Balbharati solutions for Integrated 7 Standard Part 2 [Hindi Medium] Maharashtra State Board chapter 2.2 - Two Fables [Latest edition]

Do you like to read stories? List 5 of your favourite stories. You may list stories from any language. Now use one or more of the following story types, to describe your favourite stories.

Within two minutes, tell us as many words as possible, related to the following:

village

Within two minutes, tell us as many words as possible, related to the following:

city

Within two minutes, tell us as many words as possible, related to the following:

forest

Who rushed out upon the friends? Where were they at that time?

Why did the other traveller lie with his face in the dust?

Did the bear really whisper to the traveller? 

Use the phrase 'be good at something' in your own sentence. 

Find the sentence in which ‘be good at something’ is used in this story.

Guess the meaning of:

turned up his long nose 

Guess the meaning of:

put up with

Guess the meaning of:

set off

Guess the meaning of:

refreshment

Describe some features of country life. 

Describe some features of town life.

Rewrite the story using human characters and making other appropriate changes. 

What is the meaning of 'only'?

What does the country mouse mean by 'only!'? 

What is better – country life or town life? Why?

This story has two parts. Write what happened in each part. 

Translate the following into your mother tongue:

I do not like that music at my dinner! 

Translate the following into your mother tongue:

Better beans and bread in peace than cakes and jellies in fear.

Try to write more sentences on the pattern of 'Better beans and bread in peace than cakes and jellies in fear.' Example: Better late than never.

Write the moral of the story in your mother tongue using your own words.

Use any 5 of the following verbs in your own sentences to show the past, present and future tenses -

like, love, answer, scamper, wait, sniff, laugh. 

Can you complete the following table? Note that these verbs have 'irregular' past tense forms. 

Keep adding more verbs to this table of tenses. 

Read this menu card carefully and answer the questions given below the card.

1. Guess the meaning of 'menu card'.
2. What is the purpose of a 'menu card'?
3. Is this 'menu card' in English or Marathi? Discuss.
4. List at least 5 English and 5 Marathi words from the card separately. 

Imagine that you have opened a hotel in the following places.

• Dahiwadi • Nagpur • Bengaluru • London

1. Which language/languages and script/scripts will you use on your card at each of these places?
2. You want to appoint staff in your hotel. What languages do they need to know?
3. Design a menu card for your hotel, offering food items of your choice. Invent fancy names for your dishes. 

Use the menu card given on page 48 and prepare dialogues for the following situation.  

Use the menu card given on page 48 and prepare dialogues for the following situation. 

Use the menu card given on page 48 and prepare dialogues for the following situation.