Q1.
I. Read the details about a notice in the table given below.
What is a notice? — A notice is generally written to convey some information to students, or a specific group of people.
A notice tells us about… — An event, a celebration, a competition, important information, lost/found article
Format of a notice — Name of Organisation / NOTICE / Date / Heading / Details / Signature / Name / Designation
Answer
The table on page 153 is the marking scheme in disguise — read it as a checklist rather than a passage. It answers three questions.
| Question | What the book says | What it means when you write |
|---|---|---|
| What is a notice? | “written to convey some information to students, or a specific group of people” | It is one-way and public. You do not argue, describe or persuade — you inform. It is pinned up, so it must be readable at a glance. |
| What does it tell us about? | an event, a celebration, a competition, important information, a lost/found article | Every one of these needs the same core facts: what, when, where, who it is for, what to do next. |
| What is the format? | Name of Organisation → NOTICE → Date → Heading → Details → Signature → Name → Designation | Seven parts, in that order, and marks are given for each. The date is the date the notice is issued, not the date of the event; the event date belongs in the details. |
Why the order is fixed: a reader walking past a board reads top-down and stops as soon as the notice looks irrelevant. Organisation tells him whose board it is; the word NOTICE tells him what kind of text it is; the heading tells him the subject in three or four words. Only a reader who is still interested reaches the details. The signature and designation at the foot are what make the notice authoritative — an unsigned notice can be ignored.
Tip: write the word NOTICE in capitals and centre it, and put the heading in capitals or bold too. Keep the details to three or four short sentences, and draw a box around the whole thing — the exercise on page 154 asks for the box explicitly.