NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 10 Name the sixteen pictures and find them in the book — Let us Observe
Book page 132–133 Updated on2026-09-19
Q1.
Look at the following pictures. Can you locate them in this textbook and write their name in the space given below?
(Page 132, row 1, left)The first of the pictures printed on page 132 of the textbook.
Answer
A merry-go-round — the round swing ride you see at a village fair or in a park. Many people call it a jhoola or a carousel.
How to read the picture: Look at the parts one by one.
The purple dome in the middle is the canopy, the roof that covers the ride.
The yellow strip under it, with little round dots, is a row of lights.
The two red bars crossing in an X are the four arms.
The four blue curved things are the seats, one hanging at the end of each arm.
The short black posts are the legs that stand on the ground.
Write in the blank:Merry-go-round (or jhoola, or swing ride). If you see it a little differently, write what you see and say why — the point of this page is to look carefully and use the right word.
Hunting it down: This is one of the harder ones. Turn slowly through the picture pages of your book, especially the busy full-page scenes, and look at the small things drawn in the background.
Q2.
(Page 132, row 1, middle)The picture printed second on page 132 of the textbook.
Answer
A hand fan — a pankha, with a fish painted on it.
Where it is in the book: page 104, in chapter 8, The Decision of the Panchayat. On that page there are two almost-alike pictures of a woman sitting on the steps of her house, and you have to find eleven differences between them. She is holding exactly this round fan with the fish on it. You can also see the fan circled in the Answer Key on page 134, because the fan is one of the eleven differences.
Why a fish? A round hand fan of cane, cloth or palm leaf is often painted with a simple bright picture — a fish, a bird, a flower or a peacock. It costs very little, it needs no electricity, and on a hot afternoon it is the best thing in the house.
Write in the blank:Hand fan (pankha).
Q3.
(Page 132, row 1, right)The picture printed third on page 132 of the textbook.
Answer
A lotus — a pink lotus flower, with lily pads (the flat floating leaves) around it.
Where it is in the book: page 55, the opening page of chapter 5, The Frog. In that big picture the frog sits on a lily pad in the rain, and pink lotus flowers stand up out of the pond beside him.
Two names, one picture: The flower is the lotus. The flat green plates lying on the water are the leaves of the water lily and the lotus — we call them lily pads. Both are correct answers.
Did you know? The lotus is the national flower of India. It grows out of muddy water, yet its petals never get dirty — water simply rolls off them. That is why the lotus is so often used as a picture of staying clean and calm in a difficult place.
Q4.
(Page 132, row 2, left)The picture printed fourth on page 132 of the textbook.
Answer
A butterfly.
How you know: Count the wings — four, two big ones in front and two smaller behind. Look at the head — two thin feelers (antennae) with tiny knobs at the tips. A butterfly rests with its wings spread flat or held up together, and its wings are covered in bright patterns.
Write in the blank:Butterfly.
Hunting it down: Look through the outdoor scenes of the book — gardens, fields and ponds. Butterflies are usually drawn small, near the flowers.
Did you know? A butterfly begins life as an egg, becomes a caterpillar, then a hard case called a pupa, and only then comes out with wings. It is the same creature all the way through — it just keeps changing its shape.
Q5.
(Page 132, row 2, middle)The picture printed fifth on page 132 of the textbook.
Answer
Glass bangles — a pair of arms wearing green glass bangles.
Where it is in the book: page 121 — in this very chapter, Glass Bangles. On page 121 there is a small round callout drawn beside the picture of Ravi and Ananya at work, and inside it are these two arms wearing the new green bangles.
Write in the blank:Bangles (glass bangles).
Look again at the picture: Both wrists are wearing bangles, not one — bangles are almost always worn in sets, and often the same number on each hand. That is why the phrase a pair of comes up so often with them.
Q6.
(Page 132, row 2, right)The picture printed sixth on page 132 of the textbook.
Answer
An aeroplane.
Where it is in the book: page 14, in chapter 2, Gone with the Scooter. Look at the top right-hand corner of that page. This same aeroplane is flying in the sky above the story, with two puffs of cloud beside it. You can tell it is the same one by the red stripes across the tail fin.
Write in the blank:Aeroplane.
One more place to look: On page 66, in What a Tank!, the book says the water tanks of rural Punjab may be shaped “like a giant flower, a large football, a brown rooster, a statue or even an aeroplane”. So an aeroplane turns up in that chapter too — in words.
Q7.
(Page 132, row 3, left)The picture printed seventh on page 132 of the textbook.
Answer
A pair of spectacles.
Where it is in the book: page 4, in chapter 1, Papa’s Spectacles. On that page you had to complete the phrase “a pair of ……” and this very picture stood beside blank number 3. The answer there was a pair of spectacles.
Why “a pair”: Spectacles have two lenses, one for each eye, joined together in a frame. Anything made of two matching parts joined together takes the words a pair of — spectacles, scissors, trousers.
And of course the whole first poem of the book is about a pair of spectacles that Papa lost — and found on his own head.
Q8.
(Page 132, row 3, middle)The picture printed eighth on page 132 of the textbook.
Answer
A lantern.
Where it is in the book: page 107, in chapter 9, Vocation. In the big night picture on that page, the watchman is walking down the dark lane holding up exactly this lantern. The poem says: “The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at his side.”
Lantern is also one of the New Words of that chapter, on page 108, and on page 109 you had to match it with its meaning: a case that holds a candle or light in any form and can be easily carried.
What makes it a lantern and not just a lamp: The flame is shut inside a glass case. That does two things — the wind cannot blow it out, and you can carry it about safely in your hand. Before there were electric torches, this is what every night watchman carried.
Q9.
(Page 132, row 3, right)The picture printed ninth on page 132 of the textbook.
Answer
A sunflower.
Where it is in the book: page 34, in chapter 3, The Rainbow. That page has a table where one word joins a “friend word” to make a new word — rain + bow = rainbow, tea + cup = teacup, and so on. This picture stands beside row 6, and the new word there is sunflower: sun + flower = sunflower.
How the sunflower got its name: The flower is big, round and yellow like the sun. And a young sunflower plant slowly turns its head through the day to face the sun. Both reasons live inside the one word.
Write in the blank:Sunflower.
Q10.
(Page 133, row 1, left)The picture printed first on page 133 of the textbook.
Answer
A pair of crutches.
How to read the picture: Each stick has three parts — the red curved pad at the top, which fits under the arm; the short cross-bar below it, which the hand holds; and the long shaft that reaches the ground. Two of them are always used together, one under each arm.
What they are for: If someone has hurt a leg or a foot, crutches take the body’s weight so that the hurt leg does not have to. The person swings forward between them and walks without putting the hurt foot down.
Write in the blank:Crutches (a pair of crutches).
Hunting it down: Look through the pictures of chapters where somebody gets hurt or is being looked after. Keep your eye on the small objects drawn beside the people, not on the people themselves.
Q11.
(Page 133, row 1, middle)The picture printed second on page 133 of the textbook.
Answer
A rooster — a cock.
Where it is in the book: page 66, in chapter 6, What a Tank!. That page tells us that the overhead water tanks of rural Punjab are built in unusual shapes, and it names them: “tanks shaped like a giant flower, a large football, a brown rooster, a statue or even an aeroplane.” The picture on page 66 shows exactly this rooster — but it is not a real bird. It is a huge water tank shaped like a rooster, standing on the roof of a house.
How to tell a rooster from a hen: The rooster has a big red comb on his head, a red wattle under his beak, and long curved tail feathers. The hen is smaller and plainer. You can see them side by side on page 71 — rooster, hen, chick.
Why a rooster on a roof? Page 67 explains it: the shape of the tank tells you something about the family below. A farmer may choose a tractor, a bullock cart or a rooster; someone who loves football may choose a football. The tank is a signboard as well as a water store.
Q12.
(Page 133, row 1, right)The picture printed third on page 133 of the textbook.
Answer
A gilli — the small stick used in the game Gilli Danda.
Where it is in the book: pages 79 and 80, chapter 7, Gilli Danda. In the opening picture the children are playing, and the little yellow gilli is shown flying through the air with exactly these curved lines around it. It appears again on page 88, where the book teaches you how to make your own.
The two pieces of the game: the danda is the long stick you hold; the gilli is the small piece, sharpened at both ends, that you hit into the air. Page 88 says the gilli should be a thick small twig about 3–4 inches long, sharpened at both ends and rubbed smooth with a stone.
Did you know? Page 83 tells us that Gilli Danda is called tip-cat in English. The curved lines in the drawing are the artist’s way of showing movement — the gilli is in the air.
Q13.
(Page 133, row 2, left)The picture printed fourth on page 133 of the textbook.
Answer
A starfish.
Where it is in the book: page 64, at the end of chapter 5, The Frog. The “Let us Explore” box there asks you to choose any two water creatures and find out a few facts about them. The six creatures shown are puffer fish, jellyfish, seahorse, starfish, octopus and catfish. This is the starfish.
Why it is called a starfish although it is not a fish: It has the shape of a star, so people named it a starfish. But it has no bones, no gills and no fins, so scientists call it a sea star. It moves on hundreds of tiny tube feet under its arms. If it loses an arm, it can grow a new one.
Look on page 62 too — a tiny starfish is drawn on the sea bed of the hidden-creatures picture.
Q14.
(Page 133, row 2, middle)The picture printed fifth on page 133 of the textbook.
Answer
A spinning top — a lattu.
How to read the picture: The body is round and striped, and it narrows to a sharp point at the bottom. The curved lines on either side are the artist’s way of showing that it is spinning.
How a top is used: You wind a string round the body, throw the top down and pull the string back sharply. The top lands on its point and spins there, upright, for a long time.
Write in the blank:Spinning top (lattu, bhambiri, bongaram, pambaram — it has a name in every Indian language).
Why it does not fall over: While it is spinning fast, the top keeps itself upright. As it slows down it begins to wobble, and then it tips over and stops. That is the whole trick, and children have enjoyed it for hundreds of years.
Q15.
(Page 133, row 2, right)The picture printed sixth on page 133 of the textbook.
Answer
A compass — the instrument from a geometry box, also called a pair of compasses.
Where it is in the book: page 111, in chapter 9, Vocation. There, in “Let us Learn C”, eleven objects are shown with their names printed under them — telescope, hammer, camera, screwdriver, sickle, stethoscope, grater, tongs, compass, mouse and saw — and you are asked where you have seen them and what they are used for.
What it is used for: One arm ends in a sharp point, the other holds a pencil. You press the point into the paper and swing the pencil round it. Because the two arms stay the same distance apart, the pencil draws a perfect circle. It also measures equal lengths in geometry.
Careful — two different things share the name: This one draws circles. The other kind of compass, the magnetic compass, has a needle that always points north and is used to find the way. The picture here is clearly the drawing kind.
Q16.
(Page 133, row 3)The picture printed at the bottom of page 133 of the textbook.
Answer
Laddus — a plate of besan laddus.
Where it is in the book: page 127, in this very chapter, Glass Bangles. That is the “Let us Listen” page, where Arjun, Meera and their parents make besan laddus. The plate of finished laddus is drawn beside the passage, and the mother is holding one in her hand.
How they are made (you worked this out on page 127): roast the besan, add ghee and sugar, let it cool a little, roll the mixture into small balls, and sprinkle chopped nuts on top.
What ties this page together: Look back at all sixteen pictures. Every one of them comes from somewhere in Santoor. This page is the book saying goodbye — it is asking you to walk back through the whole year and meet again the things you have already seen. Turn the pages slowly. You will be surprised how much you remember.