Jibananda Das
4.Read the passage on Interpol. Complete the following table with information from the passage.
| Jibananda Das was born in Barishal in 1899. He took his Masters Degree in English at the age of 22. The next year he started his teaching career as a professor of English at the Kolkata City College. He lost his job in 1928 on the charge of publishing a poem in the Parichaya Patrika. But two years after he joined the Ramjash College, Delhi but returned to his place of birth the next year. He got an appointment in Brajamohan College, Barishal in 1935. In 1947 when the partition was made, Jibananda Das ledt Bangladesh for India. In west Bengal, he started editing the Swaraj Patrika. In 1951, he joined the Kharagpur College. He was awarded Rabindra Purashkar in 1953. He met with a train accident on the 14th October 1954. He was hospitalized. After a few days, he passed away on October 22, 1954. |
| Jibananda Das | |||||
| Famous for | Poetry | ||||
| Edited | (i) —————————-. | ||||
| Who | Event/ Activity | Year/When | Place/Where | Reason/Subject | Achievement |
| Jibananda Das | born | 1899 | Barishal | ||
| He | (ii)———– | 1921 | English | ||
| He | started teaching | 1922 | (iii)———- | Professor of English | |
| He | (iv)———– | 1947 | India | partition | |
| He | got awarded | (v)———– | Rabindra Purashkar | ||
Extra Question (i)
| Who/What | Event/Activity | Where/Place | Year/When |
| Jibnanda Das | (i)————- | Barishal | 1899 |
| He | joined | Bajramohan College | (ii)———- |
| Jibananda Das | left | (iii) ————- | 1947 |
| (iv)————- | was awarded | 1953 | |
| He | died | Kolkata | (v)——– |
(ii)
| Who/What | Activity | Place | When/ Time |
| Jibananda Das | born | (i)———– | in 1899. |
| He | MA | English | (ii)——— |
| Career | (iii)————- | Kolkata City College | (iv)——– |
| Jibananda | migration | (v)———— | In 1947. |
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.
| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a)The role of women in nation -building | (i)women were looked upon | (i)to play their active role. |
| (b)It is not possible for any nation to search | (ii) the only instruments | (ii)towards women has been changed. |
| (c) There was a time when | (iii) cannot denied any more | (iii) to serve the family affairs. |
| (d) They were | (iv)the outlook and attitude of the world | (iv) in the situation of the world. |
| (e) But with the progress of civilization | (v)its goal without allowing the womenfolk | (v) without any dignity and honour. |
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.
(a) The first friend climbed up a tree but the latter could not climb.
(b) Suddenly, a bear came there.
(c) Once upon a time, two friends were passing by a forest.
(d) They were talking about their love for each other.
(e) Finding no other way, the latter one laid down on the ground and feigned death.
(f) The bear smelt his ears, nose and face.
(g) Then the bear went away.
(h) He thought him to be dead.
English 2nd Paper.
1.Make five sentences using parts of sentences from each column of the table below.05
| Drug addiction | is | strong attraction for any harmful thing. |
| Drugs | has | not only a national but also a global problem. |
| These drugs | means | used for intoxicating and stimulating effects. |
| Addiction | are | grasped the young generation of the country. |
| taken by smoking or through injection. |
2. Complete the sentences.
(a) Smoking is a habit which ————–.
(b) Many people go on smoking though —————.
(c) People cannot give up smoking easily because ————-.
(d) ———- we will suffer a lot.
(e) So attempts must be made by us to ——————-.
3. Make tag questions of these statements.
(a) Man is fond of turning back to the past, —————-?
(b) The present may be good, ————–?
(c) But everybody hardly forgets golden past, ————–?
(d) Nothing is more pleasant to him than the memories of childhood, ————–?
(e) The memories of childhood really haunt us, ——————–?
4. Use capitals and punctuation marks where necessary in the following text.
oh mu lord please don’t kill the child said the first women to king Solomon let her have it king Solomon said to them now everything is clear to me pointing to the first woman he said to the servant give her child she is the mother of the baby
5.Complete the text adding suffixes, prefixes or the both with the root words given in the parenthesis.
Student life is the (a) ——— (gold) season of life. This is a (b) ——— (form) period of life. This is the time for (c) ———- ( (prepare) of future life. Students are the future (d) ——— (lead) of the country. They should have (e) ——– (patriot). They should achieve quality (f) ——– (educate) and build themselves as (g) ——— (compete) citizens. They should gain (h) ——- (know) and learn art of (i) ——— (behave) and (j) ——- (interact) before others.