)‫الـشـارقـة (فرع البنين‬، ‫مدرسـتنـا الثـانـويـة اإلنـجليـزية‬

OUR OWN ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL,

SHARJAH (BOYS)
SUMMER HOLIDAY HOMEWORK– JULY 2024
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

CREATE A PORTFOLIO (Internal Assessment Task 5M)

STUDENT MAGAZINE- (To be done separately)

FRONTPAGE
TASK: Give your magazine a name and design the front page with a suitable theme and
layout.
Q1. Poster Making: Make a poster portraying your thoughts and point of view on:
“Love for freedom is the natural instinct of every living being.”
You may read Leslie Norris’s ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’ for your reference.

Q2. The young seagull spread its wings and flew over the vast green sea:
Write five idioms with ‘Birds’ with examples and illustrations.

Q3. Prepare an interview with Amanda, a modern teenager exploring her experiences, hopes,
and dreams. (Min. 10 exchanges of dialogues)

Q4. Design a crossword puzzle with 25 new vocabulary words from the lessons taught.

Q5. Create a blog on the 15 unique models of aeroplanes (with pictures) and their specifications.
 )‫الـشـارقـة (فرع البنين‬، ‫مدرسـتنـا الثـانـويـة اإلنـجليـزية‬
OUR OWN ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL,
SHARJAH (BOYS’ BRANCH)

SUMMER HOLIDAY HOMEWORK – JULY 2024

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Name: Max Marks: 80

Class: X Duration: 3 hrs
Sec: Date: /7/2024

General Instructions:
(i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) This question paper consists of 5 printed pages

SECTION A- READING (20 marks)

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

Living on the earth is rather like being at the bottom of a sea hundreds of miles deep. Without
the atmosphere there would be no people or animals, birds or fishes, trees or plants. There would
be no weather, winds or rain. And there would be no blue sky, no rosy sunsets or dawns. Fire
would be impossible without air, for burning is the union of oxygen with whatever is burned.
Nor would there be any noise, which is the vibration or air- waves against our eardrums.

By day, the atmosphere serves as a great sun shade. It protects the earth from the full force of
the sun by absorbing most of its harmful radiation. But for the atmosphere the daytime
temperature would rise to 230° F- hotter than boiling water. By night, the air acts like a giant
green house. It imprisons the heat collected during the day and prevents it from spreading into
space. Otherwise, the temperature at night would plunge to -300° F: far colder than we could
stand.

Finally, the atmosphere catches and burns up, by friction, practically all the million meteors that
fall each day from outer space into the earth’s field of gravity. If all these meteors landed here,
the earth’s surface would be pitted and dented like the face of the moon, which has no atmosphere
to stop them.
It is not true that the air gets gradually colder, the higher up you go. It does this to a height of
about seven miles, for the lower layers of the atmosphere are warmed by heat radiated from the
ground. In the ‘stratosphere’ – the next layer - the temperature remains almost the same, but it
drops to a chilly - 40° F at about eighteen miles. There, the temperature begins to rise because
of certain gases that absorb heat directly from the sun. When these gases disappear, at about fifty
miles, the temperature drops right to -117° F. After that, it rises steadily, reaching 4.118° F at
250 miles.
 On the basis of your reading the passage, answer the following questions briefly: [8x1=8]
(a) What would happen if there was no atmosphere?
(b) How does the atmosphere protect the earth from the sun?
(c) How does the air act in the night?
(d) What would be the effect of meteors if there was no atmosphere?
(e) What happens to the temperature in the stratosphere?
(f) What causes the air to become warm at a height of seven miles?
(g) How does the atmosphere protect us?
(h) Why would earth be a dead planet without air?

2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

Every time a child takes a soft drink, he’s laying the ground work for dangerous bone disease.
No, fizzy and sugary drinks don’t cause osteoporosis. But, because they are often a substitute for
a glass of milk, kids are not getting the calcium and vitamin D they need to build a strong
skeleton. Many of them also lead a sedentary lifestyle, so they aren’t getting the bone building
benefits for vigorous exercise either. These children aren’t just in jeopardy for brittle bones and
fractures decades down the road. They could be at a risk of osteoporosis at a younger age than
ever before.

The Indian Society or Bone and Mineral Research, a body of osteoporosis experts ids trying to
spread awareness about this bone crippling disease. Osteoporosis starts in childhood but has
consequences later in life. The condition causes bones to become riddled with holes, like the
framework of a house that has been attacked by termites. That can lead to broken bones, which
in turn can cause deformity, chronic pain or disability. Osteoporosis can be fatal: up to 25 percent
of older people who suffer a broken hip die within a year. Osteoporosis isn’t just your
grandmother’s health threat. Although it strikes over 50 million women in India, it also menaces
over 12 million men. Osteoporosis causes loss of height, pain in joints and back, fractures and a
fear of fractures, and can be very depressing. So, it is important that we adopt preventive
measures to save millions of people.

There is a new medical understanding of the best ways to protect ourselves and our children.
“Simple lifestyle changes and nutrition will help save our bones,” says Dr. Mittal. To get us
moving in the right direction, he says, “It’s never too late to adopt bone-friendly habits – exercise,
get enough sunlight and have adequate calcium. This way, we can keep our bones healthy and
prevent osteoporosis.

2.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following questions carefully: [4x2=8]
(a) Why are fizzy and sugary driks blamed for osteoporosis?
(b) Why do bones get weak?
(c) When does osteoporosis become apparent? Why is it called fatal?
(d) What are the measures to prevent osteoporosis?

2.2 Based on your reading of the passage, answer the following questions by choosing the [4x1=4]
correct option:
 (a) Find words in the passage that mean deadly
(i) dangerous (ii) fatal iii. Chronic iv. jeopardy
(b) What is the one word for – ‘to do things with great energy and enthusiasm’?
(i) jeopardy (ii) vgorous iii. Home- friendly iv. terrible
(c) A kind of drink with bubbles of carbon dioxide
(i) fizzy (ii) vigorous (iii) sugary (iv) sedentary
(d) Choose the word from the passage which means ‘illness that lasts for a long time’.
(i) osteoporosis (ii) brittle bone (iii) fracture (iv) chronic

SECTION B- WRITING AND GRAMMAR( 30 marks)

3. You are Asha/ Ashit. You have been awarded a prize for rendering the best social service [1x8=8]
under “Each One, Teach One” Project. Write a letter to the mayor of your city to start a
programme in about 100 – 120 words on ‘The Role of Students in educating the
Underprivileged Children’.
OR
You are Mahesh/ Mehek, a resident of 567, Ring Road, Dehradun. You are very disturbed to
hear about the injuries/accidents caused to the children and aged people due to rash and
reckless driving. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper drawing attention to reckless
driving. (100 to 120 words)

5. Complete the passage given below by choosing the most appropriate options from the [4x1=4]
ones that follow. Do any four:
Tomorrow is (a) …………. birthday. I have invited all the friends of (b) ……… to the party.
(c) ……….. have already sent (d) ………. consent messages. I am looking after all the
arrangements (e) …………….. . Inspite of all precautions who knows what may happen?
a. i. me ii. my iii. mine iv. myself
b. i. me ii. my iii. mine iv. us
c. i. all ii. some iii. none iv. few
d. i. our ii. your iii. their iv. its
e. i.our ii. mine iii us iv. Myself

6. Read the following conversation between two friends , Manu and Arun. Complete the [4x1=4]
passage given below in reported speech.

Manu : I don’t care for these new “Reality’ TV programmes !

Arun: Why’s that?
Manu : Well, they are so…. so .
Arun: Unrealistic?
Manu : Yeah! That’s it.

Manu declared that (a)………… Arun enquired (b)……………… . Manu paused and then
muttered (c)……………………. . Seeing that he didn’t find exact words Arun asked
(d)…………. . Manu at once said that they were and asserted that it was that.
 SECTION C – LITERATURE & LONG READING TEXT (30 marks)

8. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow: [4x1=4]

Lencho’s soul was filled with sadness. When the storm had passed, he stood in the middle
of the field and said to his sons, “A plague of locusts would have left more than this. The
hail has left nothing. This year we will have no corn.”

(a) What made Lencho so dejected and depressed?

(b) Whom did he share his sorrow with?
OR
“Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.”

(a) What had given poet ‘a change of mood’?

(b) What had the poet thought of that day?

9. Answer the following questions briefly (30-40 words): [2x5=10]

(a) Why did Hari Singh think that Anil’s job was queer?
(b) Explain the ‘twin obligations’ spoken by Nelson Mandela.
(c) Why did Mr. Keesing call Anne an ‘incorrigible chatterbox’?
(d) Why does the poet say, ‘Balls will be lost always”?

10. Answer any one of the following questions in 100-150 words. [1x8=8]

Love, sympathy and education can transform even a thief. How could Anil bring such a change
in Hari Singh?
OR
Adrienne Rich has been known to use trees as a metaphor for human beings; this is a recurrent
image in her poetry. What new layer of meaning is revealed in the poem when we see the trees
as symbolic of human beings?

11. Answer any one of the following questions in 100-150 words. [1x8=8]

Dr James Herriot was a competent veterinary surgeon. His practical approach and common
sense helped in the rapid recovery of Tricki. Comment.
OR
There are times when we feel depressed and hopeless. We think that things will never change.
Suddenly a change comes in our mood when cheerflness replaces the sense of regret. Justify
the above statement in the context of ‘Dust of Snow’.

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