Chapter- 5        Homes


1. Question: What is the lesson “Homes” about?

Answer: The lesson is about different animals, birds, and insects and the places where they live.

2. Question: Where does a snail live?

Answer: A snail lives in a shell.

3. Question: Who lives in a burrow?

Answer: A bunny lives in a burrow.

4. Question: What is a burrow?

Answer: A burrow is a hole in the ground where animals live.

5. Question: What is a kennel?

Answer: A kennel is a house for a dog.

6. Question: What is a nest?

Answer: A nest is the home of birds.

7. Question: Where does a bee live?

Answer: A bee lives in a hive.

8. Question: What is a hive?

Answer: A hive is the home of bees.

9. Question: Where does a frog live?

Answer: A frog lives in a mud hole or near a river bank.

10. Question: What kind of place is a hive?

Answer: A hive is a busy and noisy place.

11. Question: What does the child say about being a bird?

Answer: The child says that he might have been a little bird.

12. Question: Is the child happy being a child?

Answer: Yes, the child is happy being a child.

13. Question: What does the line “I am glad I am just a child” mean?

Answer: It means the child is happy and satisfied with being human.

14. Question: What does the poem teach us?

Answer: The poem teaches us to be happy with what we are.

15. Question: Where would a bird live?

Answer: A bird would live in a nest.

16. Question: What does the child imagine in the poem?

Answer: The child imagines being different animals and living in their homes.

17. Question: Why is the hive described as noisy?

Answer: Because many bees live and work together, making noise.

18. Question: What kind of home does a frog have?

Answer: A frog has a muddy and wet home near water.

19. Question: Why does a snail carry its home?

Answer: A snail carries its shell as its home for protection.

20. Question: What does the poem suggest about homes?

Answer: It suggests that every living being has its own type of home.

21. Question: What is the meaning of “busy”?

Answer: “Busy” means being active or occupied.

22. Question: What is the meaning of “noisy”?

Answer: “Noisy” means full of sound.

23. Question: Why should we love our home?

Answer: Because it gives us comfort, safety, and happiness.

24. Question: What type of home does a human have?

Answer: A human lives in a house.

25. Question: What does the line about a bee suggest?

Answer: It suggests that bees live in groups and work together.

26. Question: What is special about a bird’s home?

Answer: A bird’s home is made of twigs and is built on trees.

27. Question: What feeling does the poem express?

Answer: The poem expresses happiness and contentment.

28. Question: What does the child learn from imagination?

Answer: The child learns to appreciate his own life.

29. Question: Why are different homes important?

Answer: Because each living being needs a suitable place to live.

30. Question: What is the main message of the poem?

Answer: The main message is to be happy and satisfied with our own home and life.


Answer by Dimpee Bora