Honeycomb Ch19 Garden Snake
NCERT solutions for English Garden Snake
NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Chapter wise Solutions
Honeycomb
- Three Questions
- A Gift of Chapter
- Gopal and The Hilsa Fish
- The Ashes that made Trees Bloom
- Quality
- Expert Detectives
- The Invention of Vita – Wonk
- Fire Friend and foe
- A Bicycle in Good Repair
- The story of Cricket
An Alien Hand
- The Tiny Teacher
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Desert
- The Cop and the Anthem
- Golu Grows a Nose
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Chandni
- The Bear Story
- A Tiger in the House
- An Alien Hand
NCERT Solutions for class 7 English Garden Snake
Page No: 137
Working with the Poem
1. Answer the following questions.
(i) Pick out the line that suggests that the child is afraid of snakes.
(ii) Which line shows a complete change of the child’s attitude towards snakes? Read it aloud.
(iii) “But mother says that kind is good…” What is mother referring to?
Ans:(i) The line that suggests that the child is afraid of snakes is ‘I saw a snake and ran away…’
(ii) ‘I’ll stand aside and watch him pass,
And tell myself, “There’s no mistake,
It’s just a harmless garden snake!”’
(iii) The mother is referring to the harmless garden snake.
NCERT Solutions for class 7 English Garden Snake
Page No: 138
2. Find the word that refers to the snake’s movements in the grass.
Ans: The word that refers to the snake’s movements in the grass is ‘wiggles’.
NCERT Solutions for class 7 English Garden Snake
3. There are four pairs of rhyming words in the poem. Say them aloud.
Ans:(i) ‘Away’ – ‘say’
(ii) ‘Good’ – ‘food’
(iv) ‘Grass’ – ‘pass’
(iv) ‘Mistake’ – ‘snake’
4. A snake has no legs or feet, but it moves very fast. Can you guess how? Discuss in the group.
Ans: A snake has no legs or feet, but it moves very fast as it slides over the grass with the help of its scales.
NCERT Solutions for class 7 English Garden Snake
5. Can you recall the word used for a cobra’s long sharp teeth? Where did you come across this word first?
Ans: Cobra’s long sharp teeth are like two bows or forks that are ready to chase you down. It makes me frightened. They are called fangs which is hollow tube attached to a poisonous gland on one side. I came across these words as it looks very dangerous and sharp like knife.