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NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 3 A. Share and write about a journey — Let us Write

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Q1.
The poem The Rainbow mentions boats and ships and their journey across the water bodies. You too may have travelled to different places. Share your experience of travelling to any one place with your class.
Answer

This part is spoken. You stand up and tell the class about one journey you have made.

How to do it, step by step:

  1. Choose one journey only. A short trip to a nearby town is as good as a long one.
  2. Decide the order before you speak: where you went → why → who was with you → how you travelled → what you saw → how you felt.
  3. Speak in the past tense, because the journey is over. “We went”, “I saw”, “we ate”.
  4. Pick two or three details nobody else will have. A smell, a sound, something funny that happened.
  5. Look at your class, not at the floor. Speak slowly enough for the last bench to hear.
  6. Finish with one sentence saying how you felt. That is what people remember.
What a good talk needs: one journey, told in order, in the past tense, with two or three details of your own and one feeling at the end. Two minutes is plenty.

Sample answer (what you might say aloud): Last October my family travelled to my grandmother’s village for Diwali. We left home at six in the morning by bus. The bus was crowded, and I got the window seat only because my brother fell asleep. On the way we crossed a long bridge over a river, and I could see small boats below, exactly like the ones in our poem. We reached at eleven. My grandmother had made besan laddus, and she gave me two before I even washed my hands. In the evening we lit lamps all along the wall of the courtyard. The thing I did not like was the mosquitoes at night. But I would go again tomorrow if I could.

Q2.
Write a short paragraph of 80–100 words about your journey to a place you visited recently. You may include the following points in your paragraph: • Time of journey and destination • Purpose of travel • Whom you travelled with • Things you liked or disliked during your travel • Monument, landmark or scenery • Local dishes and snacks
Answer

How to build the paragraph, step by step:

  1. Sentence 1 — when you went and where. (Time and destination.)
  2. Sentence 2 — why you went, and with whom. (Purpose and company.)
  3. Sentence 3 — how you travelled and what the journey was like.
  4. Sentence 4 — the monument, landmark or scenery you saw.
  5. Sentence 5 — the food you ate there.
  6. Sentence 6 — one thing you did not like. This makes it honest and real.
  7. Sentence 7 — how you felt at the end.
Two rules to keep:
  • Past tense all the way through. The journey is finished, so use went, saw, ate, felt, was, were. Do not slip into go and see halfway.
  • Count your words. The book asks for 80–100. Seven or eight sentences of about twelve words each will land you in range.

Sample answer (94 words):

My Journey to Konark

Last December my family visited the Sun Temple at Konark in Odisha. We went during the winter holidays, because my father had four days off. My mother, my younger sister and I travelled with him by train from Bhubaneswar, and then by bus. The temple is built like a huge stone chariot with carved wheels, and I counted the spokes on one of them. In the evening we walked on Chandrabhaga beach and ate hot dahi vada and gaja from a small stall. The bus was very crowded on the way back. Still, it was the best trip of my year.
Sample answer for a shorter trip (86 words): Last Sunday I went to the Sunday market in our town with my mother. We went early, at seven in the morning, to buy vegetables for the week. We walked, because the market is only two streets away. On the way we passed the old clock tower, which is the tallest thing in our town. My mother bought spinach, brinjals and a kilo of guavas. She also bought me two hot samosas from the corner stall. The crowd near the gate was pushing, and I did not like that. But the guavas were sweet, and I came home happy.
Why the book asks for a journey right after this poem: The poem is full of journeys — boats going down rivers, ships crossing seas, clouds sailing across the sky. Writing about your own journey lets you use the same kind of picture-words the poet uses.
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