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

Find two examples of the following from the lesson.

An Exclamation 

Form groups of four or five.

Try to find the answers to the following questions through observation and by talking to your teachers, parents and others. Discuss your answers in the group.

1. How is waste generated?
2. How is it removed or cleared?
3. How can we help in the task of clearing or removing garbage?

In what way can we help to reduce or minimize waste generation?
Discuss the issue in groups of 4 or 5 and note down all good suggestions.
Resolve to follow them yourself. Some have been given below for your reference.

• Don’t waste food.
• Take as much as you want but finish everything that’s on your plate.
• Don’t throw away broken or half-used things. Repair them and use them.
• Avoid things which can be used only once.
  For example: thermocol (polysterene) cups, plastic glasses, etc.
• Reuse!
• Recycle!

The poem has rhyming words at the end of the lines. Find and write the pairs of rhyming words in each stanza. 

Guess the meaning of the following word in the poem.

lined

Rewrite the following line in your own words.

'Never one comes flying by
But will flutter down to drink.'

Rewrite the following line in your own words.

.......... ‘till off they flash
Singing sweetly their delight.’

Write what you can do to welcome birds in your surroundings.

Discuss what you can do to help other animals in your surroundings. Write down any three ideas you like from the discussion.

List the insects, birds, trees and plants mentioned in the poem.

List the rhyming words in the (On the water) poem.

Write what the following do, with the help of the poem.

ripples

Write what the poet is doing. 
Does the poet like the experience? 
Write the line which tells us about it.

Write a short essay on your own journey in a boat.

Prepare and present a speech on ‘My Favourite Place’.
Use the following points. 

• Name of the place
• Its special features
• The reason why you like it

Make a painting or a collage to show the different things described in the poem.

List all the words and phrases in this story that indicate 'time'.

Add the proper prefix like up-, un-, dis-, in- to the following to form the opposite.

happy 

When do the parents feel sorry and become unhappy?

What methods did Anshuman's parents use to warn Anshuman about his bad habits?