Tamilnadu State Board New Syllabus Samacheer Kalvi 8th English Guide Pdf Poem 7 My Computer Needs A Break Text Book Back Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes.
Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 8th English Solutions Poem 7 My Computer Needs A Break
8th English Guide My Computer Needs A Break Text Book Back Questions and Answers
Warm Up (Text Book Page No. 199)
In pairs, tell each other how computer plays a vital role in all fields. (Text Book Page No. 199)
- A computer helps students to learn new things.
- We learn current news.
- We can book our tickets.
- We can have online shopping.
- We can read e-books.
8th English Guide My Computer Needs A Break Textual Exercise Questions and Answers
A) Answer the following:
1. How does the poet describe her computer?
Answer:
The poet describes her computer as very intelligent and smart. The computer seems to know a lot of information by heart.
2. What happened to the computer?
Answer:
The computer is absent-minded. It forgets to save her files. Sometimes the files vanish in the most dreadful way.
3. List four things that the computer could not do after it became absent-minded
Answer:
- The computer forgets to save the poet s work.
- It doesn’t check her spelling.
- It hides all her files.
- It makes her work vanish in the most dreadful way.
4. What made the poet squirm?
Answer:
The naughty computer of the poetess gobbled a worm. The computer behaved so erratically that it made the poetess squirm.
5. Why did the poet call the doctor?
Answer:
The computer caught a virus and fell very sick. So the poet had to call a doctor.
B) Fill in the blanks. (Text Book Page No. 201)
1) Computers are ……………. and ……………..
Answer:
brainy, smart
2) We get answers for questions by a ……………..
Answer:
click of the mouse
3) The computer forgot to ……………. the poet’s work.
Answer:
save
4) The computer actually gobbled a ……………..
Answer:
worm
5) The poet feels that his computer needs ……………..
Answer:
holiday
C) Pick out the rhyming words from the poem.
Smart – heart
click – quick
right – sight
sick – quick.
D) Match the poetic lines with Figures of speech.
| 1. So brainy | personification |
| 2. Mountains | personification |
| 3. It’s so absent-minded | hyperbole |
| 4. Computer gobbled a worm | metaphor |
| 5. Very sick. | metaphor |
Answer:
| 1. So brainy | personification |
| 2. Mountains | metaphor |
| 3. It’s so absent-minded | personification |
| 4. Computer gobbled a worm | hyperbole |
| 5. Very sick. | metaphor |
E) Find the alliterating words from the poem.
1) Save – store
2) Doctor – double
3) Virus – very
4) makes – most
5) Gobbled –
8th English Guide My Computer Needs A Break Additional appreciation Questions and Answers
1. ‘My computer always gives me the answer really quick! ’
How does the computer give you an answer?
Answer:
If we type in a question and gives the mouse a click, the computer gives the answer really quick.
2. ‘And hides my files so that they vanish from sight’.
What does a computer hide?
Answer:
The computer hides the files.
3. ‘My computer doesn’t check that my spellings are right ’
What does the computer fail to do?
Answer:
The computer does not check the spelling.
4. ‘My computer has always been so brainy and smart’
What are the qualities of a computer given in the above line?
Answer:
The computer is brainy and smart. These are the qualities of the computer.
5. ‘And one day. my naughty computer actually gobbled a worm.’
What did the computer do in a naughty way?
The naughty computer gobbled a worm.
6. ‘Then my computer caught a virus, and fell, very sick.’
Why did the computer fell sick?
Answer:
The computer caught a virus and fell sick.
My Computer Needs A Break Summary in English
The computer is brainy and smart. It gives us quick answers to our questions. It has an absent-mindedness. It hides my files. Once it became a virus stricken. The computer falls sick. It is tiring. It needs a holiday.
My Computer Needs A Break Summary in Tamil
கணினி அறிவானது. சுறுசுறுப்பானது. மிக விரைவாய் பதில் சொல்லக் கூடியது. அதற்கு ஞாபக மறதியும் உண்டு. அது என் கோப்புக்களை மறைத்து விடும். வைரஸ் தாக்குதலுக்கு உள்ளாகி நோயுற்று விடும். சில சமயம் களைத்துவிடும். அதற்கும் கூட விடுமுறை தேவை.
My Computer Needs A Break About the Author in English
Shanthini Govindan is a widely published, award-winning author of children’s literature in English in India, who has written over 50 books for children including poetry, picture books, and short stories for children of all ages.
My Computer Needs A Break About the Author in Tamil
சாந்தினி கோவிந்தன், பிரசித்தி பெற்றவர். விருதுகள் வாங்கியவர். குழந்தை இலக்கியத்தில் எழுத்தாளர் ஆக புகழ் பெற்றவர். 50 புத்தகங்களுக்கு மேல் எழுதியுள்ளார். இவற்றில் படக்கதைகள், கவிதைகள் அடங்கும். எல்லா வயது குழந்தைகளுக்கும் ஏற்றவாறு சிறுகதைகள் எழுதியுள்ளார்.