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Hobbies
Lesson 1
| Word | Meaning |
| Occupy | দখল কৰা |
| Ourselves | নিজকে নিজে |
| Different | বেলেগ |
| Activities | কাম-কাজ |
| Sing | গোৱা |
| Draw | আঁকা |
| Paint | ৰং কৰা |
| Pleasure | আনন্দিত, আমোদিত |
| Say | কোৱা |
| Dull | অনুজ্জ্বল, বুদ্ধি নথকা |
| Combination | সংযুক্তকৰণ, মিলন |
| Give | দিয়া |
| Fun | ধেমালি |
| Many | বহুত |
| Kinds | ধৰণে |
| Indoor | ভিতৰ |
| Outdoor | বাহিৰ |
| Gardening | বাগিছা কৰা |
| Travelling | ভ্ৰমন |
| Trekking | বগোৱা |
| Photography | ফটো তোলা, চিত্ৰগ্ৰহণ |
| Both | দুয়োতা |
| Favoruite | প্ৰিয় |
| Backyard | পিছফাল |
| Grow | প্ৰাকৃতিকভাৱে ডাঙৰ হৈ আহ্ |
| Variety | বিভিন্ন |
| Active | সক্ৰিয় |
| Plants | উদ্ভিদ |
| Adventure | দুঃসাহসিক অভিযান |
| Mystery | ৰহস্য |
| Review | সমিক্ষা |
| Stamps | মোহৰ |
| Encouraged | উৎসাহিত কৰা হৈছে |
| Nowadays | আজি কালি |
| Advancement | উন্নতকৰণ |
| Technology | প্ৰযুক্তিবিদ্যা |
| communication | যোগাযোগ |
| Leisure | আজৰি সময় |
Class 7 English Free Study Materials
Activities
Q. 1. Let’s find out how much we have understood :
(a) What is a Hobby?
Answer— Activities which give us fun and joy are hobbies.
(b) What do hobbies gives us?
Answer— Hobbies give us pleasure.
(c) What is philately? What difficulty would you face if you take up philately?
Answer— The Collecting and study of stamps is called philately.
The main difficulty is that with the advancement of technology people love to communicate through email, SMS, MMS etc. Nowadays, people rarely send letters by post. So, it becomes very difficult to collect stamps these days.
(d) What is Irfan’s hobby? What does he like to do?
Answer— Irfan’s hobby is paiting. He like to sit and paint landscape.
(e) Name a few indoor and outdoor hobbies?
Answer— Collecting stamps, coins, reading books and listening to music are indoor hobbies and travelling, swimiming, playing football etc are outdoor hobbics.
(f) What is a kitchen garden?
Answer— Kitchen garden is a small garden where we grow vegetables and fruits for our own use.
(g) “Every morning I water the plants and clean the beds”. – What does ‘beds’ mean here?
Answer— Here ‘beds’ means the peace of ground where plants or vegetables are grown.
Q. 2. A synonym is a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word. Example: happy- Joyful.
Answer— From the box below, choose words which are synonyms of the given words, and write each synonym next to the word in the blanks below:
| pleasure | free time | lovely | begin |
| energetic | grow | happiness | sporty |
| pretty | spare time | launch | evolve |
(a) joy ___________
Answer— joy, pleasure, happiness.
(b) beautiful ___________
Answer— beautiful, pretty, lovely.
(c) active ___________
Answer— active, sporty, energetic.
(d) leisure ___________
Answer— leisure, free time, spare time.
(e) start ___________
Answer— start, launch, begin.
(f) develop ___________
Answer— develop, grow, evolve.
Q. 3. Look at the picture of object given below. Each object is related to an activity.
Write the name of the object and the related activity in the space provided. 
Answer— Guitar: Singing
Cricket bat: Playing
Bicycle: Travel
Book: Reading
Pen : Writing
Boat: Rowing
Q. 4. Let’s play a game. Sit in groups according to your hobbies. Discuss in your group why you like this hobby and how you pursue it.
⇒ The teacher will make the students sit in groups- and ask the participants of each group to speak in turns. One participant will start with one sentence about his or her hobby and the next participant will continue the presentation.
Answer— Students, do it with the help of your teacher.
Q. 5. Parveen’s hobby is baking. Fill in the blanks in the paragraph below with words that rhyme with bake, such as shake:
Juri said to Parveen, “Please tell me how to bake a ____.” Parveen replied, “Preheat the oven to 350° F and gather all the ingredients you need to ____ a cake. ____ 2 cups of flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup butter or oil, 1 teaspoon baking powder and vanilla essence. You will need a cake pan and a sieve too. Put the flour and baking powder into the sieve. ____ the sieve to remove lumps, if any. Cream the butter and sugar. Add a few drops of vanilla essence. ____ care to ____ the mixture light and creamy. Beat in the eggs and ____ them one at a time. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture little by little. Don’t forget to grease the ____ pan and dust it with flour. Then ____ the smooth mixture and pour it into the pan. Place the mixture in the oven till your ____ turns golden brown.
Answer— Juri said to Parveen, “Please tell me how to bake a cake.” Parveen replied, “Preheat the oven to 350° F and gather all the ingredients you need to bake a cake. Take 2 cups of flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup butter or oil, 1 teaspoon baking powder and vanilla essence. You will need a cake pan and a sieve too. Put the flour and baking powder into the sieve. Shake the sieve to remove lumps, if any. Cream the butter and sugar. Add a few drops of vanilla essence. Take care to make the mixture light and creamy. Beat in the eggs and bake them one at a time. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture little by little. Don’t forget to grease the cake pan and dust it with flour. Then take the smooth mixture and pour it into the pan. Place the mixture in the oven till your cake turns golden brown.
Q. 6. Roktim’s hobby is traveling. He loves visiting places. He always prepares his itinerary before traveling. He leaves his itinerary with his mother. His mother knows where he is by looking at his itinerary. Read his itinerary.
Personal Travel
Destination: Majuli, Assam
Duration of stay: 2 days
Date of departure: 10 November
Date of arrival: 12 November
Place of stay: Maihong Lodge, Kamalabari Tini Ai
What to do: Visit Satras, enjoy Raas utsav, visit local markets
| An itinerary is a plan of a journey. It is a travel plan – where you will go, when you will be there, what you will do, etc |
Now, think of a place you want to visit during your vacation and prepare your itinerary:
Destination : ___________________________
Duration of stay : ___________________________
Date of departure : ___________________________
Date of arrival : ___________________________
Place of stay : ___________________________
What to do : ___________________________________________
Answer—
Destination : Guwahati
Duration of stay : 2 days
Date of departure : 10 July
Date of arrival : 12 July
Place of stay : Hotel Royal Heritage
What to do : Visit zoo, Assam State Museum, Kamakhya temple, Umananda.
| S. L. No | Contents |
| Lesson 1 | Hobbies |
| Lesson 2 | Uruka Adventure |
| Lesson 3 | From The Diary of Anne Frank |
| Lesson 4 | Kindness |
| Lesson 5 | The Daffodils |
| Lesson 6 | Dhunu’s Guitar |
| Lesson 7 | A Child’s Beauty |
| Lesson 8 | Women in Space |
Q. 7. Read this sentence Note the part of the sentence What to do in italics.
A happy person is usually as busy as a bee.
The part of the sentence in italics is called an idiom. It means ‘very busy.’
The use of common idioms makes English appear more natural. Some common English idioms are-
a blessing in disguise
bag and baggage
beat about the bush
Try to use these idioms in sentences of your own. You can look up the dictionary to learn their meaning.
Answer—
A blessing in disguise → I think it may be a blessing in disguise for me.
A blessing in disguise → However, his injury proved to be a blessing in disguise.
Bag and baggage → He moved out bag and baggage.
Bag and baggage → The owner threw him out of the house bag and baggage.
Beat about the bush → He beat about the bush without coming to the point.
Beat about the bush → Don’t beat about the bush when you have anything to say.
Q. 8. In class VI you learnt that we can make a new word by adding a suffix, i.e., a letter or group of letters at the end of a word. In the exercise below, write the new words by adding – ment at the end of the words. One is done for you.
- advancement
- _________
- _________
- _________
| Suffix: A letter or a group of letters added at the end of a word is called a suffix. |
Answer— 1. advancement
2. treatment
3. encouragement
4. entertainment
Now read the lesson and write in the box the words ending with the following suffixes:
| -ion | -ing | -ment |
| Combination | Collecting | Department |
| Competition | Listening | Advancement |
| Collection | Gardening | |
| Communication | Travelling | |
| Relaxation | Playing | |
| Painting |
Q. 9. Read the lesson and locate the sentences where the following phrasal verbs beginning with ‘take’ occur. Then write the sentences in the space given below the word web.
Answer— 1. I like to take out my harmonium and play tunes on it.
2. I used to take out the stamps from the envelopes and stick them in an album.
3. We can keep ourselves busy and active if we take up a hobby.
Try to frame sentences of your own using these phrasal verbs.
Take out → You can take out two books at a time from the library.
Take up → Nowadays many people take up gardening as a hobby.
Extra Questions:
Q.N. 1 Make Sentences: Hobby, Relaxation
Answer— Hobbies: Please write few sentences about hobbies?
Relaxation: I like to play piano for relaxation after work.
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