CG Board Class 7 English Solutions Chapter 8 A Serious Talk is specifically designed for Hindi medium students of Class 7 studying in Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education. यह समाधान कक्षा 7 अंग्रेज़ी पुस्तक छात्रों को अवश्यक अपने अध्ययन को सुगम बनाने के लिए इस समाधान पुस्तक का उपयोग करना चाहिए।
CG Board Class 7 English Solutions Chapter 8 A Serious Talk
CGBSE समाधान कक्षा 7 अंग्रेज़ी अध्याय 7 – A Serious Talk हिंदी माध्यम में छात्रों के लिए बनाए गए हैं। यह समाधान छात्रों की सुविधा के लिए बनाई गई है और सीजीबीएसई बोर्ड के कक्षा 7 के छात्रों के लिए उपयुक्त है।
CG Board Class 7 English Solutions Chapter 8 अंग्रेज़ी are given below for Hindi Medium students.
Page No. 32, Chapter : 08, Chapter Name: A Serious Talk
Reading Comprehension
1. Use numbers to put the sentences in the order in which the events happened.
8. Then both the fly and the spider reached a soft surface,
when the machine stopped.
| 1. The vacuum cleaner sucked the spider and the fly. | 2 |
| 2. And the spider thought she was going to die. | 7 |
| 3. A fly was caught in a cobweb. | 1 |
| 4. The spider was inside the tube of the vacuum cleaner. | 3 |
| 5. The fly couldn’t see the spider but he spoke to her. | 6 |
| 6. The spider asked for help. | 5 |
| 7. The spider’s head was whirling. | 4 |
| 8. Then both the fly and the spider reached a soft surface,when the machine stopped. | 9 |
| 9. The spider felt sorry for all the flies she had eaten. | 8 |
| 10. Someone emptied the bag of the vacuum-cleaner on a garbage heap. | 10 |
| 11. The spider recovered from her fright. | 11 |
| 12. The fly went off in search of a new rubbish heap. | 13 |
| 13. The spider invited the fly to her new web. | 12 |
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2. What changes did the spider and the fly want to bring in themselves.
| TILL NOW | WHAT THEY PROMISE TO DO IN FUTURE | |
| spider: | ate flies and insects trapped in her web | Drink honey like butterflies. |
| Fly : | sat on rubbish heaps, threw away food, and walked on people’s plates with their dirty shoes. | Change habits; don’t go to rubbish heaps and sit on rotten things, and do not walk on anyone’s plate with dirty shoes on. |
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3. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words :(a lady, pipe, bag, sucker)
a. The part of vacuum cleaner that sucked the cobweb was the sucker.
b. The parts of the vacuum cleaner in which the spider and the fly
were moving about was the pipe.
c. The part of the vacuum cleaner that was emptied on the garbage was
the bag.
d. The vacuum cleaner was operated by a lady.
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Vocabulary
1. Write names of insects that can be trapped in the spider’s web. Use the clues given below:
Clues:
(a) A three-letter name and is very small.
Ans: Ant
(b) It is green in colour, hops in fields.
Ans: Grasshopper
(c) It bites you at night.
Ans: Mosquito
(d) It lives in the honey hive.
Ans: Bee
(e) Sachin Tendulkar’s game
Ans: Cricket
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2. These are pictures of some movements. Can you name them? Use the clues in the box below and also take help of the dictionary.
| circling, revolving, spinning, rotating, whirling, winding. |
Ans
1. Whirling
2. Spinning
3. Circling
4. Rotating
5. Revolving
6. Winding
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Grammar
i Given below are some unreal situations. Now combine the other part as given in the example.
Example:
If I had legs (run away from the saucer)
If I had legs, I would run away from the saucer.
| 1) If I had a straw | (drink the water) |
| Ans: If I had a straw, I would drink the water. | |
| 2) If my hands whirled round and round | (end up the day soon.) |
| Ans: If my hands whirled round and round, I would end the day soon. | |
| 3) If I had roller skates | (win every race) |
| Ans: If I had roller skates, I would win every race. | |
| 4) If I had wings | (invite Uncle Fox for a race.) |
| Ans: If I had wings, I would invite Uncle Fox for a race. | |
| 5) If I could open the lid of the jar | (finish all the sugar in the jar) |
| Ans: If I could open the lid of the jar, I would finish all the sugar in the jar. | |
| 6) If I had a stool | (eat all the grapes) |
| Ans: If I had a stool, I would eat all the grapes. | |
Page No. 35, Chapter : 08, Chapter Name: A Serious Talk
Activity
See Appendix 1 Lesson 8
A. Listen to your teacher carefully and fill in the details asked for.
| Name | Anopheles |
| Insect | Female mosquito |
| Total types | 1400 |
| Body | |
| Legs | (a) Number: 3 pairs(b)Shape: long |
| Wings | (a) Number: 2(b) Shape: narrow |
| Mouth parts | (a) Shape: needle (b) used for piercing human skin |
| Home | On or near still, damp places. |
| Likings | Bite humans and animals to suck their blood. |
| Specialisation | Causing a serious disease called Malaria. |
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B. Before Pintoo went to sleep, he made a long list of things he had to do. Say what Pintoo was going to do at the market, next morning at home or in his friend’s house and for whom.
Example : Pintoo was going to find last week’s Sunday magazine for his grandpa
| At the market | Things to do at home | In his friend’s house | |
| 1 | Get Grandpa’s glasses repaired. | Search last week’s Sunday magazine. | Make a paper mask |
| 2 | Bring betel leaf for grandma. | Pull out the old carrom board from under the bed. | Help in completing homework. |
| 3 | Get old shoes stitched. | Search for the wooden horse from the storeroom. | Make holes in a tin container to water plants. |
| 4 | Buy a pair of small scissors for himself. | Clean bedrooms. | Go to the river side and collect shells with chintoo. |
| 5 | Take clothes to the laundry | Fill two buckets of water from the tube well. | Pluck mangoes from the trees in chintoo’s garden |
| 6 | Get new bedsheets. | Put some (chana) gram seeds in birdie’s nest in the courtyard. | Help with cleaning the kitchen. |
| 7 | Buy some dry fruits. | Cut pictures from old newspaper. | Help with birthday preparation. |
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Writing
No one likes flies. If the fly wants to become a good insect, what would you suggest him to do. Write a small letter to him. You can take help from the lesson.
| 12 April 2005 G.P.S. Mohla. Rajnandgaon Dear Fly, I know you want people to like you. I feel people would like you if you practised cleanliness and avoided sitting in unhealthy places. It would be beneficial for you to start frequenting healthier environments to prevent infection. Best RegardsMishri |
Project
You all know that some animals cast some other animals or insects. So, they can never be friends.
Collect pictures of animals, birds and insects and paste them in front of each other. Also write their names.
| Animal/bird that eats | The insect that is eaten |
| Frog | Flies |
| Dragonfly | 2. Mosquitoes |
| Lizards | 3. Butterfly |
| Bats | 4. Moth |
Ans: Pictures to be collected by students
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