“Beyond Barriers” is a lesson of the Textbook “Butterfly” approved by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education for Class 5 Students. Here all the Activity Questions are done by English teachers.

ACTIVITY – 1

Let’s find out and write down facts about Rakesh Sharma:

1. Place of birth: Patiala, in the state of Punjab.
2. Year of Birth: 1949
3. Name of the schools attended: George’s Grammar School.
4. Year of joining the National Defence Academy: 1966
5. Total time he spent in space: Seven days, twenty – One hours and forty minutes.

ACTIVITY – 2

Write T for true and F for false statements in the given boxes:

a) The space shuttle was named Soyuz T-11. [T]

b) Rakesh Sharma went into space in 1985. [F]

c) Indira Gandhi spoke to Rakesh Sharma. [T]

d) Barun got the book on India’s space travels from his mother. [T]

e) Osman and Barun were friends. [T]

ACTIVITY – 3

What do you want to be? Give reasons for your choice. Write five sentences. Begin like this:

Answer:

• I want to be a Police Officer.
• I want to help the needy people.
• I want to serve my country.
• Police duty is responsible and I want to be a responsible person.
• I want to prevent crime and disorder.

ACTIVITY – 4

Find answers from the text. Work in pairs:

a) Where was Kalpana Chawla born?

Answer: Kalpana Chawla was born in 1962 in Karnal.

b) Where did Kalpana go in 1982?

Answer: In 1982, Kalpana went to the U.S.A to study at the University of Texas at Arlington.

c) What was Kalpana called by her family?

Answer: Kalpana was called ‘ Montu’ by her family.

d) What was the name of the space shuttle that was lost?

Answer: The name of the space shuttle that was lost after a successful flight was Columbia.

e) When did Kalpana die?

Answer: Kalpana died during re-entry into earth’s atmosphere, on 1st February, 2003.

f) What has been named after Kalpana?

Answer: A hill on Mars and a star in deep space have been named after Kalpana.

ACTIVITY – 5

Let’s read the words:

Pinky, Ravi, Soyuz T-11 , Rakesh, Kalpana, Columbia, India, USA, Haryana, California, Barun , Osman.

All these words are names. Now, fill In the table. One is done for you.

ACTIVITY – 6

Complete the following sentences with the information from the text:

1. The first Indian in space was Rakesh Sharma.
2. Kalpana took up the position of research scientist at NASA.
3. Kalpana’s story shows the value of hard work and sincerity.
4. The Indian Prime Minister Kalpana talked to was Mr. Inderajit K.Gujral.

ACTIVITY – 7

Look at the table given below:

Write five sentences using the information. One is done for you:

• The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin
• First Woman in Space was Valentina Tereshkova.
• First man to walk in space was Alexei Leonov.
• First Woman to walk in space was Svetlana Savitskaya.
• First animal in space was Laika, the dog.

ACTIVITY – 8

Fill in the blanks with the present Continuous forms of the given Verbs in brackets:

1. Rina is studying (study) for her exams at the moment.
2. Where you are meeting (you meet) Ravi next week?
3. Pinky is coming (come) to my place tomorrow.
4. They are playing (play) football now.
5. She is eating (eat) oysters for lunch.
6. The company is finishing (finish) their project this week.
7. Rubina is not going (not go) to Kolkata next week.
8. I am working (work) on a special report today.
9. We are not cooking (not cook) dinner because we’re eating out.
10.  Barun is walking (walk) to school right now.

ACTIVITY – 9

Write six connected sentences about your experience of seeing the night sky. You may use the following points:

Time of seeing – place from where you looked – how the sky looked – other things that you saw – sounds of the night – your feelings.

  Answer:

Last Sunday I went to my uncle’s house. It was night when I was looking at the sky from the floor and the sky looked very amazing. The other things that I noticed were that the stars were twinkling. The sound came from outside of the village when I was looking at the sky. I really felt very good to do this.

Beyond Barriers | Class 5 | Lesson 12 | Activity Questions Answer | WBBPE