Class 6 English Unit 8
(I) choose the correct option to answer each of the following, write the letters a, b, c or d in the bracket provided.
(1) What did the fisherman want for his daughter’s marriage?
(a) Time
(b) Money
(c) Clothes
(d) Jewellery
Answer: (b) Money.
(2) What advice did the fisherman’s friends give him?
(a) To see the Raja
(b) To see the queen
(c) To see the bank manager
(d) To see the money lender
Answer: (a) To see the Raja.
(3) What did the fisherman want to take with him?
(a) His daughter
(b) A gift
(c) His wife
(d) His friends
Answer: (b) A gift.
(4) Who stopped the fisherman at the palace?
(a) The guard
(b) The soldier
(c) The gatekeeper
(d) The queen’s attendant
Answer: (c) The gatekeeper.
(5) Why did the gatekeeper stop the fisherman?
(a) To get something from the fisherman
(b) His duty was not to allow anyone
(c) Fisherman was his enemy
(d) Fisherman were not allowed
Answer: (a) To get something from the fisherman.
(6) The gatekeeper asked the fisherman to give him half the reward because –
(a) He was greedy
(b) He was poor
(c) He loved money
(d) He wanted to become rich
Answer: (a) He was greedy.
(7) “Stay for the dinner and enjoy it with us”. Why did speaker say so?
(a) To honour the guest
(b) To show his hospitality
(c) To show his royalty
(d) To show humanity
Answer: (a) To honour the guest.
(8) “Everybody in the palace must enjoy my gift”. What does this show us of the speaker?
(a) Generosity
(b) Ambition
(c) Wisdom
(d) Selfishness
Answer: (d) Selfishness.
(II) Answer the following question:
(1) What are the characters in the story?
Answer: Fisherman, gatekeeper and Raja are the characters in the story.
(2) The fisherman’s gift to the Raja was a big fish. Why was it not something else?
Answer: The fisherman’s gift to the Raja was a big fish because he wanted to impressed the Raja.
(3) What is your opinion about the gatekeeper?
Answer: The gatekeeper was greedy and want to make a fool of fisherman for money.
(4) If you were the gatekeeper, would you let the fisherman into the palace?
Answer: Yes, I would let the fisherman into the palace because every people have permission to meet the Raja.
(5) Why did the fisherman ask for 200 lashes on his back?
Answer: The fisherman asked for 200 lasher on his back because he wanted to teach a lesson to greedy gatekeeper.
(6) What gift would you ask the king, if you were the fisherman?
Answer: If I was the fisherman, I would ask for gold coin from that coin daughter marriage and remaining once for the rest of my life.
(7) Why did the king want to dismiss the gatekeeper?
Answer: The king want to dismiss the gatekeeper because he was trying to cheat the fisherman and he was a bad servant.
(8) The king was happy with the fisherman and angry with the gatekeeper at the same time. Why was this so?
Answer: The fisherman was wise and clever man where the gatekeeper was a greedy and bad person that’s why the king was happy with the fisherman and angry the gatekeeper.
(9) If the Raja did not help the fisherman, what would be the end of the story?
Answer: The Raja was only hope of the fisherman if the Raja is not help the fisherman, the end of the story would be disappointing.
(III) Rearrange the word in each sentence to make sensible sentences. Then arrange them in the order of occurrence in the story. Make a good paragraph with these sentences using appropriate joining words like, ‘but’, ‘however’, ‘then’, ‘after that’, ‘finally’, etc.
(1) Went to the king’s/palace with a gift/the fisherman.
Answer: The fisherman went to the king palace with a gift.
(2) Did not have enough money/ for his daughter’s marriage/the fisherman.
Answer: The fisherman did not have enough money for his daughter’s marriage.
(3) Stopped/the gatekeeper/him.
Answer: The gatekeeper stopped him.
(4) Two hundred lashes/fisherman asked/the Raja to give him.
Answer: The fisherman asked the Raja to give him two hundred lashes.
(5) Promise to get/the Raja/the fisherman’s daughter married.
Answer: The Raja promise to get fisherman’s daughter married.
(6) On condition/the gatekeeper/allowed/the fisherman/that he would get half the price.
Answer: The gatekeeper allowed the fisherman on condition that he would get half the price.
(7) At the strange of the fisherman/the Raja was surprised/and knew about the bad gatekeeper.
Answer: The Raja was surprised at the strange request of the fisherman and knew about the bad gatekeeper.
(8) From the service/the Raja gave/ to the gatekeeper and dismissed him/ two hundred lashes.
Answer: The Raja gave two hundred lashes to the gatekeeper and dismissed him from the service.
= The fisherman did not have enough money for his daughter marriage. He went to the king palace with a gift. But the gatekeeper stopped him. However the gatekeeper allowed the fisherman on condition that he would get the half price. After that the fisherman asked the Raja was surprised at the strange request of the fisherman and knew about the bad gatekeeper. Finally the Raja gave two hundred lashes to the gatekeeper and dismissed him from the service. After that the Raja promised to get the fisherman’s daughter married.
(II) Read the following carefully. You find certain word have been left out. Fill in the blanks with words opposite in meaning of those underlined.
The king liked the fisherman but disliked the gatekeeper. The bad servant was punished and the fisherman was rewarded. Thus, the wise fisherman taught a lesson to the foolish gatekeeper with his wisdom.
Add suffixes to the root words and form new words. Use the new words in sentences of your own.
| Word | Suffix | New word |
| Sweet | Sweetness | |
| Truth | Truthful | |
| Require | Ful | Requirement |
| High | Highness | |
| Move | Movement | |
| Kind | Ment | Kindness |
| Clever | Cleverness | |
| Faith | Faithful | |
| Though | Ness | Thoughtful |
| Doubt | Doubtful | |
| Calm | Calmness | |
| Use | Useful | |
| Pay | Payment |
(1) The sweetness of that person impressed everyone.
(2) As I try to be truthful, I expect everyone else to be truthful.
(3) Oxygen is our requirement.
(4) Highness should be loyal to their people.
(5) Her movements were heavy and awkward.
(6) I have shown you what kindness I possess.
(7) My cleverness is unapproachable.
(8) I thank you all for your hard and faithful.
(9) Seema looked at me with a thoughtful expression.
(10) He was doubtful about accepting extra work.
(11) Beauty is wisdom and calmness.
(12) Her advice was very useful to me.
(13) Online payment are fast method.
Formulate the rules governing the changes/no changes in the spelling of the present participle for the following base forms of verbs:
| (1) Ask+ing = Asking | (9) Beg+ing = Begging |
| (2) Sit+ing = Sitting | (10) Write+ing = Writing |
| (3) Move+ing = Moving | (11) Skip+ing = Skipping |
| (4) Read+ing = Reading | (12) Close+ing = Closing |
| (5) Fight+ing = Fighting | (13) Walk+ing = Walking |
| (6) Give+ing = Giving | (14) Travel+ing = Trave |
| (7) Shake+ing = Shaking | (15) Advise+ing = Advising |
| (8) Dance+ing = Dancing | (16) Sing+ing = Singing |
Now write answers to the following questions:
(1) What time does Rajesh get up?
Answer: Rajesh get up at 5 ‘o’ Clock.
(2) What does Rajesh do between 6:00 and 7:30 a.m.?
Answer: Rajesh do his homework from 6:00 to 7:30 a.m.
(3) How does Rajesh reach his school?
Answer: Rajesh reach his school from school bus.
(4) When does Rajesh take his breakfast?
Answer: Rajesh take his breakfast at 7:30 a.m.
(III) The present continuous Tense
Complete the following sentences using the present continuous forms.
(1) The old man is silence. He is pondering on what advice he has to give to the soldier. (Ponder)
(2) He has not done his homework. He is doing it now. (Do)
(3) My shirt is dirty. I am washing it.
(4) You must carry your umbrella. It is raining heavily. (Rain)
(5) Don’t disturb her. She is Studing very seriously. (Study)
Read the following paragraph and make questions using appropriate wh-words the first one is done for you.
Dileep and Sindhu are in the class. Sindhu is sitting in the front row. Chandu is reading English but Sindhu is doing exercise. Rajani is sitting in the second row. She is sharpening her pencil carefully. The English teacher is writing on the blackboard. The children in the front bench are taking down the notes. The children in the back bench are murmuring. Sunita is going out to drink water.
E.g:- Where are Dileep and Sindhu?
(i) What is Chanda doing?
(ii) Where is English teacher writing?
(iii) What does front bench children doing?
(iv) Who are murmuring?
(v) Why Sunita is going out?
Editing, Reading the following passage. There is an error in each sentence. Identify and edit it.
| Notice Board
>Does not wash your hands in plates. >Please paying the bill before you leave. >Saw the menu card before you order. >Be patient till the food are served. >Food from outside is no allowed here. – The house keeper Madina eating house |
| Notice Board
>Do not wash your hands in plates. >Please pay the bill before you leave. >Saw the menu card before you ordered. >Be patient till the food is served. >Food from outside is not allowed here. – The house keeper Madina Eating House |
Editing:
Study the following passage carefully use capital letters wherever necessary.
Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He was not only a great poet, an artist but also a musician and a reformer. He was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize.
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He was not only a great poet, an artist but also a musician and a reformer. He was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize.
(1) Write a letter to your friend describing a place that you have visited recently.
Nagpur 20 March, 2021.
Dear Shobha,
I am happy to writing this letter to you for describing my recent trip. Missing you a lot in my that trip. We went to the Mahabaleshwar. A beautiful place for tour.
There is so many place to visit in Mahabalesh. It is a very beautiful hill station which mesmerize us. I refer you to must visit that place. For sure you will have great fun.
Your lovingly Sunita.
Address on the Envelope:
To, Shobha
No. 10-21
S.P. Road, Pune
Pin code: 662501
(1) Listen the story ‘The clever Ramalinga’ and answer the following questions: choose the right option by writing ‘a’ or ‘b’ or ‘c’ or‘d’ in the brackets provided.
(1) Ramalinga’s wife had a lot of things. What were they?
(a) Sarees
(b) Jewels
(c) Books
(d) Sweets
Answer: (b) Jewels.
(2) Where did Ramalinga’s wife put the Jewels at night?
(a) In a box
(b) In an iron safe
(c) In a purse
(d) Under the pillow
Answer: (a) In a box.
(3) Who wateral the plants?
(a) Ramalinga’s wife
(b) The thieves
(c) Ramalinga himself
(d) The servants
Answer: (d) The servants.
(II) Listen to the story again. Say whether the following statement are True or False.
(1) Ramalinga dropped the box of Jewels into the well.
Answer: (False).
(2) The servants began to draw the water out of the well.
Answer: (True).
(3) The servants come again on the next day.
Answer: (True).
(4) Ramalinga was angry with the servants.
Answer: (False).
(5) The servants lost their jobs.
Answer: (True).
The Sheik’s White Donkey
Answer the following questions:
(1) Can you suggest any other suitable title to the story?
Answer: The sheik’s wisdom is the other suitable title for the story.
(2) How did the sheik find out the thief?
Answer: The sheik find out the thief by smelling the palm of his men, as he poured his donkey tail in mint water so the tail smelled like mint. Except the thief, the rest of man palm smelled like mint.
(3) Do you think the donkey was clever animal? How can you
Say?
Answer: (i) No, I don’t think the donkey was a clever animal.
(ii) Donkey did not catch the thief, the cleverness of sheik found the thief. That’s why the donkey was not a clever animal.
(4) The sheik treated his donkey as a friend and an equal. What does this tell us about the sheik?
Answer: The sheik treated his donkey as a friend and an equal this tell us that sheik was a kind and humble person. He love animals.