JKBOSE Class 5 English Tulip Chapter 1 The Fowler and the Quails (From Jataka Tales) Solution
JKBOSE (Jammu Kashmir State Board Of School Education) Class 5 English Solution Chapter 1 The Fowler and the Quails (From Jataka Tales) all Exercise Question Answers. Students of JK Board Grade 5 Standard can download all Answer.
Thinking about the Text
A.) Answer the following questions:
1.) How did the fowler catch the quails? Thinking about the Text
Answer –The fowler used to imitate the note of a quail till the birds had been drawn together and when they gathered together he used to flung his net towards them and then whipped the sides of the net together. That’s how he catched the quails.
2.) What trick did the quails play on the fowler?
Answer – The quails used to fly with the net and then let it down on a thorn brake escaping from the underneath the net. This the trick the quails play on the fowler.
3.) What did the fowler’s wife tell him when he returned home empty-handed?
Answer –When the fowler retired home empty-handed his wife told him that every day he came home empty-handed and she asked him that he had any second establishment to attend to.
4.) Why did the quails wrangle?
Answer –The quails wrangle because while they were eating food in their feeding ground, one quail accidentally trod another quails head. After the guilty quail accepted his mistake, they started bandy taunts to each other.
5.) Why did the leader quail decide to leave?
Answer –The leader quail decided to leave because there was no safety when there is quails quarrelling each other. He wanted to unite the quails to trick the fowler but since they didn’t stay united the fowler would succeed to catch them.
6.) What made the fowler successful in the end?
Answer – The bickering among the quails made the fowler successful in the end.
B.) Who said the following and to whom? (One is done for you.)
1.)“This fowler is creating havoc among our kinsfolk.”
Answer –Leader quail toQuails
2.) “Day by day you return empty-handed.”
Answer –Fowler’s wife to the fowler.
3.) “I’ve no second establishment to keep up.”
Answer –The fowler to his wife.
4.) “Who trod on my head?’
Answer –A quail to another quail.
5.) “There’s no safety with one who is quarrelsome.”
Answer – Leader quail
C.) Fill in the blanks with the right word given in the brackets:
- We pray to God. (prey/pray)
- We should not break (brake/break)
- My grandmother told me an interesting story (story/storey)
- Have you read the Jataka tales (tails/ Tales)
- The boy is playing in the lawn at the moment . (movement/moment)
D.) Find from the lesson words which mean the following:
- to try to follow the manner, style, character, etc.
Answer –Imitate
- a distinctive vocal sound, as of a species of bird or animal.
Answer –Note
- to strike a thing with several strokes of a strap, rod, etc.
Answer –Whip
- force into a container with more than it can hold.
Answer –Cram
- the next day.
Answer – Morrow
Language Work
Give one word for the following. The first one has been done for you:
- popular, often for a short period; trendy F a s h i o n a b l e
- area of a city where there are factories Industrial
- pretty to look at Beautiful
- kind and thinks of others Thoughtful
- well known Famous
- something or someone you can trust Trustworthy
- people with nowhere to live are Homeless
- something that saves your money is Economical
Grammar Work
You have read in Class IV about the sentence and its kinds. Now rearrange the following words into meaningful sentences in the space provided and also say what kind of sentences they are as shown in the example below:
- Give your me please pen
Ans. Give me your pen please. (Imperative sentence)
- Sky the blue is.
Answer –Sky is blue. (Assertive sentence)
- In read I standard fifth.
Answer –I read in fifth standard. (Assertive sentence)
- Under cat table the is.
Answer – The cat is under the table. (Assertive sentence)
- Did this where you from get?
Answer –From where did you get this? (Interrogative sentence)
- Go you should to a doctor good.
Answer – You should go to a good doctor.(Imperative sentence)
- A great idea what is it!
Answer – What a great idea it is! (Exclamatory sentence)
- Do you where live?
Answer –Where do you live? (Interrogative sentence)
- What beautiful house is it a!
Answer –What a beautiful house it is! (Exclamatory sentence)
- Wish I a were writer!
Answer – I wish I were a writer. (Optative sentence)
- May live long you!
Answer –May you live long! (Optative sentence)
Let’s Write
The moral of the story is ‘United we stand, divided we fall’ or ‘Union is strength’. What are the disadvantages of non-cooperation?
The moral of the story is “United we stand, divided we fall’ or ‘Union is strength’. There are lots of disadvantages of non-cooperation. If we take an example, we can break a stick easily but if we gather a bunch of stick. Then it is very hard to break them all at once. So by this example we can learn that if we stay united we can not be broken easily because someone will be there to support us.
The Idiot Box
Reading is Fun
1.) What do you understand by the idiot box?
Answer –In this poem the poem referred television as the idiot Box. The name is given because it because it is making young children idiots.
2.) Who is “He” in the poem?
Answer – By ‘He’ in the poem the poet referred to the children who idly watch television and doesn’t do any kind of physical activity.
3.) Why can’t he play football or shape a snowman?
Answer –He can’t play football or shape a snowman because he always confined in his private room watching television and he didn’t go out to play or do any physical activity.
4.) Why is he not interested in things around him?
Answer –He is not interested in things around him because he is more interested in watching untrue things on television.
5.) What is it that makes him laugh?
Answer –Things like an untrue man flying over a him makes him laugh.
6.) Why is he not interested in books?
Answer –He is not interested in books because the only thing he is interested in is watching television.
7.) Why does he have to wear thick glasses?
Answer –Watching television is harmful to eyes. He have to wear thick glasses because watching television have weakened his eyesight.
Language work
A.) Use the clues to find the missing letters. Then re-arrange the first letter of each word to find out the hidden name.
- An officer of law: judge
- Children like it most: icecream.
- A green/yellow fruit: mango.
- Affectionate and loving: Helper.
- A cow like animal: Yak.
- Another word for a clown: _ o _ e _.
- Curious to do something: Eager.
- Not fat: Thin.
B.) Use the clues to find the missing letters. Then re-arrange the first letter of each word to find out the hidden name.
- Doing no work: idle
- Not easy to do: difficult.
- Very wise: intelligent.
- Single: one.
- 13 to 19 years of age:Teenage.
- People play cricket with it: Bat.
- Opposite of close: Open.
- A musical instrument:Xylophone.
Let’s Write
The poem teaches in a funny way that television should not be watched excessively. Now write a sentence on the following harmful effects of excessive T.V. watching:
- Wastage of time –Excessive watching of T.V. leads to wastage of time.
- Couch potatoes –Watching T.V. excessively makes children couch potatoes, which means they become lazy and obese.
- Reduces concentration –Only watching television makes children lose their concentration on important activities such as playing, drawing, reading books etc.
- Addiction – Watching television excessively cause children to become addict.
- Affects reading habits – When children watch television more than they should they can’t concentrate on their studies which affects their reading habits.
- Harmful for eyes – Watching television for long time is harmful for eyes and it affects more on children.
- Loss of creativity – When children become addicted to television they become idle and lazy, that’s why they don’t do creative things such as playing, drawing, reading different types of books which ultimately reduces their creativity.
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