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BHAI PARMANAND VIDYA MANDIR Class VIII Holidays Homework
(2016-17)
ENGLISH
1. Read all the novels given below and prepare yourself for the
book review on any one, of your
choice. Discussion will be held in the class on all the novels.
Participation is mandatory.
a) Emma by Jane Austin
b) The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank
C) The murder of the Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
d) The book thief by Markus Zusak
e) Othello by William Shakespeare
2. Write a composition on each of the following topics in about
100-120 words.
a) Nurture nature
b) Good beginnings last a lifetime
c) Children are the seeds that make our future blossom
d) No man is an island.
e) Lead the way to a brighter day
f) The ballot is stronger than the bullet
g) Benefits of Balance diet.
h) Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
i) Never refuse to reuse
j) When in Rome do as the Romans do.
3. Read the novel ' The Tales of Oscar Wilde' and write the
answers the following questions in
separate notebook:
a) Write the character sketches of the following characters in
about 80-100 words:
i) Happy Prince
ii) Swallow
iii) The School boy
iv)Nightingale
v) Professor’s daughter
vi)The Star Child
b) Mention the two ways in which the Happy Prince helped his
countrymen.
c) What made the Swallow decide to stay with the Happy Prince
forever?
d) What broke the heart of the Happy Prince?
e) What happened to the Happy Prince and the Swallow at the end
of the story?
f) Why was the Student so unhappy?
g) How did the Nightingale make the red rose?
h) What was student’s opinion of Love at the end of the
story?
i) How was the beauty of the Star-child harmful to him?
j) How did the Star-child treat his mother?
k) What was the Star-child’s punishment?
4. Revise the following grammar topics and make a chart for the
presentation in the class,
according to your roll number.
a) Determiners ( 1-5)
b) Tenses ( 6-10)
c) Different forms of verb ( 11-15)
d) Modals ( 16-20)
e) Adverbs ( 26-30)
f) Prepositions (31-35)
g) Conjunctions ( 36-40)
h) Reported speech (41-46)
5. Do first three unseen passages from Grammar Chest in a
separate notebook.
* Do all your written work in a separate notebook
* Revise whatever has been done in the class till now.
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MATHEMATICS (Note: Do all the homework in A4 Size sheets neatly
and compile the sheets in a file)
Explore the internet to get the idea about the model/chart in
any one of the following
topics and bring the layout in the form of a rough sketch :
1. ‘Ratio of circumference to diameter’ of different types of
circles
2. Nets of cuboids, cube, tetrahedron and octahedron.
3. Medians and angle bisectors of triangles by paper folding
4. Music/Dance and mathematics
5. Magic squares on faces of cube.
6. Quiz on Mathematicians and their main contributions
7. Story of zero /To show inventions of Indian
mathematicians
8. Altitudes of different types of triangle
9. Mathematical painting using tangrams
10. Criterias of congruency
11. Mathematics through newspapers
12. Quadrilaterals and their use in real life
13. Distributive property by using square paper
14. Pythagoras Property
15. Rotational symmetry
16. Women Mathematicians
17. Perimeter of figures bounded by semicircles
18. Visualisation Solids
19. Exterior angle property and angle sum property of
triangle
20. Number system.
ASSIGNMENT (for each student)
1 Mark Questions
1. Multiply (i) -3/5 x 15/3 (ii) -2/7 x -14/18
2. Write the multiplicative and additive inverse of -2/7
3. Write the class size of class interval “15-25”.
4. Write the Lower limit of class 35-40
5. Test the divisibility of 774,216,504 by 9.
6. Is 23 x 3
2 divisible by 2
7. Is 1720 divisible by 2 but not by 9?
8. Find the product of multiplicative inverse and additive
inverse of-3
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9. Upper limit of class 30-35 is=?
10. Write the Class size of the class “5-10”
11. What is the sum of upper and lower limit of class interval
60-70?
12. Is 216 a perfect cube?
13. Is it true that a cube of a number can end with two
zeros?
14. A number ends with 8, What will be unit’s digit in the cube
of this number?
15. If x/y is the additive inverse of c/d. Then, what is x/y –
c/d = ?
2 Marks Questions
16. What number should be added to 2/7 to get 5/4?
17. What number should be subtracted from 2/5 to get 5/6?
18. Find 3 rational numbers between 4/5and 2/5
19. Find 4 rational numbers between -1/2 and 5/4
20. What is the reciprocal of (-3/8) * (-2/7) ?
21. Give two examples each of commutativity and associativity in
rational numbers
22. Simplify
(i) (2/3 x 15/16) – (7/12 x -24/35)
(ii)(5/7 x -14/15) + (-8/15 x 3/16) – (2/9 x-27/16)
23. A die is thrown.What is the probability that the number 2
will appear on the upper face?
24. A die is thrown. What is the probability that the number
comes up is even?
25. A coin is tossed. What is the probability that head will
come up?
26. 49/4m cloth costs Rs 637/3.Find the cost of 1m cloth.
3 Marks Questions
27. A shopkeeper had a ball of jute string measuring 15 m. He
sold 2 m to the first
customer and 3 m to the second customer.What length of the jute
string is left with him?
28. The sum of two rational numbers is -5 . If one of them
is
, find the other.
29. A train goes 80km in 1 hour.How much distance will it cover
in 45minutes?
30. Use digits 0 to 9 to solve the following S E N D
+ M O R E
M O N E Y
31. The weight (in kg ) of 40 persons are given below
53,55,55,49,64,60,63,57,59,55,42,51,50,52,44,46,49,52,
45,52,40,45,52,52,56,64,49,54,48,45,48,45,62,50,52,40,44,55,58,50
Prepare a frequency distribution table with class intervals
40-45 and so on, and then represent
the data in form of histogram
32. Verify the following statements,
a) (3/4 × -11/5) × 2/7 = 3/4 × (-11/5 × 2/7)
b) 5/9 (5/6 + -4/9) = (5/9 x 5/6) + (15/19 x -4/9)
4 Marks Questions
33. Find the range of the following data :
(a) 10,13,7, 3,10 , 6, 17, 15, 14, 11, 10, 09, 6, 17, 5, 15
(b) 9,7, 8, 11, 12, 9, 5, 8, 12, 10, 7, 5, 8, 10, 12, 9, 11, 5,
8
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34. Draw a pie chart to represent the following data showing the
people
subscribing to different newspapers in zone.
35. By taking X = -5/2,Y=3/4 and Z=-7/6,verify that
a) X x (Y+Z)= X x Y = X x Z
b) X(Y-Z)=XxY – X x Z
36. The following data gives the number of Hindi and English
books bought by a
library during the year:
Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Hindi 350 400 520 600 650
English 300 380 400 450 600
(a) In which year the difference in the purchases of two
language books was minimum?
(b) In which year the difference in the purchases of two
language books was maximum?
Draw the double bar graph.
37. On a particular day the sales (in rupees) of different items
of a baker’s shop are given
below:
Ordinary bread : 320
Fruit bread : 80
Cakes and pastries: 160
Biscuits : 120
Others : 40
Draw a pie chart for this data
38. Re arrange suitably and find the sum in each case:
a) 5/3 + 11/2 + (-9/4) + (-8/3) + (-7/2)
b) -4/7 + 7/6 + 2/7 + 3 + (-11/6)
39. An unbiased die is thrown . What is the probability of
getting
a) an even number
b) a multiple of 3
c) a number less than 5
d) a number between 3 and 6
40. Two dice are thrown simultaneously . Find the probability of
getting
a) an even number as the sum
b) sum as the prime number
c) a doublet of even number
d) sum as the multiple of 3
Newspaper TOI HT Pioneer The
Hindu
Malayala
Manorama
Amount
(in Rs)
24000 24000 18000 58000 20000
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SCIENCE (Note: Do all the homework in A4 Size sheets neatly and
compile the sheets in a file)
1. Collect samples of synthetic fibres and paste them in a scrap
book. Give a brief description of how these fibres are prepared and
what are their uses.
Also, paste pictures of articles made up of these fibres.
2. Conduct a survey of 10 families in your neighbourhoods and
find out. a. How much of polythene they throw in waste every day?
b. Which type of bag they use when they go to buy vegetables and
groceries (Whether they carry cloth/jute bag of polythene
bags)?
Generate awareness to reduce the use of polythene bags.
3. Visit a nearby garden, nursery or an agricultural farm. Find
out about: a. Importance of seed selection b. Methods of irrigation
c. Effects of continuous ran on crops. d. Types of
fertilizers/manure used. e. Any crop rotation followed.
Make a project on your findings and submit to your teacher.
Do assignment questions of chapter 1 and 3 from assignment
booklet.
SOCIAL SCIENCE (Note: Do all the homework in A4 Size sheets
neatly and compile the same in a folder)
1. Prepare a brief report of 4 pages, regarding the
classification of resources on the basis of a. Renewability b.
Origin c. Utilization d. Occurrence
2. List the different policies and works done by different
British Governor-Generals and
Viceroys of British India.
3. Write the procedure for approaching the Supreme Court
regarding the violation of fundamental rights.
4. Note down the important national and international political
events taking place throughout the world.
5. Revise the following chapters and complete the assignments in
respective notebooks.
History: ch-1 (The modern period)
Geography: ch-1(Resources)
Civics: ch-1 (The constitution and the need for law)
(तृकसं्स) आवश्यस् निरे्दश ाः - * तव ाणि प्रश्ि नि ध्य िपवूासृ्
पठस - * लेखन ंस्वच्छम ्वर ण्ाः स्पष््ाः च भववतव्यम ्। *
कंठस्थीकररस्य क्र्य़ ंगभंीरत्पवूणकं कुवणन्त ु। * क्य ंस्वयमेव कुरु
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स् यं - (1) अक्र्न्त , आक्र्न्त ,ईक्र्न्त , उक्र्न्त (स्री 0 , प
ु .नपु ).िणापप्ब्र (पचंाि )तखय् पाुस्तक्य्म ्ालखत , कंठस्थं च कुरुत
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(2) लोट् लक्र व ववधिालगं लक्र ि्तरुुप्ब्र (वविं त )तखय्
पाुस्तक्य्ं ालखत - (3) उधचत कर्तत्ं प्रयजु्य ( ंं ् , वणन्म
)पचंलक्रर्म ्प्रयोग ंका र्तव् रिंत व्मय् न रचयत - (4) 1-20 गरन्
सं्का त भ्ष्य्म ्ालखत - (5) ककम ्िणा्न्म ्रुप्ब्र ( रष ुालगेंषु )तथ
ण्न ु्रं ालखत - (6) प्ठ 1 - 6 ध्य्नेनपवूणकं पठठर्तव् प्ठ्त ्कठठन्ाः
िणा्ाः धचर्तव् एक्ं त्ालक्ं रचयत - (ीीषम्वक्िस्योपर्ंत िणा्न्म ्तथ
ण्ाः कक्ष्य्म ्तध्य्वपक्ं पाच्छत )
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Create 5 web pages according to the topics allotted according to
your roll no. which are given below:
Roll No. Topic
1 - 10 Rational Numbers, Determiners, Modern Period,
Crop Production
11 - 20 Playing with Numbers, Jumbled Sentences,
Expansion of British Power, Crop Management
21 - 30 Data Handling, Prepositions, Life in Rural
Areas, Synthetic Fibre
31 - 40 Cube & Cube Root, Determiners, Tribal
Communities, Synthetic Plastic
40 Onwards Cube & Cube Root, Jumbled Sentences, Modern
Period, Coal and Petroleum
Note :
Web pages should have pictures and should be linked with each
other .
Submit the work on mail - id given below by 20th June,2016 .
The subject of mail should be in the given format HHW_____
(Name)
_____(Class sec) _______(Roll No.)
Class Mail-ID
VIII A [email protected]
VIII B [email protected]
VIII C [email protected]
VIII D [email protected]
G.K. HOMEWORK Read the newspaper daily and collect five
important National and International news
taking place daily and write down in your G.K. notebook.
Also collect important news clippings and paste in the same
notebook.
Write five questions of current affairs daily along with
answers. ***Note: Homework of all subjects should be submitted on
30th June 2016
to the class teacher between 10:00 A.M to 11:30 AM
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]
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BHAI PARMANAND VIDYA MANDIR Surya Niketan, Anand Vihar, Delhi -
110092
