shikhsha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas made to the government?

7.       Does the author support this recommendation?

8.       What will be the disadvantage of banning the teaching of all other languages than the mother tongue?

9.       What does the experience of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishvavidyalya in Bhopal indicate? Does it support the recommendation?

10.   Why do people prefer the English medium over the mother tongue?

11.   Are the Indians doing better or worse than the other Asian nations in bagging jobs in the international market? What is responsible for it?

12.   What will be the result of accepting the recommendation for making the mother tongue the medium of education to the exclusion of all other languages?

13.   Is the NCERT in favour of teaching English and other languages or against it and why?

14.   What does the HRD Minister’s statement indicate in this regard? Is he in favour of banning the teaching of English and other languages?

15.   What does the author suggest to the HRD Minister and why?

Asssignment No. 2, CSE, Sem. II Date .4. 2. 2016

Assignment No. 2,  CSE, Sem. II  (3. 2. 2016)

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

If our forests are in peril, so are our grasslands with both man and animal contributing to their destruction. And the problem is by no means new. A survey done thirty years ago had classified eighty percent of the country’s grasslands as “poor”. But even today, there is no policy on the management or protection of grasslands, no effort to break the vicious circle that is playing havoc with the diversity they support. As a recent issue of the magazine “Down to Earth” noted, the growing demand for cultivable land is eating into our grasslands. Common lands, which once provided grazing ground, are being used for other purposes and what remains is being destroyed by our livestock. India is now the second biggest dairy producer in the world with one livestock animal for two persons. In fact, 25% of the total agricultural produce comes from cattle rearing and dairy farming. So, as grasslands are getting degraded, more and more animals are needed to produce the same amount of milk, which means an increasing demand for fodder. Moreover, goats have become popular because they also eat the roots. But this again means further degradation of grasslands. Weeds are replacing edible grass and soil erosion and water loss follows with far reaching consequences for men and animals.

Quite obviously, there is an urgent need for a long term holistic policy on the management and conservation of grasslands, one that will lay stress on improving the quality of the livestock rather than the quantity and take traditional pastoral systems into account while developing strategies to meet the growing needs of the country.

1.  What, according to the magazine “Down to Earth”, is the cause behind the degradation of grasslands?
2.  Explain two effects of the degradation of grasslands.
3. Describe two things that a holistic policy on the management and conservation of grasslands should give importance to
4.  Find the words from the passage which have the following meanings: I. Danger  II. Evil and dangerous
5. Who is responsible for destroying our grasslands?
6. What did the survey say about the quality of our grasslands?
7.   Why is the protection and management of the grasslands necessary?
8.   What place does India occupy among the producers of dairy products in the world?
9.  What proportion of the agricultural production of the country is contributed by this sector of the economy?
10.  Name the consequences of the degradation of grasslands. 

Assignment No. 1, CSE Sem.II, Date 4. 2. 2016

Assignment No. 1 for CSE Sem II (3. 2 2016)

Assignment No. 1 for CSE Sem II (3. 2 2016)

1. Change the voice -

1. The president of the USA is worried about the spread of the ZIKA virus in the country.
2. The powers that be should take notice of the discontent among the people.
3. People at an advanced age always find learning a new language difficult.
4. Did the president of the company consult the board of directors before taking the decision?
5. How many men are required to do this job?
6. Let us finish our work as soon as possible.
7. Let the child buy a toy.
8. Do not tell a lie.
9. Never cry over spilt milk.
10. Which book are you using to prepare for the test?

2. Use the correct tense of the verbs given in brackets -

1. You will definitely succeed if you --------- (work) hard.
2. When he grows up, he --------------- (miss) his mother very much.
3. My father --------------- (marry) before he was twenty years old.
4. My father --------------- (marry) when he was twenty years old.
5. Farmers always ---------------(know) when to harvest the crop.
6. The king ---------------(punish) the thief because there was no evidence against him.

3. Change the narration -

1. "If you remain united, nobody will be able to harm you.", said the father to his sons.
2. Kutchu said to his wife,"Where did I put my spectacles?"
3. "Never try to hit a man who is already down." the sage said to his followers.
4. "When I was your age", the father said to his son,"I used to work sixteen hours a day."
5. The wise man said,"Beggars can never be choosers".
6. The boy said to his friends,"Shall we go for a picnic this Sunday?"

4. Say whether the following sentences are compound or complex. If compound, change them into complex and vice versa -

1. We tried our best but could not win the match.
2. I did not attend the party because I was not feeling well.
3. Take my advice or you will suffer.
4. Wash your hands before you take your meals.