D.A.V Public School

Sector VI, Dwarka, New Delhi-110075

SA-1 Assignment (2014-15)

Class VI

English

Section A- Reading

Q1.Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow

Mathematics is the study of topics such as quantity (numbers), structure, space and change. Mathematics allows us to expand our consciousness. Mathematics tells us about economic trends, patterns of disease, and the growth of populations. Math is good at exposing the truth, but it can also be responsible for misunderstandings and untruths. Figures have the power to mislead people. Most of the mathematical notation in use today was not invented until the 16th century. Before that, mathematics was written out in words. Modern notation makes mathematics much easier for the professional, but beginners often find it daunting. It is extremely compressed: a few symbols contain a great deal of information.

  1. What is Mathematics?
  2. Mathematic helps us to ______.

a) expand our consciousnessb) understand economic trends

c) check the growth of populationd) all of the above

  1. How were mathematical notations written before the 16th century?
  2. Find a word from the passage that means ‘scary’.
  3. Why are symbols in mathematics important?

Q2.Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow

A careful boy I want to be;

A little brother follows me.

I do not dare to go astray

For fear he’ll go the selfsame way.

I cannot once escape his eyes;

Whate'er he sees me do, he tries;

Like me he says he's going to be —

That little brother following me.

He thinks that I am good and fine;

Believes in every word of mine.

The bad in me he must not see —

That little brother following me,

I must remember as I go,

Through summer's sun and winter's snow,

I’m building for the years to be

That little brother following me.

  1. The poet wants to be a careful boy because ______.

a)his little sister is following himb) he wants to be a good boy

c)his little brother is following himd) he is afraid of punishment

  1. The poet’s little brother tries everything that ______.

a)he sees his dog doingb) he likes to do

c)his elder brother is doingd) he is not supposed to do

  1. Why does the little brother believe in every word of the poet?
  2. What should the poet remember?
  3. Suggest a title for this poem.
  4. Find a word from the passage that mean “ away from the correct direction” (para1).

Q3.Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

HUMMING BIRDS

The most beautiful humming birds are found in the West Indies and South America. The crest of the tiny head of these birds shines like a sparkling crown of colored light. The shades of color that beautify its breast, are equally brilliant. As the bird flies from one object to another, it looks more like a bright flash of sunlight than it does like a living being. Do you know why we call them humming birds? It is because they make a soft, humming noise by the rapid motion of their wings—a motion so rapid, that as they fly you can only see that they have wings.

One day when walking in the woods, I found the nest of one of the smallest humming birds. It was about half the size of a very small hen's egg, and was attached to a twig no thicker than a steel knitting needle. It seemed to have been made of cotton fibers, and was covered with the softest bits of leaf and bark. It had two eggs in it, quite white, and each about as large as a small sugarplum.

When you approach the spot where one of these birds has built its nest, it is necessary to be careful. The mother bird will dart at you and try to peck your eyes. Its sharp beak may hurt your eyes most severely, and even destroy your sight. The poor little thing knows no other way of defending its young.

  1. Describe the beauty of a humming bird.
  2. Why are they called humming birds?
  3. What did the nest of the humming bird look like to the writer?
  4. What might happen if you try to take the nest of a hummingbird?
  5. Find a word from the passage that means the same as ‘stick’. (para 2)

Q4.Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Trees

Trees are the kindest thing that I know

They do not harm, they simply grow

And spread a shade for sleepy cows,

And gather birds among the boughs……

They are the first when day’s begun

To touch the beams of the morning sun

They are the last to hold the light

When evening changes into night,

And when a moon floats on the sky

They hum a drowsy lullaby

Of sleepy children long ago …….

Trees are the kindest thing I know.

Harry Behn

  1. Fill in the blanks with one word only to complete the following summary of the poem. The poet feels that trees are the (a)______gift of nature to man.. They never (b) ______anyone. They grow on this earth and provide( c) ______to the sleeping cowsand give shelter to the (d) ______among their (e) ______. The (f) ______of the morning sun fall (g) ______on thetrees and when evening turns into (h) ______the trees trap the (i)______of the sun.Theyseem to be singing a drowsy (j)______when the moon appears in the (k)______. The sweet music produced by the trees makes the (l) ______go to sleep.
  2. Answer the following questions

(a)Why does the poet consider the tree to be very kind?

(b)How do the trees help us even at night?

(c)What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

(d)Find words from the poem which mean the same as

(i) sleepy

(ii) collect

Section B- Writing

Q5.Write a letter to your friend telling him/her of an incident when you were scolded by your teacher for no fault of yours and how you felt about it.

Q6.You went for a magic show today and enjoyed it a lot. Write a letter to your friend describing your experience giving some details of the magic show. You could use the hints given in the box below.

Q7.You participated in a dance event for your school’s annual day function. Write a diary entry expressing your happiness. You can also mention how proud your parent’s felt to see you on the stage.

Q8.You wasted your day in playing and did not do your homework. Next day in school you were punished by your teacher. Write a diary entry expressing your feelings and realizing your mistake.

Q9.We celebrate many festivals in a year. Celebrations make our life happy. Write a speech, in about 100-150 words, talking about the “Importance of Festivals”.

Q10. Keeping our earth clean is our prime responsibility. But we often forget to fulfil this duty. Write a speech, in about 100-150 words, on “A Clean Earth is my Responsibility”.

Q11.You are Reena. Your elder brother Hitesh has not returned from school yet and his friend Rahul calls him. On the basis of given telephone conversation, write a message in 50 words. Put the message in a box.

Rahul : Hello ! I am Rahul. May I speak to Hitesh. I am his friend.

Reena : I am Reena, Hitesh’s sister. Hitesh has not returned from school yet.

May I take a message?

Rahul : Yes, We have a cricket match on Sunday morning and Hitesh has to come to play with us. Can you tell him to meet me on Sunday morning at 6:30 a.m in the Sports Complex?

Reena : I shall give him your message. Okay, Rahul.

Rahul : Thank you, Reena, Bye.

Section C- Grammar

Q12.Fill in the blanks with the correct linker:

  1. Anna is talented at music ______dance.
  2. My cousin and I aren’t very close ______we’re the same age.
  3. We went to the party _____ forgot to take the gift.
  4. The sky became dark ______a storm was about to come.
  5. ______I am on leave tomorrow, there will be no English class.

Q13.Fill in the blank with the appropriate determiner:

  1. ______are four boys playing football. (there/those)
  2. Have you got ______(a/an) orange crayon? No, I haven’t. But I have ____ (a/an) red one.
  3. I don’t wear ______(any/some) glasses.
  4. There aren’t ______(any some) trees in the garden but there are ______(any/some) flowers in the balcony.
  5. We met the sailors ______(who/whose) ship was wrecked.

Q14.Fill in the blank by choosing the correct modal from the given options:

  1. Her opinion ______not change, but we can always try to influence her. (should/might)
  2. He ______never be able to command people, he’s too shy. (would/should)
  3. All of you ______work hard to get good marks. (must/ can)
  4. You ______not stay up till late. (should/ would)
  5. We ______cast our vote. (must/should)

Q15.Choose the correct form of verb from the options given in the bracket:

  1. The earth ______around the sun. (move/moves/moved)
  2. I ______a strange noise. (was heard/ am hearing/ hear)
  3. I ______him since we met a year ago. (didn’t see/ haven’t seen/ hadn’t seen)
  4. The plane ______at 3:30 p.m. (arrive/will arrive/ was arrive)
  5. I am sure she ______the exam. (pass/will pass)

Q16.Fill in the blank with the correct form of verb:

  1. Gold and silver ______precious metals. (is/are)
  2. Each one of them ______to come for practice. (has/have)
  3. The committee ______supposed to issue its report by Monday. (was/were)
  4. They are going to ______a patriotic song on Independence Day. (sing/sings)
  5. Neither he nor his siblings ______broken the window. (has/have)

Q17.Fill in the blank with the correct tense form of the verb:

  1. Some of the leaves ______off the tree. (fall)
  2. We waited until the juice ______. (freeze)
  3. Naman ______to play the football match yesterday. (want)
  4. I ______a voice calling for help from this room. (hear)
  5. Do you ______milk every day? (drink)

Q18.There is an error in each line of the passage. Find the error and correct it.

ErrorCorrection

A child was stand on a street corner. ______

He leaned with one shoulders against a high board ______

fence and swayed the other to but fro. Sunshine ______

beat upon the cobbles, and a lazy summer wind

raised yellow dust which trail in clouds down ______

the road. The child stand dreamily gazing. After ______

sometime a dog came out to the child.

Q19.Use the information given in the box to complete the passage on Mahatma Gandhi.

MohandasKaramchand Gandhi was born to a (a)______family on 2 October 1869, in (b)______, Gujarat, in India. His parents belonged to a(c)______caste. He was educated in India, from where he went to read law in (d)______, England. He qualified as a lawyer in 1891. He started practicing law in (e)______.

Q20.Rearrange the words to make meaningful sentences.

  1. could/book/favourite/she/find/her/?
  2. cat/book/ meow/about/was/named/favourite/her/a
  3. remember/left/the/do/you/you/book/where/?
  4. put/book/she/the/had/pillow/under/the
  5. book/pillow/I/my/found/under/the

Section D- Literature

Q21.Answer the following questions:

  1. Why was daddy ashamed of himself after meeting the officer?
  2. What do ‘stars in the stream’ in the poem ‘Leisure’ refer to?
  3. How did Gandhiji confess his guilt to his father? Why?
  4. Why should we not put off the work/good deed till tomorrow?
  5. Why was Rupa suddenly asked to play the role of Hanuman?
  6. How did the white elephant help the forester?

Q22.(a) The forester was a human and the white elephant an animal. Still the white elephant was kind and the forester cruel. Comment

(b) What according to Gandhiji is the purest type of repentance? Do you agree with him?

(c)Rupa was sure that once on stage, she would give a brilliant performace. Do you think she really managed to give a good performance?

Q23.Extract based questions

(a)No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in the grass,

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

(i)Name the poem and the poet.

(ii)Why we don’t have any time to see the squirrels?

(iii)What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza given above?

(b)He had made gymnastics and cricket compulsory and I disliked both. I never took part in any exercise before they were made compulsory.

(i)Name the story from which this extract has been taken.

(ii)Who is ‘He’ and ‘I’ in the lines given above?

(iii)Why did ‘I’ not take part in any exercise?

(iv)Write the incident that the narrator tells us related to this extract.

(c)Every moment has its duty,

Who the future can foretell?

Then why put off till tomorrow

What today can do as well?

(i)Name the poem and the poet.

(ii)Explain the line ‘who the future can foretell?’

(iii)What is the poet talking about?

(iv)What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza given above.

Q24.(a) Imagine you are Mahatma Gandhi. You have stolen something from your father’s room and you are repenting now. Write a diary entry, in about 100 words, expressing your guilt and how you want to rectify your mistake.

(b) Imagine you are Rupa. You participated in the annual function and are very happy with your performance. Write a letter to your friend sharing your happiness.

SCIENCE

Q1.Diffusion is fastest in

a) Solids b) Liquids c) gas

Q2.Which of the following floats on the surface of water

a) Paper b) Coins c) Pebbles d) Sand

Q3.Whichof the following is a primary consumer

a) Tiger b) Goat c) Snake d) Plants

Q4.Which of the following are scavengers

a)Fungi b) Crow c) Rat d) Owl

Q5. The spinner in washing machine which dries clothes works on the principle of

a)Evaporation

b)Sedimentation

c)Filtration

d)Centrifugation

Q6. The part of banana plant not used as food is

a)Flower b) fruit c) root d) stem

Q7.You are asked to dissolve sugar in water. You kept on adding sugar to water till some of the sugar is not at all dissolving by stirring with spoon. How can you dissolve the left out sugar?

Q8.You have noticed your mother keeping fruits in plastic bags. Is it safe to eat them?

Q9. What will happen if green plants do not get sunlight?

Q10.How does root system prevent soil erosion?

Q11.What does a seed contain?

Q12.A boy goes to a garden and describes various types of plants. Identify the characteristics of plants on the basis of which they are classified as herbs ,shrubs and trees. Give examples.

Q13.Doctors advice us to drink at least two litres of water daily. Why?

Q14.How will you check whether rice contains starch?

Q15.What happens when we overeat always?

Q16. How is a camel adapted to live in a desert?

Q17.What are the features of cactus plant that help it to flourish in deserts?

Q18.Why very few plants are able to survive in deep water?

Q19.Boil some water in a container covered with a lid? What do you observe? Give reason.

Q20.Name at least three spices used in our food?

Social Science

Choose the correct option:

1.The vast limitless space which includes all the celestial bodies is called:

(a) space (b)universe (c) world (d) none of these

2.A huge congregation of stars clustered together in a group is called:

(a) galaxy (b)satellite (c)asteroids (d) meteors

3.The head of the solar system :

(a)Neptune (b) sun (c) saturn (d)earth

4.A map showing relief features such as mountains, plains, plateaus, etc is called

(a)Political map (b)Physical map (c)Topographical map (d)thematic map

1. Compass was invented by?

a.Chinese b.Indians c.Africans d.Americans

5.Who was the first Cartographer who made the map of the world according to scale and direction.

a.Aritotle b.Aryabhatta c.Chankya d.Ptolemy 6. History is a systematic study of : a)Recent events (b)past events (c) present events (d)none of these

7.The Chinese traveler who visited india was :

(a)kalidas (b)kautilya (c)Megasthenese (d)fa-hien

8.Inindia the remains of mesolithic man have been found in:

(a)Mysore and western Narmada region (b)Kashmir and Orissa (c)Rajasthan and Bengal (d)all the above.

9. what does Paleo means:

(a)old (b) middle (c) new (d) recent

10.Community ties developed by good neighborhood are

(a)weak (b)loose (c)discouraging (d) strong

11. The first unit of community life is:

(a)a village (b) a family (c) a school (d)a child

12.Which one of the following festivals is not a harvesting festival?

(a)Onam (b)Baisakhi (c)Holi (d)Pongal

2.Fill in the blanks:

1. ------colour is used for showing water bodies, like oceans, seas etc.

2.------represents the three-dimensional view of the earth.

3.The celestial body having a star like head and a long luminous tail ------ .

4.Jain literature was written in ------. 5.Education makes us good ______.

Q3.Short answer type questions:

Q1.Why do stars look very small in the sky? Give two main features of a star. Q2.Mention three main characteristics of asteroids.

Q3. State any three uses of a map. Q4.Distinguish between A globe and A map. Q5.Distinguish between latitudes and longitudes . Q6.Mention the three similarities between the Paleolithic and Neolithic man.

Q7.How did the early man feel the need to have tools?

Q8.Why did early civilizations come up on river banks ? Give three reasons in support of your answer.

Q9.How did the ‘ community life’ begin?

Q10.Define democracy ? What is the minimum age for an Indian to vote ?

Q4.Long answer type questions: Q1.Explain the phases of the moon with the help of a diagram.

Q2.Explain heat zones with the help of a well labeled diagram.

Q3.Define map? Explain the components of a map. Q4.What are meteors? Write three points about them.

Q5.Briefly describe how the archeological source materials help us to learn our past.

Q6.Write short notes on:

1. Seals of Indus Valley Civilisation

2. Script of Indus Valley Civilisation

Q7.What is a civilisation? Descibe the importance and structure of the Great Bath.

Q8.How did the ‘community life’ begin?

Q9.Mention the advantages of a democratic set up.

Q10.On the given political map of India mark the following.

1.Lothal.

2.Kalibangan.