Class 5 English — Chapter 9: Vocation

What you'll learn

• ▸Understanding the Poem Vocation
• ▸Key Vocabulary from the Chapter
• ▸Identifying Diverse Occupations and Job Roles
• ▸Analyzing Perspectives on Work
• ▸Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement
• ▸Grammar: Correct Usage of Adjectives and Adverbs
• ▸Forming Questions (WH-Family Words)
• ▸Expressing Personal Thoughts and Experiences
• ▸Descriptive Writing about Vocations

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- Unit 5: Work is Worship 9 Vocation Let us Recite (1) When the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by our lane, Every day I meet the hawker crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!” There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no road he must take, no place he must go to, no time when he must come home. I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in the road, crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!” --- PAGE 2 --- (2) When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school. I can see through the gate of that house the gardener digging the ground. He does what he likes with his spade, he soils his clothes with dust, nobody takes him to task if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet. I wish I were a gardener digging away at the garden with nobody to stop me from digging. --- PAGE 3 --- (3) Just as it gets dark in the evening and my mother sends me to bed, I can see through my open window the watchman walking up and down. The lane is dark and lonely, and the street-lamp …

Practice Questions from this Chapter

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4. At what time does the speaker go to school? Get Solution →
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Did you know?

• 💡 Knocker-uppers were paid to tap on windows and wake people for work.
• 💡 Ancient Romans hired professional mourners to cry loudly at funerals.
• 💡 The medieval job of a gong farmer involved emptying latrines at night.
• 💡 An ice cream taster has the fun job of ensuring delicious flavors.
• 💡 Lighthouse keepers once lived alone in towers, guiding ships safely.

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