Andhra Pradesh Board Class 7 English A Hero Question and Answers
Andhra Pradesh SCERT 7th Class English Solutions Unit 6 Chapter 6A A Hero Question and answers. Students who are searching for Andhra Pradesh Class 7 English Chapter 6A can find here Solution of this chapter.
Board |
Andhra Pradesh (AP Board) |
Class |
7th |
Subject |
English |
Unit |
6 (6A) |
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Solution |
Unit 6
Chapter 6A – A Hero
Read the following proverb and answer the questions that follow:
1.) You may have heard of this proverb before. Do you know what it means?
Ans: This above proverb means that the people who have courage and are brave, can achieve everything in life.
2.) Tell the class why the government rewards the brave and adventurous children.
Ans: The government rewards the brave and adventurous children so that it inspire the younger generation to be like them.
3.) Are you aware of any brave boy or girl who may have shown an act of bravery ? Talk about his/her bravery to the class.
Ans: Yes. There was once a guy in my neighbourhood who stopped a robbery by secretly hiding inside his house and informing the police about the trespassers.
I.) Answer the following questions:
1.) According to the newspaper’s report who fought with the tiger?
Ans: According to the article, a village boy battled the tiger.
*2.) Can you say why Swami’s father read the news to his son?
Ans: His father read the news to Swami with in hopes that it might motivate him to do brave deeds.
*3.) Did Swami believe the story? Give reasons for your answer.
Ans: Swami, on the other hand, was skeptical of the story. He informed his father that the one who fought the tiger had to be an adult, not a child. He believed that a boy never could face a tiger.
4.) What did Swami’s father ask him to prove?
Ans: Swami’s father challenged him to demonstrate his fearlessness by sleeping outside all night.
5.) Why did Swami try to change the topic when his father asked him to sleep alone?
Ans: Swami attempted to divert the topic of conversation since he was terrified of sleeping alone after constantly sleeping next to his grandmother. As a result, he sought to redirect his father’s concentration to cricket.
II.) Read the following sentences and say whether they are true or false. Write Tfor true and F for false statements in the brackets. Correct the false statements.
1.) Swami said that he would sleep alone from the following week. ( ) Ans.- F
2.) Swami’s father looked like a ghost in darkness. ( ) Ans.- T
3.) When Swami was snoring, his grandmother pulled the blanket away. ( ) Ans.- F
4.) Swami was really afraid of darkness. ( ) Ans.- T
5.) Swami wished that the tiger had killed the boy. ( ) Ans.- T
III.) Tick the correct option to make the sentence true.
1.) Swami was almost faint with fear because
a.) his father would beat him.
b.) he was afraid of ghosts.
c.) a ghost entered his room.
d.) he had a terrible dream.
Ans: (b)
2.) Swami clutched the leg of ………………………….
a.) his father.
b.) his grandmother.
c.) a chair.
d.) the thief.
Ans: (d)
VOCABULARY
I.) Pick out synonyms from the story for each of the following words.
1.) clear
2.) bravery
3.) shameful
4.) hide
5.) upset
6.) argued
7.) swore
8.) unpleasant
9.) tapped
10.) damage
Answer:
1.) detailed
2.) courage
3.) disgraceful
4.) cover
5.) pained
6.) exclaimed
7.) cursed
8.) bitter
9.) patted
10.) risk
II.) Read the conversation given below and fill in the blanks with appropriatewords from the box.
grateful, respect, certain , courage, sternly, afraid of, terrible,hesitated, disturb, disgraceful
Ruchira : I don’t know why the teacher …………. to give his mobile number?
Suhas : He might be worried that you would …….. him with your phone calls.
Ruchira : I have great …….. for him. I will never behave in a…..… manner.
Suhas : I am …… that our teacher will not give his number. Anyhow, I like your……………………….. . We are all ……………………. him.
Ruchira : I don’t think our teacher is ……… ………. but he says everything …………..Once he gave me a wonderful gift so I am always ……………. to him.
Answer: hesitated, disturb, respect, disgraceful, certain, courage, afraid of, terrible, sternly, grateful
III.) Read the following clues given below to complete the word ladder.
Clues:
1.) Sandhya said _____________ that she hated him.
2.) Sridhar is a ____________ boy of 10 years old.
3.) Jyothi used to sleep beside her _______________.
4.) The garden is full of ________________ coloured flowers.
5.) I met my friend Kumar on my _________________ home.
Answer:
1.) crossly
2.) young
3.) granny
4.) yellow
5.) way
IV.) Proverbs
Match the parts under A and B to make some proverbs. You can use the clues given within the brackets.
1.) An apple a day(search for a profession) [ ] a. is a friend indeed.
2.) A friend in need (rhymes with need) [ ] b. saves nine.
3.) Failure is (search for ‘achievement’) [ ] c. mightier than the sword.
4.) A stitch in time (search for a number) [ ] d. keeps the doctor away.
5.) The pen is (search for a weapon) [ ] e. the stepping stone to success.
6.) Empty vessels (search for noise) [ ] f. the mighty ocean.
7.) Little drops of water make [ ] g. seldom bite.
8.) Honesty (ends with ‘cy’)[ ] h. while the sun shines.
9.) Make hay (search for a star)[ ] i. is the best policy.
10.) Barking dogs (search for what dogs do) [ ] j. make much noise.
Answer:
l.) d
2.) a
3.) e
4.) b
5.) c
6.) j
7.) f
8.) i
9.) h
10.) g
GRAMMAR
I.) Pick out 5 sentences from the story that use the Simple Past Tense and 5 sentences that use the Past Continuous Tense. Write them down into your notebook.
Answers:
5.) sentences that use the Simple Past Tense:
1.) Swami hurriedly got up and spread his bed under the bench and crouched there.
2.) He cursed the newspaper that had printed the tiger’s story.
3.) Swami rose quietly from his place.The newspaper gave a detailed account of the boy’s fight with the tiger.
4.) At last, some people came that way and killed the tiger.
5.) Swami rose quietly from his place.
5.) sentences that use the Past Continuous Tense:
1.) A tiger was chasing him.
2.) Something was moving in the darkness.
3.) A tiger was chasing him.
4.) Swami was following the whole conversation from under the blanket.
5.) Father was standing over him.
II.) Read the following paragraph and fill in the blanks with the simple past or past continuous forms.
While Swami’s father .………. (read) the newspaper, Swami …..…..(listen) to it. His father ……… (ask) him to sleep alone. But he …………. (be) afraid of ghosts. He …………… (want) to sleep in his grandmother’s room. While he ……………. (sleep), he ….…………(have) a terrible dream. A tiger …………… (chase) him and he ………………… (try) to escape.
Answer: was reading, was listening, asked, was, wanted, was sleeping, had, was chasing, was trying.
WRITING
I.) Summarize the story using the following hints.
Answer:
Swami’s father read a few headlines from a newspaper to his son, Swami, a day. The media reported on the courage of a local boy coming back home across the forest route. That boy’s encounter with the tiger was described in full in the newspaper.Swami stated following hearing the information that a boy wouldn’t be bold enough as to confront a tiger. Swami’s father subsequently challenged him to demonstrate his bravery. His father recommended him to spend several nights by myself in his office room to do this. He expected his kid to do it that very night. Swami, on the other hand, walked onto the porch fell asleep by his grandmother. Swami haven’t slept alone himself. He usually slept right next to his grandmother. Swami was then awakened by his father. Swami persisted on sleeping by himself in the office room the following night. Swami attempted to flee but was unsuccessful. As a result, he would then have to sleep alone and in the dark in his father’s room the following night. Swami then experienced a nightmare. He was unable to sleep. He became aware that another individual was approaching him. He mistook himself for a ghost. So to defend himself, Swami bitten into to the knee of a robber right away. The robber screamed. Father as well as a servant arrived and captured the robber. Swami gained recognition.
II.) Write about an act of bravery that you or your family member or any one of your friends may have shown at some stage in your life.
It was late at night. I had to go to the washroom. Suddenly, I heard a mumbling sound around the corridor. At first I ignored it, and thought that it might be my imagination. After coming out from the washroom, I heard the same mumbling sound. This time I was sure that it was not an imagination. I slowly wet towards the corridor and switched on the lights, but there was no one. I seemed confused as I was pretty sure I heard something. Afterwards, when I was returning to my room, I saw a shadow coming out from the dressing room. I immediately picked up a stick and as soon as I went inside the room, I hit the person who was hiding in the dressing room. He screamed in pain. My parents immediately woke up and came into the room. My father pat my back and said that I caught a thief. I was very proud as my father appreciated my act of bravery.
Can you solve these letter riddles?
1.) What letter of the alphabet is an insect?
2.) What letter is a part of the head?
3.) What letter is a drink?
4.) What letter is a body of water?
5.) What letter is a pronoun like “you”?
6.) What letter is an exclamation?
7.) What letter is looking for causes?
8.) Why is the letter “T” like an island?
Answer:
1.) the letter is’B’.
2.) the letter is ‘I’.
3.) the letter is ‘T’.
4.) the letter is ‘C’.
5.) the letter is ‘U’
6.) the letter is’O’
7.) the letter is ‘Y’
8.) ‘T’ is like an island because it is in the middle of water.
STUDY SKILLS
Change the words given in the box into different parts of speech. Some words may not have all the forms given in the table. You may use a dictionary if you like.
Strong, courage, grace, sleep, disturb, hesitate, dark, try, wake, notorious, heavy
Answer:
Noun |
Verb | Adjective |
Adverb |
Courage | Discourage
Encourage |
Courageous | Courageously |
Wake | Wake | Wakeful | Wakefully |
Strength | Strengthen | Strong | Strongly |
Grace | Grace | graceful | Gracefully |
Sleep | Sleep | Sleepy | Sleepily |
Disturbance | Disturb | Disturbing | Disturbingly |
Hesitation | Hesitate | Hesitant | Hesitantly |
Darkness | Darken | Dark | Darkly |
Trial | Try | Trying | Tryingly |
Notoriety | – | Notorious | Notoriously |
Heavy | – | Heavy | Heavily |
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
1.) Your teacher will read the story ‘Carried Away by an Eagle’. Listen carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1.) How old was the child when she was picked up by the eagle?
Ans: Four years old.
2.) In which country did the child live when she was picked up by the eagle?
Ans: Norway.
3.) Why did the eagle leave the child on a rock?
Ans: Since the eagle was exhausted at the time.
4.) Why did the eagle fly round and round over the rock?
Ans: Because the girl had been forced to sit on the rock.
5.) Why do you think that the girl was lucky?
Ans: Simply because she was not killed or harmed.
6.) Why do you think Svenhild still keeps the torn dress?
Ans: So that she can recall that incredible journey.