Unit 1 - 1.5 Seeing Eyes Helping Hands — English STD 7 — Question

Writing Skills:
Can you imagine what happened next in this story of Rima and Malti? Complete the story on your own.
The time gone by …………….

Language Study:
A simile Is an imaginative comparison of two different things which have something in common. A simile always includes the words ‘as’ or ‘like’. For example: as tall as a tree, as lovely as a flower A metaphor is an imaginative expression that refers to someone/something as another person/thing. It shows thai the person or thing has some quality of that other person or thing. The words ‘as’ or ‘like’ are not used in a metaphor. For example : He is a gem of a person. Time is money. Books are our friends. The clouds are white sheep.

1. ‘What is the past like to thee?
An autumn evening soft and mild’

2.’Tell me, what is the present hour?
A green and flowery spray.’

3.’And what is the future, happy one?
A sea beneath a cloudless sun.’

Fill in the following blanks with reference to the poem.
‘In time of rain when spring and life are ……….., the butterflies lift ……….. wings to catch a ……….. cry and trees put forth …….. leaves to sing in ………… beneath the sky as ……….. boys and girls too ……… singing down the roadway’.

Writing Skills:
Choose any fable, story that you like and rewrite it giving it an unexpected turn.

Rewrite the play in the form of a story

Match the nouns with the adjectives used to describe them

Column ’A’	Column B’
1. jaws	a. golden
2. scale	b. shining
3. crocodile	c. smiling

Grammar:
Add the question tag for the following sentences.
1. He called a fox to his side.
2. You are to be my messenger.
3. The king promised to give them food and protection.
4. He was big and strong and very fierce.

Prepare a News Report in brief on this Art Festival.

Form groups of 4. Find all the references to time given in the passage. Then make a chart to show the events described in the passage along with the time when they occur. Example: