Telangana SCERT Solution Class VII (7) English Chapter 6
Here in this Page we provided Telangana SCERT Solution Class 7 English Chapter 6 Prose A Hero, Poem My Nasty Adventure, Learn How to Climb Trees.
A.) Reading
I.) Answer the following questions:
1) According to the newspaper’s report who fought with the tiger?
Answer:-
2) Can you say why Swami’s father read the news to his son?
Answer:-
3) Did Swami believe the story? Give reasons for your answer.
Answer:-
4) What did Swami’s father ask him to prove?
Answer :-
5)Why did Swami try to change the topic when his father asked him to sleep alone?
Answer:-
II.) Read the following sentences and say whether they are true or false. Write T for true and F for false statements in the brackets. Correct the false statements.
1.) Swami said that he would sleep alone from the following week.
2.) Swami’s father looked like a ghost in darkness.
3.) When Swami was snoring, his grandmother pulled the blanket away.
4.) Swami was really afraid of darkness.
5.) Swami wished that the tiger had killed the boy.
Answer:-
1.) F
2.) T
3.) F
4.) T
5.) T
III.) Tick the correct option to make the sentence true.
1) Swami was almost faint with fear because
a) his father would beat him.
b) he was afraid of ghosts.
c) a ghost entered his room.
d) he had a terrible dream.
Answer :- b)
2) Swami clutched the leg of ………………………….
a) his father.
b) his grandmother
c) a chair.
d) the thief.
Answer:- d)
Vocabulary
I.) Pick out synonyms from the story for each of the following words.
1.) clear 2. bravery 3. Shameful4. hide 5. upset 6. Argued7. swore 8. Unpleasant9. tapped 10. Damage
Answer :-
1) clear: detailed
2) bravery: courage
3) shameful: disgraceful
4) hide: cover
5) upset: pained
6) argued: mumbled
7) swore: cursed
8) unpleasant: bitter
9) tapped: patted
10) damage: risk
II.) Read the conversation given below and fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the box.
Ruchira:I don’t know why the teacher …………. to give his mobile number?
Suhas:He might be worried that you would …….. him with your phone calls.
Ruchira:I have great …….. for him. I will never behave in a…..… manner.
Suhas:I am …… that our teacher will not give his number. Anyhow, I like your ……………………….. . We are all ……………………. him.
Ruchira:I don’t think our teacher is ……… ………. but he says everything ………….. Once he gave me a wonderful gift so I am always ……………. to him.
Answer:-
Ruchira:I don’t know why the teacherhesitateto give his mobile number?
Suhas:He might be worried that you would disturbhim with your phone calls.
Ruchira:I have great respect for him. I will never behave in adisgraceful manner.
Suhas:I amcertainthat our teacher will not give his number. Anyhow, I like your courage are allafraid ofhim.
Ruchira:I don’t think our teacher is terrible but he says everything sternlyOnce he gave me a wonderful gift so I am always grateful to him
III.) Read the following clues given below to complete the word ladder.
1.) Sandhya said _____________ that she hated him.
2.) Sridhar is a ____________ boy of 10 years old.
3.) Jyothi used to sleep beside her _______________.
4.) The garden is full of ________________ coloured flowers.
5.) I met my friend Kumar on my _________________ home.
Answer :-
1) crossly
2) young
3) granny
4) yellow
5) way
IV.) Proverbs
A proverb is a short sentence, usually known to many people, stating something commonly experienced or giving advice. Here are some English proverbs:
Tit for tat.
Where there is a will there is a way.
A bad workman always blames his tools.
Every language has proverbs. In Telugu we call them ‘saamethalu’. Here is one example from Telugu: ‘kukkakaatukicheppudebba’. It is important to know the meaning of a proverb before you use it.
Match the parts under A and B to make some proverbs. You can use the clues given within the brackets. The first one is done for you
A B
1.) An apple a day(search for a profession) a.is a friend indeed.
2.) A friend in need (rhymes with need)b.saves nine.
3.) Failure is (search for ‘achievement’)c.mightier than the sword.
4.) A stitch in time (search for a number)d.keeps the doctor away.
5.) The pen is (search for a weapon)e.the stepping stone to success.
6.) Empty vessels (search for noise)f.the mighty ocean.
7.) Little drops of water makeg.seldom bite.
8.) Honesty (ends with ‘cy’)h.while the sun shines.
9.) Make hay (search for a star)i.is the best policy.
10.) Barking dogs (search for what dogs do)j.make much noise.
Answer :–
1) d
2) a
3) e
4) b
5) c
6) j
7) f
8) i
9) h
10) g
Grammar
Look at the following sentences from the text.
1.) Father was sitting under the lamp and reading the newspaper.
2.) He looked over the newspaper.
Sentence 1 is in the Past Continuous Tense form. It conveys that the action was in progress at a particular point of time in the past. In sentence 2, the verb looked is in the Simple Past Tense. It shows that the action was complete in the past.
I.) Pick out 5 sentences from the story that use the Simple Past Tense and 5 sentences that use the Past Continuous Tense. Write them down in your notebook.
Answer:-
Simple Past Tense
1.) The newspaper gave a detailed account of the boy’s fight with the tiger.
2.) At last some people came that way and killed the tiger.
3.) The two always had their beds side by side
4.) Swami was pained and angry
5.) When Father returned home from the club that night
Past Continuous Tense
1.) Father was standing over him
2.) Father was only joking
3.) A tiger was chasing him
4.) Something was moving in the darkness
5.) Swami was following the whole conversation from under the blanket
II.) Read the following paragraph and fill in the blanks with the simple past or past continuous forms.
While Swami’s father ……………………. (read) the newspaper, Swami …..……………..(listen) to it. His father ………………… (ask) him to sleep alone. But he …………………. (be) afraid of ghosts. He ……………………….…..………(want) to sleep in his grandmother’s room. While he …………….………..(sleep), he ……………….…….…………(have) a terrible dream. A tiger …………………….…… (chase) him and he ……………………..…………….…(try) to escape.
Answer:-
1) was reading
2) was listening
3) asked
4) was
5) wanted
6) was sleeping
7) had
8) was chasing
9) was trying
III.) Editing
Read the following passage. Every numbered sentence has an error. Identify and edit it.
(1) Akbar was on his way for the dining room. Hirachand was brought to him. (2)At the same time a messenger come to say that the Queen was ill. (3)Akbar left Hirachand and spent the whole morning by his sick wife. (4)By the time he returned to a dining room, his meal was cold. He ordered a fresh meal. (5)It took so long to get the meal ready that Akbar began to felt ill.
Answer:-
(1)Akbar was on his way to the dining room. Hirachand was brought to him. (2)At the same time a messenger came to say that the Queen was ill. (3)Akbar left Hirachand and spent the whole morning with his sick wife. (4)By the time he returned to the dining room, his meal was cold. He ordered a fresh meal. (5)It took so long to get the meal ready that Akbar began to feel ill.
Writing
I.) Swami’s classmates, teachers and headmaster congratulated him on his courage and bravery. Imagine yourself as Swami and write a diary entry describing your feelings about the appreciation that you have received.
Answer:-
2nd February 2022
Wednesday
9.30 pm
Dear Dairy
Today I am happy and have soo much to say. I was been appreciated by classmates and teachers on my courage and bravery. Also the Headmaster of the school congratulated to me for the same. I got lot of attention today. It was wonderful day , I received many appreciation and got a positive vibe and motivation.
Swami
Study Skills
Change the words given in the box into different parts of speech. Some words may not have all the forms given in the table. You may use a dictionary if you like.
Noun | Verb | Adjective | Adverbs |
Courage | Encourage | Courageous | Courageously |
Wake | Wake | Wakeful | Wakefully |
Strength | Strengthen | Strong | Strongly |
Grace | Grace | Graceful | Gracefully |
Sleep | Sleep | Sleepy | Sleepily |
Disturbance | Disturb | Disturbing | Disturbingly |
Hesitation | Hesitate | Hesitant | Hesitantly |
Dark | Darken | Dark | Darkly |
Trail | Try | Trying | |
Notoriety | Notorious | Notoriously | |
Heavy | Heavy | Heavily |
B.) Reading (Poem): My Nasty Adventure
I.) Answer the following questions:
1.) Who do you think is the speaker in the poem?
Answer :- the school boy is the speaker in the poem
2.) Which line in the poem suggests that the speaker was only dreaming?
Answer:-I scratched myself when I woke up, appearing like a fool. And after the whole thing I thought I’d rather go to school. These lines in the poem suggests that the speaker was only dreaming.
3.) Why did the speaker feel like a fool?
Answer:-The speaker feel like a fool because he realized that he was dreaming the Nasty Adventure. All it was just the dream.
4.) What did the speaker finally want to do?
Answer:- The speaker finally wants to go to school rather than going on the nasty adventure .
5.) Have you ever experienced any adventure in your life? If yes, share it with your classmates.
Answer:- Yes I have experienced the adventure in my life when I travelled for the first time from train to CSMT. It was the last stop to writhe south side. Oh my God what an crowd, it was difficult to enter the train as already there were lot of people in the train. I use to hear the Mumbai is crowded city but that day I saw with my eyes. Somehow I managed to enter the train and got no place to sit so was standing half of the way. I saw the people hanging their bags in front near chest instead of back side. I too followed the same. Reached the destination, from there I travelled from bus to Gate way of India. There was a long line for bus. When I reached the place even it was bit crowded, there were some photographers who took photographs and instantly gave it
For me this first train travel was very much adventurous.
6.) Do you think the title ‘My Nasty Adventure’ is suitable for this poem? Give reasons. Give your own title and tell the class why you have chosen it.
Answer :- Yes, the title ‘My Nasty Adventure’ is suitable for this poem because the things Poet dreamed in the sleep , the child had adventure landing on the pine tree with difficulty. as a pine fell on his ear, A thorn then poked him, Mosquitoes biting gis nose. Bugs crept all over him and tickling his body.
I would have title it as ‘Bad Dream’ as the things happened from crashing of plane to jumping on the sharp pine tree was very dangerous. It may be adventure for someone but very unpleasant and risky adventure. So I would have called it as a bad dream
7.) Why is the poem titled ‘My Nasty Adventure’?
Answer:- The poem titled ‘My Nasty Adventure’ because a school boy wants to go on adventure and slept dreaming the same. He dreamed of landing with parachute from a plane on a sharp pine trees having adventure. As in real life this wasn’t possible do he was dreaming the adventure
8.) List all the rhyming words in the poem.
Answer:-
1.) And – land
2.) Breeze – trees
3.) Fool – school
C.) Reading: Learn How to Climb Trees
I.) Answer the following questions:
1.) What do you think is the main reason for the tiger’s attack on Har Singh?
Answer:- The main reason for the tiger’s attack on Har Singh was that he fired atjungle fowl rose cackled out of the dense scrub.The tiger came towards Har Singh and Kunwar Singh with a terrifying roar. Kunwar Singh climbed up the tree but Har Singh didn’t knew to climb up the tree and The tiger spranged at him and hescreamed
2.) What kind of person was the doctor? Justify your answer.
Answer:-The doctor was very kind. It was late night and hospital was closed still the doctor had laid Har Singh on a string bed.He sewed up the hole in Har Singh’s stomach.Kunwar Singh offered him two rupees but he refused to take it.
3.) What would you have done if you were in the narrator’s place when the tiger attacked Har Singh? Do you think that it is appropriate to give an eight years old a gun?
Answer:- I would I have done the same what narrator did when the tiger attacked Har Singh.
No, it is not appropriate to give an eight years old a gun.
4.) What do you think the narrator wants to convey through this story?
Answer:- the narrator wants to convey the message through this story , specially to forest dwellers, everyone should known how to tackle such situation without getting panic and should learn to climb a tree.