NCERT Solutions Class 8th English (Honeydew) Chapter – 2 The Tsunami Question & Answer

NCERT Solutions Class 8th English (Honeydew) Chapter – 2 The Tsunami 

NCERT Solutions Class 8th English (Honeydew) Chapter – 2 The Tsunami 

Chapter – 2

The Tsunami

Question & Answer

PAGE NO – 27

Say whether the following are true or false.
(i) Ignesious lost his wife, two children, his father-in-law, and his brother-in-law in the tsunami.
(ii) Sanjeev made it to safety after the tsunami.
(iii) Meghna was saved by a relief helicopter.
(iv) Almas’s father realised that a tsunami was going to hit the island.
(v) Her mother and aunts were washed away with the tree that they were holding on to.
Answer – (i) True
(ii) False
(iii) False
(iv) True
(v) True.

PAGE NO – 28 Or 29

Question 1. Why did Tilly’s family come to Thailand ?
Answer – Tilly’s family came to Thailand to celebrate the Christmas Eve.

Question 2. What were the warning signs that both Tilly and her mother saw ?
Answer – Tilly and her mother saw that the sea slowly rose, and started to foam bubble and whirlpools.

Question 3. Do you think Tilly’s mother was alarmed by them ?
Answer – No, Tilly’s mother was not alarmed by them.

Question 4. Where had Tilly seen the sea behaving in the same strange fashion ?
 Answer – Tilly had seen the sea behaving in the same strange fashion in her Geography class in a video.

Question 5. Where did the Smith family and the others on the beach go to escape from the tsunami ?
Answer – They all took refuse in the third floor of a hotel.

Question 6. How do you think her Geography teacher felt when he heard about what Tilly had done in Phuket ?
Answer – Her Geography teacher must be feeling proud of Tilly.

PAGE NO – 30

Question 1. In the tsunami 150,000 people died. How many animals died ?
Answer – Not so many animals reported to die.

Question 2. How many people and animals died in Yala National Park ?
Answer – 60 people and two water buffaloes.

Question 3. What do people say about the elephants of Yala National Park ?
Answer – They have seen elephants running away from the beach.

Question 4. What did the dogs in Galle do?
Answer – The dogs refused to go for their daily run on the beach.

Working With The Text

Question 1. When he felt the earthquake, do you think Ignesious immediately worried about a tsunami ? Give reasons for your answer. Which sentence in the text tells you that the Ignesious family did not have any time to discuss and plan their course of action after the tsunami struck ?
Answer – When he felt the earthquake Ignesious was not worried about tsunami. He took his television off and placed it on the ground so that it might not fall down. He felt that it was an ordinary earthquake. His family ran out of the house. The sentence when the tremors stopped, they saw the sea rising’ favours our answer that they did not have the time to discuss and plan further.

Question 2. Which words in the list below describe Sanjeev, in your opinion ? (Look up the dictionary for words that you are not sure of) cheerful ambitious brash brave careless heroic selfless heartless humorous Use words from the list to complete the three sentences below.

cheerful heartless, ambitious humorous,brash, brave, careless, heroic ,selfless ,humorous

(i) I don’t know if Sanjeev was cheerful, ………….. or ………………
(ii) I think that he was very brave, …….. and ………………..
(iii) Sanjeev was not heartless, ………….. or ………………
Answer –
(i) I don’t know if Sanjeev was cheerful, humorous or heroic.
(ii) I think that he was very brave, selfless of frightened.
(iii) Sanjeev was not heartless, careless of frightened.

Question 3. How are Meghna and Almas’s stories similar ?
Answer – Both had lost their parents. Both had saved their lives by sitting on a wooden log and reached the shore.

Question 4. What are the different ways in which Tilly’s parents could have reacted to her behaviour ? What would you have done if you were in their place ?
Answer –They could have ignored her as she was just a ten year old girl or they might rebuke her for screaming too much. If I would be there, I would have also taken her seriously to take some steps enough for the coming disaster.

Question 5. If Tilly’s award was to be shared, who do you think she should share it with her parents or her geography teacher ?
Answer – She should have shared it with her geography teacher only it was due to she could make out that it was a tsunami.

Question 6. What are the two different ideas about why so few animals were killed in the tsunami? Which idea do you find more believable ?
Answer – The first idea is that the animals have sixth sense to know when the earth is going to shake. The second idea is that they have acute power of hearing and feeling about earth’s vibration. The second idea has more authentic aspect in it.

Working With Language

Question 1. Go through Part-I carefully, and make a list of as many words as you can find that indicate movement of different kinds. (There is one word that occurs repeatedly—count how many times!) Put them into three categories.fast movement slow movement neither slow nor fast.
Fast movement  Slow movement  Neither slow nor fast
Can you explain why there are many words in one column and not in the others?
Answer –

Question 2. Fill in the blanks in the sentences below (the verbs given in brackets will give you a clue).
(i) The earth trembled, but not many people felt the ……. (tremble).(ii) When the zoo was flooded, there was a lot of ……………… and many animals escaped into the countryside. (confuse)(iii) We heard with ………… that the lion had been recaptured. (relieve)

(iv) The zookeeper was stuck in a tree and his ………… was filmed by the TV crew. (rescue)

(v) There was much …….. in the village when the snake charmer came visiting. (excite)
Answer –
(i) tremors
(ii) confusion
(iii) relief
(iv) rescue
(v) excitement.

Question 3. Study the sentences in the columns A and B.

• Compare the sentences in A to ones in B. Who is the ‘doer of the action in every case ? Is the ‘doer’ mentioned in A, or in B?

• Notice the verbs in A : ‘was swept away’, ‘was hit’, ‘were washed away’, ‘were found’. They are in the passive form. The sentences are in the Passive Voice. In these sentences, the focus is not on the person who does the action.

• In B, the ‘doer’ of the action is named. The verbs are in the active form. The sentences are in Active Voice.
Answer –
(i) The doer is ‘the waves’ (mentioned in col. B)
(ii) The doer is ‘something’ (mentioned in col. B)
(iii) The doer is ‘the waves’ (mentioned in col. B)
(iv) The doer is ‘people’ (mentioned in col. B)

Says whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive Voice. Write A or P after each sentence as shown in the first sentence.
(i) Someone stole my bicycle ………. A……………..
(ii) The tyres were deflated by the traffic police …………….
(iii) I found it last night in a ditch near my house …………….
(iv) It had been thrown there …………….
(v) My father gave it to the mechanic ………………..
(vi) The mechanic repaired it for me. …………….
Answer – (i) ‘A, (ii)P, (iii) A, (iv) P, (v) A, (vi) A.

Working And Writing

Question 1. Suppose you are one of the volunteers who went to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for relief work after the tsunami. You work in the relief camps, distributing food, water and medicine among the victims. You listen to the various stories of bravery of ordinary people even as they fight against odds to bring about some semblance of normalcy in their lives. You admire their grit and determination. Write a diary entry.
You may start in this way.
31 December, 2004
The killer tsunami struck these islands five days ago. But the victims are being brought in even now. Each one has a story to tell…
Answer –
Jan. 28, 20xx
For nearly one month I had to use all my skills to lessen the pain of victims in the relief camps. Tsunami made the conditions there worst, inhumane and disturbing. The people became homeless. But their act of bravery kept all volunteers tight in their spirits.

• The survivors in the camps told me their stories and rescue. I helped them to wipe their tears and distributed food, water, essentials with the government-officials. My heart was of immense regards for those victims who lost everything, but courage.

Question 2. The story shows how a little girl saved the lives of many tourists when a tsunami struck the beach, thanks to the geography lesson that she had learnt at school. She remembered the visuals of a tsunami and warned her parents.

Do your remember any incident when something that you learnt in the classroom helped you in some way outside the classroom ? Write your experiences in a paragraph of about 90-100 words or narrate it to the whole class like an anecdote.
Answer – On that particular day, I was walking on foot in a Park as my doctor advised me to do. Many old men and women were also there. They were laughing at the top of their voice. Suddenly, an old man started coughing. In a twinkle of an eye, the coughing had incieased.What we could do, I thought for a while. I remember what my teacher had told me in First-aid classes. I, at once, made the old man sit with ease getting his legs straight. Then I gave him a massage on his back below the shoulders and requested him to cough slowly.
The tears came to his eyes by coughing. An other boy was asked to fetch some sweet water from the neighbour. After 10–15 minutes he was able to sit with ease and back to the stone-chair.

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