Rajasthan Board Class 5 English Chapter 9 Solution The Star RBSE Class 5 English Solution for Chapter 9
Chapter 9 (The Star)
Activity – I
A.) Write T for True and F for False.
1.) The moon looks like a diamond in the sky.
Answer: F.
2.) The star shows its little light after the sunset.
Answer: T.
3.) The star shines brighter than the sun.
Answer: F.
B.) Answer the following questions.
1.) Who is the boy speaking to?
Answer: The boy is speaking to the twinkling stars.
2.) Why does the traveller thank the star?
Answer: The traveller thanks the star because stars spark their lights in the night and it shows a path to the traveller.
3.) What happens when the sun goes away?
Answer: When the sun goes away the star’s start twinkle.
4.) How does the boy know that the star is peeping through his curtains?
Answer: The boy knows it when he sees the twinkle of the star through curtains in the dark blue sky.
5.) What is the colour of the sky at night?
Answer: Dark blue is the colour of the sky at night.
6.) What happens when the sun comes back in the sky?
Answer: When the sun comes back in the sky we cannot see the star’s twinkling.
Activity – II
A.) Find words from the poem that are similar in meaning to the following words and write them in your notebooks. For some words, you may find more than one word in the poem. Write as many as you find.
a.) close: shut
b.) small: little, tiny
c.) bright: shine, blazing, spark
d.) black: dark
B.) In the poem, given below you noticed that two successive lines end with the words having similar sound.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
First two lines end with similar sounding words: ‘star’ and ‘are’ while the next two lines have similar sounding words: ‘high’ and ‘sky’ in the end. Such words are called rhyming words. Now, look at the words given in the box and arrange them in the table under the words with similar sounds.
Answer:
light: kite, right, tight, bite.
near: ear, year, deer, here.
sun: fun, run, one, none.
show: ago, slow, toe, glow
Activity – IV
Do you know where the sun goes in the evening? Does it become cool in the night? Write a paragraph on what you think.
Answer: The sun is the biggest star in our solar system at the time of evening sun never goes anywhere it is always in the sky and shines all time. As we know the earth revolves around the sun. The part of the earth where sunlight reaches the sun is seen from there but the part of the earth where the sunlight does not reach the sun is not seen from there. The sun is always hot and never becomes cool.
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