Class 6 English Unit 4
(1) Answer the following question:-
(1) What kind of a town was Vishnupur?
Answer:- Vishnupur was a small, quit town surrounded by green hills and some ancient ruins.
(2) What did Seema find? Where was the secret passage?
Answer:- (i) Seema find a piece of paper on which help was written.
(ii) The secret passage was in Meeena Bazar.
(3) How did the children know that someone was in trouble?
Answer:- The children know that someone was in trouble from a letter in which ‘HELP’ was written.
(4) What do you think is the turning point in the story? Give reason?
Answer:- (1) Yes, there is the turning point in the story
(2) The children freed the man from the smuggler was a police officer.
(5) What would have happened if the police had not arrived on time?
Answer:- If the police had not arrived on time the police officer would be killed by the smugglers.
(7) “When in dangers, i can observe, assess, and then act/aware help”. Do you think the children were aware of this safety tip?
Answer:- No, i don’t think so that children aware of safety tip. But before the trip children must be aware from safety tips by the teacher.
(II) Write whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE. Correct the table statements.
(2) The man advised the children not to call the police.
Answer:- False. The man advised the children to call the police.
(3) Seema and Arun rescued the man from danger.
Answer:- True.
(4) The children ran back to their grandparent’s house with the man.
Answer:- True.
(5) The children are not brave.
Answer:- False. The children are brave.
(III) Tick the correct answer for the following questions.
(1) Seema and Arun went to Vishnupur on –
(a) A study tour
(b) A vacation
(c) An adventure
Answer:- (b) a vacation.
(2) At the entrance to the save, Seema found…….
(a) Arun
(b) A piece of paper
(c) A man
Answer:- (b) A piece of paper.
(3) The man Seema and Arun helped was –
(a) Their uncle
(b) A smuggler
(c) A police officer
Answer:- (c) A police officer.
Match the group nouns in column A with what they refer to in Column B
| A | B | |
| Mob | 5 | (1) A number of players |
| Board | 7 | (2) A number of people listening to a concert of lecture |
| Troupe | 9 | (3) a number of judge |
| Army | 8 | (4) People collected without any specific purpose |
| Bench | 3 | (5) Some people gathered for destructive purpose |
| Crowd | 4 | (6) A number of people watching a match or something of a company |
| Audience | 2 | (7) A number of directors of a company |
| Team | 1 | (8) A number of soldiers |
| Spectators | 6 | (9) A number of artists, dancers, acrobats |
(II) Supply the noun forms of the verbs underlined in the following sentences. The first one has been done for you.
(1) I don’t know what you are thinking about
Answer:- I Don’t know what your thoughts are.
(2) I saw an old man who was begging in the street
Answer:- I Sam an old man beggar in the street.
(3) It is not possible to succeed without hard work.
Answer:- Success without hard work is not possible.
(4) You are not allowed to enter the theatre without a ticket.
Answer:- Without a ticket your entrance into the theatre is not allowed.
(5) I have corrected all your homework.
Answer:- I have made all correction in your homework.
* Now change the following into indirect speech/reported speech.
(1) “Siddhu is my daughter”, said Ramakrishna reddy.
Answer:- Ramakrishna reddy said that Sindhu is my daughter.
(2) ‘I’ll catch in a minuted, “reply Seema.
Answer:- Seema replied that she would catch him in a minute.
(3) “Shyam has eaten my chocolate, “says Arun.
Answer:- Arun says that Shyam ate his chocolate.
(5) Seema will say, “It is a wonderful adventure!”
Answer:- Seema will say that it is a wonderful adventure!
Editing
Read the following passage. There is an error in each sentence. Identify and edit it.
One day a group hunter trapped the lion. The poor lion roared to help. The mouse heard the caries and come there. It cut the net with its sharp teeths. The lion came out but they became good friends.
Answer:- One day a group of hunters trapped the lion. The poor lion roared for help. The mouse heard the cries and came there. It cut the net with its sharp teeth. The lion came out and they became good friends.
Writing
(1) If you are Seema, how would you narrate your adventure to your classmates? Write a paragraph about adventure.
Answer:- Friends did you know how much adventure we done on vacation. We went to Vishnupur for vacation. We just loved Vishnupur. Once we playing hide and seek near cave. While playing, i found a crumpled paper in that help was written. We came to know someone in trouble. Then we ran toward secret passage where we found a man who was tied up. We rescue him and ran toward the home. We asked that man about their condition. But he wanted to call the police for catch the culprit friend did you know who was that man, the man was a police officer. We rescued a police officer from trouble. In this way our vacation was so adventures.
Reading (Poem) The Naught Boy
(1) Answer the following questions:-
(1) In the above poem ‘as hard (as)’ is a smile. Pick out other similes from the poem.
Answer:- (i) ‘As hard (as)’
(ii) ‘As long (as)’
(iii) ‘As merry (as)’
(iv) ‘As red (as)’
(v) ‘As weighty (as)’
(vi) ‘As wooden (as)’
(2) Find out the rhyming word from the poem. One is done for you.
Answer:- (i) Found-ground
(ii) Hard-yard
(iii) Long-song
(iv) Merry-cherry
(v) Weighty-eighty
(3) Why is the boy called naughty?
Answer:- The boy is called naughty because he run to Scotland.
(4) What did he find out in Scotland?
Answer:- He found that ground was as hard as a you.
(5) What did the boy wonder about?
Answer:- The boy wonder about the wooden door was as same as in England. And cherry was as red as in England.
(6) What do you like about the boy?
Answer:- The boy was so innocent that he went to Scotland finding different things.
(7) What do you understand by “he stood in his shoes?
Answer:- ‘He stood in his shoes” mean standing at the place of other for better perspection of things.
(8) Which line are repeated? Why? What was it effect on the poem?
Answer:- (1) He wonder this line are repeated. Because it was not that what he thought.
(2) Repetition of line gave rhyme effect on the poem.
(9) What was the boy’s opinion about Scotland before and after visiting it?
Answer:- (1) The boy’s opinion about Scotland was it has different from the England.
(2) Ground, yard, cherry and door would be unique in Scotland.
(3) After visiting he saw all things was similar as in England.
(10) What do you about countries or place you never been to? Which things there do you expect to be different? Talk about then in your group.
Reading Tanaji Malusare
Answer the following question
(1) How did Shivaji feel when he saw the dead body of his dear friend, ‘Tanaji’?
Answer:- Shivaji felt shocked when he saw the dead body of his dear friend, ‘Tanaji’.
(2) Describe Tanaji’s adventure in gaining sinhagad fort?
Answer:- (i) Tanaji set out at night and marched toward the fortress with his men and he reached on a moonless night in February 1670.
(ii) For climbiny the wall Tanaji used Ghorpad or lizard.
(iii) It was terrified and scaled the hill top which helped the Marathas to go up the cliff.
(iii) Despite Tanaji’s many soldiers at the bottom of fort. Then also had challenge the enemy.
(iv) At the starting of fight, Tanaji lost many men.
(v) Tanaji sang to kept the spirits of his soldier high.
(vi) The vigorous fight made him weak completely.
(vii) Hence, Tanaji died after a long battle.