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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 7 English Prose Chapter 4 leg Trap
leg Trap Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes
Before you read
Read this story
1. Ask your friends who they admire and what they want to become when they grow up. Then fill in this table
2. Amar is my friend. We walk together to school. We pass by a pond on our way. One evening when we were returning home from school, we saw a baby drowning in the pond. Suddenly Amar jumped into the water and saved the baby.
Question a.
What does this show about Amar?
Answer:
This shows that Amar is a brave boy responsible and caring boy.
Question b.
What would you have done if you had been in that situation?
Answer:
If I would have been in the same situation I too would have helped the baby to come out of the pond by jumping into the pond and would have saved it.
Question c.
Write about a brave act of someone known to you in about two-four sentences.
Answer:
Once a old couple were crossing the busy road suddenly a bike rushes near that couple that time a girl walking nearby suddenly push them away and saved them from accidents
Question d.
You can also start your narration with the sentence.
Answer:
The boy was once crossing the road suddenly slipped and fell down and a bus was coming on the same road was about to hit the boy at the same time another lady came to rescue and pulled him away and saved him from danger.
Check your understanding:
C1. Answer the following in a word, phrase, or a sentence each:
Question 1.
What is the name of the shoeshine boy?
Answer:
The name of the shoeshines boy is Dhira.
Question 2.
Who was he living with?
Answer:
He was living with his mother and sister.
Question 3.
Where did he sit to earn a living?
Answer:
He sat near a cinema hale and polish shoes for a living.
Question 4.
What was Dhira doing when he was humming a tune?
Answer:
Dhira was counting his day’s earnings when he was humming a tune.
Question 5
What made him stop it?
Answer:
Dhira overheard that “A thief has just robbed and escaped from the jewelry shop.” This made him stop.
Question 6.
The passerby gave Dhira three pieces of news. They were
a. Just now
b. He stole a gold neckless and managed to run away.
c. They say he has a beard.
Question 7.
Which sentence in paragraph 5 shows the impatience of the customer?
Answer:
- “You, silly boy! You’re not doing your job well.
- Polish my shoes, till they whine.
Question 8.
How long did the customer ask Dhira to polish his shoes?
Answer:
First, he gave 5 Minutes when he saw the police he gave 2 minutes to polish the shoes.
Question 9.
Who stopped Dhira from going to the shop?
Answer:
A customer stopped Dhira from giving to the shop.
Question 10.
The stranger asked Dhira to do his work slowly as he had a lot of __________.
Answer:
time
Question 11.
What made the man look like a rich man?
Answer:
The customer was wearing a pink shirt and a red. He was wearing a wristwatch also. He was also wearing shoes.
Question 12.
Which sentence in paragraph 5 shows the impatience of the customer?
Answer:
- “You, silly boy! You’re not doing your job well.
- Polish my shoes, till they shine.
Question 13.
How long did the customer ask Dhira to polish his shoes?
Answer:
First, he gave 5 Minutes when he saw the police he gave 2 minutes to polish the shoes.
Question 14.
What did Dhira find in the shoes?
Answer:
Dhira saw the gold necklace in the shoes.
Question 15.
Where was the ‘beard’ of the thief?
Answer:
The heard was in his pocket.
Question 16.
How did Dhira make the thief fall?
Answer:
Dhira tied the ends of the laces of the two shoes. When they tried to walk he fell flat on his face.
Vocabulary
V1. Complete the story using the words given in brackets. One is done for you.
Two women who were on their morning walk, were stopped by two friends riding on a scooter. The women had heard of the frequent thefts in the area. Fearing that the riders would snatch their neck chains, they immediately shouted for help. One of them fumbled in her purse to get the mobile. But the men lost their temper and told them that they were searching for an address. When the women glanced at the address they realized that it was their own.
(fumbled, glanced, temper, stopped, thefts, shouted)
C2. Answer in two or three sentences each:
Question 1.
What do you understand from Dhira’s story?
Answer:
Whenever we face any situation use our presence of mind. Be bold and courageous. But never be overconfident.
Question 2.
Describe the customer who approached Dhira.
Answer:
The customer was wearing a pink shirt and a red tie. He looked like a rich man. he was not in a hurry and gave his shoes to Dhira to polish it.
Question 3.
How did Dhira polish the customer’s shoes?
Answer:
Dhira dusted the shoe with his yellow cloth, then he opened a tin, took out some polish and smeared it on the shoe with his brush, and started shining the shoe.
Question 4.
Why did Dhira concentrate on polishing?
Answer:
Dhira thought that the customer was an influential man and he would even complain about him to the policemen.
Question 5.
How was Dhira rewarded and honoured for his bravery?
Answer:
Dhira was praised for his presence of mind. He was also rewarded by the police and the Jeweller. He was honoured by him with a medal for his bravery at his school.
C3. Discuss with your partner and answer:
Question 1.
Is Dhira’s attempt to trap the thief the best one? Give reasons for your answer.
Answer:
Yes, Dhira’s attempt to trap the thief was really the best one. Because it was his presence of mind and his courage of doing the right thing at the right time. So he succeeded in his attempt.
Question 2.
How did Dhira help the police to catch the thief?
Answer:
Dhira tied the thief 5 two shoelaces together so that he will fall flat on his face whenever he tried to walk or run.
Question 3.
Do you agree that it takes courage to do the right thing, Discuss keeping Dhira as an example?
Answer:
Yes, courage is necessary to do the right thing. Dhira had the courage to trap the thief if he hadn’t such courage, it was not possible to catch the thief.
G1. A. Fill in the blanks with ‘a’ ‘an’ ‘the’:
One is done for you.
There was a marriage in our village last week, the bridegroom and his friends went around a village in an old cart drawn by an old horse. The cart fell into a ditch. We managed to pull the people out. The bridegroom was hurt and the others were unhurt. The bridegroom went through the wedding with a bandage on his forehead
B. Fill in the blanks with suitable articles.
Once there was a poor merchant. He had a small shop. He sold bananas and other things in his shop. One day an old man came to his shop. He was poor and in rags. The shopkeeper took pity on him and gave him some money. The poor man was pleased. He thanked the shopkeeper for his help.
C. More articles:
I went to the airport at 6:00 am yesterday. I had to catch a flight to Paris. The queue at the airport was very long. So I had to wait for a long time. Once the plane took off I ate a good meal, a rare occurrence on an airplane! Later, I fell asleep for about an hour. After I woke up, I felt refreshed. Generally, it was a smooth flight.
G2. Let us know about tenses:
Fill in the blanks with the past tense form of the verb given in brackets. Then rearrange the jumbled sentences to form a story:
One is done for you.
- A milk-maid went (go) to the meadow to milk her cows.
- She ______ (think) that she would make a lot of money.
- She also _______ (dream) of buying eggs and waiting for them to hatch.
- _______ (lose) in such thoughts, she ______(forget) about the pot she was carrying on her head.
- Her plan was to sell the cream and butter that she ______ got) from the milk.
- When all the fowls in the poultry farm were ready to be sold, she ______ (decide) to sell them.
- She then _______ (plan) to buy a fine dress.
- She _______(decide) to sell them .
- She _______(toss) her head in pride and the pot of milk ______ (fall) down.
- She cried, “Oh! I have lost all my milk!, Le alone a new dress, I will not _______ (has) even money to have food!
Answer:
- Went
- thought
- dreamt
- Lost, forgot
- got
- decided
- planned
- decided
- tossed, fell
- have
Moral: Don’t count your chicken before they are hatched.
G3. Fill in the blanks with a past tense form of verbs in the brackets:
The Lark in the Corn-Field.
Once a Lark made (make) her nest in a cornfield. Soon she laid (lay) eggs in it, after a few days small babies hatched (hatch) out of them. One day the baby – larks overheard (overhear) the farmer say, “I will call my servants to reap this field”. The Baby – larks got alarmed to hear this and told (tell) their mother about it. “Don’t worry,” said (say) the mother. Some days later, the farmer came (come) again and said (say), I will call my son to reap this field.” The baby – larks were afraid again. “Fear not,” said (say) the mother. But the next day the farmer came there and said, (say) “I will reap this field tomorrow.” “Now is the time to go. When a man says he will do the work himself, he will certainly say he will do the work himself, he will certainly do it.” said (say) the mother lark.
MORAL: Don’t fear hollow threats.
G4. Complete each sentence by changing the verbs in brackets into past tense verb form and later complete the crossword puzzle:
a. Across
3. Tony (read) _____ his book after dinner.
4. I (give) _______ Anand a computer game for his birthday.
5. Dinakar (throw) _______ the ball.
7. Jony (ring) ______ the bell after school.
9. He (bring) _______ his mobile to school.
Answer:
3. read
4. gave
5. throw
7. rang
9. brought
b. Down
1. We (drink)______ banana milkshake at dinner.
2. Asha (catch) _______ the ball.
6. Esha (write) _______ a letter to his friend in Bombay.
8. Bindu(buy) _______ a new dress at the mall.
10. The frightened cat (hide) _______ under the bed.
Answer:
1. drank
2. caught
6. wrote
8. bought
10. hid
Writing Practice
W1. Read the instruction given in each box and complete the boxes:
W2 Imagine that you are a newspaper reporter. Write an article on an act of bravery you have witnessed.
Student activity
W3 Read the lesson carefully and make a list of the main incidents that happen in the story. One is done for you.
- One evening Dhira overheard that a thief ‘ had escaped with a jewel.
- The passer-by told the thief with a heard stole a gold necklace who managed to run away.
- a customer, well an observed and not in a hurry came to Dhira to polish his shoes.
- Dhira started polishing the customer’s shoes.
- Through the Corner of his eyes, he saw 2 policemen approaching.
- The customer lost his temper and shouted at the boy.
- After the left shoe, Dhira asked the customer to keep his right shoe.
- Dhira found the gold necklace hidden in the second shoe.
- He tied the laces 2 shoes and event to the policemen.
- The two policemen came and caught the thief who fell flat while trying to walk.
- The boy was rewarded for his bravery by the police jewellery and the school
W4. Study the pictorial story and write the story in the space provided
1.
Thieves are active in the town stolen hide our valuables in the well at the back of the house. The thieves heard they’re words clearly.
2.
Ramakrishna and his wife filled the trunk with stones and chopped it into the well which a splash. The thieves came to see as been it.
3.
The entire night the thieves drew water. He put it in the garden.
4.
When the first one tired. The second did the drawing of water.
5.
They took out the box opened and saw stones.
6.
The Ramakrishna thanked the thieves for watering the plants.
Moral: You have to pay a heavy price. If you are lazy.
S3. Role-pay:
Imagine that you are the reporter for some well-known newspaper. You heard about Dhira’s courage shown in catching the thief. You want to report this to your newspaper and through this, you want to inspire many young ones. You may act as the reporter and your friend as Dhira. Interview him in front of your classmates and then fill up the blanks.
Reporter: Hello Dhira, How are you?
Dhira: I am fine Sir, Thank you.
Reporter: _______________
Dhira: _______________
Reporter: _______________
Dhira: _______________
Reporter: _______________
Dhira:
Answer:
I heard you caught a jewel thief.
Yes, I did sir
How did you know he was the thief
I saw the gold necklace missed his right shoes.
How did you help the police catch the thief?
I tired the shoe lacs of both shoes.
Leg Trap Summary in English
Dhira was a shoeshine boy, who was living with his mother and sister. After school, he would sit near a theatre to polish shoes to earn a living.
One day when he was counting the day’s earnings he overhead a passerby telling that a thief had stolen a gold necklace from a jewellery shop the thief had a beard.
Dhira wanted to go to jewellery shop to find out what happened. By that time a customer will dress came to him and told him that his shoes had to be polished and he was not a hurry.
Dhira started to polish the first shoe, he saw & policemen approaching. He was eager to know about the theft. In the meantime, the customer lost his temper and told him he was not doing good work. Dhira started polishing thinking that the customer would complain to the police about him. After polishing the first shoes he asked the man to put his other foot.
New the customer was in a hurry to go. Dhira was wondered why he was telling. Initially, he was not in a hurry, now he was telling he has only 2 minutes.
As he was polished Dhira was something sticking out of the back of the 2nd shoe. He closely looked & came to know that the customer was the jewel thief.
He tied the laces of both the shoes and called the policemen. The thief fell flat while trying to walk. The police came and caught the thief. Dhira was praised and awarded by the police, jewellery as well as his school for showing his presence of mind and bravery.
Leg Trap Summary in Kannada
