PSEB Punjab Board Class 7 English Textbook Solution Chapter 8 An Earthquake Exercise Questions and Answers, Grammar, Composition Writing.
Activity 1
1.) Trembling: Verb
2.) Confirmed: Adjective Verb
3.) Crashing down: Idiom
4.) Stood tall: Verb
5.) Fragmented: Verb
6.) Crawls: Verb
7.) Rubble: Noun
8.) Debris: Noun
9.) Cosy: Adjective
10.) Tombs: Noun
Activity 2
Write five pairs of rhyming words from the poem
Answer:
1.) awake, shake
2.) debris, trees
3.) shake, fake
4.) debris, trees
5.) found, ground
6.) tall, crawl
7.) down, town
Activity 3
Have you ever experienced an earthquake? It may result in a disaster if the earthquake is big. There are two types of disasters-natural and man-made. Study the image below.
Look at the picture and make a list of all the natural as well as man-made disasters.
Answer:
Natural Disaster |
Man-made disaster |
1.) Earthquakes |
Terrorism |
2.) Floods |
Bomb Explosion |
3.) Landslides |
Industrial Accidents |
4.) Famine |
War |
5.) Droughts |
Pollution |
6.) Cyclones |
Epidemics |
Activity 4
Answer the following questions.
1.) What is the poem about?
Ans: The poem is about a disaster brought on by an earthquake.
2.) What happened as the poet lay awake?
Ans: As the poet lay awake, there was an earthquake, and his bed started to shake.
3.) How did the poet come to know about the earthquake?
Ans: The poet knew about the earthquake from the trembling fan.
4.) What confirmed the poet’s fear about the quake?
Ans: The trembling fan confirmed the poet’s fear about the earthquake.
5.) What happened after the quake? Make a list.
Ans: a.) The houses got crashed down
b.) The ground was covered in heaps of debris.
c.) Houses, roads, parks, trees got broken into pieces.
d.) People started to come out of their house, because everything was breaking down into pieces.
Activity 5
Explain the meaning of the following lines from the poem.
1.) Kissing and talking to the ground.
Ans: Everything was falling into the ground.
2.) Some of which have now become tombs.
Ans: Some of them had evolved into enormous heaps of debris by this point.
Activity 6
Choose suitable prepositions from the box to fill in the given blanks. The first one is done for you.
1.) There are trees in front of our house.
2.) Look _______ the blackboard.
3.) Keep the bags _______ the table.
4.) The boy is looking ______ an answer.
5.) We went _______ bus to Amritsar.
6.) He travelled with me ____ Chandigarh to Patiala.
7.) The girl stood ______ the bench.
8.) Look ______ the bags for our papers.
9.) Go _______ Sameer to the market.
10.) Run ______ call the man.
Answer:
2.) at,
3.) on
4.) for
5.) by
6.) from
7.) on
(8) into
9.) with
10.) behind.
Activity 7
Using the words followed by preposition, make sentences of your own. The first one is done for you.
1.) I do not let my music lessons interfere with my studies.
Answers:
2.) I am not fit for playing football.
3.) Ram is confident of his driving skills.
4.) I am sorry for breaking the glass.
5.) Let the pasta mix with milk.
6.) Never make fun of the poor.
7.) He prays at the church these days.
8.) He acted upon against his father’s wishes.
9.) The boy is bent on the see-saw
10.) My phone is superior to you.
Activity 9
Listen to your teacher regarding an earthquake scene and fill in the blanks.
1.) The _________ is creaking and rattling.
2.) Books are ________ from the bookcase.
3.) ________ are swinging.
4.) The bookcase _________ on the floor.
5.) The _______ are rattling.
6.) There are ______ outside.
7.) A car alarm ______.
8.) Dogs are _______.
9.) A baby is ________.
10.) ________. are shouting.
11.) The _______ is making temple bells ring.
12.) There are ______ sounds from bricks falling to the ground.
13.) Trees _______ are swaying.
14.) Drop, take cover and ______ on to an object.
15.) Stay in the Drop ______ and Hold On position under your desk.
Answer:
1.) building
2.) Falling
3.) Fans
4.) Falls
5.) Windows
6.) Noises
7.) Sounds
8.) Barking
9.) Crying
10.) People
11.) Shaking
12.) Crashing
13.) Outside
14.) Hold
15.) Cover.
Activity 11
India and the whole world suffered an attack of novel coronavirus due to which everyone had to stay at home. It was done to stay away from other people who might be infected with the virus. It is called ‘SOCIAL DISTANCING’. Make a list of Do’s and Don’ts that the Government and the TV channels were telling us.’
Answer:
Do s |
Don’t s |
1.) Wear a mask. | Remove your mask in public. |
2.) Frequently sanitize your hands. | Touch your nose with non-sanitized hands. |
3.) Maintain social-distancing. | Get Physical contact. |
4.) Eat iodine-rich food. | Use anyone else’s mask. |
5.) Stay at home. | Go out of your home. |
Activity 12
Study the following table and the picture. Take hints from the picture and write 5 points on how you saved yourself and your friend when an earthquake came when you were having lunch during your school break.
Answer:
Last year in the month of April, my friend and I were sitting alone in our classroom. It was break time and we were having lunch. Suddenly, I saw the fan in our class shaking. I realized it was an earthquake. We got scared. We heard children screaming. I quickly crouched down and hid under a study table. My friend made an attempt to see out of the window. I asked him to stop and cover his head and neck with his arms instead. We eventually crawled out of the door. We stayed clear of the woods and the school’s walls of the building. However, an electricity pole was located close by. We crawled to a spot away from anything heavy or dangerous in order to avoid it. The earthquake soon passed.
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