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Kindness
Lesson 4
| Word | Meaning |
| Vendors (ভেনদৰচ্) | বিক্ৰেতা |
| Handcrafted (হেন্ডক্ৰাফটেড) | হস্তনিৰ্মিত |
| Cheap hotels (চিপ হ’টেলচ) | সস্তীয়া হোটেল |
| Streets (ষ্ট্ৰীটচ্) | ৰাস্তাবোৰ |
| Shouting (চাউটিং) | চিঞৰি থকা |
| Buyers (বাইয়াৰচ) | ক্ৰেতা, কিনোতা |
| Attention (এটেনচন) | মনোযোগ |
| Bundle (বানদল) | একেলগ কৰি বান্ধি থোৱা |
| Sufficiently (চাফিচিয়েন্টলি) | পৰ্যাপ্ত |
| Examining (এক্জামিনিং) | পৰীক্ষা কৰা |
| Politely (পলাইটলি) | নম্ৰতাৰে |
| Declined (ডিক্লাইনড্) | অস্বীকাৰ |
| Narrated ( নাৰেটেদ) | বৰ্ণনা কৰা |
| Guilty (গিল্টি) | দোষী |
| Initially (ইনিচিয়েলি) | আৰম্ভণিতে |
| Confused (কনফিউজড্) | বিভ্ৰান্ত |
| Unplanned (আনপ্লেন্দ) | অপৰিকল্পিত |
| Pretended (প্ৰিটেনডেড) | ভাও ধৰা |
Class 7 English Lesson 4 Solutions
Q. 1. Answer these questions to check your understandings:
(a) When do the Kashmiri vendors travel to cities to sell their goods?
Answer— The Kashmiri vendors travel to cities when the rainy season comes to an end and winter is about to begin.
(b) Why is it a hard life for Kashmiri vendors?
Answer— Because the Kashmiri vendors stay in cheap hotels and roam around the city streets all day to sell their handcrafted shawls, purses, blankets and carpets. They are bent with the load on their backs.
(c) Why was the author surprised when his brother-in-law called the vendors?
Answer— The author was surprised when his brother-in-law called the vendors because the author knew that his bother-in-law would not buy anything from vendors.
(d) “I felt sad and guilty at being a party to such behaviour.” – What does the word ‘party’ mean here? And what kind of behaviour did he refer to?
Answer— The word ‘party’ means here to take side. The author refers to the behaviour of his brother-in-law. He called the vendors and instead of buying their goods, he started asking about their personal lives. This behavior makes the author felt sad and guilty as he was also seated in front of them during this conversation.
(e) Who was kind? What was his deed of kindness?
Answer— The author’s brother-in-law was kind. He called the vendors in, though he needed nothing from them. His main intention was to provide the vendors free food because they eat in the morning and spend the rest of the day roaming around the city on foot, hungry and thirsty.
Q. 2. Here are some informations about the Kashmiri vendors and the author’s brother-in-law. Rewrite them in the correct columns according to what you have understood from the story:
| Asked the vendors to show their goodsTravel from Kashmir to different citiesStay at hotels with minimum facilities
Did not intend to buy anything Walk around the city on foot to sell their goods Asked wife to serve food to the vendors Made the offer of food look unplanned |
| The Kashmiri vendors | The brother-in-law |
| 1.2.3.
4 |
1.2.3.
4. |
Answer—
| The Kasmiri vendors | The brother-in-law |
| 1. Travel from Kashmir to different cities2. Stay at hotels with minimum facilities3. Walk around the city on foot to sell their goods | 1. Asked the vendors to show their goods2. Did not intend to buy anything3. Asked wife to serve food to the vendors
4. Made the offer of food look unplanned |
Q. 3. Rearrange the sentences according to the order in which events happened in the story and write them in your notebook:
(a) Two Kashmiri vendors came in to sell their goods.
(b) The brother in law made the offer of food look incidental.
(c) The vendors had food and left.
(d) The brother in law asked his wife to bring some food for the vendors.
(e) The brother-in-law enquired about their goods.
(f) The vendors hesitated to take the food.
(g) The vendors came in.
Answer— (a) The two Kashmiri vendors came in to sell their goods.
(e) The brother in law enquired about their goods.
(g) The vendors came in.
(d) The brother in law asked his wife to bring some food for the vendors.
(f) The vendors hesitated to take the food.
(b) The brother in law made the offer of food look incidental.
(c) The vendors had food and left.
Q. 4. Read the conversation between a vendor and his customer. Then work in pairs and play the roles of the customer and the vendor by taking turns.
Vegetable vendor: (Calling out of customers) Come one! Come all! Buy farm fresh vegetables!Be healthy! Be happy!
Customer: How nice and fresh your vegetables look!What is the price of your tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes?
Vegetable vendor : The tomatoes cost Rs 60/- the cucumbers, Rs 55/- and the potatoes, Rs 35/- per kg.
Customer : Why are your prices so high? The other vendors are selling these vegetables for much less!
Vegetable vendor : Their prices may be lower, Madam. but the health cost that you will have to bear after consuming these vegetables will be quite high. Mine are organic and free of chemicals.
Customer : You are right. We should eat healthy. chemical- free food only. How much will you charge for a handful of green chillies and half a kilogram of capsicum?
Vegetable vendor : Rs 10/-for the chillies and Rs 100/- for the capsicums, madam.
Customer : Oh I see! How much do I need to pay you?
Vegetable vendor : Here are your vegetables, Madam. The total cost comes to Rs 260/-. You can pay me Rs 250/- I’ll give you the green chillies free of cost.
Customer : Thank you so much! Here is a Rs 2000/- note. Do you have change?
Vegetable vendor : Yes, I do Madam. Here you arc. Do come again.
Answer— Do it in your classroom with the help of your class teacher.
Q. 5. Look at the pictures below carefully. Then listen to your teacher read a travel guide for Assam. As you listen, fill in the boxes under the pictures with the correct words. After you finish, exchange your textbook with a partner. Then read the passage yourself and check if your friend has written the answer correctly.
| Assam is famous for: |
Answer— Rang ghar, Kareng ghar, Tea Garden, Rhino, Kamakhya temple, Asian elephant.
Q. 6. Let’s practise some grammer:
Work in pairs. Here are some sentences. Each sentence has a second sentence after it, with a blank. Fill in the blanks with the correct words. One is done for you.
(a) The wares belong to the Kashmiri vendors. They are their wares.
(b) The wares were carried on the back of the younger vendor. He carried the wares on ____ back.
Answer— The wares were carried on the back of the younger vendor. He carried the wares on his back.
(c) The author’s brother-in-law called out to the vendors. He call them to ____ house.
Answer— The author’s brother-in-law called out to the vendors. He call them to his house.
(d) The author was unhappy when the brother-in-law called in the Kashmiri vendors. He thought, “I do not want to buy anything and waste ____ money”.
Answer— The author was unhappy when the brother-in-law called in the Kashmiri vendors. He thought, “I do not want to buy anything and waste my money”.
| Look carefully at the words that you have used in the blank spaces. They say something about the word before which they are placed. They indicate the person or thing with which they are related, or to whom they belong. Such words are called possessive determiners. (To possess means to own.) Such words answer the question “Whose?”. Example: Whose wares? Their wares. Possessive determiners are thus words which are placed before nouns and indicate possession or ownership of the thing denoted by the noun. Some examples of possessive determiners are my, your, our, her, his. |
Q. 7. Read the text once again. Find out the nouns that have been qualified by possessive determiners and complete the table given below. One example has been done for you.
| Possessive determiner | Nouns Qualified |
| their | shawls |
Answer—
| Possessive determiner | Nouns Qualified |
| their | shawls |
| their | hardship |
| their | pride |
| their | families |
| my | sister |
| his | wife |
Now, practise using some more determiners.Fill in the blanks with the appropriate possessive determiners. One is done for you.
(i) The wares belong to us. They are our wares.
(ii) The wares were carried by you. You carried the wares on ____ back.
Answer— The wares were carried by you. You carried the wares on your back.
(iii) I am writing a book. It is ____ book.
Answer— I am writing a book. It is my book.
(iv) The coorgis are a proud people. They are known for ____ pride.
Answer— The coorgis are a proud people. They are known for their pride.
(v) We are from Assam. Assam is ___ state.
Answer— We are from Assam. Assam is our state.
Besides possessives, there are other kinds of determiners, such as articles (a, an, the), demonstratives (this, that, those, these), quantifiers (few, a few, some, any, etc.), numerals (one, two, three, four and so on), ordinals (first, second, third, fourth and so on), and distributives (each, every).
Q. 8. (a) In a passage below, Radha is telling her friend Rohit about her neighbourhood. In Radha’s description, all the words underlined and written in bold are determiners.
Radha: “We live in Adarshanagar. Our locality is clean and green. There are many tall trees lining the roads. There are twenty five houses in our neighbourland. My house is located in the second lane of our locality. We have a beautiful garden in front of our house. My mother looks after it. My neighbours also have beautiful gardens in front of their house. Every neighbour has one or more pet dogs. One of our neighbours is Mr Rahman. He has four dogs. I love to play with his dogs. His wife loves to back cakes and biscuits. I love her cakes and biscuits. Here are a few pictures of her cakes. Don’t they look very tasty? She has decorated these cakes very beutifully. Hasn’t she? She sent some cakes for me yesterday.”
How would Rohit describe his neighbourhood?
Working in pairs, help Rohit write a few sentences describing the place where he lives. Fill in the blanks in Rohit’s description with appropriate determiners from the brackets. Then take turns to play the roles of Radha and Rohit and enact their coversation.
Rohit: ……………… (Our/His/Her) locality is called Boragaon. It is beside the National Highway bypass. You can see …………………. (his/their/my) house right from the road. It is …………………. (a/an/the) one with ………………. (a/an/the) green roof. Next to ………………… (his/her/our) house is ……………… (an/the/my) uncle’s bungalow. ……………… (My/Her/His) roof is also green, but it has a red border. Every house in ……………… (his/their/our) lane has a beautiful garden, with lots of flowers and big trees. ……………… (My/His/Her) mother loves spending time tending to ……………… (my/their/her) favourite plants. She and ……………… (his/their/our) neighbours sometimes have garden competitions. My frriends and I love these competitions because everyonr decorates ……………… (his/our/their) houses and we all come together to clean the neighbourhood.
Answer— Rohit: Our locality is called Boragaon. It is beside the National Highway bypass. You can see my house right from the road. It is the one with a green roof. Next to our house is my uncle’s bungalow. His roof is also green, but it has a red border. Every house in our lane has a beautiful garden, with lots of flowers and big trees. My mother loves spending time tending to her favourite plants. She and our neighbours sometimes have garden competitions. My frriends and I love these competitions because everyone decorates their houses and we all come together to clean the neighbourhood.
Q. 8. (b) Here are some more sentences for practice. Fill in the blanks in the sentences with the appropriate determiner from the choices given:
(i) There is _______ water in the jug. (some/any/many)
Answer— There is some water in the jug.
(ii) The teachers gave him _______ advice. (many/much/a lot of)
Answer— The teachers gave him a lot of advice.
(iii) _______ of the boys was given a prize. (Each/Every/Much)
Answer— Each of the boys was given a prize.
(iv) He relies on the _______ friends he has. (little/few/any)
Answer— He relies on the few friends he has.
(v) There are _______ books on the shelf, you may choose one. (few/a few/the few)
Answer— There are a few books on the shelf, you may choose one.
(vi) Do you have _______ relatives in the city? (some/any/few)
Answer— Do you have any relatives in the city?
(vii) He is _______ electrical engineer. (a/an/the)
Answer— He is an electrical engineer.
(viii) He left _______ hour ago. (a/an/the)
Answer— He left an hour ago.
Q. 9. Look at these sentences from the lesson:
(a) She knew that her husband wouldn’t buy anything from them.
(b) His wife, who was in the kitchen, got busy making tea.
(c) When my brother-in-law asked me to buy something, I politely declined.
In all these sentences, there is a part that can make complete sense on its own. This part is called the main clause. The other part is dependent on the main clause to complete its meaning. So it is called the dependent or subordinate clause.
For example, in sentence (a) she knew can make complete sense, whereas that her husband wouldn’t buy anything from them does not make complete sense.
Now can you say which parts of the sentences in (b) and (c) are the main clause?
Write the answers here:
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Answer— (b) His wife was in the kitchen main– clause,
(c) I politely declined– main clause.
| S. L. No | Contents (Class 7 English) |
| 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 |
Here are few more sentences. Each of these sentences has a main clause and a subordinate clause. Underline the main clause and circle the subordinate clause in each sentence.
(i) I was surprised when my brother-in-law called the vendor.
(ii) I was sure he needed nothing from them.
(iii) He knew that they were hungry and tired.
(iv) When I saw them, I wanted to offer them food.
(v) I pretended that I was interested in their wares.
Q. 10. Listen to the description of dresses worn by people of some places of India. As you listen, match each description to the pictures.
Answer— Turban, Sari, Phiran, Madrasi Dress.
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