Class-5 English (Marigold) Unit-7_1 Topsy-turvy Land, Solutions of NCERT book / CBSE Syllabus

Unit- 7_1
Topsy-turvy Land

New words
Topsy turvy- upside down
Pleasure- feeling of enjoyment
Grand- big, great fun

Answer these questions:

Q. When do children go to school in Topsy-turvy land?
Ans- In Topsy-turvy land, children go to school at night.

Q. In the poem, if Buses travel on the sea, where do the boats travel? How should it rightly be?
Ans- In the poem, buses travel on the sea and boats travel on the land.
Rightly, buses should travel on land and boats should travel on sea.

Q. The land of topsy turvy is very different from our land. let's Draw a comparison by filling in sentences wherever needed.

Topsy-turvy Land	Our Land
People walk on their heads.	People walk on their feet.
Buses run on the sea.	The buses run on land.
They wear their hats on feet.	We wear our hats on head.
Boats sail in the streets.	Boats sail in the sea.
People pay for what they don't get.	People pay for what they get.

Let’s Listen

Fun with sounds
pleasure - treasure- measure
wear - tear- bear
swear - where
planned- canned- scanned- strand
topsy-turvy - hurly burly, curly-whirly

Let’s Talk

Words in the following sentences are jumbled up. Rearrange them to make meaningful sentences. Words that begin with the capital letter R the first word in the sentence.
Renu naughty is a girl.
Renu is a naughty girl.

untidy room Her always is.
Her room is always untidy.

mother Her advises her clean to it.
Her mother advises her to clean it.

never listens She her mother to.
She never listens to her mother.

kind of What child a you are?
What Kind of a child are you?

Can you tell of some things that go Topsy turvy at home there is a disorder?
Following things go Topsy turvy at home and there is a disorder?
Book shelf
Toys
Study table
Wardrobe

Let’s Write

Write five things that you do at home to make your home look neat and clean.

1 - Keeping the toys back at their place.
2 - Weekly arranging the wardrobe.
3 - Keeping the books back in the shelf after reading.
4 - Arranging the study table at home.
5 - Keeping old newspapers in the rack.

Let's imagine a topsy-turvy scene and describe it in the lines below.

Me and my friends decided to have a pajama party at my home. We enjoyed a lot in the party but next day my room was a topsy-turvy scene. All my toys were scattered at floor, books on the bed, juice bottles below the bed and the food plates behind the door. All of us worked together to make this topsy-turvy scene all right as before.

Two stories got mixed up. Sort them out and write them in the appropriate boxes.

We thought the lion had eaten someone.
Suddenly the kite lifted him off the ground and took him over the treetops.
We saw a shoe in the Lion's cage.
Finally, the kite brought him back to the park.
Our class had gone to the zoo.
Puran was flying the brand new kite in the park.
Some children stood and screamed, and some ran to the Director of the zoo.
Puran was frightened and excited.
The lion had not eaten anyone, because the shoe was one of the lion's toys.

The magic kite

1.    Puran was flying the brand new kite in the park.

2.    Suddenly the kite lifted him off the ground and took him over the treetops.

3.    Puran was frightened and excited.

4.    Finally, the kite brought him back to the park.

Who did the Lion eat?

1.    Our class had gone to the zoo.

2.    We saw a shoe in the Lion's cage.

3.    We thought the lion had eaten someone.

4.    Some children stood and screamed, and some ran to the Director of the zoo.

5.    The lion had not eaten anyone, because the shoe was one of the lion's toys.

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