Maharashtra Board Class 11 English Solution Chapter 3.2 – Blog Writing
Balbharati Maharashtra Board Class 11 English Solution Chapter 3.2: Blog Writing. Marathi or English Medium Students of Class 11 get here Blog Writing full Exercise Solution.
Std |
Maharashtra Class 11 |
Subject |
English Yuvakbharati |
Chapter |
3.2 |
Chapter Name |
Blog Writing |
BRAINSTORMING
A1.) Go through the text again to understand the important features of blogs. Discuss various blogs and their features with your friends.
Ans. A blog helps us to-
1) Express our feelings.
2) Share our thoughts and ideas.
3) Share our experiences.
4) Helps refining our writing skills.
A2) i) We all know that blogs can be written on many topics. Your teacher will divide the class in groups and assign a task to every group to make a list of various topics on which blogs are normally written. One is given to you.
Ans. 1) Social awareness
2) Travelogue.
3) Various recipes.
4) Various educational topics.
ii.) Go through the blog given in the text and also refer to different blogs on the internet about various social issues and environmental hazards. Now write blogs on the following topics.
Ans. EARTH WITHOUT TREES
How the Earth would look like with no trees, have you ever thought of that? Imagine what will happen to all the life forms if no trees exist on Earth? What will happen if all the flora of our Earth gets depleted or destroyed by the mankind itself? The mere of thought of this gives us sheer goose bumps, but are we taking the matter that seriously?
According to a study published in journal there are more than three trillion trees in the world. Trees, since eternity have played a major role by providing us with abundant food, wood, shelter and pollution free air. Each and every living organism on earth, the tiniest to the humongous needs oxygen to stay alive and we get this oxygen from trees. Trees also play a major role in maintaining the balance in climatic change and weather; they help in rainfall and also help in controlling pollution. We have seen it clearly; the places where are fewer trees, pollution tends to grow in those areas.
The survival of living organisms including humans will be threatened. And all the life forms on the Earth will perish in the absence of trees.If there won’t be any tree left on earth, mankind will suffer dreadfully. Many animals, birds and rodents would be deeply affected by the annihilation of trees. There will be paucity food, medicines and a plethora of other natural resources. We can’t imagine the world without those simplest of pleasures that we enjoy through with nature like a morning walk among the beautiful trees or a park full of trees, the sound of chirping birds, going for picnics in such places where there plenty of flora and fauna makes our heart fill with joy.
So, we can very well see that how life on earth would be impossible without trees. We should try to do our part to protect the trees as much as we can so that even our future generation can enjoy the benefits that we get from trees.
MAN VS NATURE
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
–Rachel Carson
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
–Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Reading the above quotations, we can very well understand that how deep the impact of nature is, on human beings, only if we see to understand its true worth in our lives. The second quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau says the ultimate truth that how human beings have fought with nature and led almost to its extinction because of our own survival. We failed to understand the truth that to survive in the best possible way we have to go hand in hand with the nature and not against it.
Man’s path to urbanization and modernization has led to extreme destruction of nature and natural resources. Man and Nature always had continuous and an eternal conflict between them since eternity and this tremendous impact on nature and this continuous conflict is majorly because of the human actions.
Man has incautiously used natural resources profusely since the very beginning of man’s existence, whether it is because of hunting for food to digging down the earth for natural resources or even in the name of archeological studies. Man has exploited nature to the extreme. Nature has given its all to us, helped and nurtured us in all the possible ways, but man has gone too far with it, thus nature has now contradicted its actions and the results are extreme, which is unbearable for human beings. Overuse and misuse of natural resources has led to natural calamities like droughts, famines, earthquakes, floods and landslides. Man’s negligence and lack of approbation for nature has also resulted in the loss of nature.
This conflict now seems to be never ending. The only possible way for this conflict to end is in the hand of mankind. Now we have to understand nature’s true worth and change ourselves in the ways of how we use or misuse the natural resources and should learn to respect the nature so that it keeps on nurturing us as it always did.
CHILDLABOUR: A CURSE TO HUMANITY
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
-Nelson Mandela
Child Labour means employing children below the age of 14 – 18 years old, in industries, factories etc. Although, child labour is illegal and punishable act as per the government laws, still, it is highly prevalent in our country and number of factories hire young children to work for them and are paid namesake wages and even in many places they are mistreated as well. Child labour is really shameful thing for humanity. It is a crime against humanity and truthfulness. Child labour leads to deterioration of the country. How a child is treated in a nation shows how the future of that nation will be as it is well said, children are the future of any country.
As we say the children are the future of nation, they should be educated well and should be send to school, they should enjoy and learn new things, but unfortunately their future goes at stake working in these factories and industries. Higher rate of poverty, unemployment are some of the major reasons that children are forced to do such jobs forcefully. We are also the reason of this problem. It is majorly seen in countries which have higher population and poverty rate is also high and it is unfortunate to state that India is one such country and this problem will be prevalent unless and until we ourselves try to control the population.
Due to poverty, people in rural places are not able to take care of their children, in distress and because of their poor conditions they send their children to cities so that they can work and earn some livelihood and support their families too. At this tender of learning and enjoying their childhood, they are forced to earn money. In bigger cities various factories like fire cracker industries make children work as daily wagers putting their lives at risk. In fire crackers industry they are exposed to dangerous chemicals. We regularly see children working even in the road side dhabas and restaurants and at many places they are ill-treated if they don’t work properly. These things should be stopped as soon as possible.
To make a change in these situations, children should be given free education by the government and they should be given vocational training at the right age so that they can learn to earn livelihood at the right age in the right way.
A3.) Prepare a word register for writing a blog, by choosing a particular topic of your own choice. You can write on: environment, pollution, education, etc. For example word register for a blog on environment could be: Trees, mountains, climate, oxygen, ozone layer, biodiversity, coral reefs, green cover, biodegradable etc.
Ans. Word Register for blog writing, topic– Pollution:
Smoke, carbon di oxide, global warming, breathing trouble, problems of asthma, smoke from factories, water, air, soil pollution, oxygen, ozone layer depletion, diseases, climatic changes, ultraviolet rays, planting trees.
A4.) Given below are a few topics for blog writing. Discuss and write.
Ans. (1) PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
Personality is the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character. It is a perfect concoction of a person’s physical and psychological development and other attributes. It also comprises of the person’s positive as well negative traits.For the overall and appropriate development of our personality starts with understanding our own selves first. In this blog, I am going to discuss some easy ways,that I personally feel are important, to develop our personality and become a better version of ourselves.
1) Analyzing ourselves in and out – To develop our personality in a positive way first of all we need to analyze our own selves, we need to find out both the positive as well as negative traits within us and jot them down. It is a very helpful task and helps us to know ourselves better.
2) Focusing on our positive traits – Once we have jotted down our positive traits, we now need to rub up those positive traits and keep on developing them more and more which will help us to enhance our personality more and thrive ourselves as a better person.
3) Working on our detrimental traits – Now that we know both our positive and evil traits and have brushed up our positive qualities, we are now confident enough. Now the next most important step is to work on the negative traits that weaken our personality.
We can work on them by being thoughtful and learn to evaluate our personality by being patient. We shouldn’t be aggressive. Practicing regular meditation helps a lot in curbing our personality in a positive way. If we feel like we need some help to discuss and get some positive advices, we should take such kind of helps as well from our family, close friends or directly talking to a counselor. Reading good books, gaining knowledge helps a lot in the development of overall personality. As it is rightly said,
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
-Charles Baudelaire
Having a positive personality is not a thing we can get in a day or two. It is a continuous process, on which we need to invest and work on so that it will shine bright one day.
(2) HEALTH AND FITNESS
We have heard this saying many a times that health is wealth and cannot disagree with it that our health is truly our wealth. But do we really take care of our health, just as we take care of our wealth? There is nothing more important in our lives than good health. Without a healthy mind and body, we cannot stay happy and if we are not happy from within then for sure we won’t find mental peace, and without these mentioned things, no success in life. Good health is a boon that keeps us optimistic, thus happy and successful. However, these days with the prevalent lifestyle not many people are able to take care of this wealth, so let’s see what all we can do to maintain a healthy lifestyle and become happy and successful.
Though it seems to be one difficult task, but it takes absolutely nothing to stay healthy and fit. We just need to maintain a very healthy lifestyle, which includes healthy diet, maintenance of hygiene, regular exercise or yoga and meditation. And with all these we need to have a pragmatic outlook towards life, a person’s positive attitude towards life matter the most.
Now-a-days when market is filled with multitude of junk foods, frozen foods and processed food items, we need to have a proper and nutritious diet which can keep us physically fit. Yes, we do feel the urge to eat junk foods sometimes, but that should be taken in limit and not every day, which will eventually lead to various health problems.
Besides having healthy and nutritious food, we need to do some physical activities as well, like going for morning walks, or exercise or I personally feel yoga and meditation is one of the best ways to keep our body as well as mind healthy. Regular practice of yoga and meditation reduces stress, which is very common these days with extreme work pressure on adults and kids too face a lot of stress now a days. Yoga and meditation also helps reducing the blood sugar level and various other health issues.
Hope people understand the importance of good health and try to cultivate a healthy lifestyle; especially the young generation should understand what a boon it is to have healthy mind and body and to live stress free life.
(3) SOCIAL DYNAMICS
We humans are social animals. Human beings cannot live in some lone places, without society or other social beings and their actions are greatly influenced by the people around them. We are born in a society and grow up according to the social set ups, customs, values and traditions of the society and hence learn those customs and values while growing up.
Each and every individual in a society is different, acts and behaves differently. When we interact with other people in society, we tend to see new behavior and hence decide what is good and bad and what we should cultivate and what not. Thus social dynamics is in the behavior of a group that highly influences other people of a group in a society.
Social dynamics involve the study of interrelationship of people with one another. It is the study of the behavior of groups that results from the interactions of individual group members as well to the study of the relationship between individual interactions and group level behaviors. Two or more people come together to make a group. People in a group interact, share their thoughts, ideas and knowledge. Thus, these exchange of thoughts, knowledge and ideas bring about changes in the behavior of other social beings. People learn to interact and socialize and also bring about heterogeneity in their behavior, bringing change in the society.
(4) Communication skills (5) Self-defense. (On the basis of the blogs written above as examples, students will try to write the topics on their own.)