Class 03 || English || Ch. 11 TRAINS

Class 3 English Ch. 11 TRAINS

QUESTIONS FROM TEXTBOOK SOLVED

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Question 1:

mountains    passengers    rivers    precious   mail    plains    dusk   dawn

Answer

1) Mountains: a large steep hill 

2) Passengers: a traveller of a public conveyance 

3) Rivers: a large natural stream of water

4) Precious: of great value 

5) Mail: letters and parcels sent by post 

6) Plains: a large area of flat land with few trees 

7) Dusk: dim or dark 

8) Dawn: first light of the day 

Page No 54:

Reading is Fun
1.Where do the trains run?
Ans. The trains run through the mountains, plains and rivers.

2.What are the ‘precious loads’ that they carry?
Ans. 'Passengers, parcels and mails' are the ‘precious loads’ that they carry.

3.When do the trains run?
Ans. The trains run through day and night from morn to eve and eve to morn.

4. What is ‘dusk’ and ‘dawn’?
Ans. ‘Dusk’ is the time of evening when the sun is going to set. 

‘Dawn’ is the time off early morning when we see the first light of the day.

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Talk Time
1.Do you enjoy train rides?
Ans. Yes, I enjoy train rides many times.

2. If you have to travel over a long distance, how would you like to go and why?
Ans. If I have to travel over a long distance, I would like to go by train by the reservation because it is cheap, affordable and also very safe. it has many types of the facilities like kitchen, toilet and bathroom etc.

3. If you had to spend the night on a train, what would you need to take with you?
Ans. If I had to spend the night on a train, I would take all essentials like that food, water, bedsheet, pillow, comb, brush, tooth paste, towel and some medicines.

if it is a reservation journey that it is not necessary to take food and blankets it is readily available in the train.

Draw and name the things you would need in this suitcase.

This is suitcase. I would like to take all essentials like that clothes, bedsheet, comb, brush, tooth paste, towel and some medicines in this suitcase.

Let’s Write
Describe an interesting train or bus journey you have taken, or would like to take. Write four sentences about your journey. You can use some of the following words and phrases.
[many people,  crowded tea stalls,
station/bus station, river, window, big and small trees, seat, hills
ticket, loud whistle]

Example: I went to the railway station with my father ...........

A Journey by Train

I went to the railway station with my father to go to Rameshwaram. We went to the railway station by auto.
There were many people at the railway station.
My father did not take the tickets from the crowded ticket window. de reserved the tickets from the net.
I took the window seat. The train started with a loud whistle. It soon took speed. I saw hills, rivers, big and small trees through the window.

It also runs over the sea at Pamban which was the terrible sight for me. I was very glad to have a such a a beautiful journey.

Word Building
(i) Sort out these different means of transport into correct groups. One is done for you.

Ans. 

Land           Air                Water
Bus             Aeroplane     Ship
Car             Helicopter      Boat

Train.                                 Steamer

Bicycle

Truck

(ii) Complete the sentences.
1. Give me some ———— to eat. (food / clothes)

2. Plav with ————–. (me / grey)

3. Swim across ———. (the river / the boat)

4. Let’s get on the ———–.(train / dawn).

Ans. 

1. food 2. me 3. the river 4. train