Kendriya Vidyalaya, Hinoo (1st Shift)

Winter Break Home Assignment (2023-24)

XI
English

A. Creative Writing Skills

1. You are Sameer / Sameera, the owner of Pink Power, a café run only by women. You are looking
for an interior designer to design the interiors of the café. Draft a suitable advertisement for the
same, in about 50 words, to be published in the classified columns of the National Daily, the local
newspaper.
2. Prepare a poster in not more than 50 words on kindness to animals to be displayed in the city at
public places appealing to people to show kindness to animals. You are Secretary of the Society
for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Ranchi.
3. Swati attended a seminar where speakers narrated their experiences of the adverse impact of
modern gadgets on their daily life. She has also experienced how these gadgets fail when needed
the most. She decides to enlighten her schoolmates on this helpless state by delivering a speech in
the morning assembly on the topic ‘Modern gadgets have made us slaves to machines’. Write her
speech in 120-150 words.
4. Write a debate in 120-150 words either for or against the motion: ‘Indulgence of youth in the use
of the Internet is a great bane for them.’
B. Grammar
1. The concert was amazing. The band _____ their greatest hits for the audience.
a) played b) plays c) has played d) playing
2. The book on the shelf is the one that I _____ to read last month.
a) am trying b) tried c) have tried d) trying
3. The student didn’t have a pencil, so the teacher _____ him one.
a) gave b) gives c) was giving d) has given
4. I can’t believe how much weight she _____ since she started her diet.
a) loses b) lose c) is losing d) has lost
5. The teacher asked if anyone _____ the answer to the question.
a) knows b) know c) will know d) knew
6. My grandparents _____ for over fifty years, and they are still deeply in love.
a) were married b) marry c) will marry d) have been married
Rearrange the words to make meaningful sentences.
7. winning / the / championship / our / team / hard / worked / for / months / for
8. to / always / inform / his / of / parents / the / progress / boy / tries / his
9. promised / help / her / I / friend / homework / my / with / to
10. desperately / for / lost / someone / looking / their / keys / is
11. He ran away to escape arrest. (convert to compound sentence)
12. She is a teacher and a dog lover. (convert to compound sentence)
13. It seemed impossible for him to escape. (convert to complex sentence)
14. The boy saw his teacher and at once ran away. (convert to complex sentence)
15. I know his intention. (convert to complex sentence)
16. Einstein was the greatest and we can prove it. (convert to complex sentence)
C. Read any English novel and design a unique book cover, a bookmark, and write a review
within 100-120 words.
Some song recommendations: Hey Jude, Perfect, You & I, Falling, Left & Right, Dynamite, Summer of ’69, Hotel
California, Just a Girl, Dear Prudence, Country Roads Take me home (listen to them with lyrics on)