NCERT Book Class 4 EVS From The Window

Chapter 7

From The Window

It is morning now. Last night I went to sleep early. It was too dark to see anything outside. When the train stopped early this morning, I woke up. It was Madgaon. That was written on the board at the platform. Appa said that we were going through the state of Goa.

We got off at the station and had some hot tea and filled our water bottles. The train started again. I find it difficult to describe the scene outside. It is so beautiful. It is green everywhere – fields with red soil, green crops and hills covered with trees. Sometimes, I can see small ponds, and far away, behind the hills, more water. I can’t make out if it is a river or the sea. The air is cooler, and not so dry as in Ahmedabad. The train passed a ‘level crossing’.

People are waiting on both the sides of the crossing for the train to pass. There are buses full of people, cars, trucks, autorickshaws, cycles, motor cycles, scooters and even tongas and bullockcarts with people and goods in them. Some people do not switch off the engines of their vehicle even while waiting. There is a lot of smoke and noise. I see some people going under the bars of the level crossing. How dangerous this is!

At times our train crosses another train. Unni and I tried to count the carriages in one such train, but both the trains were going so fast. We always got confused.

Ö What was the difference in the scene that Omana saw from the train on the first day and on the second day?

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Ö Omana saw many kinds of vehicles at the level-crossing. Which of them run on diesel or petrol?

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Ö Why was there so much smoke and noise from the vehicles at the level crossing?

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Ö Have you ever seen a scene like the one Omana saw in Goa? Describe it.

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