NCERT Solutions for Class 4th English Chapter 5 Discuss the following in the class — Let us Speak
Book page 53 Updated on2026-09-19
Q1.
Look at this picture. Imagine a large bowl of delicious jalebis is in your classroom. You and your friends start enjoying the sweets, one by one. Everyone loves the jalebis so much that you keep reaching for more. Now, think about what might happen next. Discuss the following in the class: 1. How would you feel if the jalebis were almost finished, but some friends hadn’t had enough yet?The picture on page 53 of your book: four classmates sitting round a table with a big plateful of jalebis in the middle. The child on the right uses a wheelchair.
Answer
I would feel sorry and a little ashamed. That is the honest answer, and it is the one the book wants you to reach.
Say it in three steps:
Name the feeling — sorry, bad, guilty, ashamed.
Say why — because I took more than my share while my friends waited.
Say what you would do — give away the jalebi in my hand, or share the next sweet first.
Sample answer: I would feel very bad. My friends would be standing there with empty hands while I had already eaten three or four. I would feel ashamed, because I did not think of them at all. I would give my last jalebi to the friend who got none.
Why this feeling comes: A sweet tastes good for a minute. Seeing a friend left out hurts much longer. That is why sharing makes us happier than eating one extra jalebi.
Link to the story: This is just how the animals felt on page 45 — “His friends felt ashamed. They realised how their greed had made them forget about their friend.”
Q2.
Look at this picture. Imagine a large bowl of delicious jalebis is in your classroom. You and your friends start enjoying the sweets, one by one. Everyone loves the jalebis so much that you keep reaching for more. Now, think about what might happen next. Discuss the following in the class: 2. What will happen to the bowl of jelebis after some time?The picture on page 53 of your book: four classmates sitting round a table with a big plateful of jalebis in the middle. The child on the right uses a wheelchair.
Answer
The bowl will become empty.
Nobody is putting more jalebis in. Everyone keeps reaching for more. So the sweets can only go one way — down to zero. After some time the bowl will hold nothing but a little syrup.
And then:
The friends who ate fast will be full.
The friends who waited politely will get nothing.
Nobody will be able to have a second round.
Why it empties so quickly: The bowl is one, but the hands reaching into it are many. It is exactly the hillock again. The grass ran out because every visitor ate a little.
Note on the book’s spelling: Question 2 on page 53 prints the word as “jelebis”. Everywhere else the book spells it correctly as jalebis. Use the spelling jalebis in your own writing.
Q3.
Look at this picture. Imagine a large bowl of delicious jalebis is in your classroom. You and your friends start enjoying the sweets, one by one. Everyone loves the jalebis so much that you keep reaching for more. Now, think about what might happen next. Discuss the following in the class: 3. Why is it important to share when we have something that everyone enjoys?The picture on page 53 of your book: four classmates sitting round a table with a big plateful of jalebis in the middle. The child on the right uses a wheelchair.
Answer
Because sharing is the only way everybody gets some.
Three reasons you can give in class:
Fairness. The jalebis were brought for the whole class, not for the fastest hands.
Friendship. Nobody likes to sit and watch others eat. Sharing keeps friends together.
It comes back. The friend I share with today will share with me tomorrow.
The idea behind it: When one person takes a lot, someone else gets nothing — the food does not grow bigger. When we share, the same bowl makes many people happy instead of two or three.
Sample answer: Sharing is important because the jalebis belong to all of us. If I eat five, someone else gets none. Then that friend feels left out and unhappy. When we share, everyone tastes the sweet and everyone stays happy. That is better than one full stomach.
The chapter’s lesson says the same thing: “Nature has enough for everybody. But we need to use its resources wisely.”
Q4.
Look at this picture. Imagine a large bowl of delicious jalebis is in your classroom. You and your friends start enjoying the sweets, one by one. Everyone loves the jalebis so much that you keep reaching for more. Now, think about what might happen next. Discuss the following in the class: 4. How can we make sure there are enough jalebis for everyone to enjoy?The picture on page 53 of your book: four classmates sitting round a table with a big plateful of jalebis in the middle. The child on the right uses a wheelchair.
Answer
Count first, then divide — and take one turn each.
Simple ways that really work:
Count the children and count the jalebis. Then everyone knows the share — two each, or three each.
Serve on plates first instead of letting everyone reach into the bowl.
Take one turn each. Nobody takes a second one until everybody has had a first.
Ask the teacher to serve, or choose one friend to give them out.
Keep the last few aside for anyone who comes late or is absent that day.
Why counting first is the key step: Once you know there are four jalebis for each child, nobody has to hurry or grab. People take more than they need mostly because they are afraid of getting less than the others.
Sample answer: First we should count how many children there are. Then we should divide the jalebis equally and put each share on a plate. Everyone takes one turn first. Only after all have eaten once should anyone take a second. In this way nobody is left out.
Think about it: The animals in the story could have done the very same thing. If each visitor had eaten just a mouthful from the forest instead of the hillock, the stag would never have gone hungry.