West Bengal Board Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture Question Answer Class 7 Lesson 5 | Activity Solution
Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture
Activity 1
Choose the correct from the given alternatives:
(a) The thing which would have come home from frame – makers is
(i) a picture
(ii) A carving on wood
(iii) a picture drawn on a piece of cloth
Answer - (i) a picture
(b) Uncle Podger would take off his
(i) vest
(ii) tie
(iii) coat
Answer - (iii) coat
(c) Uncle Podger would ask
(i) the boy
(ii) the girl
(iii) the charwomen, for sixpen’orth of nails.
Answer - (ii) the girl
(d) Uncle Podger at first, would drop the
(i) Picture
(ii) hammer
(iii) nail
Answer - (i) Picture
Activity 2
Identify which of the following statements are true and which are False. Give a supporting statement for each of your answers.
(a) There was a commotion in the house when Uncle Podger undertook a job. [True]
Supporting Statement: You never saw such a commotion in the house when.
(b) Uncle Podger did not want to hang the picture. [False]
Supporting Statement: I will do all that
(c) Uncle Podger would cut himself and spring round the room searching for his handkerchief. [True]
Supporting Statement: Then he would ring round the room looking for his handkerchief
(d) The second thing that Uncle Podger would lose would be the hammer. [False]
Supporting Statement: He would take hold of the nail and drop it.
Activity 3
Complete the following with information from the text:
(a) Aunt Podger would ask what was to be done with it after the picture came to the house.
(b) Tom was asked to bring a step-ladder and a kitchen-chair.
(c) Uncle Podger found the coat himself as he would be sitting on it.
Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture Question Answer
Activity 4
Answer the following questions:
(a) Name the children of Uncle Podger.
Answer - They are will and tom.
(b) What did Uncle Podger ask the children to be for him?
Answer - Uncle Podger asked the children to bring a nail, rule and cord for him.
(c) How did Uncle Podger want this coat?
Answer - He would drop the picture, and try to save the glass he would cut himself.
(d) Why did Uncle Podger want his coat?
Answer - Uncle Podger would cut himself and look for his handkercheif was in the coat pocket. So Uncle Podger wanted his coat.
(e) Where did he find his coat?
Answer - Because he put his handkerchief in his coat’s pocket.
Activity 5
Choose the correct answers from given alternatives:
(a) Uncle Podger would call us all
(i) intelligent
(ii) careless
(iii) fools
Answer - (iii) fools
(b) Uncle Podger would slide and fall
(i) on the char-women’s toes
(ii) on the piano
(iii) on the chair
Answer - (ii) on the piano
(c) Uncle Podger’s work would finish
(i) at around midnight
(ii) at mid-day
(iii) in the evening
Answer - (i) at around midnight
Activity 6
Complete the following with information from the text:
(a) Uncle Podger would lose sight of the mark he had made on the wall, where the nail was to go in.
(b) Uncle Podger was trying to reach a point three inches beyond.
(c) Uncle Podger would like doing a job of this short.
Activity 7
Complete the following information from the text:
| Cause | Effect |
| (a) To find out the spot where the nail was to go in. | Each child had to get up beside him on the chair |
| (b) Uncle Podger would slip. | Uncle Podger would fall on to the piano |
| (c) At the first of the hummer | He would smash his thumb. |
| (d) At the second blow, the nail would go clean through the plaster. | A new hole was made |
Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture Question Answer
Activity 8
Answer the following questions:
(a) Give two instances to show the carelessness of Uncle Podger.
Answer - (i) After sitting on his coat, he blamed the others. (ii) After losing the Hammer by himself shouted at others.
(b) What did Aunt Podger say after Uncle Podger smashed his thumb?
Answer - She hoped that next time when uncle podger world plans for these, she would go to her mother’s house.
(c) How did Uncle Podger react after finishing the task?
Answer - He would say, he did not understand why some people hire a man to do such simple work.
(d) Why was everyone tried after uncle Podger put up the picture on the wall?
Answer - It took a long time and uncle podger made the task very exhausting.
Activity 9
Match the following words in column A with their meanings in column B:
| A | B |
| (a) sneer | closely observing (d) |
| (b) evident | Poor (c) |
| (c) wretched | mock (a) |
| (d) surveying | clear (b) |
Activity 10
Find the antonyms of the following words from the texts:
(a) Rapidly (দ্রুত) – slowly (ধীরে ধীরে)
(b) lost (নিখোঁজ) – found (পাওয়া গেছে)
(c) Remembered (মনে পড়ল) – forgot (ভুলে গেছি)
(d) Roughly (মোটামুটি) – exactly (সঠিকভাবে)
(e) Save (সংরক্ষণ) – waste (অপচয়)
(f) Straight (সোজা) – curly (তরঙ্গায়িত)
Activity 11
Use the prefixes or suffixes (in-/im-/-al/-some) to form new words:
Answer -
(a) Different > indifferent
(b) Possible > impossible
(c) Sufficient > insufficient
(d) Arrive > arrival
(e) Whole > wholesome
Activity 12
Try to find as many compound words as possible you can from the lesson and make sentences with them.
1. Picture-cord: - My father bought a picture cord to hang a picture on the wall.
2. Three-inches: - I came across the man who was Three-inches in height in a story book.
3. First-blow: - He hit the first blow with hammer so hard that everything fell down.
4. Left-hand: - He always uses his left hand whenever he does anything.
Activity 13
Now try to write five sentences about what you want to be in future.
1. I would like to be a doctor in future.
2. In our country there are so many people who do not get proper treatment for want of money.
3. I would like to help them with treatment free of cost.
4. I will also provide them medicines as much as I can free of cost.
5. I would like to get happiness through my work of serving people.
Activity 14
We have already learned to plural nouns. Find some of these from the following sentences and then make other sentences with them.
(a) Trousers: - The boy always likes to wear trousers at home.
(b)Scissors: - He bought a pair of scissors from the market.
(c)Public: - That was a public issue.
(d)Goods: - My brother felt happy when he saw a goods train for the first time.
(e)Colours: - A rainbow has seven colours.
Activity 15
Now write the summary of the given passage.
Then he would spring round the room, looking for his handkerchief. He could not find his handkerchief, because it was in the pocket of the coat he had taken off, and he did not know where he had put the coat. The entire house had to leave off looking for his tools, and start looking for his coat; while he would dance round and hinder them.
Summary
He could not find his handkerchief. It was in the pocket of the coat he had taken off, and he did not know where he had put the coat; while he would dance round and hinder them.
Activity 16
Narrate a funny incident that you have experienced. You may use the following points:
[Brief account of the incident - when it happened - the funniest part of the incident - funny characters involved, if any.]
One day, when I was gone for my jogging i saw one child Around 10 year old, dancing. He was dancing very well but suddenly he lies down on ground and start shaking him. After around 2-3 minutes he became normal.
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