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NCERT · Class 7 · English

Unit 1: The Tiny Teacher

Practice each question, then open the answer or worked solution.

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Answer the following questions:

2 questions
Q1Written answer

(i) What problems are you likely to face if you keep ants as pets?

(ii) When a group of bees finds nectar, it informs other bees of its location, quantity, etc. through dancing. Can you guess what ants communicate to their fellow ants by touching one another’s feelers?

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Answer: (i) There might be several problems if we keep ants as pets. They would start eating our food and other eatables. They bite. They won’t listen to our orders.

(ii) Ants communicate about food newly found by them to their fellow ants by touching one another’s feelers.

Q2Written answer

Complete the following poem with words from the box below. Then recite the poem.

Soldiers live in barracks

And birds in _________,

Much like a snake that rests

In a _________. No horse is able

To sleep except in a _________.

And a dog lives well,

Mind you, only in a _________.

To say ‘hi’ to an ant, if you will,

You may have to climb an _________.

Hole, kennel, nests, anthill, stable

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Soldiers live in barracks

And birds in nests,

Much like a snake that rests

In a hole. No horse is able

To sleep except in a stable.

And a dog lives well,

Mind you, only in a kennel.

To say ‘hi’ to an ant, if you will,

You may have to climb an anthill.

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