Firozabad
Where the story is set.
A town in Uttar Pradesh, known across India for glass, and above all for glass bangles.
↳ A whole town built on one craft.
📚 Chapter Learning Kit
Glass Bangles · Class 5 English · Santoor
English 3 topics 66 leveled MCQs 36 flashcards 7 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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An artisan
What is Ravi?
A skilled worker who makes beautiful things by hand. The skill takes years, and often runs in a family.
↳ Hands, skill and time.
Making a bangle
Four steps, in order.
↳ Heat, shape, colour, cool.
Capital letters
Four places.
↳ Start, names, places, days.
How to close
Telling or asking?
A telling sentence takes a full stop. An asking sentence takes a question mark.
↳ The mark tells the reader which it was.
The comma in a list
Between the items.
We bought bangles, ribbons, a lamp and two candles. The last pair is joined by and.
↳ Commas between, and before the last.
📖 Smart notes
What you'll study, topic by topic
1
The Story: Glass Bangles
Ravi makes glass bangles in Firozabad, as his family has for generations. His daughter Ananya joins him with new designs, and their Diwali collection lifts the whole town.
- Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh is known across India for its glass bangles.
- Ravi is an artisan, and his family has been making bangles for generations.
- Glass is softened in a furnace, shaped, coloured and then cooled slowly.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Words at Work: Punctuation and the Earlier Past
Capital letters, full stops, question marks and commas, and the word had, which marks the earlier of two actions that both happened in the past.
- A sentence opens with a capital letter and closes with a full stop or a question mark.
- Names of people, towns, festivals, days and months always take a capital letter.
- Commas separate the items of a list, and follow an opening phrase.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Speak, Listen and Write about Crafts
Building word webs, saying tongue twisters clearly, listening to a set of steps and ordering them, and writing a festival paragraph. Crafts of India and where they come from.
- A word web joins a word to others that come to mind with it.
- A tongue twister is practised slowly first, and only then quickly.
- In a spoken process, the signal words first, then and finally carry the order.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
❓ Leveled MCQ practice
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66 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
A skilled worker who makes beautiful things by hand is an ____.
Beginner
A engineer
B officer
C usher
D artisan
Show answer & explanation
artisan
Ravi and the workers around him are all artisans.
Glass is softened for shaping inside a ____.
Beginner
A cupboard
B furnace
C basket
D cellar
Show answer & explanation
furnace
A furnace is a very hot oven.
A soft, pale shade of colour is called a ____.
Beginner
A pastel
B pattern
C polish
D parcel
Show answer & explanation
pastel
Pale pink and pale green are pastels.
Consider these statements about the bangle makers. I. Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh is known for its glass bangles. II. The glass is cooled quickly after being shaped. III. Ananya brings floral and geometric designs to the craft. Which statements are correct?
Advanced
A I and II only
B II and III only
C I and III only
D I, II and III
Show answer & explanation
I and III only
I and III are correct. II is not: the glass is cooled SLOWLY after being softened, shaped and coloured.
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