Ncert english solutions honeycomb class 7 Solutions for Chapter 9 chapter 5 quality

What was Mr Gessler’s complaint against ‘big firms”?

Why did the author visit the shop so infrequently?

What was the author’s opinion about Mr Gessler as a bootmaker?

Why did the author order so many pairs of boots? Did he really need them?

What was the effect on Mr Gessler of the author’s remark about a certain pair of boots?

Based on the following points write a story.

• Your aunt has gone to her mother’s house.

• Your uncle does his cooking.

• He is absent-minded.

• He puts vegetables on the stove.

• He begins to clean his bicycle outside.

• The neighbor calls out saying something is burning.

• Your uncle rushes to the kitchen.

• To save vegetables, he puts some oil on them.

• Unfortunately, it’s machine oil, not cooking oil.

• What do you think happens to the vegetables?

Begin like this:

Last month my aunt decided to visit her parents…

Look at the picture.

Let pairs of students talk to each other about leaving the country. One student repeats Ajit’s statement. The other gives a reason for not agreeing with Ajit. The sentence openings given below should be used.

• If I leave this country, I’ll miss…

• There are some things which you can get only here, for example…

• There are some special days I’ll miss, particularly…

• Most of all I’ll miss…because…

• I think it’s impossible for me to leave my country because…

• How can you leave your own country except when…?

• Depends on one’s intention. I can’t leave for good because…

• Maybe for a couple of years…

Speak to five adults in your neighborhood. Ask them the following questions (in any language they are comfortable in). Then come back and share your findings with the class.

(i) Do they buy their provisions packed in plastic packets at a big store, or loose, from a smaller store near their house?

(ii) Where do they buy their footwear? Do they buy branded footwear, or footwear made locally? What reasons do they have for their preference?

(iii) Do they buy ready-made clothes, or buy cloth and get their clothes stitched by a tailor? Which do they think is better?

What is the significance of the title? To whom or to what does it refer?

Do you think Mr Gessler was a failure as a bootmaker or as a competitive businessman?

In each of the following words ‘ch’ represents the same consonant sound as in ‘chair’. The words on the left have this sound initially. Those on the right have it finally.

Speak each word clearly.

choose bench

child march

cheese peach

chair wretch

charming research

Underline the letters representing this sound in each of the following words.

(i) feature (iv) reaching (vii) riches

(ii) archery (v) nature (viii) batch

(iii) picture (vi) matches (ix) church

Each of the following words contains the sound ‘sh’ (as in shine) in the beginning or in the middle or at the end. First speak out all the words clearly. Then arrange the words in three groups in the table on page 80.

Notice the way Mr Gessler speaks English. His English is influenced by his mother tongue. He speaks English with an accent.

• When Mr Gessler speaks, p,t,k, sound like b,d,g. Can you say these words as Mr Gessler would say them?

It comes and never stops. Does it bother me? Not at all. Ask my brother, please.

Study the following phrases and their meanings. Use them appropriately to complete the sentences that follow.

look after: take care of

look down on: disapprove or regard as inferior

look in (on someone): make a short visit

look into: investigate

look out: be careful

look up: improve

look up to: admire

(i) After a very long spell of heat, the weather is __________________ at last.

(ii) We have no right to ____________________people who do small jobs.

(iii) Nitin has always _________________ his uncle, who is a self-made man.

(iv) The police are ____________________ the matter thoroughly.

(v) If you want to go out, I will ______________________ the children for you.

(vi) I promise to __________________ on your brother when I visit Lucknow next.

(vii) _________________ when you are crossing the main road.

Read the following sets of words loudly and clearly. cot — coat

cost — coast

tossed — toast

got — goat

rot — rote

blot — bloat

knot — note