NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Honeycomb Poem 3 The Shed

NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English

The Shed NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Honeycomb Poem 3

The Shed NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

The Shed  Working with the poem

Question 1.
Answer the following questions.

i. Who is the speaker in the poem?
Answer:
The speaker in the poem is a child because he/she is afraid to set foot in a shed, and his/ her brother tries to scare him/her by telling him/her that there’s a ghost in the shed.

ii. Is she/he afraid or curious, or both?
Answer:
He/She is both curious as well as afraid. He is afraid because his/her brother has told him ghost stories about the shed. He/She is curious because he/she intends to go to the shed some day. He/She even tries to peek inside the shed through its cracked window panes.

NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Honeycomb Poem 3 The Shed

iii. What is she/he planning to do soon?
Answer:
She/He is planning to go into the shed very soon. She/He understands that her/his brother is trying to keep the shed all to himself.

iv. “But not just yet… ” suggests doubt, fear, hesitation, laziness or something else.
Choose the word which seems right to you. Tell others why you chose it.
Answer:
It suggests hesitation and fear because even though he/she wants to go inside the shed, he/she is unable to get the ghosts out of his/her head.

NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Honeycomb Poem 3 The Shed

Question 2.
Is there a room in your house or a house in your neighbourhood/locality where you would rather not go alone, and never at night? If there is such a place and a story to go with it, let others hear all about it. Sample answer:
Answer:
Yes, there is a huge park at the end of my locality. There are no street lights in the park and we never go there after dark. There is a rumour that ghosts and bogeyman have a party in the park after dark. None of us go there because we are scared. But one day my friends and I will go there together.

 

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