Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Notes A Heritage of Trees
Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Notes A Heritage of Trees
Read the following stanza carefully and answer the question that follow—
1."I saw a man
Attack a tree today
The road from
Mysore to Ooty
About twenty miles along it
There you'll see a tragic sight."
(a)What does 'attack'mean?How was the man'attacking'the tree?
(b)Where dose the road go from?
(c)What does'a tragic sight'refer here?
Ans–
(a)Attacks means an attempt to cause injury.The man attacked the trees by ripping the branch and multilated it ultimately from the trunks.
(b)Road goes from Mysore to Ooty.
(c)The tragic refers here causing great sadness when the trees were cut down.
2.Trees for the pepole?
Let all enjoys them
Hack them cut them up
So that the fires
That cook the village food
Shall burn more hot.
Trees are our heritage
And as so holy.
(a)What is our heritage?
(b)What is so holy?
(c)Who is the poet?
(a)Tree is our heritage.
(b)The asn is so holy
(c)David Horsburgh is the poet.
Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Notes A Heritage of Trees
Answar the following question–
1.The words in the pome 'A line of noble trees'tells us that the poet-
(a)admiers trees
(b)hates trees.
Ans-admiers trees.
2.Why do you think the poet says,'Let them come...to look once more/on their life's work'?
(a)those who planted them will punish the men.
(b)those who planted thenm will feel pained if they come back to life.
Ans-(a)Those who planted them will feel painted if they came back to life.
3.What words and phrases in the pome tell us that the poet feels that trees have been misused or hurt by man?
Ans-I saw a branches ultimately from their trunks cripples some.
4.What is the message hidden in the pome?
Ans-The message in this pome that trees should be protected and prevent them from being cut in the name of progress by the human beings,mercilessly without thinking of the after effects.
Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Notes A Heritage of Tree S
Fill in the blanks with the words given in the bracket—
(a)Is it true that something sharks____pepole while they are swimming?
(b)It is____that trees are mutilated and cut down in our forests.
(c)Akbar was a____Mughal Emperor.
(d)The____body of a wild animals was found in the forest;its tail and one leg were missing.
(e)His____departure brought us great sadness; he should have stayed with us much longer.
(f)Our historic environment enriches our quality of ; it is our____and we should take care of it.
Ans-
(a)hacked
(b)tragic
(c)noble
(d)ripped
(e)untimely
(f)Heritage
Talk about the importance of tree in class with reference to the following points—
(a)Trees give us____
(b)Trees are important because____
(c)We have to save trees because____
Ans-
(a)Trees give us shadow to take shelter.
(b)Trees are important because it give us fresh air breath.
(c)We have to save trees because it is our heritage.
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