HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK

CLASS – XI
Commerce Stream

ENGLISH
Q1. Harish is the Secretary of the Youth Welfare Association of his locality. The Association has decided to
launch a Campaign to educate the inhabitants on cleanliness and has asked Harish to draft a poster for
the purpose. Write that poster in 50 words.

Q2. Draft a poster to foster the idea among the people that a careful driving and obeying the rules of the
road are really indispensable for a happy and safe life.

Q3. Advertisements have become a big business. They are promoted by celebrities drawn from various
fields like films; sports etc. leaving their influence on all people specially the young. Write an article on
the ‘Impact of Advertisements on the Younger Generation’.

Q4. You are an active member of the Animals Lovers Club of your school which works for preventing
cruelty to animals. Write an article in 150 -200 words for your school magazine emphasising the need
to co-exist peacefully with animals. You are Zaheeda/Zahir of P. K. Senior Secondary School,
Hyderabad.

Q5. Recently residents of Vasant Kunj collected on road and blocked the traffic to protest against the
water shortage in the area. Write a letter to the editor of a leading daily complaining about the
negligence of concerned authorities and how such protests disturb other people. You are
Nkhil/Nikita.

Q6. Paste the newspaper cuttings of the classified advertisements in your English register. The
advertisements should include categories:
(a) Situation Vacant (b) Situation Wanted
(c) Vehicle For Sale (d) Property For Sale
(e) To-Let
(Paste at least 2-3 advertisements each)

Q7. Revise question answers of the lessons covered up in the class.

ACCOUNTANCY

Chapter Name Exercise Questions Ref. Book - D. K. Goel

Meaning and objectives of Short Answer Questions 3,4,7,13,14,19
Accounting
HOTS 1 to 9
Value Based Questions 4,6,8,9,13,18
Basic Accounting Terms Short Answer Questions 5,6,7,8,9
HOTS 1,2,3
Value Based Questions 1 to 4
Accounting Equation Short Answer Questions 1,5,7,9
Practice Question 2(B),8(B),11,12,25,26,27,28,29
Double Entry System Essay Type Questions 3
Short Answer Questions 3,4,6
Journal Short Answer Questions 1 to 9
Practical Question 10,12,14,17,22,24,2834,35
Value Based Questions 1,5,6,7,8,13
Problem Based on Missing 2,3,4
Information

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Accounting For Goods & Service Short Answer Questions 1,2,3,9
Tax (GST)
Practical Question 2,4,6,8
Problem Based on Missing 1,2,3
Information
Cash Book Practical Question 7,8,9,12(A),13,14(B),17,22,28
HOTS 1 To 5
Value Based Questions 1,2,3

Project - Work - Write 20- 25 transactions with imaginary figures and Pass Journal Entries.

BUSINESS STUDIES
1. Define Business. Explain the characteristics of business.
2. Why does business need multiple objectives? Explain any five such objectives.
3. “Profit can no more be the objective of business than eating is the objective of living.” Explain.
4. Explain the concept of business risk and its causes.
5. What is the difference between economic objectives and social objectives of business? Briefly explain
the economic objectives of business.
6. Explain with examples the various types of industries.
7. “Commerce is the sum total of activities that remove the hindrances in the free flow of goods from
producers to consumers.” Explain.
8. Define auxiliaries to trade. Explain any five activities that are auxiliaries to trade.
9. Distinguish between business and profession on the basis of
(a) Mode of establishment (b) Nature of work (c) Qualification
(d) Risk (e) Transfer of risk (f) Code of conduct.
10. Mr. Sanjay starts a business in which one useful product is produced by the separation process,
whereas Mr. Sagar starts a business in which various ingredients are combined together to form a
new product.
(a) Identify the type of industry in which both are engaged.
(b) State the category of industries identified in (a) above.
11. Bhoomika moves from one place to another selling vegetables. She earns from the work and meets
her daily requirements. She saved money and opened a shop where she sold vegetables and also
provided home delivery services.
(a) Identify the type of activity she is involved in.
(b) State two features of the activity identified in (a) above.
12. Anil, Sunil and Payal are friends. They are pursuing their MBA from IIMT, Banaras. While having a
coffee during break time, they were discussing their future plans. Anil said he is planning to help his
father by joining his printing press after completing his MBA, Sunil on the other hand, wanted to get a
job in some big company through institution placement cell. Since Payal loves children, she shared
her willingness to join an NGO and use her knowledge and skill to help the under privileged children.
(a) Identify and give two points of difference on any two basis between Anil’s and Sunil’s plan.
(b) How would you classify the activity which Payal is willing to pursue after college?
13. What do you understand by a sole proprietorship business? Explain its suitability and features.
14. Despite limitations of size and resources, many people continue to prefer sole proprietorship over
other forms of organization. Why? Give any six reasons.

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15. Define partnership. Explain any five features of partnership.
16. Discuss any three advantages and three limitations of partnership.
17. What is partnership deed? What is its role in partnership firm? Discuss its main contents.
18. Explain the procedure of registration of a partnership firm. What are the consequences of non-
registration of partnership firm?
19. Shenoy, Gurpreet, Lakshay and Payal are partners in a firm performing different roles. Shenoy has
contributed capital and participates in the management of the firm. He shares profits and losses and
is liable to an unlimited extent to the creditors of the firm. Gurpreet has contributed capital and shares
profits and losses. But he does not take part in day to day activities of the business. Association of
Lakshay with the firm is not known to general public but in all other aspects he is like an active
partner. Payal has allowed the firm to use her name as she enjoys good reputation, but she does
not either contribute capital or take part in the management. Identify the four types of partners
identified above.
20. “One man control is the best in the world if that one man is big enough to manage everything.” Explain
this statement.
21. The business assets of an organization amount to Rs. 50,000 but the debts remain unpaid are Rs.
80,000. What course of action can the creditors take if
(a) The organization is a sole proprietorship firm.
(b) The organization is a partnership firm with Anthony and Akbar as partners, who share profits and
losses equally. Which of the two partners can the creditors approach for repayment of debt? Explain
by giving reasons.
22. Explain briefly different kind of cooperative societies.
23. What is a company? What are its characteristics?
24. Distinguish between a private company and a public company.
25. There are eight members in a private company, all of them are sailing in a boat in sea and are on
sightseeing trip. All of a sudden a storm starts blowing and all of them die. Will their company become
non-existent with their death? Which feature of company is highlighted here in the above case?
Discuss.
26. Aryan started a business of selling garments along with his longtime friend Himanshu. They had
very less capital to start their business but each had expertise of marketing and finance which may
help in earning profits.
(a) Identify and explain the form of business organization that they have ventured into.
(b) Explain any two possible causes of business risk in this new venture.
27. Why is it important to choose an appropriate form of organization? Discuss any five factors that
determine the choice of form of organisaton.
28. Ran and Shyam felt that there was an opportunity of business in providing a service of online
grocery stores for working people. They analysed the idea in terms of technical, financial and economic
feasibility. Once they found all the aspects satisfactory they decided to start the company with the name
‘Convenience@home’ Pvt. Ltd. They got the name registered with the registrar.
(a) Which steps of promotion of the company are being performed?
(b) State the next three steps associated with it.
29. Discuss the important documents used in the formation of a company.
TOPIC FOR PROJECT- Aids to Trade
(Take any one aid to trade and gather information about it)

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 ECONOMICS

Reference Book: T. R. Jain

Sr. No. Chapter’s Name Questions

1. Organisation of data(L-4) Q. No. 1to11 (Page 79,80,81)

2. Measures of central tendency Q. No. 4,5,7,9,10,11,14,15,17,18,19,20

(mean) (L-9) (page 194-195-196)

3. Median and mode (L-10) 2,3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,15,16,18,19, 20, 22, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30
(Page 265-268)

4. MCQ’s of chapters 1,2,4,9,10

5. Revise (1) Introduction

(2) Collection of data
(3) Organisation of data
(4) Mean
(5) Median and mode.

MATHEMATICS
1. Sets

NCERT : Example : 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34

Misc Exercise : 7,8,9,10,11

Extra Numericals:
(i) A survey of 500 television viewers produced the following information. 285 watch football,195watch
hockey, 115 watch basketball,45 watch football and basketball, 70 watch football n hockey, 50 watch
hockey n basketball, 50 do not watch any of the 3 games. How many watch all the 3 games? How
many watch exactly one of the 3 games?

(ii) In a survey of 100 students, the number of students studying the various languages were found to
be: English only 18, English but not Hindi 23, English and Sanskrit 8, English 26, Sanskrit 48,
Sanskrit and Hindi 8, no language 24. Find how many students were studying Hindi? Find how many
were studying English and Hindi?

(iii) In a class of 35 students, 17 have taken mathematics, 10 have taken mathematics but not economics.
Find the number of students who have taken both mathematics and economics and also find the
number of students who have taken economics but not mathematics, if it is given that each student has
taken either mathematics or economics or both.

2. Relations and Functions

NCERT: Example:- 18,19,20,21,22
Misc Exercise: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Graphs of all Standard functions

3. Trigonometry
NCERT: Example:-10,11,12,13,14,17,23,24,26,27,29
Misc Exercise:- 8,9,10
Extra Numericals:

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 Prove the following:
𝜋 3𝜋 5𝜋 7𝜋
 𝑐𝑜𝑠 2 8 + 𝑐𝑜𝑠 2 8
+𝑐𝑜𝑠 2 8 +𝑐𝑜𝑠 2 8 =2

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 𝑐𝑜𝑠20° cos 40° 𝑐𝑜𝑠60°𝑐𝑜𝑠80 ° = 16

 tan 20° tan 40° tan 80°= tan 60°

𝜋 2𝜋
 4sin𝛼 𝑠𝑖𝑛(𝛼 + 3 ) 𝑠𝑖𝑛(𝛼 + 3
) = sin 3𝛼

𝜋 3𝜋 7𝜋 9𝜋 1
 (1+cos10) (1+cos10 ) (1+cos10 ) (1+cos10) =16

 √2 + √2 + √2 + 2 cos 8𝜃 = 2cos 𝜃 , 0< 𝜃 < 𝜋

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4. Principle of Mathematical Induction

(NCERT :-
Example 5,6,7
Ex- 4.1 :-Q-3,6,9,11,15,20,22,23,24

INFORMATICS PRACTICES

Q1. Write a query to create the database named 'Employee'.

Q2. Write a query to display the list of existing databases.
Q3. Write a query to open the database 'Employee'.
Q4. Write a query to display the list of tables in 'Employee' database.
Q5. Write a statement to create the table ‘Emp’ with following constraints:
Column Name Datatype Constrait
Empno Int Primary Key
Ename Varchar(20) Not Null
Job Varchar(20)
Hiredate Date
Sal Int
Comm Int
Deptno Int

Q6. Write a statement to add 2 new records in above created table.

Q7. Write a statement to display the structure of above created table.
Q8. Write a statement to add new column named ‘Mob’ with datatype int and size 10.
Q9. Consider table 'Emp' and answer the following questions:
(i) Write a query to display all the details of employees.
(ii) Write a query to display name and salary of employees whose salary is greater than or equal to 2200.
(iii) Write a query to display details of employees who are not getting commission.
(iv) Write a query to display employee name and salary of those employees who don't have salary in
range of 2300 to 4000.
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(v) Write a query to display the name of employees whose name contains 'A' as third character.
(vi) Write a query to display the name of employees whose name contains 'T' as last character.
(vii) Write a query to display the name of employees whose name contains 'A' as first character and 'L' as
last character.
(viii) Write a query to display the record of employees working as a 'Manager' (Job) in deptno 10.
(ix) Write a query to display the records of employees in descending order of their salary.
(x) Write a query to display the records of employees either working as 'Clerk','Manager' or 'Analyst'.
(xi) Write a query to display name of employee, hiredate and annual salary amount.
(xii) Write a query to display the records of employees working in deptno 20 in alphabetic order of their
names.
(xiii) Write a query to display the records of employees in descending order of their salary,
(xiv) Write a query to display the name of employees not getting commission.
(xv) Write a query to display the records of employees with their date of hiring (hiredate) in descending
order.
Q10. Give the output of following SQL statements:
(i) Select upper ('Hindustani');
(ii) Select mid ('Rajesh', 2, 4);
(iii) Select mid ('indonesia', 6);
(iv) Select instr ('Indonesia', ‘i’);
(v) Select Round (233.984, 2);
(vi) Select Round (233.984, -2);
(vii) Select Round (833.984, -3);
(viii) Select truncate (833.984, -3);
(ix) Select power (3, 5);
(x) Select mod (81, 9);
(xi) Select date ('2020-03-01 12:20:24');
(xii) Select Concat ('Little Angels', ' School');
(xiii) Select Left ('Radar', 3);
(xiv) Select Monthname ('2012-08-26');
(xv) Select Dayofmonth ('2015-03-26');

Q11. Differentiate the following:

(i) DDL and DML
(ii) Char and Varchar
(iii) Alter and Update

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

* Prepare a project on Olympics