DASHMESH PUBLIC SCHOOL VASUNDHRA ENCLAVE HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK

CLASS-VIII SUBJECT-ENGLISH

The following homework will be done in the separate/homework notebooks itself. Students of Class VI-VIII will be doing this common holidays homework being given along with the respective

sheets being attached for separate classes.

ARTICLE WRITING Write an article on the following topics in about 100-120 words.

1. Demonitization 2. Justice to Nirbhaya 3. Mass legal literacy campaign 4. Environmental Degradation 5. Sensitivity towards Parents

CIRCULAR WRITING

Draft a circular on the following topics in not more than 50-60 words:- 1) Your school is organizing a 'Nutrition Session' in order to sensitize the the students about good

eating habits. As a head boy/girl of your school, inform the students about the same. 2) Imagine yourself as the Secretary of your locality, and you decide to organize a 'Laughter

Session' in your colony, to make people enjoy themselves and leading a stress free life. Draft a circular informing the residents about the same.

FACTUAL DESCRIPTION Look at the following picture and describe the ongoing scene in your own words (80-100 words)

CONVERSATION WRITNG 1) Your school recently organized a mass legal literacy campaign. Write a conversation between you and your friend discussing your experience regarding the same. 2) Your teacher asked you to prepare a presentation and you weren't able to prepare it due to some reason. Write a conversation between you and your teacher giving reasons for the same.

POSTER MAKING

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

Design a poster on an A4 size drawing sheet and paste it in your notebooks ; on the following topics being given:- 1) Save our natural resources. 2) Preserving our national heritage.

ENGLISH (for VIII )

Q1. Write down the meaning of following idioms and make sentences using the same

1. Once in blue moon

2. Piece of cake.

3. See eye to eye

4. Take with a grain of salt

5. Taste of your own medicine

Q2. Write down the meaning of following proverbs and make sentences using the same.

a. Action speaks louder than words

b. All good things come to he who waits.

c. All that glitters is not gold .

d. Appearance can be deceptive

e. As you sow so shall you reap

Q3. Write the synonyms of following words:

a. suspicions b. development c. accomplish d. suggest e. deliver

Q4. Write the antonyms of the following words.

a. dazzle b. compose c. original d. break d. follow

Q5. Write the meaning of these difficult words:

a. privilege b. sieze c. resistance d. possession e. persuade

Q6. Make three new words using the prefix:

a. pre- b. re- c. semi- d. sub- e. dis-

Q7. Make three new words using the suffix:

a. –dom b. –ship c. – ate d. – esque e. –ical

Q8. Read the abridged version of the novel “ Alice in the wonderedland and summarize the novel in

about 80-100 words

Q1. Some roads in your city are renamed after British officers. Would you like them to be renamed? Give

reasons.(ch-2 History).

Q2. Make a pictorial illustration to show how natural substances become resources. (Ch-1 Geography)

Q3. Each individual should contribute towards conservation of resources . What steps can you take in your

daily life to conserve resources? Prepare an Action plan .(Ch-1 geography)

Q4. Draw a flow chart to show the factors that affect the formation of soil.(Ch- 2 Geography)

Q5. Make a model of any one of the following :-

Terrace farming

Contour ploughing

Shelter belt(ch-2 Geography)

Q6. On two outline maps of the world , show the following .

Land use pattern in the world

Distribution of different types of soil in the world.

Q7. Project:- visit a park/ farm in your neighborhood . Conduct a survey & collect information about the

soil.

Ask gardener / farmer, the following questions:

How does he maintain soil fertility?

What type of fertilizer does he use – chemical or natural ?

What does he do to control soil erosion?

Collect information and write it in the form of a report. Use some photographs of the place you have

visited and use them in your report. (Ch- 2 Geography)

Q8. On an outline map of India, show the important multipurpose projects. Mention at least 3. (ch-3

Geography)

Q9. Draw two separate flow charts to show the following.

Methods to control water pollution.

Method to conserve water.

Q10. Water is a precious resource. All forms of life will die in the absence of water. Each one of us can

help in conserving water. Let’s create awareness on conservation of water. Write ten methods of

Conservation of water in your notebook. (Ch- 3 Geography)

Q11. On a political map of India, show bird sanctuaries, National parks, Wildlife sanctuaries and tiger

reserves (mention three for each of these). (Ch- 4 Geography)

Q12. Every year, world Wildlife week is celebrated in the first week of October. Plan a week – long

programme for your school on the theme – Save Forests, and wildlife. List some activities m contests etc.

that can be organized to focus on the importance of forests and wildlife –You can show your plan on a chart

(Ch- 4 Geography)

Q13. What are you likely to say to an elder cousin who thinks that to stop at a red signal on the road or to

wear a helmet is unimportant ? (Ch- 1 Civics)

Q14. Prepare a report on the Lok Sabha elections. Find out the total Voter turnout, part with maximum no

of seats, tec. Prepare an MS- Power point presentation.( 12 slides PPT)

Q15.Answer the following questions in brief:

1. The wooden hammer like object or the mallet used by a judge in a court is called a gravel. what is the use

of gravel?

2. Do you know that the Indian constitution is the lengthiest written constitution in the world.

3. Mysorean rockets were an early missile deployed for military use Describe it.

4. What is Factory?

5. Do you know after whom is Mount Everest named?

Q.16 Answer the following questions in detail:

1. Why do you think a state should not discriminate against people on the basis of religion?

2. What are the different purposes for which the land in your colony or locality is being used for?

Q17. Differentiate between

Biotic and Aboitic resources

Potential and actual resources .

Surface water and ground water.

Civil Law and Criminal Law

SUBJECT- MATHEMATICS

Note: Do all work in Maths practice Register.

Q1. Verify the commutative property of addition and subtraction for each of the following pairs of

Rational Numbers.

i) 9/13 and -4/9 ii) -3/7 and 4/3

Q2. Write properties of square, rectangle, parallelo gram, rhombus and kite.

Q3. Write and learn squares and cubes of first 20 whole numbers.

Q4. Do the following Lab Manual activities in your Lab Manual (2, 3, 5(a), 5(e), 6(b).

Q5. The number of students in a hostel, speaking different languages is given below. Display the data in a Pie Chart:

Language Hindi English Marathi Tamil Bengali Total

Number of Students

40 12 9 7 4 72

Q6. Solve the following equations and check your results:

i) 𝑥−8

3 =

𝑥−3

2 ii)

𝑥−6

5 +

𝑥−4

3 = 8 −

𝑥−2

7

Q7. Verify by paper cutting and pasting that the sum of the exterior angles of a polygon, taken in an order is 360o.

Q8. Solve:

a) HCF of 73, 97, 101 b) LCM of 60, 80, 240

c) −4

8,

−9

5,

14

9,

6

7 (arrange ascending order)

d) 999.9 + 100 + 200 + .09

e) 67

9 + 4

3

7 + 2

12

13

Q9. Find the perimeter and area of the following:

a) A parallelogram, whose base and height are 14cm and 5 cm respectively. b) A Square, side is 40 cm. c) Circle, radius is 14 cm. d) Equilateral Triangle, sides are 15 cm and height is 7 cm.

Q10. Revise the following chapters in practice notebook.

Ch-1 Rational Numbers Ch-2 Linear Equation in one variable Data Handling (Ex-5.1, 5.2 only).

ALL THE GIVEN WORK

SHOULD BE DONE IN

YOUR CLASSWORK

NOTEBOOKS/REGISTERS

CLASS VIII

science

Answer the following questions (Refer your notebook for answers)

1. Why organic farming is useful for crop production?

2. Fresh milk is boiled before consumption while processed milk stored in pockets can be consumed without boiling.

Why?

3. Why viruses are said to be the border line dividing the living things from non- living things?

4. Write few savings that can be done by the recycled plastics.

5. Can we use thermoplastics to make handles or cookware tile? Why or why not?

6. Read the following statement and write the appropriate term against each statement.

a. I control the function of a cell. Who am I?___________

b. I transfer characters from parents to offspring. Who am I?

7. In spite of muscular and frictional force, name few other type of contact forces.

8. It is much easier to burst an inflated balloon with a needle than by a finger. Explain.

9. What is meant by Invitro fertilization? (IVF)

10. How do Astronauts communicate in space?

11. While returning from the school Varun ate chaat from a street hawker, when he reached home, he felt ill and

complained of stomach ache and fell ill. What could be the reason?

12. Visit a nearby farm or nursery observe the crops grown there, collect leaves of different crops. Place the leaves

between the newspaper. When the leaves are dried, paste the seed bags and leaves in your scrap book making a

herbarium.

13. Complete the following cycle as by filling the blanks. A, B, C, D.

14. Make your flipbook. ( Refer Pg No, 275 of your textbook)

15. A rocket has been fired upwards to launch a satellite in its orbit. Name the two forces acting on the rocket

immediately after leaving the launching pad.

16. Suggest few measures to limit noise pollution in your locality.

17. The excess in the diet can create many health problems. Find out the effects of excess eating of pizzas, pastries

cokes, burgers etc. Collect information about its bad effects and make a project on it.

SUPW

Q1. Five Slogan on A3 Size sheet.

Save Earth

My dream World

My Aim

Cartoon Character

Healthy Food

Q2. Make any one object with best out of waste.

Make a PowerPoint presentation on any one monument of Delhi (5 to 7 slides). Bring printouts.

Following should be included:-

1. Presentation should have WordArt.

2. Insert pictures with effects

3. Use custom Animation.

4. Use formatting options like page border, background styles etc.

Note :- Do all work in Divinity's Note Book

SUBJECT - G.K

1. Make a scrap file and paste the pictures of 10 famous scientist of world and write few lines on their

inventions.

2. Do the given question in your notebook-

a. Which is the largest road in the world?

b. Who was the first lady who became the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?

c. Name the singer who holds the world record of singing the maximum number of film songs in 24 hours.

d. Name the most important drink to have every day.

e. Which is the coldest place in the solar system?

f. What is the true shape of the Earth?

g. Who is the chairman of Bhauti Group?

h. Name the machine which is used for the treatment of kidney failure.

i. Name the India's World Industrial Disaster.

j. Which is India's largest warship?

DIVINITY

Q1. Question based on Sikhism.

a) At which place, Guru Nanak Dev Ji first started " Guruy Ka Langar"?

b) Write the three golden Rules of Guru Nanak Dev JI.

c) Who is the first Sikh Guru to be married through Anand Karaj ceremony?

d) Which Sikh Guru started the practice of " Kirtan and Langar"?

e) What is the meaning of " Ajooni" in Mool Mantar?

f) Which sikh is being reffered in verse " Charkhariyan Te Chare"?

g) Which sikh is being reffered in verse " Khopariya Luhaiyaan"?

h) Which sikh is being reffered in verse " Ban Ban Katwaye"?

i) Which sikh is being reffered in verse " Degh ubale Gaye"?

Q2. " Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji is also known as " Hind ki Chadar". Write a short note on "Guru Tegh

Bahadur Ji's martyrdom"?

Q3. Learn Q/ A , Fill in the blansk and who said to whom of L-1 - L-3

Class VIII (Sanskrit)

Class VIII (Punjabi)

Class VIII (Hindi)

DASHMESH PUBLIC SCHOOL VASUNDHRA ENCLAVE

SOLVED WORKSHEET

SUB : DIVINITY

Q 1. Name ten Sikh Gurus.

1. Guru Nanak Dev Ji

2. Guru Angad Dev Ji

3. Guru Amar Das Ji

4. Guru Ram Das Ji

5. Guru Arjan Dev Ji

6. Guru Hargobind Ji

7. Guru Har Rai Ji

8. Guru Har Krishan Ji

9. Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji

10. Guru Gobind Singh Ji

Q 2. Name the present Guru of Sikhs.

Ans- Guru Granth Sahib Ji

Q 3. Give names of 5 kakaars, the required articles for sikh faith.

1. Kachhera

2. Kangha

3. Kara

4. Kesh

5. Kirpan

Q 4. Write names of 5 Sikh Takhats.

1. The Akal Takhat Sahib

2. Takhat Damdama Sahib

3. Takhat Keshgarh Sahib

4. Takhat Hazur Sahib Nanded

5. Takhat Patna Sahib

Q 5. Give names of 5 historical Gurudwaras of Delhi.

1. Gurudwara Bangla Sahib

2. Gurudwara Sis Ganj Sahib

3. Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib

4. Gurudwara Nanak Piao Sahib

5. Gurudwara Damdama Sahib

Divinity exam will be conducted on basis of information shared in this worksheet.

Q 1. Name ten Sikh Gurus.

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Q 2. Name the present Guru of Sikhs.

Ans. ____________________________________________

Q 3. Give names of 5 kakaars, the required articles for sikh faith.

1. _______________________________________

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Q 4. Write names of 5 Sikh Takhats.

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Q 5. Give names of 5 historical Gurudwaras of Delhi.

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Complete worksheet with the help of answers given and paste it in your notebook.