Maharashtra Board Solutions Class 5-English: Chapter 20- Only One Mother

Class 5: English Chapter 20 solutions. Complete Class 5 English Chapter 20 Notes.

Maharashtra Board Solutions Class 5-English: Chapter 20- Only One Mother

Maharashtra Board 5th English Chapter 20, Class 5 English Chapter 20 solutions

Questions and Answers

1. Make a list of the rhyming words in the poem.
Add one more rhyming word of your own to each pair.

Question 1.
Make a list of the rhyming words in the poem.
Add one more rhyming word of your own to each pair.
Answer:

• sky – by – cry
• together – weather – leather
• lawn – dawn – fawn

2. Write some more expressions like ‘hundreds of’. Expand each expression.
Example, ‘Hundreds of children in the school.’

Question 1.
Write some more expressions like ‘hundreds of’. Expand each expression.
Example, ‘Hundreds of children in the school.’
Answer:

• Hundreds of flowers in the garden.
• Hundreds of fishes in the sea.
• Hundreds of ants in the ant-hill.
• Hundreds of vehicles on the road.

3. Answer the following questions.

Question 1.
What examples of plentiful things does the poet give?
Answer:
The examples of plentiful things given by the poet are the stars, shells, birds, lambs, dewdrops, bees and butterflies.

Question 2.
Why does the poet say that the dewdrops greet the dawn?
Answer:
In the early morning, the moisture in the air, settles on the leaves or plants in the form of water drop known as ‘dewdrops’. As this happens before the sun rises, it seems as if the dewdrops are greeting the dawn.

Question 3.
Do you agree with the poet’s thoughts? Why?
Answer:
Yes, I agree with the poet’s thoughts because I have experienced mother’s love and I know for sure that no one in the world will love me as much as my mother does. I also feel that every child needs a mother. She is irreplaceable.

4. Write a letter to any one of the following to tell them how much you appreciate them.

Question 1.
Write a letter to any one of the following to tell them how much you appreciate them.
Your mother
Your father
Any one of your relatives
Your teacher
Answer:

20, Lincoln Apts,
S. V. Road, Andheri (West),
Mumbai – 4000 059.
9 May, 2015.

Dear Mother,

I love you very much. I appreciate all the things you do for me, from cooking my favourite dishes to arranging my things in proper order. What would I do without you, mother? I thank you so much for understanding me, teaching and explaining things to me lovingly, encouraging me to do my best, correcting me when I am wrong. You listening to anything and everything I have to say though you are so busy. Last but not the least, I thank you for always standing by me through good times and bad times. This only shows how much you love and care for me.

I miss you mamma, come back as soon as your work is complete. I love you very much. You are the best mamma in the whole world. Thank you for being my mother.

Your loving daughter,
XYZ.

Additional Important Questions and Answers

Answer the following:

Question 1.
Where can we find hundreds of stars?
Answer:
We can find hundreds of stars up in the pretty sky.

Question 2.
What does one find on the shore?
Answer:
One finds hundreds of shells on the shore.

Question 3.
What are the birds doing as they fly?
Answer:
The birds are singing as they fly.

Question 4.
When do we see hundreds of lambs?
Answer:
We see hundreds of lambs in the sunny weather.

Question 5.
Where do we find hundreds of bees?
Answer:
We find hundreds of bees in the purple clover.

Question 6.
What does one see on the lawn?
Answer:
One sees hundreds of butterflies on the lawn.

Activities :

Question 1.
Complete the web with words related to nature other than those which are given in the poem.
Answer:

Language Study :

Question 1.
Find a word in the poem that rhymes with ‘weather and add two of your own.
Answer:
weather – together, leather, feather

Question 2.
List the describing words from the poem.
Answer:
pretty, purple, sunny, one, wide, hundreds.

Question 3.
Pick out phrases from the poem beginning with ‘the’.
Answer:
the pretty sky, the shore, the sunny weather, the dawn, the purple clover, the lawn, the wide world.

Question 4.
Pick out words that combine together to form a new word.
Answer:
a. dew + drops = dewdrops
b. butter + flies = butterflies
Note: Such words are known as compound words.

Question 5.
Give the antonyms for:

1. pretty
2. together
3. wide

Answer:

1. ugly
2. separate
3. narrow

Reading Skills, Vocabulary and Grammar

Read the extract and answer the following questions.

Question 1.
What do you see in the pretty sky?
Answer:
We see hundreds of stars in the pretty sky.

Question 2.
What do you find on the shore?
Answer:
We find hundreds of shells on the shore.

Question 3.
When can we see hundreds of lambs?
Answer:
We can see hundreds of lambs when the weather is sunny.

Question 4.
Pick out two pairs of rhyming words from the given extract.
Answer:
together – whether, sky-by

Question 5.
Which word in the extract stands for ‘plentiful?
Answer:
The word ‘hundreds’ stands plentiful.

Question 6.
What makes you feel that your mother loves you more than anyone?
Answer:
I know my mother loves me more than anyone else because when I am happy she is happy, when I am sad she is sad, when I am sick she is always near me spending sleepless nights caring and worrying for me. She sacrifices so much for me that there is no doubt that she loves me the most.

Summary :

The poem, “Only One Mother’ written by George Cooper, tries to awaken us to the fact that in this world everything like stars, shells, birds, lambs etc. are plentiful, but we have only one mother for a child his mother is the most precious gift on earth. She loves her child unconditionally and unselfishly and he tells us how lucky we are to have a mother, whose love is incomparable. The poet brings out the importance of a mother in a child’s life and how we should feel blessed to have one.

Meanings :

1. dewdrops (n)-drops of water formed from the moisture in the air which settle on the leaves and plants early in the morning.
2. dawn (n) – the time immediately before sunrise.
3. clover (n) – a plant of the pea family having three lobed leaves, the flowers grow in clusters. They may be purple, red or white in colour.
4. lawn (n) – an area of short regularly grown grass, especially near the house or park

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Chapterwise Maharashtra Board Solutions Class 5 English :

Unit 1

• Chapter 1- What a Bird Thought
• Chapter 2- Daydreams
• Chapter 3- Be a Good Listener
• Chapter 4- Strawberries
• Chapter 5- The Twelve Months
• Chapter 6- Announcements
• Chapter 7- Major Dhyan Chand
• Chapter 8- Peer Profile

Unit 2

• Chapter 9- The Triantiwontigongolope
• Chapter 10- Three Sacks of Rice
• Chapter 11- Be a Good Speaker
• Chapter 12- Count your Garden
• Chapter 13- The Adventures of Gulliver
• Chapter 14- A Lesson for All
• Chapter 15- Bird Bath
• Chapter 16- Write your own Story

Unit 3

• Chapter 17- On the Water
• Chapter 18- Weeds in the Garden
• Chapter 19- Be a Good Host and Guest
• Chapter 20- Only One Mother
• Chapter 21- The Journey to the Great Oz
• Chapter 22- A Book Review
• Chapter 23- Write your own Poem
• Chapter 24- Senses Alert

Unit 4

• Chapter 25- The Man in the Moon
• Chapter 26- Water in the Well
• Chapter 27- The Legend of Marathon
• Chapter 28- All about Money
• Chapter 29- A Lark
• Chapter 30- Be a Netizen
• Chapter 31- Give your Mind a Workout!
• Chapter 32- Helen Keller
• Chapter 33- Rangoli