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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