1. Education is no longer restricted to the bookish knowledge and the four walls of colleges and universities.
Apart from the activities in the classrooms, laboratories and libraries, a student has an opportunity to find
out and express his hidden potential in the form of various extra- curricular activities. Youth festival are the
best platform for extra- curricular activities.
2. It is essential for the all-round development of a student that he should participate in one or the other
activity. There are many extra-curricular activities. Some of them are declamation, debate, histrionics,
mimicry, painting, music, dance, singing, poetical recitation, etc.
3. Mere classroom studies make it boring and monotonous and students need some outlet for their energies.
They need opportunities for entertainment also. Youth festivals are the spice of academic life. When
students prepare for various items, they have a sense of achievement, a sense of doing something useful.
Preparing the stage for the show, receiving the guest artists from other institutions and looking after them,
inculcate in them a sense of responsibility, co-operation and tolerance.
4. As the competitions of these youth festivals are organised among students of almost the same age, they
get rid of stage phobia. They no longer feel shy of the audience and the stage. They learn to face the
audience. Thus they cultivate self-confidence.
5. Youth festivals are the best means to search the talent among the youth. These budding artists will
become the singers, actors and orators of tomorrow. Youth festivals prove to be the stepping stones for the
future real life. Absence of youth festivals makes a student’s life insipid and boring. As such, students take to
subversive activities. If they remain busy in preparing for competition in youth festivals, their time is used in
productive and fruitful way.
A . Reading the following question and write the answer in your answer sheet. (2x4=8)
(i) How does a student find the expression of his potential?
(ii) What do extra-curricular activities include?
(iii) How does the participation in youth festivals help a student?
(iv) How does absence of youth festivals affect students?
Answers
Answer:
1. Education is no longer restricted to the bookish knowledge and the four walls of colleges and universities.
Apart from the activities in the classrooms, laboratories and libraries, a student has an opportunity to find
out and express his hidden potential in the form of various extra- curricular activities. Youth festival are the
best platform for extra- curricular activities.
2. It is essential for the all-round development of a student that he should participate in one or the other
activity. There are many extra-curricular activities. Some of them are declamation, debate, histrionics,
mimicry, painting, music, dance, singing, poetical recitation, etc.
3. Mere classroom studies make it boring and monotonous and students need some outlet for their energies.
They need opportunities for entertainment also. Youth festivals are the spice of academic life. When
students prepare for various items, they have a sense of achievement, a sense of doing something useful.
Preparing the stage for the show, receiving the guest artists from other institutions and looking after them,
inculcate in them a sense of responsibility, co-operation and tolerance.
4. As the competitions of these youth festivals are organised among students of almost the same age, they
get rid of stage phobia. They no longer feel shy of the audience and the stage. They learn to face the
audience. Thus they cultivate self-confidence.
5. Youth festivals are the best means to search the talent among the youth. These budding artists will
become the singers, actors and orators of tomorrow. Youth festivals prove to be the stepping stones for the
future real life. Absence of youth festivals makes a student’s life insipid and boring. As such, students take to
subversive activities. If they remain busy in preparing for competition in youth festivals, their time is used in
productive and fruitful way.
A . Reading the following question and write the answer in your answer sheet. (2x4=8)
(i) How does a student find the expression of his potential?
(ii) What do extra-curricular activities include?
(iii) How does the participation in youth festivals help a student?
(iv) How does absence of youth festivals affect students?
Explanation:
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