NCERT solutions for Class 7 English - Honeycomb chapter 5 - Quality [Latest edition]

What was the author’s opinion about Mr Gessler as a bootmaker?

Why did the author visit the shop so infrequently?

What was the effect on Mr Gessler of the author’s remark about a certain pair of boots?

What was Mr Gessler’s complaint against ‘big farms’?

Why did the author order so many pairs of boots? Did he really need them?

Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.

After a very long spell of heat, the weather is ………….. at last.

Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.

We have no right to …………. people who do small jobs.

Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.

Nitin has always ……………. his uncle, who is a self-made man.

Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.

The police are …………… the matter thoroughly.

Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.

If you want to go out, I will ………….. the children for you.

Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.

I promise to ………….. on your brother when I visit Lucknow next.

Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.

……………. when you are crossing the main road.

Read the following sets of words loudly and clearly.

cot – coat
cost – coast
tossed – toast
got – goat
rot – rote
blot – bloat
knot – note

Each of the following words contains the sound ‘sh’ (as in shine) in the beginning or in the middle or at the end. First speak out all the words clearly. Then arrange the words in three groups in the table below

sheep trash marsh fashion
anxious shriek shore fish
portion ashes sure nation
shoe pushing polish moustache

In each of the following words ‘ch’ represents the same consonant sound as in ‘chair’. The words on the left have this sound initially. Those on the right have it finally. Speak each word clearly.

choose bench
child march
cheese peach
chair wretch
charming research

Underline the letters representing this sound in each of the following words.

1. feature
2. reaching
3. riches
4. archery
5. nature
6. batch
7. picture
8. matches
9. church

Do you think Mr Gessler was a failure as a bootmaker or as a competitive businessman?

What is the significance of the title? To who or to what does it refer?

• Notice the way Mr Gessler speaks English. His English is influenced by his mother tongue. He speaks English with an accent.
• When Mr Gessler speaks, p, t, k, sound like b,d,g. Can you say these words as Mr Gessler would say them?
  It comes and never stops. Does it bother me? Not at all. Ask my brother, please.

Speak to five adults in your neighbourhood. Ask them the following questions (in any language they are comfortable in). Then come back and share your findings with the class.

1. Do they buy their provisions packed in plastic packets at a big store or loose, from a smaller store near their house?
2. Where do they buy their footwear? Do they buy branded footwear or footwear made locally? What reasons do they have for their preference?
3. Do they buy readymade clothes or buy cloth and get their clothes stitched by a tailor? Which do they think is better?

Based on the following points write a story.

•  Your aunt has gone to her mother’s house.
• Your uncle does his cooking.
• He is absent-minded.
• He puts vegetables on stove
• He begins to clean his bicycle outside.
• The neighbour calls out saying something is burning.
• Your uncle rushes to the kitchen.
• To save vegetables, he puts some oil in them.
• Unfortunately, it’s machine oil, not cooking oil.
• What do you think happens to the vegetables?

Begin like this: Last month my aunt decided to visit her parents...

What proves that Mr Gessler was not an Englishman?

Where did Mr Gessler live?

What distinction Mr Gessler’s shop had?

How did Mr Gessler found that the boot was not comfortable for author?

What material Mr Gessler used to make the boots?

How did Mr Gessler described his brother?

Give one stance from the lesson that proves that Mr Gessler was getting older.

Why did the author went to the shoe shop for the last time?

Why was the name plate missing at Mr Gessler’s shop?

Why did author preferred boots made by Mr Gessler than that of big firms?

The author felt sorry for complaining about his boots. What made him feel so?

Why the author called those boots bought from big firm ‘ill-omened’?

Describe the boots made by Mr Gessler.

Mr Gessler in his last wasn’t in good health. Give three examples to prove this.

Mr Gessler was spending his days with great difficulty. Give suitable arguments in favour of this.

He used to work really hard to make each pair of shoe. But still everything he earned went on paying the rent of his shop and in buying leather. There wasn’t much money with him. He nearly killed himself working for hours at the shop without any food and rest.
Quality is an important aspect of business. Elaborate

He used to work really hard to make each pair of shoe. But still everything he earned went on paying the rent of his shop and in buying leather. There wasn’t much money with him. He nearly killed himself working for hours at the shop without any food and rest.
Whom does ‘his’ refers to in the above lines?