Class 6 English Lesson-8 Friends
Lesson-8
Friends
फ्रेइनद्स
(लोगोफोर)
ACTIVITIES
Let’s check how much we have understood:
फै जों बेसेबां बुजिखो नायनि:
1. Answer the following questions :
गाहायाव होनाय सोंलुफोरनि फिनखौ हो:
a) Who are the poet’s friends ?
खन्थाइगिरिनि लोगोफोरा सोर?
Answer: The Sky, the Sunshine and the Wind are the poet’s friends.
b) What is the Sky like ?
अख्राङा माबादि ?
Answer: The Sky is like a kind big smile bent sweetly over the poet.
c) What does the Sunshine do?
साननि सोरांआ मा खालामो?
Answer: The Sunshine flickers through the leaves and kisses the poet’s face.
d) What does the Wind whispere?
बारआ मा बुंखोमायो?
Answer: The Wind whispers pretty things.
e) Whose careful wings does the poet feel?
खन्थाइगिरिया सोरनि सांग्रां गांखंखौ मोनदांदों?
Answer: The poet feels the careful wings of the Wind.
f) Why should a child never feel a fear ?
सासे गथ’आ मानो माब्लाबाबो गिनांगौ गैया?
Answer: A child should never feel afraid because many gentle friends are around the child, even though they can hardly be seen.
g) Can you consider the sky, the sunshine and the wind as your friends? Why?
नोंथाङा अख्रां, सानसोरां आरो बारखौ नोंथांनि लोगोफोर होननानै साननो हागोन ना? मानो?
Answer: Yes, I can consider the Sky, the Sunshine and the Wind as my friends because they make nature beautiful and bring us joy and comfort.
2. Write the rhyming words from the poem for the ones given below:
गाहायाव होनायफोरनि थाखाय खन्थाइनिफ्राय रायमिं सोदोबफोरखौ लिरः
Answer :
while – smile
grass – pass
tree – me
things – wings
lace – face
near – fear
head – bed see – be
3. Read the following explanations of the four stanzas of the poem given below. Identify and write the stanza number next to each explanation:
1. The Wind comes secretly and whispers pretty things. The poet cannot see the Wind, but feels the careful touch.
Answer: Stanza 3
2. The poet says that there are many gentle Friends around us. One can hardly see them. The poet asks the child not to be afraid because wherever the child might be, his Gentle friends will be around.
Answer: Stanza 4
3. The Sunshine passes through the leaves and falls upon the poet’s face. The poet compares the falling of sunshine upon the face with mother kissing a child before bed.
Answer: Stanza 2
4. The poet lies under a tree and looks at the Sky through it. The Sky is like a kind big smile, bent sweetly over the poet.
Answer: Stanza 1
4. Use the ideas written in the cards to tell the summary of the poem to the class:
खन्थायनि गुबै रावखौ थाखोआव खोन्थानो कार्डआव लिरनाय सानदांथिफोरखौ बाहायः
Answer: While lying on the ground and looking through the trees, the poet sees the Sky as a kind big smile. The Sunshine flickers through the lace of leaves and kisses like Mother. The Wind arrives to whisper pretty things with its careful wings. Even though these gentle friends are nearly invisible, a child should have no fear anywhere in the world.
5. Write what the word ‘friend’ means to you:
नोंनि मथे ‘लोगो’ सोदोबनि ओंथिया मा लिरः
Answer:
Friend: A friend is someone who cares for us, helps us, supports us and shares our happiness and sadness.
Now, write who your friends are:
दा नोंनि लोगोफ्रा सोर बेखौ लिरना लाः
: (Write your friends name – नोंनि लोगोफोरनि मुंखौ लिर।)
6. a) Read the following lines from the poem:
“The Sky is like a kind big smile
Bent sweetly over me.”
Here, the poet uses a literary device called ‘simile’ where the word ‘like’ is
used to compare “The Sky’ with ‘the smile’.
A simile is a literary device to compare one thing with another of a different kind
using ‘like’ or ‘as’. This literary device is used to make a description more vivid.
Find the other simile in the poem and write it down:
“And kisses me upon the face Like Mother, before bed.”
(The poet compares the Sunshine’s touch on the face to a mother’s kiss.)
7. Read the poem and underline the following words in the poem :
8. You have come across the word ‘Sunshine’ in the poem. There are many words that begin with the word ‘Sun’. Let’s read a few of them:
Now, add words to ‘rain’ to make new words:
Answer:
9. Let’s make as many words as we can from the letters in the grid (without repeating letters) and write in the given spaces. One is done for you.
Answer:
FUN
SUN
FAN
RUN
FAR
RAN
SURF
Let’s learn some grammar :
10. b) The order of adjectives in the following sentences is not correct. Read the sentences:
I met a tall old kind man. He bought me a plastic red round beautiful ball. He also bought me a wooden heavy bat.
Now, rewrite the sentences by placing the adjectives in the right order:
I met a kind old tall man.
He bought me a beautiful round red plastic ball.
He also bought me a heavy wooden bat.
11. fill in the blanks with adjectives from the box to complete the sentences :
cotton white tall red beautiful young cute tiny
i. I saw a __________ __________ _____________ girl.
Answer: I saw a tall beautiful young girl.
ii. She was wearing a ____________ _____________ frock.
Answer: She was wearing a white cotton frock.
iii. She had a ____________ ___________ ______________ bag.
Answer: She had a cut tiny red bag.
12. Let’s practise some grammar :
13. Read the verbs written in the cards :
look up flickers comes
The poet has used these verbs to talk about actions that happen regularly.
Now, choose the verbs to indicate that these actions will happen tomorrow and fill in the blanks to complete the sentences:
a) The poet _________________ (will look up/looked up) through the tree.
Answer: The poet will look up through the tree.
b) The Wind ___________________ (is coming/will come) secretly.
Answer: The Wind will come secretly.
c) The Sunshine ___________________ (has flickered/will flicker) through the lace of leaves.
Answer: The Sunshine will flicker through the lace of leaves.
Note: If you find any mistakes in these questions and answers, you can tell us or correct it yourself.
जुदि नोंथाङा बेफोर सोंथिफोर आरो फिननायाव माबा गोरोन्थि मोनो, अब्ला नोंथाङा जोंनो खोन्थानो हागोन एबा गावनो बेखौ सुद्रायनो हागोन।