Balbharati solutions for एकात्मिक ७ कक्षा भाग १ [मराठी माध्यम] महाराष्ट्र स्टेट बोर्ड chapter 1.4 - Journey to the West [Latest edition]

How do people find their way through deserts, forests, mountains, oceans, etc. today? How did they do it in the past? Discuss.

Read the following statement and say whether it is historical or fictional. 

Indian merchants used to travel across the seas many centuries ago. 

Read the following statement and say whether it is historical or fictional. 

Sindbad the sailor completed seven voyages.

Read the following statement and say whether it is historical or fictional. 

Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 20th century.

Read the following statement and say whether it is historical or fictional. 

Aladdin could fly on his magic carpet.

Read the following statement and say whether it is historical or fictional. 

Alexander the Great conquered a number of countries before he came to India.

Read the following statement and say whether it is historical or fictional. 

Gulliver met very tiny people in Lilliput and giants in the country of Brobdingnag. 

Read the following statement and say whether it is historical or fictional. 

There’s a man in the moon who watches what’s going on on the earth.

Read the following statement and say whether it is historical or fictional. 

Emperor Ashoka’s empire stretched from the modern-day Afghanistan to Bangladesh.

Discuss the meaning of the following sentence:

But 'west' is a relative term.

Discuss the meaning of the following sentence:

Yuan Chwang undertook the long and difficult journey to follow his dream.

Guess the meaning of horseback.

Guess the meaning of snow-clad.

What was Yuan Chwang's dream? 

Find/Prepare a map of Yuan Chwang's travel route -

• from China to India. 
• in India
• from India back to China. 

Why did people think that gods and supernatural powers had helped Yuan Chwang? 

What is the novel about? 

Can you think of other pairs of words starting with 'folk'? 

Why have the three characters agreed to help Yuan Chwang? 

Who's the most powerful among the three disciples? 

If you were to undertake Yuan Chwong's journey today, how will you travel? Describe it using a map or 'Google map'. State which modes and means of transport you will use. 

Write other expressions like 'Happy reading!' 

List all the persons and characters mentioned in the story.
Which of them are real? Which are imaginary?

The novel 'Journey to the West' is about a journey to western countries like England and America.

In the days of Yuan Chwang travelling from China to India was not an easy task. 

Yuan Chwang travelled to many parts of India. 

Yuan Chwang's way back home was relatively easy. 

Gods and supernatural powers had helped Yuan Chwang in his quest.

The three disciples of Yuan Chwang were three saints. 

The three disciples have supernatural powers.

Write any five features of Sun Wukong's character that you like best. 

Read: • As big as a pillar  • As tiny as a needle

Now write more such phrases using your imagination.

• As big as a ______
• As tiny as a ______
• As hard as a ______
• As soft as a ______
• As sweet as a ______
• As sharp as a ______ 

You know that many times a letter or a group of letters is added before or after a word to make new words. A letter/a group of letters that is added before a word is called a prefix. A letter/group of letters that is added after a word is called a suffix.
The word to which a prefix or suffix is added is called a root or root word.
Let us look at some examples of roots, prefixes and suffixes. 

Guess the meaning of unfamiliar. 

Guess the meaning of unbelievable. 

Write the opposite of the following:

unsafe

Write the opposite of the following:

unimportant

Write the opposite of the following:

uninteresting 

Write the opposite of the following:

unknown

Write the opposite of the following:

unkind

Write the opposite of the following:

unintelligent

Common Nouns - 1

You know that some things, animals etc., that is, some common nouns can be counted. They are countable nouns. Some common nouns stand for something that cannot be counted. They are uncountable nouns. Countable nouns have two forms - singular and plural. Let us look at some examples. 

• Find five countable nouns from the passage and write their singular and plural forms.
• List the units that we use to measure the following:
  water, milk, distance, weight.