9th class-cbse english (NCERT BOOK-Beehive)(long answers) chapter-1 (The fun they had)(Issac Asimov)

Answer following questions in about 100 words.

Q1) What are the main Features of the mechanical teachers and the schoolrooms that Margie and Tommy have in the story?

Ans1) Margie and Tommy were getting their education at home by a mechanical teacher. The mechanical   teacher was very punctual. The lesson was taken up regularly at the same time. They have to insert their homework in the slot. The teacher could evaluate the assignments in no time. It could tell how a child was performing. Margie and Tommy were not aware of the old system of education with building and human teachers. The mechanical teacher taught everything. The schoolrooms of Margie and Tommy were next to their bedroom.

Q2) Why did Margie hate school? Why did she think old schools must have been fun?

Ans2) Margie was unaware of old-styled building school. She was receiving education at home by a mechanical teacher. By the real book, Margie came to know about the school with special building and human teachers. She imagined that in that school all the students were of the same age. They all studied together. They shouted and laughed together. All the children from the neighborhood went together. They learnt the same thing and could help the one another.  She wished to study in that kind of school. She thought that these schools must have been fun.

Some more questions for practice.

Q1) How is our present school system different from that of Margie?

Q2) Discuss “The school plays a significant role in the education of the students”?  

7th class-cbse english(honey comb) Poem-9(Garden Snake)(Muriel L. Sonne)

Answer the following questions in short.

Q1) A snake has no legs or feet, but it moves very fast. Can you guess how?

Ans1) A snake has scales on its body which help it move fast by turning and twisting its body.

Q2) Which is the most poisonous snake?

Ans2) Black King cobra is the most poisonous snake.

Q3) Why was the child afraid of the snake first?

Ans3) The child was frightened of the snake first because he had heard that snakes are dangerous.

Q4) Why did the child attitude change towards the snake?

Ans4) The child’s attitude changed towards the snake because his mother told him that it was a harmless garden snake.

Q5) What did the snake eat?

Ans5) The snake ate insects for its food.

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.