Santoor

Chapter 1 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "Together We Can", introduces the theme of unity and teamwork through a poem, a dialogue about India's diversity, and hands-on language activities covering collective nouns, prepositions of place, and the future tense. Download the PDF and read the summary and Q&A to prepare fully for this chapter.

• 1The chapter is part of Unit 1 titled 'My Land' in the Class 4 Santoor English textbook (2026-27 edition).
• 2The opening poem 'Together We Stand' has 10 lines about teamwork, trust, and team spirit.
• 3Students learn collective nouns: herd (sheep), pack (wolves), bouquet (flowers), grove (trees), swarm (bees), choir (boys).
• 4A 'Did You Know' fact box explains that honeybees use a waggle dance and ants use signals to work as a team.
• 5The speaking activity features two characters, Bokali and Darsana, discussing India's unity in diversity — different traditions, food, festivals, and languages.

Chapter 2 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "The Tinkling Bells", tells the story of Chinna, a bright Grade 4 boy from a village, who loses the money gifted by his grandfather and is comforted by his mother Kamala. When a fruit seller accidentally gives him extra change at the market, Chinna is tempted but chooses to return it, earning praise for his honesty. Download the PDF and read the full summary and Q&A below.

• 1Chinna is a Grade 4 boy who wants to buy tinkling bells for his pet kid (baby goat) named Tara, priced at ten rupees from Chacha's shop.
• 2Goats under six months old are called 'kids' — a vocabulary fact highlighted in the chapter.
• 3Chinna loses his pocket money given by his grandfather Dadaji and is comforted by his mother Kamala.
• 4At the market the fruit seller accidentally gives Chinna ten rupees extra as change for two pineapples worth forty-five rupees each out of a hundred-rupee note.
• 5Chinna returns the extra money to the fruit seller, who calls him an honest boy and is very happy.

Chapter 3 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "Be Smart, Be Safe", is a road safety chapter written as a letter from the Traffic Police of Bharat to young students, sharing six practical rules for staying safe on roads. Topics include using the zebra crossing, following traffic lights, walking on footpaths, holding an adult's hand, using reflective stickers in the dark, and staying alert. Download the PDF and read a full summary and Q&A below.

• 1Chapter is written as a letter from the Traffic Police of Bharat addressed to Class 4 children
• 2Rule 1: Use the zebra crossing — look right, left, then right again before crossing
• 3Rule 2: Wait for the pedestrian signal to turn green; never run across the road
• 4Rule 3: Walk on footpaths, which are meant for pedestrians only
• 5Rule 4: Hold an adult's hand while walking near or crossing the road

Chapter 4 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "One Thing at a Time", presents a motivational poem that teaches children the value of focus, effort, and not wasting time — with follow-up activities covering comprehension, vocabulary, grammar (is/are + action words), a silent-letter listening exercise, daily-routine writing, and fun riddles. Download the PDF and read a summary and Q&A below.

• 1The chapter is built around the poem 'One Thing at a Time' which has four stanzas and appears in Unit 2: My Beautiful World of the Santoor Grade 4 book.
• 2The poem's central rule is: do one thing at a time, and do it well — things done by halves are never done right.
• 3Rhyming words in the poem include work/work, play/day, might/right, and well/tell.
• 4Vocabulary words taught: might (strength or power), useful (helpful or beneficial), moments (short periods of time).
• 5Grammar focus: present-continuous tense using the structure Who + is/are + action word + -ing, practised through a picture-description activity.

Chapter 5 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "The Old Stag", is a short story adapted from the Panchatantra about a kind old stag who falls ill on his hillock and whose visiting friends greedily eat up the tender grass he needs to recover — until they feel ashamed, stop, and bring him fresh leaves, letting rain restore the hillock. Download the PDF to read the full story, summary, and Q&A activities.

• 1The Old Stag is adapted from the Panchatantra and appears in Class 4 English Santoor, Chapter 5.
• 2The stag lives on a hillock with tender green grass and is loved for his kindness to all forest animals.
• 3When the stag falls ill, visiting animals eat the tender grass he needs to recover, causing him to grow weaker.
• 4The animals feel ashamed, stop eating the grass, and some bring fresh leaves for the stag.
• 5Rain helps the grass grow back, and the stag slowly recovers from his illness.

Chapter 6 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "Braille", tells the true story of Louis Braille, a French boy who lost his sight in a childhood accident and went on to invent the Braille alphabet — a system of raised dots that allows blind people to read through touch. The chapter also explains how Braille works, why Braille books are thicker than regular books, and includes activities on eye safety and past-tense grammar. Download the PDF and read the full summary and Q&A below.

• 1Louis Braille was born in France and lost his sight in a childhood accident at age three when a sharp tool pierced his eye.
• 2He was admitted to the Royal Institute for Young Blind Persons in Paris in 1819, at age ten.
• 3Captain Charles Barbier de la Serre invented 'Night Writing' — an alphabet of raised dots and dashes — for soldiers to communicate in the dark.
• 4Night Writing was too difficult and was not a success, but it inspired Louis Braille to create a simpler system.
• 5The Braille alphabet has one symbol for each of the 26 letters of the English alphabet, read through touch.

Chapter 7 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "Fit Body, Fit Mind, Fit Nation", is a cheerful poem about five children — Anant, Geeta, Lhamo, Shabana, and Meena — who each pursue a sport, a musical activity, or an art form with joy and determination. The chapter also teaches adjectives, rhyming words, and words with double letters. Download the PDF to read the poem, explore the summary, and practice the Q&A exercises.

• 1The poem features five named children: Anant (hockey), Geeta (skating), Lhamo (guitar/sitar), Shabana (cycle race), and Meena (singing)
• 2The chapter is part of Unit 3: Fun with Games in the Santoor Grade 4 English textbook (reprint 2026-27)
• 3Students learn that an adjective is a word that tells more about a noun, with examples from the poem
• 4Rhyming pairs in the poem: hockey–rocky, skates–mistakes, guitar–sitar, race–pace, joy–boy
• 5New vocabulary words introduced: mistakes, rhythm, proudly, cheerful, pace, swift

Chapter 8 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "The Lagori Champions", is a play-script story about a group of children from Sundarpur village who teach their visiting friend Prakash the rules of Lagori — a traditional game of seven stacked flat stones — and then go on to win a match against the rival Green Warriors team. Download the PDF to read the full dialogue and story, or browse a chapter summary and Q&A below.

• 1Lagori is a game of seven flat stones stacked one on top of the other, played between two teams using a ball.
• 2The game is known as Satoliya in Rajasthan — Prakash (from Rajasthan) recognises it by that name.
• 3The Sundarpur Tigers, captained by Deepa, defeat the Green Warriors from a nearby village.
• 4Imran is described as a champion of the game and explains the rules to Prakash.
• 5Deepa throws the first ball, knocking down the stones, and the Tigers begin rebuilding under pressure from the Green Warriors.

Chapter 9 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "Hekko", introduces students to a traditional folk game from the Mokokchung district of Nagaland, rooted in an ancient story of humans challenging a tiger. The chapter explains the game's rules, scoring, and special titles awarded to star players. Download the PDF and read a summary and Q&A below to prepare for class and comprehension exercises.

• 1'Hekko' means 'Challenging the tiger' — from the Nagaland words 'Hek' (challenge) and 'ko' (tiger).
• 2The game is played in the Mokokchung district of Nagaland and identifies the strongest people in the village.
• 3Each team has 11 players; the toss decides which team is called Aami (humans) and which is Aakho (tigers).
• 4Aami players form a human chain inside a circle; Aakho players enter two at a time to push them out.
• 5A caught Aakho player must say 'Joko' (surrender) before another Aakho player can enter the circle.

Chapter 10 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "The Swing", presents the classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson in which a child describes the joy of swinging high into the blue air and spotting rivers, trees, cattle, and the countryside beyond the wall. The chapter pairs the poem with grammar activities on words that function as both verbs and nouns, sentence-expansion exercises, preposition practice, and a tongue twister on the "W" sound. Download the PDF and read the full summary and Q&A below.

• 1Poem 'The Swing' is by Robert Louis Stevenson and is part of Unit 4 (Up High) in Santoor Grade 4
• 2The child in the poem sees rivers, trees, cattle, and the countryside when the swing goes over the wall
• 3New vocabulary introduced: pleasantest, cattle, countryside
• 4Grammar focus: words that work as both a verb and a noun (swing, dance, play, answer, fly, waves)
• 5Writing activity: sentence expansion by adding phrases one at a time, using Jeevan and the bus as the model

Chapter 11 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "A Journey to the Magical Mountains", tells the story of Minam, a young girl who lives near the Himalayas and goes on a special trek with her grandfather, a former Sherpa. Together they spot yaks, build a snowman, see Mount Everest, and hear a Santoor being played on the way home. Download the PDF and explore the summary and Q&A below.

• 1Minam lives in a village at the foot of the Himalayas; her grandfather is a former Sherpa.
• 2She packs rotis with achaar, two water bottles, and apples for the trek.
• 3They stop for lunch by a clear river and Minam dips her feet in the cool water.
• 4Minam sees yaks for the first time; yaks provide milk, wool, and carry heavy loads.
• 5She builds a snowman with her grandfather on the snow-covered upper slopes.

Chapter 12 of the Class 4 English NCERT textbook (Santoor), "Maheshwar", is a dialogue-based lesson in which two children, Aarav and Ananya, learn about the historic Maheshwar Fort from their Chachi (paternal aunt). Set in Madhya Pradesh on the banks of the Narmada River, the chapter introduces Queen Ahilya Bai of the Holkar family, the fort's famous overhanging balconies, its red stones from Gujarat and Rajasthan, and the renowned Maheshwari sarees. Download the PDF and explore the chapter summary and Q&A below.

• 1Maheshwar Fort was built by Queen Ahilya Bai of the Holkar family on the banks of the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh.
• 2The fort is located about 95 kilometres from Indore and is also called Ahilya Fort.
• 3The fort is famous for its overhanging balconies that seem to float in the air.
• 4Special red stones from Gujarat and Rajasthan were used to build the fort.
• 5A 13-feet tall statue of Queen Ahilya Bai stands in front of the palace.