International Indian School, Riyadh

INTERNATIONAL INDIAN SCHOOL, RIYADH WORKSHEET FOR S-A- 1 – 2013 Section –a [ reading] Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follows:

Tell me what do you see Purple, green and gold, Mountain peaks that touch the sky Little black bird flying by.

Sun setting in the west Flowers in the east Calm, relaxing breeze And forest filled with trees

Tell me what do you see The sky starts to fade as night approaches Animals will soon come out The spring is ending without a doubt.

Fall is coming near Cold weathers on its way, Flowers start to die Bird go south bye, bye

Tell me what do you see Happiness, love and beauty Everyone is free Life the way it should be.

Taylor Tardao Based on the reading of the poem answer the following question 1. What is the colour of the mountain peaks? 2. How is the breeze? 3. How does the sky look as the night approaches? 4. What happens in the cold weather? 5. How is life at the end? “ GONE FOREVER”

Read the following passage carefully:

A snow leopard roars in the high mountains of Asia. A black rhinoceros gallops across the plains of Africa. A grizzly bear hunts for fish in a North American river. A mother blue whale and her calf glide through the deep waters of the ocean. All these animals share the Earth with us. They fascinate us with their beauty, their grace and their speed. We love observing their behavior, and learning more about their habits. But just loving them is not enough. All these animals are endangered. Many of them have died, and without special care, they may some day disappear from earth. Why it is important to care for animals like these? One reason is to protect the balance of life on Earth. Another reason is that the beauty of the animals themselves. Each species of animal is special once it is gone, it is gone forever. Africa was once filled with abundance of wild animals. But that is changing fast. One of these animals, the black rhinoceros, loves on the plains of Africa. It has very poor eyesight and very bad temper! Even though the black rhino is powerful and can be dangerous, its strength can’t always help it to escape hunters. Some people think that rhino’s horn has magical powers, and many hunters kill rhinos for their valuable horns. This has caused the black rhino to be placed on the endangered species list. The Elephant seems to represent all that is strong and wild in Africa. But now endangered – killed for its ivory tusks. On the basis of your reading the passage answers the following questions:- 1. Why is it important to care for animals these day? State on reason? 2. Name the animals listed endangered in the passage? 3. Why are the hunters’ killing rhino’s? 4. why it is important to care for animals ? 5. what is the antonym of fascinate? SECTION B ( WRITING ) TOPICS

1. poster – Marking

2. Formal letter [ letter to the editor of the newspaper ]

3. Notice

1. You are the member of the ‘incredible cultural group’.You want to inform

the students about sightseeing, historical trips organized to Delhi . Design

a POSTER for this purpose ?

2. Write a letter of complaint to the Editor of ‘The Hisdustan times’ New

Delhi, highlighting the necessity of having better facilities for pedestrians

by improving the conditions of the footpath in your city ?

HINTS * Narrow footpaths * pedestrians prone to accidents *

unauthorized hawkers on the pavement * pools of stagnant water.

Request: to take up this cause in the public interest and do the needful.

4. You are the secretary of ‘The sports club’ in your school. Draft a notice

to inform the students about the ‘FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT’ the

club is organizing in the IISR campus in Seplember? SECTION –C ( GRAMMER) TOPIC COVERED

1. Conjunction 2. prepositions 3. Subject verb concord

1. Conjunctions a. Fill the conjunction in the following sentence:-

1. She ate her breakfast ______left for the school. 2. He must work hard ______he will lose one year. 3. ______for as I know, Mirnal is very intelligent. 4. ______Rahul was not well, he went out to play. 5. Parkash worked hard ______he should fail. b. Join each pair of the fallowing sentences by means of a conjunction given in brackets. 1. People panicked the situation got out of control. [ because] 2. I have bought the plane tickets. I have not got the visa yet. [but] 3. The thieves stole the jewellery took away the bathroom fittings. [not only ………… but also ] 4. The judge is not going to show him any mercy. He confesses. (unless) 5. Remember to give me my medicine. You go to bed. ( before ) II Prepositions:- a. Choose the best word from the options given below to complete the following paragraph.

Greenhouse effect refers (1) ………. (to/at/ for/on) the raised temperature (2) ……….. for/of /on/ in) the Earth’s surface as a result (3) ……(of/off/to/on) heat energy being trapped (4)……. (against/by/down/for) gases in the atmosphere. As the sun’s rays pass (5)……… (against/above/through) the Earth atmosphere some heat is absorbed but most of the short wave solar energy pass through . b. Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition

1. It is raining ………. this morning. 2. Let us sit ……….. The mango tree. 3. I am looking ………. my book. 4. My examination will start …………… Monday 5. He is angry ………… me.

III subject verb concord:- a. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct options. According to a six – year long study that ………….. (has/ have/) been published recently in the journal ‘nature’ there ……… (is/are/) surrounded by at least 16 planets on an average . this ………….. (mean/means) that the number of likely alien worlds is more then 160 billions . low mass planets …….. (appears/appear) to be more abundant than larger ones. b. Circle the mistake in the sentence and rewrite in the correct form.

1. She sitted at the table by window. 2. Judy rent a movie to watch with her friends/ 3. Roban and Rahul eats in the pizzeria. 4. All students competes for the prize. 5. Many people considers coffee as a stimulant. SECTION –D (LITERATURE) TOPICS COVERED 1. Trees are great. 2. The tree that shadowed the world. 3. Mr. Pickwick. 4. A tragic story.

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follows.

1. They don’t wear Macs, it runs off their backs.

a. Whom does ‘they’ refer to? (Parks, naughty boys, trees)

b. What does ‘it’ refers to? (Trees, rainwater, raincoat)

c. Name the poet. (Roger Mc. Gough, Anita, Desai, tames berry)

2. Tree are great, they accept their fate.

a. Which ‘fate’ do the tree accept. b. How do they show their acceptance? c. Name the poem?

3. “They started dying and the country side lost its beauty”.

a. What does ‘they’ refer to? b. Why did they start dying? c Name the author ?

4. “But when something happened to spoil their happiness”

a. What happened that spoiled their happiness? b. What does ‘their’ refer to? c. How did they respond to the problem at first? 5. “The club then made an important decision”

a. Who was the most important person in the club? b. What was the name of the club? c. What was the decision made?

6. “That was where he had arranged to meet the other tree”

a. “Whom does ‘he’ refer to? b. Where did he arrange to meet the other three? c. Who are the other three?

7. “There lived a sage in the days of yore, and he handsome pigtail wore” a. Who lived in the days of yore? b. What did he wear? c. Name the poet?

8. He turned; but still the pigtail stout hung steadily behind him. a. Who turned round? b. Why did he turn? c. What was the result?

Writing task

1. Write the character sketch of “Mr. Pickwick”? 2. Write the summary of the poem “trees are great”? 3. Imagine yourself as one of the village in the lesson. ‘Trees that shadowed The world’ explain the difficulties that you faced when the tree grew taller and taller each day? 4. Imagine you are “Mr. Pickwick” and write a diary entry about how you were totally stunned by the trickery of the stranger ? 5. Write a summary of the poem “A tragic story”