Summer Holiday 2018 Homework Project | GDGPS Gaya VIII.… · · 2018-05-21G. D. Goenka Public...

Summer Holiday 2018 Homework Project | GDGPS Gaya

G. D. Goenka Public School, Gaya

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Express Yourself! Evolve! Explore! Be The Change!

Life is all about choosing something over the other. We find it quite confusing as to what we really want in life and what exactly should be our focus. This summer, the English assignment will help you to think what exactly are the top

most concerns today. Make a folder of about 10 A-4 size sheets. Include any 3 of the following in the folder and make an attractive title page: Enterprise is Fate

1. Use two A-4 sheets to make a list of famous quotes from Shakespearean Plays. This list will be very useful in writing debates, essays, speeches or for

compering events. Try to write at least 8-10 quotations.

2. Make a pictorial collage on 2 A-4 sheets about a vacation, a recent excursion

or an adventure holiday entitled, Travel: A catalyst of change. The collage should have 2/3rd written component including greetings (Hola!/Swadhika/Bon Jour/Namaste) phrases/information/slogans and

reactions highlighting your experience as being an enriching one.

3. Write an original article/poem/skit or short story on any one of the following

topics. (Use 1 or 2 A-4 sheets) (typed as a MS Word document, font: Cambria, font size:12) Dont forget to add your name, class and section.

1. An old tradition that is still followed at home

2. If you woke up to a world with no rules

3. Future of Outdoor sports

4. Have regional costumes lost their relevance and charm?

5. A survey conducted on Indian Youth Revealed the following:

From the perils of terrorism to the effects of global Warming, from the

determination to have a successful career, to the deeply entrenched corruption in politics, the youth are concerned about all this and more.


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Use 2 A-4 sheets: on one sheet make a to do list of about 10-12 things.

Examples:

1. Try to donate seeds to farmers.

2. Try to help in a poor girls marriage.

3. Try to donate to a book bank or a toy bank!

4. Try to volunteer at an NGO working with slum children.

5. Visit an Old Age Home.

Choose any one thing from the to do list and make a presentation of your experience. Supply relevant information and pictures if possible. This enterprising act of yours will surely enhance and add value to your life.

6. Read the following poem:

Oh the places youll go by Dr. Seuss.

It comes under the category of one of the greatest poems ever written! You will

find it easily on poemhunter.com. Practice reading the poem out loudly in front of the mirror. Attach a print out of the poem on one/two A-4 sheets and on one

sheet write your views about the poem. State why you think it is worth reading.

WORKSHEET

Complete the following sentences using appropriate simple present

or simple past tense form of verbs. 1. He --------------------- he is above playing with us. (think)

2. She ----------------------- two pounds an hour. (earn) 3. The plants --------------------- in the absence of water. (die) 4. He --------------------- English with an Irish accent. (speak)

5. The cold weather ---------------------- my health. (affect) 6. They ----------------------; they always agree. (not quarrel) 7. Fatty foods ---------------------- with me. (not agree)

8. The teacher ------------------------ them an hour for their painting. (allow) 9. Smoking -------------------- (not allow)

10. The twins -------------------- alike. (look) 11. You alone --------------------- my secrets. (know) 12. He ----------------------- his fortune amongst his three children. (divide)

III. Complete the following sentences using appropriate present continuous tense forms of verbs. . 1. Rahul ------------------ (do) his homework.

2. Meera --------------------- (learn) her lessons.


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3. The boys --------------------- (play) in the garden. 4. The girls -------------------- (dance).

5. I ---------------------- (type) on the computer at the moment. 6. The teacher ---------------------- (explain) the lesson. 7. The students --------------------- (solve) the sum.

8. The boy -------------------- (throw) stones at the dog. 9. The blind man -------------------- (beg) for alms.

10. You -------------------- (not listen) to me. 11. They -------------------- (wait) for us. 12. I -------------------- (count) the numbers.

13. My sister ------------------- (prepare) for her exams. 14. The birds -------------------- (sing). 15. You -------------------- (cause) me a great deal of distress.

IV. Complete the following sentences using appropriate present continuous tense form of verbs.

1. Rahul ------------------ (do) his homework. 2. Meera --------------------- (learn) her lessons. 3. The boys --------------------- (play) in the garden.

4. The girls -------------------- (dance). 5. I ---------------------- (type) on the computer at the moment.

6. The teacher ---------------------- (explain) the lesson. 7. The students --------------------- (solve) the sum. 8. The boy -------------------- (throw) stones at the dog.

9. The blind man -------------------- (beg) for alms. 10. You -------------------- (not listen) to me. 11. They -------------------- (wait) for us.

12. I -------------------- (count) the numbers. 13. My sister ------------------- (prepare) for her exams.

14. The birds -------------------- (sing). 15. You -------------------- (cause) me a great deal of distress Instruction

The homework must be original and the proper references should be made in accordance with the task. Neat, creative and honest presentation would be

highly appreciated.


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A. Create an attractive and colourful Goenkan Mathematics Newsletter,

consisting of about 10 pages. You can create a page each on the topic given below

(as hints)

Applications of mathematics in daily life.

Life history and contributions of a famous mathematician.

Record the maximum and minimum temperature for 15 days in a tabular form.

Find their mean, median and mode.

Collect any data and represent it as a bar graph or pictograph or

both.

Dedicate a page to IPL or any of your favourite sport, highlighting the

relationship between Maths and sports.

B. In a thin notebook do the worksheets given.

WORKSHEET

TOPIC: RATIONAL NUMBERS

1. Insert five rational numbers between x and IxI, where x = -17/20

2. Represent 50/7 on number line.

3. Length of a rectangular plot is 500/7 m and width is 140m.What is the area of

the plot?

4. The cost of 15/4 kg of sugar is 264 rupees. Find the cost of 3/2 kg of sugar.

5. The product of two numbers is - 16/35. If one of the numbers is -15/14, find

the other number.

6. Divide the sum of 65/12 and 8/3 by their difference.

7. From a chain 11m long, two pieces of lengths 18/5 m and 23/10 m are cut off.

What is the length of remaining chain?

8. By what number should - 3/5 be divided to get -2/11?

9. Verify that (x - y)-1 x-1 y-1 by taking x = - 1/2, y = 2/3

10. What should be added to -11/15 to get 7/20?

11. Do as directed:


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(a) Looking at the tables given below make the grids for square of 5, square of 7

and square of 8.

(c) A grid with magic number 15 is given in the figure where the sum of the rows,

sum of the columns and sum diagonally is 15.

TOPIC--LINEAR EQUATIONS IN ONE VARIABLE

1. The sum of two numbers is 22 and their difference is 6.Find the numbers.

2. A father is 20 years older than his son.12 years ago, the age of the father was

six times that of his son. Find their present ages.

3. A number consists of two digits, the sum of digits being 9. If 9 is added to the

number, the digits are reversed. Find the number.

4. Find three consecutive odd numbers, such that the greatest one added to 49 is

equal to the sum of the other two numbers.

5. The numerator of a fraction is 3 less than the denominator. If the numerator

and denominator are both increased by 2, the new fraction becomes 6/7.Find the

original fraction

6. Present ages of Yash and Virat are in the ratio of 3:2.After 6 years the ratio of

their ages is 11:8.Find their present ages.

7. Mr. Nanda left one-third of his property for his son, one-fourth to his daughter

and the remaining 200000 to his wife. How much money did he have?

8. The length of a rectangle is 8m less than twice its breadth. If the perimeter of

the rectangle is 56m. Find its dimensions.

9. A number multiplied by 3/2 and then increased by 5/4 gives 3/4. Find the

number.


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1. We know that soil is the uppermost layer of the earth's crust, and is

essential to support life on the earth because plants grow on it. The roots of

the plants are anchored in soil, from where they obtain water and nutrients.

But do you know that some plants can be grown without soil?

This is called HYDROPONICS. It is a method of growing plants in water

without soil.

Find out more about hydroponics - how does it work, which plants can be

grown like this, what are the consequences etc.

2. Distinguish between a parasite and a saprotroph.

3. How would you test the presence of starch in leaves?

4. Show with the help of a sketch that plants are the ultimate source of food.

5. Explain the function of the Nutrition in humans with digestive system

diagram.


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This holiday we ask you to dream, research and project on paper THE

WORLD, a hundred years from now, as you see it. This rapidly changing world of ours will be even more beautiful than it is now, even though some parts of it are altered and changed beyond redemption. Our environment will survive due to the sustained efforts and ingenuity of human

beings. When you come back from your summer vacations, you should have completed

the following:

RESEARCH 1. New trends and predictions for the future.

2. Current status and practices prevalent in exploitation of the environment. 3. Innovative methods that were used in the past and could be used again.

ONE CHART(ivory sheet),ONE MODEL from any ONE subtopics given below:

4. Home, family and habitat (Life with respect to social structure and habitat in 2118) 5. New world's, human settlements in other planets.

6. Schools and education. 7. Hospitals and healthcare.

8. Means of transportation (let your imagination take wings, think the impossible) 9. Energy (focus on new sources of energy and renewable energy)


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10. New technology that will be used (keeping in mind conservation and recycling of energy and minerals), role of Robots in the world.

11. Agriculture. 12. Land use on Earth. 13. Waste management.

14. Forms of Entertainment including entertainment parks. 15. Nature Parks, simulated environment.

16. Libraries and books and tools to help reading. 17. Flora and Fauna in the forests. 18. Environmental practices from the past that are relevant even now and

could be in future. 19. Careers of the future keeping the new environment in mind. 20. Arts----music, painting, dancing.

21. Time travel 22. Food and Cuisine in the future world

23. Games and fitness 24. Philosophy and religion 25. Fashion and clothes in the future.

Some of the subtopics given above have two or three elements; you are at

liberty of considering any one of them or all of them. To avoid the repetition of projects it is suggested that you pick up a subtopic as per the instructions.

Roll no 1 to 5 could choose any one subtopic from 1-5 Roll no 6 to 10 could choose any one subtopic from 6-10 Roll no 11 to 15 could choose any one subtopic from 11-15

Roll no 16 to 21 could choose any one subtopic from 16-20 Roll no 22 to 26 could choose any one subtopic from 12-16

Roll no 27 to 31 could choose any one subtopic from 17-22 Roll no 32 to 37 could choose any one subtopic from 22-25

Collect information of any one of the government or non-government organization that has been working towards wildlife protection and conservation.

Document the information on an A4 size sheet. Mention some steps as to how as an individual you can contribute in protection and conservation

of wild life. Identify important wild life sanctuaries and locate them on the map of India.

Dear children we will appreciate work done by you and you will get the

opportunity to present your ideas in the Social Science Exhibition 2018.


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Assignment Work (Do it in computer notebook with heading Holidays

homework.)

1. Revise and complete question-answer of first two chapters.

2. Describe the features of Java programming language.

3. Write a java program to find the area of a rectangle.

4. Visit your nearby computer shop and collect the information related to

different laptops brand, configuration, features & its prices make a compare list.

Also write if you have to purchase which Laptop (mention brand also) will you

purchase?

5. Write about five most popular IT companies and their founder name. Also

paste their picture with company logo.

Project Work

1. Create a PowerPoint Presentation on High Level Languages.

2. Make a 3D model of your school in Sketch UP Make and export it as animation.

3. Create a blog on Wordpress or Blogger and post an article on Cyber Security.

Also send your post link to [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


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1. Write brief note on France famous actress Jeanne d'arc . Also paste

related pictures?

or

Write a brief note on la tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower) with neat and well image

of Eiffel Tower.

2. Write French national Anthem La Marseillaise

3. Draw neat and well map of France and point out followings ; -

A ) Rivers of France

B ) Mountains of France

C ) Important Cities of France

Note Your answer should be in French/English language on A4 Sheets or in

French Note copy.


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1. Make a Power Point Presentation on Robotics- with different

functions:

* PPT should be done based on your chosen Robotics Model.

* The PPT should be for 15 20 slides:

* Slide 1- Title of the Project.

* Slide 2- Index (Content)

* Slide 3- Introduction of your topic.

* Slide 4- 18 Should be focused on the different types of Robotics.

* Slide 19 Advantages & its uses.

* Slide 20 Thank You (Greetings)

--Hope your Holidays goes well!

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