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NCERT TEXTBOOK eeap 101.pdf for Class 7 Source for this document (a) ‘English Today Ridout, Parts 1 to 5, first published in 1947, in Great Britain by GINN and(b) ‘Fifteen Poets’ ELBS Low Priced Edition for ‘Daffodils’ and ‘Tiger’

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This is additional quality reading material involving birds and animals. List of

National Parks in India and Maps of National Parks and Birds Parks are also

included. Learners will be studying some of these poems in higher classes also.

CONTENT

Pertaining to Chapter 1

1. Vocabulary Building : Special names of Parents, Young ones and

homes of a few living beings

2. A few direct comparisons and common similes involving birds and

animals

3. Extract from „Eothen‟ by A. W. Kinglake - One paragraph on nature of

a camel

4. Extract from „Black Beauty‟ by Anna Sewell „When I was Young‟ a

narrative by a colt (a young male horse)

5. „ Daffodils‟ by William Wordsworth a poem on flowers

6. „Seven Young Parrots‟ a traditional poem

7. „ Tiger‟ by William Blake a poem

8. List of National Parks in India

9. Maps of National Parks in India

1. VOCABULARY HOMES AND YOUNGONES

Male Parent Female

Parent

Young one Home

1 father mother Infant, baby,

child

House

2. king Queen Prince,

princess

Palace

3 bear She-bear cub Den

4 Billy-goat Nanny-goat kid Barn

5 Buck deer hind fawn Forests ,

woods

6 Buck hare doe leveret Form

7 Buck rabbit (tame) doe rack Hutch

8 Buck rabbit (wild) doe rack Burrow,


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warren

9 Bull cattle cow calf Byre

10 Bull elephant Cow

elephant

Calf

elephant

Nil

11 Bull seal Cow seal Calf seal Arctic region

12 Bull whale Cow whale Calf whale Oceans

13 Cob swan Pen swan cygnet In lakes

14 Cock fowl hen Chicken Coup

15 Cock fowl hen Squab Nest

16 Dog fox vixen cub Lair

17 drake duck duckling Pond

18 eagle eagle eaglet Eyrie

19 hawk bowess bowet Rock nest

20 leopard leopardess Cub leopard Den

21 lion lioness Cub lion Lair

22 Ram sheep Ewe sheep lamb Fold

23 stallion mare Foal(female)

/ colt (male)

Stable

24 Stag red deer hind Fawn Forest

25 tiger tigeress Cub tiger Lair

26 butterfly butterfly Caterpillar Cocoon

27 bee bee Grub Beehive

28 wasp wasp Grub Vespiary

29 mole mole Mole Fortress

1. Common Similes or direct comparisons

1 As agile as a monkey 19. As obstinate as a mule

2 As blind as a bat 20. As playful as a kitten

3 As brave as a lion 21. As quiet as a mouse

4 As bright as a lark 22. As proud as a peacock

5 As busy as an ant 23. As silly as a sheep

6 As busy as a bee 24. As slippery as an eel (Eel is a

long snake shaped fish)

7 As calm as a cat 25. As slow as a snail or tortoise

8 As cunning as a fox 26. As sober as a judge

9 As devoted as a mother 27. As stolid as a cow

10 As swift as a deer 28. As strong as a horse or an ox

11 As feeble as a child 29. As sure-footed as a goat


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12 As fierce as a lion 30. As tenacious as a lobster

(crab like creature living in

seas and oceans. It clutching

sea rocks is very firm)

13 As flat as a flounder

( a small flat fish that is

difficult to see when

clinging to a sea rock)

31. As tender as a shepherd

14 As fleet as a gazelle 32. As thick as thieves

15 As frisky as a lamb 33. As timid as a rabbit

16 As gentle as a dove 34. As wise as an owl

17 As heavy as an elephant 35. As meek as a lamb

18 As industrious as a beaver 36. As cunning as a fox

A paragraph on nature of female Camels

Extract from ‘Eothen’ by A. W. Kinglake

The camel kneels to receive her load, and for a while she will allow

the packing to go on with silent resignation, but when she begins to

suspect that her master is putting more than a just burden upon her poor

hump, she turns round her supple neck, and looks sadly upon the

increasing load, and then gently remonstrates against the wrong with the

sigh of a patient wife. If sighs will not move you, she can weep. You

soon learn pity, and soon to love her for the sake of her gentle and

womanish ways. The camel, like the elephant, is one of the old fashioned

sort of animals that still walk along upon the plan of the ancient beasts

that lived before the flood. She moves forward both her near legs at the

same time, and then awkwardly swings round her off shoulder and


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haunch, so as to repeat the manoeuvre on that side. Her pace therefore is

an odd, disjointed, and disjoining sort of movement that is rather

disagreeable at first, but you soon grow reconciled to it.

A young baby horse narrates his childhood in this extract

Extract from “Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell

„When I was Young‟

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow

with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and

rushes and water lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side

we looked into a ploughed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at

our master‟s house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the

meadow was a plantation of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook

overhung by a steep bank.

Whilst I was young I lived upon my mother‟s milk, as I could not eat

grass. In the day-time I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by

her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the

trees, and when it was cold we had a nice warm shed near the plantation.

As soon as I was old enough to eat grass, my mother used to go out

to work in the day-time, and came back in the evening....

Our master was a good , kind man. He gave us good food, good

lodging, and kind words; he spoke as kindly to us as he did to his little

children. We were all fond of him, and my mother loved him very

much.....

I must not forget to mention one part of my training, which I

have always considered a very great advantage. My master sent me for a

fortnight to a neighbouring farmer, who had a meadow which was skirted


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on one side by the railway. Here were some sheep and cows, and I was

turned in amongst them.

I shall never forget the first train that ran by. I was feeding

quietly near the pales which separated the meadow from the railway,

when I heard a strange sound at a distance, and before I knew whence it

came – with a rush and a clatter, and a puffing out of smoke - a long

black train of some something flew by, and was gone almost before I

could draw my breath. I turned, and galloped to the further side of the

meadow as fast as I could go, and there I stood snorting with

astonishment and fear. In the course of the day many other trains went

by, some more slowly; these drew up at the station close by, and

sometimes made an awful shriek and groan before they stopped. I

thought it very dreadful, but the cows went on eating very quietly, and

hardly raised their heads as the black frightful thing came puffing and

grinding past.

For the first few days I could not feed in peace; but as I found that this

terrible creature never came into the field, or did me any harm , I began

to disregard it, and very soon I cared as little about the passing of a train

as the cows and sheep did.

A poem on flowers called Daffodils

by William Wordsworth

“I WANDERED lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o‟er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine


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And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of the bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed – and gazed – but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.”

Seven Young Parrots

Seven young parrots had not gone far, when they saw a tree with a single cherry

on it. The oldest parrot picked it instantly. But the other six, being extremely

hungry , tried to get it also – on which all the seven began to fight.

And they scuffled

And huffled

And ruffled

And shuffled

And puffled

And muffled


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And buffled

And duffled

And fluffled

And guffled

And bruffled ,

And screamed and shrieked

and squealed and squeaked,

and clawed and snapped

and bit and bumped

and thumped, and dumped, and flumped each other .

That was the vicious and voluble end of their quarrel over a cherry.

Words in this poem describe „fight‟ of young parrots. These can be used in

other situations of fight as well.

TIGER

By William Blake

Note: The yellow colour of the tiger is used as a metaphor for

yellow flame of fire. The poet is visualizing the creation of a tiger

and wondering at the awesome power of the Creator (God).

“ Tiger ! Tiger! burning bright

In the forest of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?


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In what distant deeps or skies

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? And what dread feet?

What the hammer? What the chain?

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? What dread grasp?

Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,

And watere‟d heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger ! Tiger! burning bright


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In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

NATIONAL PARKS, BIRD SANCTUARIES AND MARIN PARKS IN

INDIA

India has more than 166 national parks, 10 Bird sanctuaries and three

Marine Parks. See the two Maps on pages 12 and 13.

1. Jim Corbett National Park , established in 1936, located in

Uttarakhand, is for Tigers

2. Bandhavgarh National Park and

3. Kanha National Park , both in Madhya Pradesh, have dense bamboo

forests and wide grasslands. They are a research parks for endangered

species, such as White Tiger and hippopotamus. Bandhavgarh has the

highest number of tigers and a variety of birds. It also has 1336

species of endemic plants.

4. Ranthombare National Park in Rajasthan at the junction of the

Aravalli Hill ranges and Vindhya plateau. It has a 10th century fort

amidst its cliffs.

5. Kaziranga National Park in kAssam was established in 1905.

6. Kanger Ghati National Park in Chhattisgarh is most important bird

life sanctuary as per „ Bird Life International‟

7. Nokrek National Park in Meghalaya has tigers, leopard, Asian

elephant, Sambar, Barking deer, Gaur, Jungle cat, wild boar .

8. Panna National Park in Madhya Pradesh is a UNESCO World

Heritage Site.

9. Intangki National Park in Nagaland, established in 1993 is known for

Dugong, Dolphin, Water Monitor Lizard, Blue Whale.

10. Gangotri National Park, 1989, in Uttarkhand is a UNESCO World

Heritage Site.

11. Dachigam National Park, 1981, in Jammu and Kashmir, is the only

area where Kashmir stag is found.


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12. Bhitarkanika National Park, 1988, in Orissa, has Mangroves Saltwater

crocodile, white crocodile, Indian python, black ibis, rhesus monkeys,

chital, and wild pigs.

13. Bandipur National Park , 1974, in Karnataka, has Indian giant squirrel,

leopard, red headed vulture, honey buzzard, Indian elephants, grey

langurs, Gaur and other animals.

14. Dwarka Marine Park in Gujarat

15. Gulf of Mannar or the Rameshwaram Marine National Park in Tamil

Nadu, is the only floating park in the world.

16. Port Blair Marine Park in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

17. Sultanpur Lake Bird Sanctuary near Delhi

18. Jaipur Bird Sanctuary

19. Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary in Gujarat

20. Vedanthangal Bird Santuary in Puducherry

21. Ranganthittoo Bird Santuary in Karnataka

22. Point Calimere Bird Santuary, in Karaikal, Puducherry


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