NCERT SOLUTION FOR CLASS 8 ENGLISH HONEYDEW PROSE GLIMOSES OF THE PAST CHAPTER 3

(i) Ask one another questions about the pictures

(a) Where is the fox ?
Answer:The fox is inside a well.

(b) How did it happen ?
Answer:It happened accidentally.

(c) What is the fox thinking ?
Answer:The fox is thinking how to get out of the well

(d) Who is the visitor ?
Answer:The goat is the visitor.

(e) What does she want to know ?
Answer:She wants to know if the water is sweet.

(f) What is the fox’s reply ?
Answer:The water of the well is too sweet. She said that she had much of it.

(g) What happens next ?
Answer:The fox comes out of the well with the goat’s help.

(h) Where is the goat ?
Answer:Now, the goat is inside the well.

(i) Where is the fox now ?
Answer:The fox is now out of the well.

(j) What is the goat thinking ?
Answer:The goat is thinking about her mother who once said : Be careful how you take the people’s advice you don’t know.

(ii) Write the story in your own words. Give it a title.
Answer:
The Fox and the Goat Once a fox accidentally fell into a well. She tried many times to come out of the well, but all in vain. She thought, “How do I get out of here”? Just then a goat was passing by the well. She stopped and peeped into the well. She asked the fox, “Is water sweet there ?” The fox was cunning. It is sweet! I have had so much. I might faint.” The goat was eager to taste the water. She told the fox to help her come inside the well. The fox was waiting for the same. It held her and came out of the well. The goat had fallen inside the well. The fox thanked the goat and went on. The goat was helpless. She remembered what her mother used to say, “Be careful how you take the people’s advice you don’t know.”

(iii) Read the following news item.
History becomes fun at this school

Mumbai: Students in the sixth grade of a certain school in Navi Mumbai love their history lessons thanks to a novel teaching aid. It is not surprising given the fact that their study material includes comic books and they use their textbooks for reference to put things into perspective. Besides, students are encouraged to tap other sources of information as well. During history classes, students pore over comic strips of historical periods, enact characters of emperors and tyrants, and have animated discussions on the subject. History has become fun.

In the class students are asked to read the comic strip aloud, after which they break up into groups of four, discuss what they have heard and write a summary. Each group leader reads his group’s summary aloud and the whole class jumps into discussion and debate, adding points, disagreeing and qualifying points of view. A sixth-grade student says, “It’s a lot of fun because everyone gets a chance to express themselves and the summary takes everyone’s ideas into account.” According to the school principal, the comic strip format and visuals appeal to students. A historian feels that using comics in schools is a great idea. Comics and acting help students understand what characters in the story are actually thinking. (adapted from The Times of India, New Delhi, October 2007) Based on this news item, write a paragraph on what you think about this new method of teaching history.
Answer:
The students at the school level are afraid of social sciences, English, and Mathematics. But this new method of teaching History has made the subject learnable to the students. This new comic strip format and visuals have surely made the learning of history easy and interesting. This innovative format involves the entire class and each student may get an opportunity to express him or herself. But the presentation of the comic strip should be attractive, easy to read and grasp and the pictures must be tonnied up in an excellent way.

(iv) Find the chapters in your history book that correspond to the episodes and events described in this comic. Note how the information contained in a few chapters of history has been condensed to a few pages with the help of pictures and ‘speech bubbles’.
Answer:
To be discussed in classroom

(v) Create a comic of your own using this story.
Answer:
Once the Sun and the Wind began to quarrel, each one saying that he was stronger than the other. At last they decided to test each other’s strength. A man with a cloak around his shoulders was passing by. The Wind boasted, “Using my strength I can make that man take off the cloak.” The Sun agreed. The Wind blew hard. The man felt so cold that he clasped this cloak round his body as tight as possible. Now it was the turn of the Sun which shone very hot indeed. The man felt so hot that he at once removed the cloak from his body. Seeing the man taking off the cloak, the Wind conceded defeat.

Glimpses of the Past Introduction

This chapter shows some pictorial glimpses of the history of our country from 1757 to 1857. These pictures and speech bubbles will help clarify your understanding of the conditions that led to the event known as the First War of Independence in 1857. Some martyrs, socialreformers, brave leaders and patriots led our freedom struggle and gained independence to our worthy country India.