NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 2 Gone with the Scooter
Updated on 2026-09-19
About this chapter
The beginning — a sound in the garden. It is a summer afternoon. Gopi is sitting in the veranda, reading a book. He hears something rustling past and falling with a thud in the garden. He thinks it may be a mango falling from the tree, so he puts his book aside and runs out. The search. Gopi looks in between the thick grass near the garden fence — nothing. He looks among the bushes — nothing again. Then his eyes fall on a heap of dry leaves. A white ball is lying on the heap. He picks it up. It is a hockey ball . The honest thought. Gopi wonders whose ball it can be. He looks around and peeps outside the gate, but sees no one. His mother calls him in out of the heat. He drinks a glass of water, lies down on the mat and says to himself, “I can’t keep this ball for myself. I will ask around.
- Gone with the Scooter (story)
- A. Answer the following questions
- B. Think and answer
- A. Match the following
- B. Complete the story using the words in the box
- C. Adverbs
- A. Listen to your teacher and draw
- A. Add a sentence to the story · B. The long ‘oo’ sound
- A. A conversation · B. Making new words · C. Words with ‘ai’
- Prepare and play the board game ‘Tigers and Goats’
Quick revision
| Word | What it means | Where it appears | A sentence of your own |
|---|---|---|---|
| dribble | To move a ball forward with small taps of the stick while you run. | “Ramani dribbled the ball with the stick” | She can dribble the ball right up to the goalpost. |
| rustling | A soft crackling sound, like dry leaves or paper moving. | “he heard something rustling past” | I heard the rustling of leaves in the night wind. |
| grab | To take something suddenly and quickly. | “Manoj grabbed it and tossed it over to Deepak.” | Do not grab the pencil from my hand; ask for it. |
| boast | To speak too proudly about yourself or your things. | “Deepak boasted that his father had bought him a brand-new football” | He likes to boast about his new cycle. |
| unaware | Not knowing that something has happened. | “The scooterist who was unaware of what had happened, drove past.” | She was unaware that her bag was open. |
| thud | The dull, heavy sound of something falling. | “falling with a thud in the garden” | The heavy book fell with a thud. |
| veranda | The open, covered space just outside the rooms of a house. | “Gopi was sitting in the veranda, reading a book.” | We sit in the veranda on hot evenings. |
| heap | A pile of things lying on top of one another. | “his eyes fell on a heap of dry leaves” | There was a heap of clothes on the bed. |
| peeped | Looked quickly, often through a small opening. | “peeped outside the gate” | I peeped through the window to see who had come. |
| goalkeeper | The player who stands at the goalpost and stops the ball going in. | “Manoj went to the goalpost as he liked to be a goalkeeper.” | Our goalkeeper stopped five shots today. |
| scooterist | The person riding the scooter. | “The scooterist who was unaware…” | The scooterist stopped at the red light. |
| pillion rider | The person sitting behind the rider on a two-wheeler. | Let us Think, B.3 | My pillion rider is my little brother, and he wears a helmet too. |
| adverb | A word that tells us more about an action — how often it happens or when it happens. | Let us Learn, C | In “She always sings”, the word always is an adverb. |
| compound word | One new word made by joining two smaller words. | Let us Write, B | Sun + flower makes the compound word sunflower. |
Exercises
- Gone with the Scooter (story) — Let us Read Page 11–14
- A. Answer the following questions — Let us Think Page 15
- B. Think and answer — Let us Think Page 16
- A. Match the following — Let us Learn Page 16
- B. Complete the story using the words in the box — Let us Learn Page 17
- C. Adverbs — Let us Learn Page 17–18
- A. Listen to your teacher and draw — Let us Listen Page 19
- A. Add a sentence to the story · B. The long ‘oo’ sound — Let us Speak Page 20
- A. A conversation · B. Making new words · C. Words with ‘ai’ — Let us Write Page 21–22
- Prepare and play the board game ‘Tigers and Goats’ — Let us Do Page 23–24
- A. A chart of games · B. A mini biography · C. A famous hockey player — Let us Explore Page 25–26