Chhattisgarh State Class 8 English Chapter 11 Solution
Chhattisgarh State Board Class 8 English Textbook Solution Chapter 11 Sympathy Exercise Questions and Answers.
Sympathy Chapter Solution – Lesson 11 – CG Board
CG SCERT Chhattisgarh State Board Class 8 English Chapter 11 Sympathy Exercises Questions and Answers.
Sympathy
Reading comprehension
I) Tick (✓) the correct sentences:
(i) The little bird was covered with feathers [ ✓ ]
(ii) They shivered due to the cold weather [ ✓ ]
(iii) The weather was rainy and cloudy [ × ]
(iv) The girl is thin and the bird is plump [ × ]
(v) The little girl and the little bird were out in the meadows [ ✓ ]
Now explain:
(i) What was the little girl’s feeling about the little bird ?
Ans – The little girl feel that how cold that bird is cause not wearing any clothes.
(ii) What did the little bird feel about the little girl ?
Ans – The little bird also feel the same for the girl, how cold she is, cause not having any single piece of feathers.
Vocabulary
(8) Birds have them – Feathers.
(7) opposite of ‘ fat’ – Thin.
(6) we wear it to cover our bodies- Clothes
(5) people use woolen clothes when it is – Cold
(4) second character in the poem – The Bird
(3) remove first letter of ‘THERE’ – Here
(2) first character in the poem – The Girl
(1) opposite of rich – Poor
B.) Use the following words in your own sentences :
Plump – There’s a plump boy sitting on a bench alone near a river.
Thin – When I was a kid I was very thin.
Poor- I saw a poor boy who is very good at math.
Sunshine – The sun is shining all day long.
Nice – I saw a very nice fruit garden in Alipurduar.
Grammar
A.) Make a list of the describing words in the poem:
Ans – Little, Thin, Cold, Nice, Poor, Single
B.) Look at the following phrases carefully:
A plump little girl, a thin little bird
A nice little girl, a poor little bird
Now arrange the following words to get a meaningful phrase according to the hint given below:
[Age → Quality
→ Type Shape Size Colour]
Ans –
a new white Aeroplane / an old train blue.
a big hill green/ a sea green/the beautiful blue sky wide.
a red new frock/a pink beautiful flower.
a little poor old woman/a blue bright new star.
a new pretty baby, pink/a red new ribbon.
a black ,little, nice girl.
a brown, beautiful, small packet.
Writing
A.) Write a paragraph describing the following food items on the given points:
Kheer, Jalebi, Gulab Jamun, Samosa, Dahi Bada
(1) Shape/size
(2) Taste
(3) Look
(4) Colour
(5) Your like/dislike
Ans – Kheer do not have a particular shape. Where Jalebi has a shape like spiral, the gulab jamun has a shape of ball, and the samosa looks like triangle. And the dahi bada also has a shape of ball. They all taste different from each other. The Kheer has a sweet flavour with creamy milk. Jalebi is like crisp and sweet. Gulab Jamun has taste like sweet ball. Samosa is spicy some time tangy, and dahi bada is sweet, crispy, tangy, sometimes spicy. The look is very simple the Kheer looks like pudding, the Jalebi looks like spiral, Gulab Jamun looks like a ball, Samosa looks like a triangle, Dahi Bada also looks like ball and pouring dahi. The colour of Kheer is sometimes white and sometimes brown. The colour of jalebi is yellow. The colour of Gulab jamun is brown, the colour of Samosa is also yellow. And Dahi Bada is colourful, it has many colours, like white yellow brown red. For me, I like spicy food, from all of the foods I like Samosa the most.
B.) Arrange the words in alphabetical order and frame your own sentences:
Ans – Feather, Meadows, Plump, Single, Sunshine, Weather.
Feather – The feather of the Kingfisher is very beautiful.
Meadows – There’s a meadow near my house which is very beautiful and calm.
Plump – I saw a plump bird in a big tree.
Single – A single wild elephant can be very dangerous.
Sunshine – Yesterday I was walking through a forest in the sunshine.
Weather – Today the sun is shining, wind is blowing very gently, one word the weather is very beautiful.
Project
Make a list of the things you find interesting to see when it is raining.
Water drops on flowers and leaves.
Watching Rainbows.
Floating leaves and small flowers.
Water stuck on spider’s web.
Clouds.