Class-5 EVS Chapter-2 A Snake Charmer's Story/NCERT


Chapter-2

A Snake Charmer’s Story

 

Choose the correct answer:

Which dance has movements similar to the dance of snake ?

(a) Bhangada dance

(b) Bharatnatyam

(c) Kalbelia dance

(d) Hip Hop

 

Which of the following is a venomous snake?

(a) Cobra

(b) Python

(c) Kingsnake

(d) Bullsnake

Answer these questions?

Q.1 Who are snake charmers?

Ans- Snake charmers are people who move from village to village carrying snakes in bamboo basket.

 

Q.2 What are the things that Aryanath’s father taught him when he grew older?

Ans- Aryanath’s father taught him these two things when he grew older:

 (a) Removing poisons teeth (fangs) of snakes.

(b) Closing the tube of poison in the snake’s mouth.

 

Q.3 How many kinds of snakes found in India are poisonous?

Ans- Only four kinds of snakes found in our country are poisonous:

1- Cobra

2- Common Krait

3- Russel’s Viper

4- Saw-scaled Viper (Afai)

 

Q.4 How is the snake bite poisonous?

Ans- A snake has two hollow teeth (fangs). When it bites, the poison enters the person’s body through the fangs.

 

Q.5 Is there a medicine for snake bite? Where can we find this?

Ans- There is a medicine for snake bite. The medicine is made from the snake’s poison and is available in all government hospitals.

 

Q.6 Like snake-charmers, which other people depend on animals for their livelihood?

Ans- Following people depend on animals for their livelihood:

          1- Madari

          2- Tongawala

          3- Zoo keeper

          4- Washermen (uses donkey)

          5- Parrot-predictor

 

State whether these statements are true or false:

1- Kalbeliyas are the people who can make snakes dance by playing been.   True

2- Most of the snakes are not poisonous. True

3- Python is a venomous snake. False

 

Give reason. Why?

1-  Snakes do not have ears but they dance on been.

Ans- Snakes do not have external ears but they do have internal ears. Pet snakes respond to the movement of been and the been-player, not the actual sound.

 

2-  Snakes are friends of farmers.

Ans- Snakes are called friends of farmers as they eat rats in the fields, otherwise rats would eat the crops.

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Activity

 Make a snake puppet

       ·        Take an old pair of socks.

       ·        Put on one your arm.

       ·        Stick buttons or bindis for the eyes.

       ·        Cut out a long red strip of paper for using as the tongue and stick it in the place as shown.

       ·        On the other side of the paper make a ‘V’ shaped cut.

       ·        Our snake is ready!


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