B AND P STUDY CENTRE

GRADE 2 HOLIDAY HOMEWORK

ENGLISH
NAME___________________________________________

Make one word using each sound provided below.

1. -ur- _______________________________________

2. -oo- _______________________________________

Construct meaningful sentences from the words below.

3. lesson __________________________________________

4. nurse_________________________________________

Write the following words in their plural form.

5. monkey _____________________

6. wife _____________________

7. sheep ___________________
Read the story below and answer the given questions.

Humbe woke up in the middle of the night. It was raining and

the drops of water were leaking through the roof of his house.
“This is no good!” thought Humbe. “I can’t live like this!” In
the morning Humbe went outside. He looked at his house. It
really was a mess. The roof was falling off in wisps of straw,
and there were holes in the walls. The house needed to be fixed,
but Humbe did not like work.

Answer the questions below.

8. Humbe woke up in the middle of the_________________.

9. What was happening?

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10. What was a mess?
_________________________________________________.

11. The _________________needed to be fixed.

12. How did Humbe feel about work?

_________________________________________________.

Choose the correct preposition from the brackets and

complete the sentences below.

13. The children are jumping ___________the swimming

pool. (over / into)
14. The boy is walking ________________the road.
(between/ across)

Write the opposites of the words underlined below.

15. My door is open, but yours is ___________________.

16. The road is wide but the path is __________________.

17. The weather is cold today. Yesterday it was __________.

Give the young ones of the given animals below.

18. The young one of a horse is a_________________.

19. A young one of a goat is a ___________________.

20. A young one of a lion is a ___________________.

Choose the correct word in the brackets to complete the

sentences below.

21. John has _________________my pencil. (steal / stolen)

22.This is our school. It’s ____________. ( ours / mine)

23. ____________ books are on the table. ( Their / There)

Find the correct meaning for each word below.

(purr, nurse, burst)

24. A person who looks after the sick.________________.

25. The sound a cat makes when it is happy.___________.

26. To pop up suddenly._______________.

Punctuate the sentences below using capital letters,

comma and a full stop correctly.

27. grandfather and farai watched some zimbabwe folk tales.

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28. chipo tino and kalulu are using robert mugabe road.
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Use the words below to construct meaningful sentences.

29. Meet. _________________________________________.

30. Meat. _________________________________________.

Choose a topic of your choice and write a meaningful

composition.

1. My garden.
2. My school.
3. My teacher.
 4. My pet.
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Reading words and practice writing the spellings.
Week sunrise breakfast steal
Scrub seed important parents
Herding trash extended fight
Sickness fever community hall
Meeting loaf support sick
Rabbit church family spring
Loose pleased caught wheelbarrow
fork planted wheeled sunny
trotted sums muddy patch
sandwich sprouting twisted string
feathers wearing lesson bell
garden weeds classroom scolded
earth lovely politely house
waterhole sleepy smooth trunk
coat shadows stripes shinny
watching hatch farmhouse straw
toasted butter daughter clucked
burnt wicked tasty plenty
pies pastry delicious sweeter
garden fetch claws assembly
anthem pledge attention domestic
pocket magic fairy flapped