Class 7 - L7 - Jimmy Jet and His TV Set

7. Jimmy Jet and His TV Set

Word Meanings - 

Story (स्टोरी) = कहानी

Pale (पेल) = पीला या फीका पड़ जाना (शरीर का)

Lean (लीन) = बहुत दुबला

Show (शो) = टेलीविज़न के कार्यक्रम, प्रदर्शन 

Early (अर्ली) = जल्दी, सुबह-सुबह

Late (लेट) = देरी, देर रात तक

Frozen (फ्रोजन) = जमा हुआ, स्थिर

Wide (वाइड) = चौड़ा

Tuning Dial (ट्यूनिंग डायल) = टेलीविज़न का एक भाग जो पिक्चर को ठीक करने के काम आता था.

Brain (ब्रेन)= मस्तिष्क, दिमाग 

Knob (नॉब) = गोल बटन जो सेट करने के काम आता है

Tail (टेल) = पूँछ  

Reading Comprehension

A. Answer the following questions.

1. What did Jimmy Jet want to do ?

Answer – Jimmy Jet wanted to watch his TV set all the time.

2. Why did Jim grow pale and lean ?

Answer – Jim grew pale and lean because he watched TV all the time.

3. What does the poet want to say in these lines:

i. From 'The Early Show' to 'the Late Late Show.'

Answer – The poet wants to say that Jimmy Jet used to watch his TV set from the very first show in the morning to the very last show in the night.

ii. He loved to watch his TV set as much as you.

Answer – The poet wants to say that Jimmy loved to watch his TV set as much as all of us love to do.

iii. And now instead of him watching TV, we all sit around

and watch him.

Answer – The poet wants to say in a funny way that Jimmy watched his TV set show much that he himself became a TV set.

4. What looked like a tail ?

Answer – Jimmy had grown a plug that looked like a tail

5. What message does this poem convey?
Answer – The poem conveys the message that we should not watch TV too much.

B. Several funny things happened to Jim. Complete the table to mention the changes in him.

chin	Tuning dial
brains	TV tubes
face	TV screen
ears	'VERT' and 'HORIZ’ knobs
bottom	chair
hair	antennae

Vocabulary

(A) Complete the word web.

(B) Homonyms are words with same pronunciation but different spellings and meanings. Write the homonyms of the words given in the place provided.

Example : see - sea

hair	hare
tail	tale, tell
pale	pail
ice	eyes
to	too

(C) The words given below have more than one meaning. Consult the dictionary and write the meanings of the words and frame sentences in your notebooks.

show, watch, antennae

[1] show – performance

Sentence – I loved the dance show last night.

show  - to bring before the sight

Sentence – Ravi showed his presentation before the class.

[2] watch – to look

Sentence – I watched the India-Pakistan cricket match in the stadium.

Watch – a small clock

Sentence – My mother gifted me a watch on my birthday.

[3] antennae – a radio or TV aerial

Sentence – Antennae is used to receive signals.

Antennae – A sensory organ in insects

Sentence – The antennae helps the insects to find direction and food.

D) A word grid is given below :

Find the rhyming words for the words given below. You can get the words both Horizantally and Vertically. Put a circle around the words :

1. lean 2. jet 3. hair 4. pale

Rhyming words are listed below -

Lean – bean, been, keen, lean, ween

Jet – bet, get, met, net, pet, set

Hair – dare, fare, hare

Pale – fail, nail, sail, sale, tail, tale