Poem 8 What If
Poem 8 What If Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (NCERT Page 122) Question 1. (i) Who is the speaker in the poem? Answer: Shel Silverstein is the speaker in the poem. (ii) With your partner list out the happenings the speaker is worried about. Answer: The speaker was worried about the following […]
Poem 7 Vocation
Poem 7 Vocation Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (NCERT Page 110) Question 1. Your partner and you may now be able to answer these questions. (i) Who is the speaker in the poem? Who are the people the speaker meets?What are they doing? Answer: The speaker in this poem is a […]
Poem 6 The Wonderful Words
Poem 6 The Wonderful Words Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem(NCERT Page 83) Question 1. With your partner, complete the following sentences in your own words using the ideas in the poem. Do not let a thought shrivel and die because ________________. English is a _______________ with words that everyone can play. […]
Poem 5 Where Do All the Teachers Go
Poem 5 Where Do All the Teachers Go Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem(NCERT Page 68) Question 1: Answer these questions. (i) Why does the poet want to know where the teachers go at four o’clock? Аnswer: The poet thinks that his teachers are not ordinary persons. He looks upon them as […]
Poem 4 Beauty
Poem 4 Beauty Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (NCERT Page 55) Question 1. The poet says, “Beauty is heard in” Can you hear beauty? Add a sound that you think is beautiful to the sounds the poet thinks are beautiful. The poet, Keats, said: Heard melodies are sweet, But those unheard […]
Poem 3 The Quarrel
Poem 3 The Quarrel Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (NCERT Page 40) Question 1 With your partner try to guess the meaning of the underlined phrases. (i) And somehow we fell out. (ii) The afternoon turned black. Answer: (i) Fell out – quarrelled (ii) Turned black – was spoiled due to […]
Poem 2 The Kite
Poem 2 The Kite Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (NCERT Page 28) Question 1. List out the action words in the poem. dive, dip, snaps …………, ……….. Find out the meanings of these words. Answer: dive, dip, snaps, soars, climbs, rides, pulls, falls Dive: Plunge head first into water with one’s […]
Poem 1 A House, A Home
Poem 1 A House, A Home Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (NCERT Page 16) Question 1. Do you agree with what the poet says? Talk to your partner and complete these sentences. (i) A house is made of ……………… (ii) It has ……………. (iii) A home is made by ………… (iv) It […]
Chapter 10 The Banyan Tree
Chapter 10 The Banyan Tree Working With the Text (Page 131) A .Complete the following sentences. 1.The old banyan tree “did not belong” to the grandfather, but only to the boy, because_____________________________________ . 2.The small gray squirrel became friendly when_____________________________________ 3.When the boy started to bring him pieces of cake and biscuit, the squirrel 4.In the […]
Chapter 9 Desert Animals
Chapter 9 Desert Animals Working With the Text (Page 117) A.1. Talk to your partner and say whether the following statements are true or false. (i) No animal can survive without water. (ii)Deserts are endless sand dunes. (iii)Most snakes are harmless. (iv)Snakes cannot hear, but they can feel vibrations through the ground. (v) Camels store […]