Bombay Cambridge School Andheri (West) VACATION HOME ASSIGNMENT 2014-2015 Grade VII ENGLISH 1. Imagine that you and your friends are in the middle of a normal activity when something totally unexpected happens. Write an account of the contrast between the ordinary and the unexpected. Your account does not have to involve an accident. The unexpected could be exciting, pleasurable or weird. 2. Write an article for a school magazine about owning animals. You could include some of the following in your article the different reasons why people keep animals  the responsibilities of owning animals –the care and attention they will require whether animals should be kept as pets. You may wish to add some of your own experiences of owning an animal or your own opinion about owning animals. MATH Checkpoint II Page 68-71 (Review 1A, 1B) Page 124-126 (Review 2A, 2B) Page 205-207 (Review 3A, 3B) Page 254-256 (Review 4A, 4B) GEOGRAPHY Use pictures of various weather phenomena such as clouds, rain, snow, hail, storms, lightning etc. collected from magazines, newspapers and picture postcards to make a portfolio. Give appropriate captions such as what causes these phenomena and when and where they occur. Use the following guidelines to prepare the portfolio: 1. A- 4 size blank sheet (6 pages) 2. Cover page, Index, Introduction, At least 6 weather phenomena and information / pictures related to them. Chemistry 1) Write the name and the symbols for the first 20 elements of the periodic table. 2) Complete the word equations given below: a) sodium + iodine b) potassium + hydrochloric acid c) sodium hydroxide + sulfuric acid d) carbon + oxygen e) magnesium hydroxide + nitric acid 3) Write the word equation to summarize the reactions below. a) Heating sodium and bromine to make sodium bromide. b) Heating magnesium in the air to make magnesium oxide. c) Adding copper to hydrochloric acid to make copper chloride and hydrogen. Biology 1) Project on smoking and its effects. Guidelines to make the project Make the project in one scrapbook Explore information from internet, books, and newspapers. Find out how smoking damages the various organs of our body. Find and write how smoking can affect the non-smokers. State the various diseases caused by smoking and write about its symptoms. Draw or stick pictures related to the above topics.