Class-7 English Reader (Special), Lesson-5 The Wasp and the Bee / M.P. Board


Lesson-5
The Wasp and the Bee


Exercises

Answer the following questions:
(i)    Who is talking to the bee?
Ans- The wasp was talking to the bee.

(ii)   What does the wasp ask the bee?
Ans- The wasp asked the bee why did people love her better than him?

(iii)  How does the wasp explain himself?
Ans- Wasp explains himself as an insect with elegant shape with golden yellow back.

(iv)  What does the bee tell the wasp?
Ans- The bee tells the wasp that people don’t like him because of his mischieves.

(v)   Why don’t you people like the wasp despite it being elegant?
Ans- People don’t like the wasp despite it being elegant because of its offence, trifling action and sting.

(vi)  How does the bee explain herself?
Ans- The bee explains herself as a busy and good natured person withvery homely and pain dress.

(vii)Whom do the people like, the bee or the wasp?
Ans- The people like the bee.


Click here for Solutions and Additional Exercises on NCERT Science Class-7


Read the following sentences and tick (T) or false (F):
(i)    A bee met a wasp that was just buzzing by.  (F)
(ii)   The wasp’s back is as yellow as gold. (T)
(iii)  Everybody like the bee. (T)
(iv)  The wasp’s dress is bright and costly. (T)
(v)   The bee is busy and good natured. (T)

Fill in the blank spaces using these words to complete the given paragraph:
buzzing            yellow              elegant            sing      likes     shape

A wasp met a bee that was buzzing. He said to the bee that his back is as yellow as gold. And his shape is most elegant. Yet nobody likes him. The bee says, “You have a fine shape, and a delicate wing, but there’s one thing which people cannot put up with, and that is your sting.

Match the sounds from column B with those of animals, birds and insects in column A
A
B
1.
bees
hum
2.
birds
chirp
3.
parrots
talk
4.
crows
caw
5.
frogs
croak

Talk to your partner and decide who does what! One of you will ask questions in column A and other one will find the correct answers from column B

S.No.
A
B
1
Have you seen a bee?
Yes, it is a beautiful small insect.
2
Why don’t people like the wasp?
Because it stings people.
3
Is the bee useful?
Yes, it is useful as we get honey from bee-hive.
4
What are the colours of a wasp?
These are two types of wasps, yellow and black.
5
What do you know about a butterfly?
A butterfly keeps on flying and buzzing.


Find a poem from your library books on a bee or a butterfly and read it to the class.
Beauty The Butterfly

I'm Beauty the Butterfly,
Just look at my wings,
Such wonderful softness,
And bright colorings.
I come in your gardens,
To find your nice flowers,
And drink in their sweetness,
Through warm sunny hours
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