St. Andrews Scots Sr. Sec.

School
9th Avenue, I.P. Extension, Patparganj, Delhi-110092
Session: 2023-2024- Summer Holiday Homework
Class: IX

Summer Holiday

Homework
Session: 2023-2024

Class- IX

“SUCCESS IS THE SUM OF SMALL

EFFORTS, REPEATED.”

R COLLIER
 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Dear students, you have to compile work which has been done
till now in your school notebook/registers. Either pen down or
paste the printed worksheet in your notebooks/registers.
2. Maintain your school notebook/register properly. Whatever work or worksheet
has been done in the class needs to be pasted or stapled in school notebook
only. Your notebook will be accessed out of 5 marks for each subject.
3. Do your work neatly; neatness of work will be highly appreciated.
Your holiday homework carries marks and it is compulsory for all. Submit your
holiday homework ontime after the vacation.
 ENGLISH
Instructions:

1. Do the project work on coloured A4 size sheets.

2. Worksheet has to be done on ruled sheets.
3. Compile all the work in a folder and design a cover page for the same.

PART- I
Q1. Make a project on a Union territory of India including the following points:

• History of this place

• Location on Map
• Society and culture
• Religion
• Tourism
• Cuisine
NOTE: a. 'Andaman and Nicobar Islands'. (For R.No 1to 20)
b. “Lakshadweep Island” (For R.No. 21 Onwards)
Q2a. Make a Travel Brochure of “Lakshadweep Island” on A3 size sheet, which should be
handmade, creative, and legible. (R.NO.1 TO 20)
Q2b. Collect or create or replicate a souvenir of “Andaman and Nicobar Islands” (R.No. 21
Onwards)
Q3. COLLAGE MAKING
The theme of India’s G20 Presidency - “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth · One
Family · One Future” affirms the value of nature, green development, climate finance which
is intertwined with sustainable traditions.
 ‘Nature is the purest portal to inner-peace’
The emblem reflects nature’s power to hold the mankind and nature as the foundation for
everything. Everyday nature inspires and influences us in different ways. Click original
pictures of the beautiful scenes around you. Using your own creative ideas, Make a collage
(on A-3 size sheet) of the same and provide appropriate captions showcasing the theme of
G20 India along with the brief description about ‘Sustainable Ways to Protect Climate’.

PART-II

Q1. Read the given extract and answer the following questions as directed.

1. "And both that morning equally

lay In leaves, no step had trodden
blackOh, I kept the first for
another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if should ever come back."

Questions:

(i) The poet decided that:

a) he would take the frequently trodden road

b) he would take the second road and leave the first one for some other day

c) he would go back and decide later on

(ii) 'Leaves no step had trodden black' implies:

a) that the road was not taken by anyone

b) that it was not a safe road

c) that the poet was not interested in taking the road

(iii) 'Should ever come back' show that the poet was:

a) Confident (b) Indecisive (c) Optimistic

2. Evelyn Glennie’s loss of hearing had been gradual. Her mother remembers
noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play
the piano. “They called her name and she didn’t move. I suddenly realised she
hadn’t heard,” saysIsabel Glennie.
(i) Who was Isabel Glennie?
a) Evelyn’s mother (b) Evelyn’s aunt (c) Master percussionist

(ii) Why did Evelyn Glennie not move to play the piano?
a) She could not hear her name
b) She was busy with something else
c) She was not interested
(iii) When was her deafness noticed?
a) At 17 years of age (b) At 11 years of age (c) At 8 years of age

Q2. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each.

1. Why did Evelyn say, “Men with bushy beards give me trouble”?

2. How did Evelyn’s teachers respond when she expressed her desire to play a xylophone?

3. Parents were in a hurry to reach the fair but the child was delaying them. How?

4. What is the setting of the poem “The road not taken”?

5. What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have? How were they different from
teachers in the book?

Q3. Answer the following question in about 100-150 words.

1. Write a note on the theme of the story ‘The Lost Child’.

2. Evelyn is an inspiration to all. Justify.

3. Describe the old school as described in the book? How did it influence Margie?

GRAMMAR

Q4. Fill in the blanks with correct form of the verbs given in bracket.
(a) We .....................(go) to Guwahati by Rajdhani Express last month.
(b) Rajdhani train ..................... (be) a fully air-conditioned train.
(c) It ..................... (provide) food, cold drinks, water, and the blankets at night.
(d) The journey .....................(be) cool. It imparted solace to the soul and mind.
(e) On the opposite, there ..................... (be) a priest.
(f) He ..................... (be) in the church of Patna for the past twenty years.
(g) I was informed that he ..................... (read) a book.
(h) He did not say when he ..................... (come).
(i) I hope that you ..................... (pardon) me soon.
(j) He taught me that good deeds ..................... (be) never lost.

WRITING SKILLS

Q5. You recently lost an expensive wristwatch belonging to your grandfather. You are now
feeling afraid to confess. Express your feelings of anguish through a diary entry in 100- 150
words.
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MATHEMATICS

Answer the following questions in your mathematics registers:

1. Express the following in p/q form

a) 3.7
b) 18.48
c) 0.15

2. Represent √5 on number line.

3. Find x, if 54x+2 = (1/125)x+4

4. Simplify:-
a) 3√5+√5+√180 (b) √54+√150

5. Give an example each of two irrational numbers, whose

a) difference is a rational number
b) difference is an irrational number
c) sum is a rational number

6. Write the degree of the given polynomials : (i) ( 2x + 4 )3 (ii) ( t3 + 4 )

7. Write the coefficient of x4 and x in 4x3 -5x4 +2x2 + 3

8. Find the product using suitable identities: (4 +5x)(4-5x).

9. What is the value of k in polynomial x2 + 8x + k, if -1 is a zero of the polynomial?

10. Show that x + 1 and 2x -3 are factors of 2x3 - 9x2 + x + 12.

11. If a2 + b2 + c2 = 20 and a + b + c = 0, find ab + bc + ca.

12. If 9x2 + 25y2 = 181 and xy = -6, find the value of 3x + 5y.

13. Find the zeroes of f(z) = z2 - 2z

14. Simplify: (x2 + y2 – z2)2 - (x2 – y2 + z2)2

15. If f(x) = 5x2 – 4x + 5, find f(1) + f(-1) + f(0).

16. In Fig. 6.15, ∠PQR = ∠PRQ, then prove that ∠PQS = ∠PRT.

17. In Fig. 6.17, POQ is a line. Ray OR is perpendicular to line PQ. OS is another ray lying
between rays OP and OR. Prove that ∠ROS = ½ (∠QOS – ∠POS).

18. Fig. 6.30, if AB || CD, EF ⊥ CD and ∠GED = 126°, find ∠AGE, ∠GEF and ∠FGE.

19. Fig. 6.40, ∠X = 62°, ∠XYZ = 54°. If YO and ZO are the bisectors of ∠XYZ and ∠XZY,
respectively of Δ XYZ, find ∠OZY and ∠YOZ.

ACTIVITIES

Do activities 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 in your mathematics lab manual.

 SCIENCE

INSTRUCTIONS:

1- Do the worksheet in your respective subject registers.

2- Revise all work done in class
3- Complete the notes.
4- Do Question and Answer of Chapter- 5 in your Biology register.
PHYSICS
1. A body starts to slide over a horizontal surface with an initial velocity of 0.5 m/s. Due
to friction, its velocity decreases at the rate 0.05 m/s2. How much time will it take for
the body to stop?
2. The brakes applied to a car produce an acceleration of 6 m/s2 in the opposite direction
to the motion. If the car takes 2s to stop after application of brakes, calculate the
distance travelled by the car during this time.
3. A body travels along a circular path of radius 70 m. After travelling half a revolution in
20s, find the
a) Average velocity
b) Average speed
4. With the help of graph, derive the equation
5. Given below is the velocity-time graph for the motion of the car. What does the nature of
the graph show? Also find the acceleration of the car.

CHEMISTRY
1. Differentiate between evaporation and boiling. (2 points)
2. How can we liquefy a gas?
3. Define latent heat of fusion.
4. Define latent heat of vaporization?
5. Convert the following in Kelvin scale.
a) 300ºC
b) 150ºC

BIOLOGY
1. Define protoplasm.
2. Name the cell organelle which is exclusively found in plant cell.
3. State important functions of golgi apparatus.
4. State two functions of vacuoles.
5. Draw the diagram to show animal cell and label the following parts:
a) Powerhouse of the cell.
b) Suicidal bag
c) Endoplasmic Reticulum
SOCIAL SCIENCE

INSTRUCTIONS:-

 Do the Worksheet in any of your subject register.

 Do the project in a project file.
 Do both the maps and paste it in your subject register.
 Complete the chapters done in class.
 Revise all the work done in class.

Q1. Prepare a project file on Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands. The project should include the
following:-
 A comprehensive study of its location, Formation, Origin, Main features, Maps ,Cities
 Cuisine, Art & Literature , Traditional dance forms
 Clear, related and coloured pictures
 Usage of pictures and graphs is compulsory for the activities.
 Project should be based on individual research.
 Minimum 8-10 pages
 The activities must be done in the project file itself
Q2. A) On a Political map of India, mark and label the following:

 Mountain Ranges: The Karakoram, The Zasker. The Shivalik, The Aravali, The Vindhya, The
Satpura, Western & Eastern Ghats
 Mountain Peaks-K2, Kanchan Junga, Anai Mudi
 Plateau-Deccan Plateau. Chotta Nagpur Plateau Malwa Plateau Coastal Plas Konkan, Malabar,
Coromandal & Northern Circar (Location and Labelling)
B) On the Political map of France, mark the following places:
 Bordeaux, Nantes, Paris, Marseilles

Do the worksheet given below:

Worksheet

1. How do the medium and large farmers obtain capital for farming? How is it different from the small
farmers
2. Giving an example of Zimbabwe, show how laws were made by one single ruler
3. What was the role of philosophers in the French Revolution?
4. How was the taxation policy responsible for the French Revolution?
5. Give some important characteristics of Northern Plains.
6. State three reasons of the variation in the wages of farm labourers all over India.
7. “ India has a large coastline which is advantageous “. Explain.
8. Compare the democratic system in China with Mexico.
 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Note: Do it in your A.I Notebook.

Q.1 Write code in your notebook with output .

1) simple program to add two numbers.
2) Write a program to multiply two numbers.
3) Python print () with end parameter (Get output in a single line ) .

Q.2 Write the purpose of the following:

1. Input()
2. float()
3. print()
4. Int()
5. #

Q.3 Fill in the blanks:

1. IDE stands for ____________ .
2. A__________ Determines the type of data stored in a variable.
3. A python program can be saved in the _______ mode.
4. _____________ is the developer of python.
5. _____________ is the extension for python.
6. The data type of 16.2 is __________.
7. The data type of 79 is _________.
8. ______________ are the steps to save a file.
9. ____________ is the extension of python.
10. ______ and __________ are the two modes of python.

Q.4 Write the python statement to achieve the following:

A) To display “ this is my first program in python”.
B) To display add of two numbers.

SUPW

1. Make a set of 2 'hanging planters' with different smiling themes, out of waste plastic bottles and
a plant. Submit it after Summer vacation.

2. Make a beautiful Zantangal art using different coloured pen in art file nicely.

3. Complete all the pending classwork.