The DAV Class 7 English Literature book has 11 pieces over 84 pages: six stories, four poems and a play. It opens with Ruskin Bond’s Monkey Trouble, about Tutu the pet monkey, and R.K. Narayan’s A Hero, where Swami is made to sleep alone in his father’s office and ends up catching a burglar. The poems are Birdie, will you pet?, Langston Hughes’s I Dream a World, Mary Howitt’s The Spider and the Fly, and Shakespeare’s Friends and Flatterers. It closes with Dilip M. Salwi’s three-act play Chocolates in Your Dreams Too, a science-fiction warning about junk food.
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DAV Class 7 English Literature: All 11 Chapters
| Chapter | What happens in it | Solutions |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Monkey Trouble (p. 1) | mischievous pet monkey Tutu, Grandfather, Aunt Ruby, Rocky, pearl necklace bazaar chase, wedding cake spices | Chapter 1 solutions |
| 2. Birdie, will you pet? (p. 9) | child tempting a bird with silken quilts, diamond necklace, golden cup, bird preferring freedom and nature | Chapter 2 solutions |
| 3. A Hero (p. 14) | Swami, father reading newspaper report about brave village boy, sleeping alone in office room, catching burglar | Chapter 3 solutions |
| 4. Fight, Manju, Fight! (p. 23) | Manjula Parelkar with malformed fingers, painting passion, birthday watercolor gifts, brother Amol encouraging her | Chapter 4 solutions |
| 5. I Dream a World (p. 33) | Langston Hughes poem on a world of peace, love, freedom, absence of greed and racial discrimination | Chapter 5 solutions |
| 6. Stone Soup in Bohemia (p. 37) | hungry returning soldier in Bohemia village, iron cauldron, convincing hostile villagers to add vegetables to stone soup | Chapter 6 solutions |
| 7. A Stormy Adventure (p. 42) | Vishal, Rohini on M.V. Trishna, Typhoon Elsie near Philippines, engine room leak, tilting ship to expose leak | Chapter 7 solutions |
| 8. The Spider and the Fly (p. 50) | Mary Howitt fable poem, cunning spider flattering fly with pretty parlour, bed, pantry food, trapping fly | Chapter 8 solutions |
| 9. The Human Robot (p. 55) | Prem Chopra buying Ram Singh-070, stealing jewelry and groceries, court trial with Counsel Goel, robot self-destruction | Chapter 9 solutions |
| 10. Friends and Flatterers (p. 66) | William Shakespeare poem contrasting flatterers who abandon in misery with true, faithful friends who share grief | Chapter 10 solutions |
| 11. Chocolates in Your Dreams Too (p. 70) | Dilip M. Salwi three-act play, Gopa, mother Mrs Dev, alien warning about junk food, TV rays, health | Chapter 11 solutions |
Every lesson starts with a pre-reading task and has word meanings in footnotes. The exercises go further than comprehension: after Understanding the Story (or Poem, or Play) come HOTS, Life Skills, Values and Writing Skills sections. Monkey Trouble has only the comprehension and HOTS questions, and Birdie, will you pet? has no writing task. Most lessons also have an About the Author note, and the book ends with a list of suggested readings.
Questions about the DAV Class 7 English Literature Book
Is this the same as the Class 7 English Reader?
No. DAV Class 7 has two English books besides the grammar workbook. This is the literature book. The My English Reader is separate, and grammar is in the English Practice Book.
Which chapters are poems?
Birdie, will you pet? (2), I Dream a World (5), The Spider and the Fly (8) and Friends and Flatterers (10). Chocolates in Your Dreams Too (11) is a play, and the rest are stories.