A Sample Revision Worksheet for your child
DICTATION: [Parent - Please read out these sentences slowly for your child to write down or to type out in an email back to you.]
- The word contemporary means belonging to or occurring at the present time.
- If you stand for elections, I will definitely support you.
- I was suddenly transformed into an elephant.
- Elephant legs function in very strange and probably unique ways.
- What is your understanding of this subject called Geography?
- The British Queen granted the Chinese Emperor an audience.
- The atmosphere is definitely polluted with the coronavirus.
- The soldier on horseback wore a set of thick metal armory.
- My daughter has become fascinated with the Nancy Drew stories.
- The terrorists captured the Central Police Station.
Reading & Writing: Parent: Ask your child to read these passages and then to write out a 500-word essay about “My Ambition”. Then, get your child to compose a poem on this same topic.
My Ambition
Almost everyone dreams of something while growing up. We all have ambitions when we are little. Our ambition changes as we grow up. Ambitions lead us to a definite aim in life. Furthermore, they help us focus on our goal no matter what the cost is. It drives us to do better in life. Ambitions differ from one person to another.
However, one common thing usually found is that over time, people switch their ambition to something else rather than that which they wished to be when little. We have many people in the medical field who wanted to be dancers. Similarly, some of the greatest politicians wanted to be artists. So we see how easily one gives up on their dreams and ambition to adapt to society.
The ambition of any person’s life usually depends on their choice and interests. I aspire to be a great dancer. I have always had the knack for dancing from an early age. My parents always encouraged me to pursue my passion. Like most of the parents, they never discouraged me because it is not the most sought after career.
Subsequently, I wish to become a good dancer. I do not want the fame of being a dancer; rather I want the acclaim of being a good dancer. As my parents motivated me to pursue my dream, they enrolled me in dance classes. It helped me grow a lot as a dancer and also enhance my skills.
Most importantly, I wish to be a dance because I want to remove the stigma surrounding this career path. I want to set an example that you can do well in life if you’re not a doctor or engineer. Especially in India, where these two ambitions are considered the most valid.
I believe in the power of dance, and how it conveys the message without words. Dance is the language of the soul, and it makes me feel alive when I indulge in it.
Why I Chose this Ambition?
It would seem odd to choose to be a dancer as an ambition, especially when everyone is in the race of becoming a lawyer, doctor, or engineer. But, I still believe that just because something is not common, does not mean we cannot attain it.
More importantly, I aspire to become a great dancer to set an example for aspiring dancers. These aspiring kids are discouraged from pursuing dance because of a lack of financial perks or social stigma. However, I wish to change that.
I wish to dance so I could teach others to become experts in this field. Furthermore, I wish to help the underprivileged section who is interested in this ambition. I want to reach a height that enables me to offer them proper dance training free of cost so they can reach great heights.
Above all, I wish to be the wind beneath their wings. I want to create awareness about the importance of dance and how it benefits us physically as well. I hope I can achieve this ambition of mine someday. Till then, I won’t leave any stone unturned in reaching the finish line.
Maths: Multiplying Fractions Word Problems
Show your workings clearly.
Write your answers in their simplest forms.
Where appropriate, write your answers as mixed numbers.
1. What is 14 of 12 ?
2. What is 23 of 34 ?
3. If Olivia’s sunflower grows 58 of a centimeter every day, how much taller will it be after 3 weeks?
4. Newspapers are 12 cm thick. How thick would a stack of 21 newspapers be?
5. Tyler has 30 sweets, 5 of them are red. Lewis has 20 sweets, 4 of them are red. Who has more red sweets?
6. John bought 12 bananas. He ate 12 of his bananas. Richard bought 9 bananas. He ate 13 of his bananas. How many more bananas did John eat than Richard?
7. There are 15 dogs at the park. Each dog needs 25 of a liter of water to drink. How many liters do you need in total if each dog at the park were to get a drink?
8. There are 36 footballs in a locker. They are either yellow or white; 9 are white. How many are yellow?
9. A snooker ball is 26 cm wide. A snooker table is 178cm wide. All 23 snooker balls are placed side by side along the width of the table. How many centimeters are there between the end of the line of snooker balls and the side of the table?
10. 20 teachers have a cup of tea at break time. 5 of these teachers are women. 4 of the teachers had sugar in their tea, 5 of which were male. How many male teachers didn’t have sugar?
LOGIC # 1:
J = 20; L = 24; R = 36; X = ??
5 [digit 5] = V; 7 [digit 7] = T; 11 [digit 11] = P; 18 [digit 18] = I [letter I]; 22 = ?
LOGIC # 2:
CLUE - Basis of Code supplied to all secret agents, as coloured red below:
Mr. Jock, PhD, TV quiz, bags few lynx.
Break (or decode) this coded numbers:
13. *. 7 16 10 20. *. 16. *. 17 13 19 9. *. 19 3 1. *. 7 13 0. *. 9 0 0
Then, code this sentence: I have toys for him too.
LOGIC # 3:
B: + B: + B: = 21
B + B + B: = 17
Question: B: + B x B. = ?
LOGIC # 4:
(a) In a running race, if I have just run past the third person, what position am I in now?
(b) If a lily flower in a round pond grows twice its size every night. It covers the entire pond in sixteen days. When was it that its size was covering half the pond?
READING AND UNDERSTANDING
Source: https://phys.org/news/2010-03-elephants-4x4s-scientists.html
Elephants move like 4x4s: scientists
African Bush Elephant in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania. Taken by Oliver Wright.
Elephants’ legs work like a four-wheel drive vehicle, making them probably unique in the animal kingdom, scientists said.
Their “four-leg-drive” system means power is applied independently to each limb.
All other four-legged animals are thought to have “rear-leg-drive”, in which the hind legs are used for acceleration while the front legs are used more for braking.
“We have developed some new techniques for looking at animal movement that may change the way that we view the locomotion of other animals,” said study leader John Hutchinson, from the Royal Veterinary College in London.
“We have shown that elephant legs function in very strange and probably unique ways. We even overturned some of our own previous ideas about elephants.
“Our measurements have also provided basic data that will be useful in clinical studies of elephants, such as common lameness problems.”
The researchers studied the movements of six young Asian elephants, using three-dimensional motion-capture technology.
The elephants were ridden at different speeds along a walkway rigged with force-sensitive platforms.
The scientists found that each limb was used for both braking and accelerating.
Their legs were shown to be slightly “bouncy”, especially when running fast, which made their legs two to three times less mechanically efficient than expected — and therefore slower than many other animals.
“Surprisingly, elephants use their fore limbs and hind limbs in similar braking and propulsive roles, not dividing these functions among limbs as was previously assumed or as in other quadrupeds,” the scientists wrote in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Thus, their limb function is analogous to four-wheel-drive vehicles.”
Questions:
- What is meant by “four-leg-drive” as applied to an elephant?
- In what ways are the elephant’s legs different from the legs of other quadrupeds?
- Using the google search engine to find out the answer to the question: Why must elephants be protected?
- Using the google search engine again, find out more on the lameness problems of elephants and write out a short paragraph to explain these problems to your friends.
WORD FORMATION
Use each of the following five letters (a) to (j) to form six other words of three or more letters, using each letter only once. (a) TBUOA (b) SNRTE. (c) NBIEG (d) DASCR
(e) ELGAR (f) ATISB (g) LAECD (h) PSELE (i) SENKA (j) SKNGI
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