A Child’s Beauty class 7 Questions Answers SCERT, Assam

A Child’s Beauty class 7 Questions Answers SCERT, Assam: A Child's Beauty is lesson 7 from class 7 SCERT, Assam English text-book Sunbeam English Reader. Here, you will get A Child’s Beauty class 7 Questions Answers SCERT, Assam. 

A Child’s Beauty class 7 Questions and Answers

ACTIVITIES

Q1. Match the following facts about the story you just read.

        A                                                B

(a) Akbar                              (a) was Salim’s son

(b) Salima                            (b) was a minister in the court of Akber

(c) Birbal                              (c) was the Emperor

(d) The young prince         (d) Was Akber’s son

Ans:

        A                                                B

(a) Akbar                              (a) was the Emperor

(b) Salima                            (b) was Akbar’s son.

(c) Birbal                              (c) was a minister in the court of Akbar.

(d) The young prince         (d) was Salim’s son. 

Q2. Do you remember the story ? Rearrange the sentences as they happened in the story to see how well you remember what happened.

(a) Each minister brought a child to judge who was the most beautiful child.

(b) Birbal said that all parents found their children very beautiful.

(c) Akbar said that no child was more beautiful than his grandson.

(d)The mother did not let Birbal bring the child to the court.

(e) Akbar with his minister went in disguise to see the child.

(f) The mother got angry when she heard Akbar’s words.

(g) They found a child playing on a heap of sand.

(h) Akbar said he had never seen a child uglier than this.

(i) Akbar agreed with Birbal that all parents find their own children beautiful.

(j) The mother took the baby inside and shut the door.

Ans: 

(a) Akbar said that no child was more beautiful than his grandson.

(b) Birbal said that all parents found their children very beautiful.

(c) Each minister brought a child to judge who was the most beautiful child.

(d) The mother did not let Birbal bring the child to the court,

(e) Akbar with his minister went in disguise to see the child.

(f) They found a child playing on a heap of sand.

(g) Akbar said he had never seen a child uglier than this.

(h) The mother got angry when she heard Akbar’s words.

(i) The mother took the baby inside and shut the door.

(j) Akbar agreed with Birbal that all parents find their own children beautiful.

A Child’s Beauty class 7 all Questions Answers

Q3. Read the lesson once again and find answers to the following questions. Work with a partner. Discuss the answers with your partner and share them with the class.

(a) Why was Akbar happy ?

Ans: Akbar was happy because his son Salim had a son.

(b) Who used to say, “There is no child more beautiful than my garndson”.

Ans: Emperor Akbar used to say, “There is no child more beautiful than my grandson.”

(c) Why did each minister bring a child to the court ?

Ans: One of the minister said that all of the should bring a child whom they considered beautiful and then they themselves would be able to judge who will be the most beautiful. So each of the minister brought a child to the court.

(d) Why didn’t Birbal bring any child ?

Ans: Birbal found a beautiful child, but his mother refused to let him bring the child to the court as he was stranger. So he didn’t bring any child.

(e) Why did Akbar and the ministers go in disguise to see the child that Birbal could not bring to court ?

Ans: Birbal said that the mother of the child didn’t want Strangers to cast on evil eye on her child. So Akbar and the ministers went in disguise to see the child that Birbal couldn’t bring.

(f) Why did the mother of the child scream at Akbar ?

Ans: Akbar said that he had never seen on uglier child in his life. The mother of the child overhead this and so she screamed at Akbar.

(g) What did Akbar realize ?

Ans: Akbar realized that all children seem beautiful to their parents. 

A Child’s Beauty class 7 SCERT Solutions

Q4. Find out from the lesson who said the following sentence. Write the name of the person next to each sentence.

(a) “I have found a child who is the most beautiful child in the entire country.” ___________

(b) “If this is so, we can go and see the child in disguise.”___________

(c) “He is the most beautiful child God could have given me.”___________

(d) “Then we can judge for ourselves.” ___________

Ans: (a) “I have found a child who is the most beautiful child in the entire country.” Birbal said this.

(b) “If this is so, we can go and see the child in disguise. “Akbar said this.

(c) “He is the most beautiful child God could have given me.” The mother of the child said.

(d) “Then we can judge for ourselves”. One of the ministers said this.

Class 7, Chapter 7 A Child's Beauty 

Q5. Let’s practice speaking in English. Some sentences are missing in the conversation below. Complete the following conversation with your own sentences. Then in groups, do a rule play, where each of you will take one role and take part in a conversation.

Meera: You know what ! I saw the most beautiful little girl on my way to school today.

Adnan: What’s her name ? Where did you see her ?

Ranil: Do you know her ?

Asha: Why didn’t you bring her with you ?

Meera: Wait, wait ! I’m telling you one thing at a time ! I saw her ________________________________________________________ 

Asha: And then ?

Ranil: But, _________________________________________________

Adnan: ____________________________________________________

Meera: ____________________________________________________

Ans: 

Meera: You know what ! I saw the most beautiful little girl on my way to school today.

Adnan: What’s her name ? Where did you see her ?

Ranil: Do you know her ?

Asha: Why didn’t you bring her with you ?

Meera: Wait, wait ! I’m telling you one thing at a time ! I saw her on my way to school. I don’t know her name. I do not know her. How can I bring an unknown girl with me without having a cause?

Asha: And then ? Then she went on her way.

Ranil: But, you could have ask her name and where was she going.

Adnan: You have done a mistake not asking her anything.

Meera: You may think so.

Sunbeam English Reader Class 7

Q6. Let’s learn some grammar:

(a) In the story you came across the words happy, angry and beautiful. Each of these words tells us something about the related noun e.g. a beautiful child. Here the word beautiful describes the quality of the child. Such words that describe the quality of something or some one are called adjectives.

Note that adjectives have three degrees of comparison positive, comparative and superlative.

(i) Positive degree: Tomorrow each of us will bring a child whom we find beautiful. In this sentence the adjective describes the quality of one person. 

(ii) Comparative degree: There is no child more beautiful than my grandson. In this sentence, the adjective is used to compare one child with another.

(iii) Superlative degree: I have found a child who is the most beautiful child in the entire village.

The adjective in this sentence compares one child with all other children. We can arrange adjectives in their degrees as shown in the columns below. 

Positive degree     Comparative degree      Superlative degree 

(i) Beautiful            More beautiful                 Most beautiful happiest

(ii) Happy                 Happier                               Happiest

     

When the adjective has more than two syllables (i.c when the word is longer) we use more + adjective in the comparative and most+adjective in the superlative degrees.

When the adjective is a short word we add er in the comparative and est in the superlative degree.

Note that when the adjective ends in ‘y’ we change it into ‘i’ before adding ‘er’. There are a very small number of adjectives outside this rule.

(b) Let’s practise using adjectives of degree and see how much you remember.

Fill in the columns below with the correct forms of the adjective.

  Positive              Comparative                 Superlative

(i) Ugly                    ____________                 ____________

(ii) ____________     ____________                 angriest

(iii) ____________     dirtier                           ____________

(iv) big                    ____________                 ____________

(v) important        ____________                   ____________

Ans:

Positive                  Comparative                   Superlative

(i) Ugly                         Uglier                             Ugliest

(ii) Angry                     Angrier                          Angriest

(iii) Dirty                      Dirtier                             Dirtiest

(iv) Big                        Bigger                            Biggest

(v) important         more important           most important

(c) Now in your note book, make three sentences using an adjective from each of the three columns.

Ans: 

angry: Akbar became (grew) angry at Birbal.

uglier : Akbar had never seen a child uglier than that child.

biggest : Guwahati is the biggest town in Assam.