Chhattisgarh State Class 7 English Lesson 8 Solution
Chhattisgarh State Board Class 7 English Textbook Solution Lesson 8 A Serious Talk Exercise Questions and Answers.
A Serious Talk Chapter Solution – Lesson 8 – CG Board
CG SCERT Chhattisgarh State Board Class 7 English Lesson 8 A Serious Talk Exercises Questions and Answers.
Reading Comprehension
1) Use numbers to put the sentences in the order in which the events happened.
1)The vacuum cleaner sucked the spider and the fly. – 2
2)And the spider thought she was going to die.- 7
3)A fly was caught in a cobweb.- 1
4)The spider was inside the tube of the vacuum cleaner. – 3
5)The fly couldn’t see the spider but he spoke to her. – 6
6)The spider asked for help. – 5
7)The spider’s head was whirling.- 4
8)Then both the fly and the spider reached a soft surface, when the machine stopped. – 9
9)The spider felt sorry for all the flies she had eaten. – 8
10)Someone emptied the bag of the vacuum-cleaner on a garbage heap. – 10
11)The spider recovered from her fright.- 11
12)The fly went off in search of a new rubbish heap. – 13
13)The spider invited the fly to her new web – 12
2) What changes did the spider and the fly want to bring in themselves.
Till Now |
WHAT THEY PROMISE TO DO IN FUTURE |
|
Spider | Ate flies and insects trapped in her web | I would like to drink
honey like butterflies. |
Fly | sat on rubbish heaps and thrown away food, and walked on people’s plate with its dirty shoes | I won’t go to rubbish heaps and sit on rotten things. I wouldn’t walk on any one’s plate with
dirty shoes on. |
3) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words :(a lady, pipe, bag, sucker)
a) The part of vacuum cleaner that sucked the cobweb was the sucker.
b) The parts of the vacuum cleaner in which the spider and the fly were moving about was the pipe.
c) The part of the vacuum cleaner that was emptied on the garbage was the bag.
d) The vacuum cleaner was operated by a lady.
Vocabulary
1) Write names of insects that can be trapped in the spider’s web. Use the clues given below :
Ans – Ant, Grasshopper, Mosquito, Bee, Cricket
2) These are pictures of some movements. Can you name them? Use the clues in box below and also take the help of the dictionary.
Ans –
i) Whirling
ii) Spinning
iii) Circling
iv) Rotating
v) Revolving
vi) Winding
Grammar
i) Given below are some unreal situations. Now combine the other part as given in the example.
Example:
If I had legs (run away from the saucer)
If I had legs, I would run away from the saucer
Ans:
If I had a straw (drink the water)
Ans – if I had a straw I would drink water from the jar.
If my hands whirled round (end up the day and round. soon)
Ans – if my hands whirled round I could end up the day soon.
If I had roller skates (win every race)
Ans – If I had roller skates I would win every race.
If I had wings (invite Uncle Fox
for a race)
Ans – If I had wings I would invite uncle fox for a race.
If I could open the lid of the jar (finish all the sugar in the jar)
Ans- If I could open the lid of the jar I could finish all the sugar in the jar.
If I had a stool (eat all the grapes)
Ans- If I had a stool I would eat all the grapes.
Activity
A) Listen to your teacher carefully and fill in the details asked for.
Name : Anopheles
Insect : Mosquito
Total types : 1400
Body :
Legs : (a) number : Three pair of legs
(b) shape : Long leg.
Wings : (a) number : Two wings.
(b) shape : Narrow wings.
Mouth parts: (a) shape: Needle shaped mouth.
(b) used for: to pierce the human skin easily.
Home : On or near still water.
Likings : damp and humid places specially muddy water.
Specialization : specialized in causing a serious disease called maleria.
B) Before Pintoo went to sleep, he made a long list of things he had to do.Say what Pintoo was going to do at the market, next morning at home or in his friend’s house and for whom.
Example : Pintoo was going to find last week’s Sunday magazine for his grandpa.
Ans –
At the market |
Things to do at home |
In his friend’s house |
|
1 | Get grandma’s glasses repaired | Search last week’s sunday magazine | Make a paper mask |
2 | Bring a betel leaf for Grandma | Pull out an old carrom board under the bed | Clean his friend’s garden with Chinto |
3 | Bring some colourful ballons from the shop | Search for the wooden horse from the store room | Make holes in a tin container to water plants. |
4 | Buy a pair of small scissors for himself | Make a big paper boat for himself | Go to the river side and collect shells with Chinto |
5 | Takes clothes to laundry | Fill two buckets of water from the tube well | Pluck mangoes from the trees in Chinto’s garden |
6 | Buy books from bookstore | Put some (chana) grams seed in birdie’s nest in the courtyard | Make a small tree house on the mango tree in Chinto’s garden |
7 | Brings some tools from a hardware shop | Cut pictures from old newspaper | Repaired Chinto’s cycle |
Writing
No one likes flies. If the fly wants to become a good insect, what would you suggest him to do. Write a small letter to him. You can take help from the lesson.
12 April 2005
G.P.S. Mohla. Rajnandgaon
Dear Fly, I know you want people to like you. I feel people would like you if you don’t go to rubbish heaps and sit on rotten things. If you don’t walk on anyone’s plate with dirty shoes on. If you don’t do nasty staff then people might started to like you. Don’t be so hopeless try your best avoid your nasty work.
Yours faithfully The Spider |
Project
You all know that some animals eat some other animals or insects. So, they
can never be friends.
Collect pictures of animals, birds and insects and paste them in front of each. other. Also write their names.