NCERT class 7 Honeycomb text lesson Dad and the Cat and the Tress

1. GOOD
MORNING

2. DAD AND THE CAT
AND THE TREE
KIT
WRIGHT

3. KIT WRIGHT

4. Biography of Kit Wright
 Kit Wright (born 17 June 1944 in Crockham Hill,
United Kingdom) is the author of more than twenty-
five books and the winner of awards including an
Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber
Memorial Prize etc. Educated at Oxford University.
He is currently a full-time writer. He currently
contributes monthly to The Oldie magazine.

5. DAD AND THE CAT AND THE TREE
THIS MORNING A CAT
GOT
STRUCK IN OUR TREE.
DAD SAID, “RIGHT, JUST
LEAVE IT TO ME.”

6. DAD AND THE CAT AND THE TREE
THE TREE WAS WOBBLY,
THE TREE WAS TALL.
MUM SAID, “FOR
GOODNESS
SAKE DON’T FALL!”

7. GLOSSARY
Leave – Go away from
Wobbly – Unsteady
Sake – Purpose/ Reason

8. Explanation of the stanzas
The Narrator discusses that one morning a cat
got stuck in the tree. His father told him that he
will manage to drive away the cat. Since the tree
was unstable, the Narrator’s mother was full of
doubts. Therefore she warned her husband that
he might fall.

9. QUESTIONS
What was the responsibility
Dad got?
Why does the mother warned
him?

10. ANSWERS
The father got the responsibility of
dealing with the cat.
Since the tree was unstable she was full
of doubts that he might fall that’s why
she warned him.

11. FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY
What do you think, in which
way you can save the cat
from the tree?