Textual Questions & Answers of 'My School Days' of Class-V

 

My School Days

Textual Questions & Answers

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Activity - 1

Let’s answer the following question:
 
1. To which school was the author admitted?
Ans: The author was admitted to Ballygunge Government High School.  
 
2. What was the school hall used for?
Ans: The school hall was used for the annual prize distribution ceremony, the feast on the occasion of Saraswati Puja, screening films, staging plays etc.
 
3. What was the name of the Shakespearean play that was performed in the hall?
Ans: The name of the Shakespearean play that was performed in the hall was ‘The Merchant of Venice’.
 
4. Name the two foreign actors mentioned by the author?
Ans: Greenberg and Salim were the two foreign actors mentioned by the author.
 
 

Activity - 2

Write “T” for the true and “F” for the false statements in the given boxes:
 
i. The author went to Ballygunge Government High School with his mother. ( F )
 
ii. The Ballygunge Government High School is on the eastern side of the Beltala Police Station. ( T )
 
iii. The Southern part of the school was the playground. ( T )
 
iv. When seen from above the author’s school looked like the English letter “L”. ( F )
 
 

Activity - 3

Let’s match the words in column A with their meaning in Column B:
 

A	B
(a)  Sums	Someone who belongs to another country (d)
(b)  Nodded	Encircled (c)
(c)  Surrounded	Movie (e)
(d)  Foreigner	Mathematical problems (a)
(e)  Cinema	Moving the head up and down to say yes (b)

 
 

Activity - 4

Let’s fill in the following chart with suitable verbs forms:
 

Present	Past	Past Participle
go	went	gone
look	looked	looked
give	gave	given
show	showed	shown
use	used	used

 
 

Activity - 5

Form sentences of your own with the following verbs:
 
i. Went → I did not go to school yesterday.
ii. Looked → He looked at me.
iii. Give → Give me a pen.
iv. Show → Show me your paintings.
v. Use → I do not use pencil.
 

Activity - 6

Let’s complete the following sentences with information from the text:
 
i. The subject that B.D. ROY taught was English.
 
ii. The author remembers the head Pandit Bhattacharya Sir for his excellent Bengali handwriting.
 
iii. Ashubabu conducted event called music drawing.
 
iv. The time span of the author’s school-life was six years.
 
v. The author went back to his school one more time to attend a reunion of ex-students.
 
 

Activity - 7

Let’s answer the following questions: 
 
1. How did B. D. Roy teach the pronunciation of ‘the’?
Ans: B.D. Roy taught that the pronunciation of ‘the’ depends on whether the following word begins with a vowel or a consonant.
 
2. How did the author get to be Ashubabu’s favourite?
Ans: The author became Ashubabu’s favourite because he could draw very well.
 
3. What was ‘Music drawing’?
Ans: ‘Music drawing’ was an event in which  a student would sing a song and another would draw a picture on the blackboard trying to capture the essence of the song in lines and colours.  
 
4. Why did everything seem much smaller to the author when he went back to the school after ten years?
Ans: Everything seemed much smaller to the author because he grew taller but his school remained the same.
 
5. What is ‘a pleasure’ according to the author?
Ans: According to the author, a pleasure is to look back and relive the past moments of  joy.
 

Activity - 8

Let’s fill in the blanks with words from the box:
 
(Pronounce, excellent, favourite, memories, recognize)
 
i. Sachin Tendulkar is my favourite cricketer.
 
ii. When Rip Van Winkle came back to the village the next morning, he could no recognize it.
 
iii. Most people have sweet memories of childhood.
 
iv. The student could not pronounce the word correctly.
 
v. Mr. Das is an excellent teacher.
 
 

Activity - 9 (a)

Let’s identify the subject and predicate in the following sentences:

i. One day he told us the story ‘The Ox and The Frog’ from Aesop’s fables.
 
ii. B.D. Roy taught us English.
 
iii. He was a small man and he took great care to ensure that we pronounced English correctly.
 
iv. But I could draw very well.
 
v. Ashubabu was given the charge of decorating the hall for the annual prize distribution ceremony.
 
 

Activity - 9 (b)

Let’s split the sentences mentioned in Activity 9(a) into subject and predicate and fill in the given chart:
 

Subject	Predicate
He	One day told us the story ‘The Ox and Frog’ from Aesope’s fable.
B.D. Roy	taught us English.
He he we	was a small man and took great care to ensure that pronounced English correctly.
I	but could draw very well.
Ashubabu	was given the charge of decorating the hall for the annual prize distribution ceremony.

 
 

Activity - 10

Fill in the blanks with present continuous tense of the given verbs in brackets. One is done for you:
 
i. What are you doing (do) tonight?
 
ii. John is reading (read) a book now.
 
iii. Ali and Sudip are working (work) late today.
 
iv. Mita is listening (listen) to music.
 
v. Raju is sitting (sit) next to Sunil.
 
vi. How many other students are studying (study) with you?
 
vii. The phone is ringing (ring).

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