JKBOSE Class 5 English Tulip Chapter 6 The Prodigal Son Solution
JKBOSE (Jammu Kashmir State Board Of School Education) Class 5 English Solution Chapter 6 The Prodigal Son all Exercise Question Answers. Students of JK Board Grade 5 Standard can download all Answer.
Thinking about the Text
(A.) Answer these questions:
1.) Why did the man divide his wealth between his two sons?
Answer –The man divided his wealth between his two sons because his younger son demanded for an early division of property.
2.) Why did the younger son hire himself to someone?
Answer –After the man divided his property between his two sons. The younger son spent all his money dining, drinking wine and gambling. After he spent all of his money, a terrible famine came through out the country. In this situation he had nothing to eat, he was starving so he hired himself to someone.
3.) What did the younger son decide to tell his father?
Answer –The younger son decided confess his sin and tell his father that all the time what he had done was a terrible sin against him and God and he was not worthy to be called as his son anymore. He also decided to tell his father that to take him as one of his servants.
4.) How was the prodigal son received by his father?
Answer –The father was overjoyed to see his son. He thought his son was dead, but seeing him alive he was relieved and happy. He embraced him and he ordered his servants to bring a new dress, a ring and new shoes for him. He told his servant to kill the fat goat and arranged a feast on his arrival.
5.) Why was the elder son angry?
Answer –The elder son was angry because while the younger son went away and spent all his inherited money dining, drinking and gambling, he was the one who worked hard. Now after the younger son came back his father embraced him with joy and arranged a feast for his return.
6.) Why was the family bound to make merry?
Answer –The family was bound to rejoice because they thought the younger son was dead and he has came back to them. He has changed himself and realised the mistakes he has made and he was seeking mercy and forgiveness.
(B) Match the following:
A | B |
(a) Distant | 5. Far away |
(b) Famine | 1. Severe shortage of food |
(c) Longed | 6. To have a string desire |
(d) Hearty | 7. Healthy and strong |
(e) Tend | 10. To care for |
(f) Heaven | 2. the abode of God and the angels |
(g) Tenderly | 3. Kindly |
(h) Kid | 4. Young one, of a goat |
(i) Bound | 8. Destined; sure |
(j) Rejoice | 9. feel or express great joy |
C.) Put a (✔️) or (❌) against the statements given below:
1.) The man had four sons.❌
2.) There came a terrible famine throughout the country. ✔️
3.) The younger son repented. ✔️
4.) The father did not welcome his son when he came back. ❌
5.) The elder son was angry with his father for welcoming the younger son.✔️
6.) In the end the elder son also agreed with his father.✔️
D.) Who says the following:
(a.) “Father, give me the share of the property that comes to me.” – The younger son
(b.) “I have sinned against Heaven and you.” –The younger son
(c.) “Fetch a good coat quickly, the best one and put it on him.” – The father
(d.) “We are bound to make merry and rejoice.” – The father
(e.) “Your brother has come.” The father
Language work
1.) Match the verbs on the left with the nouns on the right. Use your dictionary to help you if you need to.
1. Make | d) a mistake |
2. Tell | e) a joke |
3. Watch | c) TV |
4. Catch | b) a train |
5. Ask | a) a question |
2.) Fill in the gaps with the adjectives given in the box:
a) I used to be a heavy
b) He has a strong/broad Scottish accent.
c) She was late, but at least she had a good
d) The plane could not take off because of heavy
Prepositions:
Fill in the blanks with the prepositions given in the box:
(for, to, about, at, on)
1.) I’m worried about Jane. She’s usually home by now.
2.) You have to apply for a visa before you go.
3.) Can you describe the man to me?
4.) That girl over there keeps smiling at me.
5.) He goes to school on foot.
Grammar Work
Now turn the following sentences from direct into indirect speech:
- The mother said, “May you prosper my son!”
Indirect speech –The mother prayed that her son might prosper.
- He said, “How clever I am!”
Indirect speech – He exclaimed that he was clever.
- The poor man said, “Would that I were a king!”
Indirect speech –The poor man wished that if we had been a king.
- He said, “What a pity! You have not finished your work.”
Indirect speech –He felt pity that he had not finished his homework.
- The old woman said, “Alas! My only son has died.”
Indirect speech – The old woman exclaimed with sorrow her son had died.
- They said, “Oh! What a fine day it is!”
Indirect speech –They exclaimed that it was a fine day.
Now turn the following into direct speech:
- He prayed that God might bless me.
Direct speech –He said, “May God bless you”.
- I bade farewell to my friend.
Direct speech –I said to my friend, “Goodbye”
- The people cried out that the leader might live long.
Direct speech –The people said, “May the leader live long”
- I prayed that he might prosper.
Direct speech –I said, “May you prosper”
- She prayed that God might pardon that sinner.
Direct speech –She said, “May God pardon this sinner”
- He wished that he had been young again.
Direct speech –He said, “Wish I were young again”
THE FOUNTAIN
Reading is Fun
1.) How is the fountain described in the first stanza?
Answer – In the first stanza the poet described that in the sunshine the fountain was full of light and from morning to night it kept leaping and flashing.
2.) How does the fountain look in the moonlight?
Answer –In the moonlight The fountain looks whiter than snow and it wavesas a flower when the wind blows.
3.) How does the poet describe the happy mood of the fountain?
Answer –The poet described the happy mood of the fountain in different ways. In daytime when the sunshine falls upon the fountain it becomes bright, in moonlight it becomes whiter than snow and waves like a flower in the blowing wind. In starlight it rises and falls like a spray.
4.) What is the poet’s wish in the end?
Answer –The poet’s wish is to become fresh, changeful yet constant, he always wants to move upwards in his life just like a fountain.
Language Work
A.) Pick out the adjectives used for the fountain in the poem?
Answer –Whiter, flower-like, blithesome, cheery, glad, aspiring, glorious etc.
B.) Pick out the verbs that show the movement of the fountain?
Answer –Leaping, flashing, waving, rushing, climbing, upward, downward etc.
C.) Pick out the sets of rhyming words from the poem
Answer –
- Light – Night
- Snow – Blow
- Starlight – Moonlight
- Spray – Day
- Heavenward – Downward
- Cheery – Aweary
- Best – Rest
- Tame – Same
- Content – Element
- Be – Thee
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