Textual Writings of Class VII

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The Riddle

The Riddle  |  Activity: 12  |  Story :

The Crow and the Fox

Story: A crow was flying for a long time. He became very hungry. So, he was looking for food, He found a piece of raw meat and picked it. He then flew to a tree. By chance, a clever fox was passing by under the tree. The fox noticed the crow and wished to eat the piece of meat, the fox praised the voice of the crow. He also prayed him to sing a song. As the Crow began to sing the meat fell from his mouth. The fox took it and ran away. The crow became sad and flew away hopelessly.

Moral: A great talker is a great lair. / Never trust a rogue.

The Riddle  |  Activity: 11  |  Dialogue: About riddle and puzzle

This conversation is taken place between Amal and Bimal about a riddle:

A:            Hello, Bimal! What’s going on?

B:            Nothing serious. Just having a creak in this cross-word.

A:            Good to see you that you like puzzles. Well, here is a riddle for you.

B :           What’s the riddle?

A:            It’s…! What I say? It’s a verbal puzzle. Ok, Let me tell you one riddle. What is it, which is completely yours, But others use it more than you?

                B:            Umm! It must be a property! Am I right?

A:            No, it’s not. It’s a riddle. You have to think it differently.

B:            Then, What it’ll be! Tell me, Please.

A:            Well, it’s your ‘Name’. It is yours but others use it more than you, Idiot!

B:            Awesome! Quite interesting!

A:            Umm! As I’ve told you before. Ok, bye! I’ve to go home.

B:            Bye, Dear friend!

The Book of Nature

The Book of Nature  |  Let’s Talk: This conversation is taken place between Amal, Bimal and Ceema about learning by observing nature:

A: Hey, what did you learn from the class?

B: Let's go to observe plants and animals.

C: Why?

B: We 'll get to know many things about nature.

A: Of course. A plant grows in the Sun but it dies in the dark.

C: Oh, I understand now. What about animals!

B: Animals live in the forest. They hunt to get their food.

A: Really, It's true that the plants also make food of their own.

C: The tree gives us life but the animals kill their prey.

B: Yes, I saw a cat killing rat yesterday.

A: How sad it is!

C: It's the law of nature.

B: How?

A: Let me say. It's about the food chain.

C: But plants are life-giving things.

B: It gives us rain, makes the earth soft and yielding.

A: We can learn a lot simply by observing nature.

C: Let's close the book and go out to find out the Great Book of Nature.

B: Yee, let's go.

The Book of Nature  |  Activity: 14 (a)> Personal Letter :

Ramkrishnapally, Malda

Dt. : 2^nd April 2020

Dear Karan,

I got your sweet letter yesterday. Thank you for your invitation to go on a tour of Sikkim together, But I am sorry. My grandmother is very ill. She is going to have surgery early next month. So we can't join you for the tour. Please don't mind. Wish you a happy and memorable visit to Sikkim.

With best wishes.

Yours ever,

                                                                                                                                                          Sujit   

The Book of Nature  |  Activity: 14 (b)> Personal Letter :

Dear Michael,

                Thank you for your recent letter. It is so wonderful to hear from you! I am very glad that you had a good vacation.

           As for me, I also spent a wonderful vacation. In  August we went to Cyprus with my parents. It is a large island in the Mediterranean with a wonderful climate. We swam in the sea and were lying in the shade of huge eucalyptus trees. We travelled along the mountain paths and played with snow. Anyway, it was a memorable summer.

NB: Now write the format of your own, OK!

The Book of Nature  |  Activity: 15  |  Paragraph :

A Village Fair

              A village fair is an enjoyable occasion for the village people. The fair is held on occasions like-Pahela Baishakh, Chaittro Sangkranti, Eid ul-Fitr, Eid ul-Adha, Durga Puja or the birthday of a Bangalee writer, etc. The village fair is organized by a village committee. The committee organizes the fair at an open field. Hundreds of stalls of various items are installed at the fair. Children wait for a long time for the fair. They count down the days and make a list of buying goods from the fair. Different forms of entertainments including circus show, magic show, Jatra, puppet show amuse the villagers. Men, women and children of all ages gather and buy many fancy things for their household purposes. Undoubtedly, the fair brings immense pleasure to the villagers and gives them relaxed moments from the everyday-life.

The Beauty and the Beast

The Beauty and the Beast: Activity: 13 (a)

A Merchant and a Robber

Story: One evening a the wealthy merchant was going home through a forest. He had a bag full of money. Suddenly it started raining. He got wet and had to walk slowly for the muddy way. So, he got angry and cursed the  rain, "What an untimely rain !" Soon he was in a dark forest. At that time a robber came from behind a bush. He pointed his gun at the merchant and shot from a close range. But the merchant was unhurt because his gunpowder was wet. Then the merchant thanked God for the rain and felt sad for cursing the rain.

Moral:  “Whatever God does, is good for us.”

The Beauty and the Beast: Activity: 13 (b)

My Visit to a Garden of Flower

Once I visited a garden of flowers at Shibpur. It was by the side of the Ganges. I saw a great variety of flowers like roses, jasmines, sunflowers, marigolds and many others. They were dancing in the air. The colours of the flowers were very attractive. I forgot myself. They took me to a land of joy. I enjoyed their beauty to my heart's content. I left the place with a beautiful memory. I would never forget this place of scenic beauty.

Uncle Podger

Uncle Podger     |     Activity:15     |     Paragraph:

Your Experience of a Funny Incident

The other day I had to spend a day to my uncle’s house. In the afternoon my uncle told us that we had an invitation that day. We were all very excited all the day. Uncle came back at the evening with a big present for that purpose. We started to dress up as soon as he arrived but at the nick of time he remembered that it was not that day. Actually the invitation would be the next week. We all became sad and hopeless. My aunt started to quarrel with him for his forgetfulness. At night after our dinner he again forgot his spectacles and blames my aunt for that. All of us started to search the spectacles. Suddenly I noticed that it was resting on his head and started to laugh. Seeing me laughing, my uncle became furious and started to rebuke me. When I told him the reason of my laughing, he also started to laugh and hugged me with a lot of blessing. It was really a nice day and I will never forget that.

Uncle Podger     |     Let’s Work Together :

Some Famous Funny Characters of the World

Tenida: Tenida is a fictional native of Potoldanga in Kolkata. He appears in a number of short stories and novels of the Bengali author, Narayan Gangopadhyay. Tenida was depicted as the local big-mouthed airhead with a heart of gold. Although he was not blessed with academic excellence he was admired by other three for his presence of mind, courage and honesty as well as appetite.

Charlie Chaplin: Charlie Chaplin is a great comedian and filmmaker. In one of his films, 'City Lights', Chaplin plays the role of a Tramp. He is passing a boxing venue. Here a fighter convinces him to spar with him, throw the fight, and they will split the prize money. But the fighter turns out to be a fugitive from justice and flees, leaving the tramp to fight with a non-sense person.

Mr Bean: Mr Bean is a comic character of the television serial. In the show `Mr. Bean's Holiday' (the second film based on the television series, Mr Bean) Mr Bean attends a raffle. As the grand prize number is called to be 919, Bean is upset and throws his raffle ticket which ends up in a toy train cart. The ticket being 616 is read upside down and becomes 919. Bean grabs the ticket before the final call and claims his prize.