ST. MARY’S DAY COLLEGE SESSION: 2024-2025 CLASS-VII Notes:* All the Holiday Homework Projects should be done neatly by the child with the assistance of parents. * Holiday Homework should be done as per the instructions given. * Holiday Homework will be evaluated in Subject Enrichment Activity which is of 10 marks and included in Mid Term Evaluation. * Revision worksheet enclosed must be done and submitted along with the Holiday Homework. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! SUBJECT: English Section A-Reading Q1) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Our ancestors had great difficulty in getting books. Now, our difficulty is what to read. There are books and books but our hours of reading are very few. Therefore, choice becomes essential. We should be very careful about what we read. There are books which poison our lives by suggesting evils. We should keep them at arm’s length. We should read only those books which have stood the test of time. Such books are our great classics like the Ramayana and the Gita. They contain the wisdom of our sages and saints. They have appealed mankind from generation to generation. Reading of such books has ennobling influence on our mind and character. It gives us spiritual enjoyment. These books give us instruction with entertainment. They represent our ancient culture. They set before us high ideals to follow. They are our best friends, best guides and the best treasure. 1. We should be selective because (a) There is a great number of books available to us (b) There is scarcity of books (c) There are only bad books in the market (d) none of the above. Q2. We should avoid those books which (a) Cost high price (b) come in paperback (c) Corrupt our lives by suggesting evils (d) come in more than one volume. Q3. The books which have stood the test of time are called…. (a) Great books (b) rare books (c) biographies (d) classics Q4. What is /are special quality/qualities of classics? (a) They affect our mind in a good way (b) They teach us something great and also entertain us. (c) They help us in our spiritual growth (d) All the above. Q5. An expression in the passage which means ‘good effect’ is (a) Spiritual enjoyment (b) Ennobling influence (c) high ideals (d) Very careful Section B-Writing & Grammar Q6. You are the Secretary, Cultural Club of your school. The school is celebrating its Annual Cultural Day on 24 July, 2022. Write a notice informing the badge holders and house captains of a meeting you are conducting to take decisions on important matters regarding the conduct of the programme.Do it in your English notebook. Q7. Read the following sentences and mark whether Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative or Exclamatory. 1. Do you drink five glasses of water daily? Ans 2. Birds are flying in the sky. Ans 3. Ah! What a lovely picture. Ans 4. Let us go for an outing. Ans 5. Let us go to the mall. Ans 6. The train is not arriving on time. Ans 7. Where has he gone? Ans 8. Call in my mother please. Ans 9. Kindly lend me your pen. Ans 10. I like this house. Ans Q8. Change the type of sentence as indicated in the bracket. 1. It is a lovely dress. (Exclamatory) Ans 2. Bravo! We won. (Assertive) Ans 3. She did not go there. (Interrogative) Ans 4. Will you lend me your car? (Imperative) Ans 5. Show me your notebook. (Interrogative) Ans Q9. Read the following sentences and mark as Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative or Exclamatory. 1. Are you happy? Ans 2. They are dancing Ans 3. May God bless him! Ans 4. What a great building! Ans 5. Do they keep cars? Ans Q10. Identify the subject and the predicate in the following sentences. 1. The moon was shining brightly. Subject Predicate 2. The boys were shouting loudly. Subject Predicate 3. The pretty girl was wearing a new frock. Subject Predicate 4. My younger sister serves in the army. Subject Predicate 5. The man and his wife were working in their garden. Subject Predicate _ Q11. Tick the appropriate adjective in the following. 1. The (later/latter) part of the story is boring. 2. (Every/Each) person wants to be rich. 3. Don’t leave the station till (farther/further) instructions. 4. She is my (older/elder) sister. 5. (All/whole) new channels want to cover weather report. 6 . Have you read (any/some) new book recently. 7. I have (a little/little) time. I cannot visit them. 8. (a few/few) members were present, no decision could be made. 9. I have (some/any) good dresses for you. 10. The former is a writer, the (later/latter) a fighter. Section C -Literature Q12) Answer the following questions in 30-40 words. a. Write the summary of chapter 2 To Truly Understand a Rainbow in your own words ? Ans b. What is Swaminathan trying to accomplish by telling Rajam about taxes? Ans c. The two things we learn about Newton in Paragraph 2 are? Ans d. Why do you think that people travelled to the countryside to escape the plague ? Ans SUBJECT:HINDI (व्याकरण ) ------------____________ _____________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS Revision Worksheet 1. Fill in the blanks. a. The additive inverse of (− 5) is b. . + 18 = (−13) c. The division of a negative integer by a positive integer is a d. is the multiplicative identity for integers. e. operation is not closed. 2. State whether the following statements are true or false. a. 10 is the reciprocal of 1/10 . b. Subtraction of integers is not commutative. c. (−1)7m = (−1), where m is a natural number. d. Multiplication of integers is associative. e. The product of zero and an integer is always zero. 3. Match the following. a. 89 + (−251) + (−64) b. (−5) × (−7) × 6 c. (−123) − (−57) d. (−531) ÷ (−9) e. 0 ÷ (−59) 4. Solve the following. a. (–98) + (−67) + (–55) i. (−66) ii. (−226) iii. 0 iv. 210 v. 59 integer. b. [(−45) − (–45)] ÷ (−45) c. (−1) × [33 + (−79)] d. (–9) × (–7) × (–8) e. [168 − (–36)] ÷ [(−27) + 15] 5. Answer the following. a. What should be divided by ( - 7) to obtain 12 ? b. Rohit purchased a notebook for Rs23.75, a pencil for Rs 2.85 and a pen for Rs 15.90? He gave a 50 rupee note to the shopkeeper. What amount did he get back c. Multiply 73.68 by 5.4? d. The cost of 1 metre of ribbon is Rs 35.80 . What will be the cost of 9.8 metres of ribbon? e. A bag contains `22,560. If it is divided equally among 5 friends, find the share of each friend. 6. Find the s5. Find the sum: (i) (5/8) + (3/10) (ii) 4 3/4 + 9 2/5 (iii) (5/6) + 3 + (3/4) (iv) 2 3/5 + 4 7/10 + 2 4/15 . 7. Find the difference: (i) (6/7) – (9/11) (ii) 8 – (5/9) (iii) 9 – 5 2/3 (iv) 4 3/10 – 1 2/15 Subject: PHYSICS Revision Worksheet Subject: CHEMISTRY Revision Worksheet Subject: BIOLOGY Revision Worksheet SUBJECT: HISTORY/CIVICS & GEOGRAPHY REVISION WORKSHEET Answer the following Questions: 1. What is History? Why do we study History? Ans:- 2. Who are archaeologists? What do they do? Ans:- 3. How can you say that historians and archaeologists are like detectives?. Ans:- 4. How was travelling an important part of life of the peoplein the past? Ans:- 5. What are the different ways to find out about the past? Ans:- Ans:- SUBJECT: COMPUTER REVISION WORKSHEET 1. Explain any 5 components of a chart ? 2. Write the rules to subtract two binary number. 3. What is number system ? Explain. 4. Write the steps to change the chart type.
