Online Learning Materials
Academic Session-2077
Grade:10
English
Unit 4
Reporting Commands
Day 13
Reading Task: A
Lesson: 13
Time: 50 Minutes
Full Marks: 35
Pass Mark: 14
Please note that all the tasks and items prepared below are
authentic materials and will be used as they are in your terminal, Pre SEE and
SEE Preparation Examinations. You are therefore required to sincerely complete
these tasks on a daily basis. Parents are kindly advised to be observant and
with their children monitoring and supervising their studies and most of these
contents contain a number of materials on the internet, especially YouTube. Just make sure that they do not get digitally
distracted.
1. Go through the text below and do the tasks that follow.
Memoirs of my Visit to France
This morning the city of
Paris looks slightly fuming; the sky is overcast, and it is drizzling too. But
it does no harm to me. I decided to go out for a visit or an observation tour.
I had asked Nirmal bhaai for a list of museums in the vicinity of Paris
yesterday. He brought me some brochures with the names and addresses, and
street maps of Paris Museums in the evening. Paris has more museums than
temples and gods in Kathmandu, he says. I am new to Paris, staying here for
only one week. Hope these maps and brochures will show me Paris metro zones and
guide me to some museums today. Last week Nirmal bhaai showed me Pompidou
Centre, ‘a complex building of high-tech structure’. This visit has emboldened
me to explore further.
I guess I can cover a maximum of two museums
today. It means just giving a cursory glance. This is my plan. They say Cézanne
is quite far away, Paul Cézanne, the post-impressionist painter, may be in the
outskirts. I cannot visit him all alone, and cannot cover two museums in a day.
So I chose to visit a museum nearby in the heart of the city. Likewise, Braque
is far, Du Champ is farther away. So I have decided as per Nirmal’s suggestion
to start with Rodin’s. Maybe I will go to Monet’s next.
People know I am never a painter, nor a
sculptor, nor a connoisseur of art, or a professional, but then, the world
knows that my interest in the lives of great artists and their lasting works is
growing deeper. So wherever I go, I prefer to visit art museums first
of all. In Russia, in Greece, in England, in America—I did so. I move merely a
dilettante, however, with a deep sense of awe and reverence. I have no words to
express how I felt upon seeing Mona Lisa in Louvre yesterday. I must say why my
interest in this is growing gradually in this way.
Two decades ago, I was entrusted an Academy
project titled Introduction to the Literary Trends and Movements in which I had
to present a glimpse of literary trends and movements of the world. Most
literary movements developed from the western movements of art and philosophy.
They are entrenched firmly. Therefore, I studied and wrote briefly on
new trends of art such as Impressionism, Expressionism, Symbolism, Cubism,
Dadaism, Surrealism and their relationship with literature. I had used
secondary sources to write about them. Later on I visited the Modern Tate of
London to write on postmodernism. (440 words)
1. Vocabulary in use
Task I. Read the text again and describe the following words as
in the example. [14]
1.
Fuming
2.
overcast
3.
drizzling
4.
observation
5.
vicinity
6.
emboldened
7.
cursory
8.
connoisseur
9.
sculptor dilettante
10.
awe
11.
reverence
12.
entrusted
13.
entrenched
14.
trends
Task II. Use any eleven of the words listed above to make your
own sentences. [11]
2. Reading comprehension
Task II. Read paragraphs 1, 2, and 4 and write true
for the information and false for the incorrect information, and not
given if there is no information given in the passage. [6]
Example: It was drizzling in the city of Paris in the morning. True
i)
Paul Cézanne is an impressionist painter.
ii)
The author plans to give a cursory glance at museums.
iii)
He was assigned an Academy project entitled Introduction to the Literary
Trends and Movements.
iv)
The author has no words to express how he felt upon seeing the Mona
Lisa in Rodin.
v)
Paris has as many museums as temples in Kathmandu.
vi)
The author decided to visit Monet’s Museum on the first day of his tour.
Task III. What does the speaker want to convey to the readers in
the text? Explain. [4]
Useful Links
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_N2-366hL4 [ < 4
minutes ]
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsJ6bMBLUs8 [ < 3 minutes ]
Note: Please use a separate Notebook
for all your tasks or A4 size paper well-maintained in a portfolio/file in the same order
for submission and evaluation later.
The End
Compiled, Edited and Prepared by Jaya Narayan Bhusal
Department of English
