Holiday Worksheet

Class - IX

English

SPEAK 5 LINES TO YOURSELF EVERY MORNING

‘’I am the Best.I can do it.God is always with me.I am a winner.Today is my day.’’

- Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

INSTRUCTIONS/GUIDELINES

1. Read all the chapters of first term both the text books thoroughly.

2. Revise the lessons, poems and supplementary reader done in class.

3. In the Writing Section Notebook, write the following in neat handwriting:

a) Your full name and class must be written CLEARLY on the folder.

b) Make the folder attractive.

c) Each item must begin on a fresh page.

d) Overall presentation – layout/neatness/grammar/spelling/illustration and

handwritten.

4. Assignments must be submitted on the first day when the school reopens.

5. Compile all the work and submit it in a clear bag.

I. REVISE THE LESSONS – FIRST TERM PORTIONS

II. BOOK REVIEW

a) The story of my life Hellankeller

b) Charlie and the chocolate factory

Instructions for Book Review

Your Book Review should include the following:

1. Introduction

2. A short note on the author

3. Synopsis (summary of the book)

4. Important characters

5. The plot

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6. Critical appreciation

7. Your opinion about the book

8. Conclusion

Please note that your book review must be hand written and authentic.

III.MOMENTS - BOOK REVIW –SUPPLEMENTARY READER DO READ THE CHAPTERS AND

WRITE A SUMMARY ABOUT EACH STORY WITH AMORAL

1. The happy prince (Pgs.: 28-36)

2. Weathering the storm in Ersama (Pgs.: 37-43)

3. A House is Not a Home (Pgs.: 49-55)

IV. CREATE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION – BEEHIVE TEXTBOOK

(i) Create a PowerPoint presentation on the Poem ‘’NO MEN ARE FOREIGN’’ (Pg. no:

80-81)

(ii)Create a PowerPoint presentation on the lesson “PACKING’’ (Pg. no: 82-93)

(iii) Create a PowerPoint presentation on the lesson ‘’REACH FOR THE TOP’’ (Pg. no:

99-109)

GRAMMAR & WRITING - SECTION

V. Make 25 sentences of your own by using glossary from ‘BEEHIVE’ (Literature Reader)

VI. Descriptive Writing

1. Describe the top favorite place in your native country.

2. List the things you like doing with your grandparents.

VII. Write an article on each of the following with relevant pictures

1. Article on ‘Water scarcity in your town’

2. Article on ‘Health and Fitness’

VIII. Write a story on the given topic in about 150 - 200 words

1. Truth always Triumphs

2. Wisdom is more able than Power

IX. Letter Writing

You are going to take a short holiday in Singapore and you want to rent a holiday

apartment while you are there. Write to the tourist information office. In your letter:

• explain what you need

• say when you plan to be there

• ask for information about price

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Mathematics

1. If 2a = 3 + 2b, prove that 8a3 – 8b3 – 36ab = 27.

2. Factorise: 4(x2 + 1)2 + 13(x2 + 1) – 12.

3. Factorise: (2x – y – z)3 + (2y – z – x)3 + (2z – x – y)3.

4. a2 + b2 + c2= 30 and a + b + c = 10, then find the value of ab + bc + ca.

5. If a + b = 11 and a2 +b2 = 61 find a3 + b3.

6. If a – b = 2 and ab = 3 find a3 – b3.

7. Factorise 25 x2 – 49y2.

8. One of the factor of the polynomial x3 + 4x2 – 3x – 18 is x + 3 then factorise the given

polynomial.

9. Factorise y2 + 10y + 21

10. If x – 2 is a factor of 3x4 - 2x3 + 7x2 – 21x + k. find the value of k.

11. Find the complement of the following angles: (i) 58 (ii) 45

12. Find the supplement of the following angles: (i) 90 (ii) 120

13. Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal such that one of the interior angles is 57.

Find each of the interior angles.

14. Two supplementary angles are in the ratio 3:2. Find the angles.

15. Find the measure of an angle, if seven times its complement is 10 less than three

times its supplement.

16. In figure AB // CD. Find the value of x

17. The given figure x: y: z = 5 : 4 : 6. If XOY is a straight line find the value of x, y and z

18.

19. Insert three rational numbers between -1/3 and -2/3.

20. Express 2.218 in the form of p/q where p and q are integers and q ≠ 0.

21. Represent √5 on a number line.

22. Represent √4.5 on a number line.

23. Simplify: √50 - √98 +√162

24. Find the product of 5√2 (3+√2) (5+√2)

25. Factorize: x³-2x²-5x-6

26. In the figure, AOB is a straight line. Calculate the measure of ∠COD.

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ECONOMICS

QUESTIONS

1. Identify out of land, building, seeds and machinery, which belongs to working

capital? Why?

2. What are the constituents of modern farming methods?

3. Sugar cane crushing under taken in the village is what type of activity?

4. What are the fators of production? Explain.

5. What was the major advantage of hyv seeds in agriculture?

6. Navodaya vidyalayas have been started for which kind of students?

7. Sarva siksha abhiyan is meant to provide what kind of education?

8. What is the age group of population which is treated as the workforce?

9. Unemployment wastes what resources?

10. In which category will you place a social worker educating poor children for free?

11. For better economic growth, which investments in human resources should be done,

either in modern technology, in healthcare & education, in food & drink or in

transportation?

12. What is the major reason for people to migrate from rural areas to urban areas?

13. What is kharif crop? Give examples.

14. In 2003, the area cultivated by small farmers in India was how much percentage of

the total cultivated area?

15. Is it true that milk collection cum chilling center in raiganj is a trading activity?

*Note:

Questions & Answers should be written in A4 size sheet.

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INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY

Class-IX A

Geography (Based on Disaster Management)

Imagine you are a member of NCC, ten members from your group have been

selected to help and study about the Tropical cyclone Fani, said to be the most severe

storm to hit the Indian subcontinent in two decades, made a landfall on the coast of Odisha

at 9:30 a.m. on the 3rd of May 2019. Make a detailed report on the Origin, Cause and Relief

Operations that took place. What aid materials would you carry and how would you go

about helping in the relief operations.

Project Work

Material required: - File (Blue colour), A4 Size paper and Pictures

(Should not exceed 15 papers)

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 27TH AUGUST 2019

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INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY

Class-IX B

Geography (Based on Disaster Management)

You are reporter for a leading national newspaper, covering the Kerala flood. From 8

August 2018, severe floods affected the south Indian state of Kerala, due to unusually high

rainfall during the monsoon season. It was the worst flood in Kerala in nearly a

century. Over 483 people died, and 14 are missing. About a million people were

evacuated. It is the worst flood in Kerala after the great flood of 99 that took place in 1924.

Write about the devastation all round you and the relief mechanism in action.( Write about

the cause and the relief features that took place.)

Project Work

Material required: - File (Red colour), A4 Size paper and Pictures

(Should not exceed 15 papers)

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 27TH AUGUST 2019

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INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY

Class-IX C

Geography (Based on Disaster Management)

Imagine you are working in Kerala Disaster Management Authority,

Cyclone Ockhi developed in the Northern Indian Ocean southwest of Sri Lanka and rapidly

intensified into a cyclonic storm, killing over 350 people from southern Tamil Nadu

and Kerala, India between 30 November and 3 December 2017. Make a detailed report on

the Origin, Cause and Relief Operations that took place. What aid materials would you carry

and how would you go about helping in the relief operations.

Project Work

Material required: - File (Red colour), A4 Size paper and Pictures

(Should not exceed 15 papers)

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 28TH AUGUST 2019

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CIVICS

1. How can you say that in democracy no one is permanent Winner or loser?

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2. Which values are associated with the term ‘democracy’?

3. Democracy enhances the dignity of citizens. Explain.

4. Are the following statements in keeping with democracy as a value? Why?

a. Father to daughter

b. Teacher to student

c. Employee to the officer.

5. How is democracy better than other forms of government? Explain in view of the

governance in China-and that in India.

6. When did General Parvez Musharraf become the President of Pakistan? What

amendments did he bring in the constitution of Pakistan by issuing a ‘Legal Frame-

work Order’ in August 2002? Who all did not accept this referendum?

7. The Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico never lost any election till 2000. Give

reasons to support your answer.

8. Mention the main features of democracy.

9. What is the peculiar feature of ZANU -PF

GENERAL INSTRUCTION

1. Refer the chapter ‘what is democracy? Why democracy’.

2. Answers should write in A4 size paper neatly.

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HISTORY

Would you agree with the view that the message of universal rights was beset with

contradictions? Explain.

1. Mention a few values violated by the constitution of 1791.

2. How can you say that taxation policy was also responsible for the French Revolution?

3. Mention any five values which are associated with Declaration of the Right of Man

and Citizen.

4. What is the legacy of the French revolution? Name two Indians leaders, who

responded to the ideas of this revolution.

5. Describe the system of Estates in which the French society was organized in the 18th

century. What was the condition of peasants in this system?

6. Describe the circumstances leading to the outbreak of revolutionary protest in

France.

7. Who were entitled to vote in France as per Constitution of 1791, formed by the

National assembly? State any three rights given to the people by this constitution.

8. Write the Main Events:-

a. 1774

b. 1789

c. 1791

d. 1792

e. 1793

f. 1793-1794

g. 1804

h. 1815

i. 1848

j. 1946

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Refer the chapter ‘the French revolution”

2. Answers should write in A4 size paper neatly.

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PHYSICS

Write worked examples in text from Force and law of motion and gravitation

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CHEMISTRY Write one time and memories the atomic number, valency, symbol and mass number

for first 30 elements in periodic table.

Write molecular formula, molecular mass number of atoms for the following

molecules.

Eg: -

S.No Molecule Molecular

formula

Molecular mass Number of atoms

1 Hydrogen chloride HCl H = 1 Cl = 35.5

HCl = 1 + 35.5 = 36.5

2

Molecules:

hydrogen sulphide, calcium oxide, aluminum oxide, sodium nitrite, calcium

hydroxide, aluminum sulphate, calcium chloride, potassium sulphate, potassium nitrate,

calcium carbonate, sodium carbonate, ammonium sulphate, sodium oxide, aluminum

chloride, sodium sulphate, magnesium hydroxide, zinc oxide, ethane, methanol, methane,

potassium carbonate and sodium phosphate.

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Biology

Write the answers of the following questions:

1. What are meristematic tissue?

2. How do biotic and abiotic factors affect crop improvement?

3. Differentiate between xylem and phloem.

4. How does RER and SER support membrane biogenesis?

5. Why lysosomes are known as suicidal bags?

6. Which type of meristem cambium belong?

7. Identify the type of tissue at the following locations in plant body:

a) Husk of coconut b) Stalks of leaves

c) In the veins of leaves d) In aquatic plants for buoyancy

8. Name the chemical present in the cell wall of sclerenchyma, which makes it hard and

stiff.

9. State two important function of areolar tissue.

10. What would happen if all the stomata present on the leaves of a plant are blocked?

11. Differentiate between parenchyma, collenchyma and sclerenchyma on the basis of:

a) Intercellular spaces b) Cell wall structure

12. Which one is an oil yielding plant amount the following:

a) Lentil b) Sunflower c) Cauliflower d) Hibiscus

13. How do biotic and abiotic factors affect crop improvement?

14. What are macronutrients and why are they called macronutrients?

15. What is the egg laying variety in poultry called as?

16. What are the desirable agronomic characteristics for crop improvement?

17. Why do we classify organism?

18. Explain the three basic features for grouping all organism into five major kingdoms.

19. Write down the hierarchic categories which are generally used for classification of

animal.

20. Write the difference between algae and fungi.

21. Which division of the plant kingdom are called as cryptogams? Why are they called so

22. Differentiate between bilateral and radial symmetry.

23. Briefly describe the nitrogen cycle in the environment. Draw a well labeled diagram.

24. Cheek epithelial cells are an example of:

a) Squamous epithelial cells b) Cuboidal epithelial cells

c) Columnar epithelial cells d) All of these

25. Which method is commonly used for improving cattle breeds and why?

26. Name a living tissue and a dead tissue, which provide mechanical support in plants.

27. Differentiate between plant cell and animal cell. Draw diagram.

28. What is the significance of having cell membrane around a living cell?

29. Give three features of cardiac muscles.

30. What is the function of ozone layer?

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FRENCH

1- Lessons from zero, 1, 2, 3, 4

2- All the questions and answers for the culture must be written for all the 4

lessons.

3- Write all the grammars with examples:-

Passe - compose - verbes in (er, ir, oir, re)

Future simple – articles – adjectives - verbe pronominal – interrogative.

4- Study pages from (11 to 48) les articles – les prepositions – le temps -

imperative

Touves les questions.

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शक्षक-9, वाषय-हहदी

1) वाज्ञकपन एल्बम (शोई 8)

2) अनुच्छेद नखेन:- श )दाे प्रेम

ख )मोबकइन फोन

ग )वाद्यकथी अनुाकसन

घ )आधुवनश भकरतीय नकरी

ड़ )सच्चक वमत्र

3)फफल्म समीक्षक:-“अवतवथ तुम शब जकओगे”

4)बधकई पत्र एां संाेदनक पत्र शे एश-एश उदकहरण वनवखए।

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URDU

ہیںە جو آپ کی نوٹ بک میں لکھواۓ گ۔-ەمضمون لکھی۔ :

ەسابقے الحقے،متضاد، مزکر مونس، جملے ،درخواست فیس معافی ،امتحان میں اّول آنے پر خط 2

لکھےە

جو آپ کو نوٹ بک میں کرواے گیے ہیںە

Activity

کسی ایک نظم کو کتاب سے تصویر کے ساتھ لکھ کر النا ۔

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MUSIC

Make a Chart of any famous Music Personality Biography.

ART

Draw First 3D Letter of your Name.

Draw parts of Face, Lips and Eyes.

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ISLAMIC

Learn by Heart Surah al – Balad.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE

1. Prepare an assignment on the topic advantages and disadvantages of guided

transmission medium.

2. Use your creativity and prepare a 3D model on “how unguided transmission medium

such as satellite, router, radio waves work”. (Use card boards, thermocol sheets or

whatever of your wish).

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