NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 1 Papa's Spectacles

About this chapter

Stanza 1 — the problem. “Today our papa / Is searching everywhere, / He has lost his spectacles, / It was his only pair!” Papa has just one pair of spectacles, so losing them is a real trouble. The word only is the important one here. Stanza 2 — why it matters. Without his spectacles Papa cannot read the newspaper, cannot watch TV and cannot cut the vegetables. Three ordinary daily jobs all stop at once. The stanza ends with his worried cry, “Oh! Where can it be?” Stanza 3 — the search. He checked inside his pockets, glanced under his chair, searched near the window, looked everywhere. Four different verbs — checked, glanced, searched, looked — show him hunting harder and harder. Stanza 4 — the surprise. The child says, “Stop, Papa!”, goes up close, and tells him the spectacles are right t

• Papa’s Spectacles (poem)
• A. Answer the following questions
• B. Think and discuss
• A. Arrange the words in ascending order
• B. Complete the phrases
• C. Encircle the word that is spelt correctly
• D. Complete the story using the correct prepositions
• E. Crossword puzzle
• Words for ‘father’ in our languages
• Encircle the pairs in which the words sound different