Class X Main Course Book Questions (prepared and compiled

during the workshop held at Meridian Public School on 30th July, ‘09)
Unit1: Health and Medicine

1. India reports 295 cases of swine flu – this is just the beginning. Imagine, you are the head
boy/girl of Bloom’s School… Write a speech for the morning assembly warning the students
of the hazardous consequences of this virus if it is not arrested immediately. Write your
speech elaborating your ideas on the clues given below along with those given in ‘Health and
Medicine’.
• Symptoms – Cough cold, high fever, vomiting, and headache.
• Precaution – keep away from affected persons
• Wash hands and use hand kerchief
• Use masks if living in affected environment
• Consult doctor immediately
(OR)

2. As a head girl of your school prepare a speech to be delivered in the morning assembly on
‘Swine flu: Fitness blue’. In your speech sound serious about the impending epidemic and
warn your fellow school mates using the ideas from the unit on ‘Health and Medicine’ along
with your own ideas and the ideas given below in not more than 150 to 200 words.
• Symptoms – Cough cold, high fever, vomiting, and headache.
• Precaution – keep away from affected persons
• Wash hands and use hand kerchief
• Use masks if living in affected environment
• Consult doctor immediately

3. The school principal is holding a ‘Swine flu awareness camp’ in your school premises. In
view of this Dr. Ram, a noted chest specialist has been invited to enlighten us. Write a notice
informing the students about the same furnishing necessary details as the secretary of the
Health Club (in not more than 50 words).

4. You happened to read the following news paper extract. You wanted to write an article to a
local magazine to break the myth behind health and fitness. Write this article taking help
from the unit on ‘Health and Medicine’ and with your own ideas in about 150 words.

“Achieving size 0 and 6 packs is not all about good health and fitness. Aping the idols of
your dream blindly may even lead to traumatic consequences.”

Education

1. You are an NRI and have earned enough settling abroad. You are nostalgic about your
native, a remote village in India. Write an article emphasizing how NRI’s can make
meaningful contributions for the growth and development of our country.

2. You were recently taken on a field trip to a remote village to undertake a literacy camp.
You were deeply moved by the pathetic conditions of their lives devoid of basic amenities.
Write a letter to the editor encouraging educated youths to take part in literacy camps to
improve their standard of living so as to enjoy the privileges of literate people.
3. You have been aware of the recent announcement from the education ministry making
class X examination optional (not obsolete). Write a letter to the editor expressing your views
over the above transformation in the examination system.

4. You have been selected from your house to take part in the debate competition on the
theme “Examinations affect teaching and learning in school”. Write down your arguments in
favour or against the motion in about 150 words.

5. You have learnt in your course book that how children, like Vijay Yadav, are ignorant of
polio and its life crippling impact on their personality due to illiteracy among the village
people. As you are very much moved by this real life example you have decided to join the
literacy camp. You were asked to prepare a speech to be delivered to the village people on the
inaugural day of literacy mission. Let your speech to be an eye opener to them. Tell them
how literacy helps them to be more aware of personal health and hygiene.

Science

1. You are a class X student and have been observing your fellow classmates and other youths
in general that most of them have become gadget savvy and spend most of their precious time
in meddling with their gadgets like ipods, mp3 players, mobile 2G and 3G, play stations,
computers and laptops, internet surfing etc. also keep themselves plugged all through the day
unaware of the harmful consequences they may produce if not checked in time. Write a letter
to the chairman, CBSE expressing your concern and giving a suggestion that the board
should seriously think of introducing a discipline “Gadget Management” as they introduced
“Disaster Management” lately, as the teenagers of today are literally at the cross roads not
knowing how to use these to their own advantage instead of falling a prey to them.

2. Ipods, mobiles, play stations, internet have invaded our lives. Write an article on the
demerits of misuse of these electronic gadgets.

3. You are Kamal. You were one of the witnesses of a UFO citing in a remote village, Bagalur
(Andhra Pradesh). Write a letter to the editor of a local daily narrating your experience and
excitement.

Tourism

1. The tourism industry has been hit by recession. Write a letter to the editor giving
suggestions to improve the tourism in your own state by introducing tourist friendly schemes.

2. During the last financial year the nation witnessed the least number of visitors from abroad
thanks to recession. Write a letter to the editor describing the present dismal scenario of our
tourism industry and giving feasible suggestions and innovative ideas to woo the foreign
tourist to make India their prime destination for sight seeing and for spiritual enlightenment.

3. It is said that the tourist from India are figuring at the last in the list of ‘tourist with most
ethics’. They give the least importance to neatness, hygiene and respect to host nations and
also stingy and improper behaviour at public places. Post your opinion on the credibility of
the above allegations against Indians and your suggestions to improve the culture of foreign
bound Indian tourists. Write your views as article to be published in The Week magazine.

4. You have watched the ad on the ethics to be maintained by the host country to welcome the
foreign tourists and extend a helping hand to them, by Aamir Khan. You wanted to write a
letter to the editor of The Hindu. To the already prevailing most unpleasant environs
everywhere we add being the most unfriendly host to the visitors from far of places, thanks to
poverty and illiteracy. The visitors are looked upon as a source of swindling and of cheap
exploitation. Give ways to change our India from the present phenomenal degeneration to an
everlasting destination of tourist haven.
Environment

1. What do you think; the nation is heading for development or depletion of natural
resources? Prepare a speech choosing development or depletion to be delivered in a debate
competition conducted at the inter school level. You can use the following clues and the ideas
from the unit on ‘Environment’ and your own ideas.

• Atomic energy – leading to harmful nuclear waste

• Road expansion – unmindful felling of trees on either side of the road
• Construction of buildings – in the agriculture lands
• Industries – all kinds of pollution air, water, sound

2. Nuclear plants – a live atom bomb a country builds for its own destruction. Give a speech
on the energy requirements of a country and how she can tap it from her own renewable
energy sources and by conservation instead of producing energy from harmful atomic energy
sources or from non renewable energy sources. Write this speech with reference to the unit on
‘Environment’ and your own ideas in not more than 200 words.

3. The prices of the commodities have already sky rocketed and we can still look for the
worst to come in its place, thanks to the dry spell this monsoon. The government’s efforts to
bring rain by cloud seeding did not help. You strongly suspect it is not an isolated incident
but a global phenomenon of green house effect and global warming. Write a letter to the
editor of a national daily articulating your concerns for the future generation and the future of
the living planet in general. Use ideas from your main course book and your own ideas.

The end

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