KSEEB Solution Class 7 English Second Language – The Gymnastic Clock
Board | KSEEB |
Class | Seven (7) |
Subject | English |
Language | 2nd Language |
Chapter | 1 |
Chapter Name | The Gymnastic Clock |
The Gymnastic Clock Class 7 English Karnataka Board Kannada
POEM
THE GYMNASTIC CLOCK – M.C.Davies
II.) Fill in the blanks with the words you have heard:
The little spider
Crawled down the wall
By using its web
So, it wouldn’t fall
It crawled to the bottom
And back up again
Then thought to himself
What a nicegame
So, he called his friends
To join the game
And they played all day
Till night time came
And when they had finished
They went off to bed
And left all the wall
Covered over in web
C1.) Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each:
1.) Name the two characters in the poem.
Answer: The poet and the clock are two characters in the poem.
2.) What does the clock tell the speaker each morning?
Answer: The clock tell the speaker each morning to exercise.
3.) Does the clock stop its exercise any time?
Answer: No. the clock doesn’t stop its exercise at any time.
4.) What similarity do the speaker and the clock share?
Answer: The similarity between the speaker and the clock is both swing their arms daily while exercising.
C2.) Complete the following:
Make a list of the words that are repeated in the poem.
1.) plain
2.) exercise
3.) clock
4.) I
C3.) Read the poem again and answer the following:
1.) “I exercise like this, all day!”
a.) Who is referred to as ‘I’?
Answer: The clock is referred to as ‘I’
b.) What is the exercise?
Answer: To take both hands above head and lower them slowly is the exercise.
c.) When does it do it?
Answer: It does it all day.
2.) “Pooh! I wouldn’t boast of it like you”
a) Who is referred to as ‘you’?
Answer: The clock is referred as ‘you’.
b.) What is he boasting about?
Answer: He is boasting about the continuous exercise of his hands above and below
c.) Is there a competition between the one who says this line and the clock?
Answer: Yes, there is a competition between the clock and the poet.
Study the words given below and pick out rhyming words from the poem :
Me | Be |
Rises | Exercises |
Know | So |
You | Too |
way | day |
1.) Identify two examples for personification in the poem.
i.) “It talks as plain as plain can be”
ii.) “and says, each morning as it rises”