CHILDREN ARE GOING TO SCHOOL - class 7

CHILDREN ARE GOING TO SCHOOL

ENGLISH WORKSHOP

1. Read the poem aloud.

2. Find at least two things from the poem that show the following:

(a) It is early morning.

(b) The atmosphere is pleasant.

3. Apart from the children, no other human beings are mentioned in the poem. 

However, many natural elements are shown to act like persons. Write what 

each of them does:

The Sky 

The Sun 

Breezes 

Fragrant Flowers 

The Peepal 

Every particle of the Earth 

l  Why are these written with a capital letter at the beginning?

4. What does Time do? What do we understand from his action?

5. The whole world is happy because children are going to school.

Why is it so ? Discuss it in the classroom.

6. If you were to draw a picture of the scene described here, what colours will 

you use ? Mention the objects and the colours using lines from the poem and 

your imagination.

7. Try to translate a few lines of your favourite song or poem from your mother 

tongue into English.

8. List all the verbs in the poem that have the suffx ‘-s’.

9. Write in two minutes, at least twenty words related to the given word.

 school  road  tree

Two minutes of Oral Work

Tell words beginning with each letter of the following words. 

Example : TIME - tea, ice cream, mouse, engine

l     light l     earth l     turban l     sleepy l    pigeons

Children are going to school English Workshop class 7

can a child go to school with mono

can a child go to school with conjunctivitis

should a child go to school with pinworms

a child refusing to go to school

sims 4 child not going to school

Journey to the West - class 7

Journey to the West - class 7

ENGLISH WORKSHOP

1. List all the persons and characters mentioned in the story. 

Which of them are real ? Which are imaginary ?

2. Say whether the following sentences are right or wrong.

 The novel ‘Journey to the West’ is about a journey to western countries like 

England and America.

 In the days of Yuan Chwang travelling from China to India was not an easy 

task.

 Yuan Chwang travelled to many parts of India.

 Yuan Chwang’s way back home was relatively easy.

 Gods and supernatural powers had helped Yuan Chwang in his quest.

 The three disciples of Yuan Chwang were three saints.

 The three disciples have supernatural powers.

3. Write any five features of Sun Wukong’s character that you like best.

4. Read : l  As big as a pillar l   As tiny as a needle

Now write more such phrases using your imagination.

l  As big as a l  As tiny as a l  As hard as a 

l  As soft as a l  As sweet as a l  As sharp as a 

5. You know that many times a letter or a group of letters is added before or after 

a word to make new words. A letter/a group of letters that is added before a word is 

called a prefix. A letter/group of letters that is added after a word is called a suffix.

The word to which a prefix or suffix is added is called a root or root word.

Let us look at some examples of roots, prefixes and suffixes.

6. Guess the meaning of : unfamiliar, unbelievable.

Now write the opposites of the following : 

unsafe, unimportant, uninteresting, unknown, unkind, unintelligent

Language Study

Common Nouns - 1

You know that some things, animals etc., that is, some common nouns can 

be counted. They are countable nouns. Some common nouns stand for something 

that cannot be counted. They are uncountable nouns. Countable nouns have two 

forms - singular and plural. Let us look at some examples.

Common nouns

 Countable nouns Uncountable nouns

Singular Plural 

word words 

country countries 

mile miles 

desert deserts 

mountain mountains 

road roads

story stories

 Find five countable nouns from the passage and write their singular and 

 plural forms.

 List the units that we use to measure the following : 

 water, milk, distance, weight.

Journey to the West - class 7 ENGLISH WORKSHOP