DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL INDIRAPURAM

WORKSHEET 1
CLASS-X

1. Online shopping is already a craze among the young shoppers in India but not many
people are happy with the way online shopping portals lure them into buying things
beyond their needs and budgets. Write a letter to the Editor of a national newspaper
expressing your concern about the way online shopping gets people ‘hooked on’ to it.

2. You are a resident of Gold Souk Housing Scheme Raja Garden, Mumbai. You have
been allotted an open plan parking area for your car, but found that your neighbour has
encroached upon it, by placing cartons and an old almirah in your side of the area so
that you are unable to approach your parking space. Write a letter of complaint to the
RWA Chairman of your society about the inconvenience and ask for an immediate
redress of your complaint. You are Anil/Anila of Flat No. 33 in the above society.

3. The visual below shows differences between two types of diabetes* in humans.
Carefully study the information and then write an analytical paragraph in 100-120
words comparing both types and highlighting similarities and differences.

4. The following pie-chart shows the results of the health check-up conducted in a school.
Interpret it for the school authorities in a paragraph of about 100-120 words.
5. Choose the correct options to fill in the blanks to complete the passage that
follow.

Different species of birds (i) ___________ and sizes of beaks. Birds such as sparrows,
munias and finches have cone-shaped beaks (ii) ___________ to trap a seed and
crack it open, while woodpeckers have sturdy and chisel-like beaks (iii) ___________
wood and feed on insects.

(i) (a) are having different shapes

(b) have different shapes
(c) has different shape
(d) have difference in shapes
(ii) (a) that have the ability
(b) that has the ability
(c) who have the ability
(d) that are having the ability

(iii) (a) for boring on

(b) to bore from
(c) to be boring into
(d) to bore into

6. Choose the correct option to fill in the blanks to complete the reported
conversations that follow the comic strip given below.
 The other day the wizard of ID came across a young student sitting under a tree
engrossed in reading a book. He asked the young man (i) __________. The young
man replied that he was studying political science. The wizard wanted to know (ii)
_________. With a tongue in his cheek, the young man replied (iii) _________ but it
was only less relevant.

(i) (a) what was he studying

(b) what he was studying
(c) what are you studying
(d) what you are studying
(ii) (a) what exactly political science is
(b) exactly what is political science
(c) what political science exactly was
(d) what exactly was political science

(iii) (a) it is like science fiction

(b) that it’s like science fiction
(c) that it has been like science fiction
(d) that it was like science fiction

7. Read the following conversation and complete the paragraph that follows.

Asha: Let us go to the canteen, Lata.

Lata: No, I can’t. I am to go back to my house.
Asha: Is there any problem?
Lata: Father is ill.
Asha: Then you must be with him.

Asha suggested to Lata (a) __________. Lata said that she could not as (b)
_________. Asha, then asked her (c) ___________. Lata replied (d) _________ Asha
said that in that case she (e) __________.