Haryana Board 7th Class English Solutions Honeycomb Poem 1 The Squirrel
HBSE 7th Class English The Squirrel Textbook Questions and Answers
Question 1.
Why does the poet say the squirrel “wrote question mark for tall”? Draw a squirrel, or find a picture of a squirrel sitting on the ground. How would you describe its tail?
Answer:
Poet finds the tail of the squirrel as a question mark because of the shape it bears. It’s tail is long, bushy and curved.
Question 2.
Do we usually say that an animal ‘wears’ a tail? What do we say? (Think: Does an animal wear a coat? Consult a dictionary if you like, and food out how ‘wear’ is used in different ways).
Answer:
We usually say that animal has a tail not that animal ‘wears’ a tail. Wear is used to indicate to have and to cover.
Question 3.
“He liked to tease and play”. Who is teasing whom? How?
Answer:
Children liked to tease and play with the squirrel. They run around the tree and hide behind the tree.
HBSE 7th Class English The Squirrel Important Questions and Answers
Question 1.
Give the rhyming word for way.
Answer:
Play.
Question 2.
Which other animal has a curved tail that is never straight?
Answer:
Dog.
Make Sentences:
Wore, Straight, Tease, The other way
Answer:
(a) Wore : I wore a pretty dress on my birthday.
(b) Straight : Sit straight otherwise you’ll spoil your posture.
(c) Tease : Don’t tease the little dog.
(d) The other : You have come in the way wrong direction, go the other way.
The Squirrel Poem Stanzas for Comprehension
STANZA – 1
He wore a question mark for tail,
An overcoat of gray.
He sat up straight to eat a nut.
Questions :
(i) Who is ‘He’?
(ii) What is the shape of questions mark?
(iii) What is the colour of skin?
(iv) What does he like to eat?
Answer:
(i) lie is a squirrel.
(ii) The squirrel’s tail is a question mark.
(iii) The skin is grey in colour.
(iv) He likes to eat a not.
STANZA – 2
He liked to tease and play,
And if we ran around his tree,
He went the other way.
Questions :
(i) Who is the author?
(ii) What does he enjoy?
(iii) Who are ‘We’?
(iv) What does this action of squirrel show?
Answer:
(i) The author is ‘Mildrid Bowers’ Armstrong.
(ii) He enjoys teasing and playing.
(iii) ‘We’are the children.
(iv) This action of squirrel shows action that squirrel is very active.
The Squirrel Poem Translation in Hindi
1. He were a question mark for tail,
An overcoat of gray.
He sat up straight to eat a nut.
हिन्दी अनुवाद – उसने पूँछ के लिए प्रश्न चित्र लगागा उसकी खाल भूरे रंग की हैं वं्ष सीधा बैठ कर मूँगफली खाने लगा।
2. He liked to tease and play,
And if we ran around his tree,
He went the other way.
हिन्दी अनुवाद् – उसको छेड़ना और खेलना पसंद था अगर हम उस पेड़ के चारों तरफ दौड़ते वह दूसरी तरफ चला जाता”।
The Squirrel Poem Summary in English
Squirrel is sitting on the trunk of a tree and eating a nut. It’s tail looks a question mark. Squirrel has a grey skin and likes to eat a nut. He likes to go around the tree and play.
The Squirrel Poem Summary in Hindi
गिलहरी तने पर सीधा बैठ कर मूँगफली खा रही है। उसकी पूँछु प्रश्न चिह्न की तरह लगती है। गिलहरी की खाल गूरे रंग की है और वह मूँगफल्ली खाना पसन्द करती है। वह पेड़ के चारों तरफ जाकर खंलना चाहती हैं।