Class 7 English Chapter 3 Exercise | A kisa Gotami and the Mustard Seeddom/nepaleducation

 

Getting started (page 22)

Reading I

Answer the following questions.

a. How do people feel when their relatives pass away?

Answer:  People feel very sad and grief when their relatives pass away.

b. Is death sure to happen?

Answer: Yes, death is sure to happen.

Kisa Gotami and the Mustard Seed

A. Find the words from the above text for these meanings.

a. gave sympathy to somebody

b. a ceremony for burying/burning a dead person

c. an area of land where dead people are buried

d. a way of improving a difficult situation

e. sitting in silence in order to make the mind calm

f. sure/certain to happen

Answer:

a. consoled

b. funeral

c. graveyard

d. remedy

e. meditating

f. inevitable

 

B. Answer the following questions.

a. Did Kisa love her son? How did you know?

b. What did she not accept?

c. What help did she ask for with the neighbours?

d. Why did she not prepare for her son's funeral?

e. What did the old man advise Kisa to do?

f. What was Gautam Buddha doing when Kisa saw him?

g. What request did she make with Gautam Buddha?

h. What did Gautam Buddha tell Kisa to do?

i. Did Kisa find a house where no one has ever died?

j. What did Kisa finally understand?

Answer:

a. Yes, Kisa loved her son because she worked and lived only for him.

b. She did not accept that her dear son had left forever.

c. She asked for her son’s life back.

d. She didn’t prepare for her son’s funeral because she believed that her son would come back.

e. The old man advised Kisa to go to Gautam Buddha.

f. Gautam Buddha was meditating under a Peepal tree when Kisa saw him.

g. She requested Gautam Buddha to restore her son back to life.

h. Gautam Buddha told Kisa to lend him a handful of mustard seed from a house where no family members had died.

i. No she didn’t find a house where no one has ever died.

j. Kisa finally learnt that death is inevitable.

 Grammar I

A.           Study the following sentences. When do you use them?

a.             Will you help me please?

b.            I would like a drink please?

c.             Would you mind turning off the music?

d.            Could you pass the juice please?

e.             Can you pass the salt please?

B.           Which is correct? Tick the correct one in each pair.

a.   Could you please send me the money? Could you please to send me the money?

b.  Could you to help me?                       Could you help me?

c.  I would liking a drink.                        I would like a drink.

d. She would likes a coffee.                     She would like a coffee.

e. Could you please bring my keys?        Could please you bring my keys?

f.   Can I have another drink?                    Can I have to another drink?

Answer

a.            Could you please send me the money?

b.            Could you help me?

c.             I would like a drink.

d.            She would like a coffee.

e.             Could you please bring my keys? 

f.               Can I have another drink?

C.           Complete the sentences with will, would, can or could.

a.             He ran as fast as he ……………. .

b.            She ……………. swim when she was just five.

c.             Raju ……………. speak six languages.

d.            I don't think I ……………. pass the test.

e.             He failed the test because he …………. answer only two questions.

f.              He said that he ……………. help but he didn't.

g.            You ……………. borrow my car if you want.

h.            Who ……………. cook dinner today?

i.              ……………. you like to dance with me?

Answer

a.             He ran as fast as he could.

b.            She could swim when she was just five.

c.             Raju can speak six languages.

d.            I don't think I will pass the test.

e.             He failed the test because he could answer only two questions.

f.              He said that he would help but he didn't.

g.            You can borrow my car if you want.

h.            Who will cook dinner today

i.              Would you like to dance with me?

Reading II

Answer the following questions.

a. Have you ever written a letter to the editor?

Answer: No, I haven’t written a letter to the editor.

b. Why is a letter to the editor written?

Answer: Letter to the editor is written to draw the attention of the concerned authority about the burning social issue.

A. Complete the table with the information from the above letter.

Sender's address	Kathmandu
Receiver	Editor of the Rising Nepal
Name of the newspaper	The Rising Nepal
Subject of the letter	Air pollution-a concern
Sender's name	Nitin Rai

B. Answer the following questions.

a. What type of problem is air pollution?

b. What are the major sources of air pollution?

c. What health problems are caused by air pollution?

d. What does the smoke from chimneys contain?

e. How does the smoke from factories pollute the pure air?

f. What according to Nitin is necessary to stop the air pollution?

g. Who according to Nitin should take the responsibility for air pollution?

Answer:

a. It is an environmental pollution.

b. Factories are the major sources of air pollution.

c. Suffocation, breathing problems, lung diseases etc. are caused by air pollution.

d. The smoke from chimneys contains poisonous gases.

e. The smoke from factories pollutes the pure air by the mixture of its poisonous gases.

f. According to Nitin, strict law is necessary to stop the air pollution.

g. According to Nitin, the factory owners should take the responsibility for air pollution.

 

Writing

Is there any public problem in your locality? Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper about the issue. Take help from the above letter.

Grammar II

A. Study the following sentences.

a. Could you please help me a favour?

b. I've finished my work. Can I go now?

c. Would you like some help?

d. Can I help you?

e. Will you stop talking like that?

f. Would you like some cake?

g. Would you mind closing the window, please?

h. Will you give me a hand?

B. Complete these sentences with correct words.

a. My grandmother is eighty-five, but she ……… still read and write without glasses.

b. ……… I come with you?

c. ……… you help me with the housework, please?

d. There was a time when I ……… stay up very late.

e. You ……… not lose any more weight because you eat a lot.

f. I ……… get you a shawl from Kashmir.

g. ……… you take care of my cow for a day?

h.  ……… you swim when you were 10?

i. He's amazing, he ……… speak five languages.

j. She's seven but she ……… not read yet.  

Answer:

a. My grandmother is eighty-five, but she can still read and write without glasses.

b. Can I come with you?

c. Could you help me with the housework, please?

d. There was a time when I would stay up very late.

e. You can not lose any more weight because you eat a lot.

f. I will get you a shawl from Kashmir.

g. Could you take care of my cow for a day?

h.  Could you swim when you were 10?

i. He's amazing, he can speak five languages.

j. She's seven but she can not read yet.  

Project work

Work in groups of five. Go around different sections at your school: library, staff room, headteacher's room, canteen, etc. Find the requests in notices at those places. If they are in Nepali, translate them into English. Write all the requests on a chart paper. Which of them are applicable to your class?  Write them in another chart paper and paste it on your classroom wall.