CG Board Class 8 English Reader Chapter 22 Solutions: The Photograph (तस्वीर) – 2026-27

CG SCERT (Chhattisgarh Board) Class 8 English Reader Solutions | 2026-27 Official Edition

Complete 100% textbook-grounded CG Board Class 8 English Reader Chapter 22 Solutions: The Photograph (तस्वीर) in Bilingual Format (English & Hindi Medium).


🌐 Select Language / माध्यम चुनें:

  1. Knitting: Process of making woollen clothes using needles.
  2. Clicking: Sound that we hear when metal touches against metal.
  3. Wrinkles: Folding on skin that happens at old age.
  4. Rummaging: Searching through material.
  5. Heirlooms: Objects or jewellery passed on from earlier generations.
  6. Attic: Topmost room in a house, under the roof.
  7. Faded: Lost brightness, colour, strength, or freshness.
  8. Foggy: Cloudy or unclear.
  9. Creeper: A plant which requires support to grow.
  10. Deterrent: Something that discourages or stops someone from doing mischief.
  11. Drapery: Curtains and other hanging material or long clothes.
  12. Devilish smile: Naughty and mischievous smile.
  13. Squinted: Looked with almost closed eyes.
  1. The grandmother sat on the flower bed.

Answer: (✗)

(Reason: She sat on a string bed under the mango tree.)

  1. The boy was ten years old.

Answer: (✓)

  1. The grandmother was not very old.

Answer: (✗)

(Reason: The text states “She was very old”.)

  1. She had grey hair.

Answer: (✗)

(Reason: The text states “Grandmother had white hair”.)

  1. The boy was interested to see a book with colourful pictures of birds and butterflies.

Answer: (✓)

  1. The small photograph was in the box.

Answer: (✓)

(Reason: The photograph was found between the pages of a book inside the box of old things.)

  1. The photograph was taken about 40 years ago.

Answer: (✗)

(Reason: It was taken about 60 years ago.)

  1. She used to go swimming in a muddy pool.

Answer: (✗)

(Reason: This is not mentioned anywhere in the lesson.)

  1. A lemon coloured butterfly settled on the nose of the grandmother.

Answer: (✗)

(Reason: It settled on the end of grandmother’s knitting needle.)

  1. There was similarity between the photograph and the grandmother.

Answer: (✗)

(Reason: The boy looked from the photo to his grandmother trying to find points in common, but couldn’t readily spot any obvious similarity.)

Question 1

What was the boy doing after taking his…


📝 Question:

What was the boy doing after taking his meal?

💡 Solution:

After taking his meal, the boy was rummaging through a box of old books and family heirlooms that had been brought down from the attic by his mother.

Question 2

How was the photograph


📝 Question:

How was the photograph?

💡 Solution:

The photograph was a small, faded picture, a little yellow and foggy. It showed a young girl standing against a garden wall with long loose hair, traditional clothing, bangles, and a devilish smile.

Question 3

Who was in the photograph


📝 Question:

Who was in the photograph?

💡 Solution:

The photograph was of the grandmother herself when she was a wicked little girl sixty years ago, although she playfully avoided admitting it directly to the narrator.

Question 4

How can you say that the photograph was…


📝 Question:

How can you say that the photograph was colourful?

💡 Solution:

Although the photograph was old and yellowed, it showed green creepers, flowers growing near the wall, a girl wearing a long dress with many bangles, and bright sunlight.

Question 5

Did the boy know who was in the…


📝 Question:

Did the boy know who was in the photograph?

💡 Solution:

No, the boy did not know who was in the photograph. He repeatedly asked his grandmother to identify the girl and the pair of hands climbing the wall.

  1. My father made me sow seeds in the kitchen garden.
  2. My mother made me water the plants in the morning.
  3. My brother made me bring books from the market.
  4. My grandmother made me sweep the courtyard.

*My Grandmother

My grandmother is around seventy years old. She wears a plain clean saree and has silvery white hair neatly combed back. Her face has gentle wrinkles that show her kindness and life experience. Despite her age, she is very active and wakes up early every morning to pray, take care of the house, and tell us inspiring traditional stories. She sits on a cot in the verandah and knits woollen sweaters for us during winter. She loves everyone in the family and teaches us good moral values.

(Words: wrinkles, heirlooms, creeper, deterrent, drapery, attic)

Alphabetical / Dictionary Order:

  1. attic
  2. creeper
  3. deterrent
  4. drapery
  5. heirlooms
  6. wrinkles

:* : 1. attic, 2. creeper, 3. deterrent, 4. drapery, 5. heirlooms, 6. wrinkles.

Based on the Appendix-1 Listening Passage for Lesson 22:

  1. A camera is a device that captures still pictures / moving pictures.

Correct Choice: still pictures

  1. A camera captures images on video film / photographic film.

Correct Choice: photographic film

  1. The most important parts of a camera are batteries / film roll / shutter / lens / autofocus.

Correct Choice: film roll, shutter, lens

  1. The scene is captured at the front of the camera / back of the camera.

Correct Choice: back of the camera

  1. The people who improved the process of making photographs are Max Knoll / Louis Pasteur / Louis Daguerre / William Fox.

Correct Choice: Louis Daguerre and William Fox

Picture 1 (Given as Example in Book):

(1) A woman is sitting in the bus.

(2) She is wearing a saree.

(3) A man with long hair is sitting across her.

(4) He is reading a newspaper.

Picture 2:

(1) A young man wearing a cap and blue t-shirt is sitting in the bus seat.

(2) He is holding a large unfolded newspaper in his hands.

(3) He is reading the newspaper very attentively.

(4) He is wearing sports shoes and has long hair.

Picture 3:

(1) A woman in a blue saree comes up to the sitting young man.

(2) She stands near his seat and looks at what he is doing.

(3) The young man takes out a pen and starts writing on a notepad.

(4) Other passengers are sitting quietly in the background.

Picture 4:

(1) The woman in the blue saree is sitting alone by the bus window seat.

(2) She rests her face on her hand and gazes outside thoughtfully.

(3) Her travel bags are kept on the luggage rack above her head.

(4) The bus is traveling along its destination.

Q6

Story Narration


📝 Question:

Story Narration:**

💡 Solution:

Task: Narrate the story in your own words before the class.

Model Story Narration:

This story, written by Ruskin Bond, is about a ten-year-old boy who finds an old, yellowed photograph inside a book while searching through a box of family heirlooms in the attic. The picture shows a young girl with long hair and a mischievous smile standing near a garden wall, with two hands reaching over the wall. The boy takes the photograph to his grandmother, who is knitting under a mango tree. Grandmother looks at the photo and nostalgically describes the naughty girl from sixty years ago. Though she playfully refuses to confirm that the girl is herself, the boy senses the deep sweet memory behind her smile.


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