Chapter 10: Three Sacks of Rice, English 5th Standard, Maharashtra State Board, Balbharati solutions,

Chapter 10: Three Sacks of Rice

THINGS TO DO [PAGES 24 - 26]

Balbharati solutions for English 5th Standard Maharashtra State Board Chapter 10 Three Sacks of Rice Things to do [Pages 24 - 26]

Things to do | Q 1.1 | Page 24

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

begun

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Things to do | Q 1.2 | Page 24

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

bought 

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Things to do | Q 1.3 | Page 24

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

reject 

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Things to do | Q 1.4 | Page 24

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

eldest

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Things to do | Q 1.5 | Page 24

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

lent

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Things to do | Q 1.6 | Page 24

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

earned

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Things to do | Q 1.7 | Page 24

Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

narrow

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Things to do | Q 2. (1) | Page 24

Answer the following question.

What common qualities did the three brothers have?

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Things to do | Q 2. (2) | Page 24

Answer the following question.

What was the businessman looking for? Why?

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Things to do | Q 2. (3) | Page 24

Answer the following question.

How did the middle brother use rice?

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Things to do | Q 2. (4) | Page 24

Answer the following question.

Was it right for the youngest brother to ask for a share in the money? Why?

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Things to do | Q 3. (1) | Page 25

Read the highlighted words.

• All three of them were honest, kind, and hardworking.
• You are such an honest person.

The highlighted words are adjectives.

Now find at least five other adjectives from the lesson.

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Things to do | Q 3. (2) | Page 24

List as many words as you can that will go with the given adjective. (At least 3 each.)

Example: sudden - sudden change, sudden shower, sudden fall

• simple
• odd
• only
• honest
• long

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Things to do | Q 4. (1) | Page 25

Imagine you are one of the three brothers. Write in short what you did with the rice.

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Things to do | Q 4. (2) | Page 25

Find any other story of three brothers or three sisters and rewrite it in your own words.

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Things to do | Q 4. (3) | Page 26

Find out how rice is cultivated. Describe the process with the help of pictures or diagrams.

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Things to do | Q 5 | Page 25

Form a group of 4 or 5. Make a ‘storyboard’ for the story ‘Three Sacks of Rice’.
Arrange the story in the form of a sequence of pictures.
Decide what you will show in each picture; what words/lines you will write with each picture to explain what happens in it.
You can also add ‘speech balloons’ for the people in the pictures.

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