Name: Venkateshwar International School Sector 18, Dwarka, New Delhi-78 Winter Holidays Homework (2017-18) Class IV ENGLISH Sec.: Q1. Read the following poem carefully and answer the following questions: The Beautiful Sunset A yawn came to my mouth When the night fell The sunset there in front of me All I want now is a cosy time. Tomorrow will be another day Maybe even a little play I'll get some milk and sit back down With not a speck of a frown. Now the spring comes. It's getting cold My leaves on the tree are going gold Bye sunset you were great Oh I'm sorry it's getting late! By Georgia.P Now, Tick the correct answer: (i) The poet wishes for after sunset. (a) friend (c) party (b) cosy time (d) watching T.V. (ii) The poet does not want a on his face. (a) frown (b) smile (c) laughter (c) happiness (iii) The poet talks about season in the poem. (a) Winter (b) Summer (c) Spring (d) Monsoon (iv) Pick out the antonym of the word early from the poem. (v) Pick out a pair of rhyming words from the poem. 1
Q2. Do as directed: (a) Hurry up! We for you.( Present Continuous Form of wait ) (b) Sara ( run /runs) in the park everyday. (c) That is egg.(a/an) (d) She purchased a beautiful, new gown (for/four) the dance. (e) The fisherman across the river. (Past Tense of swim ) (f) She (has/have) bought a new dress. (g) Radha is a hardworking an intelligent girl. (use appropriate Conjunction) (h) It was a day. (an adjective of quality) (i) Rima stood the door.(use a preposition) (j) Maya is than her sister but Kaya is the. (use the correct degree of adjective for brave ) (k) Do you want to drink milk? (use an adjective of quantity) (l) She was sick. She did not come to school. (Join the two sentences using suitable conjunction and rewrite) (m) There are students playing in the ground.( use an adjective of number) (n) The children are disciplined. always walk in a queue. (Use a suitable pronoun) (o) The birds chirp every morning.(an adverb of manner) 2
Q3. Sort the adjectives according to their degree of comparison. Poorest quiet wise nearer greatest closer Kindest quicker heavy Positive Comparative Superlative Q4. Use the correct degree of the given adjectives and complete the sentences. a. I went to meet my friend who lives my house. (near) b. Apples are than oranges. (sweet) c. He took the way out to solve the problem. (easy) d. Tanya is the in her family. (young) e. He is a businessman. (clever) f. John is than his brother. (smart) Q5. Compare members of this happy family in a short paragraph of six to eight sentences. You may take help of the words given in the help box. Sweet younger tallest oldest kind wisest naughty 3
Q6. Complete the sentences using suitable adverbs of manner given in the help box. Easily hungrily beautifully readily a. He agreed to help out in household chores. b. She danced to soft music. c. Garima ate her breakfast. d. Manoj lifted the heavy table. Q7. Write sentences using the following adverbs of time. a. yesterday b. already c. tomorrow Q8. Complete the sentences using appropriate conjunctions. a. Sheetal liked bread butter. b. I will go out it stops raining. c. He lost his luggage his tickets. d. I will have bread jam for breakfast. e. Ria is harworking Shrey is not. f. It was dark I didn t go out to play. g. Would you like to have tea coffee? h. I missed my flight I was late. 4
Name: SCIENCE Q1. Solve the given crossword taking help of the given clues.z Sec. ACROSS 2. The animals that carry young ones in their pouch. 5. A grooved wheel with a rope. 10. The egg cluster laid by female frogs. 11. The energy obtained from the splitting of atoms. 12. A pull or a push. 13. The force by which the earth pulls everything towards itself. DOWN 1. A natural substance that has chemical energy stored in it. 3. A mammal that lays eggs. 4. The process of shedding old skin. 6. The time period for which a plant or an animal lives. 7. A white watery substance that surrounds the egg yolk. 8. uses the force of moving air to generate electricity. 9. Larva of a housefly. 10. A special form of inclined plane. 5
Q2. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) was set up by Dr. Homi Jhangir Bhabha in March 1944. It is based at Mumbai. To read more about it, visit http://www.barc.gov.in/. Write in your own words a short note on how BARC is contributing to the development of India. Q3. Complete the given table. S. No. Animal Lifespan Egg laying/ Mammal 1. butterfly 2. rhinoceros 3. porcupine 4. cuttlefish 5. Red panda 6. squirrel Q4. Cut out the appliances/objects from the given sheet and paste them below in the appropriate box depending upon the energy they release on working. Sound Energy Mechanical Energy Light Energy Heat Energy 6
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SOCIAL SCIENCE Name: Sec. Q1. Following are names of trees written in jumbled way. Write them in correct way and put them in their respective category. LABBU, AKIKR, GAYNHAOM, DOOSOEWR, RPECUS, DASIUNR, NYOBE, ETAK S. No. Name of the tree Name of the forest Name of the Indian state, they are found in 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Q2. You have read about many explorers. Here are few more. Collect information and fill the columns. First to - Name Country (a) Reach the north pole (b) Go into space (c) Walk on the moon (d) Reach the South pole (e) Reach Amazon basin 8
Q3. All About Mineral Resource. Find the hidden word in the puzzle and put them in blanks: (a) Digging out ores from under the ground is called. (b) An is a rock that contains a large amount of a particular mineral. (c) We get aluminium from. (d) Cement is made from. (e) is the hardest mineral found in nature. (f) is made from manganese. S U M I N I N G G D I A M O N D K R S L D N K A N C Q T R S E P O Z E J E T W Z R A C E M E N T E F L O S T L W Z C F H I K N B P B A U X I T E 9
Q4. Trees are an important part of our world. Pick a tree in your neighbourhood and write a thank you note to your tree for everything it does. Draw or stick the picture of the tree and write a note for it in the space given below. 10
MATHEMATICS Name: Sec. Q1. Colour the given maps of different countries. Write the name of the country they belong to. Also, draw and write the number (in the box) of the lines of symmetry they have. 11
Q2. Solve the given Sudoku puzzle. A Sudoku game involves a grid of 81 squares. The grid is divided into nine blocks, each containing nine squares. The rules of the game are simple: each of the nine blocks has to contain all the numbers 1-9 within its squares. Each number can only appear once in a row, column or box. Q3. Solve the given puzzle. 12
Q4. Fill in the blanks: (a) Smallest 4 digit number with 6 in the ones place = (b) In 7, the integral part is and the fractional part is. (c) is 15,220 more than 50,780. (d) 2 + + 2 + + (e) 860, 755, 650,, (f) of the number is 40. (g) Shankar started at 9 pm and reached Gaya at 9 am the next day. Time taken = (h) 5 5 ( Use >, < or =) (i) Sum of three thousand five hundred seventeen ; sixty four thousand five hundred one ; and sixteen thousand seven hundred forty nine is. Q5. Guess the mystery number = Clues:- It is less than 2000. Its tens digit is 2. Its hundred digit is 4 more than the tens digit. The sum of the digits is 9. Q6. Arrange in ascending order: (a) 5.525, 5.025, 5.5, 5.005, 5.255 (b),,,, Q7. Study the pattern and fill in the empty boxes. 25 29 33 21 25 29 17 21 25 13 17 21 13
Q8. Convert : (a) 9 m 62 cm into cm (c) 11008 g in kg and g (b) 5009 m in km and m (d) 10kg 55g in g Q9. Convert to hours and minutes: (a) 197 seconds (b) 7206 seconds (c) 360 seconds Q10. Convert to days and hours: (a) 72 hours (b) 186 hours (c) 480 hours Q11. How much time has passed? (a) (b) Q12. Solve: (a) 25 kg 500g + 17 kg 125 g (b) 35 litre 120 millilitre 8 (c) 34,755 + 74,913 + 25,332 (d) 2,01,834 1,92,380 (e) 583 78 (f) 74,393 9 (g) of 324 (h) -- (i) 45.432 4 (j) 5.79 7 Q13. Word Problems: (a) Sheetal made 220 sandwiches to sell at school fair. Lakshita made 468 sandwiches. Both of them sold of their sandwiches. How many sandwiches were left unsold with them? (b) A tailor used 24m 32 cm of cloth to make 8 dresses. What length of cloth did he use to make each? (c) A gym charges its members Rs. 1500 for a quarter. What does it charge for a year? 14
(d) Simmi won Rs. 5,25,400 in a game show; Rs. 2,68,750 in a quiz show and Rs. 1,50,650 in a dance competition. How much money did she win all? (e) Mrs. Shetty went to shop at 5:00 pm and came back after 3 h 17 min. When did she come back after shopping? (f) An airbag full of clothes weighs 22 kg. If the weight of the clothes is 19 kg 700 g, what is the weight of bag? (g) Sahil takes his dog for a walk in the morning for 1 h 35 min and then in the evening for 45 min. What is the total time he spends walking with the dog? 15
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