NCERT Solutions Poorvi Chapter 5 & 218 (transcript on page 249)Feathered Friend — Let us listen
Book page 217 Updated on2026-09-05
Q1.
You will listen to a conversation between Monika and Toby. Toby is a Martian and is stranded on Earth. He has become Monika’s friend. As you listen, put a tick mark against the correct statements and a cross against the wrong ones. 1. Toby misses his school.
Answer
✗ (cross)
Asked whether he misses his planet, Toby says: “Very much, Monika! I miss my people and home.” School is never mentioned.
Listening tip: this is a classic distractor. The idea of ‘missing' is right; only the object is wrong. Hold on to the exact noun you hear, not the general feeling.
Q2.
2. Monika accepts Toby as her friend.
Answer
✓ (tick)
“Oh! I wish I could do something about it! But I am happy to have you as my friend.” Toby answers, “Thank you, Monika!”
Notice the ‘But': she cannot send him home, so she offers the one thing she can — friendship. The small word turns an apology into an acceptance, which is what the statement is testing.
Q3.
3. Monika asks Toby about one of his facial features.
Answer
✓ (tick)
“Okay, tell me one thing. How are you able to see with only one eye? I see only one big eye in the centre of your face.”
‘Facial feature' is the phrase to decode: the statement never uses the word ‘eye', so you must match the general term in the question to the particular thing in the conversation. Eyes, nose, mouth, chin and ears are all facial features.
Q4.
4. Toby tells Monika that she had a banana for breakfast.
Answer
✗ (cross)
He says: “And yes! That apple you just had for breakfast is going round-and-round in your stomach right now!”
Listening tip: another single-word swap. When a statement names a specific object, a colour or a number, that detail is almost always what is being tested.
Q5.
5. Toby shares that he can see much clearer with a closed eye.
Answer
✗ (cross)
What Toby actually says is: “we Martians need only one eye to see clearly. In fact, I can see even with my eye closed.” He claims he can still see when the eye is shut — he never says he sees better or much clearer that way.
Why the difference matters: the statement adds a comparison (“much clearer”) that the speaker did not make. In a listening test, an added comparative is a change of meaning, so the statement must be marked wrong. If you had ticked it because you heard ‘clearly' and ‘eye closed' in the same breath, this is the habit to correct: check what is being compared with what.
Q6.
Listen to the conversation again and fill in the blanks with the exact words you hear. 1. Toby: I miss my _________________ and home.
Answer
Toby: I miss my people and home.
Why ‘people' and not ‘planet': Monika's question was “Do you miss your planet?” — so ‘planet' is the word already on the page and cannot be the answer. Toby replies by naming what a planet actually means to him. That is worth noticing: what anyone misses about a place is never the place itself.
Q7.
2. Toby: Well, we _________________ don’t need to eat anything. We get our _________________ from the Sun.
Answer
Toby: Well, we Martians don't need to eat anything. We get our energy from the Sun.
Did you know? Toby is describing something real in biology — living directly off sunlight. Green plants do it by photosynthesis. No animal manages it fully, though the sea slug Elysia chlorotica steals chloroplasts from algae and keeps them working inside its own body.
Q8.
3. Monika: Oh! Don’t you ever feel like having ice-creams and _________________!
Answer
Monika: Oh! Don't you ever feel like having ice creams and chocolates! I can't think of life without them!
Listening tip: the blank comes after ‘and', so you are listening for the second item in a pair. Pairs — ‘ice creams and chocolates', ‘mountains and clouds' — are a favourite place for a gap, because the first item tells you exactly when the answer is coming.
Q9.
4. Monika: Okay, tell me one thing. How are you able to see only with _________________ eye?
Answer
Monika: Okay, tell me one thing. How are you able to see only with one eye?
In the transcript the line runs “How are you able to see with only one eye?” — the word order in your book is slightly different, but the missing word is the same: one.
Q10.
5. Toby: I can see beyond mountains and _________________, woods and even ____________.
Answer
Toby: I can see beyond mountains and clouds, woods and even metals.
Notice the ladder: mountains → clouds → wood → metals. Each item is harder to see through than the last, so the list itself builds the boast. The next sentence proves it — he names the blue toy aeroplane in her pocket, and then the apple inside her.