Clouds
Intizar Hussain
Class - VIII |Lesson - 2|WBBSE
Text Activity
Activity – 1
Rearrange the following sentences in the order and put the numbers in the given boxes:
(1) He saw a grass-cutter coming from the other direction .[4]
(2) The grass-cutter was surprised. [6]
(3) He reached the old mud hut.[2]
(4) He wandered in search of the clouds.[1]
(5) He asked the grass-cutter if he had noticed the clouds.[5]
(6) He turned onto the dirt track.[3]
Activity – 2
Complete the following sentences with the information from the text:
(a) The grass-cutter had a bundle of freshly cut grass balanced on his head.
(b) He was disappointed to see that the grass-cutter was still mystified.
(c) The farmer could not make sense about the question of clouds.
(d) He was asking for the clouds like a man who has lost a child and asks travellers if they have seen a child wandering.
Activity – 3
Answer the following question:
“But no one could give him a satisfactory answer” — Why do you think no one could give him a satisfactory answer?
Answer : I think, the boy was asking for a most peculiar question to all of them about the clouds. They could not make sense of the question. So, no one could give him a satisfactory answer.
Activity – 4
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements in the given boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers:
(a) In the morning, the boy asked the first question to his father. [F]
S.S : His mother was the first he had asked in the morning.
(b) The boy’s mother asked him to go to school. [T]
S.S : Wash quickly, eat your breakfast and go to school.
(c) When the boy got up in the morning, he saw that the sky was cloudless.[T]
S.S : When he got up in the morning, he was amazed. The sky was clear and empty.
(d) The boy was happy to think that he had fallen asleep. [F]
S.S : It saddened him to think that he had fallen asleep.
Activity – 5
Answer the following questions:
(a) Which question haunted the boy ?
Ans: The question that haunted the the boy was where the clouds had gone.
(b) What did the boy see in the middle of the night?
Ans: In the middle of the night, the boy saw that the clouds were dense and black and occasionally there were flashes of lighting. It looked as if it will be raining.
(c) How did he feel as he walked between the fields?
Ans : The boy felt extremely hot as if his body was on fire and his throat was dry.
(d) What did he do after reaching the shelter of the tree?
Ans : After reaching the shelter of the tree, the boy splashed the cool water from the Persian wheel on his dusty feet. Then he washed his hand and face and drank his fill.
Activity – 6
Fill the chart with information from the text:
What
(i) The boy was open-mouthed.
(ii) The earth was damp underfoot.
(iii) The boy hurried home.
(iv) When he got home, he saw everything had changed.
Ans :
Why
(i) The old man said that he lived in a place where it had not rained for ten years.
(ii) The rain bathed everything.
(iii)He wanted to see how fresh and clean the jamun tree was looking in his courtyard.
(iv) It rained sometimes ago and the rain had changed everything.
Activity – 7
Answer the following questions:
(a) What did the old man say about the place where he once lived ?
Ans : The old man said that he once lived in a place where it had not rained for ten years.
(b) How did the boy feel as he reached the mud hut?
Ans : When the boy reached the mud hut, the boy felt a nip in the air and the earth was damp underfoot.
(c ) What did the boy do as he stood under the jamun tree ?
Ans : The boy stood under the jamun tree to let the raindrops fall on his head and face.
(d ) Why did the clouds shed rain in the absence of the boy?
Ans : The clouds shed the rains as the natural phenomenon, but it not conscious of the boy.
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