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What does the word 'flick' mean?
The poem says the frog 'flick(s) my tongue to catch my food' — to move something quickly with a snap or a sudden sharp movement.
Answer: To move something quickly with a sharp, snapping motion.
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Chapter 5 Solutions — The Frog
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Step-by-step NCERT solutions for The Frog (Chapter 5, NCERT Class 5 English) — every question and answer worked out in full, not just the final result. You can also read the The Frog textbook chapter.
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All 25 questions in The Frog are solved in the PDF. Here's what's inside, exercise by exercise:
New Words
- What does the word 'hop' mean?
- What does the word 'muddy' mean?
- What does the word 'flick' mean?
- What does the word 'damp' mean?
- What does the word 'dew' mean?
- What does the word 'beware' mean?
- What does the word 'croak' mean?
- What does the word 'webbed' mean?
Answer the following questions
- Where does the frog like to sit or spend time?
- How does the frog catch its food?
- How does the frog move in water and on land?
- What helps the frog hide in its surroundings?
Think and discuss
- What would it feel like to live like a frog, both in water and on land?
- If you could hop as high as a frog, what fun things would you do?
- How is a frog's life different from a fish's life?
- How are frogs' webbed feet similar to the flippers used by scuba divers?
Let us Learn A — Fill in the blanks (conjunctions)
- Choose the correct word from the brackets and fill in the blank: My colours match the plants ............... trees. (or/and)
- Choose the correct word from the brackets and fill in the blank: Would you like to learn about frogs ............... tadpoles? (because/and)
- Choose the correct word from the brackets and fill in the blank: I hop around happily, ............... I must watch out for snakes! (but/so)
- Choose the correct word from the brackets and fill in the blank: Frogs swim easily ............... they have webbed feet. (because/or)
Let us Learn B — Choose the correct sentence
- The following words have been rearranged into sentences. Choose the correct option for: hunts/night/the/silently/tiger/at
- (a) The tiger hunts silently at night.
- (b) Tiger hunts the silently at night.
- (c) Hunts the tiger at night silently.
- Choose the correct option for: elephants/in/forests/live/large/groups/in
- (a) Elephants live large in groups forests.
- (b) In groups large, elephants live in forests.
- (c) Elephants live in large groups in forests.
- Choose the correct option for: web/a/spider/carefully/its/weaves
- (a) A spider carefully weaves its web.
- (b) Spider carefully weaves its web a.
- (c) Carefully a spider weaves web its.
- Choose the correct option for: crocodile/waits/the/silently/riverbank/the/near
- (a) Crocodile waits the silently the near riverbank.
- (b) The silently crocodile waits near the riverbank.
- (c) The crocodile waits silently near the riverbank.
- Choose the correct option for: a/swims/turtle/slowly/in/ocean/the
- (a) A turtle swims slowly in the ocean.
- (b) Swims turtle slowly an ocean in.
- (c) The ocean swims a slowly turtle in.
Sample
Worked examples
3 questions from The Frog, solved step by step.
Answer the following questions
Where does the frog like to sit or spend time?
The poem says the frog sits 'in ponds and in the rain' and hops about 'in a muddy drain.'
It also lives 'in places damp with drops of dew.'
Answer: The frog likes to sit in ponds, in the rain, and in damp places with drops of dew. It also hops about in muddy drains.
Think and discuss
What would it feel like to live like a frog, both in water and on land?
Living like a frog would feel exciting because you could swim in water and also hop on land.
It would feel adventurous to move between two worlds — a cool pond and the green ground.
Answer: It would feel exciting and adventurous to live in both water and on land, swimming in the pond and hopping through the grass.
All 25 questions in The Frog are solved step by step in the Solutions PDF above.
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