Chhattisgarh State Class 8 English Chapter 6 Solution
Chhattisgarh State Board Class 8 English Textbook Solution Chapter 6 From a Railway Carriage Exercise Questions and Answers.
From a Railway Carriage Chapter Solution – Lesson 6 – CG Board
CG SCERT Chhattisgarh State Board Class 8 English Chapter 6 From a Railway Carriage Exercises Questions and Answers.
From a Railway Carriage
Reading comprehension
A.) Answer the following questions:
(1) What does the railway carriage (train) move faster than ?
Ans – The Railway Carriage move faster than the ‘fairies’ and ‘witches’.
(2) What do the fast moving bogies look like ?
Ans –
(3) What does the train pass through ?
Ans – The train passes through the meadows, the horses, the cattles, the hills.
(4) What do the sights of the hill and plain look like from the fast moving railway carriage ?
Ans – The Hill and the plain look like thick driving rain from the fast moving railway carriage.
(5) Have you ever been in a fast moving train ? Make a list of things that you see from the train ?
Ans – Yes, I have been in a fast moving train.
I saw trees, mountains, houses, rice paddy fields, cows, goats, bridges, railway stations, people. And they all are moving very fast in the opposite direction.
B.) Write true or false in brackets:
(1) The train is faster than fairies and witches. ( TRUE )
(2) There is no bridge or river on its way. ( FALSE )
(3) The child clambers and scrambles. ( TRUE )
VOCABULARY
A.) Pickup the rhyming words from the poem and add more:
(1) road – load, toad.
(2) river – faster, forever.
(3) witches – ditches, houses.
(4) cattle – whistle, battle.
(5) rain – plain, again.
(C) Fill in the blanks with the given words:
(1) Fairies are imaginary things or people.
(2) Once I was passing through the dense forest.
(3) After a long battle we got freedom.
(4) The thief went out of sight in the wink of an eye.
(5) We saw a glimpse of the moon on a cloudy night.
D.)
I.) Make words adding “ing” and write in your own sentences:
Cut : Cut-ing – Yesterday I was cutting a paper with a knife.
Get : Get-ing – She is getting a job.
Put: Put-ing – I’m putting the box on the car.
Sit : Sit-ing – Last night I was sitting under a very large banyan tree.
Run : Run-ing – The man is running to catch the thief.
II.) Separate the root word from the given words:
No | Word | Root Word |
1
2 3 4 5 6 |
Charging
Fairies Driving Stringing Daisies Gathering |
Charge
Fairy Drive String Daisy Gather |
III.) Frame your own sentences using the words given in
exercise II.
a) The troops were charging for the battle and they won.
b) Yesterday I read a story about Fairy and now I wish if they were real.
c) I saw a man driving a car very fast in the highway.
d) I saw a ball stringing from a balcony.
e) The daisies are very beautiful flower.
f) People are gathering in a cricket match.
E.) Given below are sentences that describe some actions. Choose the words from the box that match the description and write them in the space provided.
sew, darted, toured, lead, frozen
1.) A cat suddenly crossed the road in front of me. Darted.
2.) It’s so cold that even the water has become solid. Frozen.
3.) If you show the way, I’ll follow. Lead.
4.) Leela’s mother taught her how to use a needle and thread to make stiches. Sew.
5.) She travelled around the country promoting her book. Toured.
F.) Select the words from the poem related to the columns and write in the space given below:
Living | Non Living | Moving | Stationary |
Cattle
Horses Child Witches |
Bridges
Houses Hills Road |
River
Cart Horses Cattle |
Hills
Road Bridges Houses |
G.) Pick up words from the box and write them with the correct vehicles:
Ans-
Train : Station , Bogies, Platform, Berth, Pentry-Car, Whistle, Sleeper, Wheels,Station, Brakes, Carriage, Compartment.
Aeroplane : Airport, Cock-pit, Wings, Nose, Runway, Engine, Tail, Wheel, Brakes.
Car/bus : Wheel, Petrol, Steering, Brakes, Engine, Bonnet, Gear, Tyre.
Grammar
Look at the following phrases occuring in the poem:
Faster than fairies, faster than witches as thick as driving rain
A.) Read the following passage carefully :
‘Shiny’ and ‘Timmy’ are birds and they are best friends. Timmy always wants to be No 1. So, if Shiny has a clean nest, Timmy has a cleaner nest than Shiny.
Shiny and Timmy have another friend called ‘Tricky’. Tricky also wants to be No. 1. Now, her nest is the cleanest nest.
Now look at the description given below and write about the nests of each bird in your notebook.
Shiny | Timmy | Tricky |
clean
big strange soft warm beautiful |
cleaner
bigger stranger softer warmer more beautiful |
cleanest
biggest strangest softest warmest most beautiful |
Example: Shiny has a clean nest, but Timmy’s nest is a cleaner nest. Tricky has the cleanest nest of them all.
a) Shiny has a big nest, Timmy’s nest is bigger than Shiny, but Tricky has the biggest nest of them all.
b) Shiny has a strange nest, Timmy has a stranger nest than Shiny, but Tricky has the strangest nest of them all.
c) Shiny has a soft nest, Timmy has a softer nest than Shiny, but Tricky has the softest nest of them all.
d) Shiny has a warm nest, Timmy has a warmest nest, but Tricky has the warmest nest of them all.
e) Shiny has a beautiful nest, Timmy has a more beautiful nest than Shiny, but Tricky has the most beautiful nest of them all.
Frame as many sentences as you can with the following transport and
animal words:
Example: A bicycle is faster than a bullock cart.
(i) Transport words :
( fast)
A bicycle is faster than a Bullock cart.
A train is faster than a bicycle
A Plane is the fastest of them all.
(ii) Animal words :
(big)
A horse is bigger than a dog.
An elephant is bigger than a horse.
A whole is the biggest of them all.
Writing
A.)
I.) Some pictures are given below showing how people travel. Look at the pictures and write whether you like/dislike travelling by the ‘means’ of travel given below:
Train – I always love to travel by train. You can sit near a window and enjoy the outside view of the train.
Bullock Cart – Bullock cart is good for small journeys. Because it’s very slow. It’s powered by bulls.
Bus – Bus journey is good for city to city travel. I always enjoy the view through the window of the bus.
II.) Write a letter to your friend describing the preparation you have made for your picnic trip to Chitrakoot waterfall.
Hello Amit,
My dearest friend, I hope you find this letter. There’s so many things I wanna tell you. Well, I want to tell you about the preparation I made for my trip to Chitrakoot waterfall. I prepared my bag where I put all my essential things I need during the trip. I also planned how I will get there. First I will catch a train. After 8 big and small stations I will catch a bus and then from there it will be 45 min by bus. And then a few minutes of walk. I hope we both can go there. But it’s not possible right now. So I’m going alone. Yours faithfully Your name. |