Assam SCERT Class 7 English Lesson 8 Women in Space Question Answer Solution
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Board |
Assam SCERT |
Class |
7 |
Book |
Sunbeam English Reader 2 |
Topic |
Question answer |
(1) Let’s see how much we have understood:
(a) Where was Kalpana Chawla born?
Ans:- Kalpana Chawla was born in 1961at Karnal in Haryana.
(b) Where did Kalpana Chawla study?
Ans: Kalpana Chawlastudied at Tagore Bal Niketan at Karnal and later at Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh.
(c) What was Kalpana Chawla’s dream?
Ans: Flying in space was her dream.
(d) Why did she go to the United States of America?
Ans: She went to the United States of America with the dream of flying in space.
(e) What does NASA stand for?
Ans: It’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
(f) How many times did Kalpana Chawla go into space?
Ans: Kalpana Chawla went into space the first time by the Columbia Space Shuttle STS-87. She was the only woman in the team of six astronauts. Kalpana Chawla went into space again in 2003 along with six other astronauts. A team of seven astronauts managed to collect a lot of important data while aboard Columbia in its mission STS-107.
(g) How did Kalpana Chawla die?
Ans: The space shuttle broke up in flames on its way back to Earth. All the astronauts including Kalpana Chawla were killed.
(2) In the lesson you read about some important dates and numbers. See whether you remember what each number stands for:
1961: __________The birth date of kalpana Chawla__________
2003: ________ Kalpana Chawla went into space again in 2003_____________
STS-87: ______ Kalpana Chawla went into space the first time by the Columbia Space Shuttle STS-87________
STS-107: ___A team of seven astronauts managed to collect a lot of important data while aboard Columbia in its mission STS-107______
(3) Make a poster of Kalpana Chawla for your science exhibition in the box below. Include her childhood information and her work details in:
In Karnal, Haryana, in 1961, Kalpana Chawla was born. She completed her elementary schooling at Karnal’s Tagore Bal Niketan. After that, she attended Chandigarh’s Punjab Engineering College. Her aim was to travel through space. Thus, in 1997, she became a member of the United States National Aeronautical and Space Administration. She boarded STS-87, the Columbia space shuttle. Kalpana and the other six astronauts traveled in this spacecraft to investigate the atmosphere beyond the sun. They collected a lot of critical data. However, the spacecraft caught fire while it was returning to Earth at a height of 61,001 meters, killing every astronaut—including Kalpana Chawla. India’s first female astronaut was Kalpana Chawla. India takes pride in kalpana Chawla.
(4) Here is a sentence in Indirect Speech. Write the sentence in Direct Speech in the space below. Remember to use inverted commas:
Mayuri said that she had read about it on the internet.
Ans – ………………Mayuri said,” I have read about it on the interne ………………
(b) In Column A below are two sentences in Direct Speech. In Column B there are the matching sentences in Indirect Speech. Are the sentences in Column B correct? If not, rewrite them correctly in Column C:
Column A. Column B.
Mayuri said to Manas that. Mayuri said to Manas, “Do.
does he know what NASA is? you know what NASA is?”
Manas said that “our country. Manas said, “Our country will
would always remember her.” always remember her.”
Column C
Mayuri asked Manas whether he knew what NASA is.
Manas said their country would always remember her.
Now fill in the blanks with suitable forms of verbs:
(i) Mayuri _____meets___ Manas on her way to school. (s form of meet)
(ii) I’m sure she ______loved ___ flying in space. (past form of love)
(iii) It has _____flown___ to the sky. (past participle of fly)
(iv) ___flying_____ to space was Kalpana’s dream. (an ing form of fly)
(7) Let’s practise speaking in English. Using the phrase ‘Have you heard’, ask your partner a few questions about space. One is done for you. (You can take help from your text.)
Have you heard that ‘Aryabhatta’
was India’s first satellite?
No, I haven’t.
Have you heard that Kalpana-I ………………..was the first Indian astronaut ……….
Yes, I have
(1) Have you heard why did Kalpana Chawla died?
Ans:- Yesi have heard that she died due to the space shuttle,it caught fire and she died.
(2) Have you heard that there were already women’s who went in space?
Ans:- no, sorry.
(8) The box below has certain words used to ask questions. Find and write them in the space given.
AWH E R E
WH O W E R
H E WH A O
ANHY RT
TOAE HW
Ans:- where, why, who, how, what, when
(9) Fun with words:
Do you know what is interesting about these words? If you remove the first letter from each of the given words, you will find a new word. Write the new words in the spacecrafts under each word:
Flight-light
Space-pace
Know-now
Send-end
Craft-raft
There-here
Now think of three more words like the above, and write them here:
_________please-lease_________ ________train-rain__________ ________learn-earn_________
(10) See how many new words you can form with the letters used in the word ‘because’ below. One is done for you.
because
(1) Case
(2) Be
(3) Cause
(4) Bee
(5) Cube
(6) Use
(7) Base
(8) Bus
(9) Cub
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