JKBOSE Class 6 English Tulip Short Stories Chapter 5 The Story of the Hills Solution
JKBOSE (Jammu Kashmir State Board Of School Education) Class 6 English Solution Chapter 5 The Story of the Hills all Exercise Question Answers. Students of JK Board Grade 6 Standard can download all Answer.
THINKING ABOUT THE TEXT
Answer the following questions:
1.) Where does the writer spend his summer vacation? How does he find the place?
Answer: The writer spent his summer vacation in Basaintgarh. There were green maize fields, Deodar and Partal trees were on the high hills.
2.) How does the writer describe the beauty of the place?
Answer: The writer loves the beauty of Basaintgarh. There are green maize fields all over. Deodar and Partal trees on the high hill ranges swayed in the breeze. The mountains were spectacle. The water of the river Ujh was clean green.
3.) Whom does the writer meet? What do they talk about?
Answer: The writer meets a tender girl. They talked about the city people first and then they talked about the things that he was writing on the paper.
4.) What is the name of the custom of a type of marriage mentioned in the story? What type of custom is it?
Answer: A type of marriage mentioned in the story is the custom of dohri in the hilly regions. In the custom, a widower could get another wife only if he gave a girl from his family into the family of his in-laws to be.
5.) What makes the little girl weep at the end of the story? What does she go on saying?
Answer: The girl weeps at the end of the story because the story the stranger was narrating was her story. She went on saying “this is my story, O man, this is my story. “
LANGUAGE WORK
- I) Rearrange the jumbled letters to make them meaningful. The words are in the story.
1.) d i s a h o s – Sohadis
2.) r d d o e a – Deodar
3.) e d o z – Doze
4.) i o h r d – Dohri
5.) i r e b d – Bride
6.) n a n s t e g – Strange
7.) e a r s t – Tears
8.) m r r o t o w o – Tomorrow
9.) r e t i s s – Sister
II). Write down the meanings of the following phrases:
1.) Come across – Meet someone or find something by chance
2.) Pick up – To lift someone or something up from a surface
3.) Pen my story – To write about someone
4.) Marry off – To marry
5.) Full of time – Lot of time
6.) Be in a fix – In a bad situation
Now join the following pairs of clauses together using the connectives given in the bracket.
(A) i. The king inspected the rooms of his six soldiers.
ii.) The king was very pleased with them. (when)
When the king inspected the rooms of his six soldiers, he was very pleased with them.
(B) i. The crow brought a herb from the jungle.
ii.) The crow gave the herb to the girl. (which)
Answer: The crow brought a herb from the jungle which he gave to the girl.
(C) i. The crow promised the girl.
ii.) The crow would get a herb. (that)
Answer: The crow promised the girl that he would get a herb
(D) i. I’ll wait here.
ii.) You come back. (until)
Answer: I’ll wait here until you come back.
(E) i. You speak slowly.
ii). I can understand. (if)
Answer: If you speak slowly, I can understand.
(F) i. I told him.
ii.) I had finished my work. (that)
Answer: I told him that I had finished my work.
- Fill in the blanks with what/which/who:
1.) What is your name?
2.) You can have an ice cream or a coke which you want?
3.) Who is older, you or your brother?
4.) Who is your favourite leader?
5.) What colour is your umbrella. Mine is red.
6.) Which hotel did you stay at in Delhi?
LET’S WRITE
The following jumbled sentences make up a complete story. Re-arrange them properly.
i.) Saying these words the wolf attacked the lamb and ate it.
ii.) A hungry wolf reached there.
iii.) Now the wolf said, “Your father must have abused me then.”
iv.) Once upon a time a lamb was drinking water near the bank of a river.
v.) The lamb replied respectfully, “Sir, the water is flowing down from your side. How can I make it muddy?”
vi.) “Why are you muddying the water?” asked the wolf.
vii. The wolf then said, “Why did you abuse me last year?”
viii.) On seeing the lamb, his mouth watered. He wanted to kill the lamb.
ix.) The lamb replied, “But I was not born last year.”
Answer:
Once upon a time a lamb was drinking water near the bank of a river. A hungry wolf reached there. On seeing the lamb, his mouth watered. He wanted to kill the lamb. “Why are you muddying the water?” asked the wolf. The lamb replied respectfully, “Sir, the water is flowing down from your side. How can I make it muddy?” The wolf then said, “Why did you abuse me last year?” The lamb replied, “But I was not born last year.” Now the wolf said, “Your father must have abused me then.” Saying these words the wolf attacked the lamb and ate it.