NCERT english class 7 poem Dad and the Cat and the Tree

1. GOOD MORNING!

2. DAD AND THE CAT
AND THE TREE
KIT WRIGHT

3. “Fall?” scoffed Dad,
“A climber like me?”
Child’s play, this is!
You wait and see.”

4. He got out tHe ladder
From tHe garden sHed.
It slIpped. He landed
In tHe Flower bed.

5. GLOSSARY
1. Climber - someone who climbs
2. Scoffed – laughed mockingly
3. Ladder – a tool used for climbing
4. Slipped - moved with a smooth sliding
movement

6. Explanation of stanzas
The father ignored his wife’s warnings by
saying that he was a good climber and
climbing the tree was as easy as a child’s
play. The narrator’s father bring out a ladder
from the garden shed. But it slipped and
father fell on the ground.

7. QUESTIONS
1)How the father responded to his
wife’s warning?
2) Does the fear of mother turn to be
true?

8. ANSWERS
1)The father laughed away his
wife’s warnings.
2)At last the Narrator’s mother’s
fear turned to be true.

9. FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY
Write a short note
about your pet?