Lesson 9 From a Railway Carriage
MP Board Class 5 English Chapter 9 From a Railway Carriage
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MP Board Class 5 English Chapter 9 From a Railways Carriage
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Textual Exercise
(A) Choose from brackets and write one word for the following phrases.
(Fairy, meadow, scramble, witch,
(1) A women who practices black magic is a.............
(2) One who has magic powers is a.........
(3) To look at something for a very short time is...........
(4) To move with difficulty using the hands is......
(5) A field covered with grass is a........
Ans. (1) witch,( 2) fairy, (3) glimpse, (4) scrambles,(5) meadow.
Answer these questions:
Q.1 What do you mean by "fly as thick as driving rain?
Ans. The train is moving so fast that the sight of the meadows, the hill and the plain together look thickly that the thunderous rain.
Q.2 What do you understand by the following lines:
"Here is a child who clambers and scrambles"
Ans. At the railway station there is a child who is moving forward with great difficulty using his hands.
Q.3 Find out rhyming words in the poem
Ans.
Witches - Ditches
Battle - Cattle
Plain - Rain
Eye - By
Scrambles - Brambles
Gazes - Daisies
Road - Load
River - Ever
Q.4 Which lines of the poem do you like most and why?
Ans. "Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridge and house, hedges and ditches"
I like the above lines of the poem most because they show that the train is moving very fast.
Q.5 Write a brief summary of the poem.
Ans . The scene outside is moving when it is seen from a railway carriage. Everything appears to be moving faster and faster bridges, houses, meadows, horses, cattle, hills and plain all seen to move. Mill and river look beautiful, everything passes away as the train goes on.
Let's Talk,
Talk to your classmates and find out what do they do and what they do not. put a tick (√) or a cross (X) in the correct column.
No. Act. Do don't
1. Go alone somewhere. (X)
2. By tickets for journey. (X)
3. Travel without tickets. (X)
4. Buy platform tickets. (√)
5. Accept food from a stranger. (X)
6. Get off a moving train. (X)
7. Catch the running train. (X)
8.Wait for their turn in a queue. (√)
Let's read:
Read the poem carefully and answer the question given below
(See text book page 65)
Questions
(1) what are the colours of the river and the sand?
Ans. The colour of the river is dark brown and the colour of the sand is golden.
(2) Where do the trees stand?
Ans. The trees stand on both sides of the river.
(3) What questions do the child ask?
Ans. The child ask when the green leaves castle of the poet and boats will come home.
(4) Who will get the boats?
Ans. The child will get the boats.
(5) Will the poet get his boats back?
Ans. Yes, the poet will get his boats back.
* Lets Write
Use the table already prepared by you in let's talk; think and write what we should not do and what we should not.
Examples: we should not go any where alone.
We should travel with a proper tickets.
Ans. We should not accept from a stranger
(1) We should not get off a moving train.
(2) We should not catch the running train.
(3) We should not travel without tickets.
(4) We should wait for our turn in a queue.
(4) We should buy platform tickets
- Chapter 9. From A Railway Carriage