Kendriya Vidyalaya SPG Sector 8 Dwarka

Holiday Homework for Winter Vacation 2017

Classs-lll sec-____ Subject-English
Name- _____________ Roll No. ___ Date-__________

Listening: Listen to English news channel daily.

Speaking : Prepare speech on the following topics :
1. Incredible India
2. Excursion to Humayun tomb and India Gate
3. Sports day in my School
4. How I spent my Winter Vacation
Reading: 1. Read one story book
2] Read the passage below and answer the following questions:-
There are so many ways to travel. The most common way to travel is probably some type of
motorized vehicles. If you are travelling with your family and you are not going far away, you
could take a car. If you want to go with lot of people you could go in van, car and a bus .If you
need to travel through water, boats are another kind of transportation .We can go on small
boats to travel to close places, while for far away places big ships are used .Submarines travel
very deep down in the water. Aeroplanes are also great way to travel, they save time and travel
at a high speed and aeroplane is fun to ride because you can see the earth from a great height
1) Main idea of the passage is :
a) There are many ways to travel.
b) Aeroplanes travel fast.
c) You should just travel in car.

2) Name different types of water transportation.

3) Where do submarines travel?
4) Why aeroplanes are fun to ride in?

5) Name three more ways you can travel?

2. Mother, your baby is silly! She is so very childish. She does not know the difference between
the lights in the streets and the bright stars. When we play with pebbles, she thinks they are
real food. She putsthem into her mouth. When I open a book she tears the pages and roars
with joy.

1. Who is silly?
Ans_____________________________________________________________
2. She is so very ____________________.(childish/playful)
3. Does she know the difference between the stars and lights in the
streets?Ans_____________________________________________________________
4. What does the child play with?

Ans_____________________________________________________________

5. Whatdoes she thinkabout the pebbles?

Ans_____________________________________________________________

6.The little girl puts the pebbles__________(into/onto) her mouth.

7.What does the little girl tear?Ans_________________________________

8.Write the plural forms. star___________.page_______________

9.Find out the opposite of intelligent__________________________

10.Find out the opposite of

close x___________________________

3. Newton had a little dog. He called it Diamond. One day it was lying in his study room.
In the room there were heaps of papers and writings and a lighted candle on a table. Newton
left the room for a few minutes and then suddenly Diamond jumped over the table.

1. Who had a little dog?

Ans___________________________________________________________

2. What was the name of the dog?

Ans___________________________________________________________
3. Where wasDiamond lying one day?
Ans___________________________________________________________

4. What were there in the room?

Ans___________________________________________________________

5. Where was the candle?

Ans___________________________________________________________

6. Who left the room for a few minutes?

Ans___________________________________________________________
 7. Who jumped upon the table?
Ans___________________________________________________________

8. Find out the plural of heap _______________________

9. Find out opposite of underx________________________

10. Find out past tense of leave_______________________
4.Sonu loved the little butterfly. It was so pretty. It had brown spots on its yellow wings.
But it looked sad in Sonu’s hand. Sonu wanted it to be happy. “Go,” said Sonu, “fly away!”.
He let the butterfly go.It sat on the red rose. It flew to the peach tree and then sailed on
a lotus leaf. It flew merrily from flower to flower.

i) Who loved the little butterfly?

ii) Who was so pretty?

iii) Which colour spots did the butterfly have?

iv) Who was having yellow colour wings?

v) Who looked sad in Sonu’s hand?

vi) Which flower mentioned in the passage?

vii) What is the name of the tree in the passage?

viii) Butterfly sailed on _____________________________________

ix) What is the past tense of the word want _____________________

X)Write the opposite of the word happy x _____________________

Q.2- - Read the following passage. Answer the following questions in one word or one
sentence.

Father: Salim, why are you wearing sherwani to school today?

Salim: We are doing a play on Chacha Nehru,today. Today is 14 th November and we are going to
stage a play on Chacha Nehru. Nehru was fond of children. so, we celebrate this day as
children’s day. We call him as Chacha.
Ahmed: I am going to play the role of Gandhi. Gandhi was called ‘Bapu’. The father of Nation.

i) Who is going to play the role of Nehru?

ii) Who is going to play the role of Gandhi?
iii) Who is wearing Sherwani?
iv) Who are going to stage a play?
v) Where they are playing a stage?
vi) Whose birthday is going to be celebrated?
vii) On which day we celebrate Chacha’s birthday?
viii) Who is known as Chacha?
ix) Who was fond of children?
x) Who is known as father of Nation?
SPELLING
1. Fill in the blanks:
a )P __ bbl__es
b) S __ ll__
c) Mi__chi__vous
d) Ch__ldi__h
e) L__ss__ns
f) S__old
3. Rearrange the given jumbled letters.
a) Npsmtoa
b) Riefdn
c) Tletre
d) eevrm
e) tefch
4. Write the sounds of these animals animals
Horse
Cat
Sheep
Elephant
Cow
Grammar:1) Write opposite word
1) Same -
2) Short
3) Weak -
4) Foolish -
5) Agree -
6) Happy –

2) Fill in the blanks using correct verbs-

1. He---------- a lot of homework today.
A) have B) has C) is D) was
2. Do you ----------- two pencils?
A) HAS B) HAVE C) HAD D) WAS
3. Birds ------------wings.
A) Has B) were C) have D) are
4.There ------------ three mangoes on this tree.
A) were B) has C) is D) are

3) Write plural of
Box-
Fox-
Duck-
Mango-
Child –
Goose-
Handwriting-
Daily write one page handwriting in English handwriting notebook.
Creative writing
1.Write 5 lines on “my favourite character from your text book”.

2. Using the hints given below , write 5 lines on “Christmas”