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NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English

The Wonderful Words NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Honeysuckle Poem 6

The Wonderful Words NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

The Wonderful Words Working with the poem

Question 1.
With your partner, complete the following sentences in your own words using the ideas in the poem.

• Do not let a thought shrivel and die because everyone wants to hear something fresh and lovely.
• English is a wonderful game with words that everyone can play.
• One has to match the words.
• Words are the food and dress of thought.

Question 2.
In groups of four discuss the following lines and their meanings.

i. All that you do is match the words
To the brightest thoughts in your head
Answer:
This means that we have to find the words that will express our thoughts in the most powerful and effective way.

ii. For many of the loveliest things
Have never yet been said
Answer:
There are so many great thoughts that we need to hear. They are yet to be articulated.

iii. And everyone s longing today to hear
Some fresh and beautiful thing
Answer:
This means that everyone has a desire to learn something new and hear fresh thoughts.

iv. But only words can free a thought
From its prison behind your eyes
Answer:
This means that words become the vehicle of expressing our thoughts. Only they can convert our thoughts into something that can be

NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English

A Strange Wrestling Match NCERT Solutions for Class 6 A Pact with the Sun Chapter 10

A Strange Wrestling Match NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

Part I questions

Question 1.
What was Vijay Singh’s weakness? Which awkward situation did it push him into?
Answer:
Vijay Singh’s weakness was that he was boastful. He liked to brag about his strength. He said that if he met a ghost, he could easily beat him in a wrestling match.

Question 2.
Was the old woman s gift to Vijay Singh eccentric? Why?
Answer:
Yes, the old woman’s gift to Vijay Singh was eccentric because the packet contained nothing but a lump of salt and an egg. Vijay Singh had no idea how to use this gift in his encounter with the ghost.

Question 3.
Why did Vijay Singh ask the ghost disguised as Natwar to come closer?
Answer:
Vijay Singh asked the ghost disguised as Natwar to come closer because he wanted to size up his enemy.

Question 4.
What made the ghost speechless? Why?
Answer:
When Vijay Singh showed no sign of fear upon seeing the ghost and insulted him, the ghost was left speechless. Generally, people started back in horror upon seeing him. Vijay Singh’s reaction was unusual.

Question 5.
Why did Vijay Singh say “Appearances can be deceptive ’’?
Answer:
Vijay Singh said so when the ghost insulted him by saying that he did not seem strong enough to wrestle with a ghost. He also pointed out that there was no need to doubt his strength.

Part II questions

Question 1.
How did Vijay Singh use the egg? How did he use the lump of salt?
Answer:
Vijay Singh used the egg by hiding it in his hands and showing to the ghost that he could squeeze liquid even from a stone. He used the lump of salt to demonstrate to the ghost that he could crumble a stone and produce salt from it. In both cases, he tried to demonstrate his superhuman strength.

Question 2.
Why did Vijay Singh conclude that the ghost would not be a worthy opponent to him? Was he fair in his judgement?
Answer:
Vijay Singh concluded that the ghost would not be a worthy opponent to him because he could sense feelings of self-doubt in the ghost. No, he was not fair in his judgement as the ghost tried to defeat him by cheating.

Question 3.
Why did Vijay Singh ask the ghost to accompany him to town next day?
Answer:
Vijay Singh asked the ghost to accompany him to town next day so that he can show him off as a badge of his courage and bravery by defeating a ghost.

Question 4.
What made the ghost believe Vijay Singh was dead?
Answer:
After hitting what the ghost thought was Vijay Singh’s head, and not hearing any groans from him, he assumed that Vijay was dead.

Question 5.
Vijay Singh complained of insects in the cave. What was he referring to, and why?
Answer:
Vijay Singh was referring to the number of times the ghost hit him with his club. He did so to make the ghost believe that even after being hit so many times, he did not get affected because he was invincible.

Question 6.
Was it really a ghost who Vijay Singh befooled? Who do you think it was?
Answer:
It is quite possible that Vijay Singh befooled a thief, and not a ghost. Because the ghost left behind a lot of wealth and ghosts (if they do exist) do not need any wealth.

NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English

Dust of Snow NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 1

Dust of Snow NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

Dust of Snow Thinking about the Poem

Question 1.
What is a ‘dust of snow’? What does the poet say has changed his mood? How has the poet’s mood changed?
Answer:
Dust of snow is ‘flakes’. The flakes of snow were dropped by the crow which changed the poet’s mood. Throughout the day he had been repenting for some loss.

Question 2.
How does Frost present Nature in this poem? The following questions may help you to think of an answer.
(i) What are the birds that are usually named in poems? Do you think a crow is often mentioned in poems? What images come to your mind when you think of a crow? ‘
(ii) Again, what is ‘a hemlock tree’? Why doesn’t the poet write about a more ‘beautiful’ tree such as a maple, or an oak, or a pine?
(iii) What do the ‘crow’ and ‘hemlock’ represent-joy or sorrow? What does the dust of snow that the crow shakes off a hemlock tree stand for?
Answer:
(i) The poet presents nature in the poem in a way that is not very appealing because he is not depicting the beauty or kindness in nature rather he has chosen a bird like a crow which is omnivorous and crooked.
(ii) The crow and hemlock do not represent the joyous state of mind because the poisonous tree makes one feel scared.
(iii) The dust of snow represents the scandalous attitude of people who poison others’ lives by their wickedness.

Question 3.
Have there been times when you felt depressed or hopeless? Have you experienced a similar moment that changed your mood that day?
Answer:
Happiness and sorrow are the two sides of the same coin. Everybody feels happiness and sorrow in different measures. I too had my share of sorrow when I was not selected in the cricket team of my ‘ school. I never expected this moment to come in my life. But when my friend informed me that my gymnastic teacher had sent my name for state level competition, I was overjoyed to know about this good news.

Dust of Snow Extra Questions and Answers

Dust of Snow Reference-to-Context Questions

Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow:

Question 1.
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

(a) ‘Me’ in the above stanza refers to the poet
Answer:
Robert Frost

(b) The ongoing season is
Answer:
winter

(c) The poet seems to be talking about a snow-covered mountain top. (True/False)
Answer:
False

(d) The word in the stanza that means the same as ‘ice’ is
Answer:
snow

Question 2.
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

(a) The poet seems to be in a mood.
Answer:
sad/despairing

(b) The dust of snow falling on the poet seems to have ………..
Answer:
changed his mood

(c) The literacy device used in the line 1 is alliteration. (True/False)
Answer:
True

(d) The word in the stanza means same as ‘regret’.
Answer:
rued

Dust of Snow Long Answer Questions

Question 1.
‘Good things come in small packages’. How does the poem, ‘Dust of Snow’, illustrate this idea?
Answer:
In the poem, the falling of a dust of snow on the poet when a crow shook it off a hemlock tree ushers a profound reaction. It arouses feelings about the greatness of nature, illustrating that nature is the bedrock of human responses. Previously, the poet had treated his heart as a body organ but following this incident, he undergoes a change of mood, with the heart becoming the repository of this change.

He realizes that human beings are rooted to the earth and linked to even the ordinary things, like a crow, hemlock tree, or a drop of snow. The commonplace augurs happiness, thereby proving that good things are to be sought in small packages and seemingly inconsequential ways.

NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English

The Kite NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Honeysuckle Poem 2

The Kite NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

The Kite Working with the poem

Question 1.
List out the action words in the poem. Find out the meanings of these words.
soars; rides; climbs; wind it; flaps
Answer:
soars: flies high in the air
wind it: repeatedly twist or coil around something
flaps: moves up and down

Question 2.
The movement of the tailless kite is compared to a ship with a sail. This is called a simile. Can you suggest what or who the following actions may be compared to?

• He runs like the wind.
• He eats like a bird.
• She sings like a nightingale.
• It shines like a star.
• It flies like a kite.

NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English

When I Set Out for Lyonnesse NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem 7

When I Set Out for Lyonnesse NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

When I Set Out for Lyonnesse Working with the poem

Question 1.
i. Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was
a. improbable.
b. impossible.
c. unforeseeable.
Answer:
i. c. unforeseeable.

ii. Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify your answer. No prophet durst declare;
Nor did the wisest wizard guess

Question 2.
i. Read the line (stanza 3) that implies the following.

‘Everyone noticed something, and they made
guesses, but didn’t speak a word’.

All marked with mute surmise
My radiance rare and fathomless,

ii. Now read the line that refers to what they noticed,
When I returned from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes.

NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English

The Ashes that Made Trees Bloom NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 4

The Ashes that Made Trees Bloom NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

The Ashes that Made Trees Bloom Comprehension check-I

Question 1.
Why did the neighbours kill the dog?
Answer:
The neighbours killed the dog because the dog did not help them find any treasure. He only found a dead kitten under the pine tree, and this made them very mad. They killed the dog cruelly in a fit of anger.

Question 2.
Mark the right item.
i. The old farmer and his wife loved the dog

• because it helped them in their day-to-day work.
• as if it was their own baby.
• as they were kind to all living beings.
• as if it was their own baby.

ii. When the old couple became rich, they

• gave the dog better food.
• invited their greedy neighbours to a feast.
• lived comfortably and were generous towards their poor neighbours.
• lived comfortably and were generous towards their poor neighbours.

iii. The greedy couple borrowed the mill and the mortar to make

• rice pastry and bean sauce.
• magic ash to win rewards.
• a pile of gold.
• a pile of gold.

The Ashes that Made Trees Bloom Working with the text

Answer the following questions.

Question 1.
The old farmer is a kind person. What evidence of his kindness do you find in the first two paragraphs.
Answer:
The old farmer was very kind because he not only treated his dog as his own son, but also fed the birds that he encountered on his way home. He fed the dog with tidbits of fish from his own chopsticks, and all the boiled rice it wanted.He was patient and kind to everything that had life, and often gave food to the birds.

Question 2.
What did the dog do to lead the farmer to the hidden gold?
Answer:
The dog put his paws against the old man’s legs and motioned with his head to some spot behind. This is how he led the farmer to the hidden gold.

Question 3.
i. How did the spirit of the dog help the farmer first?
Answer:
The spirit of the dog helped the farmer by leading him to the pine tree under his grave. He asked him to make a mortar for rice pastry and mill for bean sauce from its wood. When the old man did as asked, all the food turned into a heap of gold. He became rich again.

ii. How did it help him next?
Answer:
Next, he asked the old man to take the ashes of the mill and sprinkle them on withered trees. When he did so, the withered tress blossomed again, and they were full of flowers. He spread the ashes on some withered trees when the daimios were passing why. The daimios were impressed and rewarded him with riches, and invited him to their castle.

Question 4.
Why did the daimio reward the farmer but punish his neighbour for the same act?
Answer:
The daimio rewarded the farmer because he converted a barren tree into one with full bloom. It was a sight full of wonder and awe for him.
The farmer, in trying to do the same thing, ended up throwing the ash on daimio and his wife. In this way, everybody with the daimio began to cough and sneeze. It spoiled the dignity and pomp of the procession. This is why the king punished the farmer.

The Ashes that Made Trees Bloom Working with language

Question 1.
Read the following paragraph and frame questions on the italicised phrases.
Answer:
Anil is in school. I am in school too. Anil is sitting in the left row. He is reading a book. Anil’s friend is sitting in the second row. He is sharpening his pencil. The teacher is writing on the blackboard. Children are writing in their copybooks. Some children are looking out of the window.

• Where is Anil?
• Where is Anil sitting?
• What is he doing?
• Where is Anil’s friend sitting?
• What is Anil’s friend doing?
• Who is writing on the blackboard?
• What are some of the children looking at?

Question 2.
Write appropriate question words in the blank spaces in the following dialogue.
Solved
Neha : When did you get this book?
Sheela : Yesterday morning.
Neha : Why is your sister crying?
Sheela : Because she has lost her doll.
Neha : Whose room is this, yours or hers?
Sheela : It’s ours.
Neha : How do you go to school?
Sheela : We walk to school. It is nearby.

Question 3.
Fill in the blanks with the words given in the box.
how, what,when,where,where
Solved

1. My friend lost his chemistry book. Now he doesn’t know what to do and where to look for it.
2. There are so many toys in the shops. Neena can’t decide which one to buy.
3. You don’t know the way to my school. Ask the policeman how to get there.
4. You should decide soon when to start building your house.
5. Do you know how to ride a bicycle? I don’t remember how and when I learnt it.
6. “You should know to talk how and when to keep your mouth shut, ” the teacher advised Anil.

Question 4.
Add im- or in- to each of the following words and use them in place of the italicised words in the sentences given below.

i. The project appears very difficult at first sight but it can be completed if we work very hard.
The project appears impossible at first sight but it can be completed if we work very hard.

ii. He lacks competence. That’s why he can’t keep any job for more than a year.
He is incompetent. That’s why he can’t keep any job for more than a year.

iii. “Don’t lose patience. Your letter will come one day,” the postman told me.
“Don’t be impatient. Your letter will come one day,” the postman told me.

iv. That’s not a proper remark to make under the circumstances.
That’s an improper remark to make under the circumstances.

v. He appears to be without sensitivity. In fact, he is very emotional.
He appears to be insensitive. In fact, he is very emotional.

Question 5.
Use a, an or the in the blanks.
Solved
There was once a play which became very successful. A. famous actor was acting in it. In the play his role was that of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned in a castle for twenty years. In the last act of the play someone would come on the stage with a letter which he would hand over to the prisoner. Even though the aristocrat was not expected to read the letter at each performance, he always insisted that the letter be written out from beginning to end.

Question 6.
Solved
A : Would you like an apple or a banana?
B : I’d like an apple, please.
A : Take the red one in the fruit bowl. You may take an orange also, if you like.
B : Which one?
A : The one beside the banana.

The Ashes that Made Trees Bloom Speaking and writing

Question 1.
Do you remember an anecdote or a story about a greedy or jealous person and the unhappy result of his/her action? Narrate the story to others in your class.(Encourage the students to narrate a story to others in the class.)

There was once a greedy king called King Midas. Once he found a lamp near his castle. He rubbed it, and a genie appeared from the lamp. The genie asked the king to make a wish.

The king asked the genie to grant him a wish that whatever he touches will turn into gold. The genie granted him this wish. The king was ecstatic. He could not be happier. He touched every nook and comer of his palace. Now he had a golden throne; a golden room, and even a golden bird in a golden cage.

But he felt a little hungry now with all the excitement and having jumped around so much. He sat on the golden table to eat the bread, but lo and behold! The bread turned into gold as soon as he touched it. As he went about touching all the food one by one, it all turned into gold. He was confused, and just when he was contemplating what he had done, his daughter came and hugged him. He also hugged her in return without thinking, and could not believe what happened after. His daughter—his dearest daughter, the one person he loved the most in the world—had turned into a golden statue.

He cried and cried so much that the genie appeared once again. The king begged the genie to undo the wish. The genie looked at the king’s sad condition and agreed to undo the wish. Soon, everything that the king had turned into gold returned back to its original form. But what made the king the happiest was that he could hug his dearest daughter again. He had never felt so relieved and happy in his entire life.The next day, the king called all his subjects and donated all his gold among his them. He was no longer a greedy king.

Question 2.
Put each of the following in the correct order. Then use them appropriately to fill the blanks in the paragraph that follows. Use correct punctuation marks.

Ravi Kant is a writer, and he writes in both English and Hindi. Of course, he is much happier writing in English than in Hindi. He has written many books in English and only a few short stories in Hindi. I find his books a little hard to understand. My Hindi is much better than my English.

Question 3.
Are you fond of reading stories? Did you read one last month? If not, read one or two and then write a paragraph about the story. Use the following hints.

• title of the story
• name of author
• how many characters
• which one you liked
• some details of the story
• main point(s) as you understand it

Tell your friends why they should also read it.
(Encourage the students to use their creativity and formulate their own answers.)

Sample answer:
Yes, I am very fond of reading stories. I read whenever I find some free time. Last week, I read a story called ‘The Christmas Carol’. It is a short story by Charles Dickens. The story is about Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser, who does not believe in love, compassion and the Christmas spirit. A day before Christmas, three ghosts visit him and make him realize the true value of love and life. After the visit by the ghosts, he understands that no one will miss or remember him unless he changes the way he lives.

My favourite character in the story is Tiny Tim, who is the crippled son of Ebenezer Scrooge’s secretary, Bob Cratchit. Scrooge is finally able to save Tiny Tim from a ghastly future and changes into a good human being after meeting the ghosts. I love this story because it is all about the Christmas spirit of love, compassion and forgiveness. I would . suggest that everyone should read that story because it is so touching and makes us realize the true worth of life and the people