NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 5 The Frog
Updated on 2026-09-19
About this chapter
Who is speaking. The frog speaks the whole poem itself. Every line begins with I — “I sit”, “I flick”, “I live”, “I croak”, “I hop”. A poem in which an animal or a thing speaks about itself is a fun way to learn about it, because the facts arrive as the animal’s own story. Stanza 1 — where it lives. “I sit in ponds and in the rain, / Or hop about in a muddy drain.” The frog is happy in wet places. Rain does not send it indoors; rain is its favourite weather. Stanza 2 — the baby frog and the tongue. “As a tadpole, I swim with cheer, / A tiny fish-like thing, so clear!” A tadpole is a baby frog. It has a tail and no legs, so it looks like a tiny fish. The same stanza tells us how a frog eats: “I flick my tongue to catch my food, / It works so fast.” Flick means to shoot something out and pul
- The Frog (poem)
- A. Answer the following questions
- B. Think and discuss
- A. Tongue twisters
- B. Listen and repeat
- My Frog’s World
- Write a reply to Hopper
- Frogs and toads
- A. Five of us are hiding in the picture
- B. Look at the steps and draw a duck
Quick revision
| Word | What it means | The line it appears in | A sentence of your own |
|---|---|---|---|
| hop | To jump a short way, on two feet at once, the way a frog or a sparrow moves. | “Or hop about in a muddy drain.” | The sparrow began to hop across the veranda. |
| muddy | Full of mud — wet, soft, sticky earth. | “Or hop about in a muddy drain.” | My shoes became muddy on the way home from school. |
| tadpole | A baby frog. It has a tail and gills and no legs, so it looks like a tiny fish. | “As a tadpole, I swim with cheer,” | We saw a tadpole wriggling in the village pond. |
| flick | To move something out and back very quickly, in one snap. | “I flick my tongue to catch my food,” | The cow will flick its tail to drive the flies away. |
| damp | A little wet, not fully wet. | “In places damp with drops of dew.” | The towel is still damp, so hang it in the sun. |
| dew | Tiny drops of water that settle on grass and leaves in the early morning. | “In places damp with drops of dew.” | There was dew on the grass when we went for our walk. |
| beware | To watch out, because there is danger. | “But snakes are near, I must beware,” | Beware of the wet floor near the tap. |
| unaware | Not knowing that something is happening. | “Or else they’ll catch me unaware!” | I was unaware that the bell had already rung. |
| croak | The deep, rough sound a frog makes. | “I croak my songs, they sound so loud,” | We could hear a frog croak all through the rainy night. |
| webbed | Having skin joining the toes together, like a small fan. | “With webbed feet, I swim with ease,” | A duck has webbed feet, so it swims very well. |
| leap | To jump a long way or very high, in one go. | “And leap so high in joyful breeze!” | The goat gave a leap and landed on the wall. |
| flippers | Flat, wide rubber shoes that divers wear to push water and swim faster. | Let us Think, B.4 | The diver put on his mask and flippers before going in. |
Exercises
- The Frog (poem) — Let us Recite Page 55
- A. Answer the following questions — Let us Think Page 56
- B. Think and discuss — Let us Think Page 56
- A. Choose the correct words from the brackets and fill in the blanks — Let us Learn Page 57
- B. The following words have been rearranged into sentences. Choose the correct option — Let us Learn Page 57–58
- A. Tongue twisters — Let us Speak Page 58
- B. Listen and repeat — Let us Speak Page 59
- My Frog’s World — Let us Listen Page 59–60
- Write a reply to Hopper — Let us Write Page 61
- Frogs and toads — Did You Know? Page 61
- A. Five of us are hiding in the picture — Let us Do Page 62
- B. Look at the steps and draw a duck — Let us Do Page 63
- C. Move three crayons to turn the fish around — Let us Do Page 64
- Our national aquatic animal — Did You Know? Page 64
- Choose any two and find out a few facts about them — Let us Explore Page 64