Dear Student

The long awaited summer vacation is finally

here. It is a well deserved opportunity to
relax and rewind by indulging in activities
that are pleasurable and at the same time
educative. So here is your Holiday
Homework that has been designed to fire
your imagination and also help you to
explore, discover and reinvent.

Wishing you a fun filled vacation!

 CLASS –IX

ENGLISH
1. Write a descriptive paragraph on ‘A Tree Plantation Drive’ in your school on the
World Environment Day.

2. Write an article for your school Magazine on how we, as individuals, can
contribute to save our planet.

3. You were anchor for the annual day function at your school. Make a diary entry
in 100-150 words sharing your feelings and experience.

4. Write a story in 150-200 words beginning with the following lines and give a
suitable title.

Gaurav was delighted to know that he would be studying in the city in a new
school. He thought his bad days were over but ...............

(All work to be done in P.C)

 FRENCH
Write in your own handwriting 100 french verbs in infinitive form along with
English meaning on a chart paper. And also learn them.

MATHS

A. Do the following activities in your practical file.

 To verify experimentally that the sum of the angles of a triangle is 180o.

 To verify that exterior angle of a triangle is equal to sum of the interior
opposite angles.
 To verify that vertically opposite angles are Equal.
 Draw a square root spiral starting from 2 to 17 .
 Locate orthocentre, circumcentre, Incentre and centroid in

a) 4 different scalene triangles. (one in each)

b) One equilateral triangle (all points in same triangle)

ASSIGNMENT
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 1
1. If x  1  2, the find the value of  x  
 x
1 1 1 1
2. Simplify   
2 5 5 6 6 7 7 8
3. Show that
ab bc c a
 x  .  x  . x 
a b b c c a
 1.

240  239  238

4. Evaluate 41
2  240  239
5. If 2x  3y  6z ,prove that
1 1 1 xy
   0 or z 
x y z xy
16x2n 1  4x2n
6. Simplify
16x2n 2  2x2 n  2
7. Find the value of a and b, if
73 5 73 5
  a  5b
3 5 3 5
x  p  2q  p  2q
8. if , then qx 2  px  q is equal to
p  2q  p  2q
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) -1 (D) 2
9. If x  x  1  x  1, then x is equal to
(A) 8/25 (B) 16/25 (C) 4/25 (D) None of these
1/3 1/3
10. 
If x  4  15   4  15  , then x 3  3x is equal to

(A) 8 (B) -8 (C) 4 (D) -4

11. The parking charges of car in a parking lot is Rs.30 for the first two hours and
Rs.10 per hour for subsequent hours. Taking total parking time to be x h and
total charges as Rs.y, write a linear equation in two variables to express the
above statement. Draw a graph for the linear equation and read the charges for
five hours.
12. Find a point on X-axis from where graph of linear equation 2x = 15 y will pass.
13. Write linear equation such that each point on its graph has ordinate 3 times its
abscissa.
14. The point (2, 3) lies on the graph of the linear equation 3x (a1) y=2 a1. If
the same point also lies on the graph of the linear equation 5x + (12a) y = 3b,
then find the value of b.
15. Every six months, price of petrol increases at the rate of Rs.4 per litre. Taking
price of petrol in December, 2011 as x and present price of petrol as y, from a
linear equation showing amount spent on petrol in December, 2012.
16. If one of the angles of a triangle is 1300, the find the angle between the
bisectors of the other two angles.
17. In ABC of the figure, BD and CD are internal bisectors of Band C ,
respectively. Prove that 1800 + y = 2 x.

18. If the arms of one angle are respectively parallel to the arms of another angle,
then show that the two angles are either equal or supplementary.
19. Bisectors of interior B and exterior ACD of a ABC intersect at the point T.
Prove that
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BTC  BAC.
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20. If the bisectors of the base angles of a triangle enclose an angle of 1350, the
prove that the triangle is a right angled triangle.
21. Find the area of an isosceles triangle having base 2 cm and the length of one of
the equal sides is 4 cm.
22. The length of the sides of a triangle are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5 and its perimeter is
144 cm. Find
(i) the area of the triangle and
(ii) the height corresponding to the longest side.
23. A triangle and a parallelogram have the same base and the same area.
24. The dimensions of a rectangle ABCD are 51cm x 25cm. A trapezium PBCQ with
its parallel sides QC and PB in the ratio 9:8, is cut-off from the rectangle as
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shown in figure. If the area of the trapezium PBCQ is th part of the are of the
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rectangle, the find the length of QC and PB

25. From a point in the interior of an equilateral triangle, perpendiculars are drawn
on three sides. The lengths of the perpendiculars are 14cm, 10 cm and 6cm .
Find the are of the triangle.

SCIENCE
PHYSICS
Answer following questions neatly in FC

1. A body p moves with uniform velocity and another body ‘Q’ moves with uniform
retardation. The correct velocity time graph of two bodies is
Velocity
Velocity

Q
P
P
Q

time time

Q
Velocity

Velocity

time time
2. A bicycle moving with a velocity of 3m/s speeds up with an
2
acceleration of 0.5m/s .what will its velocity be after 5s and how far will it have
moved during this time?

3. A wooden slab starting from rest, slides down an inclined plane of length 10m
with an acceleration of 5m/s2. What would be its speed at the bottom of the
inclined plane?
4. A bus starting from rest moves with a uniform acceleration of 0.1m/s2 for 2
min. Find (a) the speed acquired and (b) the distance travelled.

5. A train is travelling at 90km/h. The brakes are applied so as to produce a

uniform acceleration of 0.5m/s2. Find how far the train goes before it stops?

6. Find the initial velocity of a train which is stopped in 20s by applying brakes.
The retardation due to brakes is 1.5m/s2.

7. An aeroplane taking off the field, has a run of 500m. What is the acceleration if
it leaves the ground in 10s. from the start? Also find the take off velocity.

8. Mohan takes 15 min to go from his home to school and 30 min for the return
journey. If the distance between the school and the home is 4.5 km, What is his
average velocity and speed?

9. The second’s hand of a watch is 2cm long. Calculate the speed of the tip of this
hand.

10. Two stones are thrown vertically upwards simultaneously with their initial
velocities u1 and u2 respectively. Prove that the heights reached by them would
be in the ratio of u12 and u22.

11. What should be the values of F in the following to balance the effect of F1 and
F 2. F 1

F2

12. Velocity time graph of a moving particle of mass 1 kg is shown in figure.

(m/s)
Velocity

Time

Is any force acting on the body? Justify your answer.

13. A ball of mass 500g is thrown upwards with a velocity of 15m/s. Calculate its
momentum at the highest point.

14. Relate impulse with newton’s second law of motion. Define impulse.

15. A car of mass 800 kg is travelling with a velocity of 20m/s. When brakes are
applied, it stops after travelling a distance of 8m. Find retardation and retarding
force. (-25m/s2,-20 km)
16. Two balls A and B of masses ‘m’ and ‘2m’ are in motion with velocities 2v and v
respectively.

Compare

a) their inertia
b) their momentum
c) the force needed to stop them in the same time.

17. Define SI unit of force. A force of 2N acting on a body changes its velocity
uniformly from 2m/s to 5m/s in 10s. Calculate the momentum of the body.

CHEMISTRY

1. Why do the doctors advise to put strips of wet cloth on forehead of a person
having high fever?

2. The melting point of three solids X,Y,Z are 298k, 314k and 398k respectively.
Arrange them in increasing order of their inter-particle force of a attraction.

3. Why do we feel comfortable under fan when we are perspiring?

4. Why do solids have a regular geometrical shape?

5. When 50g of sugar is dissolved in 100 ml of water, there is no increase in

volume. What characteristic of matter is illustrated by this observation?

6. How is blood a heterogeneous substance?

7. If salt is added to water, is the mixture homogeneous or heterogeneous? Give

reasons for your answer?

8. Suggest separation techniques. One would need to employ to separate the

following mixtures?

a) potassium chloride and ammonium chloride.

b) Common salt, water and sand.
c) kerosene oil, water and salt.
9. Whle diluting a solution of salt in water, a student by mistake added acetone
(boiling point 56oc) . What technique can be employed to get back actions?
Justify your answer.

10. Smoke and fog both are aerosols. In what way are they different?

BIOLOGY
1. Prepare Microsoft Power point Presentation on the following Topics.

R. No. 1 – 20; What is the Best Strategy for people to avoid

getting cancer.

R.No. 20 onwards Different types of Tissues in Plants

 Answer the following questions in F.C neatly.

i) Why is endocytosis found only in animal cells?

ii) Give one reason why.

a) Blood is called connective tissue.

b) Muscles contain contractile proteins.

c) Muscles of heart are involuntary.

iii) What will happen if

a) The skin epithelium is not stratified.

b) Stratified squamous epithelium lines the blood vessel.

c) ligaments are over stretched.

d) Apical meristem is cut or damaged.

e) striated muscles contract rapidly for a long time.

iv) Name the following:

a) Animal tissue responsible for causing movement of body parts.

b) Most abundant vascular connective tissue in animals.

c) The type of epithelium has cells which fit like the tiles on the floor.

v) Explain briefly the structure of mitochondria. Why is it called storage battery of

cell?

vi) Explain briefly:

a) Lysosomes are autophagous organelles during starvation.

b) Membrane Biogenesis

c) Oxysomes of Mitochondria
vii) What will happen when R.B.Cs are kept in
a) 10 % glucose solution
b) 0.9% salt solution
c) 5% glucose solution.
Explain the reason also.
viii) What happens when
a) Plasma membrane of cell breaks up.
b) Rheo leaf in boiled in water & then a drop of sugar syrup is put on it.
c) golgi apparatus is removed from cell.
ix) How are chromatin, chromatic and chromosome related?
x) How is bacterial cell wall different from plant cell wall?
 SOCIAL SCIENCE
1. Every student has to compulsorily undertake a project on Disaster Management
( pertaining to class IX curriculum of Disaster management)

 Either natural disaster or manmade disaster.( choose any one)

The project report should be made from eco-friendly products without incurring
too much expenditure.

The project report should be handwritten by the students themselves and

comprise of not more than 16 pages.

Drawings should be properly labelled and pictures should be properly pasted.

Credits should be awarded to original drawings and sketches.

Project report should be presented in a neatly bound folder in the following

order:

i) cover page ii) contents/ Index

iii) Acknowledgement iv) Topics with headings

v) Summary vi) Bibliography

vii) Project Evaluation Report

2. Revise thoroughly all the chapters in social science completed by the end of
May.