SSC (English Medium) ७ वीं कक्षा - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Write about Malti and Rima using the following points:

Appearance...	Appearance...
Studies...	Studies...
Singing...	Singing...
Attitude to others...	Attitude to others...
Weak points...	Weak points...

Use details from the story and your own imagination when you write the above descriptions.

Imagine you are Malti. Write about any one event in the story from Malti’s point of view.

How do you behave with your classmates? Write about your attitude and behaviour in the appropriate column.

Some actions:

• Ask others for help
• Refuse help
• Judge others by their appearance
• Judge others by their accent

Talk about your strengths.

Discuss:

Is it necessary to develop a good accent? Why? What efforts can you take to improve your pronunciation? With your teacher’s help, find out how to use online dictionaries for the purpose.

List all the adverbs that end with ‘-ly’ from the passage.

1. Write at least 5 common nouns and 5 proper nouns each. Proper nouns are always written with a capital letter at the beginning.
2. Can you think of proper nouns that include two or more words? How are they written? Find at least ten such nouns.

Find the pairs of rhyming words used at the end of the lines in the poem.

Read the poem aloud using proper intonation.

If you were to draw a landscape on the basis of this poem, what elements will you show in it? What colours will you use?

Write one or two sentences about something beautiful, using your own experience or imagination. Then rearrange the words in the sentences in a poetic form. You may write about a beautiful day, a beautiful night, a stream, a crop standing in a field, a graceful bird or animal, etc. 

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'.

Think and answer:

Is the poet talking about heavy rains in the rainy season or rain that has come after a long time?

Think and answer:

Are the boys and girls happy that it is raining?

Find out the following with the help of your teacher and the internet.

Seasonal Rains (monsoon) in India and other countries.

Find out the following with the help of your teacher and the internet.

Rain in countries like the UK which experience spring-summer-autumn-winter.

Talk about your favourite season. (A one-minute activity.)

Find an example of alliteration from the poem.

Other examples of Alliteration are:

Write a character sketch of each of the animals. Write about their actions and thoughts and the qualities that emerge through them. You may present the sketch in the form of a graphic.

Using your imagination, write more sentences in the same pattern:

1. But the more the lion had, the more he wanted.
2. Whenever he took a walk, they followed him.
3. To be king is good. But to be kind is better.