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Chapters
1: Ice-cream Man
▶ 2: Wonderful Waste!
3: Bamboo Curry
Unit 2
4: Teamwork
5: Flying Together
Unit 3
6: My Shadow
7: Robinson Crusoe - Discovers a footprint
Unit 4
8: Crying
9: My Elder Brother
Unit 5
10: The Lazy Frog
11: Rip Van Winkle
Unit 6
12: Class Discussion
13: The Talkative Barber
Unit 7
14: Topsy-turvy Land
15: Gulliver's Travels
Unit 8
16: Nobody’s Friend
17: The Little Bully
Unit 9
18: Sing a Song of People
Unit 10
19: Malu Bhalu
20: Who Will be Ningthou?

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Solutions for Chapter 2: Wonderful Waste!
Below listed, you can find solutions for Chapter 2 of CBSE NCERT for English - Marigold Class 5.
NCERT solutions for English - Marigold Class 5 2 Wonderful Waste! Reading is fun [Pages 12 - 13]
What were the preparations in the palace for?
Why did the Maharaja go into the kitchen in the afternoon?
What had the cook planned to do with the vegetable scraps?
Ingredients are the things that are used to make a dish. Circle the ingredients of avial in the box below.
chillies | groundnut | wood | vegetable scraps |
coconut | roasted peanuts | curd | pot |
garlic | broken bangles | basket | curry leaves |
State whether the following are True or False.
The king had ordered a dinner in the palace.
True
False
No one had heard of or tasted avial before.
True
False
The cook had planned to make another dish using the vegetable scraps.
True
False
A recipe is a list of directions to prepare a dish. The following sentences are not in order for preparing avail. Number them in the correct order.
- Grind some coconut, green chilies, and garlic.
- Cut the vegetable scraps into long strips.
- Wash and clean the mix of vegetable bits.
- Decorate with curry leaves.
- Whip some curd and mix it in.
- Pour some coconut oil on top.
- Avial is ready.
Given in the box are some things that children do after they reach home from school.
Choose five things that you do when you reach home from school. Write them in order.
pack school bag | put away school bag |
read a story book | chat with mummy about school |
sleep for a while | wash up |
do the home work | watch TV |
go to play | change out of school uniform |
NCERT solutions for English - Marigold Class 5 2 Wonderful Waste! Let's talk [Page 14]
The Maharaja was a wise man and ordered the cook to use the vegetable scraps instead of throwing them away.
- Name some of the things which are thrown away at home or in school.
- Sit in groups of four and think of interesting ways in which they can be made useful.
- Put up your findings on the class board.
NCERT solutions for English - Marigold Class 5 2 Wonderful Waste! Word building [Page 14]
Pair work
Look up the following words in the dictionary. They may have more than one meaning. List these meanings.
ground |
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survey |
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scrap |
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sternly | ||
tempting |
Make new words by adding/dropping a few letters from the root word. Some are done for you.
-ed | -ing | -er | -est | |
pound | × | × | ||
try | tried | × | × | |
large | × | × | ||
new | × | × | ||
tasty | tasted | tasting | tastier | |
wise | × | × | × | × |
stare | ||||
clean |
Do any of these words use all of four endings?
NCERT solutions for English - Marigold Class 5 2 Wonderful Waste! Find out [Page 15]
Name food that is made in your home.
- for a feast/festival.
- when you are unwell.
- everyday.
Share the information with your friends.
Avial is a dish made in Kerala.
Do you have a similar dish in your state made from a mix of many vegetables?
- What is it called?
- Note down the ingredients used to make it.
- Write the recipe.
- Present attractively and display on the class board. You can draw and stick pictures too.
Solutions for 2: Wonderful Waste!

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