KSEEB Solution Class 6 English First Language – The Comet And The Moon
Board | KSEEB |
Class | Six (6) |
Subject | English |
Language | 1st Language |
Chapter | 7 |
Chapter Name | The Comet And The Moon |
The Comet And The Moon Class 6 English Karnataka Board Kannada
POEM
THE COMET AND THE MOON
1.) Ask the following questions to your partner and write down the answer.
a.) Who whooshed past the moon’s pale face?
Answer: The comet whooshed past the moon’s pale face.
b.) Who was sulking?
Answer: The moon was sulking.
c.) When was life better for the moon?
Answer: Life was better for the moon when the spacemen went on the moon and scratched its back.
d.) Why did the comet not answer the moon?
Answer: The comet didn’t answer because it had already for Venus.
2.) Ask the following questions to your partner and write down the answers.
a.) What did the comet want to know when he saw the pale-faced moon?
Answer: The comet wanted to know why the moon looked so sulky.
b.) Why does the moon think that he is doomed?
Answer: The moon is stuck with the same path in chains of gravity so he is doomed.
c.) Why does the moon envy the comet?
Answer: The comet can freely flare and sizzle and roams like rockets so the moon is envy of the comet.
d.) Which line in stanza 5 suggests that the comet is very active? Explain.
Answer: Already it had gone
To wag its tail round Venus
While the moon trudged on.
The above lines show that the comet is very active and doesn’t even stay to listen what moon is saying.
e.) The moon is non-human. He does two things which we humans do. What are they? What figure of speech is this?
Answer: “You will sulk as well,”
To always plod the same path
The figure of speech is personification.
Vocabulary :
3.) Match the words in B with the words in A:
A |
B |
Breezy | Conversation |
Imaginary | Poem |
Bored and sulky | Moon |
Free to fly | Comet |
Dull | Life |
4.) In poems, poets make objects, animals and birds behave like us, people. This devise is a figure of speech called personification. It brings pictures of the things personified before our mind. Write them.
1.) As it whooshed past the moon’s pale face,
2.) You are free to flare and sizzle,
You roam like rockets do,
3.)While I am stuck here in the orbit
Of the Earth ……….. I envy you.
4.) “So, comet, stay and talk.”
The comet didn’t answer,
5.) Already it had gone
To wag its tail round Venus
While the moon trudged on.
5.) If you are given a chance, would you like to be the moon or the comet. Give reasons for your answer.
Answer: I would love to be the comet. I don’t like to get stuck at one place for longer period of time just like the moon. It would be so exciting to travel and explore just like the comet. The life comet is exciting and I would learn and see many new things by travelling.
Writing :
Work with your partner and do this exercise.
Have you ever gazed at a starlit sky? Go out on a new moon night and look up at the stars. You will see crores and crores of them. You may even identify a constellation or two. A constellation is a group of fixed stars such as the Great Bear. Gazing at the stars try to imagine the space our universe must occupy. Scientists say that the universe is a star system that circles round and round in unimaginable space at unimaginable speeds.ss