NCERT Solutions for Class 3 English Chapter 17 - Don’t Tell

Question 1:

How old is the speaker ?

Answer:

The speaker is a little child of five or six.

Question 2:

Who are ‘they’ and ‘them’ in the poem ?

Answer:

They are the parents of the child.

Question 3:

What is the secret the speaker is hiding ?

Answer:

It is that he is a giant inside.

Question 4:

Think of three things that ‘they’ won’t let you do.

Answer:

1. They won’t let me drive a car.
2. They won’t let me whitewash/ paint my room.
3. They won’t let me dig in the garden.

Question 5:

What are the things you’d like to do when you are grown-up that you can’t do now ?

Answer:

1. I would like to drive a car.
2. I would like to paint my room.
3. I would like to dig in the garden.