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HOLIDAY HOME WORK(2015-2016)

CLASS VII

Dear children ,

It’s time once again to escape from the routine and plan

the most exhilarating and thrilling programme during the

summer vacation.

Holidays are great but school work can be fun filled and

inspiring too if done on your own.

Holiday home work is a part of formative Assessment and

will be assessed on the basis of creativity and efforts put in

by the students.

Set aside each day for doing home work.

Submit your holiday homework on the re-opening day

Have a Cool & Refreshing Summer!!!!!!!!

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ENGLISH( GRAMMAR)

1. Design an English magazine which should have the following requirements

a. An attractive cover

b. Name of magazine

c. A short story

d. Advertisement

2. Do worksheet no. 1,2,3 in workbook

3. Make a rhyming dictionary. Start with simple words as you can think of. For example long,

strong, belong etc.

4. Write a paragraph on the topic “My idea on a fun weekend.”(Include details of activities

you would plan, places you would visit and people you would like to meet or spend time

with.

5. Revise chapter done in the class.

ENGLISH (LITERATURE)

1. Read the book “six short stories’

2. Read English newspaper daily. Write minimum and maximum temperature from 1 June

to 25 June 2015.

3. Revise the syllabus covered in the class.

4. Prepare a greeting card for year grandparents thanking them for everything they have

some for you.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Important note:

Prepare a separate file for summer vacation homework

The homework is for internal assessment and carries 10 marks

Work should be in a neat condition.

1. Make a project on “ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN HEALTH ‘. COLLECT RELEVENT PICTURES

AND DATA ON HEALTH CARE IN INDIA, PUBLICH HEALTH SERVICES. PRIVATE HEALTH

SERVICES, HEALTHCARE AND EQUALITY (IS ADEQUATE HEALTHCARE AVAILABLE TO ALL?)

2. Write short notes on :

a. Public meeting

b. Legislative assembly

c. Press conference

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d. Chief minister

3. Write in detail about different kinds of taxes collected at present. Are these in cash, kind

or labor services? Collect and paste relevant pictures also.

4. Compare the temples shown in chapter – 2 (history) “New kings and kingdoms” with

some present day temples in your city, highlighting any similarities and difference that

you notice.

5. Find out whether there any buildings built by Delhi sultans in your area. Are there any

other buildings in your area that were built between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries

and describe some of these buildings and draw sketches of them

6. List some primary health centers or hospitals near your place. From your experience or

by visiting any one of them, find out the facilities provides and people who run the

centre.

7. What are the minerals found in your state? Make a list of object which are made of

those minerals

8. Collect pictures of some famous monuments and find out which are the rocks used to

build them.

9. Read the “earthquake – a case study” given in the headline that appeared in the

newspaper after the quake in Nepal and some state of India. Arrange the events in the

right sequence of their happening

10. Read a newspaper daily. Collect (at least 15) cutting of the newspaper related to the

proceeding in the parliament, women empowerment, inequalities in the society, any of

the fundamental rights.

11. Do practice the map work.

12. 4. Write the names of few political parties at the national level. Write down the names

and their symbols and the pictures of few important leader of that party.

MATHS

Q1. Write properties of integers with examples.

Q2. Simplify the following:

a) 15 – 6 ÷ 2 - 5 x (-7)

b) 17 - { 8 ÷ (2 x 3 - 4)}

c) 2 x 5 –[ 8 - {11 + 30 ÷ (4- 7-5}]

Q3. Ranjan went to play with 60 marbles. In 8 games he gained -5 marbles each and in 4 games, he

gained 4 marbles each. When the game ended, how many marbles did ranjan have?

Q4. I was 4 km east of my home. Now I am 3 km west of my home. How many kms did I travel?

Q5. Start with integer 3 and subtract 10. From the answer, subtract 1 then multiply the answer by

-3. Now subtract 20 from the answer. What do you get?

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Q6. Find X in the given figures:

x˚-44 x˚ x 2x+24 y 59

x z

Q7. Find the measure of all given angles, if <a=75˚

b 75˚

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c d

h e

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g f

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Q8. 1

4 Liter of milk cost rupees 4. How much would 6

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2 liter of milk cost?

Q9. There are 120 seats in the balcony of a theater. If this if 1

5Th of the total seats, what is the total

number of seats in the theater?

Q10. Write the reciprocal or mulplicative inverse of:

a) 3

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1

2 c)4

Q11. Find:

a) 7÷ 2

5 b)

1

2 ÷

4

5 c) 2

1

2 ÷ 5

NUMBER PUZZLE

1. 9up

Put the numbers 1-9 in the circle. In each triangle two of the numbers must add up to the

third number.

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Hint:

what number should go in the center

what should be the key sum

PROJECT 1: prepare project on triangles

Definition, properties, different types of triangles, median of a triangle.

draw or take pictures from internet and paste them

PROJECT 2: write the life history of SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN and his c0ontribution in the field

of mathematics. [Use chart papers and paste pictures on chart paper]

Note:

do your work neatly

do your project1 on project file and project2 on chart paper

do ques-ans on separate notebook

Do revise ch-1 and ch-5.

SCIENCE

General Instructions:-

1) Do all the work neatly.

2) Do the work as directed

I. In class notebook:-

1) Write difficult words of L-4.

2) Write these new terms a) Heat b)Transfer of heat c)Temperature d)Conductor

e)Insulator f)Conduction g)Convection h)Radiation

II. In Lab Manual File:-

1) Do experiment no-12 of file.

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2) Do activity 4 and 5 given on Pg-36 (book).

III. In Project file:-

1) Collect pictures and information on any four animals whose hairs are used as wool. Paste

pictures and write information against each.

2) Paste pictures and write information on Digestion of food in any three animals.

IV Make a chart according to the alphabet of your name:-

A-E Human Digestive System

F-J Nutrition in Amoeba

K-O Life Cycle of Silkworm

P-T U-Z

Land and Sea Breeze Cow Digestive System

DRAWING

Make stocking flower

Make ten beautiful stocking flower of red, orange , violet, dark pink color

Attach leaves

Use nylon cloth, wires, green floral tape, bud ( polen) etc

The work is for formative assessment -2 and carries 30 marks

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