Hobbies - Class 7 English (SCERT)

ACTIVITIES

1. Let’s find out how much we have understood:

(a) What is a hobby?
Ans: A hobby is an activity that a person enjoys doing in his/her free time for pleasure and relaxation.

(b) What do hobbies give us?
Ans: Hobbies give us fun, joy, relaxation, and help us use our free time fruitfully.

(c) What is philately? What difficulty would you face if you take up philately?
Ans: Philately is the collecting and study of stamps.
If we take up philately, we may face difficulty in getting old and rare stamps.

(d) What is Irfan’s hobby? What does he like to do?
Ans: Irfan’s hobby is singing. He likes to sing, listen to classical music, and play tunes on his harmonium.

(e) Name a few indoor and outdoor hobbies.
Ans: Indoor hobbies: singing, painting, reading, collecting stamps.
Outdoor hobbies: gardening, swimming, trekking, photography.

(f) What is a kitchen garden?
Ans: A kitchen garden is a small garden near the house where vegetables are grown for daily use.

(g) “Every morning I water the plants and clean the beds.” – What does ‘beds’ mean here?
Ans: Here, ‘beds’ means the prepared soil areas in the garden where plants are grown.

2. A synonym is a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word. Example: happy - joyful.

From the box below, choose words which are synonyms of the given words, and write each synonym next to the word in the blanks below:

Ans:

(a) joy — happiness
(b) beautiful — lovely
(c) active — energetic
(d) leisure — free time
(e) start — begin
(f) develop — grow

3. Look at the pictures of objects given below. Each object is related to an activity.

Write the name of the object and the related activity in the space provided.

Ans:

• Guitar — Singing
• Bat — Playing cricket
• Bicycle — Cycling
• Pen — Writing
• Book — Reading
• Boat — Boating

4. Let’s play a game. Sit in groups according to your hobbies. Discuss in your group why you like this hobby and how you pursue it.

Ans: Do yourselves with your classmate.

5. Parveen’s hobby is baking. Fill in the blanks in the paragraph below with words that rhyme with bake, such as shake:

Juri said to Parveen, “Please tell me how to bake a .” Parveen replied, “Preheat the oven to 350°F and gather all the ingredients you need to a cake. 2 cups of flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup butter or oil, 1 teaspoon baking powder and vanilla essence. You will need a cake pan and a sieve too. Put the flour and baking powder in the sieve, the sieve to remove lumps, if any. Cream the butter and sugar. Add a few drops of vanilla essence. care to the mixture light and creamy. Beat in the eggs and them one at a time. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture little by little. Don’t forget to grease the pan and dust it with flour. Then the smooth mixture and pour it into the pan. Place the mixture in the oven till your turns golden brown.”

Ans:

Juri said to Parveen, “Please tell me how to bake a cake.” Parveen replied, “Preheat the oven to 350°F and gather all the ingredients you need to bake a cake. Take 2 cups of flour, 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup butter or oil, 1 teaspoon baking powder and vanilla essence. You will need a cake pan and a sieve too. Put the flour and baking powder in the sieve, shake the sieve to remove lumps, if any. Cream the butter and sugar. Add a few drops of vanilla essence. Take care to mix the mixture light and creamy. Beat in the eggs and make them one at a time. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture little by little. Don’t forget to grease the cake pan and dust it with flour. Then take the smooth mixture and pour it into the pan. Place the mixture in the oven till your cake turns golden brown.”

6. Roktim’s hobby is travelling. He loves visiting places. He always prepares his itinerary before travelling. He leaves his itinerary with his mother. His mother knows where he is by looking at his itinerary. Read his itinerary.

Personal Travel

Destination: Majuli, Assam
Duration of stay: 2 days
Date of departure: 10 November
Date of arrival: 12 November
Place of stay: Majiang Lodge, Kamalabari Tinali
What to do: Visit Satra, enjoy Raas Utsav, visit local markets

An itinerary is a plan of a journey. It is a travel plan – where you will go, when you will be there, what you will do, etc.

Now, think of a place you want to visit during your vacation and prepare your itinerary:

Destination:
Duration of stay:
Date of departure:
Date of arrival:
Place of stay:
What to do:

Ans:

Destination: Darjeeling, West Bengal
Duration of stay: 3 days
Date of departure: 15 December
Date of arrival: 15 December
Place of stay: Hotel Sunrise, Darjeeling
What to do: Visit Tiger Hill, enjoy the toy train ride, visit tea gardens, explore local markets, and enjoy local food.

7. Read this sentence. Note the part of the sentence in italics.

A happy person is usually as busy as a bee.

The part of the sentence in italics is called an idiom. It means “very busy”.

The use of common idioms makes English appear more natural. Some common English idioms are:

• as busy as a bee
• bag and baggage
• beat about the bush

Try to use these idioms in sentences of your own. You can look up the dictionary to learn their meaning.

Ans:

(a) as busy as a bee
I was as busy as a bee preparing for my previous examination.

(b) bag and baggage
He left the village bag and baggage to start a new life in the city.

(c) beat about the bush
She beat about the bush before answering.

8. In class VI you learnt that we can make a new word by adding a suffix, i.e., a letter or a group of letters at the end of a word. In the exercise below, write the new words by adding -ment at the end of the words.

Suffix: A letter or a group of letters added at the end of a word is called a suffix.

Ans:

treat — treatment
encourage — encouragement
agree — agreement

Now read the lesson and write in the box the words ending with the following suffixes:

Ans:

9. Read the lesson and locate the sentences where the following phrasal verbs beginning with ‘take’ occur. Then write the sentences in the space given below the word web:

Ans:

1. Hobbies help us to use our free time fruitfully and keep us active if we take up a hobby.
2. I take out my paint box and brush and keep myself busy.

Try to frame sentences of your own using these phrasal verbs:

Ans:

1. I want to take up painting as my hobby.
2. She took out my pens.