Summer Engagement Homework

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Name: _______________________ Date: ____________

Q 1. Every picture tells a story. Look at the picture carefully and write an
engaging story, using this picture as the setting. (80 to 100 words)
Do not forget to provide a suitable title to your story!

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Q2. Rewrite the paragraph with capitalisation and correct punctuation.

bengal produced two great detectives — feluda and byomkesh bakshi

And yet if you were to ask the average Bengali reader to name his or her
favourite detective chances are feluda’s name would be taken first

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Q 3. Read the given story starter carefully. Draft an engaging story with
the help of describing words and adverbs. (Play with words, expressions
and ideas, from the BEGINNING, MIDDLE and END!)

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Q 4. Rewrite the paragraph with capitalisation and correct punctuation.

One day he said I don’t like to be the moon. i wish i were a star or a flower
alas I am only the moon and no one likes me if I could only be a flower
and grow in a garden The beautiful Earth women would come and place
me in their hair and praise my fragrance and beauty I could also grow in
the wilderness where the birds would sing sweet songs for me but i am
only the moon and no one honours me
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Q5. Read the passage carefully and do the given exercises.
It was my second year at boarding school,
and I was sitting on Platform No. 8 at
Ambala station, waiting for the northern
bound train. I think, I was about twelve at
the time. My parents considered me old
enough to travel alone, and I had arrived
by bus at Ambala, early in the evening:
now there was a wait till midnight before
my train arrived. Most of the time I had
been pacing up and down the platform,
browsing at the bookstall, or feeding
broken biscuits to stray dogs; trains came
and went, and the platform would be
quiet for a while and then, when a train
arrived, it would be an inferno of heaving,
shouting, agitated human bodies.
As the carriage doors opened, a tide of
people would sweep down upon the
nervous little ticket collector at the gate; and every time this happened I
would be caught in the rush and swept outside the station. Now tired of
this game and of ambling about the platform, I sat down on my suitcase
and gazed dismally across the railway tracks. Trolleys rolled past me, and I
was conscious of the cries of the various vendors—the men who sold
curds and lemon, the sweetmeat seller, the newspaper boy—but I had
lost interest in all that went on along the busy platform, and continued to
stare across the railway tracks, feeling bored and a little lonely.
‘Are you all alone, my son?’ asked a soft voice close behind me. I looked
up and saw a woman standing near me. She was leaning over, and I saw a
pale face, and dark kind eyes. She wore no jewels, and was dressed very
simply in a white sari. ‘Yes, I am going to school,’ I said, and stood up
respectfully. She seemed poor, but there was a dignity about her that
commanded respect.
‘I have been watching you for some time,’ she said. ‘Didn’t your parents
come to see you off?’ ‘I don’t live here,’ I said. ‘I had to change trains.
Anyway, I can travel alone.’ ‘I am sure you can,’ she said, and I liked her for

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saying that, and I also liked her for the simplicity of her dress, and for her
deep, soft voice and the serenity of her face.

Q5.1. Explain the meaning of: “ a tide of people would sweep down
upon the nervous little ticket collector at the gate”.

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Q5.2. The woman in a white sari was totally a stranger. But the boy
developed an instant liking for her the moment she spoke to him.
Mention any three things the boy liked about this woman.

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Q5.3. Describe the scene of a Railway Station in your own words.

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Q 5.4. Match the words from the passage to their meanings and write
against the correct number in your answer sheet :

Words Meanings
1 pacing to raise or lift with force
2 inferno feeling or appearing troubled or nervous
3 heaving walk at a steady speed, especially without a particular
destination and as an expression of anxiety or annoyance
4 agitated region that resembles hell
5 gazed A school which provides accommodation and meals for
the pupils during term time
6 boarding look steadily and intently, especially in admiration,
school surprise, or thought

Q 5.5 Construct sentences of your own with any two of the underlined
phrases in the passage.

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Q 5.6. Choose the correct answer from the given options and write in
your answer sheet against the correct question no.
1.The boy in the passage seems to be brave and independent as
a) He spoke to the woman without hesitation
b) He was very vigilant of his surroundings
c) He was travelling all alone
d) None of the above

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 2.‘Anyway I can travel alone.’ The tone of the speaker is
a) dull
b) confident
c) heavy
d) sad

3. The woman and the boy cemented their friendship

a) with the woman offering him something to eat
b) when Arun began to talk quite freely to the woman
c) when she took pleasure in watching him eat
d) when Arun took a new interest in the woman

Q6. Write a biography on any one member of your family, who

according to you has achieved or made a significant impact on
people around them. Research about their early childhood,
adulthood and major achievements in life.

Success Criteria
● It should be written in the third person and past tense
● Events of their life should be arranged in sequential manner
● It should contain a minimum of 60 to 80 words

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