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2 Term Holiday Assignments - 2019/ 2020
Subject : English Language Form : II
Answer all the questions.
1. Write essays (of not more than 150 words ) on the following topics.
• Importance of travelling
• ‘Education is the most important thing in our life.’ Do you agree?
2. Design a bookmark with a meaningful quotation/ proverb. Write your name and class on the
overleaf and laminate it.
3. Underline the adjectival clauses in the following sentences.
• The girl who won the first prize is my niece.
• The forest through which we travelled was dark and gloomy.
• My sister whom I admire the most is a nurse.
• This is the girl whose mother died in an accident.
• The plan that I proposed was rejected.
4. Put in the apostrophe where appropriate.
• Whos the partys candidate for vice president this year?
• Our neighbours car is an old Chrysler, and I told him the other day that its just about to fall
apart.
• Didnt you hear that theyre leaving tomorrow?
• Whenever I think of the stories I read as a child, I remember Cinderellas glass slipper and
Snow Whites wicked stepmother.
• We claimed the picnic table was ours, but the Jones children looked so disappointed that we
found another spot.
• Its important that the kitten learns to find its way home.
• She did not hear her childrens cries.
• Didnt he say when he would arrive at Arnies house?
• Its such a beautiful day that Ive decided to take a short walk.

5. Add in suffixes or prefixes suitably to the following words.

• Amend – • Happy – • Mature –
• Pure – • Trust – • Exam –
• Satisfy – • Boy –
• Behave – • Legible –

6. Read the following passage and answer the question.

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Have you looked up at the sky on a cloudless clear night? What do you see there high up in the sky?
There are millions of stars hiding the secret of the universe. Among them, if you look at the sky very
carefully for sometimes, you can see blinking stars moving from north to south or south or north and
you will understand that their movement is very fast. What are they? Why are they moving so fast?
They are man - made stars; called artificial satellites.

An artificial satellite is a space craft. It orbits the Earth at a fixed distance. They are sent to space on
various purposes such as communication, remote sensing, military purposes, space astronomy etc.
However, the main purpose of satellites is communication. They bring the world together. It is with the
help of communication satellites we enjoy the thrill of Olympic games, World Cup Football, Asian
Games or the World Cup Cricket finals being played anywhere in the world. How does CNN or BBC
news come to us? How does the weather forecast come to us? They all are communicated with the help
of satellites orbiting the Earth.

The first artificial satellite, Sputnik I was launched by Soviet Russia (USSR) on 4 th October 1957.
There was a competition between the USSR and the United States of America at the beginning. Later,
other countries like France, China, India and Japan too started launching their own satellites for various
purposes, mainly for communication. The world became a single village as a result of satellite
communication. There are commercial satellites such as TELSTAR, INTELSAT etc. providing
communication facilities for the whole world.

Geo stationary satellites orbit the Earth at a distance of 35900 km and take 24 hours to orbit. That’s
why they appear almost at the same time of the day in the sky. At the moment there are more than 3000
satellites orbiting the Earth!

All these satellites communicate with communication stations built at various places on Earth. Dish
Antennas are used to communicate between a satellite and a communication centre. In countries where
there are satellite television services, people receive TV programmes telecast by hundreds of TV
stations all over the world with the help of a dish antenna.

(a) What is an artificial satellite?

(b) Mention 4 purposes of satellites being sent to space.
(c) Name five countries that have sent their own satellites to the space.
(d) How do satellites communicate with the Earth?
(e) What do you think is a commercial communication satellite?
(f) Name 3 international events mentioned in the passage, that comes to us as a result of
satellite communication.
(g) Find examples for the following from the passage.
(i) A statistic –
(ii) A rhetorical question –
(iii) A fact –
(iv) A complex sentence –

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Prepared By : Mrs Thanuja de Silva

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