NCERT Solutions Class 5 English Chapter 10 Glass Bangles

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Chapter 10: Glass Bangles

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NCERT Solutions — Chapter 10: Glass Bangles
Chapter 10 of Santoor closes Unit 5, Work is Worship. Glass Bangles is a prose story. The book does not
name a writer. It is set in Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh, a town famous for its glass bangles, and it tells us about
Ravi, a skilled glass artisan, and his daughter Ananya. The chapter carries these banners: Let us Read, New
Words, Let us Think (A and B), Let us Learn (A, B and the past perfect tense work), Let us Speak (A and B),
Let us Listen, Let us Write (A and B), Let us Do (A, B and C), Let us Explore and Let us Observe. Because
this is the last chapter, the same PDF also carries the book’s Answer Key (page 134) and Self-assessment 2
(pages 135–140), which are answered here in their own section at the end.

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Let us Read — Pages 119–122
Glass Bangles (story)

LET US READ

Story Let us Read — Glass Bangles. Read the story and enjoy it.

Read the story once for the fun of it. Then read it again, slowly, and stop at the end of each part
to see what has changed.
The story in six parts:

1. The town. Firozabad, in Uttar Pradesh, is a busy district famous for its glassware. It is best
known for beautiful glass bangles. Ravi is a skilled glass artisan — a person who makes
beautiful things by hand. His family has been making bangles there for a very long time.
2. The workshop. Ravi’s workshop is full of life. “The air was filled with the clinking of glass and
the gentle hum of conversation as artisans shaped beautiful bangles.” Clinking is the small
ringing sound glass makes when two pieces touch.
3. How a bangle is made. It is difficult work and it needs great skill. The glass is heated in a
furnace — a very hot oven. The soft glass is then shaped into bangles. Colours and designs
are added. Last, the bangles are cooled slowly, “to perfection”.

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4. Diwali. Diwali is the festival of lights. Women love to wear glass bangles at this time, so the
demand goes up. The workshop becomes busier than ever, with the artisans “working
around the clock” — that is, working all day and all night.
5. Ananya’s idea. Ravi’s daughter Ananya has finished school. She has an eye for design. She
adds delicate floral patterns (flower designs) and geometric shapes (circles, squares,
triangles) to the old designs. Ravi is hesitant at first, because he is worried about keeping the
craft true to its tradition. Then he sees how beautiful her work is, and agrees.
6. The happy ending. They make a special Diwali collection that joins the old with the new. It
sells very well. On Diwali night, as the streets of Firozabad glitter with lamps, Ravi and
Ananya watch with pride as women and girls walk past their shop wearing their bangles.

Why the story matters: Ravi keeps the skill; Ananya brings the new idea. Neither
one alone would have made the Diwali collection. Old and new worked together, and
that is the whole point of the story.

Did you know? Firozabad is often called India’s “glass city”. Its bangles, glass beads
and glassware are sent all over the country and abroad. Making a glass bangle by
hand takes many pairs of hands — one worker heats the glass, another shapes the
ring, another joins the two ends, and another adds the colour and the design.

Read it aloud like this: Read parts 1 to 3 in a steady, proud voice — this is a town
telling you about its craft. Read part 4 a little faster, because everyone is in a hurry.
Slow down for part 6 and read it softly — that is the quiet, happy end.

Let us Think — Page 123
A. Answer the following questions

LET US THINK

A.1 How were glass bangles made in Ravi’s small workshop?

Glass bangles were made in four steps in Ravi’s workshop.

1. Heating. Ravi and his team heated glass in a furnace. A furnace is a very hot oven. The heat
makes the hard glass go soft.
2. Shaping. They then shaped the soft glass carefully into round bangles.
3. Colouring and decorating. They added beautiful colours and designs to each bangle.
4. Cooling. Last of all, they cooled the bangles slowly so that each one set perfectly.

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The story tells us this in its own words: “First, Ravi and his team would heat glass in a furnace.
They would then carefully shape the glass into bangles, adding beautiful colours and designs
before cooling them to perfection.”

Why the order matters: Glass can only be bent when it is hot and soft. Once it cools
it becomes hard again and will break if you try to bend it. So the shaping must be
done while the glass is still hot — and the cooling must be done slowly, or the
bangle will crack.

Also worth saying: The story tells us this work “was difficult and needed great skill”.
The workshop was a busy place, “filled with the clinking of glass”, where many
artisans worked together.

A.2 Who was Ananya? How did she help Ravi?

Ananya was Ravi’s daughter. She helped him by bringing modern designs into his
traditional bangles.
Who she was: Ananya had just completed her schooling. She was eager to help her father in his
work, and she “had an eye for design” — that means she could see at once what looks beautiful
and what does not.
How she helped:

She added delicate floral patterns — fine designs of flowers and leaves.
She added geometric shapes — circles, squares, triangles and lines.
She joined these new ideas with the old traditional designs, “combining the old with the
new”.
Together with her father she planned a special Diwali collection that showed both
traditional and modern work.

Her help worked. “The new collection was a big success. The bangles, with their new designs
and exciting colours, were loved by the customers.”

Notice this: Ravi was “initially hesitant” — he was not sure at first. He did not say no;
he waited, looked, and then agreed. That is why his daughter’s idea could grow.

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I would use peacock colours — deep blue and green together — because those two colours
look beautiful side by side.
I would add a thin line of gold or silver along the edge, so that even a plain bangle looks
special.
I would make matching sets — six bangles that together make one complete pattern when
you wear them.
I would keep one old floral pattern on every bangle, so that our family’s traditional design is
never lost.

The idea behind all of this: A new design should still look as if it belongs to
Firozabad. If you throw away everything old, the craft loses its name. Ananya did not
throw the old away — she added to it.

B.2 Ravi and Ananya felt proud seeing people wearing their bangles on Diwali night.
Have you ever created something (drawing, writing, or a project) that made you
happy? Share your experience with the class.

This is about your own life, so your answer will be different from everyone else’s.
How to build your answer — four short steps:

1. Name the thing you made. A drawing, a poem, a model, a card, a rangoli, a science project.
2. Say when and why you made it.
3. Say what was hard about making it, and how you got past that.
4. Say how you felt when it was finished and when someone else saw it.

Sample answer: Last year I made a birthday card for my grandmother. I did not buy it; I made it
out of an old chart paper. I drew her sitting in her chair with her spectacles on, and I coloured
her sari yellow, because yellow is her favourite colour. The hardest part was writing neatly inside
without making a mistake, so I first wrote it in pencil and then went over it in pen. When I gave
her the card she read it twice and kept it on her shelf. It is still there. I felt very proud, because a
card I made with my own hands made somebody happy.

When you speak in class: Hold up the thing if you still have it. Speak slowly. Do not
say only “I made a card and I felt happy” — tell us one small detail, like the yellow
sari. One good detail makes the whole class listen.

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B.3 Make a list of things that you buy from local markets during festivals.

Think of your own bazaar just before a festival — what is spread out on the carts, and what does
your family bring home?

What a good list needs: real things, grouped so that the list is easy to read. Say
which festival you are thinking of.

Sample answer — things we buy from our local market during Diwali:

WHAT WE BUY WHAT IT IS USED FOR

Clay diyas and wicks To light along the wall and the doorway on Diwali night

Glass bangles My mother and sister wear them with new clothes, as in our story

Sweets — laddu, barfi, gujiya For the family and for the neighbours

Marigold flowers and mango leaves For the toran we hang above the front door

Rangoli colours For the rangoli we make at the doorstep

A new set of clothes Everybody wears something new on the day

Dry fruits and a small gift box To give to my aunt and uncle when we visit them

Idols of Lakshmi and Ganesha For the evening puja

Colour paper and paper lanterns To decorate the balcony

For other festivals the list changes. At Holi we buy gulal, pichkaris and gujiya. At Eid we buy
sewaiyan, dates and new clothes. At Onam we buy flowers for the pookalam and vegetables for
the sadya. At Christmas we buy a star, a cake and coloured lights.

Something to notice: Almost everything on this list is made by somebody’s hands
— the potter’s, the bangle-maker’s, the tailor’s, the halwai’s. When we buy from the
local market at festival time, we are doing exactly what the story describes: giving
work to the artisans of our own place.

Let us Learn — Page 124

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A. For each word, list three other words you associate with it

LET US LEARN

A.1 For each word, list three other words you associate with it. One has been done for
you. 1. Festivals — Joy, Sweets, Family

Festivals — Joy, Sweets, Family. This one is already done for you in the book.
To associate means to connect in your mind. When you hear a word, other words come into your
head at once. Those are the words you write.

Joy — a festival is a happy time.
Sweets — every Indian festival brings sweets into the house.
Family — festivals are the days when everybody comes home.

Other good answers: lights, prayer, new clothes, holiday, music, rangoli, crackers,
visiting. Any three of these are correct.

A.2 2. Bangle

Bangle — glass, colourful, wrist.

Glass — the bangles in our story are made of glass, in Firozabad.
Colourful — they come “from deep reds and blues to soft pastels”.
Wrist — that is where a bangle is worn.

Other good answers: round, Diwali, artisan, furnace, clinking, gift, pair, shining.
Choose any three and be ready to say why.

A.3 3. Factory

Factory — machines, workers, chimney.

Machines — a factory is full of machines that do work quickly.
Workers — many people work together there.
Chimney — the tall pipe that lets the smoke out.

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Other good answers: furnace, noise, goods, packing, shift, gate, siren.

A.4 4. Friend

Friend — sharing, trust, play.

Sharing — friends share tiffin, books and secrets.
Trust — you can tell a friend something and know it is safe.
Play — most friendships begin in the playground.

Other good answers: help, laughter, kind, together, honest, bench partner.

A.5 5. School

School — teacher, classroom, books.

Teacher — the person who helps us learn.
Classroom — the room where we sit and study.
Books — what we read and write in every day.

Other good answers: bell, blackboard, uniform, assembly, playground, friends,
homework.

Why this exercise helps: Words live in families. When you learn to pull three friends
out of one word, your writing gets richer at once — instead of “I like festivals”, you
can write “I like festivals for the sweets, the lights and the whole family being at
home”.

Let us Learn — Page 124

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How to spot a question: It usually begins with Did, Do, Is, Are, Was, Were, Can, Will or
with a WH-word — What, Where, When, Who, Why, How. If it begins that way, it needs
a ? at the end.

And the answer to the question itself: No. Ravi was hesitant at first. He liked them
only later, when he saw their beauty.

B.4 4. ravi and ananya made a special collection for diwali

Ravi and Ananya made a special collection for Diwali.

1. Ravi — capital, first word and a name.
2. Ananya — capital, a name.
3. Diwali — capital, the name of a festival.
4. Full stop at the end, because the sentence tells us something.

Careful: No comma is needed here. We do not put a comma before and when it is
simply joining two names.

B.5 5. did the customers love the new bangles

Did the customers love the new bangles?

1. Did — capital letter, first word.
2. It is a question, so it ends with a question mark (?).

There are no names of people or places in this sentence, so no other capital letter is needed.

Why punctuation matters: Punctuation is how writing shows the way we speak. A
full stop is where the voice drops and stops. A comma is a short pause. A question
mark makes the voice go up at the end. Take them away and the reader has to
guess.

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The answer to this question too: Yes. “The bangles, with their new designs and
exciting colours, were loved by the customers.”

Let us Learn — Pages 125–126
Past perfect tense — identify the first action and the second action

LET US LEARN

C.1 Read the following sentence. Ananya had completed her schooling before she
joined the factory. … Identify the first action and the second action in the given
sentences. 1. The crowd had dispersed when we reached the market.

FIRST ACTION SECOND ACTION

had dispersed reached the market

The two columns printed beside this exercise on page 125. The book has already filled in
this first row as the example.

First action: had dispersed. Second action: reached the market. This row is already filled in
for you in the book.
What the past perfect tense is, in one line: when two things happened in the past, the one
that happened first is written with had + the third form of the verb.
In this sentence, the crowd went away before we got there. So the crowd going away is the first
action, and it is written as had dispersed. Our reaching the market is the second action, and it is
written in the simple past — reached.

ACTION WHICH CAME FIRST? FORM USED

had dispersed First past perfect (had + dispersed)

reached the market Second simple past (reached)

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A note about the Rule printed on page 125. The book prints “Rule: Subject +
has/have + Verb + Object”. That line is for the present perfect (I have eaten). For the
past perfect — the tense this page is teaching — the rule is Subject + had + third
form of the verb (+ object): Ananya had completed her schooling. Notice that the
book’s own example uses had, and so does every sentence in the table. So use had.

How to find the first action every time: Look for the word had. Wherever had +
verb appears, that action happened first — no matter where it sits in the sentence.
The other action, in the simple past, came after it.

C.2 2. Shivangi had finished the portrait when I called her.

FIRST ACTION SECOND ACTION

The two columns printed beside this exercise on page 125, in which you write your
answer.

First action: had finished (the portrait). Second action: called her.
Shivangi finished her painting, and only after that did I call her. The word had shows you which
one came first.

Shivangi had finished the portrait → happened FIRST

when I called her → happened SECOND

Meaning check: By the time the phone rang, the picture was already complete. That
is what the past perfect is telling us.

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C.3 3. When you rang the doorbell, I had switched off the TV.

FIRST ACTION SECOND ACTION

The two columns printed beside this exercise on page 125, in which you write your
answer.

First action: had switched off the TV. Second action: rang the doorbell.
Be careful here. The doorbell is written first in the sentence, but it did not happen first. The TV
was already off before the bell rang, and we know that because of the word had.

I had switched off the TV → happened FIRST

you rang the doorbell → happened SECOND

The important idea: The order of the actions is decided by the meaning, not by
which one is printed first. This is exactly what the Note to the Teacher on page 126
says. So do not just pick the first one you read — look for had.

C.4 4. When we reached the cinema hall, the movie had ended.

FIRST ACTION SECOND ACTION

The two columns printed beside this exercise on page 125, in which you write your
answer.

First action: had ended (the movie). Second action: reached the cinema hall.
The film was already over when we got there. Poor us — we missed it.

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Check it yourself: Every “first action” in the last column but one has the word had in
it. Every “second action” is a plain past-tense verb — reached, called, rang, ended. If
your answers do not look like that, look again.

C.6 (Page 126) Write more sentences like the ones given previously with the help of
your teacher and classmates.

How to build your own sentence — three steps:

1. Think of two things that happened in the past, one after the other.
2. Write the one that happened first using had + the third form of the verb (had gone, had
eaten, had finished, had left).
3. Write the other one in the simple past (went, ate, finished, left), and join the two with when,
before or after.

Sample answer — eight sentences of my own:

MY SENTENCE FIRST ACTION SECOND ACTION

Ravi had heated the glass before Ananya drew the new design. had heated the glass drew the new design

The bus had left when we reached the bus stop. had left reached the bus stop

My mother had cooked the food before the guests arrived. had cooked the food the guests arrived

When the bell rang, I had finished my paper. had finished my paper the bell rang

The rain had stopped when we came out of school. had stopped came out of school

Grandmother had lit the diyas before the sun set. had lit the diyas the sun set

I had packed my bag when my friend called me. had packed my bag my friend called me

The shopkeeper had sold all the bangles before Diwali came. had sold all the bangles Diwali came

Third forms you will need often: go → gone · eat → eaten · write → written · see →
seen · do → done · take → taken · give → given · leave → left · buy → bought · make
→ made · finish → finished · reach → reached.

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Why the tense is useful: Without it we would have to say “First the bus left. Then we
reached the stop.” The past perfect lets us say both in one neat sentence, and it
makes the order clear at once.

Let us Speak — Page 126
A. Tongue twisters

LET US SPEAK

A.a Try speaking the following lines. Start slow and gradually increase your speed. See
how many times you can say each one without stopping or making a mistake. a.
Red lorry blue lorry.

Say it like this: Red · lor–ry · blue · lor–ry. Say it four times slowly, then four times a little faster,
then as fast as you can.

What it is training: the two sounds r and l. Your tongue does different things for
them. For r the tongue curls back and touches nothing. For l the tip of the tongue
touches the ridge just behind your top front teeth. The words red and lorry make you
swap between the two, again and again.

Tip: Do not speed up until you can say it four times without a slip. Speed comes from
being sure, not from hurrying. A lorry is a truck.

A.b b. Babli bought beautiful bangles but the bangles broke.

Say it like this: Bab–li · bought · beau–ti–ful · ban–gles · but · the · ban–gles · broke.

What it is training: the sound b, seven times in one line. To make a b you close both
lips, hold the air behind them for a moment, and let it burst out. Doing that seven
times quickly is the whole game.

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Notice: This twister belongs to our chapter — bangles that break are exactly what a
bangle-maker fears. Glass is beautiful, but it is brittle.

Tip: The hardest join is “but the bangles”. Practise just those three words ten times,
then put the whole line together.

A.c c. Ravi read a red book.

Say it like this: Ra–vi · read · a · red · book.

What it is training: the r sound at the start of three words in a row — Ravi, read, red.
It also makes you keep read and red apart, and here they sound exactly the same!
“Read” in the past tense is said like “red”. Words that sound the same but are spelt
differently are called homophones.

Tip: This is the shortest twister on the page, so use it to warm up before the longer
ones.

A.d d. Green glass globes glow green.

Say it like this: Green · glass · globes · glow · green.

What it is training: two clusters that look alike but are not — gr (green) and gl
(glass, globes, glow). Your tongue has to decide between r and l immediately after
the g, and it has to do it five times in five words. That is why this line trips people up.

Meaning: A globe is a round ball-shaped thing. To glow is to shine with a soft light.
So the line pictures round green glass balls shining — not far from the bangles in
our story.

Tip: Say “gl–gl–gl” ten times first. Then say the line.

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A.e e. Ten tiny turtles take turns talking.

Say it like this: Ten · ti–ny · tur–tles · take · turns · talk–ing.

What it is training: the sound t at the start of six words in a row. For a clear t the tip
of the tongue taps the ridge behind the top teeth and the air pops out. The trouble
comes in turtles and turns, where a t and an r sit close together.

Meaning: To take turns means to do something one after the other, not all together
— the way we take turns to speak in class.

How to play this in class: Sit in a circle. Each child says the line once. Anyone who
stumbles is out. The one left at the end is the winner. Start slow — the game only
gets fast in the second round.

Why tongue twisters are worth doing: They are not just fun. They make your
tongue and lips move accurately, so your ordinary English becomes clearer too.
Reading aloud in class gets easier after a week of these.

Let us Speak — Page 126
B. Crafts and traditions of your region

LET US SPEAK

B Glass bangles are an important part of the Indian culture, especially during
festivals. Are there any crafts or traditions in your region that are linked to
festivals? Share with your class.

This is a speaking task about your own place, so first find out, then speak.
How to prepare — four steps:

1. Ask at home. Ask your grandmother or an elderly neighbour what is made by hand in your
area at festival time.
2. Pick one craft or tradition. One is enough. Do not try to say everything.

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Put the steps of making besan laddus in order

LET US LISTEN

Listen Your teacher will read out the paragraph given below. Listen carefully. Arjun and
his sister, Meera, help their mother prepare besan laddus. First, their mother
roasts chickpea flour in a pan until it turns golden brown. Their father then adds
ghee and sugar to the mixture and stirs it well and then transfers it to a big bowl
to let the mixture cool. When it is slightly cool, Meera and Arjun shape the
mixture into small round balls. Finally, the kids decorate each laddu with a
sprinkle of chopped nuts. Write the correct sequence of steps that Aarav, Meera,
and their parents take to prepare the laddus. 1. The father adds ghee and sugar
to the mixture and stirs it well. {…} 2. The mother roasts chickpea flour in a pan
until it turns golden brown. {…} 3. The kids decorate each laddu with a sprinkle
of chopped nuts. {…} 4. Meera and Arjun shape the mixture into small round
balls. {…} 5. Arjun and his sister, Meera, help their mother prepare besan laddus.
{…}

Write these numbers in the boxes: 1 → 3, 2 → 2, 3 → 5, 4 → 4, 5 → 1.

THE SENTENCE PRINTED IN THE BOOK NUMBER TO WRITE IN THE BOX

1. The father adds ghee and sugar to the mixture and stirs it well. 3

2. The mother roasts chickpea flour in a pan until it turns golden brown. 2

3. The kids decorate each laddu with a sprinkle of chopped nuts. 5

4. Meera and Arjun shape the mixture into small round balls. 4

5. Arjun and his sister, Meera, help their mother prepare besan laddus. 1

So the real order of the work is this:

1. Arjun and his sister, Meera, help their mother prepare besan laddus. This is where the
whole thing begins.
2. The mother roasts chickpea flour in a pan until it turns golden brown. Besan is chickpea
flour. Roasting means cooking it dry in a pan until it changes colour and smells lovely.
3. The father adds ghee and sugar to the mixture and stirs it well. He then pours it into a
big bowl to cool.
4. Meera and Arjun shape the mixture into small round balls. They must wait until it is
slightly cool, or it would burn their hands.
5. The kids decorate each laddu with a sprinkle of chopped nuts. The word finally in the
passage tells you this is last.

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How to catch the order while you listen: Listen for the little order words. The
passage gives you four of them — First, then, When it is slightly cool and Finally.
Write those words down as you hear them and the order builds itself.

One thing to notice in the book: The instruction says “Aarav, Meera, and their
parents”, but the passage itself says Arjun and Meera. It is the same boy — the
name in the instruction is a slip. Use Arjun, as the passage does.

Try this at home: Ask an elder to tell you how one dish is made in your house. Write
it down as five steps, using first, then, next, after that, finally. That is exactly what this
exercise teaches.

Let us Write — Page 128
A. A festival paragraph · B. The Rock Garden, Chandigarh

LET US WRITE

A Write a paragraph of 80–100 words on how you recently celebrated a festival. Hints:
Special dish, meeting with friends and family, prayer, any other related ritual.

How to plan the paragraph — five steps:

1. Name the festival and say when you celebrated it. That is your first sentence.
2. The getting ready. Cleaning, shopping, decorating.
3. The special dish. Name it, and say who made it.
4. The prayer or ritual. The puja, the lamps, the visit to the temple, gurudwara, church or
mosque.
5. The people. Who came, who you visited, what you gave and got. End with one line saying
how you felt.

What a good paragraph needs: one festival only (not three); all four hints used;
past tense all the way through; between 80 and 100 words; and one small true detail
that only you could have written.

Sample answer (97 words):

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Last month we celebrated Diwali at home. Two days before the festival we cleaned every

room. On Diwali morning I made a rangoli with red, yellow and white colours. My mother

made besan laddus and I helped her shape them. In the evening we wore new clothes and did
the Lakshmi puja together. Then we lit twenty diyas along the wall. Our neighbours came

with sweets and we gave them a box of dry fruits. We burst only a few crackers, because the

baby next door is frightened of the noise. It was a quiet, happy Diwali.

If you celebrate a different festival — Eid, Christmas, Onam, Pongal, Bihu, Chhath,
Baisakhi, Losar — keep exactly the same five steps and change the words. For Eid
the special dish may be sewaiyan; for Onam it is the sadya served on a banana leaf;
for Christmas it is the cake.

Counting your words: Write the paragraph first and count afterwards. If you are
over 100, take out a whole sentence rather than a word here and there — the
paragraph will read better. If you are under 80, add one more detail about the food
or the people.

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B Look at the pictures given below.

The top photograph. A crowd of tall, thin standing figures of people
fills an open yard. Each figure is made of cement and is covered all
over, from neck to foot, in small curved pieces of broken glass
bangles — pink, blue, green, yellow and red — laid in rows, so that
the figures look as if they are wearing striped, many-coloured
clothes. The tallest figure stands in the middle, looking straight
ahead; the others stand in rows behind it. Trees and a low mud wall
are seen at the back.
The bottom photograph. Another crowd of the same kind of figures,
this time covered in broken pieces of white china plates and tiles set
in grey cement, like a cracked pattern. Some wear skirts of plain
terracotta clay in orange, pink or dark grey. One figure in front has a
hand raised beside its head; another has both arms bent at the
elbow. Green trees stand behind them and the ground is bare grey
stone.

Rock Garden, Chandigarh — the two photographs printed on page 128, described here;
see the textbook for the photographs.

Discuss with your teacher and write a paragraph of 100–120 words in your
notebook.

First, look at the two photographs carefully.

The top picture shows tall thin figures of people standing in rows. Their clothes are made of
pieces of broken glass bangles in many colours — pink, blue, green, yellow. That is why the
figures look so bright.
The bottom picture shows another crowd of figures. These are covered in broken white
tiles and pieces of crockery (plates and cups), with skirts of plain cement and pink stone.

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A. Crafts and their places · B. Your State or UT · C. A dot rangoli

LET US DO

A.1 Firozabad is famous for glass bangles. Find out and write the names of places in
India known for the following crafts. 1. Madhubani painting

Madhubani district, in the Mithila region of Bihar.
The craft takes its name from the place: Madhubani means “forest of honey”. The art is also
called Mithila painting, after the whole region, which covers Madhubani and Darbhanga
districts.

What the picture on page 129 shows: A Madhubani painting on a cream
background, with figures outlined in thick black lines and filled with red, blue and
yellow. Every empty space is filled with tiny lines, flowers and leaves — that is the
mark of this style.

How it began: Women of Mithila painted these pictures on the mud walls of their
homes at wedding time, using colours made from flowers, leaves, soot and rice
paste. Later they began painting on paper and cloth, and now their work travels all
over the world.

A.2 2. Paithani Saree

Paithan, in Maharashtra.
Paithan is an old town on the river Godavari, in the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad)
district. The saree is named after it. Paithani sarees are also woven today in Yeola, in Nashik
district.

What the picture on page 129 shows: A saree with a deep blue body covered with
small dots, and a broad border and pallu woven with pink lotus flowers on a cream
ground.

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What makes it special: A Paithani is woven by hand from silk, with pure gold or
silver thread in the border. The peacock and the lotus are its favourite designs. One
saree can take a weaver many months — sometimes more than a year — which is
why a Paithani is passed down from a mother to her daughter.

A.3 3. Blue pottery

Jaipur, in Rajasthan.

What the picture on page 129 shows: A tall blue vase, a domed jar and small
bowls, all painted with white flowers and leaves on a deep blue ground.

Why it is unusual: Most pottery is made of clay. Jaipur blue pottery is not — it is
made from ground quartz stone, powdered glass and a little gum, so it is not baked
in the usual way and does not contain any clay at all. Its blue colour comes from a
natural blue dye called cobalt. The craft reached Jaipur from Persia through Kashmir
and Delhi, and Jaipur made it its own.

A.4 4. Phulkari embroidery

Punjab. (The same embroidery is also done in parts of Haryana.)
The word phulkari is made of two words — phul (flower) and kari (work). So the name itself
means “flower work”.

What the picture on page 129 shows: Rows of orange, pink and green circles set in
a diamond grid, all stitched in bright silk thread on a dark cloth.

How it is done: The thread used is called pat, an untwisted silk. The woman
embroiders from the back of the cloth, using a long darning stitch, so that the
pattern appears on the front. A grandmother would begin stitching a phulkari for
her granddaughter at the girl’s birth, ready for her wedding many years later.

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All four answers together: Madhubani painting → Madhubani (Mithila), Bihar ·
Paithani saree → Paithan, Maharashtra · Blue pottery → Jaipur, Rajasthan · Phulkari
embroidery → Punjab. Find each of these places on a map of India, as the Note to
the Teacher suggests.

B Find out what your State or Union Territory (UT) is famous for. Speak about it.

How to find out — three steps:

1. Ask at home and ask your teacher: “What is our State known for?”
2. Pick one thing — a craft, a food, a dance, a fabric or a place.
3. Find out three facts: what it is, which town or district it comes from, and why it is special.
Then speak for about a minute.

What a good answer needs: the name of your State or UT, one thing it is famous
for, the town it comes from, and one detail that makes it special.

Sample answer: My State is Uttar Pradesh. It is famous for many crafts, but the one I want to
talk about is the glass bangle of Firozabad, which we have just read about. Firozabad has been
making glass for hundreds of years. Its artisans heat the glass in a furnace, shape it into rings
and colour it by hand. Almost every glass bangle worn in India comes from this one town. Uttar
Pradesh is also famous for the chikankari embroidery of Lucknow, the brassware of Moradabad
and the silk sarees of Varanasi. I feel proud that so many beautiful things are made by the
hands of people in my own State.
Some ideas, State by State:

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STATE / FAMOUS FOR STATE / UT FAMOUS FOR
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Uttar Firozabad glass bangles, Lucknow Kerala Coir, kathakali masks, Aranmula
Pradesh chikankari, Banarasi silk mirrors

Rajasthan Blue pottery, bandhani, miniature Karnataka Mysore silk, Channapatna wooden
paintings toys, sandalwood

Bihar Madhubani painting, sikki grass work Tamil Nadu Kanchipuram silk, Thanjavur
painting, bronze idols

Punjab Phulkari, punjabi juttis, wheat fields Gujarat Patola sarees, Kutch mirror work,
bandhani

West Bengal Kantha stitch, terracotta of Assam Muga silk, gamosa, bamboo and
Bishnupur, Baluchari sarees cane work

Odisha Pattachitra, silver filigree of Cuttack, Jammu & Pashmina shawls, walnut wood
Sambalpuri ikat Kashmir carving, papier-mâché

Maharashtra Paithani sarees, Warli painting, Delhi (UT) Zardozi work, meenakari, street
Kolhapuri chappals food

C Follow these steps to create a beautiful rangoli. (Seven steps are shown on a
hexagonal grid of dots, followed by a blank grid for you to try on.)

First, look at the grid of dots. It is a six-sided (hexagonal) grid. Count the dots row by row: 4, 5,
6, 7, 6, 5, 4. That makes 37 dots in all. Every step of the rangoli is drawn around these dots —
never between them.

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Three rules that make a dot rangoli work:
1. Loop the dot, never cross it. The line goes round the dot like a bangle round a
wrist.
2. Work outwards from the centre. Never start at a corner.
3. Whatever you draw on one side, draw on all six. That is what makes the pattern
look balanced.

Why it is built on dots: The dots are a map. They keep every petal the same size and
every arm the same length, so the finished rangoli is symmetrical — the same all the
way round. Without the dots, one side always ends up bigger than the other.

Try this: Draw the 37 dots on the ground with chalk, or on paper in pencil. Do steps
1 to 4 first and stop there — a six-pointed star flower is already a lovely rangoli. Do
steps 5 to 7 the next time.

Let us Explore — Page 131
Savings accounts, interest and your passbook

LET US EXPLORE

1 Do you have a bank account? Yes/ No

Tick the true answer for yourself. Both answers are perfectly fine — this is not a test.
If you ticked “Yes”: Write the name of your bank and say who opened the account with you.
Most children have a minor savings account, which a parent or guardian opens and looks after
until the child is eighteen. Some schools help children open one.
If you ticked “No”: Say so honestly, and then say where you keep your money instead — most
of us start with a gullak, the clay money box shown in the picture on page 131. Then add one
line about what you would like to do.

Sample answer: No, I do not have a bank account yet. I keep my money in a gullak
on the shelf near my bed. Last year I saved one hundred and ten rupees in it. I have
asked my father to help me open a savings account in my name, so that my money
stays safe and also earns a little interest.

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Bank account or gullak — what is the difference? A gullak keeps your money safe,
and that is all it does. A bank keeps it safe and pays you a little extra for keeping it
there. That extra money is called interest. Also, money in a gullak can be lost or
stolen; money in a bank cannot.

2 Find out more about Fixed Deposit and Recurring Deposit. Share information on
these with your class.

Both are ways of keeping money in a bank so that it grows. Here they are in the simplest words.
Fixed Deposit (FD) — you give the bank one lump of money once, and promise not to take it
out for a fixed time — say one year, or five years. The bank pays you more interest than it pays
on a savings account, because it knows you will not take the money back tomorrow.
Example: You put ₹1,000 into an FD for one year. At the end of the year the bank gives you back
your ₹1,000 plus the interest it promised.
Recurring Deposit (RD) — you promise to put in a small, equal amount every month for a
fixed number of months. It is a way of saving little by little.
Example: You put ₹100 into an RD every month for 12 months. You have put in ₹1,200 in all, and
at the end the bank returns that ₹1,200 plus interest.

SAVINGS FIXED DEPOSIT RECURRING DEPOSIT
ACCOUNT

How you put money Any time, any One amount, once The same amount every
in amount month

Can you take it out Yes No — you wait till the fixed date No — you wait till the last
any time? month

How much interest? Least Most More than savings

Best for Everyday money Money you already have and do Building up savings a little
not need now at a time

How to share it with your class: Draw this table on a chart. Bring a real passbook
or an FD slip from home if you can. Then explain the two words with your own
example — “If I save ₹100 from my pocket money every month, that is a recurring
deposit.”

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The idea behind all three: A bank lends your money to somebody else who needs
it. It earns something for doing that, and it shares a part of that with you. The longer
you promise to leave your money there, the more it can do with it — and the more
interest it pays you. That is the whole rule.

Passbook (Page 131, the ruled box) Passbook — CHILDREN’S BANK OF INDIA

The empty box at the bottom of page 131 is your own passbook page. A passbook is the little
book in which a bank writes down every rupee that goes in and every rupee that comes out.
What to draw in the box — four columns: Date · What happened · Money in (deposit) · Money
out (withdrawal) · Balance. The balance is how much is left in the account after each entry.
Sample answer — a passbook page using the book’s own example:

DATE WHAT HAPPENED DEPOSIT WITHDRAWAL BALANCE
(₹) (₹) (₹)

12–04– Birthday money put in 50 — 50
2025

12–04– Interest added by the bank 5 — 55
2026

12–04– Birthday money put in 50 — 105
2026

20–10– Taken out to buy a story — 20 85
2026 book

Check the arithmetic yourself, line by line:

50 → balance 50

50 + 5 = 55

55 + 50 = 105

105 − 20 = 85

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What the ₹5 is: The book says that if you keep ₹50 in the account for one year, the
bank adds ₹5. That ₹5 is the interest — the bank’s way of thanking you for saving.
You did nothing at all to earn it except leave your money alone.

Notice the last line: The balance goes down when you take money out. That is the
honest part of saving — the passbook shows everything, the putting in and the
taking out.

Let us Observe — Pages 132–133

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Hunting it down: This is one of the harder ones. Turn slowly through the picture
pages of your book, especially the busy full-page scenes, and look at the small
things drawn in the background.

P2 (Page 132, row 1, middle)

The picture printed second on page 132 of the textbook.

A hand fan — a pankha, with a fish painted on it.
Where it is in the book: page 104, in chapter 8, The Decision of the Panchayat. On that page
there are two almost-alike pictures of a woman sitting on the steps of her house, and you have
to find eleven differences between them. She is holding exactly this round fan with the fish on it.
You can also see the fan circled in the Answer Key on page 134, because the fan is one of the
eleven differences.

Why a fish? A round hand fan of cane, cloth or palm leaf is often painted with a
simple bright picture — a fish, a bird, a flower or a peacock. It costs very little, it
needs no electricity, and on a hot afternoon it is the best thing in the house.

Write in the blank: Hand fan (pankha).

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P3 (Page 132, row 1, right)

The picture printed third on page 132 of the textbook.

A lotus — a pink lotus flower, with lily pads (the flat floating leaves) around it.
Where it is in the book: page 55, the opening page of chapter 5, The Frog. In that big picture
the frog sits on a lily pad in the rain, and pink lotus flowers stand up out of the pond beside him.

Two names, one picture: The flower is the lotus. The flat green plates lying on the
water are the leaves of the water lily and the lotus — we call them lily pads. Both are
correct answers.

Did you know? The lotus is the national flower of India. It grows out of muddy
water, yet its petals never get dirty — water simply rolls off them. That is why the
lotus is so often used as a picture of staying clean and calm in a difficult place.

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P4 (Page 132, row 2, left)

The picture printed fourth on page 132 of the textbook.

A butterfly.
How you know: Count the wings — four, two big ones in front and two smaller behind. Look at
the head — two thin feelers (antennae) with tiny knobs at the tips. A butterfly rests with its
wings spread flat or held up together, and its wings are covered in bright patterns.

Write in the blank: Butterfly.

Hunting it down: Look through the outdoor scenes of the book — gardens, fields
and ponds. Butterflies are usually drawn small, near the flowers.

Did you know? A butterfly begins life as an egg, becomes a caterpillar, then a hard
case called a pupa, and only then comes out with wings. It is the same creature all
the way through — it just keeps changing its shape.

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P5 (Page 132, row 2, middle)

The picture printed fifth on page 132 of the textbook.

Glass bangles — a pair of arms wearing green glass bangles.
Where it is in the book: page 121 — in this very chapter, Glass Bangles. On page 121 there is a
small round callout drawn beside the picture of Ravi and Ananya at work, and inside it are these
two arms wearing the new green bangles.

Write in the blank: Bangles (glass bangles).

Look again at the picture: Both wrists are wearing bangles, not one — bangles are
almost always worn in sets, and often the same number on each hand. That is why
the phrase a pair of comes up so often with them.

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P7 (Page 132, row 3, left)

The picture printed seventh on page 132 of the textbook.

A pair of spectacles.
Where it is in the book: page 4, in chapter 1, Papa’s Spectacles. On that page you had to
complete the phrase “a pair of ……” and this very picture stood beside blank number 3. The
answer there was a pair of spectacles.

Why “a pair”: Spectacles have two lenses, one for each eye, joined together in a
frame. Anything made of two matching parts joined together takes the words a pair
of — spectacles, scissors, trousers.

And of course the whole first poem of the book is about a pair of spectacles that
Papa lost — and found on his own head.

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P8 (Page 132, row 3, middle)

The picture printed eighth on page 132 of the textbook.

A lantern.
Where it is in the book: page 107, in chapter 9, Vocation. In the big night picture on that page,
the watchman is walking down the dark lane holding up exactly this lantern. The poem says:
“The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at his side.”
Lantern is also one of the New Words of that chapter, on page 108, and on page 109 you had to
match it with its meaning: a case that holds a candle or light in any form and can be easily carried.

What makes it a lantern and not just a lamp: The flame is shut inside a glass case.
That does two things — the wind cannot blow it out, and you can carry it about
safely in your hand. Before there were electric torches, this is what every night
watchman carried.

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P9 (Page 132, row 3, right)

The picture printed ninth on page 132 of the textbook.

A sunflower.
Where it is in the book: page 34, in chapter 3, The Rainbow. That page has a table where one
word joins a “friend word” to make a new word — rain + bow = rainbow, tea + cup = teacup, and
so on. This picture stands beside row 6, and the new word there is sunflower: sun + flower =
sunflower.

How the sunflower got its name: The flower is big, round and yellow like the sun.
And a young sunflower plant slowly turns its head through the day to face the sun.
Both reasons live inside the one word.

Write in the blank: Sunflower.

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P10 (Page 133, row 1, left)

The picture printed first on page 133 of the textbook.

A pair of crutches.
How to read the picture: Each stick has three parts — the red curved pad at the top, which fits
under the arm; the short cross-bar below it, which the hand holds; and the long shaft that
reaches the ground. Two of them are always used together, one under each arm.
What they are for: If someone has hurt a leg or a foot, crutches take the body’s weight so that
the hurt leg does not have to. The person swings forward between them and walks without
putting the hurt foot down.

Write in the blank: Crutches (a pair of crutches).

Hunting it down: Look through the pictures of chapters where somebody gets hurt
or is being looked after. Keep your eye on the small objects drawn beside the people,
not on the people themselves.

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P12 (Page 133, row 1, right)

The picture printed third on page 133 of the textbook.

A gilli — the small stick used in the game Gilli Danda.
Where it is in the book: pages 79 and 80, chapter 7, Gilli Danda. In the opening picture the
children are playing, and the little yellow gilli is shown flying through the air with exactly these
curved lines around it. It appears again on page 88, where the book teaches you how to make
your own.

The two pieces of the game: the danda is the long stick you hold; the gilli is the
small piece, sharpened at both ends, that you hit into the air. Page 88 says the gilli
should be a thick small twig about 3–4 inches long, sharpened at both ends and
rubbed smooth with a stone.

Did you know? Page 83 tells us that Gilli Danda is called tip-cat in English. The
curved lines in the drawing are the artist’s way of showing movement — the gilli is in
the air.

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P13 (Page 133, row 2, left)

The picture printed fourth on page 133 of the textbook.

A starfish.
Where it is in the book: page 64, at the end of chapter 5, The Frog. The “Let us Explore” box
there asks you to choose any two water creatures and find out a few facts about them. The six
creatures shown are puffer fish, jellyfish, seahorse, starfish, octopus and catfish. This is the
starfish.

Why it is called a starfish although it is not a fish: It has the shape of a star, so
people named it a starfish. But it has no bones, no gills and no fins, so scientists call
it a sea star. It moves on hundreds of tiny tube feet under its arms. If it loses an
arm, it can grow a new one.

Look on page 62 too — a tiny starfish is drawn on the sea bed of the hidden-
creatures picture.

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P14 (Page 133, row 2, middle)

The picture printed fifth on page 133 of the textbook.

A spinning top — a lattu.
How to read the picture: The body is round and striped, and it narrows to a sharp point at the
bottom. The curved lines on either side are the artist’s way of showing that it is spinning.
How a top is used: You wind a string round the body, throw the top down and pull the string
back sharply. The top lands on its point and spins there, upright, for a long time.

Write in the blank: Spinning top (lattu, bhambiri, bongaram, pambaram — it has a
name in every Indian language).

Why it does not fall over: While it is spinning fast, the top keeps itself upright. As it
slows down it begins to wobble, and then it tips over and stops. That is the whole
trick, and children have enjoyed it for hundreds of years.

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P15 (Page 133, row 2, right)

The picture printed sixth on page 133 of the textbook.

A compass — the instrument from a geometry box, also called a pair of compasses.
Where it is in the book: page 111, in chapter 9, Vocation. There, in “Let us Learn C”, eleven
objects are shown with their names printed under them — telescope, hammer, camera,
screwdriver, sickle, stethoscope, grater, tongs, compass, mouse and saw — and you are asked
where you have seen them and what they are used for.

What it is used for: One arm ends in a sharp point, the other holds a pencil. You
press the point into the paper and swing the pencil round it. Because the two arms
stay the same distance apart, the pencil draws a perfect circle. It also measures
equal lengths in geometry.

Careful — two different things share the name: This one draws circles. The other
kind of compass, the magnetic compass, has a needle that always points north and
is used to find the way. The picture here is clearly the drawing kind.

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Covering Units 3, 4 and 5 — chapters 5 to 10

SELF-ASSESSMENT 2

SA.1 Self-assessment 2 (pages 135–136). You may select more than one box for each
point. 1. I can recite the poems with gestures

• by myself.

• in a group.

• by repeating after my teacher.

• None of the above. I like reading poems quietly.

The four boxes printed beside this point on page 135. You may tick more than one.

First, what this page is. Self-assessment 2 is not a test. There are no marks and no right or
wrong boxes. It is a page where you tell yourself, honestly, how you learn best. It comes after
Units 3, 4 and 5, so it is asking about everything you have done in chapters 5 to 10: The Frog,
What a Tank!, Gilli Danda, The Decision of the Panchayat, Vocation and Glass Bangles. The Note to
the Teacher on page 136 says the sheet is to be filled in by the learners themselves and kept as
part of their progress record. You may tick more than one box for every point.
The poems in these three units are three: The Frog (Unit 3, page 55), Gilli Danda (Unit 4, page
79) and Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore (Unit 5, page 105).
How to answer this point: Think of the last time your class said one of those poems aloud. Did
you stand up and say it on your own? Did you say it with your group? Did you wait for your
teacher to say each line first? Tick every box that is true for you. If you prefer to read poems
silently, the last box is a perfectly good and honest answer — the book has put it there on
purpose.

Sample answer: I ticked “in a group” and “by repeating after my teacher”. I can
say Gilli Danda with my group and do the actions of swinging and hitting, because
we practised it many times. When a poem is new, like Vocation, I still need to hear my
teacher say each line first. I have not yet recited a whole poem alone in front of the
class, but I would like to try with The Frog, because I know all its actions — hopping,
flicking my tongue and swimming.

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Why gestures help: When your hands act out the words, your body remembers the
poem as well as your mind does. That is why The Frog is easy to learn — every line
has an action hidden in it.

SA.2 2. I can understand the new words

• by using a dictionary.

• after listening to my teacher’s explanation.

• by reading with my classmates in groups.

• by reading the entire sentence again.

• by looking at the pictures.

The five boxes printed beside this point on page 135. You may tick more than one.

What this point is asking: every chapter of Santoor gives you a strip of New Words. This asks
how you get at their meaning. There are five ways listed and all five are good ways. Tick every
one you really use.

THE WAY WHEN IT WORKS BEST

Using a dictionary When you need the exact meaning and the spelling, as with conservation or
apologise

Listening to the teacher When the word carries an idea, like panchayat, vocation or heritage

Reading in a group When a friend already knows the word, or knows it in your mother tongue

Reading the whole sentence When the sentence around the word tells you the meaning — this is called guessing
again from the context

Looking at the pictures When the word is a thing you can see — furnace, lantern, gilli, spade, gong

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Sample answer: I ticked “by reading the entire sentence again”, “by looking at
the pictures” and “by using a dictionary”. When I met the word furnace in Glass
Bangles, I read the sentence again — “heat glass in a furnace” — and I knew it had to
be something very hot. Then I looked at the picture on page 119 and saw the round
oven. For adamant in The Decision of the Panchayat, the sentence was not enough, so
I used the dictionary and found that it means refusing to change your mind.

The best habit of all: Try the sentence and the picture first, and go to the dictionary
only after that. Working the meaning out yourself makes it stick; being told it does
not.

SA.3 3. I can answer the questions

• in my mother tongue.

• in English.

• in English with a few words of my mother tongue.

• in my mother tongue, with a few words of English.

The four boxes printed beside this point on page 135. You may tick more than one.

What this point is asking: which language you use when you answer the “Let us Think”
questions.
Notice something important — every one of the four boxes is allowed. The book is not saying
that answering in your mother tongue is wrong. Using two languages together while you are
learning a new one is completely normal, and it is how almost everybody learns.

Sample answer: I ticked “in English with a few words of my mother tongue”. I
can write my answers in English now, but when I speak in class I sometimes use a
Hindi word for something I do not yet know in English. For Glass Bangles I wrote my
whole answer in English, but I said bhatti before I remembered the word furnace. I
am ticking the English box as well, because I answered all of A.1, A.2 and A.3 in
English by myself.

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How to move towards English: Keep a page at the back of your notebook. Every
time you have to use a mother-tongue word because you do not know the English
one, write both words down side by side. In a month you will have a list of the exact
words you need — and they will be words that matter to you, which is why you will
remember them.

SA.4 4. I can write a paragraph

• by myself.

• after following my teacher’s instructions.

• after reading my friends’ work.

• with my teachers’/friends’ help.

The four boxes printed beside this point on page 136. You may tick more than one.

What this point is asking: how much help you need to write a paragraph. In these three units
you were asked to write quite a few — a reply to Hopper the frog (page 61), a poster about
saving water (page 76), a letter to a friend about the Panchayat (page 100), a paragraph about a
festival and one about the Rock Garden (page 128).

Sample answer: I ticked “after following my teacher’s instructions” and “by
myself”. When my teacher writes the points on the board — beginning, middle, end
— I can write the whole paragraph on my own without asking anybody. The festival
paragraph on page 128 was easy for me, because the book gave hints: special dish,
meeting friends and family, prayer, ritual. The Rock Garden paragraph was harder, so
I read what my friend had written before I began my own.

How to get to “by myself”: Do not start writing sentences straight away. Write four
short points in the margin first — that is your plan. Then turn each point into two
sentences. A plan is what turns “I cannot write a paragraph” into “I can”.

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SA.6 (Page 137) Books that I have read this year.

Title:
Author:
Why I liked it

Title:
Author:
Why I liked it

Title:
Author:
Why I liked it

The three blank cards printed on page 137, reproduced here as they are in the book for
you to fill in.

This page is your own reading record for the year. Fill in three books you have actually read —
school books do not count, but a story book, a comic, a book of riddles or a book in your own
language all do.
How to fill it in:

1. Title — the name of the book, exactly as it is printed on the cover.
2. Author — the person who wrote it. Look on the cover or on the first page inside.
3. Why I liked it — three or four lines. Do not retell the whole story. Say what you felt, and
name one part you still remember.

Sample answer:

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TITLE AUTHOR WHY I LIKED IT

Malgudi Days R. K. The stories happen in a small town that felt exactly like mine. My
Narayan favourite one is about the boy and the school pond. The people in it are
ordinary people, and that is why I believed every word.

The Jungle Rudyard I liked Mowgli because he was brave but never unkind. The part where
Book Kipling the wolves accept him made me want to read the chapter twice.

Grandma’s Bag Sudha Every chapter is a new story told by a grandmother to her
of Stories Murty grandchildren. I read one story every night before sleeping, and it felt
as if she were telling it to me.

Tip: Fill this page in now, while you still remember. Next year, when you look back at
it, you will be surprised at how much you read.

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SA.7 (Page 138) Poems that I have read this year.

Title:
Poet:
Why I liked it

Title:
Poet:
Why I liked it

Title:
Poet:
Why I liked it

The three blank cards printed on page 138, reproduced here as they are in the book for
you to fill in.

The same page again, but for poems. Notice that the second line says Poet, not Author — the
person who writes a poem is called a poet.
The easiest place to start is your own book. Santoor gave you seven poems this year: Papa’s
Spectacles (page 1), The Rainbow by Christina Rossetti (page 27), Colours (page 31), Aachoo! (page
32), The Frog (page 55), Gilli Danda (page 79) and Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore (page 105).
Sample answer:

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TITLE POET WHY I LIKED IT

Vocation Rabindranath The boy in the poem wants to be a hawker, a gardener and a
Tagore watchman, all because they seem free. I liked it because I have
thought exactly the same thing on my way home from school.

The Christina Rossetti It is a short poem but it makes a big picture. I loved the line where
Rainbow the rainbow “builds a road from earth to sky”. Now I look for that
road every time it rains.

Gilli The book does not It is full of movement — swing, hit, fly. When we said it aloud in class
Danda name a poet we did the actions, and it felt like really playing the game.

If a poem in the book has no poet’s name, write “not given in the book”. That is the
honest and correct thing to do.

What comes after page 138: Page 139 is a blank New Words page — a set of empty
clouds where you write down the new words you want to keep. Page 140 is a ruled
Notes page. Neither of them has any questions. They are yours to fill.

Chapter at a glance
Where the story happens. Firozabad is a busy district in Uttar Pradesh. It is famous all over
India for its glassware, and most of all for its glass bangles. Ravi lives there. He is a skilled
artisan — a person who makes beautiful things by hand.
Who is in the story. Ravi, the glass artisan; the artisans who work with him in his workshop;
and Ananya, Ravi’s daughter, who has just finished school.
How the bangles are made. First the glass is heated in a furnace, a very hot oven. Then the
soft glass is carefully shaped into bangles. Then colours and designs are added. Last of all
the bangles are cooled slowly, so that they set perfectly. The work is difficult and needs
great skill.
What happens. Diwali is coming, so the demand for bangles goes up and the workshop
becomes very busy. Ananya wants to add modern designs — delicate floral patterns and
geometric shapes — to the old traditional ones. Ravi is hesitant at first, because he wants to
keep the craft true to its tradition. Then he sees the beauty in his daughter’s work and
agrees.
How it ends. Father and daughter make a special Diwali collection that mixes the old with
the new. It is a big success. On Diwali night they stand and watch with pride as women and
girls walk past their shop wearing their bangles, sparkling under the festival lights.

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