PSEB Punjab Board Class 8 English Textbook Solution Chapter 11 My Dear Soldiers Exercise Questions and Answers, Grammar, Composition Writing.
ACTIVITY 3
Read the adjectives in the following table and write their nouns in the given space.
SR NO | ADJECTIVE | NOUN |
1 | Strong | Stronger |
2 | active | Activation |
3 | rich | Richer |
4 | wise | Wiser |
5 | loyal | loyalty |
6 | careful | Carefully |
7 | kind | Kindly |
8 | happy | Happier, happiness |
9 | good | Goodness |
10 | faithful | Faithfulness |
ACTIVITY 4
Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow
A) Oh! Defenders of borders
You are great sons of my land
when we are all asleep
you still hold onto your deed
windy Season or snowy days
Or scorching sun’s sweltering rays
You are there guarding on the time awake
Trading The lonely expanses as Yogis.
a) Name the poet of the poem’ My dear Soldiers’
ANS:‘My Dear Soldiers’ is written by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
b) Who are being referred to as the ‘Defenders of borders’?
ANS: Sons of our country our soldiers are referred to as‘Defenders of borders’
c) How do these great sons serve their motherland?
ANS:They guard the country waking up all the time in windy and snowy days, in very hot sun rays away from their loving ones.
d) What kind of weather conditions do the soldiers have to face?
ANS: Soldiers have to face windy, snowy days,sun’s sweltering ray day and night
B) Climbing the Heights or striding the valleys
Defending the desert guarding the marshes
Surveillance in seas and by securing the air
Prime of your youth given to the nation!!
Wind Chimes of my land vibrate your feat
We pray for you brave men!!
May the lord bless all!!
a) Whom has the poem been addressed to?
ANS: The poem has been addressed to the brave sons of country who are serving our country on the borders.
b) What do these great sons sacrifice for the nation?
ANS: These great sons sacrifice their sleep for protecting the lives of people of our country staying away from their family.
c) What is the intension of the poet?
ANS: The poet wants to tell the dedication, love, sacrifice of guards of country towards country without any fail. Also the difficulties they face everyday for making, feeling us safe.poet wants us to know the situations of soldiers facing for us.
d) Explain: ‘Wind chimes of my land vibrate your feat’.
ANS: Our mother land will help you to achieve success.
ACTIVITY 5
Change the following adjective to adverbs
sr. no | adjective | adverb |
1) | Bad | Badly |
2) | Angry | Angrily |
3) | Fast | Fast |
4) | Bold | Boldly |
5) | Brisk | Briskly |
6) | Meek | Meekly |
7) | Nice | Nicely |
8) | soft | Softly |
9) | Fair | Fairly |
10) | clean | Cleanly |
ACTIVITY 6
In the following sentences, same words are used both as an adjective and as adverb. underline the word and write whether it is used as an adjective or adverb.
a) You give a beautiful presentation. -adjective
b) your work is beautifully presented. –adverb
c) I get a monthly paycheque. -adjective
d) My company pays me monthly. –adverb
e) She dressed elegantly. –adverb
f) She looks elegant In suit. –adjective
g) That boy is so loud. –adjective
h) That boy speaks so loudly. -adverb
i) He is a gentle person. –adjective
ACTIVITY 7
you will tell your partner something that she/ he doesn’t know about you. you may talk about one of the following topics.
- Your pet
- Yourself
- Something you have bought
- A neighbour
- A place
As you know I like cats so much, I always wish to have them but I never got one. But when I was 15 one of my friend gifted me a kitten, and it was with me for a month, so I never told you about that. I love cooking Chinese food and baking cakes. Recently I went to goa there I bought pearls neckless and I did lots of shopping there. A month ago foreigner family rent house besides our house they are so sweet,but they will leave country in next month. Yesterday I was surfing on internet and I saw a beautiful place picture, now I decided to go there. That place is out of our city we will go there in holidays.
ACTIVITY 8
Think of a wild animal or a bird that you like. write its different qualities In The Mind Map given below. Take 2-3 minutes to do this work. You can use the following hints.
- kind of a bird or animal
- its appearance and size
- its habitat
- Its eating habits- herbivorous/ carnivorous
- some special quality
- usefulness of the animal/bird
Lion the king of jungle. Its look is royal and the biggest cat of cat family. Adult lion has mane, but lioness is relative small in size. They live in jungle. African lions are bigger in size than Indian lions. They are carnivorous animals and at the top of the food chain. Lion is the most fierce animal and rules the jungle. Mostly lioness hunts in group and they live in group. As lion is carnivorous animal so it helps in maintaining the food chain of our ecosystem.
ACTIVITY 9
Now using the format of letter writing given earlier and the notes written by you in the Mind Map above write a letter to your friend telling him/her all about the animal/ bird you wrote about. at the end of the letter you must write to your friend about why you human being should try to protect birds and animals from getting hunted by poachers.
B 24 Aparna Row house
Shivajinagar
June 12,2021.
Dear Priya,
Congratulations Priya for getting selected as captain of animal welfare our area.
I eagerly want to tell you about something, since 1 month I am searching on wild animals of our country and I found that the number of lions in our country is decresing day -by -day. Yes,the main reason behind it is poaching for their skin. And these thing can make them extinct from India as like Cheetah. As long as we people buying the products coming from animal skin, their teeth or other thing the poaching is not going to stop, so we should take some initiative to aware people about these. So everybody will take little initiative at their levels and we could minimize such inhuman things. Not only lions but all other animals like domestic animals, birds should be protected, we should drive a campaign to rescue these domestic animals, stray animals.
Now you are head of the team so you can start from here, and I hope we will succeed in these.
Yours faithfully,
Divya
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