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HOME WORK | DEBADRITA

  HOMEWORK 💣FOR 02/04/2024 (TUESDAY) 1.SCIENCE-   PAGE-11,12 (HEART -Read carefully and memorize the definitions) and PAGE 15 Key notes also. 2.MATH-   EX-2.3 3.ENGLISH LITERATURE-   MY ELDER   BROTHER-(WRITE IT IN FAIR COPY AND MEMORIZE) 4. WORDS :- PAGE 1 TO 12. 😎FOR-31/03/2024(SUNDAY) SCIENCE- PAGE-9 AND 10 MATH- EX-2.2 ENGLISH LITERATURE- MY ELDER BROTHER-(WRITE AND REMEMBER THE WORDS WITH ITS MEANING) ENGLISH GRAMMAR- PAGE 7 AND 8.

MY ELDER BROTHER

  MY ELDER BROTHER My brother was five years older than me, but only three grades ahead at school. We had started school at the same age, but he didn't like to be hasty in such an important matter as education. He wanted to lay a solid foundation³ so that a magnificent structure could be raised upon it. So he would spend two years doing the work of one year, and sometimes even three. After all, how can one raise a strong building on a weak foundation! Being the elder one, it was his birth right to supervise and scold me. As the younger brother, I had to accept his commands as law. He was studious¹ by nature, and always remained glued to his books. Sometimes, perhaps to refresh his mind, he would sketch birds or dogs or cats on the margins of his books. Sometimes he would write a set of words that made no sense at all. I tried very hard to solve these riddles but without success. I disliked studying. To sit with a book for an hour was like climbing a mountain. At the first opp...

WORD POWER

  26/03/2024             MY ELDER BROTHER 1.        Siblings- brother or sister 2.      Foundation- base 3.      Stony- stern 4.      Child’s play- A n easy task 5.      Tongue lashing- severe scolding 6.      Terrorized- very scared 7.      Fluke- success accomplish by chance 8.      Cram- learn by heart. 9.      Flunked- failed. 10. Dimmed- made less bright. 11. Mellowed –softned 12. Leniency- not very strict attitude. 13. Wary – careful 14. Accumulate- gather 15. Strategy- a well planned approach 16. Tread- walk 17. At his heels- following right after. 18. Resentment - Feeling mad because of something unfair. 19. Annoyance - Feeling a little angry or bothered. 20. Hasty - Doing things quickly without thinking much. 2...

Milkha Singh |PARAGRAPH| CLASS 5 | ICSE

  Milkha Singh was born in 1929 in Gobindpura village in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan.  During the 1947 partition, he became an orphan and moved to India. He is known as the Flying Sikh. Padma Shree Milkha Singh was an Indian field sprinter and track runner. He is the only athlete to win a gold medal in the 400 meters race at the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games. Milkha Singh set a national record in the 1960 Olympics by finishing fourth in the 400m race in 45.73 seconds. This record remained unbroken for almost 40 years. He was conferred India's fourth-highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri, for his sporting achievements. The Hindi cinema 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag', directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, portrays Milkha Singh's biography. 'The Race of My Life' (co-written with his daughter Sonia Sanwalka) is the autobiography of Milkha Singh, which was published in 2013. This veteran athlete succumbed to death on 18th June 2021 from COVID-related compl...

DATA HANDLING | CLASS 5 | ICSE

 1.The following bar graph represents the data for different sizes of shoes worn by the students in a school. Read the graph and answer the following questions. (a) Find the number of students whose shoe sizes have been collected. (b) What is the number of students wearing shoe size 6? (c) What are the different sizes of the shoes worn by the students?  (d) Which shoe size is worn by the maximum number of students? (e) Which shoe size is worn by minimum number of students? (f) State whether true or false: The total number of students wearing shoe sizes 5 and 8 is the same as the number of students wearing shoe size 6. 2.The following graph gives the information about the number of railway tickets sold for different cities on a railway ticket counter between 6.00 am to 10.00 am. Read the bar graph and answer the following questions.  (a) How many tickets were sold in all? (b) For which city were the maximum number of tickets sold? (c) For which city were the minimum number...

COMPREHENSION-04 | CLASS 5 | ICSE

  COMPREHENSION-04 21/03/2024 Newspapers are our good friends. Life without Newspapers is a waste. Newspapers bring us news and views from all corners of the world. Any incident or occurrence of importance that takes place as reported by the newspapers. The word ‟NEWS‟ is interpreted as North, East, West and South. It means that the newspaper provides us with information and news regarding various subjects from all directions.   Newspapers also give us articles on all kinds of topics such as political, social, economic monetary, business, commerce, sports, education, health etc. Newspapers publish advertisements that attract the attention of the customers. They also contain book reviews of literary, historical and other books by the scholars. Newspapers are of different types. Some newspapers are published daily. They are called “Dailies‟. We must cultivate the habit of reading newspapers to know what is happening around the globe. The one who reads newspapers and interprets...