Day By Day I Float My Paper Boats (Lesson 4) Questions and Answers Class 5 Bihar Bengal Board. BSEB English Textbook Blossoms Class 5 Day By Day I Float My Paper Boats all activity solutions.
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A. WARMER:
1. List some of the ways by which you can send messages to your friends?
Answer - We can send messages to our friends by sending through some person, by post, on phone, by e-mail, etc.
2. Which one of these do you like the most and why?
Answer - I like to send message to my friends through mobile phone. In this way I can talk to my friend in no time I also like to send message to my friends by sending SMS. I like this way the most.
B. LET'S THINK AND TELL:
B.1. Say whether the following statements are 'True' or 'False'.
Answer -
1. The child is very fond of floating paper-boats in a river. [True]
2. The child writes his name in small black letters. [False]
3. The child sends to his village the fruits and flowers grown in his garden. [False]
4. The child loads his little boats with roses. [False]
C. LET'S THINK AND WRITE:
C.1. Answer the following questions in brief:
1. Why does the child float his paper boats?
Answer - The child floats his paper boats to make friendship with some unknown person.
2. Why does the child write his name and the name of his village on the boats?
Answer - The child expects that some unknown person will read his name and the name of his village on the boats. He will know about him. Then, he will come to meet him and become his friend.
3. The child loads the boats with shiuli flowers. Why?
Answer - The person who finds his paper-boats may know that before his house there is a garden of shiuli-flowers. He would reach his house easily. Thinking this, the child loads his paper-boats with shiuli-flowers.
D. LET'S INCREASE WORD POWER:
D.1. Pick out the words/group of words from the poem that express the meaning of the following words:
Answer -
| Words | Words of same meaning from the poem |
| gradually | one by one |
| day break | dawn |
| flowing | floating |
| harmlessly | safely |
D.2. Action Words:
I float my paper boats
The word 'float' tell us about something being done. Pick out some more such words in the poem.
Answer - Action words (verbs) from the poem: float, write, hope, find, know, load, carried.
D.3. Read the following:
1. He saw his boat float down the running stream.
2. His boat was running down the stream.
The word 'running' in sentence 1 describes the noun 'stream'. It works as an adjective. In sentence 2 'was running' is an action word. It is a verb.
Now fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets:
Answer -
1. Don't get off a running bus.
2. He is running in the middle of the road.
3. The old man needs a walking stick.
4. He fell down while he was walking
5. Children are swimming in the pool.
6. All of them are wearing swimming suit.
D. 4. Plural Words:
Day by day I float my paper boats.
The word in bold is a plural noun. A plural noun indicates more than one person, place or thing. Pick out all the singular nouns from the poem and write their plural forms.
Answer -
| Singular | Plural |
| Paper boat | Paper boats |
| Stream | Streams |
| Letter | Letters |
| Name | Names |
| Village | Villages |
| Land | Lands |
| Boat | Boats |
| Shiuli | Shiulis |
| Garden | Gardens |
| Bloom | Blooms |
| Night | Nights |
| Dawn | Dawns |
| Message | Messages |
| Down | Downs |
E. RHYME TIME:
Day - may
In the above example, both the words end in similar sound. Such words are called rhyming words.
Write the rhyming words for the following:
Answer -
| Words | Rhyming Words |
| Stream | Cream, Dream |
| Live | Give, Sieve |
| Find | Kind, Mind |
| Big | Dig, Fig |
| Night | Kite, Fight |
F. LET'S TALK:
Talk with your classmates about different flowers found in your locality and select any three flowers which are very common in your locality.
Answer -
Rahul: Rose, hibiscus, jasmine, sunflower, marigold, tulip, lotus, lily etc. flowers are found in my locality.
Priya: Magnolia, Pandanus, hibiscus, rose, lily, jasmine, and daisy are seen in my localiy.
Raja: Magnolia, jasmine, rose, hibiscus, marigold, lily, pandanus are seen in our locality
Shila: So, three most common flowers found around our locality are-rose, marigold and hibiscus.
G. LET'S WRITE:
Collect the flowers you mentioned in F and observe them minutely. Then, write one small paragraph (40-50 words) on any one of these. You may include the following information about the flowers:
Shape and size
Colour
Smell
Usefulness
Answer -
ROSE
There are many flowers in my locality. Among them, I like rose most. It is found in different colours. But the pink and the red colour of the rose are mostly liked. Its shape and size is neither too small nor too big. The plants of roses have thorns. We have to pluck the rose with care. The thorns of the plant may hurt us. It has a nice smell. Roses are also offered to deities in temples. It is also presented to friends as a symbol of love and friendship. It is also used for decorative purposes.
H. ACTIVITY:
1. Make a paper-boat. Write the steps that you took to make the paper-boat.
A. Creating the Initial Folds
1. Fold an 8 ½ in x 11 in (21.5 cm x 28 cm) sheet of paper in half.
2. Unfold the paper, rotate it 90 degrees, and fold it in half again.
3. Flip the paper so that the fold opens toward you.
4. Bring the bottom of the paper up to fold it against both sides.
5. Take the bottom corners and fold them in.
B. Making the Final Folds
1. Make the triangle into a square.
2. Fold up the bottom flaps.
3. Construct the triangle into a square again.
4. Pull out the triangles on the side of the square.
5. Float your origami boat.
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