The Little Bully | Class 5 | English | NCERT Solutions

Vocabulary

New word Practice

Words	Write three times each
Bully	…………….	…………….	…………….
Bruise	…………….	…………….	…………….
Pinch	…………….	…………….	…………….
Pricking	…………….	…………….	…………….
Hoarse	…………….	…………….	…………….
Stalk	…………….	…………….	…………….
Pincer	…………….	…………….	…………….
Nipped	…………….	…………….	…………….
Lobster	…………….	…………….	…………….
Shrimp	…………….	…………….	…………….

 

Word Meanings

Word	Meaning
Bully	Tough or naughty
Bruise	injury by blow to body
Pinch	touch by two fingers pressing
Pricking	Cutting
Hoarse	Rough and deep sounding
Stalk	main stem
Pincer	A gripping tool
Nipped	Pinched
Lobster	Sea creature
Shrimp	Sea creature

 

Textbook Question and Answer

Reading is Fun

Now that you have read and understood the lesson, can you answer these questions? You can put a ( √ ) on the right answer.

1. Why did all the children hate Hari?

1. Because he would not talk to anyone.
2. Because he always pinched them.
3. Because he loved stealing their food.

Ans: Because he always pinched them.

2. “Nobody took Hari’s hand. Nobody went near him. Nobody played with him.” This shows that Hari had

1. many friends.
2. few friends.
3. no friends.

Ans: No friends.

3. Which of the following actions would make a friendly person? Write them down.

• Respecting other people.
• Eating a small child’s tiffin.
• Calling people rude names.
• Pushing a smaller boy and making him cry.
• Being helpful to everyone.
• Helping your classmates in school.
• Mocking at friends and hurting their feelings.
• Protecting a weaker person.

Answer:

Actions which would make a friendly person

• Respecting other people.
• Being helpful to everyone.
• Helping your classmates in school.
• Protecting a weaker person.

Vocabulary

1. Find out words which are opposites or are closest to being the opposites of the words given below. Then write down the opposites in the grid.

Down	Across
1. smile	3. quiet
2. happy	5. punish
4. strong

 

 

 

 Answer

2. Hari was pinched till he was black and blue. ‘Black and blue’ means

1. Hari fell down in pain.
2. There were bruises on his body.
3. Hari painted himself in colours.
4. Hari had a black and blue shirt.

Ans: There were bruises on his body.

3. ‘I shan’t pinch anyone anymore’. Shan’t means.

1. shall
2. should
3. shall not
4. will not

Answer : shall not

4. Give the full forms of

won’t	…………………………
weren’t	…………………………
wouldn’t	…………………………
couldn’t	…………………………

 

Answer

won’t	will not
weren’t	were not
wouldn’t	would not
couldn’t	could not

5. A girl was sitting quietly beside him. Hari leapt to his feet, crying loudly.

The words quietly and loudly tell us how an action is being done.

Find five more words ending in –ly which denote how something is done.

Answer

( i )	slowly
( ii )	happily
( iii )	sadly
( iv )	beautifully
( v )	clearly

Add –ly to the following words.

clear	merry	weary	double
dreary	bright	bad	fond

 

Answer

clearly	merrily	wearily	doubly
drearily	brightly	badly	fondly

Now can you make sentences with these words?

Answer

clearly	We can see through a glass clearly.
drearily	The children were drearily listening to the story.
merrily	We celebrate functions merrily.
brightly	The sun shines brightly during summer.
wearily	He talked wearily.
badly	He speaks badly in class.
doubly	The work is doubly hard.
fondly	We fondly call Gandhiji as Bapu.

 

Fun with sounds

1. Let’s practice with P and F.

pleased	pricked	pinched	punished
fat	fruit	fell	forgotten
palm	pair	proud	parade
farm	fare	frown	fish

 

2. Complete the blanks with rhyming words of the following and practice aloud.

bruise	cruise	creatures	features
carriage	marriage	teachers	preachers
prawn	drawn	vowed	crowd

Let’s practice some writing

1. How did the seaside creatures, the crab, the lobster etc. teach Hari a lesson? Write in a few lines.

Answer

The seaside creatures, the crab, the lobster etc. pinched Hari with their pincer like claws till he was black and blue in pain. By hurting Hari in his style they taught him a lesson.

2. Read these sentences carefully.

I ate an apple.

A boy is standing under the tree.

The sun rises in the east.

A and an do not point out any definite or particular person or thing whereas, the is used when we speak of some particular person or thing. A, an and the are called articles.

Remember an is used before words beginning with a vowel a, e, i, o, u.

Now fill in the blanks with appropriate articles.

( i ) Hari was ………… unpopular boy.

( ii ) The boys and girls went to ……… seaside for a picnic.

( iii ) He saw ……… big crab coming towards him.

( iv ) I found ……….. empty bottle, floating in the water.

( v ) …….. sea creatures ate his food.

Ans:

( i ) Hari was an unpopular boy.

( ii ) The boys and girls went to a seaside for a picnic.

( iii ) He saw a big crab coming towards him.

( iv ) I found an empty bottle, floating in the water.

( v ) The sea creatures ate his food.

3. A crab has a hard shell whereas a frog does not have one. There are many animals that protect themselves from their enemies with their outer cover / shells / quills.

In the box given below are the names of some animals. Encircle the ones that can protect themselves with their hard cover.

crocodile	snail	lizard	snake
turtle	tortoise	gorilla	frog
hedgehog	porcupine

 

Ans:

crocodile	snail	lizard	snake
turtle	tortoise	gorilla	frog
hedgehog	porcupine