MAYUR PUBLIC SCHOOL

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
CLASS – XII

New session, new books and new friends have kept the kids buzzing for a while and now the
much awaited vacation is here! Summer Break is the best time of the year for parents and
children alike. Summer vacation can also be a time for learning with lots of activities around.
Let’s make it worth the time.

So, take a quick dip in summer ‘ish’ reading.

Here is the list of the books which you will surely enjoy reading.
A tale of two cities (Charles Dickens)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
The Diary of a young girl (Anne Frank)
Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
The Kite Runner (Khalid Hosseini)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark
Twain)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie)
I am Malala (Malala Yousufzai)
Enjoy reading!
 “Don’t underestimate the power of a good vocabulary”
Let’s spend our time enhancing our vocabulary. Write two antonyms and two synonyms
of each word given below.
1 Acumen
2 Abound
3 Audacity
4 Authentic
5 Baffle
6 Bleak
7 Bustle
8 Barbarous
9 Benevolent
10 Camouflage
11 Condemn
12 Decipher
13 Disdain
14 Enormous
15 Fabricate
16 Feeble
17 Immaculate
18 Impediment
19 Jejune
20 Lucid

PRACTICE WORKSHEET
Q1. You are Dr. Stanzin, a certified art therapist from Leh. You have been invited by G. D
Public School, Jammu, to conduct a seminar for students on ‘Art Therapy the Way Forward”.
This seminar is to introduce students to the usefulness of art in dealing with personal and social
problems. Write your reply, in about 50 words accepting the invitation. (CBSE SQP 2020)

Q2) Write a letter to the Editor of a national daily highlighting the neglect of our national
monuments and how these are being damaged in the present day world.

Q3)Write an article on the topic-‘How Google controls the life of an average person?’ 150-200
words.
Q4. You are Rachael/Rueben, President of the Wellness Cell of your school. You decide to
organize a workshop, to raise awareness of the importance of mental health. This workshop
would be conducted by the school counsellor. Write a notice in about 50 words, informing the
students of class XI-XII about the workshop (CBSE SQP 2020)

LITERATURE PRACTICE WORKSHEET

QUESTION BANK
LOST SPRING
Q1- What does the author analyze in the story?
A) Rich people
B) Garbage
C) Poor children and their exploitation
D) Her works

Q2- What is the central theme of the story Lost Spring?

A) Pitiable Poor children and their lost childhood
B) Garbage
C) Saheb and Mukesh
D) Spring Season

Q3. What forces the children to live a life of exploitation?

A) Greed
B) Extreme Poverty
C) Peers
D) Parents

Q4- According to the author what was garbage for the parents?
A) Means of entertainment
B) Means of joy
C) Means of sorrow
D) Means of survival

Q5- Is Saheb happy working at the tea stall?

A) Yes
B) Yes, he earns money
C) No earning
D) No, earning but no freedom
Q6- Why is the author calling garbage as gold in the story?
A) Because of jewels in it
B) Because of gems in it
C) Because of gold in it
D) Because of its encashment value

Q7- What do the boys appear like to the author in the story?
A) Morning crows
B) Evening crows
C) Morning birds
D) Evening Birds

Q8- What does the title Lost Spring symbolize?

A) Lost blooming childhood
B) Autumn season
C) Lost money
D) Lost age

Q9- Why did Saheb go through garbage dumps?

A) To find a silver coin
B) A rupee
C) A ten rupee note
D) All of these

Q10- Why did Saheb leave his house?

A) Because the storm swept away his house and field
B) To enjoy a life of leisure
C) To find friends
D) To go to college
SHORT QUESTION AND ANSWERS
Question 1.
What does the writer mean when she says, ‘Saheb is no longer his own master’?
Question 2.
What does the title, ‘Lost Spring’ convey?

MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow each :
 1. Driving from my parent’s
home to Cochin last Friday
morning, I saw my mother
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realized with pain
that she was as old as she looked but soon
put that thought away........

(a) Where was the poet coming from and who was sitting beside her?
(b) What did the poet notice about her mother?
(c) With what does the poet compare her mother’s face and why?
(d)Which thought was put away and how it was done?
(e) Identify the literary device used in the given lines and explain it.

2. and looked but soon

put that thought away, and looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes

a) What does the poet’s gesture of ‘looking out’ suggest about her state of mind?
b) What did the poet see from the window of the car?
c) Explain ‘trees sprinting ’
d) What was the impact of ‘the merry children spilling out of their homes ’?

DEEP WATER
Q. 1. Describe the big bully that plunged Douglas into the pool. Why do you think he threw
Douglas into the pool?

Q. 2. Why did mother warn Douglas against river Yakima?

Q. 3. Why does Douglas as an adult recount a childhood experience of terror

and his conquering of it? What larger meaning does he draw from this?

KEEPING QUIET
Read the stanzas given below and answer the questions that follow.
1.Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still.
(a) Name the poem and the poet of these lines.
(b) Why does the poet ask us to count to twelve?
(c) Why does the poet ask us to keep still?
(d) Find words from the passage which mean.
2. For once on the face of the Earth let’s not speak in any language, let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
Questions
(a) Name the poem and the poet of these lines.
(b) ‘Let’s not speak in any language’, says the poet. Why?
(c) What should we not do for a second?
(d) What do you understand by ‘the face of the Earth?