EVENTS CONVENT HIGH SCHOOL
26/08/2021 CLASS-7 SESSION2021-22(SLOT-1)
english
Chapter-3
GOPAL AND THE HILSA FISH
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Gopal and the Hilsa-Fish Working with the text (Page-42)
Answer the following questions:
Question 1.Why did the King want no more talk about the Hilsa-fish ?
Answer:
During the season of Hilsa-fish, everybody talked about the fish. The King was fed up.So he did not want to talk more about the fish.
Question 2.What did the King ask Gopal to do to prove that he was clever ?
Answer:
Gopal could stop everyone from talking about Hilsa-fish for five minutes.
Question 3.What three things did Gopal do before he went to buy his Hilsa-fish?
Answer:
Gopal covered his half face. He smeared his face with ash. And then he wore disgraceful rags on.
Question 4.How did Gopal get inside the palace to see the King after he had bought the fish?
Answer:
On reaching the palace he behaved like a mad man. He began to sing and dance loudly. The people took him crazy and forced him to present before the King in the palace.
Question 5.Explain why no one seemed to be interested in talking about the Hilsa-fish which Gopal had bought.
Answer:
Gopal was ill-dressed and behaved in a crazy way. Everyone took him mad. So, no one seemed to talk about the Hilsa-fish he had bought. Moreover they thought that Gopal
had lost his mind.
Question 6.Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ against each of the following sentences.
(i) The king lost his temper easily.
(ii) Gopal was a mad man.
(iii) Gopal was a clever man.
(iv) Gopal was too poor to afford decent clothes.
(v) The King got angry when he was shown to be wrong.
Answer:
(i) True
(ii) False
(iii) True
(iv) False
(v) False.
Gopal and the Hilsa-Fish Working with language (Page-42)
Question 1.Notice how in a comic book, there are no speech marks when characters talk. Instead
what they say is put in 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 ?
The woman asked the man how much he had paid for that hilsa.
(ii) Why is your face half-shaven?
Gopal’s wife asked him ……….
(iii) I accept the challenge, Your Majesty.
Gopal told the king …..
(iv) I want to see the king.
Gopal told the guards
(v) Bring the man to me at once.
The king ordered the guard….
Answer:
(ii) Gopal’s wife asked him why his face was half-shaven.
(iii) Gopal told the king that he accepted the challenge.
(iv) Gopal told the guards that he wanted to see the King.
(v) The King ordered the guard to bring the man to him at once.
Question 2.Find out the meaning of the following words by looking them up in the dictionary. Then use them in sentences of your own.
| challenge , mystic , comical , courtier , smearing |
Answer:(i) challenge : an invitation to compete
I accept your challenge now
(ii) mystic : relating to mystery
Gulliver was a mystic character.
(iii) comical : funny
Johny Walker was a comical character in Bollywood.
(iv) courtier : subjects in the court
Birbal was a courtier in the court of Akbar.
(v) smearing : rubbing
He was smearing his body with colours.
