Chhattisgarh State Class 8 English Chapter 1 Solution
Chhattisgarh State Board Class 8 English Textbook Solution Chapter 1 Water’s for Exercise Questions and Answers.
Water’s for Chapter Solution – Lesson 1 – CG Board
CG SCERT Chhattisgarh State Board Class 8 English Chapter 1 Water’s for Exercises Question and Answers.
WATER’S FOR
Reading comprehension
(1) Complete the table, ‘‘What’s water for?’’ according to the child and the mother:
Mother | Child |
Washing
Drinking
Making Tea
Cleaning the bath
Shining a car
Rinsing a shirt
Watering Tomatoes
Shifting a Dirt |
Paddling in wellies
Squirting at brothers
Splashing Dad
Soaking my Sister to make her mad
Mixing with mud to bake a pie
Spraying the Dog
|
(2) Given are some situations. Imagine yourself as a 5 year old child. Tick some of the situations that you would enjoy doing:
1.) Waking up some one by pouring water. ( )
2.) Watering plants. ( ✓ )
3.) Jumping in rain water. ( ✓ )
4.) Washing clothes. ( )
5.) Throwing water on someone. ( ✓ )
6.) Floating paper boats in tub or bucket. ( ✓ )
7.) Filling an empty bottle with water. ( ✓ )
8.) Pouring out water from one glass to another. ( ✓ )
9.) Put a paper in the water and stick it on walls or door. ( ✓ )
10.) Playing with water. ( ✓ )
(3) Complete the table with your own rhyming words. Pick up one from the poem:
Shirt | Cart | Heart | Dirt |
Feet | Meet | Treat | Heat |
Mad | Glad | Dad | Sad |
Fly | Cry | Try | Pie |
Tea | Me | See | Bee |
(4) Make a list of hobbies for which water is necessary:
i.) Gardening.
ii.) Making clay pots.
iii.) Washing clothes.
iv.) Cooking.
Vocabulary
(1) Given are some pictures with words. Encircle those that
you come across in the poem:
i.) Scrubbing.
ii.) Mixing Mud.
iii.) Splashing.
iv.) Shining a Car.
v.) Watering plant .
vi.) Shifting water.
(2) Complete the word map. What is water used for?
Use of Water
Drinking
Drinking water
Drinking tea
Washing
Washing clothes
Washing utensils
Watering
Watering flowers
Watering vegetables
Cooking
Cooking rice
Cooking chicken curry
Activity
(A) Task-1
Look at the faces carefully. Listen to the poem and encircle the faces that occur in the poem:
Ans – Angry face, Bald head,
Happy face, Large and Bright eyes, Sad face, upside down face.
Task-2
Listen to the poem. Number the pictures as they occur in the poem in the boxes.
i) angry face, ii) bald head, iii) happy face, iv) large and bright eyes, v) sad face, vi) upside down face.
Task-3
Complete the table:
What did the child paint and how was it?
Ans –
What ? | How was it ? |
Face | Angry and happy |
Eyes | Large and bright |
Head | Bald |
Upside down |
(B) Speak five sentences about your friend.
Ans –
My friend, Pratick is a tennis player. He is really good at History. He wants to be a teacher. I always encourage him to achieve his goal. He once told me that union is strength.