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

Find the meaning of the following words or phrases :

• ridges 
• brimming
• eddying
• babble 
• fallow
• trout
• netted

Who is the speaker in this poem?

Which lines are repeated in the poem? What do they mean?

Where does the brook join the river?

Mention the various places that the brook flows past.

Often the brook speaks of itself as if it is human.

For example, 'I bicker down a valley.'
Find two other examples of the human activities of the brook.

Spot and write any three alliterative phrases or sentences from the poem.
(Alliterative phrases/sentences are those in which the same sound is repeated.) 

List the prepositions you find in this poem.

List the phrases which have the expression 'many a ______'.

The poet uses words to create pictures or 'images' in the reader’s mind. For example, 'And sparkle out among the fern.'
Write down other lines that create images or pictures in your mind. (Any 3)

Write a short autobiography of a brook. (20 to 30 lines)

Which other things in nature can say –

'For men may come and men may go,
             But I go on for ever.'

Use the internet, your school library, or other sources for the following activity.

Try to find other nature poems.

Write your own impressions about the news items given in (a), (b), (c), and (d) in the table below. 

Write a letter to your Class Teacher or the Principal of your school to make any one of the two following requests.

You wish to start a news bulletin for your school/ class. It will be a one-page bulletin to be published every week. A different group of students will manage the preparation of the bulletin every time.

Write a letter to your Class Teacher or the Principal of your school to make the following request.

Your school library subscribes to a few newspapers. Your class wants old issues of the newspapers for some educational activity in the classroom. You are required to make cuttings / news clipping. Therefore, the papers cannot be returned to the library but you will use them in a responsible manner. Use the format of a formal letter given below.

Hold a discussion in the classroom about the differences between printed newspapers, radio news bulletins, TV news bulletins. Discuss the merits, demerits, and popularity of each.

The same word can be used as a noun in some sentences and as a verb in others. For example,

1. Many are the empty remarks. ______ (Noun)
2. A wise man once remarked, ______ (Verb) 

Make two sentences of your own with each of the words given below, using the same word as a noun in one and as a verb in another.

• change
• show
• throw
• return
• benefit

Write a brief summary of the story of the young man and his spiritual teacher, making the young man the narrator.
You may begin as given below.
'I went quickly to my spiritual teacher for advice because I had ______ (Now continue)

What is adverbial?