Hobbies – Class 7 English SEBA Assam Chapter 1 Solutions & Summary

Lesson 1 Hobbies – Class 7 English SEBA Assam | Summary, Solutions & PDF

Lesson 1 “Hobbies” from Class 7 English SEBA Assam introduces students to the significance of hobbies in our daily lives. This chapter explains how hobbies help us relax, improve creativity, and develop new skills. The lesson encourages students to explore different hobbies like reading, painting, gardening, music, and sports, emphasizing their role in personal growth and stress relief.

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Hobbies

Activities

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

(a) What is a hobby?

Ans : A hobby is an activity that you enjoy doing in your spare time.

(b) What do hobbies give us?

Ans : Hobbies give us pleasure and enjoyment.

(c) What is philately? What difficulty would you face if you take up philately?

Ans : The collecting and study of stamps is called philately. The communication system has changed. People mostly use E-mail, SMS, MMS etc for communication. Nowadays people do not write letter So, it is becoming difficult to get stamps easily.

(d) What is Irfan’s hobby? What does he like to do?

Ans : Irfan’s hobby is painting. He likes to sit and paint landscapes.

(e) Name a few indoor and outdoor hobbies.

Ans: The indoor and outdoor hobbies are as follow:-

(i) Indoor activities are: Collecting stamps, coins, listening to music, and reading books are indoor activities.

(ii) Outdoor activities:- Gardening, travelling, swimming, trekking, photography are outdoor activities.

Playing and painting are both indoor and outdoor activities.

(f) What is a kitchen garden?

Ans : Kitchen garden is growing fruits and vegetables at the backyard of house by using kitchen waste water.

(g) “Every morning I water the plants and clean the beds.”-what does ‘bed’ mean here?

Ans : ‘Bed’ here means the piece of ground where plants or vegetables are grown.

Q.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.

Pleasure free time Lovely begin Energetic grow happiness sporty Pretty spare time launch evolve

(a) joy………..

Ans : joy,happiness

(b) beautiful………….

Ans : beautiful, Lovely, Pretty, Sporty

(c) active…………

Ans : active, energetic

(d) leisure………..

Ans : leisure, free time, spare time

(e) start…………

Ans : start, begin, launch

(f) develop……………

Ans : develop, grow, evolve.

3. Look at the pictures of objects given below. Each object is related to an activity. Write the name of the object and related activity in the s provided. One has been done for you.

(a) bicycle :

Ans : travel.

(b) Pen :

Ans : Writing.

(c) bat :

Ans : cricket.

(d) guitar :

Ans : Singing.

(e) book :

Ans : reading.

(f) boat :

Ans : rowing.

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.

The teacher will make the students sit in groups- and ask the participants of each group to speak in turns. One participant will start with one sentence about his or her hobby and the next participant will continue the presentation.

Ans : Take the help of the teacher. And Do It.

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 replicd, “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, I teaspoonful baking powder and vanilla essence. You will need a cake pan and a sieve too. Put the flour and baking powder into the sieve……… the sieve to remove lumps, if any. Cream the butter and sugar. Add a few drops of vanilla essence………..the mixture is 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 teaspoonful baking powder and vanilla essence. You will need a cake pan and a sieve too. Put the flour and baking powder into 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 make the mixture light and creamy. Beat in the eggs and bake them one at a time. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture little by little. Don’t forget to grease the back 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 : Maiheng Lodge, Kamalabari Tiniali

What to do : Visit satras, enjoying Raas Utsav, visit local markets

An itinerary is a plan of journey . it is a travel plan -where you will go, when you will be there, what you will etc.

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

Ans : Personal travel :

Destination : Gogamukh, Assam

Duration of stay : 2 days/3 days

Date of departure : 10 December

Date of arrival : 10 December

Place of stay : Padma plaza, Gogamukh.

What to do : Ganesh Mandir and Hanuman mandir, park etc.

Q. 7. Read this sentence. Note the part of the sentence What to do in italics.

(a) A happy person is usually as busy as a bee.

Ans : The part of the sentence in italics is called an idiom. It means ‘very busy’.

(b) The use of common idioms makes English appcar more natural. Some common English idioms are:

a blessing in disguise

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 meanings.

Ans : a blessing in disguise : Illness confined her to the home, which was a blessing in disguise.

bag and baggage : The day Nayan left her job, Neel walked out of bag and baggage.

beat about the bush : Your worries have nothing to do with the new deal. Stop beating around and bush, and cast your vote.

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

Ans :

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

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

-ion:	-ing:	-ment:
Combination competition collection communication relaxation	Singing Collecting Listening Reading Gardening Travelling Swimming trekking playing painting visiting planting watering seeing learning working entertaining relaxing	department advancement

Q. 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.

Up – take–out

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Ans : 1. I like to take out my football and play with friends.

2. I used to read a story book.

3. Just, Look up at the sky, the sun is very bright today.

Try to frame sentences of your own using these phrasal

Ans : Take out : I take out some money from my bag.

Take up : I would like to take up the point you raised earlier.

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