Odisha Board Class 7 English Cobwebs Question Answers Solution

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Cobwebs Class 7 English Odisha Board

Board Odisha State Board
Class 7th
Subject English
Part  (Test – I)
Lesson 07
Topic Question Answers Solution

 

LESSON 7

COBWEBS

 

Comprehension Questions:

1.) What is the poem about?

Answer: The poem is about the cobweb and its comparison to a weaver.

 

2.) Where is the cobweb ?

Answer:  The cobweb is on the telephone wire.

 

3.) Is it in small piece or in very long pieces ?

Answer:  It is in very long pieces.

 

4.) Which words tell you so ?

Answer:  The long stretch of cobwebs- this line tells us so.

 

5.) What is the color of the cobweb on telephone wires ?

Answer:  White is the color of the cobweb on telephone wires.

 

6.) The long stretch of cobweb is like……..?

Answer:  The long stretch of cobweb is like weaver’s unfinished clothes at the work.

 

7.) Where is the unfinished cloth? Who wears the cloth?

Answer:  The unfinished cloth is at the weaver’s work site. People wear the cloth.

 

8.) Why are the spiders busy?

Answer:  The spiders are busy because they are making their cobwebs.

 

9.) What is the meaning of ‘spindle’? Have you seen a spindle? Who uses the spindle?

Answer: A spindle is a straight spike usually made from wood used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, cotton into yarn.

Yes, I have seen spindle

Weavers use the spindle.

 

10.) The spiders are compared to weavers. How are they alike?

Answer:  Weavers weave fiber together and produce fabric, in the same way cobwebs are formed from spider’s act of weaving dust.

 

11.) Who changes the white color of the cobweb?

Answer:  The moon changes the white color of the cobweb.

 

12.) How many colors are there in a rainbow?

Answer:  There are seven colors in a rainbow.

 

13.) When does the sun look better- at sunrise, at noon or at sunset?

Answer:  The sun looks better at sunset.

 

14.)How is the setting sun’s color similar to that of a rainbow?

Answer:  When the sun sets, the wavelength of light takes the colors of rainbow.

 

15.) The white color of the cobweb is changed into that of many colored rainbow. Who changes this color into white?

Answer:  The moon changes the color of the cobweb into white.

 

16.) To start with, the color of the cobweb in the poem was white. The setting sun changed it to the color of a rainbow. The moon changed in into white again. Are the white color at the beginning and at the end similar or different? Which words tells you that there is a difference?

Answer:  In the beginning, the color of the cobweb is white which is like weaver’s clothes. The moon also changes the color of the cobweb into white, but here the moon changes the color of the cobweb into bright white which is different from the clothes of the weaver’s.

 

17.) Which white color is better- the first one or the second one?

Answer:  The second one is better than the first one.

 

18.) Do you like the poem?

Answer:  Yes, I liked the poem.

 

19.) Do you see how the common sight has been made uncommon by the poet?

Answer:  Yes, the poet has made the common thing like cobweb into an uncommon one.

 

20.) In some poems, some stanzas are repeated. What are these stanzas are called in Odia poems? (GHOSA) in English (refrain) Can you identify the refrain in this poem?

Answer:   The example of refrain used in this poem is- The long stretch of cobwebs

On telephone wires

Look white

Like the weaver’s unfinished clothes

At the work site.

 

21.) Is this poem an old or a new one? Read line one and two. Can you answer now? Have you seen telephone wire? Do we have telephone wires or towers nowadays? Guess how.

Answer:  The poem is old one. The use of the word telephone makes it clear.

Yes, I have seen telephone wire before.

Nowadays rarely do we get to see the telephone wires.

 

22.) Poets give life to lifeless objects. They often treat non-living objects as living objects-living or even animals or insects as human beings. Do you find such examples in this poem? The spider is like a weaver. What about the sun and the moon?

Answer:  The sun and the moon is like magicians who change the color of the cobweb with its magical effects.

 

2.) Comprehension Activities:

(a) MCQs:

Choose the correct alternatives to answer the given question.

 

1.) Who is busy?

a.) the sun

b.) the moon

c.) a spider

d.) the day

 

2.) Which is compared to with the cobweb?

a.) the sun

b.) a rainbow

c.) the moon

d.) a weaver’s cloth

 

3.) Who makes the cobweb rain-bow coloured?

a.) the moon

b.) the sun

c.) a weaver

d.) a spider

 

4.) To whom is the spider compared?

a.) a weaver

b.) the sun

c.) the moon

d.) a spindle

 

(b) A summary of the poem is given below. Fill in the gaps.

The cobwebs on telephone wires are like weaver’s unfinished clothes. The spiders are like weavers. The spiders are as busy as the weavers. The sun makes the cobweb rainbow-colored. The moon makes it magical white.

 

5.) Vocabulary:

Match the words under ‘A’ with ‘B.’ One is done for you.

1.) Telephone wires

 

2.) Unfinished clothes

 

3.) Work site

 

4.) Busy spiders

 

5.) Ceaseless spindles

 

6.) Setting sun

 

6.) Writing:

(a) In 5, you have matched the describing words with the nouns. Now write them following as per the examples given.

1.) Telephone wire = wires of telephone

 

2.) Setting sun = the sun which is setting

 

3.) Work site = the site which is under work

 

4.) Busy spiders = spiders that are busy

 

5.) Ceaseless spindles = spindles which are ceaseless

 

6.) Unfinished clothes = clothes that are unfinished

 

(b) Answer the following questions

1.) What is the poem about?

Answer:  The poem is about the cobweb and its comparison to a weaver.

 

2.) Where is the cobweb?

Answer:  The cobweb is on the telephone wire.

 

3.) Who are similar to weavers?

Answer:  The spiders are similar to weavers.

 

4.) Who turns the white cobweb to rainbow bright?

Answer:  The setting sun turns the white cobweb to rainbow bright.

 

5.) Who turns the cobweb to magic white?

Answer:  The moon turns the cobweb to magic white.

 

(c) Given below are some words/phrases. Use them to frame as many sentences as possible based on the theme of the poem.

1.) Spiders are like weavers.

 

2.) Spiders are busy.

 

3.) Weavers weave day and night.

 

4.) Weavers weave unfinished clothes.

 

5.) Weavers are busy.

 

6.) Stretch of cobwebs is like unfinished clothes.

 

7.) Spiders weave day and night.

 

8.) Weavers are busy with unfinished clothes.

 

8.) Let’s Think:

Are poets born or made?

Answer: Poetry is a beautiful creation. Sometimes, some people are born with innate talent of using words in a way that touch the heart of the people. While some people learn poetry by reading others’ work.

 

FOLLOW – UP- LESSON

SILVER

 

Comprehension Questions:

1.) What is the poem about?

Answer: The poem is about the beautiful description of moon’s light that make even the common thing very uncommon.

 

2.) How does the moon walk?

Answer:  The moon walks slowly and silently.

 

3.) “Shoon” is an old word for ‘shoe.’ Why does the shoe look like silver?

Answer: The light of the moon makes her shoe look like silver.

 

4.) How is ‘peer’ slightly different from ‘see’?

Answer: See is to perceive by sight whereas peer means to see something carefully and in difficult manner.

 

5.) What does the moon see first?

Answer: The moon sees the silver fruit upon the silver trees first.

 

6.) Why do the fruit and tree look silvery?

Answer: The light of the moon makes the fruit and tree look silvery.

 

7.) Casement is an old word for ‘window’ and ‘beneath’ is an old word for ‘below’ Where are the windows?

Answer: The windows are below the roof of the house.

 

8.) Where does the dog sleep?

Answer: The dog sleeps in a kennel.

 

9.) The dog sleeps like a log-a piece of wood. What does this tell about the dog’s sleep?

Answer: The dog is sleeping without any movement.

 

10.) Why do its paws look silvery?

Answer: The touch of the moon’s light has made the paws of the dog look silvery.

 

11.) Can you guess why the dog does not look silvery?

Answer: The dog is untouched by the light of the moon.

 

12.) Where does the dove sleep?

Answer: The dove sleeps in a cote.

 

13.) The breast of the dove peeps out. Silver- feather sleep-the feather looks silvery. What about the head of the dove? Can you think how the dove is sleeping?

Answer: The head of the dove is in the cote.

 

14.) Who goes scampering by(running very fast)?

Answer: Forest mouse goes scampering by.

 

15.) Everyone is asleep. Why is the mouse awake?

Answer: The mouse is out for searching in the time of harvest, so it is awake.

 

16.) Why does the fish gleam(dazzle)?

Answer: The light of the moon touches the water and the creatures in it, so the fish dazzles.

 

17.) Where is the fish?

Answer: The fish is in the water.

 

18.) When everyone is asleep, why is the poet awake?

Answer: The poet is embracing the beauty of the moon. The poet observes how the moon beautifies everything it touches, the poet wants to capture those moments in his heart, so he is awake.

 

Post- reading

1.) Comprehension Activities:

(a) MCQs : Fill in the blanks from the alternatives given.

1.) The moonlight first falls on tree.

a.) dog

b.) dove

c.) fish

d.) tree

 

2.) At last the moonlight falls on fish.

a.) fruits

b.) fish

c.) dog

d.) dove

 

3.) Round the word which is an odd one out.

a.) window, thatch, tree, dog

b.) fish, dove, mouse, fruit

 

(b) Match items under A with items under B.

1.) Fish – by silver reeds in silver stream

 

2.) Dog – crouched in his kennel like a log

 

3.) Mouse – with silver claws and silver eye

 

4.) Dove – in silver feathered sleep

 

Session- 5

6.) Writing :

(a) In 2(b) you have already matched items under A with items under B. Now write four sentences joining the items with ‘is’. The first one is done for you.

1.) Fish + silver reeds in silver stream.

Answer: The fish is by silver reeds in silver stream.

 

2.) The dog is crouched in his kennel like a log.

 

3.) Mouse is with silver claws and silver eye.

 

4.) Dove is feathered sleep in silver.

 

(b) You can summarize the poem using only one type of sentence. Write as many sentences of this type as you can. The first one is done for you using the word ‘tree’ given below in the bracket. (trees, fruits, window, dog…….)

1.) The moonlight falls on the tree and it looks silvery.

 

2.) The moonlight falls on the fruits and it looks silvery.

 

3.) The moonlight falls on the window and it looks silvery.

 

4.) The moonlight falls on the dog and it looks silvery.

 

5.) The moonlight falls on the dove and it looks silvery.

 

6.) The moonlight falls on the mouse and it looks silvery.

 

7.) The moonlight falls on the fish and it looks silvery.

 

(c) Answer the following questions.

1.) What is the poem about?

Answer: The poem is about the beautiful description of the moonlight. It is about how the moonlight makes common thing very uncommon by its presence and magical touch.

 

2.) What does the moon see first?

Answer: The moon sees the fruits on the trees first.

 

3.) Where does the dog sleep?

Answer: The dog sleeps in a kennel.

 

4.) Where does the dove sleep?

Answer: The dove sleeps in a cote.

 

5.) Where is the fish?

Answer: The fish is silver reeds in silver stream. It is in the water.

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