Eicher School, Faridabad Holiday Homework Class VIII: English

1. Read the article Soul Curry in Times of India every Sunday. If you do not take the newspaper at home you can borrow it from your neighbour / subscribe to Sunday Times only: Cut and paste the soul curry article that you liked the most. Reflect on any event that can be your soul curry and write about it.

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2. Write a debate for / against the topic: Should Kids Have a Facebook Account?
Roll number 1- 16 will write FOR the topic. Roll number 17 onwards will write AGAINST the topic. (The best two for and against debates will be published in the students magazine)

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3. Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation on the class library book you have recently read. Your ppt should cover the following points: About the author Summary of the story About the main characters A different ending Your judgment

4. Vocabulary Enhancement: Given below is a word quiz in 3 levels. Check your vocabulary by solving it. Write the answers in front of the clues:

LEVEL 1- EASY: o :( 6 L) declare to be not guilty : ( 7L) short title / heading : ( 8L) to become less : ( 8L) in the neighbourhood : ( 9L) to go abroad to work : ( 6L) regard with respect : ( 5L) rebuke : ( 5L) discarded or waste material : ( 4L) depression on your car :( 6L) strike out LEVEL 2 AVERAGE : ( 5L) first public appearance / performance : ( 4L) a stick used used by fairies : ( 5L) unusual / strange : ( 11L) picture/ description in order to amuse : ( 6L) matters to be discussed in a meeting : (6L) treat someone with too much kindness : ( 6L) person/ animal that is believed to bring good luck :( 9L) unwilling : ( 6L) a discount : ( 7 L) judgment given be jury LEVEL 3 DIFFICULT : ( 6L) disease : ( 6L) sudden and unexpected :( 5L) showing tiredness :( 5L) not clearly understood or perceived :( 10L) to adjust so as to fit in : ( 8L) lacking knowledge : ( 6L) a continuation of a story : ( 6L) short sleep in the afternoon :(10L) a way of hiding by mixing with the environment :(5L) dangerous circumstance Your score: ________________________________ A score of 30 indicates you are a spell-vocab champion. A score of 25 indicates you are very good. A score of 20 indicates you have the potential to do better. 5. Poster Making: Depict the following proverbs in a comical way: A stitch in time saves nine. ( Roll no. 1 to 10) Slow and steady wins the race. ( Roll no. 11 to 21) Look before you leap. (Roll no. 22 onwards) 6. Download any two English songs and learn them for a class presentation. Suggested movie viewing:

Guns of Navarone

 Pride and Prejudice A Christmas Carol

Happy Holidays!

Mathematics VIII

Q 1 : Here is an interesting puzzle The ingenious milkman A milkman has only a 5 liter jug and a 3 liter jug to measure out milk for his customers from a milk drum which is containing milk for his customers . He can give 1 liter milk to his customers without wasting any milk. Can you find out how will he do it ? Q 2 : Here is one more interesting puzzle Fair share A shopkeeper and his friend bought an 8 liter of kerosene drum .They wanted to share kerosene equally between them but only had a 5 liter container and a 3 liter container . How they are going to divide the kerosene equally with the help of the available containers ? Help them to solve the problem. Q 3 : Let us now play a game to find the unknown number Where each letter stands for one of the digits 1 , 2, 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ,8 ,9 . Each digit is used only once. F I T +M E N ---------------J O G ---------------Q 4 : Find the digits There is a unique solution to this subtraction sum where each of the four alphabets represents the same digits . Find them ? A N T E - E T N A ------------------N E A T -------------------Q5. Verify the following questions: a). If ,

b) If

Check your reasoning and logic Write the correct option . Q6. Find the next number in the series: 14, 28, 20, 40, 32, 64, . . . a) 52 b) 56 c) 96 d) 128 Q7. Choose the alternative which closely resembles the mirror image of the given combination.

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4 Q8. Choose the set of figures which follows the rule: Any figure can be traced by a single unbroken line without retracting.

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

Q9. Peter went 20m to the east then he turned left and after walking 15m turned right and went 25m, and then turned right and went 15m. How far Peter was from the starting point? a) 40m b) 30m c) 45m d) 50m Q10.

a) 21 b) 30 c) 19 d) 23

Q11. The figures given below are divided into certain parts. Each part bears a number and one part is blank. Numbers follow a certain pattern of rule. You are required to analyse the given figures and then fill in the blank. a) 33 b) 88 4 9 8 3 c) 14 642213 7 36213 11 d) 24 . 4
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Q12. Five books are lying in a pile. E is lying on A and C is lying under B. A is lying above B and D is lying under C. Which book is lying at the bottom? a) A b) B c) C d) D Q13.Which number replaces the question mark

a) b) c) d)

8 11 7 9

Q14. The figure given below is divided into certain parts. Each part bears a number and one part is blank. Numbers follow a certain pattern of rule. You are required to analyse the given figures and find the missing number. 90 36 78 72 85 31 73 67 a) 60 b) 62 c) 70 d) 77 40 49 80 65 35 44 75

Q15. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week on Jan 1, 2010?

a) Sunday b) Saturday c) Friday d) Wednesday

Higher Order Mathematical Skills Q16. The salaries A, B, C are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 5. If the increments of 15%, 10% and 20% are allowed respectively in their salaries, then what will be new ratio of their salaries? a) 3 : 3 : 10 b) 10 : 11 : 20 c) 23 : 33 : 60 d) Cannot be determined Q17. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour? a) 9 b) 10 c) 12 d) 20 Q18. Three number are in the ratio of 3 : 4 : 5 and their L.C.M. is 2400. Their H.C.F. is: a) 40 b) 80 c) 120 d) 200 Q19. If there are two examination rooms A and B. If 10 students are sent from A to B, then the number of students in each room is the same. If 20 candidates are sent from B to A, then the number of students in A is double the number of students in B. The number of students in room A is: a) 20 b) 80 c) 100 d) 200 Q20. A fires 5 shots to B's 3 but A kills only once in 3 shots while B kills once in 2 shots. When B has missed 27 times, A has killed: a) 30 birds b) 60 birds c) 72 birds d) 90 birds Solve the chapters covered in April-May from R.D.Sharma in a separate copy

GENERAL SCIENCE
A Visit to a Planetarium:

Visit the gallery where Indian contibution to astronomy has been displayed. Note down any three contributions which you feel proud of . Measure your weight on weighing machine and which shows weight on different planets. (Paste it in your file) Attend the show and write summary report of content shown there. Bring some pictures of various planets, satellites, and astronomers available there. What more could have been displayed at the planetarium? Give your views/suggestions. If possible get yourself clicked with any model kept there.

Hepatitis__ is a disease that affects humans. Collect information related to it. When you return to school, present this information in an interesting way. [PPT, collage, model etc.] Hint: Type of disease, origin (history), mode of spreading, cause of disease, long term effects, cure.

Edward Jenner________________ was an eminent scientist. He invented the ___small pox vaccine___________________. Find out more about his achievements. You can narrate an anecdote from his life in your class, to inspire your friends.

Social Studies
Our constitution has granted certain fundamental rights for each and every citizen of our country. These are seven rights in the sequence of 1. Right of equality 2. Right of freedom

3. Right against exploitation 4. Right of freedom of religion 5. Cultural and educational rights 6. Right to constitutional remedies 7. Right to primary education The Govt. of India is bound by the constitution to provide these fundamental Rights to every Indian citizen but then there are some views that these rights are only on paper and in practical the Govt. can even oppress these rights. We do have some examples when our Govt. has opressed these fundamental rights. Are these Rights just on paper or they can be practised in real? .these fundamental rights can be practised by every citizen of India but it has just converted in to a promise on the piece of paper without any formal power backup. The constitution does not say that what will happen if the Govt. of India fails to oblige these promises.. These Fundamental rights are very often proved - just to be a - mirage and we certainly need an amendment in this regard. - Editorial of a newspaper With the help of NEWSPAPER ARTICLES present your views against or in favour of the above statement. This HW will be done in your notebooks.

GEOGRAPHY
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today upheld the constitutional validity of (Causes and effects ,mitigation measures) the Right to Education Act, Use related pictures and informations to make your projectmandates 25 per 2009, which more meaningful. cent free seats to the poor in government and private unaided Civics schools uniformly across the country. After reading the articles, prepare a table on RTE. By a majority view, a threejudge bench of Chief Justice S a) What does the word RTE signify? H Kapadia and justices K S Radhakrishnan and Swantanter Kumar said the act will apply b) What are the hurdles of RTE Act? uniformly to government and unaided private schools except unaided private minority schools.

Make a power point presentation on Tsunami or Land slide.

c) What are the characteristics of RTE? d) How is the RTE act a path breaking initiative? e) Is Right to Education a fundamental right? f) What is the literacy rate in India? g) Which state has the lowest literacy rate & why? Collect various news articles & create your own information booklet with proper designed cover page.It should not exceed more than 8 pages. Computer Class 8 Create a web page name Summer Vacation. Notes:
a) Title of the page is Summer Vacation.

b) The background color of the page is Light Blue. c) The font used for heading is Arial size is 6 and color is Black.
d) Rest of the text is in Trebuchet MS font, font size is 4 and color is Blue. e) Image used is from file pic.jpg ( It should be taken during summer vacation).

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