WINTER VACATION ENGAGEMENT TASK
ENGLISH
GRADE 6
GRAMMAR:
1. I am talking about how the small roads in rahuls city mumbai are easily more crowded
than the main roads in smitas hometown mysore
a. Punctuate the sentence.
b. Change adverbs and adjectives to other ones.
c. Change the tense of the verb to other continuous tenses.
d. Find the phrases in this sentence.
e. Find the possessive nouns and change to possessive pronouns.
2. dr phadke patiently told them that if children sleep well they grow better
a. Punctuate the sentence.
b. Mention the parts of speech for each word of the sentence.
c. Change any two adverbs to another one to see how meaning changes.
d. Change a plural noun to singular.
e. Add a tag question after the statement.
3. if your brother continues with this kind of behaviour he will surely be put in jail someday
said prabhu to mala
a. Punctuate the sentence.
b. Say whether the verbs in this sentence are transitive or intransitive
c. Pick out the prepositional phrases and name their objects.
d. Create a noun phrase with adjectives for the word ‘jail’.
e. Change the second verb to a modal to show possibility.
4. the visiting professor speaks more fluently than the politician who is not as well educated
as the world famous educator said the news reporter
a. How many clauses are there in the sentence?
b. Can you find the relative clause and say whether it is a defining or non-defining
clause?
c. Pick out the compound adjectives and compound noun in this sentence.
d. Change to indirect speech.
e. Change just one verb to the present perfect and past continuous forms.
READING COMPREHENSION:
In the freezing ocean waters of Antarctica, the planet’s largest seals make their home in a
frozen world. These giants are southern elephant seals, and they can grow as long as the
length of a car and weigh as much as two cars combined. The name “elephant seal” comes
from both the males’ enormous size and from their giant trunk-like nose, called a proboscis.
Females do not have a proboscis, and they are much smaller. A thick layer of blubber keeps
southern elephant seals warm in their icy habitat. The seals are clumsy on land, but in water
they’re graceful swimmers and incredible divers. They can easily dive 1,000 to 4,000 feet to
hunt for squid, octopus, and various kinds of fish. Elephant seals are able to stay underwater for
20 minutes or more. The longest underwater session researchers observed was an amazing
two hours! When they return to the surface to breathe, it’s only for a few minutes. Then they dive
again. While elephant seals spend most of their time swimming, they also gather on beaches
in groups called colonies. One reason they come to land is to give birth and breed. Males arrive
before females. They battle for dominance, deciding who will have large harems of females.
Raising their enormous bodies, the males inflate their snouts and below. Usually these
confrontations end quickly. However, sometimes only a physical battle can settle the matter.
These fights can be bloody, but permanent injury is rare. Females arriving on land give birth to a
single pup they’ve been carrying since the previous year. Newborns weigh about 90 pounds.
The mother nurses her pup for a little over three weeks. After this, she breeds with a dominant
male and then returns to the sea to feed. Her pup now weighs well over 200 pounds and is on
its own. If it survives, it too will enter the sea within a couple of months. A second reason
elephant seals come to land is to molt. When they molt, they shed old skin and fur and new skin
and fur grows. A smaller species, the northern elephant seal, lives in the Pacific Ocean,
dispersed from Mexico’s Baja California to Alaska. Both northern and southern elephant seals
were once hunted nearly to extinction. However, under legal protections both have made
incredible comebacks.
Based on the article, attempt the following questions:
1. Fill in the blanks to complete the word from the passage.
a. ____ n ____ ____ m o ____ s (clue: extremely large)
b. ____ ____ l ____ n i e ____ (clue: groups of elephant seals)
c. e ____ ____ i n ____ t ____ ____ n (clue: disappearance from the planet)
d. c ____ u ____ ____ y (clue: awkward; ungainly)
e. ____ e r ____ a ____ e n ____ (clue: lasting indefinitely)
2. Choose the correct option:
a. ______________ can grow as long as the length of a car and weigh as much as two
cars combined.
a. Eastern Elephants
b. Western Elephants
c. Northern Elephants
d. Southern Elephants
b. What is the one reason they come to land for?
a. Sun bathing
b. Eating
c. Giving birth
d. sleeping
c. What is the average weight of the newborns?
a.90 pounds b.110 pounds c.220 pounds d. 50 pounds
d. They can easily dive ___________feet to hunt for squid, octopus, and various kinds of
fish.
a.500-1000 b.1,000 to 4,000 c.2000-3000 d.1500-3000
e. What keeps southern elephant seals warm in their icy habitat.
a.Thick skin b.Heavy fur c.Muscles d. A thick layer of blubber
LITERATURE:
1. Why did Frankenstien suggest the Drac to see a doctor?
2. What was the big bowl that Sindabad found on the island?
3. Why was the valley a worse place than the island?
4. How is the title ‘A Fishy Tale’ a pun?
5. Why was Jimmy comfortable on the moon's surface like no other human being?
6. Elucidate the story told by the young man to Norman Gotsby.
7. Describe the character of the young man through a flow chart.
8. Mention any four things which describe the poet’s native place with respect to the poem
‘The Distance’.
9. Using five adjectives, describe Robutt’s character.
10. Represent the young Drac pictorially according to your point of view.
