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STUDY GUIDE FOR CLASS VIII, 2021-2022, , , , HONEYDEW, , 2. The Tsunami:, Part Il Answers: (page 28), , 1. Tilly's family came to Thailand to celebrate Christmas., , 2. Tilly's mother saw that the water was swelling and the beach was getting smaller and, smaller. And Tilly saw that the sea was slowly rising, bubbling and forming a whirlpool, , 3. Tilly's mother couild not understand what was happening and only realized that it was, serious when Tilly's got frightened and mentioned what a Tsunami was., , 4. Tilly had seen the sea behaving in the same strange fashion in a video of tsunami, which was shown in her class by her geography teacher., , 5. The smith family and the others on the beach took refuge on the third floor of a hotel, , Part Ill Answers: (page 30), 1. Although no data is given in the story but it says the number of dead animals was far, less compared to human casualties., 2. Sixty visitors and only two water buffaloes died at the Yala National Park., 3. The people at the Yala National Park had seen three elephants running away from the, patanangala beach about an hour before the tsunami hit., , Georaphy Lesson (poem):, Working with the Poem Answers: (page 35), , 1. Some phrases that are likely to occur in a geography lesson are ‘the city had develop, the way it had’, ‘it scaled six inches to the mile’, ‘cities where the rivers ran’, ‘and ‘the, valleys were populated’., , 2. Mention two things that are..., , (a) Clear from the height = From the height, it was clear why the country had cities, where the rivers ran and why the valleys were populated. It was also clear that the earth, was round and that it had more sea than land, , 3. Glimpse of The Past:, Comprehension check Answers (page 45), , 3. An artisan is a skilled manual worker who crafts items that may be functional or, strictly decorative. The artisans suffered because the British were extracting very high, taxes from them, which ruined them economically., , Working with the Text Answers (page 45), , 1. Yes, the Indian princes were short-sighted in their approach to the events of 1757., , 2. The Indian princes were constantly at war with each other. They called the English, merchants to help them in their fights. The people had no peace due to such constant, fights. The rivalries helped the East India Company subdue the Indian Princes one by, one., , 5. Name these people, i. Kunwar Singh, ii. Ram Mohan Roy, , iii. Macaulay, iv. Maulvi Ahmedulla of Faizabad and Peshwa Nana Saheb, , Macavity: The Mystery Cat (Poem):, Working with the poem answers (page 51), 1. Read the first stanza and think, i. In reality, Macavity is not at all a cat. T.S Eliot has very skillfully woven the total, poem reflecting a super criminal in the form of a cat. The cat in this poem is just a, representation of the master criminal, , 5. The Summit Within:, Working with the Text Answers (page 81), , i. Endurance, persistence and will power are the three qualities that played a major role, , in the author's climb., , iii. The beauty, aloofness, ruggedness and the difficulties encountered on the way to, Everest, and how may had failed to scale it made irresistible to the author. Once the, summit is climbed however there is a feeling of exhilaration, the joy of having done, something, the sense of a battle fought and won, a feeling of victory and of happiness., , The author left a picture of Guru Nanak on Everest; a picture of Goddess Durga was, left by Rawat; a relic of the Buddha was left by Phu Dorji. A part from these, there was, also the cross that had been buried by Edmund Hillary., , vi., , STUDY GUIDE FOR for 202... 1/11
