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NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 10 Covering Units 3, 4 and 5 — Self-assessment 2

Book page 135–138 Updated on2026-09-19

Q1.
Self-assessment 2 (pages 135–136). You may select more than one box for each point. 1. I can recite the poems with gestures
The four tick boxes printed beside this point •  by myself. •  in a group. •  by repeating after my teacher. •  None of the above. I like reading poems quietly.
The four boxes printed beside this point on page 135. You may tick more than one.
Answer

First, what this page is. Self-assessment 2 is not a test. There are no marks and no right or wrong boxes. It is a page where you tell yourself, honestly, how you learn best. It comes after Units 3, 4 and 5, so it is asking about everything you have done in chapters 5 to 10: The Frog, What a Tank!, Gilli Danda, The Decision of the Panchayat, Vocation and Glass Bangles. The Note to the Teacher on page 136 says the sheet is to be filled in by the learners themselves and kept as part of their progress record. You may tick more than one box for every point.

The poems in these three units are three: The Frog (Unit 3, page 55), Gilli Danda (Unit 4, page 79) and Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore (Unit 5, page 105).

How to answer this point: Think of the last time your class said one of those poems aloud. Did you stand up and say it on your own? Did you say it with your group? Did you wait for your teacher to say each line first? Tick every box that is true for you. If you prefer to read poems silently, the last box is a perfectly good and honest answer — the book has put it there on purpose.

Sample answer: I ticked “in a group” and “by repeating after my teacher”. I can say Gilli Danda with my group and do the actions of swinging and hitting, because we practised it many times. When a poem is new, like Vocation, I still need to hear my teacher say each line first. I have not yet recited a whole poem alone in front of the class, but I would like to try with The Frog, because I know all its actions — hopping, flicking my tongue and swimming.
Why gestures help: When your hands act out the words, your body remembers the poem as well as your mind does. That is why The Frog is easy to learn — every line has an action hidden in it.
Q2.
2. I can understand the new words
The five tick boxes printed beside this point •  by using a dictionary. •  after listening to my teacher’s explanation. •  by reading with my classmates in groups. •  by reading the entire sentence again. •  by looking at the pictures.
The five boxes printed beside this point on page 135. You may tick more than one.
Answer

What this point is asking: every chapter of Santoor gives you a strip of New Words. This asks how you get at their meaning. There are five ways listed and all five are good ways. Tick every one you really use.

The wayWhen it works best
Using a dictionaryWhen you need the exact meaning and the spelling, as with conservation or apologise
Listening to the teacherWhen the word carries an idea, like panchayat, vocation or heritage
Reading in a groupWhen a friend already knows the word, or knows it in your mother tongue
Reading the whole sentence againWhen the sentence around the word tells you the meaning — this is called guessing from the context
Looking at the picturesWhen the word is a thing you can see — furnace, lantern, gilli, spade, gong
Sample answer: I ticked “by reading the entire sentence again”, “by looking at the pictures” and “by using a dictionary”. When I met the word furnace in Glass Bangles, I read the sentence again — “heat glass in a furnace” — and I knew it had to be something very hot. Then I looked at the picture on page 119 and saw the round oven. For adamant in The Decision of the Panchayat, the sentence was not enough, so I used the dictionary and found that it means refusing to change your mind.
The best habit of all: Try the sentence and the picture first, and go to the dictionary only after that. Working the meaning out yourself makes it stick; being told it does not.
Q3.
3. I can answer the questions
The four tick boxes printed beside this point •  in my mother tongue. •  in English. •  in English with a few words of my mother tongue. •  in my mother tongue, with a few words of English.
The four boxes printed beside this point on page 135. You may tick more than one.
Answer

What this point is asking: which language you use when you answer the “Let us Think” questions.

Notice something important — every one of the four boxes is allowed. The book is not saying that answering in your mother tongue is wrong. Using two languages together while you are learning a new one is completely normal, and it is how almost everybody learns.

Sample answer: I ticked “in English with a few words of my mother tongue”. I can write my answers in English now, but when I speak in class I sometimes use a Hindi word for something I do not yet know in English. For Glass Bangles I wrote my whole answer in English, but I said bhatti before I remembered the word furnace. I am ticking the English box as well, because I answered all of A.1, A.2 and A.3 in English by myself.
How to move towards English: Keep a page at the back of your notebook. Every time you have to use a mother-tongue word because you do not know the English one, write both words down side by side. In a month you will have a list of the exact words you need — and they will be words that matter to you, which is why you will remember them.
Q4.
4. I can write a paragraph
The four tick boxes printed beside this point •  by myself. •  after following my teacher’s instructions. •  after reading my friends’ work. •  with my teachers’/friends’ help.
The four boxes printed beside this point on page 136. You may tick more than one.
Answer

What this point is asking: how much help you need to write a paragraph. In these three units you were asked to write quite a few — a reply to Hopper the frog (page 61), a poster about saving water (page 76), a letter to a friend about the Panchayat (page 100), a paragraph about a festival and one about the Rock Garden (page 128).

Sample answer: I ticked “after following my teacher’s instructions” and “by myself”. When my teacher writes the points on the board — beginning, middle, end — I can write the whole paragraph on my own without asking anybody. The festival paragraph on page 128 was easy for me, because the book gave hints: special dish, meeting friends and family, prayer, ritual. The Rock Garden paragraph was harder, so I read what my friend had written before I began my own.
How to get to “by myself”: Do not start writing sentences straight away. Write four short points in the margin first — that is your plan. Then turn each point into two sentences. A plan is what turns “I cannot write a paragraph” into “I can”.
Q5.
5. I was able to do all the activities
The four tick boxes printed beside this point •  by myself. •  with the help of my teacher. •  with the help of my classmates. •  with the help of my family members.
The four boxes printed beside this point on page 136. You may tick more than one.
Answer

What this point is asking: the “Let us Do”, “Let us Explore” and “Let us Observe” activities — making a bird feeder, making a gilli and danda, finding out which places are famous for which craft, drawing the dot rangoli, finding out about fixed and recurring deposits.

Look carefully at the four boxes: three of them are about taking help. Taking help is not a weakness here. Some of these activities cannot be done alone at all — you cannot find out about a bank without asking an elder, and you cannot play Gilli Danda by yourself.

Sample answer: I ticked all four boxes, because different activities needed different people. I drew the rangoli on page 130 by myself. I made the gilli and danda with my classmates, and we tested them in the playground. I found out about Fixed Deposit and Recurring Deposit with the help of my family — my father showed me his passbook. And I needed my teacher’s help to find Paithan and Madhubani on the map of India.
What this whole page is really teaching: Knowing how you learn is a skill of its own. Once you can say “I learn new words best from pictures” or “I write best after making a plan”, you can teach yourself. That is why the book ends with this page and not with a test.
Q6.
(Page 137) Books that I have read this year.
The three blank cards printed on page 137 Title: Author: Why I liked it Title: Author: Why I liked it Title: Author: Why I liked it
The three blank cards printed on page 137, reproduced here as they are in the book for you to fill in.
Answer

This page is your own reading record for the year. Fill in three books you have actually read — school books do not count, but a story book, a comic, a book of riddles or a book in your own language all do.

How to fill it in:

  1. Title — the name of the book, exactly as it is printed on the cover.
  2. Author — the person who wrote it. Look on the cover or on the first page inside.
  3. Why I liked it — three or four lines. Do not retell the whole story. Say what you felt, and name one part you still remember.

Sample answer:

TitleAuthorWhy I liked it
Malgudi DaysR. K. NarayanThe stories happen in a small town that felt exactly like mine. My favourite one is about the boy and the school pond. The people in it are ordinary people, and that is why I believed every word.
The Jungle BookRudyard KiplingI liked Mowgli because he was brave but never unkind. The part where the wolves accept him made me want to read the chapter twice.
Grandma’s Bag of StoriesSudha MurtyEvery chapter is a new story told by a grandmother to her grandchildren. I read one story every night before sleeping, and it felt as if she were telling it to me.
Tip: Fill this page in now, while you still remember. Next year, when you look back at it, you will be surprised at how much you read.
Q7.
(Page 138) Poems that I have read this year.
The three blank cards printed on page 138 Title: Poet: Why I liked it Title: Poet: Why I liked it Title: Poet: Why I liked it
The three blank cards printed on page 138, reproduced here as they are in the book for you to fill in.
Answer

The same page again, but for poems. Notice that the second line says Poet, not Author — the person who writes a poem is called a poet.

The easiest place to start is your own book. Santoor gave you seven poems this year: Papa’s Spectacles (page 1), The Rainbow by Christina Rossetti (page 27), Colours (page 31), Aachoo! (page 32), The Frog (page 55), Gilli Danda (page 79) and Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore (page 105).

Sample answer:

TitlePoetWhy I liked it
VocationRabindranath TagoreThe boy in the poem wants to be a hawker, a gardener and a watchman, all because they seem free. I liked it because I have thought exactly the same thing on my way home from school.
The RainbowChristina RossettiIt is a short poem but it makes a big picture. I loved the line where the rainbow “builds a road from earth to sky”. Now I look for that road every time it rains.
Gilli DandaThe book does not name a poetIt is full of movement — swing, hit, fly. When we said it aloud in class we did the actions, and it felt like really playing the game.
If a poem in the book has no poet’s name, write “not given in the book”. That is the honest and correct thing to do.
What comes after page 138: Page 139 is a blank New Words page — a set of empty clouds where you write down the new words you want to keep. Page 140 is a ruled Notes page. Neither of them has any questions. They are yours to fill.
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