Andhra Pradesh Board Class 8 English The Selfish Giant II Question and Answers
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Board |
Andhra Pradesh (AP Board) |
Class |
8th |
Subject |
English |
Unit |
3 (3B) |
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Solution |
UNIT-3
THE SELFISH GIANT II
COMPREHENSION
I.) Answer the following questions.
Answers:
1.) The child was not a typical child. His origins were in heaven, where he was an angel. He transformed the Giant’s mind-set. He led him to heaven.
2.) Spring is a time of rebirth and strength. The garden was really stunning in the springtime when the birds and flowers were singing. When spring failed to arrive, everything was cold and lifeless.
Expressions used in the play:-
a.) ‘The birds did not come to sing, and the trees forgot to blossom
b.) “I heard some lovely music.”
c.) ‘The Hail has stopped dancing.”
3.) Figurative expressions used in the play: –
a.) Simile – ‘beautiful flowers’ are referred to as the stars.
b.) Personification – ‘Spring has forgotten this garden.’
– ‘The North Wind, and the Hail, and the Frost, and the snow danced about through the trees.’
– ‘Snow’, ‘Frost’, ‘Spring’, ‘Hail’, ‘North Wind’ and ‘Flowers’are depicted as having human qualities.
c.) Metaphor – ‘My garden shall be the children’s playground for ever and ever.’
The phrase “garden” is described as a “playground.”
4.) Selfishness and love are the play’s two central themes. Selfish people don’t want to trade their possessions with others. Everything should be kept exclusively for them. However when they accomplish that, they realize that they are alone and all by themselves. The giant lacked empathy. He didn’t want to allow the children use his garden. He drove them away. But, after he drove them away, all that was left was coldness and frost. He was brought to paradise when he was without selfishness. Without love, our lives are meaningless and lonely. Love makes the world brighter and more colourful. The Giant’s garden blossomed and suddenly filled with life when he loved others.
II.) Complete the following sentences choosing the correct answers from the choices given below.
Answer:
1.) (b)
2.) (b)
3.) (a)
4.) (b)
5.) (c)
VOCABULARY
I.) Look at the following underlined phrase taken from the text and know the meaning.
A.) Refer to a dictionary and find out the phrasal verbs beginning with ‘break’. Use them in your own sentences.
Answers:
1.) Don’t break in the house.
2.) Ramesh had a break-up with Sunali.
3.) It’s very sad that I have to break through the news of your father’s death.
4.) Sulagna is having an emotional break-down.
B.) Pick out some more phrasal verbs from the play ‘The Selfish Giant’.
Answers:
1.) look out.
2.) blow over.
3.) climb up
4.) knock down.
II.) Read the underlined part of the sentence taken from the text.
Pick out antonyms of the underlined words from the play and use them in your own sentences.
Answers:
1.) Everybody likes to be in heaven.
2.) I always trust my friend.
3.) The movie stopped mid-way.
4.) I covered her head with the umbrella.
5.) This is the farthest shop from my house.
III.) Look at the following sentence taken from the text.
Now match the words in column A with those in column B with similar meaning.
Answers:
1.) C
2.) E
3.) G
4.) A
5.) D
6.) J
7.) F
8.) B
9.) I
10.) H
IV.) Choose the correct meaning for the underlined word.
Answer:
1.) (a) persons who enter the premises without permission.
2.) (a) made loud noise with anger.
3.) (b) flowers.
4.) (a) made a series of sounds.
GRAMMAR
I.) Identify the gerunds and present participles in the following sentences.
Answer:
1.) Roaring
2.) coming
3.) whispering
4.) coming
5.) Walking
WRITING
Read the following notice taken from the play.
Write similar one – line notices that you may find in the following places.
Answers:
1.) Maintain silence.
2.) Maintain the queue.
3.) Don’t litter.
4.) Arrive on time.
5.) Trespassers be aware of dogs.
LISTENING
Listen to a description and answer the following questions.
1.) South of Bengaluru.
2.) The highlights of the garden are the Glass House, the 300-year-old “Christmas Tree,” the Rose Garden, and the enormous electronic Quartz Flower clock.
STUDY SKILLS
Answers:
A large mansion and lovely garden belonged to a giant. Children used to visit there to play whenever he was away. After seven years, the Giant went to see his friend the Cornish ogre one day. When he got there, he noticed the children playing in his garden. After chasing them away in a rage, he raised a tall wall around his garden. The trees and flowers were so depressed when the children stopped visiting the garden that they lost their beauty and were covered with snow and frost. No birds could be heard singing. Though it was spring everywhere else in the country, it remained winter in the Giant’s garden.
The Giant believed that spring had finally arrived when he overheard a linnet bird chirping in the early morning hours. He observed children playing in the garden. Through a little gap in the garden, the children had sneaked inside. He felt deeply guilty for his actions and realised how selfish he had been. He observed a young child who was too little to climb a tree, and the tree was still coated in snow and frost. The giant carefully placed the young child into the tree. The wall was removed, and the children were free to play in his garden anytime they wanted. However, the small child he had helped disappeared from view in his garden.
The Giant grew sluggish and aged. He sat there and saw the children playing games. He rushed to the young child after seeing him under a tree one morning. He approached the young child and noticed that his hands and feet had injuries. He approached the young child who had injured him after becoming angry. The person who injured the young child was the target of his desire to kill. However, the young child warned him against doing so, saying that those were the scars of love. The small child led the giant to paradise.