Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) इयत्ता ७ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for English

Answer the following question

How did Gopal get inside the palace to see the king after he had bought the fish?

Answer the following question

Explain why no one seemed to be interested in talking about the hilsa-fish which Gopal had bought

The king got angry when he was shown to be wrong ______.

Notice how in a comic book, there are no speech marks when characters talk. Instead what they say is put in a speech ‘bubble’. However, if we wish to repeat or ‘report’ what they say, we must put it into reported speech.

Change the following sentences in the story to reported speech. The first one has been done for you.

(i) How much did you pay for that hilsa?

Notice how in a comic book, there are no speech marks when characters talk. Instead what they say is put in a speech ‘bubble’. However, if we wish to repeat or ‘report’ what they say, we must put it into reported speech

Change the following sentences in the story to reported speech.  

(i) Why is your face half-shaven?Gopal’s wife asked him______________________.

Notice how in a comic book, there are no speech marks when characters talk. Instead what they say is put in a speech ‘bubble’. However, if we wish to repeat or ‘report’ what they say, we must put it into reported speech.

Change the following sentences in the story to reported speech. The first one has been done for you.

I accept the challenge, Your Majesty. Gopal told the king_____________________

Notice how in a comic book, there are no speech marks when characters talk. Instead what they say is put in a speech ‘bubble’. However, if we wish to repeat or ‘report’ what they say, we must put it into reported speech.

Change the following sentences in the story to reported speech. The first one has been done for you.

I want to see the king.

Gopal told the guards_________________

Notice how in a comic book, there are no speech marks when characters talk. Instead what they say is put in a speech ‘bubble’. However, if we wish to repeat or ‘report’ what they say, we must put it into reported speech.

Change the following sentences in the story to reported speech. The first one has been done for you.

Bring the man to me at once. The king ordered the guard________________________

Find out the meaning of the following words by looking them up in the dictionary. Then use them in sentences of your own.

challenge

Now write the story in your own words. Give it a title.

Answer the following questions.

(i) Who is the speaker in the poem?

(ii) Is she/he afraid or curious, or both?

(iii)What is she/he planning to do soon?

(iv)“But not just yet...” suggests doubt, fear, hesitation, laziness, or something else. Choose the word which seems right to you. Tell others why you chose it.

Is there a room in your house or a house in your neighborhood/locality where you would rather not go alone, and never at night? If there is such a place and a story to go with it, let others hear all about it.

Why did the neighbours kill the dog?

Mark the right item.

The old farmer and his wife loved the dog

Mark the right item.

When the old couple became rich, they

Mark the right item.

The greedy couple borrowed the mill and the mortar to make

Answer the following questions.

The old farmer is a kind person. What evidence of his kindness do you find in the first two paragraphs

Why did the king send two messengers throughout his kingdom?

How did the king promise to reward the person who would answer his questions correctly?

Whose advice did the king finally think of seeking?