FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 07 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - MEADOW SURPRISES

 

Poem - 03

MEADOW SURPRISES

Lois Brandt Philips

Speaking and Writing

Come, let us talk about this poem. Take turns with your partner to ask or answer these questions. Explain why you think your answer is correct Quote from the poem when necessary. Write down your answers.

 

1) Meadows hide secrets. (True / Not True)
Ans: True.

 

2) The grass in this meadow has grown tall. (True / Not True)
Ans: True.

 

3) What does the poet mean by the words “velvet grass”?
Ans: The poet means by the words velvet grass is the grass is so sleek and delicate so he advices to walk gradually on that sensitive delicate grass as comfortable as possible.

 

4) What do butterflies do when they flutter down and sit on flowers?
Ans: When butterflies flutter down and sit on flowers they unfold drinking straws to drink nectar from the flowers.

 

5) What is a buttercup?
Ans: Wild plant with yellow flowers is a buttercup.

 

6) Why did the rabbit hop?
Ans: The rabbit hopped when it was scared while sitting very still to save its life.

 

7) Imagine you are sitting by a brook. Write two or three sentences about the sounds you hear.
Ans: Brook which filled with water has a beautiful sound of flowing water, chirping of birds, and cry of other animals surrounding it.

 

8) What are meadow houses?
Ans: The burrows in the ground, a nest beneath tall grasses and the ant’s amazing mound are meadow houses mentioned in the poem.

 

9) What is a dandelion?
Ans: Small wild plant with bright yellow flowers is a dandelion.

 

10) How does a meadow tell its secrets? (Stanza 6)
Ans: A meadow tell its secrets and many things when we discover them by looking and listen around it.

 

11) These are some “meadow surprises”, can you add one more surprise?

Ans:  There are so many meadow surprises when we observe carefully in it, as many insects, like crickets, grasshoppers, as well as frogs and some snakes crawling here and there in meadows.

 

D. Writing

Read carefully the two paragraphs given below. Supply the words that are not given.

Last week was an eventful week. We went to Safari Park last week. Riding through it, we saw a t i g e r lazing in the z o o. We t h e n went to a d e n. There, even as we were looking at it, a p e a c o c k spread its feathers and d a n c i n g. My friend Neeta came back from Brookfield in the U.S. She said she actually w a t c h e d a grizzly bear. So, we had some exciting moments last week. But my most exciting moment was when I was walking across a m e a d o w. The l a n d was flat, but suddenly a rabbit hopped up as if from no w h e r e. It looked like m a g i c. I went near to ex p l o r e. The r a b b i t had dug a b u r r o w in the meadow and made a h o u s e for himself and his family.