NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 6 What a Tank!

About this chapter

What the piece is about. It is about storing water. Saving water and using it carefully is called water conservation . The chapter says this is not a new idea at all — people have done it for hundreds of years. The old water structures. Long ago there were huge water storage structures. They did four things at once: they stored water, they protected cities from floods, they gave people drinking water, and they brought people together. So a tank was never only a tank. It was a meeting place for the whole village. Three traditional ways still in use. In Tamil Nadu, Ooranis store rainwater for drinking and farming. In Kerala, Panam Keni wells do not dry up even in the hottest months. In the Thar region of Rajasthan, Tankas are common — underground tanks that hold enough water for six to seven

• What a Tank! (prose)
• A. Answer the following questions
• B. Think and answer
• A. Write the contractions for the following words
• B. Rewrite the underlined words using contracted forms
• C. Read the following · exclamatory sentences
• D. Five exclamatory sentences and the feelings they show
• E. Animal families
• F. Add to the picture
• A. Group discussion · B. Three examples · C. Say it aloud