KSEEB Solution Class 7 English Second Language – Leg Trap
Board | KSEEB |
Class | Seven (7) |
Subject | English |
Language | 2nd Language |
Chapter | 4 |
Chapter Name | Leg Trap |
Leg Trap Class 7 English Karnataka Board Kannada
UNIT 4
LEG TRAP – Manorama Jafa
a.) What does this show about Amar?
Answer: This shows that Amar is brave and compassionate boy.
Check your understanding.
C1.) Answer the following in a word, a phrase or a sentence each:
1.) What is the name of the shoeshine boy?
Answer: Dhira is the name of the shoeshine boy.
2.) Who was he living with?
Answer: He was living with his mother and sister.
3.) Where did he sit to earn a living?
Answer: He was sitting near cinema hall and polish shoes to earn a living.
Check your understanding.
1.) What was Dhira doing when he was humming a tune?
Answer: Dhira was counting his day’s earnings when he was humming a tune.
2.) What made him stop it?
Answer: When Dhira overheard a passerby saying, “A thief has just robbed and escaped from the jewellry shop.” And he stopped counting.
3.) The passer by gave Dhira three pieces of news. They were
Answer: a.) Just now
b.) He stole a gold necklace and managed to run away.
c.) They say he as a beard
Check your understanding.
1.) Who stopped Dhira from going to the shop?
Answer: A customer stopped Dhira from going to the shop.
2.) The stranger asked Dhira to do his work slowly as he had a lot of ____________.
Answer: The stranger asked Dhira to do his work slowly as he had a lot of time.
3.) What made the man look like a rich man?
Answer: The customer was wearing a pink shirt and a red tie. The man also having a wrist watch hence he was looking rich man.
Check your understanding.
1.) Which sentence in paragraph 5 shows the impatience of the customer?
Answer: The sentence in paragraph 5 shows the impatience of the customer are, “You, silly boy! You’re not doing your job well,” and “Polish my shoes, till they shine. There are still five more minutes for the show to be over.”
2.) How long did the customer ask Dhira to polish his shoes?
Answer: When the customer saw police first time he told Dhira to there are five minutes to show to be over and when he saw police second time he said, “Hurry up, fellow; there are only two more minutes for the show to begin”.
Check your understanding.
1.) What did Dhira find in the shoes?
Answer: Dhira find the gold necklace in the shoes.
2.) Where was the ‘beard’ of the thief?
Answer: The ‘beard’ was in the pocket of the thief.
3.) How did Dhira make the thief fall?
Answer: Dhira tied the ends of the laces of the two shoes and the thief fall while running.
Vocabulary
V1.) Complete the story using the words given in brackets. One is done for you.
Two women who were on their morning walk, were stopped by two friends riding on a scooter. The women had heard of the frequent thefts in the area. Fearing that the riders would snatch their neck chains, they immediately shouted for help. One of them fumbled in her purse to get the mobile. But the men lost their temper and told them that they were searching for an address. When the women glanced at the address they realized that it was their own.
C2.) Answer in two or three sentences each:
1.) What do you understand from Dhira’s story?
Answer: We can understand from Dhira’s story that Dhira is brave, courageous boy and he also praised for his presence of mind.
2.) Describe the customer who approached Dhira.
Answer: The customer who approached Dhira was wearing a pink shirt and red tie. He was wearing wrist watch and looking rich.
3.) How did Dhira polish the customer’s shoes?
Answer: Dhira dusted the shoe and applied polish on it. Then he started to shine shoe with cloth and while doing it he observed something sticking out of it at the back.
4.) Why did Dhira concentrate on polishing?
Answer: Dhira thought that he is influential man and he might complain about him to policemen so he concentrated his attention on polishing the shoe.
5.) How was Dhira rewarded and honoured for his bravery?
Answer: Dhira rewarded by the police and by the jeweller and in his school he honoured with a medal for his bravery.
C3.) Discuss with your partner and answer.
1.) Is Dhira’s attempt to trap the thief the best one? Give reasons for your answer.
Answer: Dhira’s attempt to trap the thief the best on because
i.) He used his presence of mind and used the information he overheard from somewhere and identified the thief.
ii.) It was courageous act to do that the ends of both shoe laces tied with each other so the thief cannot run.
2.) How did Dhira help the police to catch the thief?
Answer: Dhira helped the police by tying shoelaces of the thief, when thief tried to run, he fall.
3.) Do you agree that it takes courage to do the right thing? Discuss keeping Dhira as an example.
Answer: Yes, it take courage to do the right thing. Without the courage it was tough to do such activity.
G1.) A. Fill in the blanks with ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’:
There was a marriage in our village last week. The bride-groom and his friends went around a village in an old cart drawn by an old horse. The cart fell into a ditch. We managed to pull the people out. The bridegroom was hurt but the others were unhurt. The bridegroom went through the wedding with a bandage on his forehead.
B.) Fill in the blanks with suitable articles:
Once there was a poor merchant. He had a small shop. He sold bananas and other things in his shop. One day an old man came to his shop. He was poor and in rags. The shopkeeper took pity on him and gave him some money. The poor man was pleased. He thanked the shopkeeper for his help.
C.) More articles:
I went to the airport at 6:00 a.m. yesterday. I had to catch a flight to Paris. The queue at the airport was very long. So, I had to wait for a long time. Once the plane took off I ate a good meal, a rare occurrence on an aeroplane! Later, I fell asleep for about an hour. After I woke up, I felt refreshed. Generally, it was a smooth flight.
G2.) Let us know about tenses.
Fill in the blanks with the past tense form of the verbs given in brackets. Then rearrange the jumbled sentences to form a story:
1.) A milk-maid went (go) to the meadow to milk her cows.
2.) She thought (think) that she would make a lot of money.
3.) She also dreamt(dream) of buying eggs and waiting for them to hatch.
4.) Lost (lose) in such thoughts, she forgot (forget) about the pot she was carrying on her head.
5.) Her plan was to sell the cream and butter that shegot (get) from the milk.
6 .) When all the fowls in the poultry farm were ready to be sold, she decided (decide) to sell them.
7.) She then planned (plan) to buy a fine dress.
8.) Shedecided (decide) to sell them.
9.) She tossed (toss) her head in pride and the pot of milk fell (fall) down.
10.) She cried, “Oh! I have lost all my milk! Let alone a new dress, I will not have (has) even money to have food!
Rearranged
1.) A milk-maid went (go) to the meadow to milk her cows.
5.) Her plan was to sell the cream and butter that shegot (get) from the milk.
8.) She decided (decide) to sell them.
2.) She thought (think) that she would make a lot of money.
3.) She also dreamt(dream) of buying eggs and waiting for them to hatch.
6 .) When all the fowls in the poultry farm were ready to be sold, she decided (decide) to sell them.
7.) She then planned (plan) to buy a fine dress.
4.) Lost (lose) in such thoughts, she forgot (forget) about the pot she was carrying on her head.
9.) She tossed (toss) her head in pride and the pot of milk fell (fall) down.
10.) She cried, “Oh! I have lost all my milk! Let alone a new dress, I will not have (has) even money to have food!
Moral: Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.
G3.) Fill in the blanks with the past tense form of the verbs given in brackets:
The Lark in the Cornfield.
Once a lark made (make) her nest in a cornfield. Soon she laid (lay) eggs in it. After a few days small babies hatched (hatch) out of them. One day the baby-larks overheard (overhear) the farmer say, “I will call my servants to reap this field”. The baby-larks got alarmed to hear this and told (tell) their mother about it. “Don’t worry,” said (say) the mother. Some days later, the farmer came (come) again and said (say), I will call my son to reap this field.” The baby-larks were afraid again. “Fear not,” said (say) the mother. But the next day the farmer came there and said, (say) “I will reap this field tomorrow.” “Now is the time to go. When a man says he will do the work himself, he will certainly do it,” said (say) the mother lark.
MORAL: Don’t fear hollow threats.
G4.) Complete each sentence by changing the verbs in brackets into past tense verb forms and then complete the crossword puzzle.
a.) Across
3.) Tony (read) read his book after dinner.
4.) I (give)gave Anand a computer game for his birthday.
5.) Dinakar (throw) threw the ball.
7.) Jony (ring) rang the bell after school.
9.) He (bring) brought his mobile to school.
b.) Down
1.) We (drink) drank banana milkshake after dinner last night.
2.) Asha (catch) caught the ball quickly.
6.) Esha (write) wrote a letter to his friend in Mumbai.
8.) Bindu (buy) bought a new dress at the mall.
10.) The frightened cat (hide) hid under the bed.
W3.) Read the lesson carefully and make a list of the main incidents that happen in the story. One is done for you.
1.) Dhira overheard a passerby say, “A thief has just robbed and escaped from the jewellery shop.
2.) Dhira was about to go towards the jewellery shop to find out more details at the time customer came to him and asked to polish shoes.
3.) Dhira observed that the man was wearing a pink shirt and a red tie and looking like a rich man.
4.) While putting polish on the shoe he saw something sticking out of at the back of the shoe.
5.) Dhira took closer look and came to know that it was the gold necklace in the shoe.
6.) Dhira saw two policemen approaching.
7.) Dhira observed changed behaviour of his customer.
8.) Dhira tied his shoelaces and event to the policemen.
9.) Two policemen came and caught the thief and thief fall flat while trying to walk.
10.) Dhira was rewarded for his bravery by the police and honored by the school.
W4.) Study the pictorial story and write the story in the space provided.
1.) Tenali Rama told his wife that as thieves were around the place they would put all the jewels in the trunk.
2.) Later with his wife, he put a trunk in the well in his backyard. Thieves were watching it from hiding behind the tree.
3.) The thieves happily started to take out water so they can take out the trunk full of jewels from the well. And they started doing so. They started to take out water from the well.
4.) They were tired as they had to take out the water out of the well. They kept water taking out all night. When one is got tired then second one was taking out the water till the morning.
5.) Finally they succeeded to take out the trunk from the well. They opened the trunk and they found that the trunk is filled with stones and brick instead of jewels.
6.) They ran away when they heard a voice from behind saying, “Thank you for watering my garden”.
Moral: Smart people take advantage of bad situation.
S3.) Role-Play Imagine that you are the reporter of some well known newspaper. You have heard about Dhira’s courage shown in catching the thief. You want to report this to your newspaper and through this you want to inspire many young ones. You may act as the reporter and your friend as Dhira. Interview him in front of your classmates and then fill up the blanks.
Reporter : Hello Dhira, how are you?
Dhira : I am fine Sir, thank you.
Reporter : Tell us about the incident, what really happened?
Dhira : A thief tried to steak a necklace from a jewellery shop.
Reporter : How did you helped the police?
Dhira : When I was polishing shoes I noticed the necklace at the back of the shoe, I tied his shoelaces.And police caught him.
Reporter : That’s courageous thing you did Dhira, proud of you.
Dhira : Thank you.
Sweet, short, good notes