In this post, we’ll learn about Heroes of Bengal, which is a topic from Chapter 8, English Subject, Class 7.
Important Vocabularies For This Lesson
- Placement – স্থান নির্ণয়
- Monitor – পর্যবেক্ষণ করা
- Unmindful – অমনোযোগী
- Watch station – নজরদারি কেন্দ্র
- Console – সান্ত্বনা দেওয়া
- Deadly – প্রাণঘাতী
- Task – করনীয় কাজ
- Accordingly – তদানুসারে
- Martyr – শহীদ
- Lemonade – পানি, চিনি ও লেবুর রস দিয়ে তৈরি শরবত।
8.1 | Look at the pictures below and in pairs identify the position/placement of the living and non-living things. Then, in pairs ask and answer questions to know their placements. One is done for you.
Question: Where is the sofa?
Answer: The sofa is beside the table.
a. What can you see on the table?
Ans: I can see a globe, a pen-holder with three pens, three books, a table lamp, two more pens and a piece of paper on the table.
b. Where is the chair?
Ans: The chair is in front of the table.
c. Where is the pen?
Ans: There are a few pens, two of them are on the table and the remaining three of them are in the pen holder.
d. Where is the cat?
Ans: The cat is under the table.
e. What can you see between the globe and the pen-holder?
Ans: I can see a table lamp between the globe and the pen-holder.
8.2 | Read the note given below. Now, in pairs make more questions and practice asking & answering questions with help of the note.
Ans:
S1 : Where is the butterfly?
S2: The butterfly is inside the room.
S1: Where is the window?
S2: The window is beside the sofa. Now, tell me, where is the calendar?
S1: The calendar is on the wall.
S2: Where is the flower-tub?
S1: The flower-tub is on the window sill.
( 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 do yourselves)
8.6 | Now, read the following text and write the functions/purposes of the highlighted conjunctions in the sentences. One is done for you.
Ans:
| Sentence | The function of the conjunction |
| 1. His brother was talking, but suddenly he became silent. | Connects opposite ideas |
| 2. One day Badal and his elder brother were going to school. | Connects similar ideas |
| 3. We will bring independence or will die. | Prefers one option |
8.7 | Read the story below. Now, in groups make a list of prepositions and conjunctions you find in the text in the given table.
Ans: List of prepositions and conjunctions
| Prepositions | on, in, for, to, before, at, with, of, against, among |
| Conjunctions | or, and, but, as well as, because |
8.8 | In pairs/groups read the following text and fill the gaps with the appropriate preposition from the box.
Ans:
| besides, in, with, under, on, at, by, of, from |
Badal’s family lives in a village. It’s a green village under an open blue sky. The village is beside a big river. There is a bridge over the river. A village hat (market) sits at one end of the village on Thursday. In fact, people can buy and sell fish and vegetable in the afternoon every day. Badal’s school was one kilometer away from his home. He used to go to school on foot with his brother. Often he went to school by Rickshaw,
8.10 | In pairs or groups read the sentences. And then, connect them using ‘and’, ‘but”, “or”.
Ans:
a) I like cooking and eating.
b) I drank lemonade and a glass of cold water.
c) He reached school on time but his friend was late.
d) I want to go to play but I’m sick.
e) Is it Thursday or Friday today?
f) My mother wants me to be a teacher but my father wants me to be a football player
g) One day his father went to market and bought a football for him.
h) Our headmaster is honest and very friendly.
i) I’m hungry but I have nothing to eat.
8.11 | Let’s Decorate Our Dream Reading Room
Ans:
Hello friends! I’m Tawsif and this is my dream reading room. There is a flower garden beside the “window of my reading room. There are a reading table, a chair and a bookshelf in my reading room. A wall clock and a calendar are hung on the wall. On the table, there are a pen holder, a globe, a note book and some books. I have a bed in my reading room but I don’t sleep there because I have a separate living room. I spend most of my time in my reading room by reading books or drawing pictures.
