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NCERT Solutions Poorvi Chapter 1 A Bottle of Dew — Let us do these activities before we read

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Q1.
Circle the picture that matches with each word. Check your answers by sharing them with your classmates and teacher. 1. worried 2. plantation 3. sage 4. surprise
Answer

Two pictures are printed beside each word. Circle the one described below.

WordCircle this pictureWhy
1. worriedThe girl resting her head on her hand, with a sad, thoughtful faceWorry shows on the face — the other girl is smiling happily, so she is not worried.
2. plantationThe big field with rows and rows of crops and banana plantsA plantation is a large area where one kind of crop is grown. One single tree is not a plantation.
3. sageThe old man with a long white beard in saffron robesA sage is a holy, wise man. The other picture shows a vegetable seller at his stall.
4. surpriseThe boy with wide-open eyes and an open mouthAn open mouth and raised eyebrows are the signs of surprise. The other boy simply looks sad.
Tip: All four words come back in the story. Rama Natha's wife is worried, the sage is Mahipati, the family grows a banana plantation, and Rama Natha gets a surprise twice — once from the sage's answer and once from the box of gold coins.
Q2.
Think of a time when you worked hard. What did you do then?
Answer

This is your own experience, so no two answers will be alike. A good answer names one particular task, says how long you worked at it and what exactly you did — not just “I studied hard”.

Sample answer: Last year I was very weak in multiplication tables. For one whole month I practised for twenty minutes every evening after school. I wrote each table five times, made flash cards from old cardboard, and asked my elder sister to test me every Sunday. Slowly I stopped counting on my fingers.
Q3.
How did it help you?
Answer

Say clearly what changed because of the hard work — a result you can measure or point to.

Sample answer: It helped me finish my Maths paper on time. My marks went up from 14 to 23 out of 25, and now I can do shop bills in my head when my mother sends me to buy vegetables. My teacher also asked me to help two classmates with their tables.
Q4.
How did it make you feel?
Answer

Name the feeling and then explain it in one line.

Sample answer: It made me feel proud and confident. The best part was knowing that nobody had given me the marks — I had earned them myself. Now, when a new topic looks difficult, I tell myself that regular practice will beat it, just as it did last time.
Link to the story: Rama Natha felt exactly this at the end of A Bottle of Dew. Once he saw that his own hands had built the plantation, he “worked even harder on his plantation from that day on”.
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