Chapter 2.1 Comparisons

Chapter 2.1 Comparisons

Textbook Questions and Answers

Warming up!

Chit-chat:

What is your favourite colour?
What does it remind you of?
Are you afraid of the dark?
What does it make you think of?
If you were asked to design a big garden, what will you include in it?

Expanding Word Webs:

Question 1.
Form pairs. List the names of as many vehicles as you can. Choose any two of them, but they must be of different types. Then draw a word web for each of them to show their appearance, qualities and the things that these features remind you of. You may use words as well as phrases in the web.

Answer:
Words that can be used in Word-web:

terrific
brand-new
sleek
tiny/huge
powerful
affordable
expensive
easy-to-drive
eco-friendly
luxurious – arrows.
fuel-efficient
automatic
lefthand drive
fastest
imported

Name of the vehicles:

bicycle
bullock-cart
car
bus
truck
motorcycle
scooter
boat
ship
train
helicopter
aeroplane.

Choose any two of above vehicles and write related

Question 2.
Note the difference between drive and ride. Use the two words correctly in your own sentences :
Answer:

Ride – to sit on and be carried by an animal or a two wheeler.
Sentence – I don’t like to ride on a camel.
Drive – to sit in a vehicle and force to go in some directions.
Sentence – My father drives the car with full speed.

Question 3.
Describe your dream vehicle in a few lines :
Answer:
Flying car is my dream vehicle. It will fly in the air. It will fly fast and save our time. There will be no traffic jam problem. No need to construct roads for it. It will save fuel and will be eco-friendly.

English Workshop:

1. List all the adjectives in the poem. Use the comparative forms of at least 8 of them to write new comparisons. Two of them have been given as examples.

Question 1.
List all the adjectives in the poem. Use the comparative forms of at least 8 of them to write new comparisons. Two of them have been given as examples.
Answer:

as rapid as spaceship
as tough as snail
as dangerous as dinosaur
as brave as tiger
as nice as lamb
as yellow as lemon
as delicious as jam
as hot as desert
as deep as sea
as fine as house
as green as pea
as dark as cave
as crunchy as toast
as heavy as road drill
as fearful as ghost

2. List all the nouns in the poem. Find a suitable adjective – other than the ones given here – for each of the nouns and write meaningful similes for at least 8 of them.
For example, as yellow as a lemon.

Question 1.
List all the nouns in the poem. Find a suitable adjective – other than the ones given here – for each of the nouns and write meaningful similes for at least 8 of them.
For example, as yellow as a lemon.
Answer:

as useful as ore
as lovely as a kitten
as stable as a rock
as warm as a mitten
as narrow as tunnel
as cute as an elf
as tricky as a mountain path
as safe as shelf

3. Form groups of 6-8. Think of similes using different objects, for example,
Dry as land, Wet as a puddle.
Now try to put together the similes to make a poem with rhyming lines.

Question 1.
Form groups of 6-8. Think of similes using different objects, for example,
Dry as land, Wet as a puddle.
Now try to put together the similes to make a poem with rhyming lines.

4. Write the pairs of rhyming words.

Question 1.
Write the pairs of rhyming words.
Answer:

kitten – mitten
moon – noon
elf – shelf
shelf – yourself.
snail – nail
lamb – jam
sea – pea
toast – ghost.

5. Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following categories:

Question 1.
Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following categories:
Answer:
(a) idioms with colours:

as black as coal
as white as snow
as red as blood
as blue as the sky
as green as an emerald
as pink as a rose
as yellow as gold
as orange as a pumpkin
as brown as a coffee bean

(b) Idioms with animals:

as cunning as a fox
as brave as a lion
as hairy as a gorilla
as hungry as a horse

as black as coal
as soft as butter
as light as cotton

6. Given below are some idiomatic comparisons with ‘like’. Can you guess their meaning? Look them up in a good dictionary. You won’t find them under ‘like’.
Which words will you look up to find these comparisons?

Like a bull in a china shop (Here, china means delicate articles of porcelain)
Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
Like a red rag to a bull.
Like a cat that stole the cream.
Like water off a duck’s back.
Memory like a sieve.

Using your imagination write more comparisons using ‘like’.

Additional Important Questions and Answers

Read the following extract and do the activities:

Simple Factual Activities:

Question 1.
Read the extract and complete the following by choosing the correct alternative:
(Answers are directly given.)
Answer:

While comparing a spaceship with a snail, the narrator used speed, as a common feature in both. (speed/weight)
Square and round are shapes, commonly used to compare, (shapes/objects)

Question 2.
Match the following:

‘A’	‘B’
1. big	(a) toast
2. fierce	(b) desert
3. dry	(c) cave
4. warm	(d) dinosaur
	(e) tiger

Answer:

‘A’	‘B’
1. big	(d) dinosaur
2. fierce	(e) tiger
3. dry	(b) desert
4. warm	(a) toast

Question 3.
Answer in 1-2 words:
Answer:

How is a mountain path? – crooked
What is the world full of? – opposites
What is hard and what is soft? – a rock, a mitten
What is commonly compared in a giant and an elf? – height

Question 4.
Match the following :

‘A’	‘B’
1. dark	(a) elf
2. hard	(b) ox
3. strong	(c) cool
4. short	(d) rock
	(e) tunnel

Answer:

‘A’	‘B’
1. dark	(e) tunnel
2. hard	(d) rock
3. strong	(b) ox
4. short	(a) elf

Complex Factual Activity:

Question 1.
Complete the following:
(Answers are directly given.)
Answer:
1. According to the poet a spaceship is fast whereas a snail is slow.
2. The poet says a road drill is noisy and a ghost is quiet.

Appreciation of Poem:

1. Title: The title of the poem is ‘Comparisons’.
2. Poet: The poem is by an anonymous (= unknown) poet.

3. Theme/Central Idea: The central idea of the poem is given in the last but one line of the poem. The poem celebrates the diversity in the universe. The poem also reminds us that all sorts of people and things are needed to make our world beautiful.

4. Rhyme Scheme: The rhyme Scheme of first six stanzas is ‘abcb’. The last stanza has six lines and its rhyme scheme is ‘abcbdb’.
5. Figure of Speech: Similes.

6. Special Features: The structural quality is a special feature of this poem. The quatrain stanzas and their ‘abcb’ rhyme scheme flows with the force of ballad. Here, in the conclusive two lines, the pace of the poem slows down and poet’s argument sinks deep down in our hearts.
7. Favourite line: The world is full of opposites, so think of some yourself.

8. Why I like the poem: I like this poem because it made me think for the first time the extreme diversity in the world around me. I think the poem helped me in looking at the world around me in a different light.

Vocabulary Focus:

Question 1.
Write adjectives/words used here, to show – shape, size, temperature:
Answer:

shape – round, square
size – big, small
temperature – dry, wet.

Question 2.
List all the adjectives in the poem. Use the comparative forms to write new comparisons:
Answer:
1. (a) faster than the wind
(b) slower than a tortoise

2. (a) bigger than my brother
(b) smaller than my sister

3. (a) fiercer than a giant
(b) gentler than a butler

4. (a) cooler than ice
(b) warmer than a sweater

5. (a) sourer than tamarind
(b) sweeter than mango

6. (a) noisier than a machine
(b) quieter than a cave.

7. (a) stronger than a tiger
(b) weaker than a rabbit

8. (a) taller than a tree
(b) shorter than plant

9. (a) darker than night
(b) lighter than tubelight

10. (a) harder than a stone
(b) softer than butter

11. (a) crooked than hillroad
(b) straighter than a railway line