My Miracle Mother (Lesson 11) Questions and Answers Class 5 Bihar Bengal Board. BSEB English Textbook Blossoms Class 5 My Miracle Mother all activity solutions.
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A. WARMER:
1. Tell your class the things for which you love your mother most?
Answer - I love my mother most for her loving care.
2. Do you think of your mother only when you are in pain and distress?
Answer - No, I always think of my mother.
3. Can a baby survive without the care of its mother?
Answer - No, without the care of its mother, a baby can never curvier. Babies are fully dependent on their mothers.
B. LET'S THINK AND TELL:
B.1. Answer the following questions in a word or a phrase:
1. Pick out some words that are said in praise of the mother.
Answer - Miracle, unselfish, comforter, encourager
2. Why is the poet grateful to the mother?
Answer - For her mother's unselfish duty.
3. What is so great about mother's love for her child?
Answer - Her unselfish love
B.2. Answer the following questions in a phrase or a sentence:
1. What is the poem about?
Answer - The poem is about a mother's love and care.
2. Can we measure the limitless love of a mother?
Answer - No, never.
3. Why does the mother care for her child all the time?
Answer - She loves her child more than herself
4. Can anybody replace the mother?
Answer - No.
C. LET'S THINK AND WRITE:
C.1. Answer the following questions:
1. Why does the poet call her mother a miracle?
Answer - The poetess calls her mother a miracle for near unfailing love. Her love is limitless. She has the ability to soothe all the pains of her child. She is always on duty unselfishly. So, the poet calls her mother a living miracle.
2. What does the poetess mean by 'my teacher, my comforter and my encourager'?
Answer - Mother is the first teacher of a child. The poet has learned many things from her mother. So, she calls her mother her teacher. Her mother had comforted her in many troubles. She had encouraged her when the poetess lost courage in doing something. So, the poetess says that her mother is her comforted and encourager too.
3. What is the attitude of the poet towards her mother? Support your answer with words from the poem.
Answer - The poetess loves and regards her mother. She is grateful towards her mother. The words the poem which support the answer area walking mother? Support from the poem miracle’, 'your unfailing love without limit', 'your ability to soothe my every hurt', 'unselfishly', 'enduring patience, 'inner strength' , 'my teacher, comforter and encourager'.
4. What does the poetess mean by "I am yours, and you are mine"?
Answer - The poetess considers that whatever she is, it is due to her mother. So, she says that she belongs to her mother and her mother belongs to hers. Saying so, the poetess says that her mother is only her mother and not of anybody else’s.
5. Can anyone compensate for the sufferings the mother goes through in bringing up her child?
Answer - No one can compensate for the sufferings the mother goes through in bringing up her child. The pains which a mother bears for upbringing her child cannot be done by any other person.
C.2. Answer these questions on the basis of the poem.
1. Make a list of the qualities of mother mentioned in the poem.
Answer - List of the qualities of mother mentioned in the poem are—loving, caring , dutiful , unselfish, having enduring patience and inner strength , a teacher, a comforter and an encourager.
2. Write a few qualities of your mother.
Answer - My mother is also very loving, caring and dutiful. She is my teacher, comforter and encourager.
D. LET'S INCREASE WORD POWER:
Look at these words:
Unfailing
Unselfishly
Mark that 'un' in above words is a prefix. A prefix is placed before a word to add to or change its meaning.
D.1. Add 'un' before the words given in the following box and complete the table:
| Word | New word |
| selfish | unselfish (निःस्वार्थ) |
| grateful | ungrateful (कृतघ्न) |
| hurt | unhurt (बिना चोट लगा) |
| cover | uncover (खोलना) |
| do | undo (नहीं करना) |
| able | unable (अयोग्य) |
| affected | unaffected (अप्रभावित) |
| equal | unequal (असमान) |
| certain | uncertain (अनिश्चित) |
| common | uncommon (असामान्य, खास) |
| expected | unexpected (असम्भावित) |
| familiar | unfamiliar (अपरिचित) |
| happy | unhappy (नाखुश) कर |
| healthy | unhealthy (अस्वस्थ) |
| kind | unkind (निर्दय) |
| married | unmarried (अविवाहित) |
D.2. Look at the following sentences:
(a) Sometimes I go by train.
(b) I saw him sometime last summer.
"Sometimes' and 'Sometime' (Some + time) are different words and therefore have different mean "Sometimes' is an adverb modifying a verb as in sentence (a). Sometimes means 'occasionally'.
"Sometime' is a noun phrase naming some particular time as in sentence
(b). It means 'at some point of time'.
You can't say “I sometime eat ice-cream" but you can say "1 sometimes eat ice-cream". Again, you can't say "sometimes next week" but you can say "sometime next week".
D.3. Fill up the blanks with sometimes' or "sometime' to complete the following sentences:
Answer -
(a) He sometimescalls me.
(b) He promised to meet me sometime next week.
(c) We must get together sometimes
(d) It is sometimes difficult to know where to begin.
(e) They played cricket and football and sometimesenjoyed swimming.
E. Rhyme time:
E.1. Pick out the rhyming word from the help box and fill in the blanks to complete the rhyme. One has been done for you.
Help Box - curse, role, blind, kind, universe, return, soul, concern
Answer -
My Mom is very lovely and kind.
There is no bound of her love which is blind.
She always gives me blessings never curse.
My mother is most valuable thing in the universe.
Her affection does not want anything in return.
She spends everything on me without any concern.
My Mom wants me to play in life a good role.
We ought to love and respect her with heart and soul.
F. LET'S TALK AND WRITE:
F.1. Work in groups and discuss the following:
Some children ill-treat their parents in old age.
Discuss this statement in groups, try to find out why this happens and suggest how it can be prevented.
Answer -
Ratan: Some children ill-treat their parents in old age. This is very bad.
Karula: You are right. We ought to love and respect our parents with heart and soul in their old age.
Kajan: We should not forget that our parents have taken lots of pain in bringing us up.
Ravi: I think that nuclear family is responsible for this cause. A small family of only husband, wife and children doesn't make children learn to respect their old aged grandparents.
Raj: Of course, you are right. And selfishness and greed to earn more and more money doesn't allow young couples to get more attachment to their parents in old age.
Rubi: Ethics should be made compulsory in academic institutions. People would then be aware of the need to look after their parents in old age.
G. LET'S DO:
G.1. Mother's Day is observed all over the world. In India, it is celebrated on the second Sunday of May.
1. Write a rhyme as a gift to your mother on Mother's Day.
Answer -
"My Mother"
My mother is very caring.
Her love for me is blind.
She loves me too much.
My mother is my first teacher. My mother is very kind.
She is my best preacher.
2. Prepare Mother's Day Card.
Answer -
Mother's Day Card
I love and respect you with
Heart and soul.......
O, My Mother.......
You are the best gift to me in this world.
From......
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