Read the passage given below carefully and answer the following -
Education is no longer restricted to bookish knowledge and four walls of schools, 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 extracurricular activities. Youth festivals are the
best platforms for such activities.
It is essential for all-round development of a student that he should participate in one or the other activity.
There are many extracurricular activities, some of them are declamation, debate, histrionics, mimicry,
painting, music, dance, singing, poetical recitation etc.
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.
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.
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. The absence of youth festivals makes student 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
a productive and fruitful way.
1. Which is the means to search talent among youth ? Explain.
2. Youth festivals are the spice of academic life. Explain.
3. What all is essential for the overall development of the student ?
4. How do the youth festivals help in utilising time ?
B. Choose the correct option -
1. Education is not merely -
a. theoretical but also practical
b. entertaining but instructive also
C. useful in learning and teaching both
d. job giver but also an entertainer
2. ............ are essential for the development of a student's personality:
a. health and happiness
b. extra curricular activities
c. teaching and learning
d. recreational activities
3. Youth festivals produce ......... among the students.
a. a sense of competition
b. a sense of cooperation
c. a sense of co-existence
d. confidence
4. Find out the word from the passage which means the same 'abnormal fear' :
a. budding
b. restricted
c. participate
d. phobia
Answers
1. youth festivals are the best to search talent among youths .because when we will participate in such things we feel no shy for we have experienced it that is why it is said..... .
2. it is said so because doing this ( various items like dance ,song )they feel that doing this they are achieving and feels that it is useful .
3. education ,activities and youth festivals are the best platform for such activities.this all will help in the development of the student.
4. The absence of youth festivals makes student 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 a productive and fruitful way.
B1 . theoretical but also Practical.
2 . recreational activities
3 . sense of cooperation or confidence
4. phobia