Chhattisgarh State Class 8 English Chapter 22 The Photograph Solution

Chhattisgarh State Class 8 English Chapter 22 Solution

Chhattisgarh State Board Class 8 English Textbook Solution Chapter 22 The Photograph Exercise Questions and Answers.

The Photograph Chapter Solution – Lesson 22 – CG Board

CG SCERT Chhattisgarh State Board Class 8 English Chapter 22 The Photograph Exercises Questions and Answers.

The Photograph

Reading comprehension

A.) Tick (✓) the correct answer and cross (x) the wrong one:

1.) The grandmother sat on the flower bed. [ X ]

2.) The boy was ten years old.[ ✓ ]

3.) The grandmother was not very old. [ X ]

4.) She had grey hair. [ X ]

5) The boy was interested to see a book with colourful pictures of birds and butterflies. [ ✓ ]

6.) The small photograph was in the box. [ X ]

7.) The photograph was taken about 40 years ago. [ X ]

8.) She used to go swimming in a muddy pool. [ X ]

9.) A lemon coloured butterfly settled on the nose of the grandmother.  [ X ]

10.) There was similarity between the photograph and the grandmother. [ X ]

B.) Answer the following questions:

1.) What was the boy doing after taking his meal ?

Ans :- After taking his meal, the boy was rummaging in a box of old books and family heirlooms that had just been brought out of the attic by his mother.

2.) How was the photograph?

Ans :- The photograph was a faded, a little yellow and foggy.

3.) Who was in the photograph ?

Ans :- There was a girl who was standing against a wall, in the photograph.

4.) How can you say that the photograph was colourful ?

Ans :- We can say that the photograph was colourful because the boy found the photograph between the pages and after a long time it had become little yellow and foggy.

5.) Did the boy know who was in the photograph?

Ans :- No, the boy did not know who was in the photograph, infact, his grandmother did not want to tell him.

Vocabulary

Correct the spellings of the underlined words:

(1) Kniting a woolen scarf requires patience.

Ans :- Knitting

(2) The lady received a beautiful ring which was part of the familys    hirlooms.

Ans :- Heirloom

(3) The money – plant is a criper which requires support to grow as its stem is weak.

Ans :- Creeper

(4) It was good attempt for keeping me out of mischeaf

Ans :- Mischief

(5) Since it was a sunny day , Tapan had to skwint his eyes to look at the ripe mangoes in the tree.

Ans :- Squint

Grammar

A.) On Raju’s sister’s birthday, the following things were done- make cake, call friends , decorate room, arrange plates. Guess and write ‘who asked Raju to do what’? Use the words given in the box. Example: His mother made him clean the room.

[mother, father, brother, aunt, uncle, grandfather, grandmother]

Ans :-

a) His father asked him to decorate the room.

b) His brother asked him to call and invite the friends.

c) His grand mother asked him to arrange the plates.

d) His grand father asked him to attain other guests.

 

 

f) His uncle asked him to buy a cake.

B.) With the help of the exercise ‘A’ write about yourself, what you do at home and who asked you to do that:

Example: My father made me sow seeds in the field.

Ans :

a) My mother asked me to clean the room.

 

b) My uncle asked me to cook dinner.

c) My aunt asked me to wash clothes.

d) My grand mother asked me to go to the market .

Writing

A.) Look at your grandmother or any old person known to you. Now describe how she/he looks and what she/he does in a paragraph.

Ans :

I have a grand mother in my home and she is the senior and guardian of our family. We respect her and she loves us very much. She is very old. Her age is 90. She  dresses plain white sari; her eyes are not very strong. Grandmother has white hair, and she has few wrinkles on her skin. Physically, she is absolutely fit and strong at this age. She makes varrity of pickles for us in winter. She loves to go on pilgrimage. She believes in God and worships god everyday. Sometime, she tells us many haunted stories, comics  etc. We enjoy her accompany very much.

B.) Arrange these words as you find them in the dictionary.

wrinkles, heirlooms, creeper, deterrent, drapery, attic

Ans :

Attic

Creeper

Deterrent

Drapery

Heirlooms

Wrinkles

Activity

A.) Listen to the Passage on ‘Camera’ and circle the right answers: See Appendix-1 Lesson 22 (The Photograph)

(1) A camera is a device that captures still pictures/moving pictures.

Ans :-  Still pictures.

(2) A camera captures images on video film/photographic film.

Ans :-  Photographic film.

(3) The most important parts of a camera are batteries/film roll/shutter/lens/ autofocus.

Ans :-  Lens, Shutter, Film roll.

(4) The scene is captured at the front of the camera/back of the camera.

Ans :- back of the camera.

(5) The people who improved the process of making photographs are Max Knoll/ Louis Pasteur/Louis Daguerre/William Fox.

Ans :- Louis Daguerre and William Fox.

B.) Look at the pictures given below. Explain to your friend, what you think is happening in the picture.

Pic 1 :

(1) A woman is sitting in the bus.

(2) She is wearing a saree.

(3) A man with long hair is sitting across her.

(4) He is reading a newspaper.

Pic 2 :

(1) The man is sitting by the window.

(2) The man is sitting  with his lrgs bent.

(3) he is reading a newspaper.

(4) There is no one around him.

Pic 3 :

(1) The man is wearing a blue white t-shirt, and black pant and a yellow cap o head.

(2) The man is wrting something on paper with a  pen.

(3) A woman is sitting behind him.

(4) There is two people behind him.

Updated: December 28, 2021 — 11:55 am

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