Answer the following questions
Who is the speaker in the poem?
The poem is narrated by a young child — a school-going boy who travels to school in the morning and returns in the afternoon.
Answer: The speaker is a young school-going child (a boy).
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Chapter 9 Solutions — Vocation
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Step-by-step NCERT solutions for Vocation (Chapter 9, NCERT Class 5 English) — every question and answer worked out in full, not just the final result. You can also read the Vocation textbook chapter.
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All 27 questions in Vocation are solved in the PDF. Here's what's inside, exercise by exercise:
New Words
- What is the meaning of the word 'vocation'?
- What is the meaning of the word 'gong'?
- What is the meaning of the word 'lane'?
- What is the meaning of the word 'giant'?
- What is the meaning of the word 'spade'?
- What is the meaning of the word 'lantern'?
Answer the following questions
- Who is the speaker in the poem?
- Why does the speaker want to be a hawker?
- What does he like about the gardener?
- What does the speaker compare the street lamp to?
- On the basis of the poem that you have read, share the daily schedule of the speaker.
Think and discuss
- Why does the speaker admire people with different vocations?
- What are the things that you observe on your way to school and your way back home?
Match the words with their meanings
- Match the word 'Gong' with its correct meaning:
- (a) A tool used for gardening
- (b) A metal disc that produces a loud sound when hit with a small hammer
- (c) A narrow path
- (d) A case that holds a candle or light
- (e) An imaginary man-like creature of great height and strength.
- Match the word 'Spade' with its correct meaning.
- Match the word 'Lane' with its correct meaning.
- Match the word 'Giant' with its correct meaning.
- Match the word 'Lantern' with its correct meaning.
Underline the mistake and rewrite the correct sentence
- Find the mistake and rewrite correctly: 'The speaker goes for school at ten in the morning.'
- Find the mistake and rewrite correctly: 'The fox ran fast than the others.'
- Find the mistake and rewrite correctly: 'Mita was slept when the doorbell rang.'
- Find the mistake and rewrite correctly: 'The old elephant walked slow to the river.'
- Find the mistake and rewrite correctly: 'Radhika is tall than Suman.'
- Find the mistake and rewrite correctly: 'Sudhanshu ran faster of all the runners.'
- Find the mistake and rewrite correctly: 'My mother are cooking.'
- Find the mistake and rewrite correctly: 'He go to school everyday.'
- Find the mistake and rewrite correctly: 'The birds is flying.'
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Worked examples
3 questions from Vocation, solved step by step.
Think and discuss
Why does the speaker admire people with different vocations?
The speaker admires the hawker, the gardener, and the watchman because each of them seems free to do as they like.
Unlike the child who must follow a strict schedule — go to school, come home, go to bed — these workers are not tied by rules and timetables.
The child sees only the freedom and enjoyment in their work and wishes he had the same.
Answer: The speaker admires them because they seem free to work in their own way, with no fixed rules or timetables — something the child longs for.
Underline the mistake and rewrite the correct sentence
Find the mistake and rewrite correctly: 'The speaker goes for school at ten in the morning.'
The mistake is 'goes for school' — the correct preposition is 'to'.
Corrected: The speaker goes to school at ten in the morning.
Answer: The speaker goes to school at ten in the morning.
All 27 questions in Vocation are solved step by step in the Solutions PDF above.
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