We Are Seven|William Wordsworth| West Bengal board class 7 English solution|Model Activity tasks|question and answer
Activity 1
Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:
(a) The little girl whom the poet met was-
(i) seven (ii) eight (iii) nine years old.
Ans:(ii) eight
(b) The girl lost- (i) two brothers (ii) two sisters (iii) a brother and a sister.
Ans: (iii) a brother and a sister.
(c) The distance between her house and the burial ground was only- (i) twelve steps (ii) ten steps (iii) six steps.
Ans: (i) twelve steps
Activity 2
Identify which of the following statements are True and which are False. Give aa supporting statement for each of your answers:
(a) The little girl was good-looking.( T )
Supporting statement: 'Her beauty made me glad'
(b) Five of her brothers and sisters were dead. (F)
Supporting statement: "But they are dead; those two are dead!
(c) The graves were covered with green grass.(T)
Supporting statement: "Their graves are green, they may be seen,"
Activity 3
Look at the first four lines:
A simple child
That lightly draws its breath
And feels its life in every limb
What should it know of death?
Where is the similarity? The word breath rhymes with death.
Find words from the poem that rhyme with the given words:
curl: girl
air: fair
head: said
heaven: seven
laid: maid
clad: glad
be: me
tell: dwell
Activity 4
Answer the following questions :
(a) Pick out the expressions that describe the appearance of the girl
Ans: ' Her hair was thick with many a curl
That clustered round her head.
She had a rustic, woodland air
And she was wildly clad;
Her eyes were fair, and very fair;
The above expressions describe the appearance of the girl.
(b) With whom did the girl live?
Ans: The girl lived with her mother.
(c) What does the girl say about her living brothers and sisters?
Ans: The girl says that two of her brothers live at Conway and two have gone to the sea.
(d) Why does the girl say, "We are seven"?
Ans: The girl is very simple and innocent. So she cannot understand what death is. She cannot differentiate dead from alive and says that they are seven instead of five.
Activity 5
Make sentences with the following words:
dwell, clustered, rustic, grave, maid
Ans:
Dwell: They dwell in a village.
Clustered: The people clustered round the accident spot.
Rustic: I love the rustic environment.
Grave: He visited the grave of Akbar.
Maid : The little maid is plucking flowers.
Activity 6
Make sentences with the following pairs of homonyms:
met- mate; hair-hare; wonder- wander; two-to; there-their.
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