PAPER 2

SECTION A 

Complete one of the following tasks. Write 250 to 400 words.

1. Cultural diversity

You are a student at an international school in an English-speaking country. Write an article to be published in your school magazine on how your experience at the international school will affect your future job prospects. Write your article.

 2. Customs and traditions 

Last summer you spent three months in an English-speaking town where you observed how local teenagers spend their leisure time after school and decided to post your observations on a travel blog. Write your blog entry.

 3. Health 

Social isolation can be considered a problem for today’s teenagers. In class, you have been asked to give a speech to your classmates informing them about the problem. Write the text of your speech.

4. Leisure

 Have new technologies affected sports? Write an e-mail to a friend in which you tell him/her how new technologies have affected the world of sports.

5. Science and technology 

Your school has launched a campaign to save energy. Write a letter to your school’s administration suggesting ways in which your school can save energy

SECTION B 

Based on the following stimulus, give a personal response and justify it. Choose any text type that you have studied in class. Write 150 to 250 words.

We put more emphasis on celebrating our parents (Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, etc.) than we do on respecting them. Still, “respect for one’s parents is the highest duty of civil life”.

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