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BHAI PARMANAND VIDYA MANDIR
Dear children
Its time to stand the books up
In rows upon the shelves,
and pack the charts and posters
in neat piles by themselves,
collect the pens and pencils
and put the ink away,
for school time is now over
and every day is for play
so to keep you happily occupied,
we have planned some fun filled and exciting activities for you
HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
CLASS VIII
Session 2015 - 16
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ENGLISH
1. Prepare a book review of the book-Oliver Twist.
It should contain the following:
(a)Cover page
(b)About the author
(c) Summary
(d)Character sketch (Any five)
(e)Humorous Incidents
(f)Ironical Incidents
(g)Conclusion
(Place it in a separate folder.)
2. Prepare a photo frame using any two proverbs along with pictures depicting the same.
3. Draft a poster inviting help for the earthquake victims of Nepal issued by Prime Minister‟s Relief
Fund on an A3 size sheet.
4. Writing Skills:
(i)Notice Writing:
A. Your school is planning to hold a „Tree Planting‟ day where the Municipal Commissioner of your
area will be the Chief Guest. As the head of the „Environment Club‟ you have been asked to put up a
notice informing students about the event. You are Ankit/Ankita, Write the notice in about 50 words.
B. You are Shivam/Swati , a student of St. Theresa School ,Pune. Your school is planning a „Charity
Show‟ for the benefit of the students of Blind School located in your area. Famous Cine actors will
perform at the function. As the Cultural Secretary of your school write a notice asking students to
volunteer for Prefect duties on the day of the show. The notice should be in not more than 50 words.
(ii)Message Writing:
A. Leela had been cleaning up her room as instructed by her mother who had gone out to do some
household shopping. While she was busy cleaning up she got a call from one of her mother‟s friend,
Mrs. Khanna. She called to inform her mother about the slight change in their plan of having a meeting
in the morning; instead they would now have the meeting in the evening at 5.30.After finishing her
work Leela has to go for her tuitions so she decided to leave a message for her mom. Write the
message in not more than 50 words.
B. Sevak is a helper at the office of Mr. Raman. He receives a telephone call from one of the clients
who wishes to meet Mr. Raman at 4 p.m. the next day. Since Mr. Raman is not in office, Sevak
decides to write a message for him informing him about the meeting. Write the message in about 50
words.
(Do it in your Practice notebook.)
5. Read chapters 1 to 3 of the book ‘The Tales of Oscar Wilde’.
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HINDI
SCIENCE
CLASS VIII
1. In many parts of our country, use of polythene bags is legally banned. Find out the names
of all such places and also find out what replacements are being used by people.
Make a chart depicting various ways by which we can minimize the use of plastic with the
help of pictures.
2. Adolescence is the stage of confusion due to lot of changes in the body. At
the same time, it is very important for all of you to stay away from drugs as they
ruin health, career, mind and body. Make a poster on „‟Say No to Drugs to create
awareness about drug abuse.
3. Visit a building and other man- made structure in your neighbourhood and observe them
carefully gather and tabulate information for each as given in the following table.
S.NO STRUCTURE HEIGHT WIDTH CONSTRUCTION
MATERIAL
LEVEL OF
SAFETY
On the basis of your tabulated data, find out which of the structure is susceptible to earthquake.
Also prepare a A3 sized sheet depicting various precautions to be taken during an earthquake.
4. Activity Time:
Take 1 litre milk and 1 teaspoon unsweetened curd
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Method:
Boil milk for about5 min and leave it to cool, when it is lukewarm. Stir in unsweetened curd and mix
well. Set aside overnight in a warm place.
Answer the following questions:
Explain your observation.
Why does milk need to be lukewarm?
What is the action taking place?
SOCIAL SCIENCE
1. Make a well documented project on any one of the problems being faced by our country. Also include the efforts taken by Government to tackle it and the views of majority and minority in the form of Dialogues.
2. Make a Power point presentation on any one of the following type of Industries
according to your roll numbers:
a) Iron and Steel Industry in India ( 1-14) b) Cotton textile Industry in India( 15-29)
c) Information Technology Industry in India ( 30 & above) Include the following points:
Introduction, Characteristics, Favorable factors affecting their location and the states in which the industry is located, Examples, Exotic pictures. Note : Submit the work on mail - id given below by 25th June,2015 . 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]
3. Create a newsletter of 4-8 pages and include important news from British India.
You should:
a. Give a unique name to the newsletter.
b. A fictitious but an accurate year. c. Photographs and Maps whenever relevant
Give relevant and interesting title/ heading and include news on following topics :
a. East India Company‟s role from trader to ruler.
b. Revenue experiments and settlements. c. Impact of British rule- Complete ruination of Indian textiles
d. Factors leading to Revolt of 1857 and the leaders involved in it. e. British education- Orientalist- Anglicist Controversy
4. Do assignment of History L-2 &3 and Geography L-2 . Also learn the same chapters .
MATHS
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1 Mark Questions
1. Multiply (i) −3
5 x
15
3 (ii) -
−2
7x -
−14
18
2.Write the multiplicative and additive inverse of −2
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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. The product of multiplicative inverse and additive inverse of-3 is=?
9. Upper limit of class 30-35 is=?
10. Write the Class mark of the class “5-10”
11. Is 216 a perfect cube?
12. Is it true that a cube of a number can end with two zeros?
13. A number ends with 8, What will be unit‟s digit in the cube of this number?
2 Marks Questions
14. What number should be added to 2
5to get
5
4
15. Find 3 rational numbers between 4
5and
2
5
16. Find 4 rational numbers between −1
2 and
5
4
17. Simplify i) ( 2
3 x
15
16 ) – (
7
12 x
–24
35)
(ii)( 5
7 x
−14
15 ) + (
8
15 ×
3
16 ) – (
2
9 x
−27
16)
18. A die is thrown.What is the probability that the number 2 will appear on the upper face?
19. A die is thrown. What is the probability that the number comes up is even?
20. A coin is tossed. What is the probability that head will come up?
21. 49/4m cloth costs Rs 637/3.Find the cost of 1m cloth.
3Marks Questions
22. A shopkeeper had a ball of jute string measuring 15 m. He sold 21
4 m to the first
customer and 31
4m to the second customer.What length of the jute string is left with him?
23. The sum of two rational numbers is -5 . If one of them is −116, find the other.
24. A train goes 80km in 1 hour.How much distance will it cover in 45minutes?
25. Use digits 0 to 9 to solve the following S E N D
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+ M O R E
M O N E Y
26. 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
27. Verify the following statements,
a) (3
4 × − 11
15-) × 2
7 = 3
4 × ( − 11
15- × 2
7 )
b) 5
9 (
5
6 +
− 4
9 ) = (
5
9 x
5
6) + (
15
19 x
–4
9)
4 Marks Questions
28. Find the mean, median and mode:
(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
29. Draw a pie chart to represent the following data showing the people subscribing to different newapapers
in zone.
30. 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
31. 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.
32. On a particular day the sales (in rupees) of different items of a baker‟s shop are given
below:
Newspaper TOI HT Pioneer The
Hindu
Malayala
Manorama
Amount
(in Rs)
24000 24000 18000 58000 20000
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Ordinary bread : 320
Fruit bread : 80
Cakes and pastries: 160
Biscuits : 120
Others : 40
Draw a pie chart for this data
PROJECT WORK(MODELS AND CHARTS)
Complete the following Charts, Projects and models assigned in the class: 1. Working model showing mathematics through Clock
2. Model on nets of cuboids, cube, tetrahedron and octahedron.
3. Working model showing the square numbers pattern.
4. Mathematics and Architecture:
Model showing logic (Mathematics) behind the construction of bridges
5. Music/Dance and mathematics
6. Working model showing magic squares on faces of cube.
7. Working Model Quiz on Mathematicians and their main contributions
8. Story of zero /To show inventions of Indian mathematicians
9. Model showing the altitudes of different types of triangle
10. Mathematical painting using tangrams
11. Model showing criterias of congruency
12. Mathematics through newspapaers
13. Working model on quadrilaterals and their use in real life
14. Mathematics behind metro routes
15. Distributive property by using square paper
16. Working Model for Pythagoras theorem
17. Rotational symmetry model
18. Women Mathematicians
19. Working model showing the perimeter of figures bounded by semicircles
20. Model on Visualisation Solid Shapes
21. Working Model for exterior angle property and angle sum property of triangle
22. Model of number system.
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COMPUTER
1. Create the different web pages for McDonalds.com which includes:
1. Signup form for Login.
2. Web Page that showing picture of all items available at McDonalds.
3. Design a McDonald Menu Card using listing and table.
Note : Submit the work on mail - id given below by 25th June,2015 . 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]
SANSKRIT
आवश्यक ननदशे-मूलययांकन निनखत और कण्ठस्थीकरण पर आधयररत होगय
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पयठ्यपुस्तक से सांस्कृत सांख्यय स्मरण करें
5.सभी छयत्रों को एक फोटो फे्रम बनयनय है नजसकय आकयर A – 4 size sheet के बरयबर होनय चयनहए | फोटो
फे्रम अवकर पदयथों से सजयनय ह ैतथय उसके भीतर सांस्कृत श्लोक अथवय सूनि निखनय ह।ै
*** Note : Home work of all the subjects should be done on A – 4 size sheet.
Submit it on 29th
– 30th
June, 2015 to the class teacher
