Assam SCERT Class 6 English Lesson 1 The Rainbow Question Answer Solution
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The Rainbow Lesson 1 Question Answer
Lesson 1
The Rainbow
Activities
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1) Complete the following sentences by reading the poem “The Rainbow”
a) Boats sail on the rivers.
b) Ships sail on the seas.
c) But clouds sail across the sky.
d) Boats and ships are pretty, but clouds are far prettier than these.
e) The ‘bow’ in the poem is the rainbow.
2) Match the following:
Boats –Pretty
Ships – Pretty
Clouds – Prettier
Rainbow – Prettier
3) What are the things that the rainbow does? Fill in the blanks below with words from the poem.
The rainbow bridges heaven.
The rainbow overlaps the trees.
The Rainbow builds a road from earth to sky.
(5) (a) As you know, rhyming words are words that end with the same sound, such as sound-round. Here are some words from the poem ‘The Rainbow’. Work with your friend and write two words that rhyme with each of them:
Boat – Coat, Throat
River – Fever, liver
Ship – Deep, keep
Sea – Tea, Pea
Cloud – Loud, Proud
Sky – Fly, Cry
(6) (a) Make a list of things that:
Sail on rivers and seas |
Move on the road | Fly across the sky |
Ship | Cars |
Aeroplane |
Boat |
Bus | Helicopter |
Cruise | Bike |
Rocket |
Yacht |
Cycle |
(b) Now make three sentences with any of the words from the list above
Car – Ravi brought a new car.
Helicopter – There is a helicopter flying in the sky.
Ship – I want to travel on a ship on the sea.
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8) Let’s learn some grammar
Read the poem The Rainbow once again. Find words belonging to the following word classes and write them in the species below. One is done for you. You may feel the spaces with other words if you do not find an appropriate word in the poem.
(a) Noun (naming words, for example, ‘boat’) – Heaven, Earth.
(b) Pronoun ( a word used instead of a noun,for example, ‘it’) – You, these.
(c) Adjective (a word that describes a person or a thing; for example, ‘pretty’) – Beautiful, Skillful.
(d) Verb: (a word or a group of words that expresses an action; for example, ‘eat’,’run’) – Builds, Sail.
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9) The words you have written in 8 (c) are called adjectives because this is something more about a noun or pronoun. In the poem “The Rainbow” you found adjectives pretty and prettier. Such adjectives show the degree of something, as shown below
Now think of two other adjectives that can be compared in the same way, and right same in their degrees (positive, comparative and superlative) in the space below :
Good – Better – Best
Beautiful – More beautiful – Most beautiful
Now complete the table below by filling in the columns as shown in the examples. Two have been done for you.
Positive Degree |
Comparative Degree | Superlative Degree |
Heavy | Heavier |
Heaviest |
Brave |
More brave | Most bravest |
Famous | More famous |
Most famous |
Simple |
Simpler | Simplest |
Popular | More popular |
Most popular |
Active |
More active |
Most active |
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Now make sentences using the following words first as a noun, and then as a verb:
Book, Hand, back, Sail, Bow, Water
Book (noun) – My father brought me a brand new book.
Book (verb) – Ravi has booked tickets for the cricket match.
Hand (noun) –Rahul broke his hand in an accident.
Hand (verb) –The King handed his throne to his son.
Back (noun) –The farmer is carrying paddy on his back.
Back (verb) –Many people backed our team in last cricket match.
Bow (noun) – My little brother brought one toy bow and arrow.
Bow (verb) – People bowed down to the greatness of the King.
Water (noun) –We should drink water everyday.
Water (verb) –My grandfather always water the garden.
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(11) Let’s practise our word building skills. Make a few words with each of the letters from the word RAINBOW. First make a three letter word with R and then a four letter word, and so on. One is done for you:
R |
Red | Read | River | Reader | Rainbow |
A | Ant | Auto | Apple | Amount |
Article |
I |
Ink | Idol | Imply | Indigo | Iceberg |
N | Now | Nose | Never | Notice |
Neutron |
B |
Bat | Ball | Beach | Banana | Buttery |
O | Owl | Oval | Often | Offend |
Offside |
W |
Wig | Walk | Wrong | Wanted |
Welcome |
(12) (a) Ask the following questions to your partner and write his/her answers in the given space:
(i) Have you ever seen a rainbow?
Answer–Yes, I have seen a rainbow.
(ii) What does the rainbow look like?
Answer –The Rainbow looks like a colourfulbow.
(iii) When do you see a rainbow?
Answer – We see a rainbow after raining.
(iv) What colours do you see on a rainbow?
Answer – We see Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red colour on a rainbow.
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(b) Write a few sentences on how you feel when you see a rainbow in the sky. You can take help from the box
I always feel excited when I see a rainbow. Seeing a rainbow makes me so happy. After seeing a rainbow my heart feels full of joy.