7th class-cbse english(honey comb) Poem-8(Meadow Surprises )(Lois Brandt Phillips)

Answer the following questions in short.

Q1) What do the butterflies do on flowers?

Ans1) Butterflies rest on butterflies and suck nectar of the flowers.

Q2) How do you scare a rabbit?

Ans2) A rabbit sitting would get scared by the sound of our feet.

Q3) Why do dandelions become airy parachutes?

Ans3) Dry dandelions are light and may be blown off with a light blow of air, hence they are called airy parachutes.

Q4) What type of houses do you see in meadows?

Ans4) Burrows, nests and ants mounds could be seen in the meadows.

Q5) What kind of grass do the meadows have?

Ans5) Meadows have velvet grass.

Q6) What do you mean by ‘the brook ‘?

Ans6) The brook means a small river.

Q7) What change has occurred to a dandelion?

Ans7) A dandelion which has golden few days ago has dried up and become light and may be blown like a parachute.

Q8) Who lives in burrows and mound?

Ans8) Rabbits live in burrows and ants live in mounds.

7th class-cbse english(honey comb) Poem-7(Dad and the cat and the tree)(Kit Wright)

Answer the following questions in short.

Q1) Why was Dad sure he wouldn’t fall?

Ans1) Dad was a climber and climbing on trees was a child’s play for him. So he was confident that he wouldn’t fall.

Q2) Describe Plan A and its consequences.

Ans2)   Plan A was to use the ladder in order to bring down the cat from the tree but it slipped and Dad fell in the flower bed.

Q3) What was Plan B?

Ans3) Plan B was to swing up the branch of the tree.

Q4) Plan C was a success. What went wrong then?

Ans4 ) Plan C was a success. Dad jumped on the tree and landed straight on the cat that jumped on the ground yelling and poor Dad got struck on the tree.

Q5) Describe the cat and Dad situation in the beginning and at the end of the poem.

Ans5) The cat was stuck on the tree in the beginning and dad was trying to bring it down, but at the end of the poem the cat jumped down safe whereas Dad got stuck on the tree.

Q6) What was the “funny joke”?

Ans6) Mama warned him of falling again otherwise he would break his neck. Dad called it a funny joke because he was self-confident about his success.

Q7) What happened with the ladder?

Ans7) The ladder slipped and he landed in the flower bed.

7th class-cbse english(honey comb) Poem-6(Mystery of the talking fan )(Maude Rubin)

Answer the following questions in short.

Q1) Fans don’t talk, then, what is the fan’s chatter?

Ans1) Fan’s being non –living things don’t talk . The noise that sounds like the fan’s chatter is the noise produced by its whirling motion when it is not oiled properly.

Q2) How does an electric fan manage to throw so much air when it is switched on?

Ans2) An electric fan has small whirling motor and three blazes. When the fan is switched on, the motor starts whirling. It causes the blades to move which cut the room air and throw it in all directions.

Q3) Why did the poet call the fan a talking fan?

Ans3) The fan was making a sound because it was not properly oiled. It appeared to the poet as if it was speaking in a mysterious code languages.

Q4) What happened to the fan in the end? Was the poet happy with it?

Ans4) In the end, someone oiled the fan’s machine and it stopped producing noise. The poet felt unhappy about it because he thought that the mystery ended.

7th class-cbse english(honey comb) Poem-5(Trees)(Shirley Bauer)

Answer the following questions in short.

Q1) What are the games or humans activities which use trees, or in which trees also participate?

Ans1) trees participate in many human activities like house making, making swings, allowing children to play hide and seek, organizing tea parties, sleeping under their shadow, giving fruits and vegetables to eat.

Q2) “Trees are for birds.” What do birds do on trees?

Ans2) Birds make their nests on trees and they rest on trees.

Q3) Which games can you play under or around trees?

Ans3) We can play many games under or around trees like hide and seek, swings , snakes and ladders , ludo, chess , etc.

Q4) Why are trees for children ?

Ans4) Trees are for children to play under.

Q5) What are the uses of trees in different seasons?

Ans5) Trees give us shade in summers and sunlight in winters.

Q6) Which fruit the trees give us according to the poem?

Ans6) Trees give us apples and pears.

Q7) Why do we chop trees?

Ans7) We chop trees to get timber.

7th class-cbse english(honey comb) Poem-4(Chivvy) (Michael Rosen)

Answer the following questions in short.

Q1) When is a grown –up likely to say this? --Don’t talk with your mouth full.

Ans1) The elders say this when we are eating something and talk with food in our mouth.

Q2) When are you likely to be told this?--Say thank you.

Ans2) We are asked to say ‘thank you’ when someone gives us something or helps us.

Q3) When do you think an adult would say this?-- No one thinks you are funny.

Ans3) When children try to do some funnyin order to attract other’s attention towards them, then elders say- No one thinks you are funny.

Q4) What do adults say when you go to someone’s house?

Ans4) Adults say- wish them, don’t point, say please, don’t ask for food, sit properly, don’t interrupt etc.

7th class-cbse english(honey comb) Poem-3(The shed)(Frank Flynn)

Answer the following questions in short.

Q1) Is he afraid or curious, or both?

Ans1) He is curious. He wants to go inside the shed although he was told about a ghost in it by his brother.

Q2) What is he planning to do soon?

Ans2) He is planning to go inside the shed one day.

Q4) Why the door creaks in the wind?

Ans4)   The door of the shed creaks in the wind because it is old and rusty..

Q5) What did the poet’s brother say in order to keep him away from the shed?

Ans5) The poet’s brother told him that there is a ghost in the shed who is hiding under the rotten floorboards. If he dared set foot inside, ghost would jump out and chop off his head.

Q6) Why do you think the poet is the firm to peek in the shed one day?

Ans6) The poet wants to peek in the shed one day because he is a brave boy and knows that there is no such thing like a ghost.

Q7) Why did the brother tell a lie about a ghost in the shed, to the poet?

Ans7) The poet’s brother told a lie about a ghost in the shed to the poet because he wanted to make the shed his den.

7th class-cbse english(honey comb) Poem-1(The squirrel )(Mildred Bowers Armstrong)

Answer the following questions in short.

Q1) Why does the poet say the squirrel ‘wore a question mark for tail’?

Ans1) The poet called the squirrel ‘wore a question mark for tail’ because its tail is turned in the shape of a question mark.

Q2) ‘He liked to tease and play’. Who is teasing whom? How?

Ans2) The squirrel is teasing the children who are running around to catch it.

Q3) Describe a ‘squirrel’?

Ans3) A squirrel wears a grey overcoat of fur and has a tail turned in the shape of a question mark.

Q4) What does a squirrel like to eat?

Ans4) A squirrel like nuts to eat.

10th class-cbse english-(NCERT BOOK-first flight)(poem) Poem-11(For Anne Gregory)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) How has the youth been thrown into despair?

Ans1) The poet has been thrown into despair. He loves Anne Gregory. The lady has yellow hair. She is going to dye them so that she may look young and pretty. So she thinks that her lover has been cheated.

Q2) What does the lady thinks?

Ans2)The lady thinks that she can dye her hair according to her lover’s choice. They can be dyed brown, black or yellow. But he shall not feel despaired. He must love her.

Q3) What has been heard by the lady?

Ans3) The lady has heard from a religious man that only God could love her alone. She must leave worrying about her lover.

10th class-cbse english-(NCERT BOOK-first flight)(poem) Poem-10(The Tale of custard the dragon)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) What information do you get a about Belinda?

Ans1) Belinda lived in a little white house. She had four pets namely –a little black kitten, a little yellow dog and a little grey mouse. Her little pet dragon was very friendly and loving by nature.

Q2) What was specific about her pets expect dragon?  

Ans2) Blinda had named all of them differently. The little black kitten was called Ink. The little grey mouse was Blink and little yellow dog was sharp like Mustard. They all were proud of their bravery.

Q3) How was the dragon?

Ans3)  The dragon was named Custard. It had big sharp teeth. On the top there were spikes on his body. It’s underneath body had scales. Its mouth was like a fire place and its nose was like a chimney. There were daggers on his toes.

Q4) What were the reactions of the pets on seeing the pirate?

Ans4) When they see the pirate, Belinda turned pale and cried for help. Mustard fled away with a terrified yelp and Ink reached the bottom of the mouse hole but the dragon attacked the pirate.

Some more questions for practice.

Q1) How did the dragon react then?

10th class-cbse english-(NCERT BOOK-first flight)(poem) Poem-9(Fog) (Carl Sandburg)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) What is very much specific about the fog?

Ans1) The fog is a natural phenomenon. It falls during the winter season on the cold and chilly weather. It comes suddenly and moves away very silently. It does not spare anyone- the city, the tree or the harbour.

Q2) What does the poet compare the fog with?

Ans2) The poet compares the fog with a cat. Like cat it arrives suddenly. It leaps over its prey giving it no chance of safety. And then it moves away silently.

Q3) What is the central theme of the poem ‘Fog’?

Ans3) A fog comes silently and moves away silently. We should learn a lesson from it. We should indulge in our duty without being loud or any disturbance for others.