Samacheer Kalvi solutions for English - Term 2 Class 7 TN Board chapter 1.1 - Adventures of Don Quixote [Latest edition]

My Hand of Imagination

1. Trace around your hand on a white paper.
2. Make list of your five choices.
3. Draw a picture to indicate what would your finger becomes.
4. Erase one to finger at a time and draw your choice in its place.
5. Write and share in the class.

What kinds of books did Don Quixote like to read? What were those books like?

What effect do the things Don Quixote reads have on him?

Why didn’t Don Quixote believe Sancho Panza when Sancho told him the ogres were actually windmills?

Why do you think Sancho continued to journey on with Don Quixote after the windmill incident?

When Don Quixote sees the cloud of dust on the plain in the distance, what does he think causes it?

Sancho sees two clouds of dust, leading him to conclude that there are two armies. What does Don Quixote think will happen next?

What is the reaction of the shepherds when they see that Don Quixote is attacking their sheep?

Most people associate windmills with Holland, rather than Spain. Use the encyclopedia and any other sources you might have to find out more about windmills and their traditional and modern uses. Then, make a model of a windmill to display with the results of your research.

Draw a design of a boat that skims trash off the surface of a river, lake, or ocean. Label the parts and give your invention a catchy name.

• What kind of vessel could do the job?
• What parts would it have?
• How would it move?
• How could it tell the difference between trash and other objects, such as animals and seaweed?
• How would it store and dump the trash?
• Could your machine double as a beach sweeper, sifting trash from sand?

To Dream the Impossible Dream

Don Quixote might be seen as not simply crazy in his refusal to see things as they really are but more like a person who wants to accomplish a greater good and so refuses to compromise his ideals. Examples of such people include Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Discuss (with examples and other evidence) whether or not they think Quixote deserves to be put in the company of real-world idealists or is merely delusional.

Explain the difference between these words by making sentence. 

see/sea - ______

Explain the difference between these words by making sentence. 

knight/night - 

Explain the difference between these words by making sentence. 

right/write -

Explain the difference between these words by making sentence.

arms/alms-

Explain the difference between these words by making sentence

fair/fare-

Explain the difference between these words by making sentence.

here/hear-

Explain the difference between these words by making sentence.

heard/herd

Explain the difference between these words by making sentence. 

our/hour-

Explain the difference between these words by making sentence. 

no/know-

Explain the difference between these words by making sentence. 

not/knot

Read the following sentence and write the meaning of the underline word.

The bandage was wound around the wound.

wound- ____________

wound- ____________

Read the following sentence and write the meaning of the underline word.

There is a fair Arts and Craft fair this weekend.

fair- ______

fair- ______

Read the following sentence and write the meaning of the underline word.

The woodcutter saw a huge saw in his dream

saw- ______

saw- ______

Read the following sentence and write the meaning of the underline word.

Write the right answers on the right side.

right- ______

right- ______

Read the following sentence and write the meaning of the underline word.

The well was dug by a well-known king.

well- ______

well- ______

Read the following sentence and write the meaning of the underline word.

We have march past in March.

march- ______

march- ______

Read the following sentence and write the meaning of the underline word.

Can you get me a can?

can- ______

can- ______

Read the following sentence and write the meaning of the underline word.

How long will the live fish live without food?

live- ______

live- ______

Read the following sentence and write the meaning of the underline word.

She has tears in her eyes as she tears old photos.

tears- ______

tears- ______

Read the following sentence and write the meaning of the underline word.

I will be second in line if I wait one more second.

second- ______

second- ______

Divide each word by putting a slash (/) symbol between each syllable. On the space provided, write how many syllables each word has. Use a dictionary if you're not sure where to divide the syllables.

Listen to your teacher reading a passage on Adventure Trips. Visualize the activities. Draw the scenes in the given boxes.

Read the conversation of the simple machines. Take roles to play. Then discuss in pairs to describe any simple machine. Create your own storyboard and take roles to play.

Jack: Don't you know how simple machines make your life easy?

Jimmy: Um... I don't know what simple machines are.

Jack: Simple machines are mechanical devices for applying force like a wedge or ramp.

Jimmy: Oh! wow! How I did not know this!

Jack: Like the wheels on hospital bed and IV pole. They help you move people faster by reducing the friction.

Jimmy: Is the stick over there that the TV is attached to, is that a simple machine too?

Jack: Yes it is, it's a lever. The wheels on the bus are simple machines, they make the bus move.

Jimmy: What about the doors?

Jack: 'Yeah' the driver pulls a lever and the doors open and you climb up the inclined plane aka the stairs. The cable in the elevator is wrapped around a groove in the wheel and axle, an electric motor pulls the cable, lifting the car between floors.

Jimmy: So the wheels on the rolling chair are too by rolling the chair back instead of lifting the chair back.

Jack: 'Yes' they are, they move the chair and reduce the friction.

Ask the students to tell a story. It may be a true story or an imaginative story. Choose one of the titles from the following.

• A time I was very late.
• A funny story about my friend.
• I met someone very interesting.
• An unusual event.
• A funny story about my life.

Solve the crossword puzzle using superlative adjectives.

Put students in pairs and tell them to interview their partner. To do this they must make questions, e.g. What’s the worst storm you’ve ever seen? They can also ask follow-up questions to find out more information. Do feedback on this as a whole class. Other thematic questionnaires of this kind could be:

Emotional experiences

• The most frightened I’ve ever been …
• The happiest moment I’ve ever had …
• The most nervous I’ve ever been …

Musical experiences

• The best song I’ve ever heard …
• The worst song I’ve ever heard …
• The longest time I’ve ever danced …

Places in your life

• The most dangerous place I’ve been in …
• The cheapest restaurant I’ve eaten in …
• The most boring town I’ve ever visited …

Write a paragraph comparing Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. The following words will help you to write a compare and contrast paragraph.

Local Historians

• Ask students to collect stories about their town from older people.
• Ask them to find out how the streets were named.
• Are there any interesting people or legends to which the street names refer?
• Are there any local places in town about which people tell stories?
• Any haunted houses?
• Let students find out when the town was founded and by whom.
• Visit a local historical society to see old photographs or artifacts.

Let students create an original historical fiction:

Describe the town from the point of view of a fictitious citizen who might have lived in the town long ago. Include local issues of the time in the story. Write the story of the town from the fictionalized point of view of a resident who actually lived.