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Holiday Home Work – 2016-17
Class – VIII
English
1. Write a paragraph on:
a) Value of books
b) The magic of television
c) A memorable day of my life
2. Write a letter to your friend describing the wedding of your sister/brother.
3. As John, write a page of his diary regarding his first experience of an examination
using the clues – nervous, praying to God, students hurrying to the examination
hall, finding seats, question paper received etc.
4. Make a poster on ‘Save planet Earth’.
5. Write 30 verbs and their forms.
6. Read your story book and make the necessary preparation for making a project
file on it.
Science
1. Visit an agricultural farm. Observe and note down the agricultural practices
and garden implements used.
2. Farmers use fertilizers extensively. What do you think will happen to soil after
few years? What are the harmful effects and diseases caused by fertilizers?
3. Take different variety of fabrics and compare their water absorbing capacity.
Differentiate them on basis of natural and synthetic fibers.
Agriculture Practice Implements Used
4. In the following table, name the plastic items that you use in different places
and differentiate them on basis of thermosetting and thermoplastics.
At Home At School
Social Science
1. Collect pictures and other information on
a. Tipu Sultan
b. Maha Raja Ranjit Singh
c. James Mill
d. Any 3 Governor – Generals of British India
2. Make Posters/Slogans on the following topic:
Roll No. 1-10 Water Conservation.
Roll No. 11-20 Conservation of Land.
Roll No. 21-30 Wild Life.
Roll No. 31-40 Energy Conservation.
3. Collect the following information about any one National Park of India.
a. Name and location on map.
b. Identify the different organisms.
c. List of endangered species.
4. Explain the role of Constitution in a democratic Country. What role did
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar play in framing Indian Constitution.
5. On the outline map of world, locate/show:
a) Any 5 countries and their capitals each in major five continents.
b) Name of 2 rivers flowing in each of the above named continents.
Mathematics
1. Make a game on Rational Numbers. You can make a game using its
different properties. Two examples are given below for reference
A. The game of Snake and ladder which may include:
i) Different questions in different boxes.
ii) Different properties of rational numbers
iii) Distributive property of rational numbers
iv) Multiplicative and additive Inverse of 5/3
21 22 23 24 25
20 19 18 17 16
11 12 13 14 15
10 9 8 7 6
1 2 3 4 5
B. Game on Dart-Board
You can make a dart-board and write different properties of Rational
numbers on it.
2. Take two dice of different colours, red and blue and throw them together
thrice. Consider the number which appears on the red dice, as the numerator
and number on the blue dice as denominator. Write these three rational
numbers so formed as a, b, c. Are the following properties of rational numbers
true?
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
4
6
2
5
3
7
8
a) a×(b+c)=a×b+a×c
b) a+(b+c)=(a+b)+c
c) a-(b-c)=(a-b)-c
d) a× (b×c)=(a×b) ×c
e) (a× b)×c= a×(b ×c)
For example-
(Red) (Blue) ₌ 5
2
3. Make a mathematical dictionary which should include Geometrical figures,
words, concepts or anything related to geometry beginning from letter A to Z.
Explain the concepts with the help of figures and use your creativity to make
the dictionary colourful and meaningful.
For e.g. A- Arc.
B- Bisector.
C- Circumference.
Note : Use A4 size colourful sheets to make this project.
Computer
1. Make a Power point presentation on any one of the given topics :
a) Happy Moments
b) Sports Day
c) Hindi Week
d) Annual Day
e) Earth Day
2. Using Flash, design a Cartoon Character Face of your choice.
Note:- Bring printout of all the given work compiled in a file folder.
Sanskrit