2.2 Angels on Earth

Learnwell smart Communicative English Class 8 Question and Answer

READ AND FIND

I. Q.1. What do newborn babies feed on and how ? Ans. Newborn babies feed on milk. Milk from the mother’s breast is ideally suited to the baby’s needs.

Q.2. What can be the best food for a newborn baby ? Ans. Mother’s milk is the best food for the newborn baby.

Q.3. What is the surest indication of a child’s good health ? Ans. Regular weight gain is the surest indication of a child’s good health.

Q.4. What should mothers do to keep their babies healthy ? Ans. Mothers should see that their babies remain clean and are well-fed. They should also have them vaccinated at the proper intervals.

Q.5. What is meant by weaning ? What is meant by teething ? Ans. Weaning means a child gradually changing from breast feeding to eating solid foods. Teething means a baby starting to grow its first teeth through the gums.

Q.6. Are newborn babies really helpless ? Do they need our help ? Ans. Yes, newborn babies are really helpless. They cannot even hold up their head and have to be supported at all times. But they are not so helpless in some ways. They can suck strongly to drink milk from the mother’s breast. They cry when they are hungry or uncomfortable. They can hear well and also recognise the voice of their mother.

Q.7. What different kinds of food are needed for a growing child ? Ans. Apart from milk, other different kinds of food that are needed for a growing child are cereals, mixed vegetables, fruit or other bland foods.

Q.8. ‘This is not important.’ (Para 8) What does ‘this’ here refer to ? Ans. It refers to the speed at which the baby develops.

Q.9. Name all the milk teeth a child has by the age of about 2.5 years. Ans. By the age of two and a half, the child ‘cuts’ all the twenty milk teeth, i.e. four incisors, two cuspids and four molars each on the upper and the lower jaw.

Q.10. Should a mother be worried if her baby is not developing at about the same speed as the baby of another woman ? Why ? Ans. No, the mother needn’t be worried since the speed at which a baby is developing has no bearing on how the child will fare in later years.

II. 1. abused children are kept and taken care of 2. he develops an inferiority complex 3. most human families 4. Childhood 5. eight years 6. at a fast rate 7. 5–8 centimetres. 8. four times.

HOTS (PAGE 46)

Passages 1–3 : Newborn Babies. Passages 4–5 : Baby Feeding and Teething. Passages 6–7 : The Baby — Its Growth and Development. Passages 8–10 : Baby Care and Cleanliness.

WORD POWER (PAGE 47)

1. toddler 2. mashed 3. mammals 4. teething 5. bearing 6. neglect 7. crawl 8. subtle 9. occur 10. spurt 11. dramatic 12. observe 13. imitate 14. communicate 15. ill-treated 16. retards 17. abused 18. guilty 19. foster family 20. complex.

GRAMMAR IN USE (PAGES 48–49)

I. 1. (✓) 2. use a toothbrush. 3. is a very. 4. (✓) 5. to a very 6. there’s a bank 7. have a problem 8. got a car. 9. for an insurance.

II. 1. language 2. days 3. letters 4. people 5. photographs 6. countries 7. meat 8. friends 9. air.

III. 1. electricity 2. happiness 3. information 4. money 5. help 6. equipment 7. luggage 8. knowledge.

IV. 1. the news about Nitin ? 2. the advice you gave me. 3. the furniture in the sitting room; 4. the strength to go on. 5. The traffic in Delhi 6. the information you need.

SPEAKING AND LISTENING (PAGE 50)

1. The youngest (the last) child is likely to be spoilt.
2. The eldest (the first) child is likely to be more responsible.
3. The youngest (the last) child is likely to have a *strong character. (*always dictating one’s will.)
4. The middle child is likely to have a balanced character.

Note: The aim of this exercise is to develop the child’s capability of observation and of drawing conclusions. The lexical aim is to teach them the use of ‘be likely to‘ (= is expected to).

It is likely to rain tonight.

= It is likely that it will rain tonight.

Tell the students to write other similar sentences on the basis of their observation.

WRITE WELL (PAGE 50)