The Grasshopper and the Ant NCERT Solutions | NCERT Textbooks & Solutions (Class 1 to Class 5) - DSSSB TGT/PGT/PRT PDF Download

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Question 1: Learn New Words
A) Hardworking
B) Arrived
C) Starve
D) Slammed
Answer:
A) Hardworking: to work with energy Example sentences:
1) My father is a hardworking family man.
2) She is a hardworking girl.

B) Arrived: to reach at a place Example sentences:
1) We arrived at the airport on time.
2) He arrived at his house in the evening.

C) Starve: to die from hunger Example sentences:
1) My mother left me at home to starve.
2) We should not starve ourselves to get thin.

D) Slammed: to shut something forcefully Example sentences:
1) He slammed the door while leaving.
2) I slammed the brakes.

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Question 1:

• How did the grasshopper spend his days?
• Did the grasshopper find food in winter?
• What did the ant tell the grasshopper when he asked for food?

Answer:
• The grasshopper spent his days by only singing and playing.
• No, the grasshopper did not find food in winter.
• The ant shook in anger and scolded the grasshopper for being lazy all the summer and not not doing any work.

Question 2:
• If you were asked to store things for the winter what would you store? Name any three things.
• Which season do you like the best?
• Tell the class the story of the grasshopper and the ant in your own language.
Answer:
Disclaimer: These are sample answers. Students are advised to write the answers based on their own experience and observation.
• If I were asked to store things for the winter, I would store apples, star fruit and peas.
• I like rainy season.

Question 3: Circle the words that mean the same.
Answer:

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Question 1: When you hear winter and summer, what are the words that come to your mind? Write these words in the bubbles.
Answer:

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Question 1: Letters with numbers are given in the box. Pick up the letter under each number and replace the numbers by writing it in the blanks
 1. The
24 153 2323211017171615 eats
4 1015 7 23.
2. The
3 221223 eat
2415 3  9 2223.
3.
4  9 22121615 is very
8 102011.
4.
2326 7  7 1615 is very
4  3 15 7.
Answer:
1. The G R A S S H O P P E R eats W O R M S.
2. The A N T S eat G R A I N S.
3. W I N T E R is very C O L D.
4. S U M M E R is very W A R M.

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Question 1: Under picture A sentences describe what each person/animal is doing. Under picture B write down what each is doing.
Disclaimer: Kindly refer the textbook for the images.
Use the words ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’, ‘they’ instead of a lady, a man, two girls and a dog. A lady is cycling.________________________________
A man is running. ________________________________
Two girls are playing. _____________________________
A dog is sleeping. _________________________________
Answer:
Picture A
1) Two girls are playing football.
2) One man is jogging in the park.
3) A dog is sleeping in the grass.
4) One girl is cycling.
 Picture B
Two girls are skipping the rope. A dog is licking milk from the bowl. A woman is cutting grass. A man is in the cot.
1) She is cycling.
2) He is running.
3) They are playing.
4) It is sleeping.

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Question 1: The sun shines in the sky.
Answer
Instructions: Join the dotted lines to form the given sentence.