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Manipur Board Class 5 English Chapter 15: Marco Polo
- Board – Board of Secondary Education, Manipur.
- Class – 5
- Subject – English
- Topic – Exercise Solution / Notes / Question Answer.
(a) Answer the following questions :
(i) Who was Marco Polo ?
Ans Marco was a young boy of twenty years .He served in the court for seventeen years.
(ii) Who was Kubla Khan ?
Ans Kubla Khan was the person who wanted to transform persons into Christianity. And Emperor of Cathy..
(iii) Who wanted to convert the people of Cathay to christianity
Ans Kubla Khan wanted to convert the people of Cathay to christianity
(iv) How long did the Polos serve the Emperor?
AnsPolos serve the Emperor for seventeen years.
(v) How did the Polos serve the Emperor?
Ans Polo serve the empire with responsible and grateful man .
(vi) Why did the India King send an Embassy to the Emperor?
Ans Their fate under a new king might be uncertain.And it was also very far from Venice.And also they have good amount of wealth.India King send an Embassy to the Emperor
(vii) How many months did the journey take to reach theshore of the Indian King?
Ans 21 months
(viii) What did the Polos do when they reached Venice ?
Ans Polo reached Venice led a happy life to his native country.
(ix) In which year did the Polos come back to Venice ?
Ans 1295Polos come back to Venice
(b) Answer the following question:
(i) Describe the journey of the Polos to Cathay.
Ans Polos brother and he went to Cathay, during their journey they face lot of problems like war,storm , mountain and flood. They travelled by horse or mule or foot.They halted in different cities and finally three and years later he arrived Cathay.
(ii) How did the Polos serve the Emperor ?
Ans Polos serve the empire with full dignity and responsibly.
(iii) Why did the Polos fell homesick ?
Ans After serving the empire for 17 years they felt homesick as they were missing their family members.
(iv) What was the request of the late queen of India to herhusband?
Ans queen had requested her husband to take a new wife from among her own people
who lived with Kubla Khan. A beautiful damsel was selected.
(c) Fill in the blanks with the correct word from those given in the brackets:
(i) Marco Polo was born on 1245 at Venice (in/ on).
(ii) They were bold merchants (was/were).
(iii) Marco quickly rose in the service of the Prince (in/of).
(iv) They wanted to take their wealth home (there/ their).
(v) The journey was very exciting (much/very).
2.) Project work
Collect one picture or photograph each of Marco Polo and Kubla Khan
for your album.
A dictionary contains words and their meanings. All the words are always
in ALPHABETICAL order. If you know your ABC in the right order, then you
will soon be able to find any word you want in the pages of a dictionary.
(a) Here are a few words. Look at the first letter of each word. Try to put these words in alphabetical order :
school ……………………….
pen ……………………….
book ……………………….
monkey ……………………….
library ……………………….
act ……………………….
Ans Act, book, library, monkey pen, school
(b) Open your dictionary and observe how the words are listed. All the entries in the series begin with the same letter. We arrange the alphabetical order of the words on the basis of the first letter, the second letter, the third letter and so on. Try to put the following words in alphabetical order by looking at the second letter of each word :
b d p
1.) boat ……………. 1.) doll ……. 1.) plants
2.) bear …………… 2.) daughter ………. 2.) purse .
3.) big …………….. 3.) dirty ……………. 3.) polite.
4.) bull ……………. 4.) devil …………… 4.) paper
Ans 1. Bear 2. Big 3.boat 4.bull
Daughter 2. Devil 3. Dirty 4.doll
Paper. 2. Plants 3.polite 4. Purse
Now, arrange the following words in alphabetical order :
son. daughter bee. pond air cow queen
fan. egg. go. house jug I orange
knife. nest. milk. you lion rose violon
water. uniform tree. zoo x-ray
Ans air,bee, cow, daughter,egg, fan, go, house, I, jug, knife, lion, milk,nest , orange, pond,queen,rose, son,uniform, violin,water, xay, you, zoo.
3.) (a) Read the following passage :
Mary and Rose are Mr. Gangte’s children. Mary has her food at 8 p.m. She goes to bed at 8.30 p.m. Rose begins
reading at 8 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Gangte and Rose have their
dinner at 9 p.m. Rose goes to bed at 10 p.m. Mrs. Gangtetoo goes to bed at 10 p.m. and Mr. Gangte at 11 p.m.
Now, the time is 8 p.m.
Make sentences by filling in the blanks. The words must say something about the persons written in the brackets :
Example :
It is time for ………………………….. (Mary)
It is time for Mary to have her food.
(1) It is time for ……..(Rose)
Ans It is time for Rose (Rose)
(2) It is too early for ………( Rose)
Ans it is too early for Rose to take dinner
(3) It is too early for ……………………………… (Mrs. Gangte)
Ans It is too early for Mr.Gangte to sleep
(4) It is too early for ………………………………. (Mr. Gangte)
Ans It is too early for Mr. Gangte to reach office
(5) It is too early for ………………………………. (Mrs. Gangte)
Ans It is too early fo Mrs. Gangte to go home from office.
(b) It is now 9 p.m. Make more sentences. Tell about the persons in the brackets :
(1) It is time for ……………………………………………… (Rose)
Ans It is time Rose to study
(2) It is time for ……………………………………… (Mr. Gangte)
Ans It is time for Mr Gangte to take dinner
(3) It is time for ……………………………………. (Mrs. Gangte)
Ans It is time for Mrs. Gangte to take dinner
(4) It is too early for ……………………………………….. (Rose)
Ans It is too early for Rose to sleep
(5) It is too early for……………………………… (Mrs. Ganget)
Ans It is too early for Mrs. Ganget to cook food.
(c) It is now 10 p.m. Make more sentences. Tell about the persons within the brackets :
(1) It is time for ……………………………………………… (Rose)
Ans It is time for Rose to sleep.
(2) It is time for …………………………………….(Mrs. Gangte)
Ans It is time for Mrs Ganget to join online job
(3) It is too early for ……………………………….. (Mr. Gangte)
Ans . It is too early for Mr Gangte to have dinner.
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