Formative Assessment 3 || 10th Class English || Slip Test || 6th Unit

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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT (Slip Test–Unit-6) – ENGLISH – CLASS – 10 – Marks: 20

(READING COMPREHENSION) (4 X 2 ½ = 10 M)

I) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.                   

W M.: Well, the first time when I told them, "Let us plant trees", the women said they did not know how to plant trees. So I asked the foresters to come and teach them, but they were very complicated-they are professionals. It became very complicated for ordinary illiterate women so I told the women, "We shall use our common sense, and just do what we do with other seeds." Women work on the farms. They're the ones who plant. They're the ones who cultivate. They're the ones who produce food, so I told them that seeds of trees are like any other seeds. So if they were to treat these tree seeds the same way they treat other seeds of food crops, there is no difference. I told them to look for old broken pots even and put seeds there. They will germinate and they will know these are the seedlings from the seeds they planted and we gave them plastic bags to be able to put those seedlings and to nurture them and when they were about half a meter long then they could go and transplant them on their farms.

In the beginning it was difficult, but they soon gained confidence and they became very competent foresters. So I called them "Foresters without Diplomas".

 

1. How did Wangari Maathai convince the women to plant trees even though they said they didn't know how?
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2. The women became "Foresters without Diplomas." What does this nickname tell you about the women?

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3. Why do you think planting trees was important to Wangari Maathai's plan to save the environment?

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4. If you wanted to plant a tree with your family this weekend, what are three things you would need to do to prepare?

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 (GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY) (5 X 1 = 5 M)

II) Rewrite the sentences editing the errors of the sentences.

They said we would all become rich. (5) We stood silent, each thinking their own thoughts. Yes, they told you all that. (6) But there is so many they didn't tell you. (7) They didn't tell you that to change animal skins into leather - who they call tanning - uses as many as 250 different chemicals, including heavy metals such as cadmium, arsenic and chromium. (8) They didn't told you that these chemicals are discharged into the environment from those chimney stacks and fall to earth for miles around, polluting the earth below. (9) They didn't tell you that this would poisoned your fields, so that nothing will grow.

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(CREATIVE EXPRESSION) (5 X 1 = 5 M)

III) You have learnt that the importance of planting trees.   As an eco-club secretary, you decided to drive a plantation week. Now, prepare a message to make your club member participate in it.   

mention the necessary details.