Balbharati solutions for अंग्रेजी ८ कक्षा महाराष्ट्र स्टेट बोर्ड chapter 4.1 - The Vet [Latest edition]

Where do we find all types of wild animals in urban areas?

Do you have a pet?

How do we help animals and birds?

How do we realize that animals are not feeling well?

Who gives medicine/treatment to sick animals and birds?

Doctors who do special advanced study of specific parts of the body have special terms.

In your group try to match the specialist doctors with who / what they treat.

Discuss in your group and write down the most important reason, why Pediatrician and Veterinarians have, a tougher job to diagnose their patients' illnesses.

Why is it so difficult to 'be a successful Vet'? 

What is wrong with ‘ducks and chickens’? 

What are the opposite illnesses of the lion and the Arctic fox?

Why have the giraffes got stiff necks?

Why does the poet call the vet 'omniscient'?

What is the poet’s advice to you? Do you think he means it? 

What is the Rhyme scheme of stanzas 1 to 3 and the last two stanzas?
How does it differ in the remaining stanzas 4 to 7?

Write any five illnesses of the animals in the poem that you find most amusing / laughable.

Out of all names of birds and animals given in the poem, pick out 4 names that are similar in English as well as in Hindi/Marathi or your Mother's tongue.

Write four reasons why animals in a zoo suffer more than those who live free in the wild. 

Think deeply and write. Is the poet really discouraging the youth from becoming vets? Explain your response.

Find out from a vet or from a website, what precaution a vet has to take when he/she is called to treat wild, dangerous animals?
Make point-wise notes of the same.

Select any four zoo animals mentioned in the poem. Imagine they are able to talk in English. Compose a dialogue among the four animals discussing their discomfort and illnesses.