SSC (English Medium) 5th Standard - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Read the highlighted words.

• All three of them were honest, kind, and hardworking.
• You are such an honest person.

The highlighted words are adjectives.

Now find at least five other adjectives from the lesson.

Imagine you are one of the three brothers. Write in short what you did with the rice.

Find any other story of three brothers or three sisters and rewrite it in your own words.

Find out how rice is cultivated. Describe the process with the help of pictures or diagrams.

Form a group of 4 or 5. Make a ‘storyboard’ for the story ‘Three Sacks of Rice’.
Arrange the story in the form of a sequence of pictures.
Decide what you will show in each picture; what words/lines you will write with each picture to explain what happens in it.
You can also add ‘speech balloons’ for the people in the pictures.

List and say whether the following statement agrees with the passage or not.

You should always speak softly but clearly.

List and say whether the following statement agrees with the passage or not.

In a discussion, you should share your ideas with others.

List and say whether the following statement agrees with the passage or not.

If you don’t understand something, don’t let the others know about it.

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

bought 

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

reject  

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

eldest

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

lent

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

earned

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

narrow

Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.

footprint

Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.

snowwhite 

Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it. 

springtime

Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.

gentle-hearted 

Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.

anywhere

Write other meaningful words that begin/end with stepmother.