Holidays Home work for class- VIII
Subject- English
- Draw a picture of your room. Now write about the changes/improvements your parents wish to make in your room as well in yourself.
- Write some general complaints that you have against your parents. Make a list of the common ones.
- Read about the life and work of some ordinary people doing extra ordinary work for the society. Now write about their life and work (any two).
- Learn the complete exercise of :-
(i) The Three questions.
(ii) Granny Tree climbing
(iii) The fun they had.
- Revise all the tenses.
- Read any two stories written by Ruskin Bond.
(i) An island of trees.
(ii) A bond with the mountain.
(iii) The India I love.
Write the summary and character
sketch of any 2 characters of the stories.
v Write the following:-
v Notices:-
1. You
are the warden of the chhatbir zoo. You have noticed that the visitors often
feed the animals with the snacks they bring along. The children also tend to
tease the animals and throw waste all over the place. Write a notice in about
50 words informing the visitors that they should refrain from doing so or their
action will be panelized.
2. You
are Roshan Ghai, captain of the school cricket team. The principal of your
school has asked you to form a junior cricket team. Write a notice in about 50
words for the school notice board inviting the students of class V,VI,VII,to
come for trial to the school cricket ground on May, 25 at 10:30 am on the basis
of which you will form the team.
3.
Mount Carmel school, Gurgaon plans to organize a
Diwali Mela in the school premises. Suppose you are Amrita Saini , the head
girl .put up a notice for the school house captains and vice captains inviting
them to attend a meeting to discuss the
arrangement for mela and to finalize the date.
v Informal letters
1.
Recently you spent a week with your
grandmother who lives in another city/village. Write a letter to thank her,
describing briefly how much you enjoyed your stay with her and why. You are
vartika/venkat.
2.
Your friend has failed in the first terminal
exams .he/she is feeling very low. Write a letter enquiring how it happened.
While expressing your sympathy and concern for him /her, you should encourage
her/him to take the failure in her/his stride and to work hard for the next
examinations.
3.
Pooja attended
a lecture on how the advantages that we have achieved in the field of science
and technology if not properly used can harm us. She made a few notes. She
later decided to write a letter to the editor of national daily highlighting
the dark side of scientific progress
Write a letter in about 120
words with the help of the notes given below.
SOURCES OF
TOMINS
|
ILLNESSES
|
Junk food
|
Increase cholesterol/cause obesity
|
Pesticides/chemicals and other artificial measures to
ripen fruits and promote yield from crops.
|
Affects nervous system and immune system, asthma,
allergies, infertility, child behaviour, disorder including learning
disabilities mental retardation, hyperactivity etc.
|
Toxic in soft drinks.
|
Weakens immune
System causes autoimmune disorder.
|
v Article Writing
1. Tradition
against modernity.
2. The
concept of fun-filled vacation has changed.
3. Simple
living high thinking.
4. Success
comes to those who will and dare.
v
For the display board ,prepare any two topics out of the
following (with pictures)
·
Tolerance
·
Global warming
·
Degradation of values
·
India’s victory in world cup cricket
v
Write attractive and colourful-
A. Short stories
B. Quotations
C. Poems
D. Posters
E. Slogans
(With pictures and on an A-4 sized sheet)(Any
two).
.
Subject- English
- Draw a picture of your room. Now write about the changes/improvements your parents wish to make in your room as well in yourself.
- Write some general complaints that you have against your parents. Make a list of the common ones.
- Read about the life and work of some ordinary people doing extra ordinary work for the society. Now write about their life and work (any two).
- Learn the complete exercise of :-
(i) The Three questions.
(ii) Granny Tree climbing
(iii) The fun they had.
- Revise all the tenses.
- Read any two stories written by Ruskin Bond.
(i) An island of trees.
(ii) A bond with the mountain.
(iii) The India I love.
Write the summary and character
sketch of any 2 characters of the stories.
v Write the following:-
v Notices:-
1. You
are the warden of the chhatbir zoo. You have noticed that the visitors often
feed the animals with the snacks they bring along. The children also tend to
tease the animals and throw waste all over the place. Write a notice in about
50 words informing the visitors that they should refrain from doing so or their
action will be panelized.
2. You
are Roshan Ghai, captain of the school cricket team. The principal of your
school has asked you to form a junior cricket team. Write a notice in about 50
words for the school notice board inviting the students of class V,VI,VII,to
come for trial to the school cricket ground on May, 25 at 10:30 am on the basis
of which you will form the team.
3.
Mount Carmel school, Gurgaon plans to organize a
Diwali Mela in the school premises. Suppose you are Amrita Saini , the head
girl .put up a notice for the school house captains and vice captains inviting
them to attend a meeting to discuss the
arrangement for mela and to finalize the date.
v Informal letters
1.
Recently you spent a week with your
grandmother who lives in another city/village. Write a letter to thank her,
describing briefly how much you enjoyed your stay with her and why. You are
vartika/venkat.
2.
Your friend has failed in the first terminal
exams .he/she is feeling very low. Write a letter enquiring how it happened.
While expressing your sympathy and concern for him /her, you should encourage
her/him to take the failure in her/his stride and to work hard for the next
examinations.
3.
Pooja attended
a lecture on how the advantages that we have achieved in the field of science
and technology if not properly used can harm us. She made a few notes. She
later decided to write a letter to the editor of national daily highlighting
the dark side of scientific progress
Write a letter in about 120
words with the help of the notes given below.
SOURCES OF
TOMINS
|
ILLNESSES
|
Junk food
|
Increase cholesterol/cause obesity
|
Pesticides/chemicals and other artificial measures to
ripen fruits and promote yield from crops.
|
Affects nervous system and immune system, asthma,
allergies, infertility, child behaviour, disorder including learning
disabilities mental retardation, hyperactivity etc.
|
Toxic in soft drinks.
|
Weakens immune
System causes autoimmune disorder.
|
v Article Writing
1. Tradition
against modernity.
2. The
concept of fun-filled vacation has changed.
3. Simple
living high thinking.
4. Success
comes to those who will and dare.
v
For the display board ,prepare any two topics out of the
following (with pictures)
·
Tolerance
·
Global warming
·
Degradation of values
·
India’s victory in world cup cricket
v
Write attractive and colourful-
A. Short stories
B. Quotations
C. Poems
D. Posters
E. Slogans
(With pictures and on an A-4 sized sheet)(Any
two).
.
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