Chivvy NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Honeycomb Poem 4

Chivvy NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers
Chivvy Working with the poem (Page 70)

1. Discuss these questions in small groups before you answer them.

(i) When is a grown-up likely to say this? Don’t talk with your mouth full.

Answer:

A grown up is likely to say this when a child is 2 or 3 years old. This will be said when a child is talking while eating.

(ii) When are you likely to be told this? Say thank you.

Answer:

I will be told to say thank you’ when I am about five to six years old.

(iii) When do you think an adult would say this? No one thinks you are funny

Answer:

I think this will be told when one starts understanding things.

2. The last two lines of the poem are not prohibitions or

instructions. What is the adult now asking the child

to do? Do you think the poet is suggesting that this is

unreasonable? Why?

Answer: The youngster is currently maturing. He is going to enter his adolescence. So he is taught to make his own choices and make his own conclusion. I believe the poet is implying that it is ridiculous since he has always been advised to do this or not do that. So he can think for himself now.

3. Why do you think grown-ups say the kind of things

mentioned in the poem? Is it important that they teach

children good manners, and how to behave in public?

Answer: I believe adults provide such guidelines in order to make their children more responsible citizens. It is very important to teach children good manners and how to behave in public. This will result in youngsters who are well-behaved and helpful members of society.

4. If you had to make some rules for grown-ups to follow,

what would you say? Make at least five such rules.

Arrange the lines as in a poem

Answer:

Don’t nag us.

Let us think independently.

Let us take our own decisions.

Give us clean and green environment.

Guide us but don’t goad us.