Lesson – 7 

Topsy-turvy Land   उलट-पुलट भूमि


Summary - Gulliver's encounter with giants after his ship's crew flees from a monstrous creature. He finds himself in a land where everything, including the inhabitants and animals, is of immense size. Despite his initial fear, he is eventually taken in by one of the giants, experiences their daily life, and narrowly escapes a potentially fatal encounter with the farmer's infant son. Throughout, Gulliver reflects on his longing for home and family.





Questions and their answers

1.When do children go to school in Topsy-turvy Land? 

In Topsy-turvy Land, children go to school by night.

2. In the poem, if buses travel on the sea, then where do the boats travel? How should it rightly be? 

If buses travel on the sea in Topsy-turvy Land, then boats should rightly travel on the streets.

3. The Topsy Turvy land is very different from our land. Let's draw a comparison by filling in sentences wherever needed. 
       
         Topsy-turvy Land                                           Our land 

(i) People walk on their heads.                     (I) People walk on their feet.
(ii) The buses run on land.                            (ii) The buses run on roads.
(iii) They wear their hats on feet.                 (iii) We wear our hats on heads.
(iv)Boats sail in water bodies                       (iv) Boats sail in the sea. like rivers, 
                                                                            lakes, and oceans.
 
(v) People pay for what they don’t get.       (v) People pay for what they receive or use.



Gulliver's Travels


Questions and their answers

1. Why did the captain send the men to the land? 

The captain sent the men to the land to find water.

2. Why did the men rush back to the ship?

The men rushed back to the ship because they were being chased by a huge creature, and they feared for their lives.

 3. Choose the correct answer.
 (i) The giant carried a reaping hook because
 (a) he was fighting with the other giants. 
(b) he was going to reap the corn. 
(c) he wanted to frighten Gulliver. 

(ii) They put Gulliver on the ground to look at him because 
(a) they had never seen a human before.
 (b) they thought he was a doll. 
(c) they had never seen such a tiny man. 

(iii) Gulliver was
 (a) a farmer. 
(b) a sailor. 
(c) a dwarf. 
(d) a giant.

4. Name the creature to whom you would look like Gulliver. The creature is now extinct. 
The word begins with the letter  "Dinosaur."


5. From the text, write the sentence that tells you the following. 

(i) The giant reapers were fascinated by Gulliver. "They all sat on the ground to take a good look at me."

 (ii) Gulliver was a learned man. There isn't a specific sentence in the passage that explicitly states Gulliver was a learned man.

 (iii) The farmer's son thought Gulliver was a toy. "On seeing me the child grabbed me from the table and put my head into his mouth."

(iv) The farmer's wife was a kind-hearted woman. "Later she put me on her own bed and covered me with a clean white handkerchief."


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