Big Data Big Insights brainstorming

Big Data – Big Insights questions and answers

(A1) Youtube has many videos on various things. Listen to the uses and health 

benefits of 'Lemon' and share them with your friends.

(A2) (i) Make pointwise notes from the lesson regarding the uses of Big Data in 

the following application. Do not write complete sentences. 

 (a) Location Tracking - 

 (1) 

 (2) 

 (3) 

 (4) 

 (b) Health Care Industry -

 (1) 

 (2) 

 (3) 

 (4) 

 (c) Education Industry -

 (1) 

 (2)

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(3) 

(4) 

(ii) When you are asked for personal details on social media, what precautions

will you take? Discuss in pairs and write down.

(iii) Do you think all the data we receive is used for positive things? If 'No',

make a list of the negative things which can be done with the help of Big

Data.

(A3) Guess the meaning of the following idioms and phrases and use them in

sentences of your own. One is done for you.

One-size-fits-all – suitable for or used in all circumstances

The wrist watches have adjustable belts, so one- size- fits- all

(a) ‘Once in a blue moon’

(b) ‘One man army’

(c) ‘Once bitten twice shy’

(d) ‘One up on’

(A4) (i) Do as directed.

(a) Advertisers are one of the biggest players in Big Data.

(1) Begin the sentence with ‘Very few ………….’

(2) Use ‘bigger than’ and rewrite the sentence.

(b) No other diagnosis is as good as the diagnosis done with the help of Big

Data.

(1) Use ‘best’ and rewrite the sentence.

(2) Use ‘better than’ and rewrite the sentence.

(c) These internet giants provide the greatest data about people.

(1) Begin the sentence with ‘No other……..’

(2) Use ‘greater than’ and rewrite the sentence.

(ii) Read the sentence from the text.

New insights have enabled the banks and finance companies to come up with

suitable plans.

This sentence can be rewritten as 'New insights have enabled the banks as

well as finance companies to come up with suitable plans'.

Remember, 'as well as' serves the same purpose as that of co-ordinating the

conjunction 'and' in the sentence. When one of them is inserted in the sentence,

other should be removed

Big Data Big Insights questions and answers class 12

Use 'as well as', 'either ...... or' in the following sentences.

(a) Whatever activity we do online is recorded, monitored and analysed.

(b) Big Data has been useful in identifying and tracking the exact

location of a place.

(c) Weather sensors and satellites help us to understand the weather and

help in weather forecasting.

(d) Big Data helps in monitoring the outbreaks of epidemics and

diseases.

(e) New insights have enabled the banks and finance companies to come

up with suitable plans.

(A5) (i) Interview the students of your class regarding the career they would like 

to pursue and the reason for selecting that particular career. Collect the 

data of your class and analyse the information you have collected.

(ii) To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well and is

essential to all true conversations. Form a group and have a group

discussion on the topic.

(a) Social Media - Curse or Boon

(b) Women Empowerment and Equality

(c) Climate Change

(A6) Find out job opportunities in the following areas and the skills required 

for them.

(a) Clinical Data Management (d) Data Operations and Research

(b) Network Operations (e) Data Entry Operation

(c) Data Processing

The New Dress - questions and answers

BRAINSTORMING of The New Dress 

(A1) (i) Narrate in your words the picture imagined by Mabel as she thinks herself 

in the party as a fly at the edge of the saucer.

(ii) There are a few other characters mentioned in the story. Discuss the way

their reactions help us to understand the inferiority complex of Mabel.

(A2) (i) Pick out the sentences from the story which describe the ambience of the 

party at Mrs. Dalloway’s place.

(ii) Mabel is thinking too much of her dress.

Propose five sentences supporting the above statement.

(iii) Critically analyze Mabel’s weak economic conditions in the past as one of

the reasons that led her to choose the old-fashioned dress.

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The New Dress - questions and answers

(iv) The cause of Miss Mabel’s disappointment is not only her poor background 

in the past but her too much bookishness also. Substantiate.

(v) Do you appreciate Mabel’s tendency of deciding her own value from the 

comments given by others? Explain your views.

(A3) (i) Write the synonyms for the word ‘dress’ by filling appropriate letters in 

the blanks. One is done for you.

 (a) a t t i r e (b) _ _ r_ _

 (c) _ _ _ t _ _ e (d) _ _ r _ _ _ t

 (e) _ _ t _ _ t (f) _ _ _ a _ _ l

(ii) Conchology means the scientific study or collection of mollusc shells.

 Refer to the dictionary and find out the meanings of -

• Etymology • Archaeology

(A4) (i) Use the correct tense form of the verbs given in the brackets and rewrite 

the sentences.

 (a) She (take/takes/took/had taken) that old fashion book of 

her mother a few months back.

 (b) She (pecking/ pecks/ pecked) at her left shoulder for quite 

some time.

 (c) One human should (done /doing/be doing) this for another 

always.

 (d) All this (will be/ is / have been) destroyed in a few years.

 (e) She (feels/felt/will be feeling) like a dressmaker’s dummy 

standing there.

(ii) Do as directed.

 (a) Lata will sing tonight. (Make it less certain.)

 (b) You should wear your uniform. (Show ability.)

 (c) Sandeep may study to clear the examination. (Make it obligatory/

compulsory.)

 (d) I can do it. (Make a sentence seeking permission.)

(iii) (a) Frame three rules for the students of your college.

 (b) Frame three sentences giving advice to your younger brother.

(iv) Fill in the blanks with appropriate modal auxiliaries according to the 

situation given in the following sentences.

(a) Take an umbrella. It rain later.

 (b) People walk on the grass.

The New dress Brainstorming

(c) I ask you a question?

(d) The signal has turned red. You wait.

(e) I am going to the library. I find my friend there.

(A5) (i) Read the sentence ‘we are all like flies….’. 

The paragraph describes the 

dejected thoughts that Miss Mabel carries in her mind. All the earlier 

paragraphs are in a continuity of a story line. The next paragraph begins 

with, ‘I feel like….’ again resumes to a story. The author has moved in 

the mind of the character and out of it very smoothly without any 

intimation or change in the language or tense. Similarly, she has moved 

in the past years of Miss Mabel’s life. This is called ‘stream of consciousness’ 

technique.

(ii) Read the sentence from the text - What a hideous new dress!

This is an exclamation. It can be written as a simple sentence 'The new dress

is very hideous'.

Find out few more exclamatory sentences from the story and transform them

into assertive sentences.

(iii) Virginia Woolf has created many characters other than Miss Mabel with

great skill. Write a character sketch of any one of them.

(iv) 'Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.' Expand the idea in

your own words.

(A6) Go to library and read the following books:

(a) 'A Haunted House' by Virginia Woolf

(b) 'Mrs. Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf

(A7) Find out information about career opportunities in the following fields:

(a) Fashion designing

(b) Dress designing

(c) Textile industry

(d) Garment industry

(e) Image consultancy

(f) Psychology and Psychiatry