Paper Boats | Poem 7 | English | Class 5th | Questions and Answers |

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Paper Boats | Poem 7 | English | Class 5th | Questions and Answers |

 

Poem 7: Paper Boats

Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream.

In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of the village where I live.

I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and know who I am.

I load my little boats with shiuli flowers from our garden, and hope that these

blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land in the night.

I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the little clouds

setting their white bulging sails.

I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down the air to

race with my boats!

When night comes, I bury my face in my arms and dream that my paper boats

float on and on under the midnight stars.

The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading is their baskets full of dreams.

 

R. N. Tagore

 

 

 

float: stay on the surface of a river تیرنا

running: flowing رواں

shiuli: a kind of flower-like jasmine ایک قسم کا پھول

bloom: flower کلی

launch: put paper boats in water کاغذ کی کشتی کا چلانا

lading (n): the action of loading a ship or a boat; the act of bailing and dipping سامان لادھنا

 

Reading is Fun

 

Q1. Who is the speaker of the poem?

Ans. The child is the speaker of the poem.

Q2. When does the child float the paper boats?

Ans. The child floats the paper boats day by day down the running stream.

Q3. What does the child write on the paper boats?

Ans. The child writes his name and the name of the village he lives, on the paper boat.

Q4. Why does the child do so?

Ans. He does so because he has a hope that someone in some strange land will find his boats know him by his name and village.

Q5. What does the child put in the paper boats?

Ans. The child puts shiuli flowers in the paper boats and hopes that blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land at night.

Q6. What does the child do when night comes?

Ans. The child hides his face in his arms and dreams that his paper boats floating on and on under the midnight stars.

 

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Language Work

 

A. Choose the correct compound word for each of the following from the box given below:

 

1. Work that involves handling papers.

2. A book with a cover made of thin card.

3. A small piece of bent wire used for holding papers.

4. Money in paper form rather than coins.

5. A place where newspapers are sold.

6. A small heavy object put on top of pieces of paper to keep them in position.

 

paper clip	paper money	paperback
paperweight	paperwork	paper shop

 

Ans.

1. Work that involves handling papers. Paperwork

2. A book with a cover made of thin card. Paperback

3. A small piece of bent wire used for holding papers. Paper clip

4. Money in paper form rather than coins. Paper money

5. A place where newspapers are sold. Paper shop

6. A small heavy object put on top of pieces of paper to keep them in position. Paper weight

 

B. Match the words in Column A with their opposites from Column B:

 

Column A	Column B
Black	die
Live	known
Strange	dusk
Little	day
Dawn	white
Safe	big
Night	dangerous

 

Ans.

 

Column A	Column B
Black	white
Live	die
Strange	known
Little	big
Dawn	dusk
Safe	dangerous
Night	day

 

 

Let’s Talk

 

If you were the child in the poem, what would you tell your classmates about the paper boat?

 

        If I were a child, I would tell my classmates that I had been floating paper boats for a long time. I used to write my name, my parent's name, and the name of my village on them, so that someone at, somewhere, might pick up one of the boats and know me, my parents, and my village. After floating my paper boats, I dreamt of the places where the boats might float.

 

Let’s Write

 

How do we send messages nowadays? Write about a few of the methods in your notebook.

 

        Nowadays messages are sent in many ways. The most common method is the way of sending messages using mobile phones. Mobile numbers are used to send messages to other known mobile numbers. Another common method is social media. With the help of the internet, many social networks are used to send messages to different people in any part of the world. Electronic mail (email) is another way of sending messages using the email addresses with the internet through computers or mobile phones.