JKBOSE Class 5 English Tulip Chapter 5 The Man Who Empowered the Blind Solution
JKBOSE (Jammu Kashmir State Board Of School Education) Class 5 English Solution Chapter 5 The Man Who Empowered the Blind all Exercise Question Answers. Students of JK Board Grade 5 Standard can download all Answer.
Thinking about the Text
1.) How did little Louis lose his eyesight?
Answer – Little Louis lost his eyesight at the age of three years old. He picked up a awl and made a stab at the leather, as he bent down the awl suddenly flipped up and injured his eyes. That is how he lost his eyesight.
2.) How did the young blind Louis find his way to different places?
Answer –Little Louis villages of Coupvray scratched out groups on the road so that little Louis would count out the exact number of 10 tabs it took him to reach the road.
3.) What helped him to excel in playing musical instruments?
Answer –The Royal Institute for the Young Blind helped him excel in playing instruments.
4.) How were the blind taught reading when Louis Braille started studying at the Institute for the young Blind?
Answer – When Louis Braille started studying at the institute the founder of the institute Valentin Huay developed a new way of reading for the blind. In this way letters were raised on the other side of the heavy paper so that the blind person could trace their shape with his hands.
5.) What was Captain Barbier’s invention? How did it help Braille?
Answer – Captain Barbier inverted a new way of night writing, he developed a technique of sending messages by means of dashes and dots, soldiers would feel them with the finger tips and couldread in in the dark.
Braille got inspired by this technique because it helped soldiers to read in the dark which is similar for the blind people. He took this idea and implemented with his own codes to help the blind people read.
6.) Why were the authorities of the Institute for the Young Blind unwilling to accept Braille’s method?
Answer – The authorities of the Institute for the Young Blind were satisfied with the old methods and they felt there was no reason to change to something new. As the people of the authority could see they didn’t realized the difference between the old method and Braille’s method.
7.) How did the concert prove to be a great event in Louis’ life?
Answer –Louis Braille had many music pupils but among them there was a young girl who was a very fine pianist. Braille had thought her his dot method of reading and writing music. One of her performance was highly applauded and that time the young girl held up her hand in silence and made a speech about Braille and his method.
8.) Give the following biographical details about Louis Braille:
Louis Braille
- Year of birth:1989
- Father’s name : Monsieur Braille
- Father’s occupation: He made harnesses and saddles with an awl.
- The year in which he joined the Institute for the Young Blind:1819
- The year of graduation:1827
- The year in which he made the system for the blind:1829
- The year his system was introduced in the Institute:1852
Language Work
A.) Complete the following statements:
1.) Blind people before and during the days of Louis Braille earned their bread by begging.
2.) The people of Coupvray were kind to Louis Braille when he became blind.
3.) The reading method used by Louis Braille had limitations such as being very slow to read and expensive to print.
4.) Louis Braille was overjoyed when Captain Barbier explained his new invention to him.
5.) Louis Braille evolved a system in which one letter was distinguished from another by unique combination of dots .
6.) Even when so many punched books were available for the blind, Louis Braille looked unhappy because his method was not accepted by the authorities.
7.) Louis Braille’s method of teaching the blind was called Braille.
B.) Read these sentences:
1.) The head of the school soon found that Louis quickly learned whatever was taught to him.
2.) A person can never be truly educated unless he can read.
In the above sentences, quickly and truly are adverbs. Now pick out at least five adverbs from the lesson and write them in the spaces below:
C.) Give one word for the following:
1.) A keyboard instrument – Piano
2.) To move back –Retreat
3.) To clap your hands to show appreciation – applaud
4.) A person who plays the piano – Pianist
D.) Match the words with their opposites.
Words | Opposites |
1. Tough | f. Tender |
2. Forgive | h. Punish |
3. Weary | b. Fresh |
4. Nimble | a. Clumsy |
5. Tremendous | g. Ordinary |
6. Triumph | c. Failure |
7. Excitement | d. Calmness |
8. Straight | e. Crooked |
Grammar Work
A.) Rewrite the following sentences using used to and would. If both can be used in some cases, indicate the second alternative in the bracket.
1.) This huge building was a coffee house.
Answer – This huge building used tobe a coffee house.
2.) She helped the poor when she was at school.
Answer –She would help the poor when she was at school.
3.) I played football everyday last year after office hours.
Answer – I used to play football everyday last year after office hours.
4.) When my sister was seven years old she ate ice cream regularly, but now she does not like it at all.
Answer –When my sister was seven years old she would eat ice cream regularly, but now she does not like it at all.
5.) Her parents celebrated her birthday every year till she was five.
Answer – Her parents used to celebrate her birthday every year till she was five.
6.) Tinku never sang earlier but now he sings in almost every school function.
Answer – Tinku would never sing earlier but now he sings in almost every school function.
7.) My father smoked twenty cigarettes a day until two years ago but now he does not even touch them.
Answer –My father used to smoke twenty cigarettes a day until two years ago but now he does not even touch them.
8.) Whenever our English teacher was angry with us he gave us a lot of homework.
Answer –Whenever our English teacher would be angry with us he gave us a lot of homework.
9.) The main road facing my house was always empty a few years ago, but today it is awfully crowded.
Answer – The main road facing my house used to be always empty a few years ago, but today it is awfully crowded.
10.) I drove very fast when I began to learn driving.
Answer – I would drive very fast when I began to learn driving.
Let’s Write
As the head boy/ girl of the Roshni School for the Blind, J&K, you have been asked by the editorof the school magazine to contribute a brief biographical sketch of Louis Braille for the first issue of the magazine. Using the information collected in question 8 of Thinking about the text, write a biographical sketch of Louis Braille in a brief paragraph.
Answer –
Louis Braille was born on 1809 in a small village in Paris. His father was a harness and saddle maker. At the age of 3 years old he lost his eyesight while playing with his father’s awl. He had ability of strong hearing and memory. Is teacher admitted him to the Royal Institute for Young Blind. Where he learnt playing cello and piano.In the time blinds were taught with technique of books with embossed words. Please rail on this technique to be very slow and the techniques very expensive to print so blind people would have limited access to books.
To help blind people to read he developed Braille system.In this system he used specific dots to identify specific letters. He fought for his system to be accepted by the authorities and one day among his peoples on your girl who was a fine pianistgave a speech about the importance of Braille’s method in her life. Which made his method popular.
In 1852his system was accepted by authorities and named it after him.
The Eagle
Reading is Fun
1.) How does the eagle stand on the mountains?
Answer –The eagle stands on the mountains by holding the rock tightly with his crooked claws.
2.) What does the eagle do on the mountains?
Answer –On the mountains the eagle watches the wrinkles sea before it pounces upon it prey like a thunderbolt.
3.) What is the eagle compared to in the end? Why?
Answer –The eagle is compared to a thunderbolt in the end.
Because the eagle pounces upon its prey swiftly and fast.
4.) Pick out the rhyming words from the poem
Answer –
Hands – Lands – Stands
Crawls – Walls – Falls
Language Work
A.) Complete the summary of the poem by filling in the words from the box :
(crawling ocean rocks descends claws)
The eagle uses it claws to hold on to the steep rocks, high up in the sky. It is free to fly anywhere in the blue sky. The world beneath appears very small from the height. Above the mountains, the eagle looks upon the ocean which seems like a crawling baby. When the sharp vision of the eagle spots its prey, it descends towards the earth quick as a thunderbolt.
B.) Write down the names of the objects of nature that appear in the poem
Answer –The names of the objects of nature that appears in the poem is,
Crag, sun, land, sea, mountains, thunderbolt etc.
Let’s write
Write down the names of the birds found in your area / region. Write a short description of any two of them. Land vernacular names of this birds.
Answer –the names of the birds found in my area / region are sparrow, cuckoo, crow, mayna, parrot, eagle, pigeon etc.
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