CSM SCHOOL CITY - RAJENDRA NAGAR, ORAI [JALAUN], UP
Class 8 English Solutions
Chapters 1-2
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The English Route–8
Chapter 1.
A Hero
Explore the Facts
A. Answer the following questions.
1. Swami’s father made him listen to the news story about a boy killing a tiger because he think that Swami is a coward boy, and he wanted him to be courageous.
2. Swami’s father said—“You think you are wiser than the newspaper ?’’—to Swami because of Swami argued against the news of newspaper as : “I think he (village lad, according to newspaper) must have been a very strong and grown-up person, not at all a boy. How could a boy fight a tiger?’’
3. Swami hated the newspaper for printing the tiger’s story because, after reading this story in the newspaper, his father asked him to show his courageousness and to fulfill this emand, Swami have had to sleep in a dark room alone.
4. Father, the cook and a helper come in, carrying lights in the office room at midnight because they heard the scream of the burglar who was bitten by Swami in the dark office room.
5. After Swami’s act of courage, Inspector said to him, “Why don’t you join the police when you grow up ?’’
6. Swami had bitten into the flesh of one of the most notorious housebreakers of the district and so he was caught by the police. Thus, Swami became a hero. Yes, he was a real hero. We think so, because leaving his cowardice, he courageously bit into the flesh of the notorious housebreaker. And thus, now he was a courageous boy, a hero.
B. Tick the correct answer.
1. (iii) third
2. (ii) Granny
3. (iii) tiger
4. (i) office room
5. (iv) next
C. Write T for True and F for False.
1. (T)
2. (F)
3. (T)
4. (F)
5. (T)
6. (F)
Word Power
A. Match the following.
1. (c)
2. (d)
3. (a)
4. (e)
5. (b)
B. Write antonyms.
unintelligent
unmatched
unusual
unjust
disrespect
unanswered
incapable
C. Circle the correct words.
1. (iv)
2. (ii)
3. (iv)
4. (iii)
5. (iii)
Grammar Fun
1. Rewrite the sentences.
(i) He ordered to pay at once.
(ii) She asked to tell her when it was five past eight.
(iii) He suggested that they should wait there until the rain stops.
(iv) The teacher said that he had been very quick.
(v) Maahi insisted that she had always been nice to him.
2. Do it yourself.
Chapter 2.
This is Jody’s Fawn
Explore the Facts
A. Answer the following questions.
1. Penny Baxter allowed Jody to go find the fawn and raise it because the fawn was belonged to the doe they killed to draw out the poison. So they should not be ungrateful to leave the fawn to starve.
2. When Doc Word Power Wilson said, “Nothing in the world ever comes quite free,’’ he meant that no one comes in the world itself alone, it comes in the world due its mother, as the fawn.
3. Jody bring the fawn back home sometimes in his lap, and sometimes allowing it to walk a little distance. At last, in front of his house, he picked the fawn up and went to his father.
4. When Jody accepted the responsibility of looking after the fawn, he fed it with milk in an interesting way. He dipped his fingers into the milk and thrust them into the fawn’s soft wet mouth. It sucked greedily. He dipped his fingers again and as the fawn sucked, he lowered them slowly into the milk. As long as he held his fingers below the level of the milk, the fawn was content.
5. When Jody’s mother hears that he is going to bring the fawn home, she holds her coffee pot in mid-air and ask, “What fawn ?’’ And when Jody tells her, “The fawn belonging to the doe we killed,’’ she gasps and said, “Well, for pity sake.”
6. The fawn didn’t follow Jody up the steps as he had thought it would because the fawn balked and thus refused to climb.
B. Tick the correct answer.
.1. (iii) Coffee
2. (ii) dinner
3. (i) spring
4. (i) drink milk
5. (iii) Mill-wheel.
C. Write T for True and F for False.
1. (F)
2. (T)
3. (F)
4. (T)
5. (T)
6. (T)
Word Power
Say whether transitive or intransitive.
1. Intransitive
2. Intransitive
3. Transitive
4. Transitive
5. Transitive
6. Transitive
7. Transitive
8. Transitive
9. Intransitive
Grammar Fun
A. Change to reported speech.
1. Penny asked his son if he really want that.
2. He asked Mill-wheel if he thought the fawn was there.
3. He asked Mill-wheel if he would help him to find him.
4. Mill-wheel asked if he rode back with him.
5. He said if that was up there that Pa got bitten by the snake.
B. Fill in the blanks.
1. many
2. much
3. much
4. many
5. many
discontented displeased disheartening disgraced read swore read sworn
Compound Nouns Compound Verbs Compound
motor-bicycle window-pane
blackboard sightseeing
sleepwalking output