CG Board Class 7 Solutions for English Chapter 8 A Serious Talk

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कक्षा 7 समाधान

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CG Board Class 7th English Solutions

Chapter - 8
Subject - English
Chapter name - A Serious Talk

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

Page No. 32, Chapter : 08, Chapter Name: A Serious Talk
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, Change habits; don’t go to
and walked on people's plates with their rubbish heaps and sit on
dirty shoes. rotten things, and do not walk
on anyone’s plate with dirty
shoes on.

Page No. 33, Chapter : 08, Chapter Name: A Serious Talk
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.

Page No. 33, Chapter : 08, Chapter Name: A Serious Talk
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

Page No. 34, Chapter : 08, Chapter Name: A Serious Talk
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

Page No. 34, Chapter : 08, Chapter Name: A Serious Talk
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 (end up the day soon.)
and round

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 (finish all the sugar in the jar)
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.

Page No. 35, Chapter : 08, Chapter Name: A Serious Talk
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 Search last week’s Make a paper mask
repaired. Sunday magazine.

2 Bring betel leaf for Pull out the old carrom Help in completing
grandma. board from under the homework.
bed.

3 Get old shoes stitched. Search for the wooden Make holes in a tin
horse from the container to water
storeroom. plants.

4 Buy a pair of small Clean bedrooms. Go to the river side
scissors for himself. and collect shells with
chintoo.

5 Take clothes to the Fill two buckets of water Pluck mangoes from
laundry from the tube well. the trees in chintoo’s
garden

6 Get new bedsheets. Put some (chana) gram Help with cleaning the
seeds in birdie’s nest in kitchen.
the courtyard.

7 Buy some dry fruits. Cut pictures from old Help with birthday
newspaper. preparation.

Page No. 36, Chapter No. 08, Chapter Name: A Serious Talk
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 Regards
Mishri

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

1. Frog 1. Flies

2. Dragonfly 2. Mosquitoes

3. Lizards 3. Butterfly

4. Bats 4. Moth

Ans: Pictures to be collected by students