MAXFORT SCHOOL- ROHINI

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
CLASS- VIII
SESSION: 2018-19

Dear students
Summer brings with it the ever smiling sun, fresh breeze, blossoming flowers and HOLIDAYS !
It’s time to play and have fun. We have planned some fun activities to make the optimum use of your
energy and give a vent to your creativity so that you continue learning during the holiday break as
well. Plan your work in a way that you finish well in time and enjoy with your family and friends.

ENGLISH

1. Read the book “Wings of Fire” by Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam.

 Write a short summary of the story in your own words.
 Write the character sketch of the main character.
 Frame 10 questions from the story and answer those questions in your own
words.
 Choose 10 interesting adjectives and 10 adverbs from the book and find their
dictionary meanings.
 Find one synonym and one antonym for all the 20 words.
 Make interesting sentences using any 10 words.
 Present your work creatively in a scrapbook.

2. Write 10 questions to interview your ‘Role Model’ in the field of education to find
out about the things they used to do when they were of your age which no longer
exist/ no longer followed or done.
Eg. Leisure time activities
Games
Customs practised etc.
Make it interesting, write the questions with the imaginary answers on A-4 size
sheet and prepare to conduct an interview in class after the vacation.
Your interview must have a lot of details for the reader to understand the
yesteryears clearly. Have fun!

Do the following questions in English Grammar notebook.

3. Write a diary entry of those 10 days in your vacation when you enjoyed the most or
had an adventurous experience in English Grammar notebook.

4. Creating poetry is a great way to help students to learn to enjoy words and to
develop their own creativity. Take the first step into the world of poetry and
compose a poem on the topic ‘Summer Holidays’. (minimum three stanzas)
 5. You are Neha/Nikhli of Ram Public School. Write a notice to be put on the school
notice board regarding ‘Exposition’ to be held in your school in the month of July
2018.

6. You make the following notes after reading about the disappearance of bird habitats
from city forests and parks. You are Sonu/ Sonalika. Write an article in 100-120
words stressing upon the need for bringing back the birds to the city.

Overuse of pesticides in maintenance of city parks – cutting down of roadside trees –

putting up of communication towers on rooftops facing parks – leading to extinction of
nesting grounds for birds – preservation of bird life through man made bird bath in home
balconies – hand rearing of orphaned fledglings – need for clean and green environment

HINDI

p/Xn 1) हरिशंकि पिसाई की िचना ‘उखड़े खंभे’ को पढ़कि आविण पष्ृ ठ बनाकि बबंदव
ु ाि समीक्षा
लिखखए:-

 िचना का शीर्षक व िेखक का परिचय

 कहानी का साि
 प्रस्तुत िचना की अच्छी िगने वािी बातें
 मनपसंद पात्र का चरित्र चचत्रण
 िचना से लमिने वािा संदेश
p/Xn 2) ववज्ञापन िेखन:-सिकाि दवािा चिाए जा िहे ‘लमशन बुननयाद’ ववर्य पि एक सुंदि
एवं आकर्षक ववज्ञापन बनाएँ।

p/Xn 3) अनुच्छे द िेखन :-ददए गए संकेत बबंदओ

ु ं के आधाि पि ‘भाितीय गाँवों का बदिता स्वरुप’
ववर्य पि एक अनुच्छे द लिखखए:-

 वपछड़े गाँव
 गाँवों का नवीनीकिण
 सिकाि दवािा चिाई जाने वािी योजनाएँ
 लशक्षा औि स्वास््य के क्षेत्र में हुई प्रगनत

p/Xn 4) पत्र िेखन :-आप छात्रावास में िहते हैं। ववदयािय की ओि से छात्रों का एक टूि दक्षक्षण भाित की
यात्रा पि जा िहा है । उस टूि में जाने की अनम
ु नत माँगते हुए वपता जी को पत्र लिखखए।
p/Xn 5) भाित की नददयों अथवा िाज्यों पि आधारित एक वगष पहे िी (हार्ष बोर्ष) पि बनाएँ|

नोट:- p/Xn 1 का A4 साइज़ शीट का एक फोल्र्ि तैयाि कीजजए ।

p/Xn 2 को A3 साइज़ शीट पि कीजजए ।
p/Xn 3 औि 4 गह
ृ कायष पुजस्तका में कीजजए ।

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SUBJECT : SANSKRIT

प्रश्न1) ‘भगवत गीता’ के ककन्ही पााँच श्लोकों को लिखकर उनका कहन्दी अनुवाद लिखखए।
प्रश्न2) ‘चन्रगुप्त’ का इलतहास पढ़कर उसके ववषय में संखिप्त
वववरण लिखखए।
प्रश्न3) ‘बुविचातुयस्
य य’ ववषय पर एक कहानी लचत्र सकहत लिखखए।
प्रश्न4) ककसी पवयतीय स्थि का लचत्र लचपका कर पााँच वाक्य लिखखए।
प्रश्न5) ‘पयायवरण संरिणम’ ववषय पर एक पररयोजना कायय तैयार कीखजए।
नोट – प्रश्न 1- A3 साइज शीट पर बनाए।
प्रश्न 2,3,4- गृहकायय उत्तर पुखस्तका में करें ।
प्रश्न 5 - का फोल्डर तैयार करें ।
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FRENCH

Q1.Mettez à l'impératif.

a) __________ (faire) tes devoirs et __________ (aller) dormir.

b)__________ (être) calme et __________ (regarder) le film s'il vous plaît.
c)Pierre et Jacques ..Écoutez! __________ (savoir) la leçon et __________ (se taire).
d) __________ (ne pas promener) dans la nuit.
__________ (vouloir) rentrer s'il vous plaît.
e) __________ (se lever) tot matin et __________ (aller) au parc avec ton père.

Q2. Conjugez les verbes à l'imperatif.

a) ranger les disques

b) ne pas punir les enfants
c) vendre le jeu
d) dire bonjour
e) s'assesoir dans la classe
f) être a l'heure
g) ne pas avoir les règles

Q3.Mettez les verbes au présent de l'indicatif choqué verbes données.

a) Nous _________ du jus de tomate. ( vouloir)

b)Ils _____________ les verbes oar cœur. (apprendre)
c) Mes tantes ___________ au concert. (aller)
d) Ils ___________ de l'école. (venir)
e) Je ___________ une promenade. (faire)
f) Tu ___________ de sucre dans le thè. ( ne pas mettre)
g) Nous ___________ le chemin de Chamonix. ( connaître)
h) Est-ce-que vous ___________ espagnol. (comprendre)
i) Dominique ___________ l'image. ( ne pas decrire)
j) Les filles ___________ la porte. (ouvrir)
k) La famille ___________ ensemble. (dîner)
l) Vous ___________ dans la cuisine. (être)
m) Le bébé ___________ à 6h du soir. (dormir)

Q4.Completez avec l'article partitifs.

a) Nous mangeons _____ pain et _______ beurre.

b) Je veux _________ crayons et _________ encre.
c) Vous achetez ________ sucre et ________ eau.
d)Tu prends _______ gâteau et ______ bonbons.
e) Ils prennent ________ café et ______ tartes.

Q5.Completez avec les adjectifs possessifs.

a)Je porte _________ jupe et _________ gants.

b)Nous ne faisons pas _________ travail et ________ exercises.
c) Elle range ________ salon et ________ cuisine.
d) Tu promenes _________ bébé et ________ chienne.
e) Il oublie souvent _________ clés dans ______ maison.
f) Le corbeau ouvre ___________ bec.
g) ___________ manteaux sont dans notre armoire.
h) ___________ grands-parents habitent côté d'Azur.

Q6.Completez avec l'adjectif démonstratif.

a) Vous aimez ___________ chemise?
b) ___________ hiver,il fait froid.
c) Mets ___________ assiettes et _________ couteaux.
d) Mettez __________ légumes dans _________ bol.
e) ___________ lac est très beau.
f) __________ voitures sont grandes.
g) J'aime ___________ joli stylo.
h) ___________ bouteille est pleine d'eau.
i) Je veux ___________ casseroles et ___________ cocotte-minute.
j) ___________ croissant est délicieux.

Q7.Apprenez tous les verbes conjugations au présent qui ont donnés à la dernière du livre
Enchanté partie 4.

Q8.Apprenez tous les participe passés des verbes qui ont donnés à la dernière du livre
Enchanté partie 4.

Q9.Make a project report on famous French writers (2-3) using A4 size coloured sheets.

The report should include their famous works, their history & their achievements.

Q10.Faites un dialogue entre vous et votre ami ,comment améliorer la langue francaise
dans la forme des bandes dessinés?

(Make a small creative story in French with appropriate dialogues on how to improve
french with pictures on A3 size sheet).

*Q.1 to 6 are to be done in the French notebook.

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SUBJECT: GERMAN

1. Make an innovative and presentable poster in German on “Gesundes Essen.”

2. Make a comic strip on an A-3 size sheet on conversation between the following
people. The conversation should be based on the content covered in the
chapters so far.
a) Doctor and Patient
b) Two friends discussing about healthy and unhealthy food.
3. Schreiben Sie 10 Wege während Sommer Fit zu bleiben. (Write 10 ways in
German to keep yourself fit during summers.) –To be done on colourful A4
size sheet.
4. Learn the vocabulary of Lektion 1 and 2.
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SUBJECT: MANDARIN

A. Project work
a. Recipe: Write a recipe of your favorite Chinese food with ingredients on A3 size sheet.
b. Find out the facts about Chopsticks and write on A3 size sheet.

B. Answer the following questions in Chinese characters

Q1. Write a paragraph on how you had spent your summer vacations last year.

Q.2 Translate the following into English and Chinese characters.

a. Ni chi wan le?
 b. Wo chi wan le.
c. Ni chi le yi pian mian bao, tai shao le.
d. Bu shao, Wo yijing chi bao le.
e. Ni zai he yi bei guozhi, zenmeyang?
f. Bu he le. Wo he gou le.
g. Mama, wo zuo hao wan fan le!
h. Ni zuo le shenme?
i. Wo zuo le ji dan chao fan. Ni chang yi chang.
j. Hen hao chi, zhi shi you dianr dan.
k. O, wo wang ji fang yan le.

Q3. Make sentences of the following words in positive, negative and interrogative.

a. Gou
b. Zhi
c. Chao
d. Bao
e. Shao
f. Chang
g. Dan
h. Zhishi
i. Haochi
j. Fang

SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS

2  5  7 2  2 
Q1. Using appropriate properties, find         .
3  7  3 3  7 

53 55
Q2. Central’s baseball team won 78 of its games last year, while Southern’s team won of 81 its
games.Which team had the better record?
1 3
Q3. Beaker A contains 4 l of water, while beaker B contains 4 l of water. Which beaker has the
3 10
smaller amount of water?
Q4. Find five rational numbers between 0 and 1.
Q5. The planet Uranus is approximately 2,896,819,200,000 metres away from the Sun. What is this
distance in standard form?
Q6. Write a Pythagorean triplet whose smallest number is 6.
Q7. 10404 students are sitting in a lecture room in such a manner that there are as many students in a
row as there are rows in a lecture room. How many students are there in each row of a lecture room?
Q8. During a mass drill exercise, 6250 students of different schools are arranged in rows such that the
number of students in each row is equal to the number of rows. In doing so, the instructor finds out that
9 children are left out. Find the number of children in each row of the square.
Q9. A school collected Rs 2304 as fees from its students. If each student paid as many paise as there
were students in the school, how many students were there in the school?
Q10. What is the least number by which 6200 must be multiplied to make it a perfect square?
Q11. Find the square root of 9216 by the factor method.
Q12. Find the smallest number by which we divide 45056 so as to get a perfect square. Also find the
square root of the square numbers so obtained.
Q13. Rahul walks 12m north from his house and turns west to walk 35m to reach his friend’s house.
While returning, he walks diagonally from his friend’s house to reach back to his house. What distance
did he walk while returning?
Q14. Find three numbers in the ratio 2:3:5, the sum of whose squares is 608.
Q15.Find a Pythagorean triplet in which one member is 12.
3 3
Q16.What number should be added to so as to get ?
5 7
3 7
Q17.A drum of kerosene oil is full. When 15 litres of oil is drawn from it, it is full. Find the total
4 12
capacity of the drum.

Q18. Find the value of 10  25  108  154  225 .

Q19.A man gave half of his money to his wife, one-third of the remaining to his daughter and Rs. 25000 to
blind school. How much money did he have in all? What value do we get from him?

20. Simplify:
7 5 2
21. Arrange in descending order: , , .
10 8 3
1
22. A train at a uniform speed covers a distance of 350 km in 3 hours. Find the speed of the train and the
2
distance covered in 5 hours.
23. In a school choir, 3481 students line up to form a square. Find the number of students in each row.

24. If 64  8 then find the value of 0.0064  6400  0.64  6.4 .

25. Find the least number which must be added to 893304 to make it a perfect square.
26. The area of a square field is 50625 m2. A man cycles along its boundary at 18 km/h. In how much time
will he return to the starting point?
 0.4225
27. Evaluate: .
0.0169
244 2
28. The area of a square field is 80 m . Find the sides of the square.
729
1
29. The number of girls in class A is 3 times the number of girls in class B. If there are 10 girls in class B,
2
how many girls are there in class A?
30. What is the least number by which 1568 must be divided to make it a perfect square?

VEDIC MATHS
Using rules of Vedic Maths, solve the following.
1. Multiply 3082 X 2452.
2. Divide 4375 by 424.
3. Find the square of 105.
4. Find Quick Square of 58.
5. Write the table of 919 using vinculum.
6. Find the square of 96 using Duplex method.
7. Find the value of 332 + 662.
8. Find square root of 4096.
9. Divide 31072 by 715 using General method.
10. Find the sum of 1+2+3……..+500.

PROJECT WORK
1. Do the following activities on A-4 size sheets (coloured or plain). Put them in a project folder and
submit it with proper care.
a) A grid with magic number 15 is given in the figure where the sum of the rows, sum of the
columns and sum diagonally is 15.

Prepare a grid with magic number 30. You can choose any set of numbers in sequence but the
numbers should not be repeated.
2. Find the value of √2 upto 6 decimal places. Represent the decimal part as bars of different colours
(like a histogram).
Convert the same into an art master piece by showing your creativity.
Ex. Given below is the value of pi 3.1415926…. (decimal part only)
3. Device a mathematical game of your choice (board or puzzle type). A few examples are given below.

SCIENCE

NOTE: Q2 to Q4 are to be done on A4 size sheets attached in a folder.

I. PROJECT WORK:
The topics for the project are as follows. All the students are supposed to make working
models along with the project report for the topic allotted to them. (Use of any
biodegradable materials is allowed. Materials like thermocol and plastic should not be
used.)
a) Electrolytic cell (Roll No. 1-6)
b) Water quality checker (Roll No. 7-12)
c) Bio-gas plant (Roll No. 13-18)
d) Wastewater treatment (Roll No. 19-24)
e) Electroscope (Roll No. 25-30)
f) Manometer (Roll No. 31-37)
Prepare the report of the model on the basis of following guidelines:
 Principle
 Theory
 Uses
  Future prospects

II. CASE STUDY:

Write a case study on an A4 size sheet about the cause of abrupt storms in Delhi. Make
your case study effective by use of pictures, graphs etc to show data.

III. VALUE- BASED QUESTIONS:

a. Ram is a boy of 10th grade. One day he saw garbage fallen here and there. He
immediately called the municipal people and asked them to keep a proper
check.
i. Which type of pollution is showed in this case?
ii. What steps should we take to prevent this pollution?
iii. What other types of pollution are present in environment?
iv. What values are showed by Ram in this case?

b. Govt. of India has recently instituted an Amrita Devi Bishnoi National Award
for wildlife conservation in the memory of Amrita Devi Bishnoi , who
sacrificed her life along with 363 others for the protection of Khejri trees near
Jodhpur in Rajasthan. Based on the above statement answer the following
question.
i. How trees are important to us? (Write five points)
ii. How can you as a student protect trees?
iii. What is the significance of Van Mahotsava?

IV. Watch the link http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/science-of-stupid/ and share

some interesting things learnt about science on the following guidelines:
 Theme of the episode
 Characters involved
 Research work of scientist
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SOCIAL SCIENCE

Q1. This is the time to explore the nature around you and know your world. To achieve
the same, prepare a crossword puzzle on an A-3 size sheet based on the following:

a. Very high mountain range between China and India.

b. The Bay of ____ is located to the east of India.
c. The capital city of this country is Islamabad.
d. Famous River in India travels through Bangladesh and into the Bay of Bengal.
e. This country is located between China and India and is home to Mount Everest.
f. This country is famous for the Taj Mahal.
g. Ocean located to the south of Asia.
h. Ocean located to the east of Asia.
 i. The largest country in the world by area.
j. The longest river in Asia is located in China.

Q2. Read the lesson – Tribal Society and the challenges of Colonialism and identify and
mark the sites of the following major tribal revolts on an outline map of India. Paste the
map in your home assignment notebook.
a. Santhal Rebellion
b. Naga Rebellion
c. Khasi Rebellion
d. Khond Revolt
e. Kuki Rebellion

Q3. Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow:

In 1946 the colonial government in India was trying to put down a mutiny that broke out
on the ships of the Royal Indian Navy. Here is a sample of the kind of reports the Home
Department got from the different dockyards:

Bombay: Arrangements have been made for the Army to take over ships and
establishment. Royal Navy ships are remaining outside the harbour.

Karachi: 301 mutineers are under arrest and a few more strongly suspected are to be
arrested … All establishments … are under military guard.

Vizagapatam: The position is completely under control and no violence has occurred.
Military guards have been placed on ships and establishments. No further trouble is
expected except that a few men may refuse to work.

a. Where are these reports preserved?

b. To which event these reports are related?
c. What information is provided in these reports?
d. According to these reports, which area was completely under control?

Q4. Our society is progressing and people are changing their outlook for the betterment
and upliftment of the society. Recently a law was passed by the government of India in
April 2018 to safeguard the sanctity of women. Find out the details of that law and draft a
poster to create the awareness about it on A-3 sheet.

Q5. Project- Disaster Management

“We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge, so that
many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.”

- Petra Nemcova
Keeping the above statement in mind, prepare a project on Disaster Management as per
the following guidelines:

-Highlight the following:

• Definition of ‘Disaster’.
• What is a disaster management cycle?
• What are the types of disasters?
• What is vulnerability and risk?
• What is a hazard? How is it classified?
• Differentiate between hazard and disaster.
a. Prevention and Mitigation of Common Disasters in India. Select any two for your
project.

• Earthquake
• Cyclones
• Flood
• Drought
• Any man – made disaster (Fire, Road accidents, Terrorist attack etc.)
b. Based on your selection in (Point a) above enumerate the following in your project:

• Meaning
• Causes
• Do’s and don’ts
• Prevention and mitigation measures
• Your emergency Kit
• Latest means of forecasting disasters
• New schemes introduced by Our Honourable Prime Minister to prevent from Natural
disaster.
• Collect pictures and information from Newspapers and Magazines
Prepare a case study on any one of the Disasters that you have chosen to research.

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COMPUTER

A. Answer the following question in Assignment Note book

1. What is E-shopping?
2. List some advantages of networking.
3. What is networking topology?
4. Name some networking devices.
5. Give some example of Open source DBMS.
6. Write the steps to design a database?
7. What is the use of backstage view in MS Access?
8. What is the need of DBMS?
9. Define the following terms:
a) Foreign Key
 b) Record
c) Database
10. Write HTML code to prepare an ordered list of colour names.
11. What is the use of <marquee> tag?
12. What is the use of border in image tag?
13. Give one line code for the following :
a) To insert an image mountain.jpg into a webpage.
b) To insert a list as given below:
i) Tanish
ii) Mehak
iii) Hridhaan

B. Project Work:
 Make a presentation on ” Network Topology” with the help of prezi.com