The Gandhi Memorial International School
Jl.HBR. Motik, Kota Baru Bandar Kemayoran Blok D6 Kav.No.1
(Near PRJ) Jakarta 10630, Indonesia.
Holiday Homework
Grade 12
I. 2nd Language
Bahasa Indonesia
a) Teacher: Ms. Doris, Ms. Ita & Ms. Aryani
Write a composition of 250 words about what have you done to promote
“Go – green Jakarta”? + Photos
b) Teacher: Ms. Rita M
Write a composition of 150 words about what have you done to promote
“Go – green Jakarta”? + Photos
II. English
English B (Non IB)
• Teacher: Ms. Ananya
Describe a character from a movie you have recently seen, keeping in mind the
guidelines discussed in class for writing Descriptive Essays.
English A2 (Language)
• Teacher: Ms. Ananya
Make a master chart linking the definitions, causes, implications, consequences and
solutions of all the SOCIAL ISSUES studied in class together.
IB English A 1
• Teacher: Ms.Smitha S.
Read Their Eyes were watching God and The Sailor who fell from grace with the Sea
Explain the way the following aspects have been treated in the two texts:
1. Narrative Voice
2. Outdoor Setting (harbor, dry dock, garden, Yokohama, pear tree, muck,
Eatonville,
3. Water bodies (sea, the lake)
4. Relationships: between parent and child between man and woman
5. Openings and endings
6. Concept of a quest, journey, idea of a hero.
7. Theme of judgment and punishment, death, love, childhood vs adulthood.
III. Physics IB
• Teacher: Mr. Chandran
Complete / solve the following and submit before 15th January 2011.
1. The practical portfolios.
2. IB paper of May 2008, 2009 and 2010.
IV. ITGS
Teacher: Mr. Azamal Imam Khan
•
Students of HL will prepare an IT article about a current Information Technology
issue relating to any of the 6 areas of impact.
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Students of SL/HS will prepare a project that identifies a problem affecting an
individual or group and develops an IT-based solution to that problem. It must be
a real problem, affecting real people, not something that is fictitious or artificial.
The assessed work is detailed in a log book and a written report of between 2,000
and 2,500 words. The product (for example, a database, presentation, web site) is
also assessed.
V. ECONOMICS
1)
Complete your pending commentaries of Internal Assessment.
2)
Solve the following IB question papers in the class notebook:
May/June 2005, 2006 and 2007
October/November 2006 and 2007
Note:
HL students will solve HL question papers.
SL and Non IB students will solve SL question papers.
VI. Business and Management
• Teacher: Mr. Vipul, Mr. Munish, Mr. Suraj, Mr. Kapil & Ms. Suchi
NOTE: Homework should be done and pasted in you notebook.
Case study
1. Fernando and Marco are partners who own a coffee bar Coffee-Cool in a central city
location. Marco is in charge of purchasing the coffee beans. He orders the coffee from
a wholesaler located outside the city. Fernando prepares, and serves the coffee.
Coffee-Cool makes a low level of profit but the market is growing and the partners are
considering expanding the premises into its stock room. Marco, wants to operate a
Just-in-time (JIT) system whereby the stock arrives an hour before opening time.
Fernando prefers to keep the same stock management system. Coffee-Cool’s stock
control system is presented in the following graph:
2. Pacific Blue
In 2007, the low cost airline Pacific Blue entered the New Zealand market with an initial
offer to sell 70 000 tickets at low prices on flights between Auckland, Christchurch and
Wellington. Almost half of the $29 tickets were booked online within hours. Chief
executive Brett Godfrey expressed his surprise: “It almost caused our website to crash”.
Air New Zealand and QANTAS, the established market leaders were quick to respond to
the new competitor by cutting prices to $49. A director of Air New Zealand doubted
whether Pacific Blue could sustain these prices as part of its long-run strategy to enter the
New Zealand market. She also questioned whether the company could satisfy demand
with only 2 planes for 11 scheduled flights per day between Auckland and Wellington, the
most popular route. By contrast, Air New Zealand uses 7 planes on the same route. A
QANTAS director has commented that Pacific Blue could face significant capacity
utilization problems.
Brett Godfrey accepted that Pacific Blue might run at a loss initially, but he was also
confident about penetration pricing: “we have done this before in Australia and we have
money in the bank to survive and hope to offer more routes, subject to government
approval and the support of the New Zealand public.” Air New Zealand and QANTAS
promised to remain competitive.
[Source: adapted from The Age, 4 September 2007]
(a) Define the following terms:
(i) capacity utilization
(ii) penetration pricing.
(b) Explain two capacity utilization issues that Pacific Blue may face.
(c) Examine two problems that Pacific Blue could face when using penetration
pricing.
(d) Evaluate two potential opportunities and two potential threats which
Pacific Blue could face when entering into a new international market.
Note: You must do past paper 2007, 08, 09 both June and November
VII. Environmental Systems and Societies
• Teacher : Mr.Manish K
Find the 10 process of natural and social systmes and with input (both positive and
negative) and outputs. And draw the process structure for all.
VIII. Computer Science
• Teacher : Mr. Suresh A
During holidays finish the programming part of the dossier/project.
You may be reminded that the project carries 35% of the marks for the board as well as
IB exam. You may check the topics everyone in the class is doing at
http://sureshgmis.blogspot.com/ .
You may also e-mail me at sureshgmis@gmail.com for solutions of any programming
difficulties. You may also post and see what others are doing at above blog.
If you finish the project component of the exam during these holidays , you will have
peace of mind and extra time available to you for your exam preparation in next term .
Next term is very short , so finishing all internal requirements for Board / IB during
holidays is strongly advised.