Class-8 English Chapter-5 TREES ARE THE KINDEST THINGS I KNOW

Chapter 5

Trees are the Kindest Things I know

 (A)Word Power

(i) The following words tell us about the different parts of a tree. Add some more words. roots, trunk, branches, leaves,  fruits,  flowers,  buds.
(ii) Write five words which have relation to trees.
forests, wood, fruit,  oxygen,  timber,  furniture.

(B)Complete the following statements:

1.Trees are useful because ______,

They give us many things, such as cool shade, fruits wood, etc.

2.Trees are kind because ______,

They do no harm to anyone.

3.Trees are beautiful because ______,

They are green and have flowers and fruits in them

(C) Answer the following questions:

Question 1.Can you name two other things which are as kind as trees ?
Answer:The earth and the rivers.

Question 2.Which lines in the poem tell us about the sun and sunlight?
Answer:They are the first when day’s begun.
To touch the beams of morning sun.
They are the last to hold the light,
When evening changes into night

Question 3.The poet says, “They are the last to hold the light’. What does ‘They’ stand for ?
Answer:‘They’ stands for trees.

Question 4.Write the summary of the poem with help of the following clues:
Answer:Trees are the kindest living beings on the earth. They provide cool shade to men and animals. They also give us fruits and wood. They are the ones who receive the light of the moon and the sun.

(D) Find out the nouns from the above poem which the poet uses the following adjectives for
1.Odry – wells
2.Plundered – planet
3.Bad – things
4.Finite – world.

(E) Complete the following lines from the poem.

Question 1.Trees are the kindest things I know
Answer:They do no harm, they simply grow.

Question 2.They give us fruit in leaves above
Answer:And wood to make our houses of,

Question 3.They are the first when day’s begun
Answer:To touch the beams of morning sun.

Question 4.And when a moon floats on the sky
Answer:They hum drowsg lulla by.