Class7 Literature Revision

1. What kind of stories does the child want his father to write?
2. Why does mother get cross with the child?
3. What does child do with a sheet of paper?
4. Why does child think his father has forgotten the stories his mother told him, as a child?
5. Why did the narrator go to the bank?
6.How much money did he want to deposit?
7.Where does he keep his money now?
8. Why did the narrator want to meet the manager alone?
9. What did the manager mistake him for?
10. What did the nightingale do all day long?
11. How did the nightingale feel at the end of the day?
12. What did the nightingale want to have for meal? Did he do so? Why?
13. What respective talents did the nightingale and the glow-worm possess?
14.What qualities did the nightingale possess?
15. Why did Madhuli and Amma live alone in the village?
16. Who was Haria? What work did he do?
17. Who helped Madhuli in times of need?
18. Where did Madhuli take Amma for treatment?
19. Who told Madhuli about the new hospital and what did the person tell?
20. How did they take Amma to the hospital? What did the doctor tell Madhuli?
21.What did the narrator in "Seventeen Oranges" do for a living?
22. From where did he steal the oranges? How did he get caught?
23.Why did the narrator choose to be quiet?
24. What prompted the narrator to eat up all the oranges? What happened to him thereafter?
25. Why did Pongo decide to call a mate?
26 Why was Pongo surprised when he returned with a mate?
27. What happens when a country goes to war?
28. What does the poet compare war with?
29. What does the lines on the palms of our hands tell?
30. What are "Hells of fire and dust"?
31. Who tells us to hate others? When does this happen?
32. Write two things which are common between us and people of other lands.

ALL THE BEST KIDS

Class 6 English One,two,three

Ans1. An old lady and her three and a half years old grandson are playing the game.

Ans2. They are playing  the game of hide and seek under the maple tree.

Ans3. The little boy had a thin ,twisted left knee because of which he couldn't run around.

Ans4. The boy would bend his face on his sound right knee and try to guess where his Grandmother could be hiding.

Ans5 The boy was able to find his Grandmother in three guesses. She was hiding in the clothespress.

CLASS6 ENGLISH- THE MAN WHO DREW FACES

EXERCISE C Ans1. The artist was popular among the children because he would often draw pictures for them.

Ans2. A few lines and some wrinkles make a face look sad, tired and old.

Ans3. Sally asked the artist to draw her mother's face after he had drawn her Granny's face.

Ans4. Sally's mother got one worry line when Sally's brother fell off his bicycle and broke his leg. Another came when Granny was very ill and yet another appeared when Sally's father lost his job.

Ans5. Sally's mother had laugh lines round her eyes because she was fond of jokes and was gay, bright and merry.

Ans6. Sally gave her mother a nice little smiley line by being nice, sweet-tempered and kind.

Ans7. Sally intended to make the small, curly line on her mother's face bigger by being sweet, helpful and kind.

Ans8. When Sally started asking too many questions, the artist got down from the stile and went away, refusing to answer anymore of her questions.

CLASS7- NO MEN ARE FOREIGN

EXERCISEA Ans1. When a country goes to war, the bloodshed destroys the purity of the earth. The weapons of the war defile the air.Infact, we destroy our own land and earth by taking up arms against any country because the whole earth belongs to us. The poet compares war with long winter. In winter, with prolonged snow, plants etc are destroyed and living beings have to starve.Similarly, during wars, there is a loss of lives and people face shortage of food. Ans3. When we hate others, we betray ourselves because we are all the same. When we condemn others, we condemn our own kind. Ans4. Wars are always disastrous. War destroys the purity of land and air and brings destruction, misery and suffering. Ans5. 'Hells of fire" refers to the weapons of war which cause destruction, chaos and misery to everyone. EXERCISE B 1a. 'Brothers" refers to the people living on the earth. b. We all walk on the same earth and go back to the same earth when we die. 2a. Lines on the palms of our hands are referred to here. b. The lines tell that other people also work hard to make a livelihood, like us. 3a. Evil people like the politicians, rulers, terrorists etc tell us to hate others. b. This happens when evil thoughts take root in the mind and we are afflicted with greed, jealousy, hatred and other negative thoughts.

Class7 Seventeen Oranges

Exercise B
Ans1. The narrator drove a little pony -and-cart for Swift Delivery Company and most of his pick ups were at the docks.

Ans2. The narrator had stolen the oranges frim a boat that was being unloaded at the docks.He hid them in various pockets of his clothes, covered by his brat. Unfortunately, the string of his brat broke off right in front of Pongo, the policeman, revealing bulging pockets stuffed with stolen oranges.

Ans3. The narrator had read too many detective stories to make the mistake of blabbing. Thus he refused to be interrogated and remained quiet.

Ans4. Pongo went to call a colleague to be his witness and strengthen his case.

Exercise C
Ans1. The narrator feared that once proved guilty, he would be put in jail and ruined for life. He wondered what his mother would say and his father would do then.

Ans2. A voice in his mind prompted the narrator to eat up all the oranges pips, peel and all to destroy the evidence and escape imprisonment.

Ans3. The narrator had to eat up seventeen oranges pips, peel and all in a very short time. Thereafter, he fell sick with an upset stomach and couldn't stand still and think clearly for days. Ever since then, he had never looked at oranges.

Ans4. Pongo had locked the narrator in his cabin with the seventeen stolen oranges. There were no eindows and no way for him to sneak the oranges out. But whem Pongo returned with a mate, there was no sign of the oranges. Although, it took Pongo no time to figure out what had happened, he found it difficult to believe that such a small boy could finish off all those oranges in such a short while.

Class 7 The Nightingale and the glowworm

Ans1. The nightingale wanted to have the glow worm for his meal as he was hungry.
Ans2. The glow worm told the nightingale that the same Divine power that has blessed the nightingale with a melodious voice to enthrall everyone blessed the glow worm with the ability to glow worm to shine in the dark.
Ans3. The glow worm told the nightingale that since the same God has blessed them with their respective talents, they should respect and admire each other. Instead of harming each other, they should continue to glorify their creator.

Ans4. The nightingale proves to be noble, compassionate and understanding as he spared the glow worm's life and flew away to look for his meal elsewhere.

Class 6 My Childhood

Exercise B
Ans1. Kalam's father,Jainulabdeen, had neither much formal education nor wealth but possesed great innate wisdom. He was kind, just like Ashiamma, Kalam's mother and together, they fed many people at their home everyday. His austere father believed in simple living and religious tolerance
His mother told him stories from the Ramayana as well as life of the Prophet.

Ans2.Kalam inherited honesty, self discipline, spirit of generosity and faith in goodness from his parents. He also learnt to believe in simplicity and religious tolerance from them.

Ans3. Kalam's family lived in their ancestral house, built in the middle of the 19th century. It was a fairly large pucca house made of limestone and bricks on the Mosque street in Rameswaram.

Ans4. In 1939, when he was eight years old, Kalam earned one anna every day by selling tamarind seeds at a provision store.
Later, he earned wages by catching bundles of newspaper thrown out of a moving train between Rameswaram and Dhanuskodi.

Ans5.When the Second World War broke out in 1939, there was a sudden demand for tamarind seeds in the Rameswaram market. Also, once a kind of emergency was declared , the train halt at the Rameswaram station was suspended.

Ans6. The new teacher could not stomach a Hindu priest boy sitting with a Muslim boy. He asked Kalam to go and sit on the last bench, according to his social ranking as the new teacher saw it.

Ans7. When Kalam and Ramanadha Sastry went home, they told their respective parents about the social discrimination practised by the teacher. Lakshamana Sastry summoned the teacher and asked him to either apologize or quit the school and the Island. He warned him against spreading the poison of social inequality and religious intolerance in the minds of innocent children. His strong sense of conviction reformed the teacher.

Hots Ans2. Kalam's best friends at school came from Orthodox Hindu Brahmin families.During the annual Sri Sita Ram Kalyanam ceremony, his family arranged boats for the idols of the Lord. At home, his mother and grandmother told them stories from the Ramayana as well as life of the Prophet.