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HOLIDAY HOMEWORK 2015-16

CLASS X

FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH:

Attempt Past Papers in exam conditions.

May June 2014: Papers 21, 22, 31,32

ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE:

Attempt Past Papers as per the exam conditions. Don’t take extra time.

1. ESL 0510 - JUNE 2014 – Paper 22, 23

2. ESL 0510 – NOV. 2014 – Papers 23

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows:

The shelving tidied the room considerably, freeing large areas of the floor. Divided by their partitions, the five beds were in line along the rear wall, facing the mahogany wardrobe. In between was an open space of three or four feet, a further six feet on either side of the wardrobe.

The sight of so much spare space fascinated Ward. When Rossiter mentioned that Helen’s mother was ill and badly needed personal care he immediately knew where her cubicle could be placed – at the foot of his bed, between the wardrobe and the side wall.

Helen was overjoyed. ‘It’s awfully good of you, John,’ she told him, ‘but would you mind if Mother slept beside me? There’s enough space to fit an extra bed in.’

So Rossiter dismantled the partitions and moved them closer together, six beds now in line along the wall. This gave each of them an interval two and a half feet wide, just enough room to squeeze down the side of their beds. Lying back on the extreme right, the shelves two feet above his head, Ward could barely see the wardrobe, but the space in front of him, a clear six feet to the wall ahead, was uninterrupted.

Then Helen’s father arrived.

Knocking on the door of the cubicle, Ward smiled at Judith’s aunt as she let him in. He helped her swing out the made-up bed which guarded the entrance, than rapped on the wooden panel. A moment later Helen’s father, a small, grey-haired man in an undershirt, braces tied to his trousers with string, pulled back the panel.

Ward nodded to him and stepped over the luggage piled around the floor at the foot of the beds. Helen was in her mother’s cubicle, helping the old woman to drink her evening broth. Rossiter, perspiring heavily, was on his knees by the mahogany wardrobe, wrenching apart the frame of the central mirror with a jemmy. Pieces of the wardrobe lay on his bed and across the floor.

‘We’ll have to start taking these out tomorrow,’ Rossiter told him. Ward waited for Helen’s father to shuffle past and enter his cubicle. He had rigged up a small cardboard door, and locked it behind him with a crude hook of bent wire.

Rossiter watched him, frowning irritably. ‘Some people are happy. This wardrobe’s a hell of a job. How did we ever decide to buy it?’

Ward sat down on his bed. The partition pressed against his knees and he could hardly move. He looked up when Rossiter was engaged and saw that the dividing line he had marked in pencil was hidden by the encroaching partition.

Leaning against the wall, he tried to ease it back again, but Rossiter had apparently nailed the lower edge to the floor.

There was a sharp tap on the outside cubicle door – Judith returning from her office. Ward started to get up and then sat back. ‘Mr Waring,’ he called softly. It was the old man’s duty night.

Waring shuffled to the door of his cubicle and unlocked it fussily, clucking to himself.

‘Up and down, up and down,’ he muttered. He stumbled over Rossiter’s tool-bag and swore loudly, then added meaningly over his shoulder: ‘If you ask me there’s too many people in here. Down below they’ve only got six to our seven, and it’s the same size room.’ Ward nodded vaguely and stretched back on his narrow bed, trying not to bang his head on the shelving. Waring was not the first to hint that he move out. Judith’s aunt had made a similar suggestion two days earlier. Since he had left his job at the library (the small rental he charged the others paid for the little food he needed) he spent most of his time in the room, seeing rather more of the old man than he wanted to, but he had learned to tolerate him.

Settling himself, he noticed that the right-hand spire of the wardrobe, all he had been able to see of it for the past two months, was now dismantled.

It had been a beautiful piece of furniture, in a way symbolising this whole private world, and the salesman at the store told him there were few like it left. For a moment Ward felt a sudden pang of regret, as he had done as a child when his father, in a moment of exasperation, had taken something away from him and he had known he would never see it again.

Then he pulled himself together. It was a beautiful wardrobe, without doubt, but when it was gone it would make the room seem even larger.

Billennium

1. How does Ballard’s writing in the passage contribute to make this an effective conclusion to the story?

2 Analyse the following characters from The Merchant of Venice:

- Shylock

- Bassanio

- Portia

- Antonio

3 Explore the contrast in the settings in Belmont and Venice in The Merchant of Venice.

HINDI

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ECONOMICS

Essay:

Students are required to write an essay on any one of the topics given below:

1. The impact of foreign direct investment in the retail sector in India

2. The importance of microfinance in the Indian economy

3. Causes and types of unemployment in developed, underdeveloped and developing countries. Suggested solutions for the same.

4. Causes and effects of inequalities of income & wealth in our country and steps taken by Govt. to mitigate these.

Activity:

1. France is the most visited tourist country in the world, with over 80 million visitors each year; the USA is second with 63 million visitors.

a. Investigate any other popular tourist city in Europe.

b. Using demand theory, explain the factors that make this city so popular.

2. Parents in the UK are fined if they do not send their children to school. This rule is designed to improve the uptake of education. From 2015, full-time education in the UK will be compulsory for children up to 18 years of age.

a. Investigate the laws and regulations in our country which are used to correct market failure. How effective have these laws and regulations been?

IGCSE Past Papers: Students are required to solve the following papers:

0455 June 2014 – 12, 22

455. e 2013 – 12,22

ACCOUNTING:

Solve the following past papers mentioned below:

Paper Year

0452/11 May/June 2011

0452/12 May/June 2011

0452/11 May/June 2012

0452/12 May/June 2012

0452/11 May/June 2013

0452/12 May/June 2013

BUSINESS STUDIES

|Series |Paper 12 |Paper22 |

|MJ 14 |( |( |

|MJ 13 |( |( |

|MJ 12 |( |( |

CHEMISTRY

STUDY PLAN

Prepare all the chapters done in class again.

Attempt Past papers 1 & 3

2 Papers per Week.

• Attempt Paper 1 and 3 by the clock with the gap of 15 min.

|Paper 1 |Paper 3 |

|2012- 2014 [summer, winter] |2012- 2014 [ summer, winter] |

PHYSICS

Solve CIE papers:

1. P3 - 0625/31 for the years 2011 to 2014 for May/June.

2. P1 – 0625/11 for the years 2011 to 2014 for Oct./ Nov

BIOLOGY

Attempt past papers of IGCSE Biology.

|Paper 1 |Paper 3 |Paper 6 |

|2012- 2014 [summer, winter] |2012- 2014 [ summer, winter] |2012- 2014 [summer, winter] |

GEOGRAPHY

Attempt Past Papers - May/June 2009

Paper 1, 2 and 4.

HISTORY

Solving of past papers of 2014 of codes 12,22,42

ICT

Solve past papers of the year 2012, 2013 all variants

COMPUTER STUDIES

Solve past papers of the year 2011,2012,2013 all variants

FRENCH

PAPER 4

Page 36 et 37 du livre supplémentaire (Curriculum)

Q1. Vous devez écrire 110-140 mots.

Une école chinoise va rendre visite à votre école.Ecrivez une lettre au groupe français pour parler de votre école.

• Decrivezvotre vie scolaire.

• Dites ce que vous aimez le plus dans votre école et donnez vos raisons.

• Expliquez le programme de votre visite.

Q2. Faites une composition—“ma maison et ma famille”. Que faites-vous pour aider à la maison.

Q3. Vous êtes un membre un club. Parlez des activités.Dites ce que vous aimez le plus et pourquoi?

Vous devez écrire 110-104 mots.

Q4. Vous voyez dans un journal une invitation à participer à un débat. Lisezl’invitationpuisécrivezuneréponse au journal.

|Faire les courses – plaisir ou nécessité? |

|Aimez-vous faire les courses? |

• Dites ce qu'il y a comme magasins dans votre ville/village/région.

• Dites où vous faites vos achats. Pourquoi? Avec qui?

• Faites-vous des achats sur Internet? Pourquoi/pourquoi pas?

• Dites ce que vous aimez acheter et pourquoi.

Q5. Vous avez passé un week-end à l'Hôtel Soleil en France – mais, malheureusement vous avez oublié quelque chose là-bas.

Écrivez une lettre à l'hôtel.

• Dites pourquoi vous écrivez et ce que vous avez oublié.

• Donnez les dates de votre séjour et le numéro de votre chambre.

• Décrivez l'objet perdu.

• Dites pourquoi cet objet vous est important.

• Dites comment l'hôtel peut vous contacter.

GERMAN

1. Solve O Level Past Papers - 2012- 2014.

2. Assignment Booklet exercises to be completed for revision of concepts.

3. Proverbs and Phrase Bank: Search and collect German Proverbs & Phrases along with sentences.

SPANISH

a) Past Papers from the spiral notebook

• 0530/23 P2 Oct./Nov.2010

• 0530/04 P4 oct./Nov. 2009

• 0530/22 P2 May/Jun 2011

• 0530/41 P4 May/Jun 2010

• SAMPLE PAPER 2015 (Already sent to the students by email)

b) 10 Frases Hechas y Refranes (Un Repaso)

MATHS

Past papers : Year 2014 : 0580/ 21 and 0580 / 41 May, June and October and November

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