English Holiday Homework

PODAR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Holiday Homework (2015-16)

Class: VII                                                                                        Subject: English Name: _________________________________                               Roll: _______

I.		Composition
	1.	You are Arpit/ Aparna, the Head Boy/ Girl of Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, Delhi. The Principal has asked you to call a meeting of the house council members to allocate duties for the Daily Assembly Activities. Write a notice in not more than 50 words. Invent the necessary details of date, time and place.
	2.	Write story, taking help from the given outline. Do not exceed 150 words. Give a suitable title and a moral to your story. Three men – on a long journey – came across a bag full of pieces of gold – very happy – decide to divide it equally – they feel hungry – one of them goes to get food – decides to poison the food and keep all the gold – other to plan to kill the first one on his return – first man dies – other two eat the poisoned food – they also die – moral
II.		Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
		The lone cowboy leaped from the saddle and took refuge behind the pile of rocks at the edge of the trail. Already arrows were whistling around him, and the war hoops of the Indians were loud in his ears.             It would take all of “Quick draw” Thompson’s courage and determination to get him safely out of this peril. Not only was his life at stake, but those of the settlers sleeping peacefully in their log cabins in the lovely valley below. It was so long since there was an Indian rising that the Palefaces had become careless. Their guns were seldom to hand, and their look outs had begun to think that they were wasting their time peering out across the prairie for an enemy that never came. The Redman had chosen the time carefully. Lone Elk had seen to that!
	1.	Tick the correct option:
	a.	The cowboy hid behind …             i.            a bush           ii.            a hedge          iii.            rocks        iv.            trees
	b.	He was only just in time because…             i.            a tiger had just passed           ii.            the shooter had just passed          iii.            arrows were whistling around        iv.            the enemies otherwise could see him
	c.	Thompson is named…             i.            the Redman           ii.            the Paleface          iii.            the Indian        iv.            Quick draw
	2.	Complete the statements.
	a.	The Palefaces had become careless because …
	b.	The lives of ____________ and ____________ were in danger.
III.		Do as Directed:
	1.	Shamita as well as her mother ____________ (love/loves) chocolates.                    (Fill in the blank with the correct word)
	2.	The policeman is watching them. (Change the voice)
	3.	She said, “I drink milk every day”. (Rewrite using reported speech.)
	4.	I cannot see __________ tea in the tea-pot. (any/few) (Fill in the blank with the correct adjective.)
	5.	B.M.C sweepers _________ the roads daily. (sweep) (Fill in the blank with the correct tense of the given verb.)

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