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What If NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

What if 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 things

• If she fails in the examination.
• If she gets sick and dies.
• If nobody likes Jier.
• If she becomes dumb.
• If she does not grow taller.
• If her parents get separated.
• If she gets beaten up.

(iii) Why do you think she/he has these worries? Can you think of ways to get rid of such worries?
Answer:
She has these worries because she thinks a lot. Most of these worries are born due to baseless fear. One can get rid of such worries with a strong will power and developing positive attitude towards life.

Question 2.
Read the following line.
Some What ifs crawled inside my ear.
Can words crawl into your ear? This is an image. The poet is trying to make an image of what she/he experiences. Now with your partner try and list out some more images from the-poem.
Answer:
Some other images are

• And pranced and partied all night long.
• What if the wind tears up my kite?
• What if green hair grows on my chest?
• And sang their same old Whatif song.

Question 3.
In groups of four discuss some more ‘whatifs’ that you experience in your day-to-day life and list them out.
(i) …………
(ii) …………
(iii) …………
(iv) …………
(v) …………
(vi) …………
(vii) ………..
(viii) …………
(i) Whatif I wake up late in the morning?
(ii) Whatif I arrive late in the school?
(iii) Whatif the teacher does not allow me to enter into the class?
(iv) Whatif I am punished in the class?
(v) Whatif I meet with an accident?
(vi) Whatif I am alone at night in a big house?
(vii) Whatif I lose my memory?
(viii) Whatif somebody steals my books?
And now write a poem of five or six lines with the ‘whatifs’ that you have listed.
Answer:
Do it yourself.

What If Extra Questions and Answers

Whatif Extra Questions Very Short Answer Type

Question 1.
What was the reason behind the child’s fear in the poem?
Answer:
The child was worried about his future because any mishap can happen anytime in life. There seems to be lack of security in child’s mind.

Question 2.
When did strange things hit the child’s mind?
Answer:
Strange things hit the child’s mind when she was lying on her bed the last night.

Question 3.
What do you understand by ‘Whatif song’?
Answer:
The ‘Whatif song’ in the poem means what will happen in case such a change takes place in the child’s life.

What if Extra Questions Short Answer Type 

Question 1.
Do you think the child’s fear was unnecessary?
Answer:
Yes, the child’s fear was unnecessary because she was only assuming things. Nobody is sure about future and it is a mystery for everyone. Thinking too much about future is needless and waste of time.

Question 2.
What happened the next morning when the child wakes up?
Answer:
The child wakes up the next morning and everything was fine. She was afraid of many things last night, but felt good in the morning, but soon started thinking what will happen if those terrifying moments appear again in her mind. The child is in habit of worrying unnecessarily.

Question 3.
What does the poem Whatif talk about? Give a few examples of some of the child’s worries or cynical fears.
Аnswer:
Children in general have some fears and worries. Their thinking can’t be rational or probable. The speaker gives a long list of some unusual situations or mishaps. These fears haunted her in sleep. She wondered what would happen if she lost her power to speak or got beat up, or got sick and died. Moreover, she might fail/miss the test, or her hair grew green or she was struck by lightning, or a war broke out, and her parents got divorced. By morning she became normal again.

Questions 4.
Who is the speaker in the poem Whatif? What is she worried about? Can you suggest ways to get rid of silly fears?
Аnswer:
The speaker in the poem is a girl. She is haunted by fears and worries. These are related to her safety. There is no sequence or substance in her fears. Such baseless and absurd fears trouble us when we go to bed. These are like frightening dreams, only a cowardly or weak minded person entertains such fears. One can get rid of them if one tells oneself firmly to shed all worries.

What if Extra Questions Long Answer Type

Question 1.
What kind of fears and doubts arise in the child’s mind?
Answer:
The child was worried what will happen if she loses the power to speak or if her school closes the swimming pool. She was anxious if she gets beaten up or if somebody puts poison in her cup. The child might fall sick and die. She might get hit by lightning and she might stop growing in height. There can be other bad situations such as wind might tear up her kite or a war breaks out. It is possible that her parents might get separated and her teeth can grow irregularly., She might not be able to learn dance and tear her pants.

Question 2.
What is being an optimist or pessimist?
Answer:
For a person, being always optimistic is very much essential to lead a happy and healthy life. It is important to understand that life is full of ups and downs. Sometimes we are happy and sometimes sad. There may come different kinds of problems in our life. Instead of being monotonous it is preferred to face the issues and try to find the solution for the same. Optimism always helps to find a key for any kind of problem. If a person continues to be pessimistic, it becomes difficult to live a peaceful life. The person never gets strength to survive in difficult time. Thus, it is always important to be an optimist rather than a pessimist.

What if Extra Questions Extract Based Type

Extract 1

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

Last night, while I lay thinking here,
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long
And sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I’m dumb in school?
Whatif they’ve closed the swimming-pool?
Whatif I get beat up?
Whatif there’s poison in my cup?
Whatif I start to cry?
Whatif I get sick and die?
Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?

Question 1.
What came inside the child’s mind?
Answer:
Fears and doubts about life came into the child’s mind.

Question 2.
Do you think the child is afraid of death?
Answer:
Yes, the child was afraid of death as she thinks what will happen if somebody puts poison in her cup or what will happen if she falls ill

Question 3.
The speaker suffers from
Answer:
The speaker suffers from a dense of insecurity.

Question 4.
Write antonym for the word ‘close’.
(a) Shutdown
(b) Dumb
(c) Inside
(d) Open
Answer:
(d) Open

Question 5.
Find synonym for the word‘flunk’.
(a) Fail
(b) Mute
(c) Silent
(d) Rise
Answer:
(a) Fail

Question 6.
Give a word which rhymes with the word ‘long’,…………….
(a) Test
(b) Song
(c) Chest
(d) Dumb
Answer:
(b) Song

Extract 2

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

What if a bolt of lightning strikes me?
Whatif I don’t grow taller?
Whatif my head starts getting smaller?
Whatif the fish won’t bite?
Whatif the wind tears up my kite?
Whatif they start a war?
Whatif my parents get divorced?
Whatif the bus is late?
Whatif my teeth don’t grow in straight?
Whatif I tear my pants?
Whatif I never learn to dance? Everything seems swell and then.
The night-time Whatif strikes again!

Question 1.
Who might get divorced in the poem?
Answer:
The child was afraid that her parents might get divorced in future.

Question 2.
What made the child worried for the second time?
Answer:
The child became worried for the second time when she thought what will happen if those terrifying moments strike her again.

Question 3.
What are these doubts and worries called?
Answer:
The doubts and worries are called as cynical.

Question 4.
Give superlative degree of the word ‘taller’.
(a) Tall
(b) Tallest
(c) Long
(d) Length
Answer:
(b) Tallest

Question 5.
Write antonym for the word ‘start’.
(a) Begin
(b) Resume
(c) Continue
(d) End
Answer:
(d) End

Question 6.
Find synonym for the word ‘late’.
(a) Delayed
(b) Early
(c) Again
(d) Before
Answer:
(a) Delayed

What if Summary in English

The narrator is a young girl. Her mind is sometimes filled with doubts and fears. At night such unpleasant situations haunt her. She wonders what will happen if she loses her power to speak, or if the school closes the swimming pool, or if she gets beaten up, or if somebody puts poison in her cup. It is also possible that she may get sick and die, or fail in the examination, or stop growing in height, or is hit by lightning. The other such bad situations are that the wind may tear up the kite, or a war breaks out, or her teeth grow irregularly, or she may never learn to dance. When she wakes up next morning, everything looks fine and normal. But her fears return at night again.

What if Summary in Hindi

लेखक एक युवा बालिका है। उसके दिमाग में कभी-कभी संशय और भय भर जाते हैं। रात को ये दुखदायी स्थितियाँ उसके दिमाग को मथती रहती हैं।उसे हैरानी है कि क्या परिणाम होगा यदि वह अपनी वाक्शक्ति खो बैठे, अथवा उसका स्कूल स्विमिंग पूल के इस्तेमाल पर पाबन्दी लगा दे, अथवा कोई व्यक्ति उसकी धुनाई कर दे अथवा उसके प्याले में विष घोल दे। यह भी संभव है कि वह स्वयं बीमार पड़कर भगवान को प्यारी हो जाये, अथवा वह परीक्षा में फेल हो जाये अथवा उसका कद बढ़ना थम जाये अथवा उस पर आकाशीय बिजली गिर जाये। अन्य ऐसी बुरी स्थितियाँ हैं कि पवन उसकी पतंग फाड़ दे, अथवा विश्व में युद्ध छिड़ जाये अथवा उसके दाँत टेढ़े-मेढ़े उगे अथवा वह कभी भी नृत्यकला न सीख पाये।जब वह अगली सुबह उठती है तो सब कुछ ठीक-ठाक और सामान्य पाती है। पर उसके भय पुन: रात को उसे तंग करने लगते हैं।

What if Hindi version of the poem with comprehension

1. Last night, while I lay thinking here,
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
And pranced and partied all night long
And Sang their same old Whatif song:
Whatif I’m dumb in School?
Whatif they’ve closed the swimming-pool?
Whatif I get beat up?
Whatif there’s poison in my cup?
Whatif I start to cry?
Whatlif I get sick and die?
Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
What if nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?
Whatif I don’t grow taller?
Whatif my head starts getting smaller?

पिछली रात जब मैं यहाँ लेटी हुई सोच-विचार कर रही थी, कुछ प्रश्न मेरे कानों में प्रवेश कर गये – ‘कहीं ऐसा हो तो क्या हो’? वे सारी रात उछलकूद और मस्ती करते रहे। और वे अपना पुराना गीत ‘ऐसा हो तो क्या हो।’ गाते रहे। कहीं मैं स्कूल में गूँगी हो जाऊँ, अथवा स्वीमिंग पूल में प्रवेश बंद कर दें, अथवा मुझे कोई पीट दे, अथवा मेरे चाय के प्याले में कोई विष घोल दे अथवा मैं रोना-धोना शुरू कर दूँ, अथवा मैं बीमार पड़कर स्वर्ग सिधार जाऊँ, अथवा मैं परीक्षा में फेल हो जाऊँ, अथवा मेरी छाती पर उगने वाले बाल हरे रंग के हो जायें, अथवा सभी लोग मुझे नापसन्द करन लगें अथवा आकाशीय बिजली मुझ पर आ गिरे अथवा मेरी लम्बाई यहीं रुक जाये, अथवा मेरा सिर छोटे आकार का होने लगे, तो फिर क्या हो?

Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
When do strange questions strike the poet?
(a) In the morning
(b) In the afternoon
(c) In the evening
(d) In the night.
Answer:
(d) In the night.

Question 2.
What does she mean by What if song?
(a) What will happen if she loses her power to speak
(b) The song means what will happen in case such a change takes place
(c) What will happen if she gets beaten up
(d) None of the above.
Answer:
(b) The song means what will happen in case such a change takes place

Question 3.
The ‘Whatif song haunts the speaker……….
(a) only once
(b) again and again
(c) only twice
(d) every moment.
Answer:
(b) again and again

Question 4.
What does the poem reveal about the speaker?
(a) She is bold
(b) She is timid
(c) She is filled with doubts and fears
(d) She is confident.
Answer:
(c) She is filled with doubts and fears

Question 5.
What does the expression Whatif mean?
(a) What will happen in case these happen
(b) What will happen the next moment
(c) What will happen if the earth gets dry
(d) None of the above.
Answer:
(a) What will happen in case these happen

2. Whatif the fish uwon’t bite?
Whatif the wind tears up my kite?
Whatif they start a war?
Whatif my parents get divorced?
Whatif the bus is late?
Whatif my teeth don’t grow in straight?
Whatif I tear my pants?
Whatif I never learn to dance?
Everything seems swell, and then
The night-time Whatif strikes again!

कहीं यदि मछलियाँ काटना बंद कर दें, पवन मेरी पतंग को फाड़ दे, लोग युद्ध छेड़ दें, मेरे माता-पिता तलाक ले लें, बस आने में देर हो जाये, मेरे दाँत सीधे सामान्य न होकर टेढ़े-मेढ़े हो जायें, मैं अपनी पैंट फाड़ दूँ, मैं कभी भी नृत्य न सीख पाऊँ, तो फिर क्या होगा? हर चीज दिन में ठीक-ठाक लगती है, पर रात में वही प्रश्न मुझे पुन: तंग करने लगते हैं।

Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
Which of the fears is not applied to the speaker?
(a) What will happen in case the fish stops biting
(b) What will happen in case her parents get divorced
(c) What will happen in case she gets poor marks
(d) What will happen in case a war breaks out.
Answer:
(c) What will happen in case she gets poor marks

Question 2.
Such silly questions are baseless, still…..
(a) they trouble the speaker every time
(b) they create havoc in the speaker’s life
(c) they develop negative aptitude in the speaker
(d) none of the above.
Answer:
(d) none of the above.

Question 3.
What are these doubts and worries called?
(a) Cynical fears
(b) Inborn fears
(c) Habitual fears
(d) Baseless fears.
Answer:
(a) Cynical fears

Question 4.
What type of people do entertain such fears?
(a) Strong-minded people
(b) Haughty people
(c) Weak-minded people
(d) Mature people.
Answer:
(c) Weak-minded people

Question 5.
What does the word ‘swell’ in the extract mean?
(a) Deformed
(b) Spoiled
(c) Short in size
(d) Large and wonderful in size.
Answer:
(d) Large and wonderful in size.

Vocation NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

Vocation 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 school-going child. Every day he happens to meet the hawker selling bangles, the gardener digging away at the garden, and the watchman walking the street all night.

(ii) What wishes does the child in the poem make? Why does the child want to be a hawker, a gardener, or a watchman? Pick out the lines in each stanza which tell us this.
Answer:
The little child is innocent. He watches the people keenly around him. He is sick of checks on his movement. He wants to enjoy the same freedom as do the hawker, the gardener, and the watchman. They do what they like. The child says:

1. I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in the road.
2. I wish I were a gardener, digging away at the garden.
3. I wish I were a watchman walking the street all night.

(iii) From the way the child envies the hawker, the gardener and the watchman, we can guess that there are many things the child has to do, or must not do. Make a list of the do’s and don’ts that the child doesn’t like. The first line is done for you.

The child must
get his clothes dirty in the dust.
………………….
…………………..

The child must not
come home at a fixed time.
……………………….
………………………..
Now add to the list your own complaints about the things you have to do, or must not do.
Answer:

                       DO’s                                                                     Donʼts

(i) Obey his elders                                                             Be late for school.
(ii) Do his homework regularly.                                          Eat junk food.
(iii) Be truthful and honest.                                                Be rude or ill-mannered.

(iv) Like the child in the poem, you perhaps have your own, wishes for yourself. Talk to your friend, using “I wish I were…”
Answer:
For self-attempt

Question 2.
Find out the different kinds of work done by the people in your neighbourhood. Make different cards for different kinds of work. You can make the card colourful with pictures of the persons doing the work.
Answer:
Do yourself.

Vocation Extra Questions and Answers

Vocation Extra Questions Very Short Answer Type 

Question 1.
Where did the child meet a hawker?
Answer:
The child met a hawker on the road when he was going to his school in the morning.

Question 2.
When did the child see a gardener?
Answer:
The poet saw the gardener outside his house in the afternoon after returning from his school.

Question 3.
Why did the child want to be a gardener?
Answer:
The child wanted to become a gardener so that he could dig the ground and nobody could stop him.

Question 4.
How did the child see a watchman?
Answer:
The child was told to sleep when he saw the watchman through an open window.

Vocation Extra Questions Short Answer Type 

Question 1.
What did the child mention about the hawker?
Answer:
The poet said that the hawker was not in a hurry. There was no specific road which he must take. There was no fixed time for him to return his home.

Question 2.
Describe the activity of the watchman.
Answer:
The watchman was walking on the dark and lonely lane with his lantern. He was following his shadow at one side. He never went to bed in his life, according to the child.

Question 3.
What kind of life is led by the hawker, watchman and gardener?
Answer:
The hawker, watchman and gardener are performing vocational tasks. They are leading their life the way they wants to. There is no restrictions on them.

Question 4.
What activities are dear to little children? Who does the child envy and why in the poem Vocation?
Аnswer:
Children by nature love freedom and fun. They are too young to foresee the consequences of their hasty action. They are adventure loving also. Tagore in his poem “Vocation’ gives voice to the natural desires of a child. The child first sees a hawker, selling bangles. He goes by his whim and enjoys freedom of movement. The child too wishes to become a hawker. In the afternoon he saw a gardener working with his spade and soiling his clothes. There is nobody to check or chide him. Lastly the child feels like becoming a watchman who walks the street all night. The child envies them all.

Vocation Extra Questions Value Based Type

Question 1.
Why did the child find others’ life interesting?
Answer:The child found others’ life more interesting because he was under strict control of his family. He was not allowed to move anywhere and return home anytime. He was fed up with his life due to restrictions imposed on him. He thought that the hawker, gardener and watchman were very happy as they could do things at their own wish. They can go anywhere at any time. Nobody restricts them and they are free to enjoy their life. So, the child wants to exchange his life with that of a hawker, a gardener and a watchman.

Vocation Extra Questions Extract Based Type

Extract 1

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

When the gong sounds ten in the morning and
I walk to school by our lane,
Every day I meet the hawker crying, “Bangles,
crystal bangles!”
There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no
road he must take, no place he must go to, no
time when he must come home.
I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in
the road, crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!”

Question 1.
Who used to cry “bangles, crystal bangles”?
Answer:
A hawker used to cry “bangles, crystal bangles” every morning on the road.

Question 2.
What was the routine of the hawker?
Answer:
The hawker was seen in the morning and was never in a hurry. He can take any road, go anywhere and return his home anytime.

Question 3.
Why did the child want to be a hawker?
Answer:
The child wanted to become a hawker, so that he could spend his entire day on the road.

Question 4.
Write synonym for the word ‘hurry.’
(a) Hawker
(b) Rush
(c) Walk
(d) Child
Answer:
(b) Rush

Question 5.
Give one word substitute for a person who sells goods by moving on roads.
(a) Teacher
(b) Cobbler
(c) Gardener
(d) Hawker
Answer:
(d) Hawker

Question 6.
The hawker passes time
(a) tensely
(b) quarrling
(c) happily
(d) bored
Answer:
(c) happily

Extract 2
Directions (Q. Nos. 1 -6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

When at four in the afternoon
I come back from the school,
I can see through the gate of that house
the gardener digging the ground.

He does what he likes with his spade,
he soils his clothes with dust,
nobody takes him to task,
if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet.
I wish I were a gardener digging away at the
garden with nobody to stop me from digging.

Question 1.
Who was digging the ground?
Answer:
The gardener was digging the ground with his spade outside the house.

Question 2.
What did the child notice about the gardener?
Answer:
The child noticed that the gardener has spread soil all over his clothes and nobody punished him for getting baked under the Sun.

Question 3.
Name the poet of the above lines.
Answer:
The poet of the above lines is Rabindranath Tagore.

Question 4.
Give synonym for the word ‘bake.’
(a) Burn roast
(b) Garden
(c) Sun
(d) Stop
Ans.
(a) Burn roast

Question 5.
Write antonym for the word ‘ wet.’
(a) Move
(b) Continue
(c) Soaked
(d)Dry
Answer:
(d) Dry

Question 6.
Who is the speaker of the above lines?
(a) A small boy
(b) An adult man
(c) A hawker
(d) An old man
Answer:
(a) A small boy

Vocation Summary in English

The child walks to his school at ten in the morning, Everyday he meets a bangle-seller. The man goes about at ease all day long. The child is tempted to adopt the vocation of that happy hawker.In the afternoon the child comes back from the school. He sees a gardener working with spade in a kothi. The gardener is his own master. He soils his clothes and gets wet in the rain. But nobody scolds or punishes him. The child wishes he too were a gardener, free to do what he liked. At night the child sees the watchman on duty. The lone man carries a lantern and keeps walking in the lane all night. The child envies the watchman. He too wants to go about freely and do what he likes.

Vocation Summary in Hindi

बच्चा प्रात: दस बजे स्कूल के लिये निकल पड़ता है। हर दिन वह एक चूड़ी विक्रता को देखता है। वह व्यक्ति सारा दिन मौज से घूमताफिरता है। बच्चे की भी इच्छा होती है कि उस सुखी फेरी वाले का धंधा अपना ले। दोपहर बाद बच्चा स्कूल से घर लौटता है। वह एक कोठी में किसी माली को फावड़ा चलाते देखता है। माली अपनी मर्जी का मालिक स्वयं होता है। वह अपने वस्त्र भी गंदे कर लेता है और वर्षा में गीले कर लेता है। पर कोई भी व्यक्ति उसे न डाँटता है, न दण्ड देता है। बच्चे की तमन्ना होती है कि काश वह भी माली बन जाये और अपनी इच्छानुसार काम स्वतंत्र रूप से किया करे।

रात को बच्चा चौकीदार को ड्यूटी देते देखता है। वह अकेला व्यक्ति हाथ में लालटेन लिये सारी रात गली में घूमता रहता है। बच्चे को चौकीदार से भी ईष्य होने लगती है। वह कामना करता है कि वह स्वच्छन्द विचरण करे और अपनी इच्छानुसार काम करे।

Vocation Hindi version of the poem with comprehension

1. When the gong Sounds ten in the morning and I walk to School by Our lane,
Every day I meet the hawker Crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!”
There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no road he must
take, no place he must go to, no time when he must comehome.
I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in
the road, crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!”

प्रात: दस बजे जब घंटा बजता है और मैं अपनी गली से गुजरकर स्कूल जाता हूँ तो हर दिन मैं एक फेरी वाले को देखता हूँ जो ऊँची आवाज में चिल्लाता रहता है, ‘चूड़ियाँ, काँच की चूड़ियाँ।’ उसे कोई जल्दी नहीं होती, वह किसी भी सड़क पर जा सकता है, उसे किसी निश्चित स्थान पर नहीं पहुँचना है, उसके घर लौटने का समय भी कोई निश्चित नहीं है। काश, मैं भी एक फेरी वाला होता। अपना दिन मैं सड़क पर घूमते बिताता और आवाज करता, ‘चूड़ियाँ, पारदर्शी काँच की चूड़ियाँ !”

Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
What is the hawker selling here?
(a) Toys
(b) Bangles
(c) Watches
(d) Glasses.
Answer:
(b) Bangles

Question 2.
The hawker passes time…..
(a) leisurely
(b) tensely
(c) with great difficulty
(d) happily.
Answer:
(a) leisurely

Question 3.
The child wants to become……..
(a) a bangle-seller
(b) a green grocer
(c) a hawker
(d) a shopkeeper.
Answer:
(c) a hawker

Question 4.
The child wishes so because……….
(a) It will make him a sensible man
(b) It will give him opportunity to work hard
(c) It will give him enough money
(d) It will give him full freedom of action.
Answer:
(d) It will give him full freedom of action.

Question 5.
What does the word ‘gong in the passage mean?
(a) A type of cage
(b) A metal object which makes a loud sound when one hits it
(c) A large boat
(d) None of the above.
Answer:
(b) A metal object which makes a loud sound when one hits it

2. When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school,
I can see through the gate of that house the gardener
digging the ground.
He does what he likes with his spade, he soils his
clothes with dust, nobody takes him to task, if he gets
baked in the Sun or gets wet.
I wish I were a gardener digging away at the
garden with nobody to stop me from digging.

शाम चार बजे जब मैं स्कूल से लौटता हूँ मैं उस घर के गेट के अन्दर एक माली को जमीन खोदते देखता हूँ।
वह अपना फावड़ा चलाकर जो मर्जी होती है करता है, वह अपने वस्त्र धूल में गंदे कर लेता है, यदि वह धूप में तप जाता है अथवा वर्षा में भीग जाता है तो भी उसे कोई डाँटता नहीं। मेरी भी तमन्ना है कि मैं कोई माली होता, बगीचे में मिट्टी खोदता और मुझे इस काम से रोकने वाला कोई नहीं होता।

Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
Who is the speaker?
(a) An adult man
(b) A hawker
(c) A small boy
(d) An old man.
Answer:
(c) A small boy

Question 2.
What does he see the gardener doing?
(a) Cutting the trees
(b) Cleaning the garden
(c) Digging the earth with his spade and soiling his clothes
(d) None of the above.
Answer:
(c) Digging the earth with his spade and soiling his clothes

Question 3.
What does the phrase “take to task in the above passage mean?
(a) Order
(b) Rebuke
(c) Praise
(d) Honour.
Answer:
(b) Rebuke

Question 4.
Here the child wants to become…….
(a) a hawker
(b) a gardener
(c) a grown-up man
(d) a shopkeeper.
Answer:
(b) a gardener

Question 5.
What does the word ‘bake’ in the above passage mean?
(a) Feel comfortable
(b) Feel guilty
(c) Feel proud
(d) Feel very hot.
Answer:
(d) Feel very hot

3.Just as it gets dark in the evening and my mother sends me to bed,
I can see through my open window the watchman walking up and down.
The lane is dark and lonely, and the street-lamp stands
like a giant with one red eye in its head.
The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his
shadow at his side, and never once goes to bed in his life.
I wish I were a watchman walking the street all
night, chasing the shadows with my lantern.

जैसे ही शाम को अँधेरा होने लगता है, मेरी माँ मुझे बिस्तर पर जाने को कहती है। मैं खुली खिड़की से पहरेदार को गली में गश्त लगाते देखता हूँ। गली अंधेरी और सुनसान है और सड़क का लैंप किसी दैत्य की भाँति दिखता है जिसके सिर पर एक ही लाल आँख हो। पहरेदार अपनी लालटेन झुलाता रहता है, उसका साया एक ओर उसके साथ-साथ रहता है, वह कभी भी सोता नहीं। काश, मैं भी पहरेदार होता, सड़क पर सारी रात घूमता, अपने साये का लालटेन की रोशनी में पीछा करता रहता।

Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
What is the job of a watchman?
(a) To walk up and down the street all night for the safety of the people
(b) To supervise the people’s activities during nights
(c) To whistle during nights
(d) To save people from criminals during nights.
Answer:
(a) To walk up and down the street all night for the safety of the people

Question 2.
What does he carry in his hand?
(a) A whistle
(b) A torch
(c) A lantern
(d) A big stick.
Answer:
(c) A lantern

Question 3.
The Street lamp has been compared to a ………
(a) ship
(b) giant
(c) witch
(d) magician.
Answer:
(b) giant

Question 4.
The lane is dark and lonely because ………
(a) there is no street lamp there
(b) it is a holiday
(c) it is very cold
(d) it is night.
Answer:
(d) it is night.

Question 5.
What does the word ‘chasing in the extract mean?
(a) Running fast
(b) Moving backward
(c) Going after
(d) Staring at someone.
Answer:
(c) Going after

The Wonderful Words NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

The Wonderful Words 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.

1. Do not let a thought shrivel and die because ________________.
2. English is a _______________ with words that everyone can play.
3. One has to match _________________ .
4. Words are the _______________ of thought.

Аnswer:

1. you don’t know how to say it.
2. wonderful game.
3. the words to the brightest thoughts in one’s head.
4. food and dress.

Question 2.
In groups of four discuss the following lines and their meanings.

1. All that you do is match the words
To the brightest thoughts in your head

2. For many of the loveliest things
Have never yet been said

3. And everyone’s longing today to hear.
Some fresh and beautiful thing

4. But only words can free a thought.
From its prison behind your eyes

Аnswer:

1. You need to look for proper and accurate words to convey your thoughts beautifully.
2. It is wrong to think that all that was worth saying has already been said earlier. There are numerous lovely things waiting to be said.
3. If you have got some original and striking thing to say, you will find thousands of eager listeners.
4. Mind is a treasure house of wonderful ideas and plans. They are like captives in your head. Only proper words can liberate those thoughts from the prison.

The Wonderful Words Extra Questions and Answers

The Wonderful Words Extra Questions Very Short Answer Type 

Question 1.
Why did the poet say that “English is a wonderful game”?
Answer:
English is a wonderful game because we can play with words and frame them in such a way as to convey desired message.

Question 2.
Who can liberate thoughts from our mind?
Answer:
Words can liberate thoughts from our mind. Thoughts and ideas are being held captive in our mind.

Question 3.
What has not been said yet according to the poem?
Answer:
Many lovely things have not been said yet and they need to be conveyed in a beautiful way.

Question 4.
Where can we find a new surprise?
Answer:
We can find a marvelous new surprise in our mind.

The Wonderful Words Extra Questions Short Answer Type

Question 1.
Do you think words are the food and dress of thought? Give a reason to support your answer.
Answer:
Yes, words are the food and dress of our thoughts because without them thoughts have no identity and meaning. Only words can express our feelings which we can convey to others. Thoughts will remain captive in mind in the absence of words.

Question 2.
What does the poet say about human thoughts?
Answer:
The poet says that one must not let his thoughts die if he does not know how to express them. One should always express his thoughts with the help of appropriate words. One should always convey his feelings clearly and truly without least hesitation.

Question 3.
What does the poet tell you about the world of words? Do you agree with him?
Answer:
Words are wonderful means of communication with their use. We express our thoughts and feelings while speaking or writing English. You try to match the words to the thoughts in your head. Words are the food and dress of thought. They allow your thought to move out freely from the prison of mind. And there is no dearth of wonderful new ideas.

Question 4.
Why does Mary O’ Neill call English “a wonderful game’?
Answer:
Mary calls English a wonderful game because it is so interesting to find right words to put your thoughts properly and correctly. Mind is a factory for your lovely thoughts. You can free them from the prison of your mind through words. You can also dress them decently to impress the listener. Just possible your new idea may take the world by surprise.

The Wonderful Words Extra Questions Value Based Type

Question 1.
Justify the title The Wonderful Words’!
Answer:
The title of the poem is justifiable because the poet has given the importance of words which are vital in order to convey messages or thoughts. They are the best means to express thoughts and to take out them from our mind. In order to convey though in a beautiful way there is a need to look for proper and accurate words. Thousands of thoughts which are imprisoned in the mind can find way only through the magic of language. Hence, they are wonderful, amazing.

The Wonderful Words Extra Questions Extract Based Type

Directions (Q.Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

Extract 1

Words are the food and dress of thought They give it its body and swing And everyone’s longing today to hear Some fresh and beautiful thing But only words can free a thought From its prison behind your eyes May be your mind is holding now A marvelous new surprise!

Question 1.
What do people want to hear?
Answer:
People want to hear fresh and beautiful thoughts. They have a desire to hear such things.

Question 2.
What did the poet want to convey through this poem?
Answer:
The poet wants to convey the importance of expressing our thoughts with the help of appropriate words.

Question 3.
What does the poet want to say through “prison behind your eyes”?
Answer:
The poet wanted to refer to our mind. She said that only words have the power to liberate thoughts from our mind.

Question 4.
Give synonym for the word ‘prison’.
(a) House
(b) Jail
(c) Class
(d) Mind
Answer:
(b) Jail

Question 5.
Write antonym for the word ‘new’.
(a) Old
(b) Word
(c) Longing
(d) Surprise
Answer:
(a) Old

Question 6.
People always want
(a) to hear beautiful things
(b) to be sad
(c) to transform others
(d) to fight with others.
Answer:
(a) to hear beautiful things

Extract 2

Directions (Q.Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

Never let a thought shrivel and die For want of a way to say it For English is a wonderful game And all of you can play it. All that you do is match the words To the brightest thougths in your head So that they come out clear and true And handsomely groomed and fed- For many of the lovelist things Have never yet been said.

Question 1.
What kind of a language is English according to the poet?
Answer:
According to the poet, English is a wonderful language.

Question 2.
What is the poet not asking us to do?
Answer:
Poet is not asking us to let our thoughts die, she is asking us to say whatever we have in our mind.

Question 3.
What does the poet mean by ‘English is a wonderful game’ and all of you can play it?
Answer:
The poet here means that ‘English is a wonderful language and everybody can use this language.

Question 4.
Write the antonym for ‘wonderful’.
(a) Horrible
(b) Beautiful
(c) Graceful
(d) Scary
Answer:
(a) Horrible

Question 5.
Write the synonym ‘shrivel’.
(a) Shrink
(b) Shed
(c) Shave
(d) Sink
Answer:
(a) Shrink

Question 6.
Write the meaning for ‘prison behind your eyes’.
(a) Mind
(b) Eyes
(c) Brain
(d) Mouth
Answer:
(a) Mind

The Wonderful Words Summary in English

All people think as well as speak. It is God’s special gift to man. Every person speaks at least one language to express his thoughts.The poet advises us to master a language, at least, our mother tongue. We must not let a great or good thought die because we don’t know how to say it.English is a wonderful and rich language. One can express one’s thoughts in this language effectively. What we need is to look for proper words to put forth our ideas clearly. It is wrong to think that there are no lovely thoughts left to be expressed.Words are a wonderful medium to communicate. If you have some new and beautiful thing to say, everyone is willing to hear it.Every thought is like a prisoner in our mind. We can set that idea free with the help of words. It is just possible that the thought may be marvellous.

The Wonderful Words Summary in Hindi

सभी मनुष्य सोचते और बोलते हैं। यह परमात्मा की मानव को विशेष देन है। हर व्यक्ति कम से कम एक भाषा तो अपने विचार व्यक्त करने हेतु बोलता ही है।कवि हमें सलाह देता है कि हम कम से कम अपनी मातृभाषा में निपुणता हासिल कर लें। हमें अपने किसी महान या सुन्दर विचार को केवल इस कारण मरने नहीं देना चाहिये कि हम उसे प्रगट करने की शैली नहीं जानते। अंग्रेजी एक अद्भुत तथा समृद्ध भाषा है। व्यक्ति इस भाषा में अपने विचारों को प्रभावोत्पादक तरीके से व्यक्त कर सकता है। हमें जरूरत इस बात की होती है कि हम उसके लिये उपयुक्त शब्द खोज लें ताकि हमारी बात स्पष्ट हो जाये। यह सोचना गलत है कि अब कोई भी सुमधुर विचार कहने के लिये बचे ही नहीं।शब्द, संचार के अद्भुत साधन हैं। यदि आपको कोई नयी और सुन्दर बात कहनी है तो उसके लिये श्रोताओं की कमी नहीं है। हर विचार हमारे मस्तिष्क में एक कैदी की भाँति होता है। शब्दों के सहारे हम उस विचार को मुक्ति दे सकते हैं। नितान्त संभव है कि वह विचार बहुत उच्च कोटि का हो।

The Wonderful Words Hindi version of the poem with comprehension

1. Never let a thought shrivel and die
For want of a way to Say it
For English is a wonderful game
And all of you Can play it.
All that you do is match the words
To the brightest thoughts in your head
So that they come out clear and true
And handsomely groomed and fed –
For many of the loveliest things
Have never Jet been Said.

अपने किसी भी विचार को इस कारण मुरझाने या मरने मत दो क्योंकि तुम्हारे पास उन्हें कहने के लिये उपयुक्त तरीका नहीं है, या सही शब्दों का अभाव है। कारण यह कि अंग्रेजी ऐसा विस्मयकारी खेल है जिसे तुम सभी खेल सकते हो। तुम्हें बस यही करना है कि अपने मन के उत्कृष्ट विचारों को व्यक्त करने के लिये उपयुक्त शब्दों को खोज लो ताकि जब वे तुम्हारी कलम से निकलें तो स्पष्ट और सच्चे हों तथा उन्हें भलीभाँति पालिश किया गया हो और वे सारगर्भित हों क्योंकि असंख्य सुन्दरतम बातें या विचार अभी तक व्यक्त नहीं किये जा सके हैं।

Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
The poet asks us to think and find proper words to…………
(a) express our ideas clearly
(b) write a beautiful essay
(c) speak fluently
(d) reply the questions.
Answer:
(a) express our ideas clearly

Question 2.
How is English a wonderful game?
(a) It is liked by all
(b) It is rich in vocabulary
(c) It encourages people to express themselves
(d) It is, easily spoken.
Answer:
(b) It is rich in vocabulary

Question 3.
How can we play the game of words?
(a) By dividing the children into several groups
(b) By using our presence of mind and talent
(c) By looking for suitable words/phrases to express our ideas
(d) By learning more and more English words.
Answer:
(c) By looking for suitable words/phrases to express our ideas

Question 4.
According to the poet, a lot is left unsaid because of………
(a) man’s slackness
(b) lack of knowledge
(c) lack of courage
(d) lack of expression.
Answer:
(d) lack of expression.

Question 5.
What does the word ‘groomed” here mean?
(a) Made meaningful
(b) Polished
(c) Prepared
(d) Combed.
Answer:
(b) Polished

2. Words are the food and dress of thought
They give it its body and Suing
And everyone’s longing today to hear
Some fresh and beautiful thing
But only words can free a thought
From its prison behind your eyes
May be your mind is holding now
A marvellous new surprise.

शब्द ही विचारों का भोजन और वस्त्र या कलेवर होते हैं। शब्द ही विचारों को एक रूप और गति प्रदान करते हैं। हर व्यक्ति कुछ नया ताजा और सुन्दर कथन सुनने को लालायित है, पर केवल शब्द ही तुम्हारी आँखों के पीछे मस्तिष्क में बन्द विचारों को कैद से मुक्ति दिला सकते हैं। संभवत: तुम्हारे दिमाग में इस समय भी कोई अति सुन्दर नया विस्मयकारी विचार कुलबुला रहा हो।

Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
How are words related to ideas?
(a) Both words and ideas play important role in life
(b) Without ideas words are meaningless
(c) Every thought/idea is expressed in words
(d) With the increase in vocabulary our ideas increase.
Answer:
(c) Every thought/idea is expressed in words

Question 2.
What are the people always eager to hear?
(a) A good speaker
(b) A good story
(c) A good leader
(d) Devotional songs.
Answer:
(a) A good speaker

Question 3.
How are thoughts like prisoners?
(a) Thoughts are dependent on words
(b) Thoughts are shut-up in the prison house of the mind
(c) Thoughts cannot be expressed
(d) Thoughts always remain hidden.
Answer:
(b) Thoughts are shut-up in the prison house of the mind

Question 4.
What can liberate thoughts from the prison?
(a) Proper guidance
(b) Thinking habit
(c) Proper words
(d) Good listeners.
Answer:
(c) Proper words

Question 5.
What does the word “marvellous’ mean?
(a) Very good
(b) Very dull
(c) Very naughty
(d) Very labourious.
Answer:
(a) Very good

Where Do All the Teachers Go NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

Where Do All the Teachers Go 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 super or special human beings. So he wants to know where they go and what they do after the school hours.

(ii) What are the things normal people do that the poet talks about?
Аnswer:
Normal people return to their home, change their clothes, wash their faces and become fresh. They also rest for a while. Some of them go for shopping or help the children with their homework.

(iii) What does he imagine about
(a) where teachers live?
(b) what they do at home?
(c) the people with whom they live?
(d) their activities when they were children in school?
Аnswer:
(a) The boy imagines that teachers live in joint families.
(b) They wash their socks, change into pyjamas and then watch TV.
(c) They live with their parents.
(d) When they were at school going age, they too spelt the words incorrectly, chewed chocolates in the class and were punished.

(iv) Why does the poet wonder if teachers also do things that other people do?
Аnswer:
The boy regards his teachers as special persons. They are his ideals, perfect in every respect. So he wonders if they also do things that other people do.

(v) How does the poet plan to find out? What will he do once he finds out?
Аnswer:
The poet plans to get first hand information about his teacher. He plans to follow one of his teachers and find out what he/she does. Then he will record his findings in a poem for the benefit of other children.

Question 2.
What do you think these phrases from the poem mean?

• punished in the corner.
• leave their greens.

Аnswer:

• The teacher keeps an eye on all the students. In case he notices a boy eating chocolates in the classroom or making spelling mistakes, he asks the boy to stand in the corner as punishment.
• Some of the children don’t eat their lunch in full. They leave cooked green vegetables here and there or throw them into the dustbin.

Question 3.
What does the child think about his/her teacher?
Аnswer:
For the child, the teacher is an extraordinary or mysterious person.

Question 4.
What does he want to know about his teacher? Why?
Аnswer:
The child is inquisitive or curious to know about the routine of his teacher.

Question 5.
How does the child compare his own daily activities with that of his teacher?
Аnswer:
The child goes back home in the afternoon, changes his uniform, picks his nose, watches T.V. and lives with his parents.

Question 6.
What makes him envy his teacher?
Аnswer:
The child is mischievous. He spells the words wrongly. He is punished if he ever steals a chocolate. He scribbles on the desk and soils his jeans. His teacher is free from such an unpleasant life.

Question 7.
How does the child finally decide to observe his teacher’s activities at home?
Аnswer:
The child plans to follow his teacher to his home and find out what he does. He will then write it in a poem for all children to read and understand.

Where Do All the Teachers Go Extra Questions and Answers

Where Do All the Teachers Go Extra Questions Very Short Answer Type

Question 1.
What does the poet think about his/her teachers?
Аnswer:
The poet thinks that his teachers are not ordinary people. They are very special for him. His teachers are perfect and possess many qualities.

Question 2.
What did the poet want to know about his teachers?
Аnswer:
The poet wanted to know the schedule of his teachers and their routine after the school hours.

Question 3.
Why did the poet want to follow one of his teachers?
Answer:
The poet was curious to know about the daily routine of his teachers after the school hours so he wanted to follow one of his teachers.

Question 4.
What is the theme of the poem?
Answer:
The theme of the poem is to show the curiosity of a child to know about his/her teachers private life. For a small child, a teacher is not a simple person like others but a very special and ideal.

Where Do All the Teachers Go Extra Questions Short Answer Type 

Question 1.
How does an ordinary person live in a house?
Answer:
An ordinary person has-to wash his socks, wear pyjamas and live with his mother and Practice father in a house. They watch TV and clean their nose with the little finger.

Question 2.
What kind of mistakes kids commit during their childhood?
Answer:
Children lose their hymn books, leave green vegetables and throw them in a dustbin during their childhood. They also scribble on their desks tops and wear dirty clothes.

Question 3.
What does a little child think of his/her teacher? What does the child decide to explore?
Аnswer:
For a child a teacher is some important or special person. He cannot think of his/her teacher as an ordinary being. He becomes curious to know how his teacher lives in his house or spends his time or wears casual dress. He wonders whether the teacher has his parents or he too was once a school going child. He also wants to know whether the teacher was also naughty who made mistakes and was punished. He decides to find out the truth by going to the teacher’s home.

Question 4.
What is the mystery about the child’s school teacher? How does it plan to discover the truth?
Аnswer:
For a little kid his teacher is an ideal and mysterious person. He compares his own way of living with that of the teacher. He wants to know whether the teachers too live in houses, wash their socks and watch TV. Further if the teacher too used to make spelling mistakes, do mischief and was punished at school. The wondering child decides to go to the teacher’s home to discover how he lives. Then he plans to put all his information in a poem

Where Do All the Teachers Go Extra Questions Value Based Type

Question 1.
Do you think the poet considers his teachers to be like an ordinary man? Give reasons to support your answer.
Answer:
The poet does not think that his teachers are like ordinary people. He wonders whether his teachers live in their houses and wash their socks. He wonders if they wear pyjamas. The poet is not sure whether they watch TV and clean their nose with the little finger like other people.The poet wonders if his teachers live with their mother and father. He wonders if his teachers were punished for making mistakes.He thinks that his teachers have never lost their books. He thinks that his teachers are perfect human beings.

Where Do All the Teachers Go Extra Questions Extract Based Type

Extract 1

Directions (Q. Nos. 1 -6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

Where do all the teachers go When it’s four o’clock?
Do they live in houses And do they wash their socks?
Do they wear pyjamas And do they watch TV?
And do they pick their noses The same as you and me?

Question 1.
What did the poet ask himself?
Answer:
The poet asks himself whether his teachers behave like an ordinary person and lead a life like a simple person.

Question 2.
Do you think the poet was curious to know about his teachers? Give a reason to support your answer.
Answer:
Yes, the poet was curious to know about his teachers that’s why he kept asking many questions to himself.

Question 3.
What kind of comparisons being drawn by the poet?
Answer:
The poet compared his teachers with an ordinary man and wondered if teachers wear pyjamas and watch TV like common men.

Question 4.
Give synonym for the word ‘wash’.
(a) Clean
(b) Kind
(c) Good
(d) Select
Answer:
(a) Clean

Question 5.
What is the meaning of ‘pick their nose’?
(a) Remove the nose
(b) Use fingers to remove dirt from the nose
(c) Cut the nose
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(b) Use fingers to remove dirt from the nose

Question 6.
For the child his teacher is
(a) very cruel
(b) very talented
(c) very kind
(d) a special person
Answer:
(d) a special person

Extract 2

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

Do they live with other people Have they mums and dads?
And where they ever children And were they ever bad?
Did they ever, never spell right Did they ever make mistakes?
Were they punished in the corner If they pinched the chocolate flakes?

Question 1.
What kind of mistakes are being committed by students?
Answer:
The students can commit mistakes by writing wrong spellings and eating chocolates in the class.

Question 2.
Do you think the teachers were once children?
Answer:
Yes, the teachers were once children because everybody has to pass that stage to become an adult.

Question 3.
What kind of punishment is given to a student in a class?
Answer:
Teachers punish students by making them stand in the corner of a class.

Question 4.
Give one word substitute for a person, who teaches in a school.
(a) Student
(b) Gardene
(c) Driver
(d) Teacher
Answer:
(d) Teacher

Question 5.
Write synonym for the word ‘mistake’.
(a) Correct
(b) Error
(c) Pinch
(d) Bad
Answer:
(b) Error

Question 6.
Who are referred as ‘they’?
(a) Parents
(b) Children
(c) Teachers
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(c) Teachers

Where Do All the Teachers Go Summary in English

For a little child, his/her teacher is special, not an ordinary person. So he wonders where the teachers go after the school hours.He wants to know if they live in houses and also wash their clothes. He wonders if they feel relaxed at home, wear pyjamas and watch TV. He is also eager to know if the teachers have their parents at home, and if they too were naughty at school, spelt the words wrongly, ate chocolates in the class, and were told to stand in the corner as punishment. The child compares his own habits with those of the teachers in their childhood. They too must have lost their prayer book, wore dirty jeans and scribbled on the desktops.The child plans to follow his teacher to find out what he/she does at home. He will then record that in a poem. The teacher will read that poem to other children as a fun.

Where Do All the Teachers Go Summary in Hindi

एक छोटे बच्चे के लिये उसका शिक्षक कोई साधारण व्यक्ति नहीं, विशेष व्यक्ति होता है। उसे हैरानी होती है कि स्कूल की छुट्टी होने के पश्चात शिक्षक जाते कहाँ हैं।वह जानना चाहता है कि शिक्षक भी क्या घरों में रहते हैं तथा अपने वस्त्र स्वयं धोते हैं। वह सोच नहीं पाता कि क्या शिक्षक घर पर सहज हो जाते हैं, पैजामा पहन कर टी.वी. देखते हैं। वह यह जानना चाहता है कि क्या उनके भी माता-पिता घर पर होते हैं, क्या वे भी अपने विद्यार्थी जीवन में शैतानी करते थे, शब्द गलत लिखते थे, चाकलेट कक्षा में चबाते थे, तथा उन्हें दण्ड स्वरूप कक्षा के एक कोने में खड़ा कर दिया जाता था।बच्चा अपनी आदतों की तुलना शिक्षक के बचपन की आदतों से करता है। हो सकता है शिक्षक भी अपनी प्रार्थना पुस्तिका खो देते हों, गंदी जीन्स पहनते हों तथा डेस्क के ऊपर कुछ लकीरें खींचते हों। बच्चा योजना बनाता है कि वह शिक्षक के पीछे उसके घर तक जाकर उनकी गतिविधियों की जानकारी लेगा। फिर वह जानकारी को कविताबद्ध कर देगा। शिक्षक उस पुस्तक को मजा लेने के लिये दूसरे बच्चों को पढ़कर सुनायेगा।

Where Do All the Teachers Go Hindi version of the poem with comprehension

1. Where do all the teachers go
When it’s four o’clock?
Do they live in houses
And do they wash their socks?
Do they wear pujamas
And do they watch TV?
And do they pick their noses
The same as you and me?.

Word-Notes: Four o’clock-the time when the school breaks up for the day, Socks(here) clothes कपड़े। Pick their noses-clean their nose with the little finger ऊंगली से  नाक साफ करना।

बालक सोचता है कि स्कूल जब सायं 4 बजे बंद हो जाता है, तो उसके शिक्षक कहाँ चले जाते हैं? क्या वे सामान्य घरों में ही रहते हैं और अपने वस्त्र भी स्वयं धोते हैं? क्या वे कपड़े बदलकर पैजामा पहन लेते हैं और फिर आराम से टी वी देखते हैं? क्या वे भी उसी प्रकार से नाक साफ करते हैं जैसे आप और हम करते हैं?

Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
What is the significance of four o’ clock?
(a) The teachers go to the market
(b) The teachers give tuitions to their students
(c) The school closes for the day and the teachers go to their homes
(d) The school starts for second shift.
Answer:
(c) The school closes for the day and the teachers go to their homes

Question 2.
What is the child curious about?
(a) He wants to know how the teachers live at home
(b) He wants to know about the ways of the world
(c) He wants to know what teachers used to do as students
(d) He wants to know why teachers get angry.
Answer:
(a) He wants to know how the teachers live at home

Question 3.
For the child, his teacher is ……
(a) a special person
(b) very cruel
(c) very kind
(d) very talented.
Answer:
(a) a special person

Question 4.
What does the phrase pick their noses’ mean?
(a) Clean their noses with handkerchief
(b) Clean their noses with water
(c) Hurt their noses with sharp nails
(d) Clean their noses with the little finger.
Answer:
(d) Clean their noses with the little finger.

Question 5.
What does the word ‘watch’ mean here?
(a) To measure
(b) To see
(c) To supervise
(d) To control.
Answer:
(b) To see

2. Do they live with other people
Have they mums and dads?
And were they ever children
And were they ever bad?
Did they ever, never spell right
Did they ever make mistakes?
Were they punished in the corner
If they pinched the chocolate flakes?

Word-Notes: With other people-in a joint family संयुक्त परिवार। Mums and dads-parents, माता – पिता। Bad-naughty नटखट।

क्या शिक्षकगण अन्य व्यक्तियों की भाँति संयुक्त परिवार में अपने माता-पिता के साथ ही रहते हैं? क्या कभी वे भी बच्चे थे और साथ ही शैतान भी थे। क्या वे कभी शब्द लिखने में गलती भी किया करते थे? क्या कक्षा में बैठकर चाकलेट चबाने पर उन्हें दण्डस्वरूप एक कोने में खड़ा कर दिया जाता था?

Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
Who does they refer to here?
(a) Children
(b) Teachers
(c) Teachers and children
(d) Non-teaching staff of the school.
Answer:
(b) Teachers

Question 2.
The child wants to make sure whether his teacher also had………
(a) The same pleasant experience as a school boy
(b) The same unpleasant experience as a school boy
(c) a house to live in
(d) many classmates during his school days.
Answer:
(b) The same unpleasant experience as a school boy

Question 3.
The child in this poem seems to be……….
(a) sincere
(b) talkative
(c) naughty
(d) simple.
Answer:
(c) naughty

Question 4.
What does the expression “They pinched the chocolate-flakes’ mean?
(a) They ate chocolate
(b) They touched chocolate
(c) They stole chocolate
(d) They purchased chocolate.
Answer:
(a) They ate chocolate

Question 5.
Which of the following words means opposite to punished’?
(a) Given
(b) Praised
(c) Hurt
(d) Rewarded.
Answer:
(d) Rewarded.

3. Did they ever lose their hymn books
Did they ever leave their greens?
Did they scribble on the desktops
Did they wear old dirty jeans?
I’ll follow one back home today
I’ll find out what they do
Then I’ll put it in a poem
That they can read to you.

Word-Notes: Hymn books -a collection of devotional songs भजानों की पुस्तक। Leave their green-spread about cooked green vegetables, हरी सब्जियाँ फैलाना। scribble-scrawl घसीट कर लिखना। Follow-go after पीछे – पीछे जाना।

बालक हैरानी से सोचता है कि क्या उसके शिक्षक गण भी अपने विद्यार्थी जीवन में भजनमाला पुस्तक खो देते थे और क्या वे हरी सब्जियों को न खाकर इधर-उधर फेंक देते थे? क्या वे भी अपनी डेस्क पर कुछ शब्द खरोचकर लिख देते थे और क्या वे गंदी जीन्स पहनकर स्कूल जाते थे? मैं आज ही एक शिक्षक के पीछे-पीछे चुपके से उसके घर जाकर पता लगाऊँगा कि वे घर पर क्या करते हैं। फिर मैं उनके क्रियाकलापों को कविता में लिख दूँगा जिसे वे तुम्हें पढ़कर सुना देंगे।

Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
What are hymn books”?
(a) A collection of patriotic songs
(b) A collection of short stories
(c) A collection of folk songs
(d) A collection of devotional songs.
Answer:
(d) A collection of devotional songs.

Question 2.
What does the expression leave their greens’ mean?
(a) Spread about green vegetables
(b) Throw green vegetables on floor
(c) Buy green vegetables
(d) Eat green vegetables.
Answer:
(a) Spread about green vegetables

Question 3.
Which one of the following mistakes the child does not make?
(a) He makes spelling mistakes
(b) He scratches on the desk top
(c) He beats his classmates
(d) He soils his clothes.
Answer:
(c) He beats his classmates

Question 4.
What does the child finally decide?
(a) To follow his teacher
(b) To live with his teacher
(c) To study sincerely
(d) To leave all the bad habits.
Answer:
(a) To follow his teacher

Question 5.
What does the word ‘scribble’ mean?
(a) Cry
(b) Scrawl
(c) Jump
(d) Make dirty.
Answer:
(b) Scrawl

The Quarrel 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 bad mood

Question 2.
Read these lines from the poem.
(i) One thing led to another
(ii) The start of it was slight
(iii) The end of it was strong
(iv) The afternoon turned black
(v) Thumped me on the back
Discuss with your partner what these lines mean.
Answer:
(i) The fight continued, one after the other argument afternoon became unpleasant.
(ii) The cause behind the quarrel was a very minor issue.
(iii) The quarrel ended on a very bitter note.
(iv) The quarrel spoiled their mood and the afternoon became unpleasant.
(v) Patted on the back in a friendly manner.

Question 3.
Describe a recent quarrel that you have had with your brother, sister or friend. How did it start? What did you quarrel about? How did it end?
Answer:
My sister is my best friend and helps me solve all my problems. But one day, we had an argument when I told her to do my homework as I was feeling lethargic.She told me to do it myself. We continued with our fight and did not talk to each other for 5 days. I told my mother about the fight. My mother said that it was my mistake and I should apologise. I approached my sister and resolved the issue by saying sorry.

The Quarrel Extra Questions and Answers

The Quarrel Extra Questions Very Short Answer Type 

Question 1.
What was the reason behind the quarrel?
Answer:
They were fighting over a minor issue which the poet could not even remember.

Question 2.
Who took the initiative to resolve the matter?
Answer:
The poet’s brother took the initiative to resolve the matter and approached the poet.

Question 3.
Why did the afternoon turn out to be black?
Answer:
The afternoon turned out to be black because the poet and her brother were in a bad mood.

The Quarrel Extra Questions Short Answer Type 

Question 1.
Why did the quarrel continue till afternoon?
Answer:
The quarrel continued till the afternoon because they blamed each other for the fight. The brother insisted that he was right while the poet said her brother was wrong. The afternoon turned out to be unpleasant.

Question 2.
‘Oh! come along’! we can’t go on all night’.
Who said the above lines and why?
Answer:
The poet’s brother said the above lines because they had a fight and in order to resolve the matter he said the above lines.

Question 3.
Describe a recent quarrel that you have had with your brother, sister or friend. How did it start? What did you quarrel about? How did it end?
Аnswers:
Somesh is my best friend. But one day our relationship turned sour suddenly. He did not come to my birthday party. I lost temper, so did he. He remained tense and unhappy for a couple of days. Both of us were eager to patch up. And we did it in a dramatic manner. We came face to face in the school tuck shop. We shook hands, felt sorry and promised to renew our friendship as earlier.

The Quarrel Extra Questions Value Based Type

Question 1.
Why one should not continue with a quarrel?
Answer:
A quarrel should not continue for a long because it is always a harm for a relationship. It may create misunderstandings which may lead to an end of a good relation. It is preferable to find a solution and to bring a quarrel to an end.

Question 2.
What was the quarrel about between the brother and his sister? How did they become friendly again?
Answer:
It is common for brothers and sisters to quarrel. Many a time they don’t know the point of dispute. But their quarrel does not last long. One day, the narrator quarrelled with her brother for no valid reason. Both stuck firmly to their claim of being right. They began to hate each other. But that very afternoon the brother took the initiative and admitted his mistake. Thus they patched up and forgot their bitterness.

The Quarrel Extra Questions Extract Based Type

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

I quarrelled with my brother
I don’t know what about,
One thing led another
And somehow we fell out.
The start of it was slight,
The end of it was strong,
He said he was right,
I knew he was wrong!

Question 1.
Who quarrelled with his/her brother in the above lines?
Answer:
The poet quarrelled with her brother in the above mentioned lines.

Question 2.
What led to the fight?
Answer:
The poet could not remember the reason behind the fight. One argument after the other led to the fight. The issue was minor only.

Question 3.
Who said he was right in the given lines?
Answer:
The poet’s brother said he was right in the given lines.

Question 4.
Write synonym for the word ‘slight’.
(a) Major
(b) Huge
(c) Fight
(d) Minor
Answer:
(d) Minor

Question 5.
Give antonym for the word ‘strong’.
(a) Tough
(b) Weak
(c) Start
(d) End
Answer:
(b) Weak

Question 6.
Meaning of the word ‘fell out’ will be
(a) to fall down
(b) to jump
(c) to quarrel
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(c) to quarrel

The Quarrel Summary in English

One day the sister quarrelled with her brother. The reason was very petty. But they shouted at each other. The quarrel was mild at first. But it became strong in the end. Both claimed that they were right. They began to hate each other. They did not talk to each other till evening. Then suddenly the brother realised his mistake. He decided to make up with the narrator. He walked up to her, and patted on her back. He suggested that they should patch up. He admitted that he was at fault. The narrator also forgot and forgave him.

The Quarrel Summary in Hindi

एक दिन बहन अपने भाई से झगड़ा कर बैठी। कारण बहुत छोटा-सा था। पर वे दोनों एक-दूसरे पर गरजने लगे। झगड़ा प्रारंभ में तो बहुत हल्का-फुल्का था। पर अंत में वह प्रबल हो गया। दोनों ने दावा किया कि वही सही है। वे दोनों एक दूसरे से नफरत करने लगे। उन्होंने शाम तक परस्पर बात नहीं की। फिर सहसा भाई को महसूस हुआ कि गलती उसकी थी। उसने अपनी बहन से समझौता करने का निर्णय ले लिया। वह उसके पास गया तथा उसके कधे को थपथपाया। उसने कहा चलो हम लोग गुस्सा थूक कर पुन: दोस्ती कर लें। उसने स्वीकार कर लिया कि गलती उसी की थी। बहन ने भी झगड़ा भुला दिया तथा भाई को क्षमा कर दिया।

The Quarrel Hindi version of the poem with comprehension

1. I quarrelled with my brother
I don’t know what about,
One thing led to another
And somehow we fell out.
The start of it was slight,
The end of it was strong,
He said he was right
I knew he was wrong.

मेरा झगड़ा अपने भाई के साथ हो गया, याद नहीं आता कि कारण क्या था। पर वाद-विवाद बढ़ता गया और हमारे बीच मनमुटाव हो गया। झगड़े का कारण या प्रारम्भ तो तुच्छ था, पर उसका अंत गंभीर हो गया। वह कहता रहा कि उसकी बात सही है, मैं जानती थी कि वह गलत बोल रहा है।

Now read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
The poet had a quarrel with her…….
(a) friend
(b) brother
(c) sister
(d) classmate.
Аnswer:
(b) brother

Question 2.
What made them fall Out?
(a) Some petty issue
(b) Some grave issue
(c) Some unknown reason
(d) Their quarrelsome nature.
Аnswer:
(a) Some petty issue

Question 3.
Why did the quarrel take a serious turn?
(a) There was no one in the house except these two
(b) Both were quarrelsome by nature
(c) Neither offered a compromise
(d) No one came to settle their dispute.
Аnswer:
(c) Neither offered a compromise

Question 4.
What was the result of the quarrel?
(a) Both left the house
(b) Both became tense
(c) Both stopped reading together
(d) Both became cool.
Аnswer:
(b) Both became tense

Question 5.
Which phrase means the same as to ‘quarrel’?
(a) Led to
(b) Start of
(c) End of
(d) Fall out.
Аnswer:
(d) Fall out.

2. We hated one another
The afternoon turned black.
Then suddenly my brother
Thumped me on the back,
And said, “Oh, come along
We can’t go on all night
I was in the wrong.”
So he was in the right.

हम एक-दूसरे से घृणा करने लगे। पर दोपहर बाद का समय तो बहुत बुरा या उदासी पूर्ण हो गया। तभी अचानक मेरा भाई आया और उसने मेरी पीठ थपथपाई। वह बोला, ‘अरे, चलो, चलते हैं। हम इस प्रकार से सारी रात तो झगड़े में नहीं बिता सकते। मैं मान लेता हूँ कि मैं गलत था।’ इस प्रकार से वह सही हो गया, उसने गलती जो मान ली थी।

Now read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
What does ‘We’ here refer to?
(a) The neighbourhood children
(b) The School children
(c) Brother and sister
(d) People in general.
Answer:
(c) Brother and sister

Question 2.
Explain The afternoon turned black.
(a) After the quarrel, both realised their mistake
(b) After the quarrel, both became tense and remorseful
(c) They were quarrelling in the afternoon
(d) In the afternoon they decided not to quarrel again.
Answer:
(b) After the quarrel, both became tense and remorseful

Question 3.
The quarrel finally ended when
(a) the brother went up to his sister, apologised and offered to compromise
(b) their parents came from the market
(c) the sister offered to compromise
(d) their grandparents taught them a lesson.
Answer:
(a) the brother went up to his sister, apologised and offered to compromise

Question 4.
What lesson did they possibly learn?
(a) They should work hard instead of quarrelling
(b) It was interesting to quarrel over little issue
(c) It was futile to quarrel over something too small
(d) Their quarrel would bring bad name too them.
Answer:
(c) It was futile to quarrel over something too small

Question 5.
What does the phrase in the extract ‘turned black’ mean here?
(a) Became pleasant
(b) Became unpleasant
(c) Became enemy
(d) Became rude.
Answer:
(b) Became unpleasant

The Kite 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 arms raised over one’s head.
Dip :Put or let something down quickly or briefly in or into (liquid).
Snaps: Break suddenly and completely, typically with a sharp cracking sound.
Soars: Fly or rise high in the air.
Climbs: Go or come up a (slope or staircase); ascend. .
Rides: Sit on and control the movement of something.
Pulls: Exert force on (someone or something) so as to cause movement towards oneself.
Falls: Move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control.

Question 2.
Read these lines from the poem.
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail
The movement of the tailless kite is compared to a ship with a sail. This is called a simile. Can you suggest what or who the following actions may be compared to?
He runs like ………………. He eats like ……………….
She sings like ………………. It shines like ……………….
It flies like ……………….
Answer:
(i) He runs like a cheetah.
(ii) He eats like a bird.
(iii) She sings like a nightingale.
(iv) It shines like a star.
(v) It flies like a kite.

Question 3.
Try to make a kite with your friends. Collect the things required such as colour paper/ news¬paper, thread, glue, a thin stick that can be bent.
After making the kite see if you can fly it.
Answer:
Do it yourself.

The Kite Extra Questions and Answers

The Kite Extra Questions Very Short Answer Type 

Question 1
How does the kite look in the sky?
Answer:
The kite looked bright in the clear blue sky.

Question 2.
When does the kite take rest?
Answer:
The kite seems to take rest when the wind falls. It waits for the wind to blow so that it can fly again

Question 3.
What happens to the thread when it gets loose?
Answer:
The master of the kite, who controls it, rolls back the thread when it gets loose.

Question 4.
When does the kite lose its beauty?
Answer:
The kite loses its beauty and shine when it gets trapped in the branches of a tree.

The Kite Extra Questions Short Answer Type 

Question 1.
Describe the upward movement of a kite.
Answer:
A new kite looks very bright in the blue sky. The kite jumps in the air and moves up in the sky. It shakes its tail with a noise. It soars high like a ship in the air. It moves upward in the air as a ship rides in the strong wave of the sea.

Question 2.
What happend when the kite get trapped in a tree
Answer:
The kite looked dull after it was trapped in a tree. It fluttered when its string was caught in the tree branches. The master of the kite could no longer control the kite and its string. The kite could no longer move upward in the air.

The Kite Extra Questions Extract Based Type

Extract 1

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

How bright on the blue
Is a kite when it’s new!
With a dive and a dip
It snaps its tail
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail. .

Question 1.
Who makes sharp sound with its tail?
Answer:
The kite makes the sharp sound with its tail while moving in the air.

Question 2.
What do you mean by the line, “Then soars like a ship”?
Answer:
The poet has compared the movement of a kite with a ship with only one sail with the help of the line.

Question 3.
What has the kite been compared to?
Answer:
The kite has been compared to ship.

Question 4.
Find the antonym of the word ‘bright’.
(a) Dark
(b) Shine
(c) Movement
(d) Clear
Answer:
(a) Dark

Question 5.
Give the synonym for the word ‘dive’.
(a) Deep
(b) Dull
(c) Beat
(d) Plunge
Answer:
(d) Plunge

Question 6.
Give one word substitute for a piece of material extended on a mast to catch the wind and propel a boat or ship or other vessel.
(a) Captain
(b) Sail
(c) Raincoat
(d) Cloth
Answer:
(b) Sail

Extract 2

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

Of wind it rides,
Climbs to the crest ’ Of a gust and pulls,
Then seems to rest
As wind falls.
When string goes slack
You wind it back.

Question 1.
What happened to the string attached to the kite?
Answer:
The string attached with the kite gets lose and the kite could not move upward.

Question 2.
Who tries to roll back the thread of the kite?
Answer:
The master of the kite rolls back the thread when it gets lose. The master controls the kite.

Question 3.
When does the kite climb?
Answer:
The kite climbs after going up and down.

Question 4.
Write antonym for the word ‘puli’.
(a) Climb
(b) Increase
(c)Jump
(d) Push
Answer:
(d) Push

The Kite Summary in English

A new kite looks bright when the sky is clear and blue. The kite takes a plunge and bends sideways. Its tail produces a cracking noise. Then suddenly the kite rises high like a ship with a sail cloth. The kite has only one sail of string. It rides Over the strong winds and climbs to their top like a ship. It pulls forward when the wind is strong. But as the wind falls, it also rests for a while.When the thread tied to the kite becomes loose, the flier rolls the thread back. Then again the flier runs until the kite is filled with wind and goes up.On a clear blue sky, the new kite shines. But it gets torn badly when it flaps on the tree top.

The Kite Summary in Hindi

एक नयी पतंग बहुत सुन्दर लगती है जब आकाश साफ और नीला होता है। पतंग गोता मारती है तथा दोनों ओर झुक जाती है। उसकी पूँछ से फर्राहट की आवाज निकलती है। फिर अचानक पतंग किसी पाल चालित जलपोत की भाँति ऊपर उठ जाती है। पतंग के पास तो एक ही पाल होता है, अपनी डोर का। वह तेज पवन के ऊपर सवार हो जाती है तथा जलपोत की भाँति उस पवन की लहर पर चढ़ जाती है। जब पवन तेज होता है, पतंग आगे की ओर खींचती है। पर जब पवन मंद पड़ जाता है तो पतंग भी कुछ देर के लिये विश्राम कर लेती है।
जब पतंग से बँधी हुई डोर ढीली पड़ जाती है, तो उड़ाने वाला उस डोर को चरखी में लपेट लेता है। फिर पुन: वह व्यक्ति पतंग को लेकर भागता है जब तक उसमें हवा नहीं भर जाती और वह ऊपर नहीं उठ जाती। साफ नीले आकाश में नयी पतंग शानदार दिखाई देती है। पर वह बुरी तरह से फट जाती है जब पेड़ के शिखर पर फंस कर वह फड़फड़ाती है।

The Kite Hindi version of the poem with comprehension

1. How bright on the blue
Is a kite when its new!
With a dive and a dip
It Snaps its tail
Then soars like a ship
With only a Sail

नीले आकाश में नयी पतंग बहुत चमकदार दिखती है। वह गोते और कलाबाजियों के साथ अपनी पूँछ को फर्राती है। फिर किसी जलपोत की भाँति केवल एक डोर के साथ वह ऊपर उठ जाती है।

Now read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
When does the kite look bright?
(a) When it is a sunny day
(b) When it flies high in the sky
(c) When it is new
(d) When the weather is calm.
Answer:
(c) When it is new

Question 2.
Which one of the following is not associated with the kite’s movement?
(a) The kite takes a plunge
(b) The kite is bright
(c) The kite bends sideways
(d) The kite rises in the air.
Answer:
(b) The kite is bright

Question 3.
What is the kite compared to?
(a) To a tree
(b) To a boat
(c) To a sail
(d) To a ship.
Answer:
(d) To a ship.

Question 4.
Who is the poet of this poem?
(a) Harry Behn
(b) Lorraine M. Halli
(c) Eleanor Farjeon
(d) E-yeh-Shure.
Answer:
(a) Harry Behn

Question 5.
What does the word ‘soars’ in the above extract mean?
(a) Falls
(b) Bends
(c) Rises
(d) Flies.
Answer:
(c) Rises

2. As over tides
Of wind it rides.
Climbs to the crest
Of a gust and pulls,
Then seems to rest
As wind falls.
When string goes slack
You wind it back.

पतंग जलपोत की भाँति आकाश में तैरती है। जैसे जहाज ऊँची लहर पर सवारी करता है, उसकी चोटी पर चढ़ जाता है, उसी प्रकार पतंग भी हवा के तेज झोंकों पर सवार होकर आगे की ओर खींचती है। फिर जब पवन थम जाता है तो पतंग भी जैसे विश्राम कर लेती है, उसकी डोर जब ढीली पड़ जाती है तो आप उसे चरखी में लपेट लेते हैं।

Now read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
The kite rides over ……….
(a) high wind
(b) high wall
(c) tall trees
(d) tides.
Answer:
(a) high wind

Question 2.
What happens to the kite all of a sudden?
(a) It becomes listless
(b) It becomes very active
(c) It is torn by strong wind
(d) It becomes ‘detached from the string.
Answer:
(a) It becomes listless

Question 3.
When does the kite lose all its energy?
(a) When the wind changes its direction
(b) When it is wet
(c) When the wind falls
(d) When the wind rises.
Answer:
(c) When the wind falls

Question 4.
What does the kite flier do in the last?
(a) He goes to take rest
(b) He winds the string back on the charkhi
(c) He buys another kite
(d) He goes to another place.
Answer:
(b) He winds the string back on the charkhi

Question 5.
Which of the following words mean the same as ‘stormy wind”?
(a) Tides
(b) Rides
(c) Rest
(d) Gust.
Answer:
(d) Gust.

3. And run until
A new breeze blows
And its wings fill
And up it goes!
How bright on the blue
Is a kite when it’s new!
But a raggeder thing
You never will see
When it flaps on a string
In the top of a tree.

और फिर आप उस समय तक दौड़ते रहते हैं जब तक नयी मंद हवा नहीं चलने लगती। पतंग के पंखों में हवा भर जाती है और वह ऊपर उठ जाती है।

साफ नीले आकाश में नयी पतंग कितनी शानदार लगती है। पर इससे अधिक बदहाल आपको कोई चीज नहीं दिखेगी जब यह किसी वृक्ष की चोटी में फंसकर एक धागे से बँधी फड़फड़ाती है।

Now read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:

Question 1.
When does the flier have to run?
(a) When the wind is strong
(b) When the wind falls
(c) When the kite is detached from the string
(d) When there is a tough competition.
Answer:
(b) When the wind falls

Question 2.
Why does the flier have to run?
(a) So that the kite rises again with the help of the wind
(b) So that kite may not be torn
(c) So that he wins the competition
(d) So that he may go with the kite.
Answer:
(a) So that the kite rises again with the help of the wind

Question 3.
‘And its wings fill’. What do the ‘wings’ bring to your mind?
(a) Sails of a ship
(b) Tides
(c) Crest
(d) Strings.
Answer:
(a) Sails of a ship

Question 4.
When does the kite lose all its glory?
(a) When it is torn
(b) When it is detached from the string
(c) When it becomes old
(d) When it settles on the tree top and flutters to free itself.
Answer:
(d) When it settles on the tree top and flutters to free itself.

Question 5.
Which word means the same as “in a very bad shape, torn’.
(a) String
(b) Ragged
(c) Bright
(d) Flap.
Answer:
(b) Ragged

A House, A Home 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 has …………..
(i) hard bricks, stone and wood.
(ii) window glass, a yard, chimneys, tile floors, doors and a roof.
(iii) loving and caring parents, brothers and sisters.
(iv) family members who care for each other without any selfish motives.

Question 2.
Now complete these sentences about your house and home.
(i) My house is
(ii) The best thing about my home is
Answer:
(i) made up of bricks, marbles and tiles. It has beautiful windows made up of glass with a balcony and a roof.
(ii) that all of us understand and help each other in any distress. We live together peacefully and take out time for each other. We care for each other.

A House, A Home Extra Questions and Answers

A House, A Home Extra Questions Very Short Answer Type 

Question 1.
Who all are parts of a family?
Answer:
Parents, sisters and brothers are parts of family. They stand together in all ups and downs in life.

Question 2.
Define a house.
Answer:
A house is a non-living structure made up of bricks, stones and woods. It consists of windows, doors and a yard.

A House, A Home Extra Questions Short Answer Type  

Question 1.
Differentiate between a house and a home on the basis of the poem.
Answer:
A house is a structure made up of bricks and stones. It has windows, doors, chimneys and a roof. On the other hand, a home is a place where family members live together selflessly.
They love and care for each other.

Question 2.
What is the basic idea of the poet?
Answer:
The basic idea of the poet in the poem ‘A House, A Home’ is to show the importance of a home over a house. While doing this she compared a house with a home. According to her, a house is just an infrastructure which is built up of bricks, stones and woods.

There may be windows, tile floors, stucco and lots of doors but it is of no use until it is made a home. A home, according to the poet can be made by a family of father, mother, sister and brother who cares and love each other without any selfish interest. They share and are together in each other’s happiness and sorrow.

A House, A Home Extra Questions Value Based Type

Question 1.
Why family plays an important role in a home?
Answer:
A home becomes a home due to the presence of a family which consists of father, mother, brothers and sisters.
They do unselfish acts and takes care of each other in happy and mourn days. If there will be no family then there will not be any home.

A House, A Home Extra Questions Extract Based Type

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

Extract 1

What is a house?
Answer:
It’s brick and stone and wood that’s hard.
Some window glass and perhaps a yard.
It’s eaves and chimneys and tile floors
and stucco and roof and lots of doors.

Question 1.
Name the poem and the poet of the above lines.
Answer:
The above lines have been taken from the poem ‘A House, A Home’, written by Lorraine M Halli.

Question 2.
What is a house, according to the poet?
Answer:
A house is just a structure made up of bricks, stones and woods, according to the poet.

Question 3.
What is a house made of?
Answer:
A house is made of bricks, stones and woods.

Question 4.
Find synonym for the word ‘perhaps’.
(a) Probably
(b) Exactly
(c) Softly
(d) Swiftly
Answer:
(a) Probably

Question 5.
A house consists of ……………..
(a) people
(b) family
(c) animals
(d) doors and windows
Answer:
(d) doors and windows

Question 6.
Bricks, wood and stones are used to make
(a) school
(b) house
(c) home
(d) building
Answer:
(b) house

Directions (Q. Nos. 1 -6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

Extract 2

What is a home?
It’s loving and family and doing for others.
It’s brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers
Its unselfish acts and kindly sharing
and showing your loved ones
you’re always caring.

Question 1.
From where the above lines, have been taken. Name the poet and the poem.
Answer:
The above lines have been taken from the poem ‘A House, A Home’ written by Lorraine M Halli.

Question 2.
What is a home, according to the poet?
Answer:
A home is where a family lives lovingly and easily, according to the poet.

Question 3.
Who all live in a home?
Answer:
Brothers, sisters, mother and father live in a home.

Question 4.
Find the synonym for the word ‘loving’.
(a) Adorable
(b) Kind
(c) Hateful
(d) Sweet
Answer:
(a) Adorable

Question 5.
Mother, father, sister and brother make and completes a
(a) house
(b) building
(c) home
(d) store
Answer:
(b) building

Question 6.
A house is measured in
(a) yards
(b) centimetres
(c) kilometres
(d) miles
Answer:
(a) yards

A House, A Home Summary in English

A house and a home are not the same thing. They differ in many ways. A house is just a set of rooms made of brick and stone, wood and glass. It has an open ground, tile floors, cement plaster on the walls, windows and doors. But it is a lifeless structure.

A home is a living unit. It means a family, a set of members. It has parents and children. They are bonded with ties of love and respect. They take care of each other. They share each other’s joy and sorrow. They work selflessly and co-operate to meet their basic needs.

A House, A Home Summary in Hindi

घर और गृह समानार्थी शब्द नहीं हैं। उनमें कई प्रकार के अन्तर हैं। घर तो कमरों का सेट होता है जो ईट, पत्थर, लकड़ी तथा काँच से बनाया जाता है। इसमें एक खुला आँगन होता है, टाइल लगे फर्श होते हैं, दीवारों पर सीमेन्ट का प्लास्टर होता है, खिड़की तथा दरवाजे होते हैं। पर यह एक निजीव ढाँचा होता है।

गृह एक जीवंत इकाई को कहते हैं। इसका अर्थ होता है एक परिवार और उसके सदस्य। उसमें माता-पिता तथा बच्चे होते हैं। वे प्यार तथा आदर के धागों से जुड़े होते हैं। वे एक-दूसरे की भलाई की चिन्ता करते हैं, एक-दूसरे के सुख-दुख को बाँटते हैं। वे नि:स्वार्थ भाव से काम करते हैं और अपनी मूलभूत जरूरतें पूरी करने के लिये एक-दूसरे का सहयोग करते हैं।

A House, A Home Hindi Version of the Poem with Comprehension

1. What is Cal house?
It’s brick and Stone
and Wood that’s hard.
Some window glass
and perhaps a yard.
It’s eaves and chimneys
and title floors
and stucco and roof
and lots of doors.

घर किसे कहते हैं? यह तो ईट और पत्थर से बना ढाँचा होता है, उसमें कठोर इमारती लकड़ी लगाई जाती है। कुछ काँच लगी खिड़कियाँ होती हैं और शायद एक आँगन होता है। उसमें नीचे को लटकती हुई ओरियाँ और धुआँ निकालने के लिये चिमनियाँ होती हैं, उसमें फर्श पर टाइलें लगी होती हैं, दीवारों पर चूना या सीमेंट का पलस्तर होता है, एक छत होती है और कई दरवाजे होते हैं।

Questions:
(a) What is a house usually made of?
(b) What is the use of windows and doors?
(c) What is eaves?
(d) What purpose do chimneys serve?
(e) What does the word “stucco’ mean?

Аnswers:
(a) Houses are nowadays usually made of bricks and stones, cement and mortar.
(b) The windows give us light and fresh air. The doors give us security and also passage to move in and out.
(c) Eaves is the overhanging edge of a roof.
(d) Chimneys are made to carry off kitchen smoke into the sky.
(e) ‘Stucco’ means ‘a fine plaster or cement’.

2. What is a home?
It’s loving and family
and doing for others.
It’s brothers and sisters
and fathers and mothers.
It’s unselfish acts
and kindly sharing
and showing your loved ones
You’re always caring.

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 spring, the banyan tree_____________________________________________ and
__________________________________________ would come there.
5.The banyan tree served the boy as a____________________________________________ .
6.The young boy spent his afternoons in the tree____________________________________

Ans.

1. the old man was not strong enough to climb it
2.it found that the boy carried no catapult or air/gun in his hand
3.became bold enough to take pieces of food from his hand
4.was full of small red figs, birds of all kinds
5reading room where he had made a rough platform to sit and read books
6.leaning against the tree, reading story books,

B.Answer the following questions.

1.“It was to be a battle of champions.” (8)
(i)What qualities did the two champions have? Pick out words and phrases from the paragraph above this line in the text and write them down.
Mongoose                                                          Cobm

(a)________________        (a) ______________

(b)_______________            (b) ______________

(c)_______________             (r) ______________

(ii)What did the cobra and the mongoose do, to show their readiness for the fight?

Ans. The cobra produced a hissing sound to challenge the mongoose to a fight. It raised three feet of its body off the ground. It spread its broad hood. The mongoose bushed its tail. The long hair on its back also stood up.

2. Who were the other two spectators? What did they do? (Did they watch, or did they join in the fight?) (10)

Ans. In addition to the narrator, the two other onlookers of the fight were a myna and a wild crow. First of all they sat on the cactus plant to watch the outcome of the fight. In the end, they took part in the game. Both tried to pick up the cobra for their meal.

The crow got bitten and died. The mongoose dragged the snake away into the bushes. The myna also flew away.

3. Read the descriptions below of what the snake did and what the mongoose did. Arrange their actions in the proper order. (11, 16)

4.(i) What happened to the crow in the end? (16)
(ii) What did the myna do finally? (17)

Ans. (i) In the end, the crow got bitten by the cobra and it fell dead.
(ii) The myna flew to the ground, looked into the bushes, gave a shrill cry and flew away.

Working With Language  (Page 133)

1.The word ‘round’ usually means a kind of shape. What is its meaning in the story?

2. Find five words in the following paragraph, which are generally associated with trees. But here, they have been used differently. Underline the words. Hari leavesfor work at nine every morning. He works in the local branchof the firm of which his uncle is the owner. Hari’s success is really the fruit of his own labour. He is happy, but he has a small problem. The rootcause of his problem is a stray dog near his office. The dog welcomes Hari with a loud barkevery day.

Ans.

1. The word ‘round’ in the story means ‘the second course of a fight’.
2.leaves, branch, fruit, root, bark.

B.The words in the box are all words that describe movement. Use them to fill in the blanks in the sentences below.

dived      gliding        sprang      darting

whipped…back        delving

1.When he began to trust me, the squirrel began_______________________ into my pock­ets for morsels of cake.
2. saw a cobra______________ out of a clump of cactus.
3.The snake hissed, his forked tongue______________________ in and out.
4.When the cobra tried to bite it, the mongoose________________________ aside.
5.The snake _________________  his head ________________  to strike at the crow.
6.The birds __________________ at the snake.

Ans. 1.delving / to delve
2.gliding
3.darting / darted                                                                            /
4.sprang
5.whipped, back
6.dived

C. Find words in the story, which show things striking violently against each other.

1. The cobra struck the crow, his snout th___________ ing against its body. (15)
2.The crow and the myna c _ ll_________ in mid-air. (13) ‘
3.The birds dived at the snake, but b____________ d into each other instead (14)

Ans.
1. thudding
2.collided
3.bumped

D. Look at these sentences.

‘Would’ tells us what the author used to do.                                                         Could’ tells us what the author was usually able to do. or what used to happen.                                                                                                                    grandfather is now not able to do.

Choose would and could to replace the italicised words in the following sentences.

Grandfather says, in the old days,

1.elephants were able to fly in the sky, like clouds. They were also able to change their shapes. They used to fly behind clouds and frighten them. People used to look up at the sky in wonder.

2.because there was no electricity, he used to get up with the sun, and he used to go to bed with the sun, like the birds.

3.like the owl, he was able to see quite well in the dark. He was able to tell who was coming by listening to their footsteps.

Ans.

1. elephants could fly in the sky, like clouds. They could also change their shapes. They would fly behind clouds and frighten them. People would look up at the sky in wonder.

2.because there was no electricity, he would get up with sun and he would go to bed with the sun, like the birds.

3.like the owl, he could see quite well in the dark. He could tell who was coming by listening to their footsteps.

Speaking    (Page 135)

Look at these sentences.

• The tree was older than Grandfather.
• Grandfather was sixty-five years old. ‘

How old was the tree? Can you guess?

• The tree was as old as Dehradun itself?

Suppose Dehra Dun is 300 years old. How old is the tree?

When two things are the same in some way, we use as…as.

Here is another set of examples.

• Mr Sinha is 160 centimetres tall.                                                .Mr Gupta is 180 centimetres tall.
• Mrs Gupta is 160 centimetres tall.

Mrs Gupta is as tall as Mr Sinha.

Use the words in the box to speak about the people and the things below, using as., .as or -erthan

       tall – taller cold – colder hot – hotter strong – stronger short – shorter

(Notice that in the word ‘hot’, the letter ‘t’ is doubled when -er is added.)

(i) Shimla is as cold as Gangtok.
(ii) Shimla or Gangtok is not so cold as Srinagar,
(iii)Shimla is not colder than Srinagar.

Writing   (Page 138)

Read again the paragraphs of the story in which the author describes the banyan tree, and what he used to do there. Is there a place in your house, or in your grandparents’ or uncles’ or aunts’ houses, that you especially like? Write a short paragraph about it saying.

• where it is      • what you do there      • why you like it

You may instead write about a place you dislike or are afraid of.

Ans.                                                     My Favourite Place

My favourite place in the house is either the balcony or the cemented platform built round the stem of the peepal tree. I use to sit in the balcony to enjoy the sunshine on winter days and the cool breeze on summer mornings. I learn my lessons and even do my homework there. I like it because it is an isolated, quiet and open place.

MORE QUESTIONS SOLVED

I.SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. Why did the speaker find the old banyan tree exclusively his own?

Ans. The old banyan tree became the narrator’s own property because his grandfather was too old to climb it. ‘

2. What did the speaker do while hiding himself in the banyan tree branches?
Ans. The author used to read storybooks and watch the world below.

3. When did the banyan tree become a noisy place?
Ans. The banyan tree became the noisiest place in the garden during the fig season.

4. Where did the author usually spend his afternoons?
Ans. The author usually spent his afternoons on the platform he had built halfway up the tree.

5. What exciting scene did the author enjoy from his platform in the banyan tree?
Ans. The author enjoyed the fight between a mongoose and a cobra, a battle of two champions.

6. What trick did the mongoose apply to overpower and kill the cobra?
Ans. He first bit the snake twice on the back. When the cobra was tired, the mongoose caught it by the snout. He finally dragged the dead snake into the bushes.

7.creatures lost their lives in the classic struggle between the cobra and the mongoose. Who were those victims?
Ans. The Cobra and the crow.

II.LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. What is the story The Banyan Tree about? Narrate the incident in brief.
Ans. The Banyan Tree is about a deadly fight between a mongoose and a snake. The outcome of such a fight is the death of the cobra. The mongoose is faster in movement than his opponent. The writer witnessed such a fight, sitting on a branch of a banyan tree. He enjoyed the fight. Both the mongoose and the cobra were experienced fighters. They could strike with speed. A myna and a crow also arrived to feed on the dead crew. The crow had hard luck. He was bitten and he fell dead. The cobra got tired in the fight and the mongoose dragged it into the bushes.

2. Bring out the relevance/significance of the banyan tree in the title of Ruskin Bond’s story.
Ans. The banyan tree served as a platform for the writer to sit and watch the thrill­ing fight between a cobra and a wild mongoose. The tree was almost the speaker’s property because his grandfather could not climb it. The fight started under that tree in the sunshine. Two other spectators, a myna and a crow, also arrived to feed on the dead cobra. But they sat on a cactus plant, not the tree.

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 water in their humps.

Ans: (i)True (ii) False
(iii) True        (iv) True
( v) False.

2. Answer the following questions.
(i) How do desert animals survive without water? (1)
(ii)How do mongooses kill snakes? (6)
(iii)How does the hump of the camels help them to survive when there is no water? (9)                                                        ‘

Ans: (i) The desert animals find ways to survive for many days without water. Gerbils keep themselves cool in underground holes. The beetles catch drops of mois­ture on their legs. The camels get moisture from desert plants.
(ii)Mongooses have very swift reactions. They get away fast when the snake tries to strike. They trouble the snake until it is tired. Then they attack and kill the snake. They themselves don’t get any injury.
(iii)The hump of the camel is meant for storing fat and not water. That fat meets the camel’s need for water and nourishment.

B. Read the words/phrases in the box. With your partner find their meanings in the dictionary.
harsh      conditions       harmless       survive      intruder
threatened       predators      prey     continually

Fill in the blanks in the following passage with the above words/phrases.
All animals in forests and deserts struggle to________________________________ in______ .
Though most of the animals are _______________________ , some are dangerous when
________________ . If an___________________ is noticed, they attack or bite to save
themselves. They struggle _____________________ for food and water. Some animals

are called___________________ because they_____________________ on other animals.
Ans: All animals in forests and deserts struggle to survive in harsh conditions. Though most of the animals are harmless; some are dangerous when threatened. If an intruder is noticed, they attack or bite to save themselves. They struggle continu­ally for food and water. Some animals are called predators because they prey on other animals.

Speaking  (Page 118)

Look at these sentences.

• Deserts are the driest places on earth.
• Gerbils spend the hottest part of the day in cool underground burrows.

Now form pairs. Ask questions using a suitable form of the word in brackets. Try to answer the questions too.

Do you know

1.Which animal is the_________________ (tall)?
2.Which animal runs the_________________ (fast)?
3.Which place on earth is the_______________ (hot) or the_______________ (cold)?
4.Which animal is the_________________ (large)?
5.Which is the________________ (tall) mountain in the world?
6.Which is the________________ (rainy) place on earth?

7.Which is the________________ (old) living animal?

Can you add some questions of your own?

Ans:

1. The giraffe is the tallest animal.
2. Leopard runs the fastest.
3. Aziza Libya is the hottest and the Verkhoyansk (Russia is the coldest).
4. The blue whale is the largest animal.
5. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world.
6. Mawsynram (Meghalaya) is the rainiest place on earth.
7. The giant tortoise is the oldest living animal.

Thinking about Language (Page 118)

A. Look at these sentences.

• Most snakes are quite harmless, but a few are poisonous.
• Most snakes lay eggs, but the rattlesnake gives birth to its young.

Now write five sentences like these using ‘most’ and the clues below.

1. (90% of) people are honest (10%) are dishonest.
_______________________
2. (Lots of) fruit have plenty of sugar, (some) citrus fruit are low in sugar.
______________________
3.(Every soft drink except this one) has lots of ‘empty calories’.
_______________________
4.(The majority of) films are romances, (a few) are on other topics.
_______________________
5.(A majority of) people agree that he is a good leader, (just a few) disagree.
_______________________

Ans:

1. Most of the people are honest, but a few are dishonest.
2. Most of the fruits have plenty of sugar; but some citrus fruit are low in sugar.
3. Most of the soft drinks except this one have lots of empty calories.
4. Most of the films are romances, only a few are on other topics.
5 .Most of the people agree that he is a good leader, just a few disagree.

Look at these sentences.

• Animals cannot survive for long without water.
• So desert animals have to find different ways of coping.

The first sentence says what cannot happen or be done; the second tells us what must, therefore, be done, what it is necessary to do. Complete these sen­tences using cannot and have to/has to.

1. You______________ reach the island by land or air; you___________________ go byboat.
2.We ______________ see bacteria with our eyes; we ______________________  look at them through a microscope.
3. He ______________ have a new bicycle now; he__________________ wait till next year.
4.Old people often________________ hear very well; they __________________ use a hearing aid.
5.Road users_______________ do what they wish; they___________________ follow the traffic rules.
6.She ______________ accept this decision; she ____________________  question it.
7. You______________ believe everything you hear; you__________________ use your own judgement.

Ans:

1. You cannot reach the island by land or air; you have to go by boat.
2. We cannot see bacteria with our eyes; we have to look at them through a microscope.
3. He cannot have a new bicycle now; he has to wait till next year.
4. Old people often cannot hear very well; they have to use a hearing aid.
5. Road users cannot do what they wish; they have to follow the traffic rules.
6. She cannot accept this decision; she has to question it. ■
7. You cannot believe everything you hear; you have to use your own judgement.

Writing   (Page 120)

Imagine you are journeying through a desert. Write a couple of paragraphs describing what you see and hear.
Ans. A desert is not a place worth living. It is a nightmare to journey through the Thar Desert. From my personal experience, I know how hot the deserts are. I saw the end­less expanse of sand and sand dunes. Only here and there I saw a few thorny bushes. There are very few birds. The camel is a common sight. There are only small villages around oases. Life is very hard there. Water is scarce, so is green­ery.
We hear the blowing of hot winds and the howling of sandstorms. We can hear the calling of mongooses and the howling of jackals. Now and then we can hear the tinkling of bells around the neck of camels.

MORE QUESTIONS SOLVED

I.SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. Deserts have a very thin population. Why?
Ans. Deserts have very little water and vegetation. There is greenery only around the water springs or oases. So people don’t prefer to live there.

2. What are some of the notable features told about snakes in the lesson?
Ans. There are more than 2300 different kinds of snakes in the world. Some are up to 11 metres long. Not all are poisonous. Most snakes lay eggs, but many of them give birth to their young.

3. Where are rattlesnakes found?
Ans. Rattlesnakes are very common on the American continent. They feed on mice and rats etc.

4. What does the author tell about mongooses?
Ans. Mongooses are very amusing animals to watch. They are a common sight in Africa. They eat beetles and other small creatures. They themselves are eaten up by hawks, eagles and large snakes. They are famous for killing snakes.

5. What do you learn in the lesson about camels?
Ans. Camels live mainly in the desert. They can drink up to 30 gallons of water in just ten minutes. They get all the moisture they need from desert plants. Some camels have only one hump, others have two. Humps are full of fat which is used as food.

II.LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. How do you define or describe a desert? Name some common desert animals. How do they survive?
Ans. A desert is a very hot and dry place that goes without rain even for years. It is
sandy with hardly any vegetation or villages. There is neither water nor greenery. Still some animals are found there. For example, gerbils, beetles, snakes, mongooses and camels. These animals survive the harsh conditions in their own way. Some live in burrows (holes). Camels have winter coats to keep warm and shorter, tidier coats to keep cool in summer.

2. What information about snakes do you get in the lesson Desert Animals?
Ans. There are more than 2300 different kinds of snakes around the world. Some are harmless, others very poisonous. Some lay eggs, while others give birth to the young one. The rattler lives in the day and rocky deserts of America. Large pythons can go without eating for a year or more. Mongooses are famous for their skill in killing snakes. A camel can drink up to 30 gallons of water in just ten minutes. It eats plants. Its humps store fast-food.

3. What are some of the particular habits of the mongoose and the camel?
Ans. Mongooses like to hunt together. But they are afraid of their enemies like hawks, eagles and snakes. They warn others of the danger by their peculiar calling. They are famous for killing snakes.
Camels were taken as pets long, long ago. They have long or short coats to keep them warm or cool. A camel can drink up to 30 gallons of water at a time. Its humps-single or double-store food that is used as food. They are adapted to desert life.