NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 7 Gilli Danda
Updated on 2026-09-19
About this chapter
Stanza 1 — the game begins. “In the playground, we gather around, / With a stick and a small gilli to throw, / Gilli Danda, our game is so sound! / We play with joy, watch it go!” The children come together in an open playground. They need only two things — a long stick and a small piece of wood. Here sound does not mean a noise. It means good and strong . So the line means, “our game is a really fine game”. Stanza 2 — the swing and the friends. “One, two, three, swing and hit, / With our friends, we never quit! / With every swing, we feel so free, / Oh, what fun it is, you see!” The counting one, two, three is what children really say before a big hit. Quit means to stop or to give up. The players never give up, and every swing of the danda makes them feel free. Stanza 3 — the gilli flies
- Gilli Danda (poem)
- A. Answer the following questions
- B. Think and discuss
- A. Add correct prefixes to make new words
- B. Encircle the nouns you can see, taste, touch or smell
- C. Fill in the blanks with possessive pronouns
- How Gilli Danda is played · Describe a group game
- Listen to the teacher and respond with a matching action
- B. Rearrange the words to form a question
- C. Words with double letters
Quick revision
| Word | What it means | Where it appears | A sentence of your own |
|---|---|---|---|
| gather | To come together in one place. | “In the playground, we gather around,” | We gather under the neem tree every evening. |
| gilli | The small piece of wood, pointed at both ends, that is struck in the game. | “With a stick and a small gilli to throw,” | Rehan carved a gilli from a broken branch. |
| danda | The long stick used to strike the gilli. | Let us Speak, page 84 | He held the danda tightly and swung it hard. |
| quit | To stop doing something, or to give up. | “With our friends, we never quit!” | We were losing, but we did not quit. |
| underneath | Below something; under it. | “Underneath the bright blue skies.” | My slippers are underneath the bed. |
| sound (here) | Good, strong and healthy — not a noise. | “Gilli Danda, our game is so sound!” | The old bridge is still sound, so trucks can cross it. |
| golden | Of the colour of gold; bright yellow. | “Under the golden rays of the sun!” | The mustard field looked golden in the morning. |
| tip-cat | The English name for Gilli Danda. | Did You Know?, page 83 | Grandfather said tip-cat is only our Gilli Danda. |
| prefix | A small part added at the front of a word to change its meaning. un- = not, re- = again. | Let us Learn A, page 81 | Add the prefix re- to read and you get reread. |
| abstract noun | A naming word for something you cannot see, taste, touch or smell — a feeling, a thought or an idea. | Let us Learn B, page 82 | Courage is an abstract noun. |
| possessive pronoun | A word that shows who something belongs to — mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs. | Let us Learn C, page 83 | The blue tiffin box is mine. |
| vibrant | Very bright and full of life. | Let us Write D.7, page 87 | She wore a vibrant orange dupatta. |
| unique | The only one of its kind; not like any other. | Let us Write D.8, page 87 | Every child has a unique voice. |
| Spellathon | A word game in which you make as many words as you can from a set of letters. | Let us Do B, page 90 | Our class held a Spellathon on Friday. |
Exercises
- Gilli Danda (poem) — Let us Recite Page 79
- A. Answer the following questions — Let us Think Page 80
- B. Think and discuss — Let us Think Page 80
- A. Add correct prefixes to make new words — Let us Learn Page 81
- B. Encircle the nouns you can see, taste, touch or smell — Let us Learn Page 82
- C. Fill in the blanks with possessive pronouns — Let us Learn Page 83
- How Gilli Danda is played · Describe a group game — Let us Speak Page 84
- Listen to the teacher and respond with a matching action — Let us Listen Page 84
- A. Find the meanings using a dictionary, then use each word in a sentence — Let us Write Page 85
- B. Rearrange the words to form a question — Let us Write Page 85
- C. Words with double letters — Let us Write Page 86
- D. Circle the word that is different in meaning from the underlined word — Let us Write Page 87
- A. Let us make a Gilli Danda using waste material — Let us Do Page 88–89
- B. Spellathon — Let us Do Page 90
- Riddle — Just for Fun Page 89