Maharashtra State Board | Standard V | English
💭 Daydreams
Chapter 2 · Story & Activities
📖 Things to Do
Q1. Read the following words aloud and copy them in your notebook.
Ans:Students should read each word aloud carefully and copy all the words neatly in their notebook.
💬 Answer the Following Questions
(1) What did the husband want to buy?
Ans:The husband wanted to buy a few cows.
(2) What plans did the wife make?
Ans:The wife made plans to prepare plenty of dahi, butter, and ghee. She would use one earthen pot for milk, one for dahi, and one for butter. She would put the ghee in a jar. She would use the remaining pot to send milk to her sister.
(3) What did the husband want to do with the extra milk?
Ans:The husband wanted to sell the extra milk in the market.
(4) What did Gopal Bhand say he was doing?
Ans:Gopal Bhand asked the arguing couple to move aside and said that he had to drive away their greedy cows, which had wandered into his field and ruined his beans and cucumbers.
(5) Did Gopal Bhand have a field?
Ans:No, Gopal Bhand did not have a field. He only pretended to have one in order to teach the couple a lesson.
(6) What did Gopal Bhand want to tell the husband and wife?
Ans:Gopal Bhand wanted to tell them that they should not argue over something that they do not even have. He wanted them to stop daydreaming and live in the present.
(7) What is the difference between a ‘dream’ and a ‘daydream’?
Ans:A dream is something that one has at night when one is asleep. A daydream, on the other hand, comes to one’s mind during the day when one is wide awake.
🎯 Activities
(1) Form groups of three and read the conversation in the story aloud.
Ans:Students must form a group of three, take different roles from the story, and read the conversation aloud in class. Practice makes it fun!
(2) Write about your own daydream in short.
Ans:My own daydream is about becoming a big doctor and fighting diseases like cancer. I dream about how I will cure people of this terrible disease and how grateful they will be. In my daydream, I even see people thinking of me as someone with extraordinary powers who can bring hope and health to everyone!
(3) Begin with a word and write as many other related words or ideas that occur to you in the form of a concept chart or concept map. You can choose a word from those given here or you may choose any other suitable word.
school | home | food | medicine
Students can do this activity on their own. Choose any one word — for example, school — and write related words around it, such as: teacher, friends, books, classroom, homework, games, sports day, and so on. Draw lines connecting all the words to the central word to make your concept map.
👥 Group Work
Discuss in groups of 5 the occasions on which you can use each of the following expressions. List at least 3 occasions each.
✅ That’s true!
Ans:- When we are discussing something serious, like the problem of deforestation.
- When we are discussing the importance of examinations.
- When we are talking about the benefits of physical exercise.
“That’s true!”
😍 Wouldn’t it be lovely!
Ans:- When someone is talking about cancelling all tests.
- When someone is hoping to play all day and night.
- When the talk comes up about eating whatever one wishes.
“Wouldn’t that be lovely!”
💪 Just try stopping me!
Ans:- When plans are being made for a picnic.
- When a friend’s birthday party is being discussed.
- When one is invited to come for ice cream.
“Just try stopping me!”
📝 Language Study
(1) A phrase is a meaningful group of words, for example, ‘one day’, ‘some extra money’, ‘a few cows’, ‘all the milk’. From the story, find at least three phrases each that begin with or include each of the articles — a, an, the.
Ans:| Article | Phrases from the Story |
|---|---|
| a | a pot full of milk · a stout stick · in a corner |
| an | There are no phrases containing ‘an’ in this story. |
| the | all the hard work · the earthen pots · all the commotion |
(2) Choose ‘a’ or ‘an’ correctly and fill in the blanks.
Ans:(3) Write the plural forms of the following.
Ans: