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?