BSEB Bihar Board English Book Solutions Chapter 13. Running Throught the Rain Class 7th Solutions (वर्षा में सैर)
13. Running Throught the Rain
(वर्षा में सैर)
TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERS
B. Let’s Comprehend:
B.1. Think and Tell:
Q. 1. What is the poet fond of?
Ans. The poet is fond of rain. ·
Q. 2. What is delightful for the poet?
Ans. Falling of rain drops is delightful for the poet.
Q. 3. Why doesn’t poet want to take shelter ?
Ans. The poet likes rain very much, so he does not want to take shelter from it.
B.2. Think and Write:
B.2.1. Write whether the following statements are True or False.
1. The poet doesn’t like sunshine but he likes rain.
2. He calls the month of April merry.
3. The poet doesn’t enjoy the rainfall.
4. Bright eyed blossoms are large in size.
5. The poet succeeds in saving himself from being drenched.
6. It was a heavy rain.
7. The ground becomes scented because of rain.
8. The poet found shelter everywhere to save himself from rain.
9. He didn’t complain because he enjoyed running through the rain.
Ans. 1. False, 2. True, 3. False, 4. False, 5. False, 6. False, 7. True, 8. False, 9. True.
B.2.2. Answer the following questions very briefly.
Q. 1. Where does the rain fall?
Ans. The rain falls over hill and plain, and everywhere around the poet.
Q. 2. Which line in the first stanza shows that the poet enjoys running through the rain?
Ans. The fifth and sixth lines in the first stanza show that the poet enjoys running through the rain.
Q. 3. What did the poet say to the bright little blossoms ?
Ans. The poet said that the little blossoms growing by the way looked up with their bright eyes and expressed to him that he had been caught by the shower and could not escape from it because running through rain is delightful.
Q. 4. Which words in the last stanza show that the rain was not very heavy.
Ans. The words ‘pitter patter softly drips’ and ‘peeping sunbeam’ show that the rain was not heavy.
Q. 5. Apart from the rain what does the poet like ?
Ans. Apart from the rain, the sunshine, the bright eyed blossoms and the peeping sunbeam are also liked by the poet.
B.2.3. Answer these questions in not more than 50 words.
Q. 1. Why has the poet used the word ‘merry’ for the month of April in the poem ? Does this month have any relevance in your state regarding rain?
Ans. In England April is the month of spring, so the poet tells it merry.
In our state, normally, April has no relevance to rain.
Q. 2. Why does the poet regard escaping from rain as vain ?
Ans. The poet likes rain very much. So, there is no use of escaping from the shower. Thus, escaping from it is vain.
Q. 3. In the rain the poet doesn’t get any shelter. Still he doesn’t complain. Why?
Ans. The poet is fond of rain. So, when there is no shelter, the poet has nothing to complain.
C. Word Study:
C.1.Correct the spelling of the following words:
rian faling mery plian delightfull blosoms luaghingly eskape sunbeem
Ans. rain, falling, merry, plain, delightful, blossoms, laughingly, escape, sunbeam.
C.2. Match the words under column ‘A’ with their meanings given under column ‘B’.
D. Grammar :
Read the following lines carefully and concentrate on the use of auxiliary verb before a subject.
Some are fond of sunshine: Well, so am I.
In short answers and similar structures the words ‘so’, ‘neither’, ‘nor’ etc. are followed by auxiliary verb + subject.
More examples :
My mother is hungry, so am I.
He doesn’t like music, nor do I.
Her mother is beautiful, so is she.
He doesn’t come in time, neither do you.
Running Throught the Rain Class 7th Solutions
Write responses to the given sentences as suggested above.
(a) My father is very thin, ….
(b) She doesn’t like cricket,……….
(c) He is very polite,………
(d) They are very rough,………
(e) My friend knows Urdu……….
Ans. (a) so am I, (b) nor do I, (c) so are you, (d) so is he, (e) so do I.
E. Discussion/Composition:
Q. 1. Discuss the following in groups or pairs.
Grow more trees, get more rain.
Ans.
Pintoo : Trees, on the earth, are very useful to bring rain. :
Ritu : How ?
Pintoo : The trees suck water from the earth and evaporate it in the sky. Sun heat also directly forms vapour from the ocean water. All the vapour in the sky gets collected and driven away low pressure region of the earth. Such collected and driven away vapour forms clouds. When these clouds hit the top towards trees or mountains, precipitate and fall on the earth in water drops. Thus, the trees help us getting rain.Chickoo : So, we should grow more and more trees to get more and more rian.
Or, Trees are the source of rain.
Now write in about 100 words on the topics given above.
Ans. Trees Are the Source of Rain
Trees are very useful for man in many respect. But, tree are most important to get rain. Trees help nature in evaporation. They suck water from the earth and evaporate it through their leaves in the sky. Trees also helping in nature in precipitation of clouds. The leaves of the trees remain cold when they evaporate water in the sky. In turn, when the clouds in the sky hit the leaves of the trees they precipitate and raindrops fall on the earth. Thus, trees are the source of rain on the earth.
F. Activity:
Q. 1. Collect pictures showing farmers working in their fields during rain and paste them on your note-book.
Hints: Do yourself.
SOME OTHER IMPORTANT QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
Q. 1. Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the lesson.
(i) For when …… April
…….. over hill and plain.
(ii) While a ………. sunbeam
Gilds the scented ………
Ans. (i) merry, Trips, (ii) peeping, ground.
Q. 2. Use the following words in sentences of your own.
sunshine, delightful, blossoms, laughingly
Ans.
sunshine – Someone likes sunshine in summer also.
delightful – It is very delightful to walk in rain.
blossoms – blossoms are the lovely creation of nature.
laughingly –The boy spoke laughingly.
Q. 3. Write the summary of the lesson, ‘Running Through the Rain’.
Hint: See the ‘Summary of the Lesson’ on page 107.
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