Class-7 English Reader (Special), Lesson-4 The Wheat is Cheaper-II / M.P. Board


Lesson-4
The Wheat is Cheaper-II

Exercises

Comprehension
Answer the questions given below:
(i)    Did the merchant cast doubt on the farmer’s story?
Ans- No, the merchant did not cast doubt on the farmer’s story.

(ii)   How did the farmer make the merchant pay him up?
Ans- Farmer framed the story cleverly to make the merchant pay him.

(iii)  Why did the merchant not object to the farmer’s charge about his father?
Ans- The merchant did not objet to farmer’s charge about his father because the price of wheat was cheaper than the money of bet.

(iv)  Why was he silent during the farmer’s story?
Ans- Merchant was silent during the farmer’s story because he did not want to cast a doubt in order to win the bet.

(v)   Why did the merchant decide to pay the farmer?
Ans- The merchant decided to pay the farmer because the price of wheat was less than hundred rupees of bet.

(vi)  How much money did he pay to the farmer?
Ans- He paid seventy five rupees to the farmer.

(vii)Who do you think was clever, the merchant or the father?
Ans- Farmer was clever.


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Read the following sentences and tick true(T) or fales(f):
(i)     The merchant cast doubt on the farmer’s story. (F)
(ii)   The merchant held his tongue. (T)
(iii)  The farmer had a weak horse without saddle. (F)
(iv)  The grains sprouted on the horse back. (T)
(v)   The merchant gave him a hundred rupees. (F)
(vi)  The farmer’s story failed to impress the merchant. (F)


Word Power
Fill in the blanks using the words given below:
saddle              admired           sore     grain    sprouted          hire      reap     starving
begged            neighbouring   his       


The farmer used to go to the market on his horse. The horse had a fine saddle on which he sat. People of the neighbouring village admired the horse and its saddle. The farmer’s saddle was torn which caused a sore on its back. Once there was a storm and a lot of grain stuck into the wound. Later the grains of wheat sprouted on the horse back. The farmer had to hire about forty men to reap the grain. One day a man came to my father saw and begged him to give seventy five kilos of wheat. When my father saw the man starving, he gave him the wheat.

Grammar in Use

Frame questions for the following answers using what, when, how, who, why.

Ques: Who had a fine horse?
Ans: The farmer’s father had a fine horse.

Que: How did the farmer use to go on his horse to the market?
Ans: The farmer used to go on his horse to the market.

Que: What did the farmer find on horse’s back?
Ans: The farmer found that the horse had a sore on its back.

Que: Who begged him to give him seventy-five kilos of wheat?
Ans: He begged him to give him seventy-five kilos of wheat.

Que: What does your father owe to my father even to this day?
Ans: Your father owes seventy-five kilos of wheat to my father even to this day.

Que: Why did the merchant begin running his thumb up and down his fingers?
Ans: The merchant began running his thumb up and down his fingers and was calculating.

Discuss in groups about the famous Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and find answers to the following questions:

(i)    Who was Bhagat Singh?
Ans- Bhagat Singh was an Indian freedom fighter.

(ii)   Where was he born?
Ans- Bhagat Singh was born  at Khatkar Kalan village near Banga in the Lyallpur district of Punjab.

(iii)  How did he inspire people?
Ans- Bhagat Singh's death inspired thousands of youths to assist the remainder of the Indian independence movement. After his hanging, youths in regions around Northern India rioted in protest against the British Raj

(iv)  Why did the British dislike him?
Ans- The British dislike him because he was one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement.

(v)   Where was he hanged to death?
Ans- He was hanged to death in Lahore jail.

Read the information given in the table and write three sentences about each freedom fighter.
S.No
Name
Birthplace
Action
1.
Mah atma Gandhi
Porbandar
started Non-violence and Quit India Movements
2.
Subhash Chandra Bose
Cuttack
gave slogan “Give me blood, I’ll give you freedom”. Founded Azad Hind Fauj.
3.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Allahabad
true Congress worker
First Prime Minister of the country.
4.
Mangal Pandey
Ballia
first hero of Indian freedom movement.

Mahatma Gandhi
  1. Mahatma Gandhi was a freedom fighter.
  2. He was born in Porbandar.
  3. He started Non-Violence and Quit India movement.

Subhash Chandra Bose
  1. Subhash Chandra Bose was born at Cuttack.
  2. He gave the slogan, “Give me blood, I’ll give you freedom”.
  3. He founded Azad Hind Fauj.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
  1. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was born at Allahabad.
  2. He was a true congress worker.
  3. He was the First Prime Minister of the country.

Mangal Pandey
  1. Mangal Pandey was a freedom fightrt.
  2. He was born at Ballia.
  3. He was the first hero of Indian Freedom movement 1857.

Make a list of the names of crops produced by farmers:

  1. Cotton
  2. Soyabean
  3. Opium
  4. Wheat
  5. Gram
  6. Til (sesame)
  7. Millet
  8. Maize
  9. Jowar
  10. Rice
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