Going Places Class 2 English Chapter 5 PDF (NCERT Mridang)

This page offers the official Going Places Class 2 English Chapter 5 PDF from the NCERT Mridang book, built around the recitation poem “Come Back Soon”.

Below the download block, every activity in the chapter is explained in plain words — the poem, the new words, the speaking and listening tasks, the transport sorting and the vowel sound — so a parent or teacher can run the lesson at home without the book in hand.

The official NCERT chapter file is published free of charge, with no login, on the NCERT textbook portal — the download block below opens Chapter 5 of Mridang exactly as it appears in the printed Class 2 English book.

What is in the Going Places Class 2 chapter file

The table below shows the size and contents of the chapter file — how long it runs, what kinds of activities it holds, and where the teacher notes sit inside it.

How the chapter is organised: one poem and six activities

The chapter is built for oral practice first and written work second. A child chants the poem, talks with the class, listens to an action rhyme, draws a vehicle, sorts transport words, and only then meets the vowel sound — so each activity leads gently into the next.

1. Let us recite — the poem “Come Back Soon”, chanted aloud.
2. New words — six transport words drawn from the poem.
3. Let us speak — six questions about a journey the child has made.
4. Let us listen — the “Everybody stop” action rhyme.
5. Let us draw — draw the vehicle you like the most.
6. Make a List — sort fifteen vehicles by the surface they move on.
7. Vowel Sound ‘u’ — read nine picture words with the short u sound.

Three short notes to the teacher are tucked inside the activities — after Let us draw, after Make a List, and in the vowel section. Each one tells the adult helper what to accept and what to explain; all three are unpacked in plain words below.

The poem “Come Back Soon”: rhyme, rhythm and sight words

The poem is the engine of the chapter: it supplies the transport vocabulary, the rhyming sounds and the reading practice all at once. It names seven ways to travel — bus, train, boat, plane, taxi, car, rocket — and ends with the closing couplet, “But be sure / To come back soon.”

The poem is built on three rhyming pairs:

• train and plane rhyme, and both are long-distance vehicles;
• car and far rhyme, and together they say a journey can be near or far;
• moon and soon rhyme in the last lines, tying the rocket trip to the promise to return.

Every verse opens with the same pattern — “Take a…” — Take a bus, Take a train, Take a taxi, Take a car, Take a rocket. The repetition gives the poem a steady beat, so a child who misses one word can still join the next line.

At home, tap or clap on the rhyming word at the end of each pair. The child hears the rhyme before they can read it, and clapping locks the sound in.

The chapter also lists sight words — common little words a reader should recognise at a glance: take, or, the, to, maybe. They appear again and again in the poem, so chanting the poem is also practising them.

New words: the transport vocabulary in Going Places

These six words carry the chapter. Each one is read, spoken and then reused in the sorting activity, so a child who knows these six can do most of the rest of the chapter.

After reading the table, go back to the poem and find each word in its own line — Take a boat / Or take a plane. Finding a known word inside a chant is how sight recognition builds, and it takes less than a minute.

Let us speak, listen and draw: the oral activities

These three blocks turn the poem into conversation, movement and a picture. Nothing here needs writing — it is all talk, listening and drawing, which is exactly what a Class 2 child can do before handwriting catches up.

Let us speak asks six questions about a journey. The questions are fixed, but the answers are the child’s own — here is a model answer for each that a child can adapt:

• Have you ever travelled by a bus or a train? “Yes, I went by train to my grandmother’s village.” A child who has never travelled can answer, “No, but I have seen a bus on the road.”
• Where did you go? “I went to my grandmother’s house in the village.”
• What did you eat on the way? “I ate a sandwich and an apple.”
• What did you see from the window? “I saw fields, trees and small houses.”
• Who else went with you? “My mother and my little sister came with me.”
• Did you have fun? Share it with the class. “Yes, I had fun. I played word games and watched the clouds.”

Let us listen is the action rhyme “Everybody stop”. It is built on six action words — stop, stand, sit, raise, jump, run — and everyone does the action as they say the word: stop still, stand up, sit down, raise a hand, jump, run, and then stop again.

Do it standing; a seated recitation loses the point of the rhyme.

Let us draw asks the child to draw the vehicle they like the most. The note to the teacher is deliberately open: accept any vehicle, real or imaginary, with wheels or with wings. A flying car or a rocket-bus is a correct answer here, because the point is to name the vehicle and talk about it, not to draw neatly.

Make a List: sorting transport into land, air and water

This is the chapter’s sorting activity: fifteen transport words, three surfaces. The book has already placed bus in the Land column as a worked example, so the child sorts the rest. Let the child try first and use the table below to check, not to copy.

The book’s note to the teacher warns that some words may be unfamiliar — yacht, raft and tractor are often the unfamiliar ones. Describe the vehicle before sorting: a yacht is a large boat used for pleasure, a raft is a flat platform that floats, and a tractor is a farm vehicle that works in the fields.

The pictures in this chapter and how to talk about them

The chapter is picture-led: a child who cannot yet read the poem can still name every vehicle from its picture. The artwork is not reproduced on this page, so here is how to talk about it from the book.

Beside the poem, point at each vehicle and ask “What is this?”, then find its name in the poem line. Matching picture, word and sound is the whole method of the chapter, and it is the same method the drawing activity uses — the child pictures a vehicle first, then draws it.

The vowel section uses three rows of pictures, each with the word beneath it. Row 1 shows an umbrella, a truck and a duck; row 2 shows a jug, a mug and a cup; row 3 shows a bus, a rug and a hut. Each row works the same way: look at the picture, say the word, listen for the sound.

In row 1 the words also change what comes before them — an umbrella, a truck, a duck — which is why the chapter asks the child to read the whole phrase, not just the noun.

Vowel sound ‘u’: words like hut, bus and duck

The phonics section teaches one sound, not the letter: the vowel sound ‘u’ as in ‘hut’. It is the short u you hear in the middle of hut, bus and duck — not the letter’s name, which sounds like “you”. All nine picture words carry this sound, though the spelling changes around it:

Reading all nine aloud — um-brel-la, truck, duck, jug, mug, cup, bus, rug, hut — trains the ear for the sound before the child meets longer words that use it.

The section also makes one small grammar point. The table says “an umbrella” but “a truck”, and the reason is the sound at the start of the word: “an” comes before a vowel sound, and umbrella begins with the vowel sound u, while truck, duck and bus begin with consonant sounds.

Say both aloud and the choice explains itself — “a umbrella” is awkward to say, “an umbrella” flows.

Where children stumble in Going Places

Three small confusions come up again and again with this chapter. Each one is easy to fix once you know it is coming.

How the chapter is used in class

Every activity in Going Places builds one of four skills: listening and speaking fluency, transport vocabulary, sorting by category, and reading words with the short u sound. There are no marks attached in the book — the activities are practice, not a test.

• The recitation and the action rhyme build listening and speaking fluency.
• The six new words build transport vocabulary, which the sorting activity reuses.
• Make a List builds sorting by category — land, air and water.
• Vowel Sound ‘u’ builds reading of nine words with the short u sound.

After the chapter, a child should be able to chant “Come Back Soon” aloud with the rhyming words in place, name all six new words, sort the fifteen vehicles by surface, and read the nine ‘u’ words fluently without sounding each letter out.

Practise at home with the clapping game and the sorting table above.

Textbook contents and the examinable syllabus are not always identical — check the current official CBSE syllabus for how this chapter is examined in your school.

Going Places in brief

• The chapter opens with the recitation poem “Come Back Soon”, which names seven ways to travel — bus, train, boat, plane, taxi, car, rocket — and closes with the couplet “But be sure / To come back soon.”
• Its three rhyming pairs — train and plane, car and far, moon and soon — and the repeated “Take a…” pattern make the poem easy to chant.
• Six new words are taught: train, boat, plane, taxi, near and rocket.
• Make a List sorts fifteen vehicles into land (nine), air (two) and water (four), with bus given as the worked example.
• Vowel Sound ‘u’ practises the short u of hut across nine picture words — umbrella, truck, duck, jug, mug, cup, bus, rug, hut — with “an umbrella” but “a truck”.

Related NCERT English resources

This listing is maintained for the 2026-27 academic session using the NCERT textbook information available to us. NCERT remains the authority for confirming the latest edition.

Going Places is one chapter of the NCERT Mridang Class 2 English book. The whole Mridang Class 2 English book page lists its chapters, and the Class 2 hub holds the full set of NCERT Class 2 textbooks.

For help across the school year, the CBSE notes index and the Class 2 notes hub carry resources for the Class 2 subjects covered on this site, including the Class 2 English notes. Notes for the other Mridang chapters — Seeing Without Seeing and Between Home and School — are waiting for when you reach them.

All NCERT files are published free of charge on the official NCERT textbook portal.

Reference: NCERT Class 2 English textbook (Mridang), chapter 5, official edition on ncert.nic.in.

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• This page covers only Chapter 5, Going Places, from that book — not other chapters and not other subjects.
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Frequently asked questions

Where is the official Going Places Class 2 English chapter PDF?

It is in the download block near the top of this page — the official NCERT file, free and without login. The whole Mridang Class 2 English book is also published on the NCERT textbook portal at ncert.nic.in.

What is the poem in the Going Places chapter called?

The poem is called “Come Back Soon”. It is a recitation poem that lists seven ways to travel — bus, train, boat, plane, taxi, car, rocket — and ends with the promise “But be sure / To come back soon.”

What are the new words in Going Places Class 2 English?

The six new words are train, boat, plane, taxi, near and rocket.

How do the vehicles sort into land, air and water in the Make a List activity?

Land: bus, car, train, jeep, bicycle, truck, cart, taxi, tractor. Air: aeroplane, helicopter. Water: ship, boat, yacht, raft. The book has already placed bus in the Land column as the worked example.

Which words have the vowel sound ‘u’ as in hut?

The nine picture words — umbrella, truck, duck, jug, mug, cup, bus, rug and hut — all carry the short u sound.

Why does the chapter say ‘an umbrella’ but ‘a truck’?

Because “an” is used before a word that begins with a vowel sound. Umbrella begins with the vowel sound u, while truck begins with the consonant sound t, so the article changes.