Santoor Gone with the Scooter – NCERT Solutions for Class 5 English Chapter 2

A. Answer the following questions.

1. What was Gopi doing on the veranda?
   Answer: Gopi was sitting in the veranda, reading a book.
2. What sound did Gopi hear before he went to the garden?
   Answer: Gopi heard something rustling past and falling with a thud in the garden.
3. Describe Gopi’s search for the ball.
   Answer: Gopi searched in between the thick grass near the garden fence, looked among the bushes, and finally found a white ball on a heap of dry leaves.
4. Complete the table given below.
   

   Dialogue	The dialogue was said by	The dialogue was said to
   The ball I found is a hockey ball.	Gopi	Deepak/friends
   My father bought me a brand-new football.	Deepak	Gopi/friends
   I lost a ball four months ago.	Manoj	Gopi/friends
   Show me the ball and I will tell you.	Ramani	Gopi

5. Who grabbed the ball from Gopi? How did the game start?
   Answer: Manoj grabbed the ball from Gopi and tossed it to Deepak. The game started with Gopi passing the ball from the centre of the field to Deepak.
6. Why did everyone laugh at the end of the story?
   Answer: Everyone laughed at the end of the story because the hockey ball went into the basket of a passing scooter, and the scooterist, unaware, drove away with it.

Let us Think

A. Match the following

Match the words with their meanings:

B. Think and answer

1. What would you have done if, like Gopi, you had found a ball that did not belong to you?
   Answer: I would try to find the owner by asking around or letting my friends know about it, just like Gopi did.
2. Imagine what happens to the hockey ball after it is taken away by the scooter. Where does it go? Who finds it?
   Answer: The ball might fall off the scooter and be found by someone else, or the scooterist may notice it later and return it or give it to another child.
3. Notice that the scooterist is wearing a helmet. Why is it important to wear a helmet? Should the pillion rider also wear a helmet?
   Answer: It is important to wear a helmet for safety to protect your head in case of an accident. Yes, the pillion rider should also wear a helmet.

B. Complete the following story using the words given in the box: since, however, because, when

Gopi completed his work because he wanted to go outside and play. However, when he reached the playground nobody was there. Since his friends were yet to join him, he decided to take a walk. After 15 minutes, five of them came and everyone started to discuss the games. They decided to play hopscotch when they got to know that Ramani would not be joining them.

C. Read the following sentence:

Gopi usually plays hockey at school but today he is studying for his test.
The adverb ‘usually’ tells us that an action happens many times.
This sentence tells us that the action of playing hockey happens most of the time. The adverb ‘today’ tells us the time of the action (studying).

Now encircle the adverbs in the following sentences:

1. a. Gopi immediately got up and ran into the garden.
2. b. Shama often writes in her diary.
3. c. All his friends regularly gathered to play hockey.
4. d. I always complete my homework.
5. e. Yesterday I ate an ice cream after lunch.
6. f. Monika never eats junk food.
7. g. Now they are going to sing their favourite song.

Let us Listen

• Draw a few big dry leaves at the centre with no gap between the leaves. Draw a ball in the middle of the leaves.
• Draw a few twigs here and there.
• Colour the leaves yellow and brown. Colour the twigs brown.
• Now you have found the ball.

Let us Speak

Say aloud the following words. Encircle the words which have a long ‘oo’ sound.

• School
• Maroon
• Scooter
• Bloom
• Food
• Moon

(These words have a long ‘oo’ sound.)

Let us Write

A. By the time the children ran to the gate, the scooter was gone... and so was the ball. They looked at each other and burst into laughter.
Write a possible conversation between Gopi and his friends after this incident.

• Gopi: Oh no! The ball is gone with the scooter!
• Ramani: That was such a powerful shot, Jay!
• Deepak: I hope the scooterist finds it and returns it.
• Manoj: Next time, let’s play a little more carefully.
• Jay: Sorry, friends! But that was a great game!

B. Form new words by following the examples given below:

Write a sentence using each of these words in your notebook.

C. You have already noticed that the word ‘scooter’ has ‘oo’ in the middle. Using the clues given below, write ten words that have ‘ai’ in the middle. One has been done for you.

Let us Do

Prepare a board game to play ‘Tigers and Goats’.

1. Take a square piece of cardboard.
2. Paste a chart paper on it.
3. Draw the pattern as shown in the picture.
4. Collect two different types of pebbles — three big pebbles and thirteen smaller ones. Paint them red for tigers and green for goats. Keep three similar pebbles for tigers and thirteen similar pebbles for goats.

How to play the game?

• At least two players are needed to play the game. One player represents the ‘Goat’ and the other represents the ‘Tiger’.
• If you are playing as the ‘Tiger’, your objective would be to ‘defeat’ five goats. If you are playing as the ‘Goat’, your objective would be to surround all three tigers such that the tigers cannot make a move.
• Both the pebbles can be placed on the intersecting points. The goat player places a pebble first on any intersection. Next, the tiger places a tiger stone on any intersection, as indicated.
• The tiger may jump over the goat to the next intersection. If so, the goat is considered ‘captured’ and will be out of the board.
• In order to prevent the tiger from jumping over the goat, the next intersection has to be covered. So the goat player places another pebble at that intersection.
• The goat player places one goat on the board at a time. The tiger player can either place the tiger stone or move.
• But the goats cannot move until all thirteen of them are on the board. The tigers must attempt to ‘capture’ the goats by jumping over them into a free space, the goat is then taken off the board.

Let us Explore

A. Prepare a chart with the following categories

I can name all the players of the Indian women’s hockey team! Can you?

C. Find out about a famous hockey player and talk about them.

B. Write a mini biography about a famous sports person of your choice. You may use the following hints:

• Name of the sportsperson.
• Name of the sport the person is famous for.
• When and where the person was born?
• List one or two achievements.
• Why the person is famous/inspiring?

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