Lesson 1 : Gandhi, The Mahatma (Butterfly - V)

Lesson 1 

Gandhi, The Mahatma

Let’s begin…

Read the following sentences :

1. We should love all human beings..
2.  We must not neglect the old and weak.
3. We must speak the truth. the truth.
4. We should not harm others.
5. We should respect elders.
6. We must love our country.

These sentences tell us about good actions. Such actions help to spread love and peace among people.

Look at the pictures of these great man given in the table. All trough their lives they worked for the good of people. Match the pictures with their names :

Column A	Column B
	Swami Vivekananda
	Mahatma Gandhi
	Rabindranath Tagore

 

WBBSE Solutions for Class 5 English – All Chapters

Revision Lesson

Lesson 1 : Gandhi, The Mahatma

Lesson 2 : A Feat on Feet

Lesson 3 : Phulmani’s India

Lesson 4 : Memory in Marble

Lesson 5 : My School Days

Lesson 6 : The Clever Monkey

Lesson 7 : The Rebel Poet

Lesson 8 : Buildings to Remember

Lesson 9 : Bird’s Eye

Lesson 10 : A Great Social Reformer

Lesson 11 : The Finishing Point

Lesson 12 : Beyond Barriers

Revision Lesson

Class 6 All Chapter’s Solutions

Mock Test

Let's Read...

One day a little boy visited Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhiji's dress surprised the boy. "Such a great man without a shirt!" he wondered.

"Why don't you wear a shirt, Gandhiji?" the little boy asked.

"Where is the money, son?" Gandhiji asked. "I am very poor. I cannot buy a shirt."

The boy felt pity.

"My mother sews well", he said. "She makes all my clothes. I will ask her to sew a shirt for you."

"How many shirts can your mother make?" Gandhiji asked.

"Just tell me how many you need", said the boy. "She will make as many as you want."

Gandhiji thought for a moment. Then he said, "I have a very large family, son. I have forty crore brothers and sisters."

"Till everyone of them has a shirt, how can I wear one?" Gandhiji asked.

The reply surprised the boy. Forty crore brothers and sisters!

Gandhiji was right. After all, Gandhiji felt all the people of India were his family members.

Word Trove

• wondered - thought in surprise
• gently - softly
• sews - stitches on cloth to make dresses
• crore - a number (1 crore = 100 lakhs)

Let’s do...

ACTIVITY 1

Let’s put a tick mark to choose the right answer:

a) Gandhiji’s dress angered/surprised the boy.

b) Gandhiji told that he was very poor/rich.

c) The boy’s mother made clothes/shoes.

d) Gandhiji’s family was very large/small.

ACTIVITY 2

Let’s fill in the table with information from the text:

What	Who
a) visited Mahatma Gandhi
b) could sew well
c) had forty crore brothers and sisters

Let’s continue...

Gandhiji visited different places to collect funds for India’s freedom struggle. Once he visited Odisha. There he met an old woman. She could not stand straight. Her hair was grey. Her sari was torn. She went near Gandhiji and touched his feet. Then she gave him a coin. Jamanlal Bajaj’s duty was to keep the funds.

He asked Gandhiji for the coin, but Gandhiji refused. Jamanlal was surprised. “I keep thousands of rupees,” Jamanlal said.

“This coin is worth much more than those thousands,” Gandhiji told him. “If a man has lakhs, he can give a thousand or two. But this coin was perhaps all she had. What a great sacrifice! So, I value this coin more than a crore of rupees,” Gandhiji explained. He kept that coin with him forever.

Word Trove

• freedom struggle - efforts to get independence
• worth - value
• sacrifice - to give something for good works

Let's do...

ACTIVITY 3

Let’s complete the following sentences with information from the text:

a) Gandhiji visited different places to ______________________________________

b) In Odisha, Gandhiji met a ____________________________________________

c) The old woman went near Gandhiji and __________________________________

d) Jamanlal asked Gandhiji for ___________________________________________

ACTIVITY 4

Let’s write ‘T’ for True statements and ‘F’ for False statements:

a) Gandhiji never visited any place.

b) The woman from Odisha wore a new sari.

c) Gandhiji got a coin from the old woman.

d) Jamanlal collected the coin from Gandhiji.

Let's continue...

Thoughts of love, peace and equality filled Gandhiji's works. Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore also had similar ideas. Swami Vivekananda wanted unity among all religions. He spoke about it in 1893 at Chicago. Rabindranath Tagore started the Raksha Bandhan in 1905. It was a festival of brotherhood and communal harmony.

These three great men have become immortal for their thoughts and works.

Word Trove

• communal harmony – good relationship among people of different beliefs
• immortal – unforgettable

ACTIVITY 5

Work in pairs to answer the questions:

a) Mention the ideas that filled Gandhiji’s work.

b) Where did Swami Vivekananda speak about unity in all religions?

c) Who started the Raksha Bandhan as a festival of brotherhood?

d) How did the three great men become immortal?

Let’s learn... Let’s read the following sentences: “How many shirts can your mother make?” Gandhiji asked. “Just tell me how many you need,” said the boy. “She will make as many as you want.” Gandhiji thought for a moment. Then he said, “I have a very large family, son. I have forty crore brothers and sisters.” “Till every one of them has a shirt, how can I wear one?” Gandhiji asked. The reply surprised the boy.

Character	Name	Use
.	full stop	indicates the end of a sentence.
,	comma	indicates a short pause (within a sentence).
?	question mark	indicates a question.
" "	inverted commas	are used to indicate direct speech.

 

These are all punctuation marks.

Let’s do...

ACTIVITY 6

Insert suitable punctuation marks in the following passage. One is done for you:

One day a man went to the market (.) He bought a box ( ) a bat ( ) a ball and a pen from the market. His bag became heavy ( ) Do you know what he did then ( ) He said to a horse ( ) ( ) Please share my load ( ) It is too heavy for me ( ) ( ) The horse replied( ) ( )It is your load ( ) Don't ask me to share it ( ) ( )

Let’s learn...

Let’s read the following sentences:

(1) Who are you? 

     I am Bina.

(2) Where do you live? 

     I live in Kolkata.

(3) When do you have your breakfast? 

     I have my breakfast in the morning.

(4) Which is your favourite sport? 

     My favourite sport is cricket.

ACTIVITY 7

Let’s fill in the blanks with the words given in the box :

(1) __________ do you play with your friends?

     I play with my friends in the afternoon.

(2) __________ is your best friend?

     Ramen is my best friend.

(3) __________ will you go in the summer vacation?

      We shall go to Darjeeling in the summer vacation.

(4) __________ did you have as your tiffin?

       I had bread as my tiffin.

who	when	what	where

     

 

Let’s learn...

Let’s read the sentences:

(1) My mother sews well.

(2) The reply surprised the boy.

(3) I keep thousands of rupees.

(4) He kept that coin with him forever.

Let’s reframe each of the above sentences using ‘who’ or ‘what’. 

The answers are in coloured words. 

All these words are the Subject words of the sentences. 

The remaining part of each of the sentences is called the Predicate.

Subject	Predicate
My mother	sews well.
The reply	surprised the boy.
I	keep thousands of rupees.
He	kept that coin with him forever.

 

• To identify the subject, ask who/what to the verb of the sentence.
• Every sentence has two parts: Subject and Predicate.
• The Subject is that part of a sentence about whom/which the sentence says something.
• Predicate is that part of the sentence that tells us something about the Subject.

ACTIVITY 8

Let’s separate the subject and predicate in the following sentences and classify them in the table given below:

(1) The boy plays in the field.

(2) He is very happy today.

(3) The girl stood first this year.

(4) The moon revolves round the earth.

Subject	Predicate

 

Let’s learn...

Let’s look at the following sentences:

• There he met an old woman.
• The word an like 'a' stands for a single person / object.
• 'A' is used before a word that begins with a consonant sound.
• 'An' is used before a word that begins with a vowel sound.

Let's read the following groups of words:

• A crow
• A stone
• A mountain
• A book
• A shoe
• An apple
• An eye
• An ink pot
• An owl

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Let's do...

ACTIVITY 9

Let's write 'a' or 'an' before the words:

(1) __________ orange

(2) __________ goat

(3) __________ man

(4) __________ ice-cream

(5) __________ airship

(6) __________ lake

(7) __________ umbrella

(8) __________ cricketer

Let’s learn...

Let’s read the following sentences:

(1) Gandhiji’s dress surprised the boy.

(2) He asked Gandhiji for the coin, but Gandhiji refused.

Here the indicates a particular and specific person, animal, object or concept.

Let’s read the words:

• the Ganges
• the Himalayas
• the moon
• the best player
• the sun

The words a, an and the are called ARTICLES.

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Let’s do...

ACTIVITY 10

Use ‘the’ with the following words or word-clusters and make sentences: sun, Indian ocean, eldest son, Indian cricket team

Let’s fill in the blanks with suitable articles:

India won __________ Cricket World Cup for the second time in 2011. It was __________ moment of great triumph and __________ event of great inspiration to __________ youth of India. __________ members of team India were hailed as national heroes.

ACTIVITY 12

Let’s write four sentences about a great man :

(1) _________________________________________________________________________________

(2) _________________________________________________________________________________

(3) _________________________________________________________________________________

(4) _________________________________________________________________________________

Let’s talk...

Tell your friends about the importance of showing kindness to others.

Let’s work together...

Participate in a Group Discussion on the topic ‘Love and Peace among all’.