PRELUDE PUBLIC SCHOOLHOLIDAY HOMEWORK

SESSION 2017-18CLASS-X

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General instructions:

1. Copy all the questions in your notebook along with the solutions.2. Complete your HHW in neat and clean handwriting.3. Do the HHW in the respective subject school notebook.4. Bring the completed HHW on the day the school.5. For Hindi holiday home work, please download kruti dev 010 font then you can see the

Hindi HHW.

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H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S !!!

PRELUDE PUBLIC SCHOOL HOLIDAY HOMEWORK SESSION: 2017-18 Std. 10: A, B, CGENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Bring the homework the same day when the school will re-open. Do not wait for the instruction for the submission.

Name: Ms. Nitika Tewari Subject: ENGLISH

Writing skills:

1. You are Tanvi/ Shirish of C-105, Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi. You are extremely disturbed on reading about attacks on old people living alone. Write a letter to the Editor of “The new Indian Express” sensitizing people and drawing attention to this problem.

2. The recent reports in the press about the growing incidence of bullying in schools, has greatly disturbed you. Write a letter to the editor of ‘Education Plus’ newspaper expressing your views on this problem and suggesting ways to solve it. Sign yourself as Mohan/ Monica of class X-B of Delhi Public School, New Delhi.

Literature Reader:

Q.1 Answer the following questions in 25-30 words.

1. How did the war change the lives of Nicola, Jacopo and Lucia?2. Why were the author and his friend attracted towards the two boys?3. Louisa Mebbin had a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general. How?4. Do you think Mrs. Packletide was able to achieve her heart’s desire? Give reasons for your answer.5. The frog said ‘I tried to teach her but she was a stupid creature’. What does this tell us about the frog and the

nightingale?6. How did the nightingale die?7. Why did the ticket office gross crash?8. How did the creatures in the bog react to the frog’s voice?9. Why does the nightingale call the frog a ‘Mozart in disguise’?10. Was Mrs. Packletide successful in killing a tiger?11. Why did Mrs. Packletide give up big-game shooting?12. Many characters in Saki’s stories are vulnerable to blackmail. Which character in the story was blackmailed and

why?13. What happened when the boys rejoined the author?

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14. How were the boys helpful for the author?15. What touched the author deeply in the end?

Q.2 Answer the following questions in 60-70 words:

1. The boys’ sacrifice, their sincerity and devotion, the cause and the maturity they display in their actions give a new hope to humanity. Explain.

2. ‘They had always known a comfortable and cultured life.’ If one has got ‘family values one can surmount all the hurdles and emerge as a winner. On the basis of the story, ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’, write a paragraph to support the above statement.

3. The author aims to create a satire on the pretentious upper class Edwardian society. Elaborate.4. A few years later Mrs. Packletide writes a diary entry about her experience of killing the tiger. As Mrs.

Packletide, write this diary entry.5. Frog symbolizes the cunning and crafty people who can go to any extent to achieve their goal. Elaborate.6. We cannot destroy a person by power but we can destroy him by crushing his morale. Elaborate.

Q.3 Reference to context:

A. “We do many things, sir,” Nicola answered seriously. He glanced at us hopefully. “Often we show visitors through the town… to Juliet’s tomb… and other places of interest.”

1. What all things did the boys do?2. Why did the boy glanced hopefully?3. What is the meaning of the phrase ‘Juliet’s tomb’ here?

B. She led me through a cool, tiled vestibule into the hospital- for hospital the villa had become. At the door of a little cubicle the nurse paused, put her finger to her lips, and with a smile bade me look through the glass partition.

1. Who is she in the lines?2. What is the meaning of ‘vestibule’?3. What did the author see through the glass cubicle?

C. ‘The incidental expenses are so heavy’, she confides to inquiring friend.

1. Who is the speaker in the above lines?2. Why had the ‘incidental expenses’ become so heavy?3. Why had the speaker incurred the incidental expenses?

D. “How amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened.”

1. Who is the speaker?2. What had ‘really happened’?3. What does the word, ‘amused’ mean?

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E. ‘Dumbstruck sat the gaping frog.

And the whole admiring bog

Started towards the Sumac, rapt,

And, when she had ended, clapped.’

1. Why was the frog of the bog dumbstruck?2. Why did the whole admiring bog look towards the sumac tree?3. What is the meaning of the word ‘Dumbstruck’?

F. Now the frog puffed up with rage.

“Brainless bird- you’re on the stage-

Use your wits and follow fashion.

Puff your lungs out with your passion.”

1. Why was the frog puffed up with rage?2. What is the opposite of the word ‘brainless’?3. What happened when the nightingale puffed up with passion?

G. “But I can’t sing in this weather.”

“Come my dear-we’ll sing together.

Just put on your scarf and sash,

Koo-oh-ah! Ko-ash! Ko-ash!”

So the frog and the nightingale

Journeyed up and down the scale.

1. Why did the nightingale resist the frog’s insistence to sing?2. The frog didn’t agree to the nightingale’s request because he was …………3. ‘Journeyed up and down the scale’ mean ……………

Grammar:

Q.1 The following passages have not been edited. There is an error in each line against which there is a blank. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided.

A. I entered the manager's office and sat down.I have just lost five hundred rupees and I felt very upset. a) ______"I leave the money in my desk," I said, b) ______"and it is not there now". The manager was very sympatheticbut he can do nothing. "Everyone loses money these days", c) ______

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he said, He start to complain about this wicked world, d) ______but is interrupted by a knock at the door. e) ______A girl came in and puts an envelope on his desk. f) ______It contains five hundred rupees. "I found this g) ______outside this gentleman's room," she said."Well! I say to the manager, "there is still some h) ______honesty in this world !"

B. Parmesh and his friends planning a trip a) _____during the summer vacations. While all of them b) _____keen to get away from the heat, none them were able to suggest which place to visit. c) _____It only draw of lots which could finally decide the matter. d) _____They decided on Ooty as it neither too far away nor too crowded. e) _____The date of departure and the duration of their stay still to be decided. f) _____The announcement of their final exam date sheet still two weeks away. g) _____Until then, each of them resolved h) _____collect information about hill station. i) _____

C. My day begins on five O'clock in the morning a) _____It has been so since the last forty years b) ______except for the two years of which I was c) _______very ill. I wake up at the sound of an d) ______alarm clock bought at 1952. e) _______From then until today, it has never f) _______let me down. My routine, however turns topsy-turvyin holidays when I cannot sleep for ten O'clock. I have g) ______ maintained a fairly regular routine over my working years. h) _______When I retire on two years' time, I hope I will be i) _______able to continue this practice.

D. One morning, the Nawab call a) _________

his minister and said him b) _________

that I wanted the length and c) _________

breadth from the earth d) _________

measured. He also feel the e) _________

need to have the stars on the f) _________sky counted. The minister says g) _________that the task he have been h) _________set being impossible. i) _________

Q.2 Mark the places where a word has been omitted with a '/' and indicate the omitted word in the space provided:

A. After the holy man had spoken Rama, __________he told Rama's mother that should __________be sent to pray the Kali Temple at the __________village. He promised good lady that if __________

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this was done, Kali, the goddess appear, __________take pity on him and bless. Then, all her __________worries would over. __________

B. Srinagar abounds natural beauty ___________It is often termed a paradise on earth ___________Tourists from all world come to ___________see its ever lasting beauty scattered over ___________its outskirts. It is a small place, intensely ___________fascinating.

C. APJ Abdul Kalam was born a middle-class Tamil a) _________family. He was one many children. He was b) _________a short boy rather undistinguished looks c)_________born to tall handsome parents. They lived d)_________in their ancestral house, was built in the e)_________middle of 19th century. It was a fairly large g)_________house on the Mosque Street Rameshwaram. h)_________his austere father used avoid all essential i)__________comforts and luxuries, but childhood was quite j)_________secure one.

Q.3 From each tense, make one statement, negative sentence and interrogative sentence. For example, in Simple Present tense- Statement: She plays football regularly.

Negative: She doesn’t play football regularly.

Interrogative: Does she play football?

Q.4 Fill the correct determiner in the following sentences.

1. I asked my mother for ________ money to buy my ticket.2. ________ blue car belongs to my uncle.3. Don’t you have _______ friends in the other section?4. Please give me ________ more coffee.5. There are only __________ toffees left in the tin.6. I shall not buy ________ mangoes.7. How _________ milk will be needed for breakfast?8. She cares only for __________ and not for others.9. _______ new book-store has opened near my home.10. There is not _______ boot polish in this tin.

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Name: Ms. Babita Rani

Subject: HINDI

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Name : Punit Dutta, Sarvesh Yadav

Subject: Mathematics

Very short answer type questions(1 mark)

1. Give H.C.F. of (16,100) = 4, then L.C.M. is

(a) 200 (b) 400 (c)600 (d)800

2. For two positive number a and b , then exists two unique numbers q and r such that : ( a ) a = b q + r , r > 0 ( b ) a = b q + r ; 0 < r > b ( c ) a = b q + r , 0 < r < b ( d ) a = b q + r , 0 r < b

3. The decimal expansion of the rational number 43/(24x53) will terminate after

(a) 3 places (b) 4 places (c)5 places (d)1 places

4. The smallest composite number is:-

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4

5. If one of the zero of the polynomial 5x2+13x+a is reciprocal of the other then find value of a.

6. Write the number of real roots of the equation (x -1)2 + (x - 2)2 + (x)2

7.Find the zeroes of polynomial 2x2+5x+3 .

8.If (x+a) is a factor of 2x2+2ax+5x+10, then the value of a=?

9. Which of the following will have a terminating decimal expansion:

(a) 125/441 . (b). 35/50. (c) 77/210 (d) 129/2257'717

10. If α and β are the zeroes of the polynomial f(x)=x 2 + x + 1, then (1/α) + (1/β) = ?

(a) 1(b) -1 (c) 0 (d) None of these

Short answer type questions(2 marks)

11.Find the largest number that divides 2053 and 967 and leaves a remainder of 5 and 7 resp.

12. Find the largest number that will divide 398, 436 and 542 leaving remainders 7, 11 and 15 resp.

13. Find the LCM and HCF of 84, 90 and 120 by applying the prime factorization method.

14. Find the smallest number which when increased by17 is exactly divisible by both 520 an468.

15. Find the Zeroes of the polynomial f(x)=4√3x2+5x-2√3, and verify the relationship between

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zeros and its coefficient.

16. A shop keeper has 120 litres of petrol, 180 litres of diesel and 240 litres of kerosene. He wants to sell

oil by filling the three kinds of oils in tins of equal

capacity. What should be the greatest capacity of such a tin.

17. Show that (n2-1) is divisible by 8, if n is an odd positive integer.

18. Find the value of ‘k’ such that the quadratic polynomial x2-(k+6) x+2(2k+1) has sum of the zeros is half of their product.

19. Write the conditions to be satisfied by q so that a rational number p/q a non terminating repeating decimal expansion.

20. The HCF of two numbers is 145 and their LCM is 2175 .If one number is 725, find the other number.

Long answer type questions(3 marks each)

21. Find the values of a and b, if the sum and the product of the roots of the equation

4ax2+4bx+3=0 are 1/2 and 3/16 respectively.

22. Find all the zeroes of the polynomial f(x) = 2x4-3x3-3x2+6x-2, if being given that two of its zeroes are 2 and - 2.

23. Cheek whether the polynomial (t2-3) is a factor of the polynomial 2t4+3t3-2t2-9t-12 by Division method.

24. If the polynomial x4-6x3+16x2-25x+10 id divided by another polynomial x2-2x+k, the remainder comes out to be (x+a), find ‘k’ and ‘a’.

25.Prove that √17 is irrational.

26.Use Euclid's division Lemma to show that the cube of any positive integer is either of the form 9m,9m+1 or 9m+8 for some integer m.

27. If one zero of the quadratic polynomial f(x) = 4x2-8kx-9 is negative of the other, find the value of ‘k’.

28. If a and b are the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial f(x)= x2+px+q, form a polynomial whose zeroes are (a+b)2 and (a-b)2

29. If a and b are the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial f(x)= 3x2-4x+1, form a

polynomial whose zeroes are a2/b and b2/a.

Very long answer type questions(4 marks each)

30. If the sum of the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial f(t) = kt2+2t+3k is equal to

their product, find the value of ‘k’

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31. Find the zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = 2x4 + 7x3 -19x2 -14x +30 if two of its zeroes are √2 a n d - √2.

32. If d is the HCF of 468 and 222, find x and y satisfying d = 468x + 222y. Also show that x and y are not unique.

33. Find the zeroes of the polynomial f(x) = x3 -5x2 - 2x + 24 , if it is given that the product its two zeroes is 12.

34. Find the values of a and b so that x4 + x3 + 8x2 + ax + b is divisible by x2 + 1.

35. Find the largest number which divides 245 and 1029 leaving remainder 5 in each

Case.

36. Obtain all zeroes of the polynomial f(x)= 2x4+x3-14x2-19x-6, if two of its zeros are -

2 and -1.

37. Prove that in √nn is not a rational number, if n is not perfect square

38. Find the zeros of the polynomial 2x2 + 5 x+3 , also verify the relationship between zeros and coefficients.

39. find the zeros of the polynomial √2 x2 + 5x +3√2 , also verify the relationship between zeros and coefficients.

40. Two milk containers contains 398 L and 436 L of milk the milk is to be transferred to another container with the help of a drum. While transferring to another container 7L and 11L of milk is left in both the containers respectively. What will be the maximum capacity of the drum.

Part 2(subject enrichment activity)Make a project on branches of mathematics (i) Algebra (ii) Geometry.

SCIENCE:

Name: Ms. Pooja Gulati

Subject: PHYSICS

Book to refer: S.CHAND

S.No. Que. No. Page No.

1. 8,15,17,19,20 173

2. 25,26,28 174

3. 7,10,13,19 179

4. 6,8,12,14,16,17 189

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5. 20,24,28 190

6. 15,16,17 198

7. 21,24,27,30 199

8. 38,40,45 200

9. 4,8,11,14,15,18 205

10. 19,20,23,25,26,27 206

11. 1,2,3,6,8,9,10 209

Name: Ms. Manisha Srivastava

Subject: CHEMISTRY

BOOK: S.CHAND

CH: CHEMICAL REACTION AND EQUATION

Page: 19, Q.no.15, 17

Page 20, Q.no. 22,24, 29, 33, 34,35

Page 22-23, Q.no. 46 to 55

Page 45, Q.no. 15

Page 46 Q.no. 17 to23,25,26

Page 48 Q.no. 43 to 45

Page 49 Q.no. 58 to 67

CH: ACIDS, BASES AND SALT

Page 66 Q.no. 1, 2, 13, 14, 28, 29 30

Page 67 Q.no. 31, 32, 33, 44 to 51

Name: Ms. Tanuja Dixit

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Subject: Biology

Chapter: Life processes

Biology Lakhmir Singh Manjit Kaur

Pg-26 Q63-Q70

Pg-25 Q40-Q62

Pg-48 Q47-Q51

Pg-46 Q1-Q24

Name: Ms. Shilpi Verma

Subject: Social Science

{Paste this page in the subject register}

*CHAPTER: DEVELOPMENT

1. “Sustainable development is the need of the hour.” Do you agree? Justify.

2. Mention any five features of a developed country.

3. What is meant by “overusing a resource”? Explain with examples.

*CHAPTER: SECTORS OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY

1. Define with examples:a. Primary activity d. Final goods g. unorganized sectorb. Secondary activity e. intermediate goodsc. Tertiary activity f. organized sector

Assignment: Prepare a assignment on “NREGA”. {Meaning, year of launching, reasons of launching the scheme, its impacts, and its limitations}

*CHAPTER: THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

1. Examine the main features of the process of German Unification under the leadership of Otto Von Bismarck.2. Describe in brief by which the British nation came into existence.{ Unification of Britain}3. “Culture played an important role in creating the idea of the nation in Europe.”Support

the statement with examples.4. What is meant by Balkan? Why did it turn into perennial sources of tension and proved the battle field of First

World War?

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*PROJECT: DISASTER MANAGEMENT

TOPIC: “Communication facilities for Disaster Management.”

Instructions for making the project:

1. The project report should be neatly bounded in a simple folder. Avoid plastic covers.X A- Blue coverX B- Red coverX C- Green cover

2. All photographs ,sketches should be labeled.3. Cover page should contain:

Title, student’s info, school, year

Name: Mr. Gaurav Arora

Subject: Foundations of IT

Chapter-1Introduction to Internet

Very short answer questions: (1 MARKS)

1. List three communication channels by capacity (from most to least) : T – 1, ISDN, and T – 3. 2. In URL, http://www.mycorp.com/pr/master.htm, what is the http component?

3. In URL, http://www.mycorp.com/pr/master.htm, what is the www.mycorp.com component?

4. In URL, http://www.mycorp.com/pr/master.htm, what is the /pr/master.htm component? a. What do you understand by a (i) Web browser (ii) Web server?

5. Differentiate between a web page and a home page. 6. How is a website different from a web portal? 7. How are hypertext and http interrelated? 8. Define the following :

(i) Hypertext (ii) URL (iii) http ?

9. What is internet?

10. Mention some uses of internet?

11. What do you understand by the following? (i) URL (ii) Multimedia.

12. Name some protocols used in the internet?

13. Name some protocols used on internet.

14. Give Expansion for the following Web Extensions.

(I) Com (ii) Edu (iii) gov (iv) mil (v) net (vi) org (vii) co

15. What is ISP?(3 MARKS)

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Short Answer Questions

1. Explain briefly why sometimes the internet is sometimes described as “a network of networks”. 2. Describe the volunteer bodies that govern the internet. 3. How can one connect to the internet? 4. How is a file communicated to another computer on internet? 5. What is WWW? How does it function? 6. What are the various Attribute of WWW?

7. Discuss the functioning of a web browser and a web server. Also give some examples of web browser and web server.

8. Which two web addressing methods are used on internet? Discuss with examples. 9. What is a URL? What are its components? Exemplify.

10. What is a web site? How is it related to a web page and a home page? 11. What do you understand by HTTP? How is it related to World Wide Web? 12. What is intranet? Differentiate between an intranet and internet. 13. Write short notes on functioning of internet.

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS (5 MARKS)1. Discuss the history of internet and highlight the milestone of it.

2. There are various types of servers on internet. Discuss them along with the protocols used by them and the information they provide.

3. There are many application areas of internet. Identify some of them. 4. What do you understand by E-mail? What is its significance? 5. What is protocol? How do protocols affects internet? 6. Expand the following acronyms.

(i) TCP/IP (ii) ISP (iii) URL (iv) HTTP (v) HTML

(vi) WWW (vii) DNS (viii) ISDN (ix) ARPANET (x) NSFnet

7. Write the domain – ids or web extensions given to sites of following types of organization : (i) Commercial firm (ii) Educational firm (iii) Government body (iv) Military (v) ISP/Network (vi) NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) (vii) No- Profit Organization

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(viii) Listed Company

Chapter-2

Internet Services

Very short answer question (1 MARKS)

1. What is net surfing? 2. Which is the most used features of internet?

3. What are the two parts of email address? Which character is used to separates the two parts? 4. In an email accounts which folder stores the received emails? 5. What is emoticon? What is its usage? 6. What is a search engine? What is its function? Name some search engine? 7. What is spider software? What does it do? 8. What is the other name of spider software? 9. Why is it necessary to be online while chatting? 10. What is telnet? what is its significance?11. What is a news group?

12. What is the name given to a group of related messages in a newsgroup? 13. What is chatting is it necessary to be online while chatting?

Short answer question (3 MARKS)1. Explain the structure of an Email address.

2. Explain the structure of an Email message. Also differentiate between cc: and bcc: fields. 3. How does a search engine function?

4. What do understand by video conferencing? What are the things required to do that? 5. How does FTP work?

6. Which two ways can you run a FTP session on your computer? How will you do it?

7. In a command line ftp session, there are two file transfer modes. Explain them briefly. 8. What is the difference between ls and dir commands? 9. What do you suggest the usage of telnet utility? 10. Discuss some advantage and limitations of internet?

LONG ANSWER QUESTION (5 MARKS)

1. How can you download and upload files onto/from and FTP server if you are running (i) FTP session on your web browser? (ii) A command line ftp session?

2. What is the significance of anonymous user in FTP?

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3. What is uploading? Can you anonymous user upload? If yes, how? If no, why?

4. Name two sites belonging to TV channels. What do you understand by downloading and uploading? 5. Name some popular ISPs in India. Explain these ISPs.

Name: Dr. Sunita Sharma

Subject: Visual art & Work Education

1. Design a Book Cover for Art Education Book. Use an A3 sheet and fold it from center. Make both front cover as well as the back cover (refer to page no.- 80).

2. Draw & Colour a Poster on the topic Save Water in your drawing file using any medium.

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