Download What a Tank! – NCERT Class 5 English Chapter 6 PDF from the new NCERT Class 5 English book Santoor (2026-27). Read the chapter online or download the free PDF. What a Tank! is a short prose piece about storing water. People in India have done this for hundreds of years.
What a Tank! PDF – Chapter 6 of Santoor
Read the chapter online or download the PDF.
| Chapter | Download | |
|---|---|---|
| Chapter 6 PDF | What a Tank! | View PDF |
| Full book | NCERT Class 5 English – Santoor | View Book |
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What Is in What a Tank!? (Class 5 English Chapter 6)
- What a Tank! is a short prose piece about storing water. People in India have done this for hundreds of years.
- Old ways are still used: Ooranis in Tamil Nadu, Panam Keni wells in Kerala and Tankas in Rajasthan’s Thar region.
- Most homes today keep an overhead water tank on the roof. In the villages of Punjab, these cement tanks are shaped like a football, a rooster, a tractor or even an aeroplane, and each shape tells us about the family.
- Let us Listen has A Day without Water: a day with no water teaches Suma how precious water is.
- Language work: contractions, exclamatory sentences and animal families; talking about saving water; a poster; words ending in er, or and at.
Quick revision – What a Tank!
| Text | Type | Key idea |
|---|---|---|
| What a Tank! | Prose | India has always stored water; in Punjab’s villages, rooftop tanks are shaped like footballs, roosters and tractors. |
| A Day without Water | Story (Let us Listen) | A day with no water teaches Suma how precious water is. |
Old NCERT vs New – Class 5 English
This chapter is from Santoor, the new NCERT Class 5 English book (NCF-SE 2023, used from 2025-26). It replaced the old book “Marigold”, so chapter numbers and names differ from older PDFs.
Solutions and All Chapters
Answers to the exercises and the full chapter list of Santoor:
What a Tank! – Overview
| Class | Class 5 |
| Subject | English |
| Book | Santoor – new NCERT book |
| Chapter | 6 of 10 – What a Tank! |
| Book pages | 65 – 78 |
| Edition | NCERT Reprint 2026-27 |
| Session | 2026-27 |
| Free – read online or download |
Class 5 English Chapter 6 – FAQs
Where can I download What a Tank! Class 5 PDF?
From the download table on this page – the chapter PDF is free, and the full book is linked too.
What is Class 5 English Chapter 6 about?
What a Tank! is a short prose piece about storing water. People in India have done this for hundreds of years.
Is What a Tank! from the new NCERT Class 5 English book?
Yes. It is chapter 6 of santoor, the new NCERT Class 5 English book for 2026-27.
Is this the latest NCERT edition for 2026-27?
Yes – the PDF is NCERT’s latest edition for the 2026-27 session.
Where are the NCERT Solutions for Class 5 English Chapter 6?
Open the NCERT Solutions link above for answers to the exercise questions.