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What does the word 'pair' mean?
A pair means a set of two things that go together and are used as one item, such as a pair of shoes or a pair of spectacles.
Answer: A pair means two things that go together and are used as one.
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Chapter 1 Solutions — Papa's Spectacles
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Step-by-step NCERT solutions for Papa's Spectacles (Chapter 1, NCERT Class 5 English) — every question and answer worked out in full, not just the final result. You can also read the Papa's Spectacles textbook chapter.
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All 13 questions in Papa's Spectacles are solved in the PDF. Here's what's inside, exercise by exercise:
New Words
- What does the word 'spectacles' mean?
- What does the word 'pair' mean?
- What does the word 'glanced' mean?
- What does the word 'searching' mean?
Answer the following questions
- What is Papa searching for?
- What are the possible places where Papa can find it?
- At last, where does Papa find his lost item?
Think and discuss
- Apart from reading, guess some other chores that Papa cannot do without the spectacles.
- What makes your papa happy?
Let us Learn — Arrange in ascending order
- Arrange the words in ascending order (smallest/lightest first, biggest/heaviest last): 1. Towel, Sari, Handkerchief, Bedsheet 2. Apple, Strawberry, Cherry, Watermelon 3. Twenty-nine, Fourteen, Ninety-one, Forty-seven 4. Hen, Crow, Sparrow, Eagle 5. Ox, Rabbit, Elephant, Squirrel
Let us Learn — Fill in the blanks (pair of)
- Fill in the blanks to complete the phrases using the word 'pair of'. Write seven things that come in pairs.
Let us Learn — Encircle the correct spelling
- Encircle the word that is spelt correctly from each set: 1. watter / water / weter 2. vegatables / veggetables / vegetables 3. balloon / baloon / ballon 4. hause / house / houze 5. elephant / elefant / ellephant 6. spactacles / spektacles / spectacles 7. karpenter / carpenter / carpainter 8. fruitt / friut / fruit 9. receive / recieve / raceive 10. prinsipal / principal / princpal
Let us Learn — Complete the story using correct prepositions
- Complete the story using the correct prepositions from the box (around, after, before, in, above, on, among): 'My father has a habit of keeping his spectacles _____ random places. Last week, he could not find his spectacles and looked _____ the house. We checked the big box that reached _____ our waists. My father looked for the spectacles _____ the newspapers kept _____ the table. He continued…
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3 questions from Papa's Spectacles, solved step by step.
Answer the following questions
What are the possible places where Papa can find it?
According to the poem, Papa checks inside his pockets, looks under his chair, searches near the window, and looks everywhere around him.
Answer: Papa looks inside his pockets, under his chair, and near the window.
Think and discuss
Apart from reading, guess some other chores that Papa cannot do without the spectacles.
The poem tells us Papa cannot read the newspaper, watch TV, or cut vegetables without his spectacles.
He would also find it hard to drive, cook, do any fine handwork, or recognise people from far away without them.
Answer: Without his spectacles, Papa cannot watch TV, cut vegetables, drive, cook carefully, or do any work that needs clear eyesight.
All 13 questions in Papa's Spectacles are solved step by step in the Solutions PDF above.
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