Jasimuddin

4.Read the passage on Interpol. Complete the following table with information from the passage.16

Jasimuddin was a famous Bengali poet. He was also a song writer, folklore collector and radio personality. He is known as “Pollikabi” because through his poems, he depicted the Bengali rural life. He was born in the village of Tambulkhana in Faridpur district on January 1903. He received his early education at Faridpur Welfare School. He obtained BA degree in Bangla from the University of Calcutta in 1929 and MA in 1931. Jashimuddin joined the University of Dhaka in 1938 as a Lecturer of Bangla. He left the University in 1944 and joined the Department of Information and Broadcasting. He worked there till his retirement in 1962 as Deputy Director. Jasimuddin collected more than 10,000 folk songs. He wrote poems, novels, memories, music etc. His major works are Rakhali, Nakshi Kanthar Maath, Sojan Baidyar Ghat, Beder Meye and Madhumala. The major honours and awards that he recived are President Award for pride performance, Pakistan (1958) D. Lit by Rabindra Bharati University, India (1969), Ekushey Padak (1976), and Independence Day Award (1978). He died in 13 Marxch 1976 and was buried near his ancestral home at Gobindapur.

                       

	About Jashimuddin
Speciality of his poetry	Reflected the Bengali rural life.
Graduation and post-graduation	In 1929 and in (i) —————.
Who	What	Event/ Activity	Year/ When	Place/ Where	Subject/ Speciality
Jashimuddin		born	1903	Tambulkhana, Faridpur
He	BA	obtained degree	(ii) ————	The University of Calcutta	Bangla.
He		(iii) ————–	1938	The University of Dhaka	Bangla.
He		joined	(iv) ———–	The Dept of Information and Broadcasting	worked there till his retirement.
He	President Award	got	1958	(v) ————–

5. Write a summary of the above passage in your own words.
6. Match the parts of sentence given in column “A” “B” and “C” to write five complete sentences.16

Column A	Column B	Column C
(a) Gender discrimination is a great hindrance	(i) strengthen the hand of the government to establish womenfolk in their right position	(i)early marriage etc. are the outcome of gender discrimination.
(b) If we think a little deeply, we’ll discover that	(ii) and so women are deprived of many things such as education, equal opportunity	(ii) it gives rise to many problems.
(c) In the male-dominated society, women are considered interior to make	(iii)but it is impossible for the government	(iii)alone to do such a gigantic task.
(d)Government is working to discrimination	(iv) to the overall development of the country as	(iv) in society so that they can enjoy equal facilities with men.
(e)So, people from all walks of life must come forward and	(v)eve-teasing, dowry-system, violence against women,	(v)in employment, free movement, social respect, freedom of taking decision etc.

7. Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.16

(a) Being annoyed, the master brought a cat to kill the mice.

(b) All the mice thanked the young mouse for his plan.

(c) A young mouse rose to speak and he said, “Let’s tie a bell round the cat’s neck.”

(d)As a result, they could not move freely as before.

(e) Then and old mouse said, “It’s good idea but who will tie the bell?”

(f) A number of mice were doing a lot of mischief in an old house of a master.

(g) They held a meeting to find out a way to be free from the danger.

(h) At this all remained silent and none came forward.

English 2^nd Paper.

1.Make five sentences using parts of sentences from each column of the table below.05

An educated mother		largely indebted to its educated mother.
A child	is	an important role to build up an educated nation.
If the mother	plays	educated, her child will be educated.
An educated nation	grows	always in touch with its mother.
A child		up in contact with its mother usually.

2. Complete the sentences.

(a) ———– which is the best of all exercise for all age-groups.

(b) It is in the morning —————.

(c) An early morning walk gives us not only fresh vigour —————.

(d) ———– it cools our brain.

(e) It is the morning air that ————–.

3. Make tag questions of these statements.

: Congratulations Diba! You have made an excellent result, (a) ————–?

: Thanks, But my parents and teachers also deserve the credit, (b) ———–?

: One should always remain grateful to their parents and teachers, (c) ——-?

: You also study a lot. You are expecting even a brighter result, (d) ———-?

: Yes, I am. But things don’t happen as you except them always, (e) ———?

4. Change the narrative style of the following text.

“Don’t worry about a few mistakes,” said the teacher. “You can learn a lot through your mistakes.” “Do we learn from our mistakes?” asked the boy, “Yes, we learn.”

5. Use capitals and punctuation marks where necessary in the following text.

what can I teach you asked nasiruddin we don’t know replied the students but you do not know anything so I cant teach you anything said nasiruddin

6. Complete the text adding suffixes, prefixes or the both with the root words given in the parenthesis.

The books of famous (a) ———– (writer) are put on sale in the book fair. Most of the (b) ——— (visit) buy books of different (c) ———— (publish). Almost no visitor returns from the fair without making any purchase. The (d) ——— (buy) like to buy at a fair price. Our book fair is always (e) —– (crowd). As (f) ———– (vary) books are (g) ——— (pay) in a fair, the buyers get a scope to choose books. They buy their (h) ——— (choose) book after a long search. This facility is (i) ——— (available) ———- in any place other than a book fair. A book fair is always (j) ———- (come) to the students.

Exam:

1.Make five sentences using parts of sentences from each column of the table below.08

Independence	wants	the war.
No nation	has	to the battlefield to save the country.
Our War of Liberation	is	it without struggle.
People of all walks of life	shows	in 1971.
They		the birthright of a nation.