English: Class 5 — Chapter 9: Vocation

• Freedom and Autonomy: The child longs for a life free from strict schedules, school timings, and parental rules.
• Innocence of Childhood: The child only sees the romanticized, fun aspects of each profession without realizing their difficulties.

While walking to school, the child meets a hawker selling crystal bangles. The child envies the hawker because:

• There is no hurry to go anywhere.
• There is no fixed road he must take.
• There is no set time for him to return home.
• Child's Wish: "I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in the road, crying, 'Bangles, crystal bangles!'"

On returning from school, the child sees a gardener digging the ground in a house yard. The child envies the gardener because:

• He can do whatever he likes with his spade.
• He can soil his clothes with dust.
• Nobody scolds or punishes him if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet.
• Child's Wish: "I wish I were a gardener digging away at the garden with nobody to stop me from digging."

At night, looking through the open window, the child sees the watchman walking up and down the dark, lonely lane. The child envies the watchman because:

• He walks with his shadow and swings his lantern.
• He never has to go to bed.
• Child's Wish: "I wish I were a watchman walking the streets all night, chasing the shadows with my lantern."

Identify and correct grammatical errors in sentences:

• Incorrect: I has recently read a new book.
  Correct: I have recently read a new book.
• Incorrect: The speaker goes for school at ten in the morning.
  Correct: The speaker goes to school at ten in the morning.
• Incorrect: The fox ran fast than the others.
  Correct: The fox ran faster than the others.
• Incorrect: Mita was slept when the doorbell rang.
  Correct: Mita was sleeping (or asleep) when the doorbell rang.
• Incorrect: The old elephant walked slow to the river.
  Correct: The old elephant walked slowly to the river.
• Incorrect: Radhika is tall than Suman.
  Correct: Radhika is taller than Suman.
• Incorrect: Sudhanshu ran faster of all the runners.
  Correct: Sudhanshu ran fastest of all the runners.
• Incorrect: My mother are cooking.
  Correct: My mother is cooking.
• Incorrect: He go to school everyday.
  Correct: He goes to school everyday.
• Incorrect: The birds is flying.
  Correct: The birds are flying.

• Telescope: Used for viewing distant objects in space.
• Hammer: Used for driving nails or breaking objects.
• Screwdriver: Used for turning screws.
• Stethoscope: Used by doctors to listen to heartbeats.
• Grater: Used for grating food items.
• Sickle: Used for cutting grass or harvesting crops.
• Tongs: Used for gripping and lifting objects.
• Camera: Used for taking photographs.
• Compass: Used for drawing circles or finding directions.
• Mouse: Used as a pointing device for computers.
• Saw: Used for cutting wood.

• Beekeeper: A person who owns and keeps bees, especially for collecting honey.
• Photographer: A person who takes photographs, especially as a job.
• Teacher: A person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue.
• Dancer: A person who dances professionally or as a performance art.
• Chef: A professional cook, typically the chief cook in a restaurant.
• Pilot: A person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft.
• Farmer: A person who owns or manages a farm, growing crops or raising animals.
• Florist: A person who sells and arranges cut flowers.