KSEEB Solutions for Class 7 English Prose Chapter 1 Healthy Life

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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 7 English Prose Chapter 1 Healthy Life

Healthy Life Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes

A Morning Walk

Step 1: The teacher reads the outline relating to ‘A Morning Walk’.

Step 2:
Look at the pictures and the outline. With the teacher’s help prepare a passage and write it. You can start the paragraph like this.

I get up early in the morning. My friend Richard meets me. We go out for a walk.

There is lot of morning dew on the grass. The freshness in the air make us more active. After walking for 2-3 kms. We sit under a peepal tree which is beside the river. The water in river is calm and we get cool breeze opposite.There is lug paddy field. We see the farmers working. The birds chirping going in search of worms. We see many people ever using near the river bank. After a while we walk back home before sun rise.This way my self and my friend keep ourselves healthy.

Answer the following questions in a sentence each:

C1. Check your understanding:

Question 1.
Which was the healthiest place that you could imagine?
Answer:
The earth was the healthiest place & could imagine.

Question 2.
Who was furious?
Answer:
One of the witches was furious.

Question 3.
What made the potion go wrong?
Answer:
The potion went wrong because during the collection of energy while making it, one of the witches made a mistake of ultering a few words.

Question 4.
What happened after the explosion?
Answer:
After the explosion, the complete forest was destroyed.

C2. Check your understanding:

Question 1.
What happened to the witches after the explosion.
Answer:
After the explosion, all the witnesses turned into tiny creatures like germs. They happened in a liquid in a bottle. The bottle was lying in a swamp for some time.

Question 2.
What did the boy do with the new drink?
Answer:
The boy thought the bottle contained a nice new drink, gulped it fully.

Question 3.
How did the change after drinking the potion?
Answer:
The witches changed the boy’s likes and dislikes.

Question 4.
Mention the worst thing that the witches learn to do?
Answer:
The witches learned to jump from one person to another like virus. They managed to turn the effect of the portion into one of the worst diseases – The disease of wasting life.

C3. Check your understanding:

Question 1.
Who discovered the witches?
Answer:
Doctor Fiiton – Healthy discovered the witches with the help of his microscope.

Question 2.
What did the patients do before they went to or Fiiton Healthy?
Answer:
The patients did not eat fruits, vegetables. They did not feel like walking, running, or playing. They started feeling ill. They had no desire to do anything.

Question 3.
What was the advice of Dr. Fitton- Healthy?
Answer:
Dr. Fitton’s healthy and advice was to eat some fruits and vegetables and to do some exercise.

V1. Fill in the blanks using suitable words from the words in brackets:

One is done for you:
Mini ate a variety of food items and loved fruits and vegetables, (burgers/vegetables)

1. The earth was the _____ place where adults and children enjoyed good health, (dirtiest/healthiest)
2. One of the witches was ______ about people being healthy, (powerful/furious)
3. There was a big _______ that destroyed the forest, (thunder/ explosion)
4. The witches were _______ in a small bottle, (trapped /gathered)
5. There was no _______ to get rid of the witches, (mixture/vaccine)
6. When a person becomes healthy the witches have to leave the body riding _______ on a (cough/sneeze)

Answer:

1. healthiest
2. furious
3. explosion
4. trapped
5. Vaccine
6. sneeze

V2. Find fruits and vegetables from the word grid and shade them, using suitable colors. Compare your answers with your partner.

One is done for you.

Fruits – Vegetables

• Pumpkin – Pomegranate
• Lime – Pineapple
• Mango – Chilly
• Peas – Banana
• Orange – Grapes
• Tomato – Onion
• Brinjal – Potato
• Cabbage – Carrot
• Radish
• Guava

C2. Discuss with your partner and answer the following questions:

Question 1.
What made people strong and healthy in the olden days?
Answer:
In the olden days, the people ate varieties of food and loved fruits and vegetables. They exercised and enjoyed walking, running, playing, etc., the earth was the healthiest place and the people were strong.

Question 2.
How would the potion change the people?
Answer:
The potion changed people completely. The funny feeling started in their mouth. They refused to eat fruits, vegetables, and good food. They wanted to eat pizza, burger and sat at home. They spent their time watching television, eating ice-cream and chips. They did not walk, run, or exercise. They started feeling ill. All of them got the disease of wasting time.

Question 3.
Why were the witches not able to make the kind of magic potion they wanted to prepare?
Answer:
The witches were not able to make the kind of magic potion they wanted to prepare because one of the witches made a mistake in uttering the words, which they were not supposed to do.

Question 4.
Describe the change in the boy’s attitude after he drank the potion.
Answer:
When the boy drank the potion, the germ like witches took advantage and they changed the boy’s likes and dislikes. The witches could not physically harm the people, so they changed their likes and dislikes.

Question 5.
What was Dr. Fitton- Healthy’s best remedy?
Answer:
Dr. Filton – Healthy best remedy is to eat more fruits and vegetables and do some exercise. In his remedy, there were neither pills pr injections. Healthy living was his best-advised remedy.

C3. Discuss with the teacher and answer the following questions.

Question 1.
“The message the story gives is not only for children but also the grown-ups”. Do you agree?
Answer:
Yes, we agree that message is every human being in this world ……. picture whether they are children or adults.

Question 2.
With the help of paragraphs, four and five describe the illness and the cure.
Answer:
Seeness. People who were affected by the disease – The disease of wasting life “had the following symptoms.

1. They never ate healthy food.
2. They did not eat a sufficient amount of fruits and vegetables
3. They never did exercise.
4. They walked little, but no running, playing. .
5. Stayed at home, either watching television or lying in the bed.
6. Did not socialist with the people around.

Cure

1. The best cure was to make a strong effort to live a healthy, joyful, and happy life.
2. No pill or Injections
3. Eat healthy food by including a sufficient amount of fruits and vegetables.
4. Exercising in the open atmosphere which helps in getting a lot of fresh air.

L – Listen well, S – Speak well

L1 Listen and S1 speak
Work in pairs and collect information about what your friends do and don’t do:

Find out a few details about your friends.
“Do you dance?” Priya asked Sharath.
“ No, I don’t” Sharath answered.
Then Sharath asked.
“Can you dance?”
“Yes, I can” answered Priya.
“Does Altaf dance?” asked Sharath. Priya answered, “ No, he doesn’t, but he sings well.”
“Do you ……………..
Answer:
Sing?

Now discuss with your partners. Interview your friends and write what your friends can do and can’t do. Put (✓) or (✗) against the column provided.

One is done for you
Some of the topics are:

Answer:

1. Vani can swim, paint, tell stories, She also does creative work like painting clay modeling.
2. Suraj – Plays games, swims, He watches television especially sports. Shashi – She like to do paly modeling paint and tell stories,

She likes to watch Natural geographic Channel on T.V.

• Chethan – He is a sportsperson. She swims, plays all outdoor games. He reads a book to relax his body.
• Nirmal – He reads books, tells stories, and paints.
• Nidhi – She is the games Captain in the school. She plays volleyball, basketball, She paints during holidays & weekends.

Speak about what your friend can do and can’t do. You can start the conversation with-
Nirmal can swim, paint, and tell stories. He can also play cricket. What does Nidhi do?
Answer:

L2. Time Game – Activity

Children stand in a circle. There is a list of phrases which the teacher reads out slowly. If the phrases indicate time, students clap their hands. If it does not indicate time, they don’t clap. Those who make mistakes are not to clap anymore.

List of Phrases

S1. What changes do you need to bring in your food habits and hobbies after lis¬tening to your friends? Talk to your group and write a few points.
Answer:

1. I should not skip my breakfast
2. I should eat the food prepared by the mother
3. I should exercise every day.
4. I should take part in outdoor games in school.
5. I should by to paint, do craftwork
6. I should watch Good & useful channels in T.V.

One is done for you:

stop watching TV/play outside the house/ finish homework/eat regularly- these are suggestions for Damu.
Answer:
Damu should eat regularly. Should play outside the house in the evening. She should finish her homework and revise that day’s lesson. She should stop watching T.V for a longer time.

G1. Read the paragraph.

One of the witches suggested that they should prepare a magic potion. They gathered all the energy they could put together to change human beings, But they failed. So they waited for a very long time. They managed to get into the body of a boy in the form of liquid and caused a sort of illness. (suggested, gathered, failed, waited,
managed, caused)
The underlined words are action words.

Make sentences using the following words to form a meaningful paragraph. You can use the fifth paragraph for your reference.

1. discovered
2. found
3. prepared
4. cured
5. injected

Answer:

1. Raja was suffering from high fever for a long time.
2. His mother found that he is becoming weak day by day.
3. He was taken to the doctor.
4. His blood was listed. They discovered that the W.B.C caused was less. The Doctor prepared medicine and injected it after a few days he was completely cured.

G2. Match these opposite words:

One is done for you.

difficult × easy

1. day × disadvantage
2. more × short
3. advantage × waste
4. long × darkness
5. sad × less
6. save × night
7. light × happy

Answer:

1. night
2. less
3. disadvantage
4. short
5. happy
6. waste
7. darkness

Writing practice

W1. Each one of us has a different work pattern. Discuss your daily schedule with your partner and write about it.

• 6.00 AM : Wake up, brush my teeth
• 8.00 AM : _________________
• 9.30 AM : _________________
• 1.00 PM : _________________
• 5.&0 PM : _________________
• 8.30 PM : _________________
• 10.00 PM : _________________

Answer:

• have breakfast, leave for school.
• The class starts.
• The afternoon session starts.
• Play and then study.
• Have dinner.
• go to sleep.

After writing, compare it with your partners and find out what is common between you.

W2. More Food

Some food items can be eaten raw. Some others have to be cooked before they can be eaten. Put the different food items below in the correct balloons. One is done for you.

Answer:

W3. Pick out good and bad food habits for living that you find in this lesson.

One is done for you.

Answer:

1. Exercising every day – no exercise
   Playing outdoor games – no games
2. Selective in watching T.V
   Continuously watching T .V
3. going for a long walk
   refuses to go for walk.
4. Avoiding junk food
   Always crave for funk food.

W4. Here is an application form for joining a health club. Fill it up.

G4. Look at the pictures and write whether they are countable or Uncountable, in space provided:

Answer:

1. Countable
2. Countable
3. Countable
4. Countable
5. Uncountable
6. Uncountable
7. Countable
8. Uncountable

Healthy life Summary in English

As the saying goes ‘‘Health is wealth”, people many years were strong and healthy they ate varieties of vegetables and fruits. They did a lot of exercises by either walking or doing manual work. They breathed polluted fresh air. The people around us were healthy, happy, and were in good moods.

The witches around were furious and they wanted to make people sick and unhappy. They decided to make a potion. While making it none should talk. But one of the witches she spoke and all of them were trapped is a bottle like germs. One day a boy found it and swal­lowed it. He started becoming sick and started doing things which he never did before. His food habits and living labels changed & it leads to is ill health.

Dr. Fitton – Healthy discovered that the little witches were causing these diseases and making people in bad mood. He found that witches cannot tolerate joy and good health.

His view was of a person become healthy the witches had to leave their body and-go away. So he advised everybody to eat some fruits and vegetables and do a lot of exercise. By this, he could cure the wasting of life disease.

Healthy life Summary in Kannada