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Summer Vacation Holiday Homework Subject - English Session - 2024-25 Class - 9

The document outlines summer vacation homework for Class 9 English, including the preparation of a portfolio with various written works and revision for an upcoming exam. It contains reference questions and long answer prompts related to specific literary texts and poems. Students are expected to engage with themes such as technology in education, childhood joys, and symbolism in poetry.

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Summer Vacation Holiday Homework Subject - English Session - 2024-25 Class - 9

The document outlines summer vacation homework for Class 9 English, including the preparation of a portfolio with various written works and revision for an upcoming exam. It contains reference questions and long answer prompts related to specific literary texts and poems. Students are expected to engage with themes such as technology in education, childhood joys, and symbolism in poetry.

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Summer Vacation Holiday Homework

Subject – English Session – 2024-25 Class – 9


1. Prepare a Portfolio for English, including your best essays, poems, reviews of
books/ articles from newspaper, describing your favourite authors/ poets/ ideals,
self-composed stories etc. (to be prepared in a file)
2. Revise all the topics which we have covered till now for PT 1 exam which
will be conducted in the month of July.
❖ Write these questions and their answers in your English Notebook.
I. REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
1. He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials
and wires. He smiled at Margie and gave her an apple, then took the teacher
apart.
(i) Who is ‘He’ in the above lines?
(a) Mechanical teacher (b) County Inspector (c) Tommy (d) Margie
(ii) Why did he take the teacher apart?
(a) to give an apple (b) to teach him (c) to check and fix (d) to throw away
(iii) How did he try to be friendly with Margie?
(a) smiled and gave her an apple (b) played with her
(c) gave her holiday (d) taught her the lesson
(iv) Who is ‘the teacher’ in the above lines?
(a) Tommy (b) County Inspector (c) Mechanical teacher (d) Margie
(v) ‘Apart’ means:
(a) throw (b) away (c) tear (d) round
2. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;”
i. Why does the poet feel ‘sorry’?
ii. Where does the two roads diverge in?
iii. What is the mood of the poet in these lines?
iv. What does the ‘yellow wood’ mean?
v. What did the speaker do while standing for a long time?
II. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
1. Tele-books and e-books are need of the hour especially when we have to save
trees, paper and other resources. Comment, taking examples from the lesson
‘The Fun They Had’.
2. On the basis of the description of future schools in the chapter ‘The Fun They
Had’, compare and explain the differences between the present schools and
future schools.
3. The child is fascinated to the things in the fair and demands them. He takes
interest in the things around. What does it reflect about the ‘joys of childhood’?
4. When children are taken to a fair, they ask their parents to buy them many
things. Should their parents do so? Explain with reference to the lesson ‘The
Lost Child’.
5. Discuss the title of the poem “The Road Not Taken”. Is it appropriate for the
poem?
6. Bring out the symbolism in the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’.
7. What challenges are posed by wind in the life of the poet and the common
man?
8. Human life is full of hardships. How does the poet reveal it in the poem
‘Wind’?
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