Maharashtra Board Class 7 English Solution Chapter 1.3 – In Time of Silver Rain
Balbharati Maharashtra Board Class 7 English Solution Chapter 1.3: In Time of Silver Rain. Marathi or English Medium Students of Class 7 get here In Time of Silver Rain full Exercise Solution.
Std | Maharashtra Class 7 |
Subject | English Solution |
Chapter | In Time of Silver Rain |
(1) Find the pairs of rhyming words used at the end of the lines in the poem.
(3.) If you were to draw a landscape on the basis of this poem, what elements will you show in it ? What colours will you use ?
Ans. I would draw mountains, trees, rivers, some rain drops, and birds in my landscape. I will use blue, black, brown, green and orange color in my drawing.
(4.) The special arrangement of short lines makes you think about every detail.
If you write the sentences in the usual manner, it does not have the same effect. For example, the first stanza would be something like ‘The earth puts forth new life again; green grasses grow and flowers lift their heads and the wonder of life spreads all over the plain in time of silver rain.’
Now try the following :
Write one or two sentences about something beautiful, using your own experience or imagination. Then rearrange the words in the sentences in a poetic form. You may write about a beautiful day, a beautiful night, a stream, a crop standing in a field, a graceful bird or animal, etc.
Ans. A beautiful night
The people were enjoying
When the clouds were making noise and thundering.
But I was sitting along with no one aside.
My feelings were at night just like a sea tide.
It started raining and I cried
It started raining and I cried
(5.) ‘In time of rain when spring and life are __new___, the butterflies lift ___silken__ wings to catch a __rainbow___ cry and trees put forth ___new__ leaves to sing in __joy___ beneath the sky as __passing___ boys and girls too ___go__ singing down the roadway’.
(6.) Think and answer :
(a) Is the poet talking about heavy rains in the rainy season or rain that has come after a long time ?
Ans. Yes, the poet thinking about heavy rains that has came after a long time in spring and brought the flora and fauna back to life.
As we see in that poem, the poet thinking about silver rain, in that rainy time spring and life are new. The butterflies left their silken wings to catch the beautiful rainbow as rainbow cry in the rainy time. In rainy season trees also grew new leaves and they all singing with joy under the sky.
(7.) Find out the following with the help of your teacher and the internet.
- Seasonal Rains (monsoon) in India and other countries.
- Rain in countries like UK which experience spring-summer-autumn-winter.
Ans. We get seasonal rain monsoon the starting of June. some times it will receive very high rainfall in some coastal areas states like Kerala – Goa – Karnataka – Odisha etc. This states are receives high rain fall from starting to ending og June. some states have received monsoon in the July. And it continues with heavy rains and winds also.
In United Kingdom the month of June, July and August which is the summer season, and it is very hottest season with long sunny days. autumn can be dry but sometimes occational rains and winds also come.
Average rainfall in the months of winter December to February is 80 mm.
Average rainfall in the month of spring March to May is 55 mm.
Average rainfall in the month of Summer June to August is – 60 mm.
Average rainfall in the month of autumn September to November is 85 mm.