Question Answers For All Chapters – Balbharati English Class 7
Think Before You Speak!
ENGLISH WORKSHOP-Solutions
1. The same word can be used as a noun in some sentences and as a verb in others. For example,
(1) Many are the empty remarks ……….. Noun.
(2) A wise man once remarked, ………. Verb.
Make two sentences of your own with each of the words given below, using the same word as a noun in one and as a verb in another.
• change • show • throw • return • benefi
Answer:
| Words | Noun | Verb |
| Change | Picnics are a welcome change from daily routine. | Change the way you think. |
| Show | The students put up a grand musical show. | You need not show me your tickets. |
| Throw | That was an easy throw. | You must throw garbage in the trash can. |
| Return | She promised to take me for a movie on her return from the market. | Please return my book, as I need to complete it. |
| Benefit | I advise you for your own benefit. | Children benefit from parent’s advice. |
2. Complete the following.
• Our ears are like funnels because ……………
• The two rows of teeth are like a fence because ……………
• The two lips are like a fence because ……………
• Harsh words are like scattered bits of paper carried away by the wind because ……………
Answer:
- there is no door with which you can close them.
- if you have to speak even one single word, that word must pass through the teeth.
- before a word can be spoken, it has to pass, it has to pierce through these two walls.
- once you have spoken the words aloud. It is very difficult to take them back.
3. Write a brief summary of the story of the young man and his spiritual teacher, making the young man the narrator.
You may begin as given below.
‘I went quickly to my spiritual teacher for advice because I had ……………………… (Now continue)
Answer: I went quickly to my spiritual teacher for advice because I had hurt and insulted my dear friend with unkind and harsh words. When I asked him for the solution, he gave me a fresh sheet of blank paper and a pen and instructed me to write down on that paper all the harsh things l had told, my friend. I obeyed. He then asked me to tear it into as many bits as I could and throw the bits out of the window. The tiny bits scattered far and wide in no time. But to my surprise, he then asked me to collect as many bits as possible. I ran to collect it but in vain. I couldn’t get hold of even a single bit of paper. I returned all exhausted. He then revealed to me that spoken words are like those bits of paper, easy to scatter but difficult to take back. I learned that I should think before I speak.
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