The Daly College, Indore Summer Vacation Assignments : April, 2015-16 Class – VIII SUBJECT ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT 1. Choose the three best or unusual holidays from your summer vocation and make three DIARY ENTRIES on the same. 2. Read English newspaper regularly, select any five topics related to Sports, Technology & Environment and paste them. 3. Read any 4 books out of the books mentioned below. You will be evaluated in FA 1 & FA2 activities on the basis of these readings. Name of the Author Title Mark Twain: 1.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) 2.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) H.G. Wells 3.The Time Machine. Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Treasure Island, Jules Verne 5. A Journey to the Center of the Earth 6. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea *(Books may be purchased online from the websites e.g. Flipkart / Amazon.in/ infibeam) * submit the written work in a separate folder. HINDI SANSKRIT FRENCH Conjuguez les verbes suivantes au passé compose :1. Manger la pomme. ( Aff.) 2. Regarder une fille . ( Aff.) 3. Finir les devoirs . ( Aff. ) 4. Vendre les cerises .( Aff.) 5. Ouvrir la porte . (Aff.) 6. Faire de la notation . (Aff.) 2 7. Etre a la maison . ( Neg .) 8. entendre la bruit . ( Neg .) 9. Choisir les vetements . ( Neg ) 10. Commencer la classe . ( Neg. ) GERMAN Arbeitsblatt: Modalverben und Imperative A. Kurze Dialoge. Füllen Sie die Lücken mit den richtigen Formen der Modalverben ein. 1. -- Warum _________________ (müssen) du denn schon gehen? -- Ich _________________ (sollen) in zehn Minuten bei Professor Sedlmeyer sein. 2. -- Warum _________ (dürfen) deine Schwester heute Abend nicht tanzen gehen? -- Meine Eltern _________________ (mögen) ihren Freund nicht. 3. -- Warum _________________ (möchten) du denn kein Bier? -- Ich _________________ (mögen) Bier überhaupt nicht. Es ist zu bitter. 4. -- Morgen _________________ (sollen) es sehr warm sein. -- Toll! Dann _________________ (können) wir schwimmen gehen! 5. -- Warum _________________ (möchten) ihr keinen Wein? -- Wir _________________ (dürfen) kein Alkohol trinken. 6. -- _________________ (können) Maria Deutsch sprechen? -- Nein, aber sie _________________ (wollen) es lernen. 7. -- Warum _________________ (können) du heute Abend nicht tanzen gehen? -- Ich _________________ (müssen) meine Hausaufgaben machen. B. Was wollen sie? Ergänzen Sie die Dialoge mit den passenden Modalverben.. dürfen • können • möchten • mögen • müssen • sollen • wollen 1. Uwe: Mutter, ich _______________ in die Kneipe (=bar) gehen und Bier trinken! Mutter: Uwe, du _______________ nicht! Du bist nur 15 Jahre alt. Du _______________ zu Hause bleiben. 2. Karolin Vater, Sabine und ich _______________ das Auto zur Schule fahren! e: Vater: Nein, ihr _______________ es nicht -- ihr habt keinen Führerschein (=license). Ihr _______________ mit dem Bus fahren. 3. Michael Thomas, _______________ du heute abend ins Kino gehen? : Thomas Nein, ich _______________ es nicht, sagen meine Eltern. Ich : _______________ morgen um 6 Uhr aufstehen. 4. Susanne Katrin, _______________ deine kleine Tochter Eis mit Erdbeeren? : Katrin: Nein, sie _______________ keine Erdbeeren essen -- sie hat eine Allergie. Aber sie _______________ bestimmt Eis ohne (=without)Erdbeeren essen. 5. Stefan: Ursula, wen wählst (=vote for, elect) du in dem kommenden Präsidentenwahlkampf (=election)? 3 Ursula: Ich _______________ nicht wählen (=vote). Ich bin nur 17. Ich _______________ noch 4 Jahre warten, bis (=until) ich wählen _______________. C. Trockene Sätze. Bilden Sie komplette Sätze aus den gegebenen Elementen. 1. dürfen / gehen / ich / heute Abend / in die Disko ? ______________________________________________________________________ 2. möchten / trinken / Sie / Kaffee oder Tee ? _______________________________________________________________________ 3. wann / ihr / müssen / gehen / schlafen ? _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Thomas / müssen / gehen / zur Uni / jetzt . _____________________________________ 5. Katrin / können / sprechen / Italienisch / sehr gut . __________________________________________________________________ 6. warum / du / wollen / kaufen / das Haus / nicht ? __________________________________________________________________ MATHS 1 1. Insert five rational numbers between i) and 7 1 ii) 3  4 5 2. Represent the following numbers on the number line. i)  3 and  3 4 1 ii) 5 3. Evaluate: i) 2 (  3 5 1 ) 7  14 ( multiplicative inverse of 3 3  7 3 iv) 5 ii) Find additive inverse of 4 5 v) 7 ( 1 5 ) 3 )  ( 2 17 6 2 ) iii) Find 9 . 7 4. The sum of a whole number and its reciprocal is 10 . Find the whole number. 3 5. One third of group of people are men. If women are 200 more than men, find the number of people. 6. Find p if 13 17  34  p  65 7. Divide the sum of 4 . 25 5 and by their product.. 6 8. The product of two rational numbers is  15 .If one of the number is x  x 1 1 2 iv) 2 ( x  3)  3(2 x  4 )  x  x  2 3 x 1 2 (v) , find the other. 48 16 9. Solve the equations : i) 5 ii) 15 4  7p  9 iii) 2y  5 3  26 8  y 4 10. The denominator of a fraction is 3 more than the numerator. If 5 is added to both parts, the resulting fraction is equivalent to . 11. The sum of digits of a two digit number is 7. The number obtained by interchanging the digits exceeds the original number by 27. Find the number. 12. Sanjay is now half as old as his brother. In 6 more years he will be as old as his brother then, find the present age of each boy. 13. Find three consecutive numbers whose sum is 108. 14. If the sum of three consecutive multiples of 7 is 777. Find these multiples. 15. If the ratio of the present ages of two brothers is 1 : 2 and 5 years back the ratio was 1 : 3. What will be the ratio after 5 years. 16. Lakshmi is a cashier in a bank. She has currency notes of denominations Rs 100, Rs 50 and Rs 10, respectively. The ratio of the number of these notes is 2:3:5. The total cash with Lakshmi is Rs 4,00,000. How many notes of each denomination does she have? 17. I have a total of Rs 300 in coins of denomination Re 1, Rs 2 and Rs 5. The number of Rs 2 coins is 3 times the number of Rs 5 coins. The total number of coins is 160. How many coins of each denomination are with me? PHYSICS FORCE AND PRESSURE NOTE: Paste this paper in your CW/HW copy and write the answers of following questions. CHEMISTRY 1. Name one contact and one non-contact force? 2. What is SI unit of Force? 3. Which force act from distance and pull iron object? 4. A plastic comb when rubbed with hair can attract piece of paper. Name force and its nature? 5. Can balance force bring about any change in the state of motion? 6. What happen to the speed of moving object when it is pushed in the direction of motion? 7. Two forces 200N and 300N acting on a body in same direction. What is resultant force? 8. If several forces act on a body in different directions, In which direction body move? 9. What is the SI unit of pressure? 10. Where the pressure due to water higher in sea – near base or at top? 11. How does pressure at a point with in a liquid change with its depth? 12. Pressure of liquid is ------ in all directions at same depth (same/vary) 13. Gasses and liquids are collectively known as -----------------? 14. Force is ----- and change in motion is ----------. (effect, cause) 15. Force that acting perpendicular to the object is ------------- (Thrust or pressure) 16. Pressure is ratio of area and thrust (T/F) 17. Pressure exerted by air at any point on the earth is called ---------. 18. Air exert pressure on the earth due to it‟s --------------- (Mass or Weight) 19. Atmospheric pressure is measured by using ----------20. Atmospheric pressure -------------- with altitude (Increase or, Decrease) Q1.Write the formulae of the following compound: 1) Calcium carbonate 2) Ammonium hydroxide _____________________ _____________________ 3) Magnesium nitrate 5 _____________________ 4) Sodium sulphite _____________________ 5) Aluminum sulphate _____________________ Q.2 Collect and stick pictures showing different uses of Metals and Nonmetals in your Chemistry note book. Q.3 Collect the information about „Metalloids‟ and explain their role in different field of our life. Ans: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Q.4 In the evening, Sarita plays guitar for the poor children of her colony. They enjoy listening to guitar. Sarita even teaches some of them how to play guitar, free of cost. (a) Name the property because of which strings in guitar have to be of metal. ________________________________________________________ (b) What do you learn from Sarita ? ________________________________________________________ Q.5. Balance the following chemical equations:  PbO 1. Pb + O2 2. Al + Br2  AlBr3 3. Fe + F2 4. K + N2  K3N 5. P + O2  FeF3  P4O10 Q.4 Sam and his neighbor Ram have got their home fenced with iron rods. Sam saw the next day that Ram was painting the iron fence. Ram suggested Sam to do the same to increase the longevity of iron rods by preventing corrosion. Sam argues that it‟s waste of time & the iron rods 6 are quite strong. After reading the above passage, answer the following questions. (a)Whose opinion is correct according to you? What values are promoted here? ________________________________________________ (b)Why do iron objects found near the sea get corroded faster? ________________________________________________ (c) Are there any other ways to prevent corrosion other than painting? _________________________________________________ * Holiday assignment should be pasted and done in chemistry notebook BIOLOGY We know that microorganisms are classified into four major groups called Algae, Fungi, Protozoa and Bacteria. Draw and label or paste two pictures of each group of microorganisms along with (i) The name of microbe. (ii) Classify microbe in to Useful or harmful category. (iii) Mention the name of the disease, cause and symptoms or the benefit. (Please complete the assignment in a file) HISTORY & CIVICE History: To make a flash card on any tribal leader related to Tribal History of India.EG. Birsa Munda.(Chapter- 4 Tribals,Dikus and the vision of the Golden Age) Civics: To write the definition of given 10 terms in the H.W. copy 1) Secularism 2) Federalism 3) Constitution 4) Preamble 5) Socialism 6) Liberty 7) Equality 8) Fraternity 9) Sovereign 10) Republic GEOGRAPHY Do any one project from the following topics in your Geography notebook. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS  The work should be neat.  Paste photographs, maps, cartoons etc.  Make a bibliography.  The project should not be more than 6-7 pages. 1 “ Together we can make a difference” 2 Think of the most widespread environmental problem of the world. What are the causes of the problem? How can we make a difference and what are the solutions to rectify it? Paste photographs, diagrams or cartoons or make a collage along with your article. Find out how the land use has changed in your locality ( city or village). Talk to elderly persons in your family or neighborhood and collect information about changes in the land use over the years. What has been the impact of the change, is it a positive or a 7 negative change? You can make a sketch/ attach the map of the area studied by you. COMPUTER Note: Write the answers in your Class Notebook only. (Printouts will not be accepted) SCIENCE 1. Explain about Android OS. (about 50 words) 2. What is an ISP? Explain. 3. Explain the difference between hibernating and shutting down your computer system. 4. What is Skydrive? Explain. (about 50 words) 5. Write a short note on Google Docs.(About 100 words) 6. Write five features of a Smart Phone. 7. Explain the term Convergence of technologies. Also give two examples. 8. What is OCR? Where is it used? 9. What do you understand by hacking? Explain. 10. Name any five Antivirus Software.