Which vocation from the above illustrations would you choose for yourself? And why? The eight vocations pictured on pages 116 and 117 beekeeper photographer teacher dancer chef pilot farmer florist The eight vocations the book pictures on pages 116 and 117, drawn here in simple outline with the name

First, look at the eight pictures. Here is what each one shows, so that you can choose properly. Vocation What the picture on pages 116–117 shows What this person does beekeeper A person in a purple protective suit, a wide hat with a net veil and thick gloves, lifting a frame full of bees out of a wooden hive box. More hive boxes are stacked beside, with flowers growing on top. Keeps bees in hives, cares for them, and collects the honey and the wax. photographer A woman in a yellow kurta and red salwar, with a green shoulder bag, kneeling on one knee and holding a big camera with a long lens up to her eye. Takes photographs of people, places, events and wildlife. teacher A woman in a saree and spectacles standing beside a blackboard, talking with her hands to four children who sit at wooden desks. Teaches children, explains new things and helps them learn. dancer A woman in a classical dance costume — blue and pink pleated skirt, a gold belt, bangles, necklaces and a flower headdress — standing on her toes in a dance pose with her hands raised. Performs classical or folk dance on the stage, and often teaches it too. chef A man in a green kurta and a white apron, cooking in a pan on a gas stove, with a bowl of fruit on the wooden counter beside him. Cooks food in a hotel or restaurant kitchen and plans the dishes. pilot A woman in a green flying suit and a flight helmet, standing beside a fighter aircraft that carries the Indian tricolour on its tail. Flies an aircraft — a pas

Is there any other vocation not shown in the pictures that you would like to take up as your dream job? Support your answer with a reason. The eight vocations pictured on pages 116 and 117 beekeeper photographer teacher dancer chef pilot farmer florist The eight vocations the book pictures on pages

The book shows only eight vocations. There are thousands more. Think about the people whose work you have actually watched — in your home, your street, your village or your town. What a good answer needs: one vocation named clearly; a real reason from your own life; and one sentence about what you would have to learn to do it. Do not just say “I want to be a scientist because it is good.” Say which kind of scientist and why . Some vocations not shown in the pictures: Vocation What the person does Vocation What the person does Doctor Treats people who are ill Carpenter Makes doors, chairs and cupboards out of wood Engineer Designs and builds machines, roads and bridges Tailor Stitches clothes to a measured fit Veterinary doctor Treats animals and birds Potter Shapes pots and lamps out of clay on a wheel Nurse Cares for patients in a hospital Weaver Weaves cloth on a handloom Forest officer Protects forests and the animals in them Bus driver Drives people safely from place to place Cricketer Plays cricket for a team, a state or the country Journalist Finds out what is happening and reports it Scientist Asks questions about the world and tests the answers Musician Sings or plays an instrument Sample answer 1: Yes. My dream job is to be a veterinary doctor — a doctor who treats animals. We have two buffaloes at home, and last year one of them stopped eating. The vet came on his motorcycle, examined her, gave her an injection, and by the next evening she was eating again. I rememb

NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 9 Eight vocations in pictures · A. Which one would you choose? · B. Any other dream job? · C. Draw yourself in it — Let us Explore

Book page 116–118 Updated on2026-09-19

Q1.

Which vocation from the above illustrations would you choose for yourself? And why?

The eight vocations the book pictures on pages 116 and 117, drawn here in simple outline with the names printed under them in the book.

Answer

First, look at the eight pictures. Here is what each one shows, so that you can choose properly.

Vocation	What the picture on pages 116–117 shows	What this person does
beekeeper	A person in a purple protective suit, a wide hat with a net veil and thick gloves, lifting a frame full of bees out of a wooden hive box. More hive boxes are stacked beside, with flowers growing on top.	Keeps bees in hives, cares for them, and collects the honey and the wax.
photographer	A woman in a yellow kurta and red salwar, with a green shoulder bag, kneeling on one knee and holding a big camera with a long lens up to her eye.	Takes photographs of people, places, events and wildlife.
teacher	A woman in a saree and spectacles standing beside a blackboard, talking with her hands to four children who sit at wooden desks.	Teaches children, explains new things and helps them learn.
dancer	A woman in a classical dance costume — blue and pink pleated skirt, a gold belt, bangles, necklaces and a flower headdress — standing on her toes in a dance pose with her hands raised.	Performs classical or folk dance on the stage, and often teaches it too.
chef	A man in a green kurta and a white apron, cooking in a pan on a gas stove, with a bowl of fruit on the wooden counter beside him.	Cooks food in a hotel or restaurant kitchen and plans the dishes.
pilot	A woman in a green flying suit and a flight helmet, standing beside a fighter aircraft that carries the Indian tricolour on its tail.	Flies an aircraft — a passenger plane, a cargo plane or, as here, an Air Force jet.
farmer	A man in a yellow turban, purple kurta and white dhoti standing at the edge of a green-and-yellow crop field, holding a tablet. A drone is flying over the field, and a house and trees stand behind.	Grows crops — ploughing, sowing, watering, weeding and harvesting. Today many farmers also use new tools like drones and phones.
florist	A young man in a white shirt at a wooden stall, arranging pots of yellow, red, pink and orange flowers on the counter and holding a bunch of pink roses.	Grows, arranges and sells flowers, and makes bouquets and garlands.

How to choose and how to answer:

Pick the one you would really like, not the one that sounds grandest.
Say your choice in the first sentence: “I would choose to be a …”
Give two or three reasons. Link each reason to something you already enjoy doing.
Add one honest line about the hard part of that vocation, and say you are ready for it.
Say one thing you will have to learn or study to reach it.

Remember: No vocation in these pictures is bigger or smaller than another. A florist’s work and a pilot’s work are both needed, and both are done with skill. Choose the one that fits you.

Sample answer 1: I would choose to be a teacher. I like explaining things, and when my younger cousin could not do subtraction with borrowing, I sat with her for two evenings and she learnt it. I felt happier that day than when I had scored well myself. A teacher gets to do that every day, with a whole class. I know that the work is not easy — a teacher has to plan lessons, correct many notebooks, and be patient with a child who does not understand even after the fourth time. To become a teacher I will have to finish school, go to college, and then take a teacher-training course.

Sample answer 2: I would choose to be a photographer. I already look for things worth looking at — the way the sky turns orange over our fields, or my grandmother’s hands making rotis. A photographer can keep such moments so that other people can see them too. The difficult part is that a photographer must wait for a long time for the right light or the right bird, and must carry heavy equipment about. I would like to photograph birds, so I will also have to learn their names and their habits, the way Salim Ali did.

Q2.

Is there any other vocation not shown in the pictures that you would like to take up as your dream job? Support your answer with a reason.

The eight vocations the book pictures on pages 116 and 117, drawn here in simple outline with the names printed under them in the book.

Answer

The book shows only eight vocations. There are thousands more. Think about the people whose work you have actually watched — in your home, your street, your village or your town.

What a good answer needs: one vocation named clearly; a real reason from your own life; and one sentence about what you would have to learn to do it. Do not just say “I want to be a scientist because it is good.” Say which kind of scientist and why.

Some vocations not shown in the pictures:

Vocation	What the person does	Vocation	What the person does
Doctor	Treats people who are ill	Carpenter	Makes doors, chairs and cupboards out of wood
Engineer	Designs and builds machines, roads and bridges	Tailor	Stitches clothes to a measured fit
Veterinary doctor	Treats animals and birds	Potter	Shapes pots and lamps out of clay on a wheel
Nurse	Cares for patients in a hospital	Weaver	Weaves cloth on a handloom
Forest officer	Protects forests and the animals in them	Bus driver	Drives people safely from place to place
Cricketer	Plays cricket for a team, a state or the country	Journalist	Finds out what is happening and reports it
Scientist	Asks questions about the world and tests the answers	Musician	Sings or plays an instrument

Sample answer 1: Yes. My dream job is to be a veterinary doctor — a doctor who treats animals. We have two buffaloes at home, and last year one of them stopped eating. The vet came on his motorcycle, examined her, gave her an injection, and by the next evening she was eating again. I remember how relieved my grandfather looked. Animals cannot tell us where it hurts, so a vet has to work it out by looking and touching carefully. That is difficult, and that is exactly why I find it interesting. I will need to study science well, especially biology, and then go to a veterinary college.

Sample answer 2: Yes. I would like to be a carpenter, like my father’s friend Iqbal chacha. I have sat in his workshop and watched a flat plank turn into a window frame in one afternoon. He measures twice before he cuts once, and everything he makes fits exactly. I like working with my hands, and I already helped him hold the wood while he sawed it. The work is tiring and the sawdust makes you sneeze, but at the end of a day you can point at something real and say, “I made that.” I will learn by watching him and then by training properly.

Q3.

Draw yourself in the selected vocation in the blank space provided.

Answer

What to draw: Draw yourself, grown up, doing the vocation you chose in part A or B. The box on page 118 is your drawing space.

How to make the drawing say what the vocation is — five steps:

Step 1 — Draw the person in the middle. Make yourself big enough to fill most of the box. Give your figure your own kind of hair.
Step 2 — Put on the right clothes. Clothes tell the whole story: a white coat for a doctor, a helmet and flying suit for a pilot, an apron and cap for a chef, a saree or shirt and the chalk in hand for a teacher, a veil and gloves for a beekeeper.
Step 3 — Add the tool. One clear tool makes the vocation obvious — a stethoscope, a camera, a spade, a sickle, a hammer, a bunch of flowers.
Step 4 — Add the place. A few lines behind the figure are enough: a blackboard and two desks for a classroom, a hive box and flowers for a bee farm, a field and a house for a farm, a counter of pots for a flower shop.
Step 5 — Colour it and label it. Write the name of the vocation neatly under the drawing, the way the book has labelled its own pictures.

What a good drawing needs: clothes, one tool and a place. Anybody looking at your picture, without reading the label, should be able to say what work you are doing.

Sample answer — a description of one child’s drawing, labelled “teacher”: I have drawn myself standing on the right side of the picture, in a blue kurta, with a piece of white chalk in my raised hand. Behind me is a green blackboard with a sum written on it: 47 − 19. In front of me are three desks with children sitting at them, drawn from the back so that only their heads and shoulders show. One child has her hand up. On the wall beside the blackboard I have drawn a map of India and a small clock showing ten o’clock — the same hour at which the gong sounds in our poem. Under the picture I have written the word teacher.

Why the chapter ends here: The poem began with a child who wished he were somebody else. The chapter ends by asking you to draw yourself in the work you would choose. That is the whole journey of Unit 5 — from wishing, to choosing, to respecting every kind of work.

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