MOTHER KHAZANI CONVENT SCHOOL

SUMMER HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK

CLASS - XII-A3 (Science)

General Instructions
*Summer vacation commences from 29 May 2022.
*School reopens on 16 June 2022 for classes 3 onwards.
*Prepare a regular time table to accomplish your holiday home work.
*Try to do your work by yourself.
English
*Do all work with date and day in legible handwriting.
*Pay attention towards health and safety. Not to expose yourself to sun for a long time.
* Adopt serving attitude such as help your mother in household chores, keep water for birds
and stray dogs.
* Spend time with grandparents and take a good care of them.
*Read newspaper daily to keep yourself connected to the world and enhance your
vocabulary.
*Consume more water and keep yourself hydrated. Eat seasonal fruits.
* Stay safe and protected from COVID-19.
ENJOY HOLIDAYS
Happy Holidays

ENGLISH
General Instructions-
1. Attempt all the questions in neat handwriting in English fair notebook only.
2. Read the following lessons from your English book 'Flamingo' and attempt the given
questions (taking help from the given value points). Value points for each question is given
for your reference.

POETS AND PANCAKES BY ‘ASOKA MITRAN’

1. Humour enlivens the drudgery of life. Variety is the spice of life and the varied account of events
and personalities in the Gemini studios serves to make the reading interesting and also add to the
humour quotient in one’s life. (Poets and Pancakes by Asoka Mitran) Taking the cue from the
lesson discuss how calmness of the mind can be achieved through light hearted banters. / humour
Suggested Value points
- Laughter / humour – the best medicine
- Endears a person to others, able to strike a conversation / laugh at oneself.
- Controls stress, relieves tension.
- Makes us forget our worries
- Promotes camaraderie
- makes us less impulsive
Textual inputs
Slapping make up to make the actors look ugly so that they look presentable on screen.
2. The ‘office boy’ in the Gemini studios, attributes his inability to rise up the ladder in work to
Subbu and the strict hierarchy followed in the film company of S.S. Vasan. However strict the
hierarchy, our ‘Action should speak more than words’. Hard work, honesty and sincerity of purpose
should be the mantra to success. Explain this in not more than 100 words.
Suggested Value points
- No shortcut to success-only hardwork is the key.
- Instead of blaming others for our misfortunes, we should face challenges head on.
- Try to find a solution and not evade the problem or brood over it.
- ‘Office boy’ not ready to accept his flaws, or find out how to overcome the hurdle.
- Must have passion for one’s work
- Work should be worship –not to be deterred by division of labour.
- Must have the tenacity and determination to prove oneself.
3. There was a great deal of National Integration in the Gemini studios with the make-up
department being headed by people from all parts of India in succession. The need of the hour in
India is an idealistic situation where people are more tolerant towards each other to realize the
dreams, our founding fathers had dreamt at the time of Independence. What role could the Youth
of India play in this regard?

Suggested Value points

- Becoming secular in spirit.
- To be more spiritual than religious
- Working together in social causes-rising above pettiness of mind
- Bringing about 100 % literacy, to become more tolerant and understanding
- Promote values of compassion and love through street plays, music and dance (fine arts)
- Schools should promote National Integration, patriotism by developing life skills.

The Interview by Christopher Silvester

Q1. Umberto Eco’s brilliant use of time is something many people lack despite being gifted
otherwise. What is the importance of time management in one’s life. Elucidate in around 100
words.
Suggested Value points
- time is money
- increased work / responsibilities best handled only if time is managed properly.
- keeps idling at bay
- promotes attributes / qualities which are positive
- keeps stress and stress-related anxiety at bay.
Q.2. Mukund Padmanabhan’s interview of Umberto Eco allows the reader to assess them as an
effective interviewer and an affable interviewee. Besides this, Eco’s impressive personality is also
revealed. What is the moral responsibility that rests with the interviewer as well as the interviewee,
considering that interviews as a medium of communication is very popular today? Answer in
around 100 words.
Suggested Value points
- audience forms opinions
- impressionable age / formative years governed by many factors young audience will therefore be
easily influenced
- celebrities powerful enough
- celebrities powerful enough to promote right values
- role models for youth
- hero-worshipping bound to happen, so could handle rightly.
- core values easily recognized as one speaks / gives an interview
- today’s society severely deprived of good role-models.
- sensationalism could be curbed
- will help take focus away from ill-refined news / 6trends

Q.3. Umberto Eco introduced a playful and personal quality to his academic (written) work, thereby
keeping himself away from the kind of disappointment his friend Roland Barthes felt when he
could not write narratives. Why is it necessary to love what you get?
Suggested Value points
- work drudgery bound to set in or else
- will stop creativity if disinterested
- bringing in passion will increase self-motivation and drive
- life is short, may not always provide opportunities elsewhere
- every moment should be considered opportune time to grow / learn
- greater satisfaction possible

BIOLOGY
● COMPLETE YOUR PRACTICALS YOUR PRACTICAL FILE.
A. List of Experiments
1.Prepare a temporary mount to observe pollen germination.
2.Prepare a temporary mount of onion root tip to study mitosis.
3.Isolate DNA from available plant material such as spinach, green pea seeds, papaya, etc.

B. Study and observer the following (Spotting):

1. Flowers adapted to pollination by different agencies (wind, insects, birds).
2. Pollen germination on stigma through a permanent slide or scanning electron
micrograph. 3. Identification of stages of gamete development, i.e., T.S. of testis and T.S.
of ovary through permanent slides (from grasshopper/mice).
4. Meiosis in onion bud cell or grasshopper testis through permanent slides.
5. T.S. of blastula through permanent slides (Mammalian).
6. Controlled pollination - emasculation, tagging and bagging.
7. Common disease causing organisms like Ascaris, Entamoeba, Plasmodium, any fungus
causing ringworm through permanent slides, models or virtual images or specimens. Comment
on symptoms of diseases that they cause.

● COMPLETE YOUR PROJECT RECORD ON THE TOPIC VERIFIED BY THE SUBJECT

TEACHER.
● COMPLETE AND LEARN THE NOTES OF THE CHAPTERS DISCUSSED IN THE CLASS.
(CHAPTER - 11 AND 12)

Chemistry
1. Do the given chemistry practicals in your chemistry practical file.
2. Do the given chemistry CBSE project.
3. Do all the questions of NCERT exemplar of chapter 10 and 11 in your FNB.
MATHEMATICS
Attempt questions from NCERT (XII) Math
Example No. 41, 45 (ii), (iii), 48

Exercise 5.1 ~ Q. 26, 30

Exercise 5.5 ~ Q. 4, 8, 10, 11, 15
Exercise 5.6 ~ Q. 6, 8, 10, 11
Exercise 5.7 ~ Q. 12, 16, 17

Miscellaneous Exercise ~ Q. 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23

COMPUTER SCIENCE
1. Learn and revise Ch- 1,2 and 7
2. Solve the given assignment
3. Do Python Programming from textbook exercise
 Input a welcome message and display it.
 Input two numbers and display the larger / smaller number.
 Input three numbers and display the largest / smallest number.