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Class VI

Lesson - 1. The Rainbow

1. Complete the following sentences by reading the poem "The Rainbow".

 Answer-- (a) Boats sail on the rivers,
   (b)  And ships sail on the seas.
   (c) But clouds that sail across the sky.
   (d) Boats and ships are pretty, but clouds are prettier
   (e) The 'bow' in the poem is the rainbow.

2. Match the Following:

Boats         Prettier
Ships         Pretty
Clouds       Prettier
Rainbow    Pretty

Answer:- 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-------- __________ heaven

                                __________ the trees
                              _________ from earth to sky

Answer:- The rainbow------------- bridges heaven

                                                overtops the trees
                                                builds road from earth to the sky

4. Two summaries of the poem are given below. Which one do you like more?
Discuss your answer with the friend sitting next to you. Than share your
thoughts with the rest of the class.
(a) The poem 'The Rainbow' is about nature. Here the poet compares the beauty of
nature and man-made beauty. She finds that beauty created by nature is prettier than
man-made beauty. The clouds that sail across the sky are prettier than boats sailing on
rivers and ships sailing on the seas. But the rainbow is prettier than all the pretty things
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that sail on the rivers.

(b) Boats sail on the rivers and ships sail on the seas. But the clouds that sail across the
sky are prettier than those boats and ships. The bridge in the rivers are beautiful. But
the rainbow that builds a road from earth to sky is prettier than the bridges.

Answer :- I liked the first summary the most. Because the first summary conveys
inherent meaning of the poem "The Rainbow". The poet in this poem tries to explain
that the nature can create more beautiful objects than human beings. The second
summary gives the dull explanation of the poem without assigning any additional
meaning to the poem..

5. As you know, rhyming 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:

Answer:- boat   float , coat .

river  shiver , deliver .
ship  flip , clip .
sea  tea , bee .
cloud  proud , loud .
sky  buy , fly .

6. (a) Make a list of things that:

Answer :-
Sail on rivers and Move on the road Fly across the
seas sky

Boat Motor cycle Parachute

Ship Car Aeroplane

Raft Truck Helicopter

6.(b) Now make three sentences with any of the words from the above list.

Answer :- i) Boat – Boat sails on the river.

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ii) Car - We have a car.

iii) Aeroplane - My uncle came to Silchar by aeroplane.
7. Read the following stanza of 'The Rainbow' and write what you have
understood about it. Draw a picture to go with it:

Boats sail on the river

And ships sail on the seas,
But clouds that sail across the sky
Are prettier far than these.

Answer:-  The poet narrates that the boats that sail on the rivers and the ships that sail
on the seas are doubtlessly pretty. But above them all, the clouds that sails across the
sky are the prettiest.

Picture— Draw yourself.

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 spaces below. One is done for you. You may fill the
spaces with other words if you do not find an appropriate word in the poem.

(a) Noun (naming words, for example, 'boat') ::- river , ship .
(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')--
big, beautiful.
(d) Verb (a Word or a group of words that expresses an action; for example, 'eat','run')--

sail, build .

9. The words that you have written in 8(c) are called adjectives because they say
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:

Comparison of Adjectives

Positive Degree  Comparative Degree Superlative Degree

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 Pretty Prettier Prettiest

Now think of two other adjectives that can be compared in the same way, and
write them in their degree (positive, comparative and superlative) in the space
below:
tall (positive) , taller (comparative) , tallest (superlative)
large (positive) , larger (comparative) , largest (superlative)

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

Pretty Prettier Prettiest
Beautiful More Beautiful Most Beautiful

Answer ::-

Heavy heavier heaviest

brave braver Bravest
Famous more famous most famous
Simple simpler simplest
popular More popular most popular
Active more active most active

10. You must have seen in the poem how a word belonging to one word class
may be used as a different word class. For example,

bridge (noun): There is a bridge on the river.

bridge (verb) : The rainbow bridges the earth and the sky.

Now make sentences using the following words first as a noun, and then as a
verb:
book, hand, back, sail, bow, water
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Answer : book (noun): I read books.

book (verb): I booked a taxi to go my home.
hand (noun): Human beings have two hands.
hand (verb): The grandfather handed over his property to his grandchild.

back (noun): The worker has a heavy load on his back.

back (verb): Nobody backed me in my bad days.

sail (noun): The sail of the ship is old.

sail (verb): Boats sail on the river.

bow (noun): He can shoot with a bow.

bow (verb): Lachit Borphukan never bowed to the enemy.

water (noun): Give me a glass of water.

water (verb): I water my flowers regularly.

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 auditor Assam action already

I ice indoor India indigo include

N now next newly nature neither

B box boat below become beauty

O one open order orange outside

W why what write whale website

12. (a) Ask the following questions to your partner and writer his/her answers in the
given space:
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       (i) Have you ever seen a rainbow?

        Ans: Yes, I have seen a rainbow in the sky.

   (ii) What does the rainbow look like?

     Ans: The rainbow is semi circular and has seven different colours.

  (iii) When do you see a rainbow?

    Ans: We can see a rainbow in the rainy season in the sky.
 
  (iv) What colours do you see on a rainbow?
    Ans: The colours that we see on a rainbow are violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow,
orange and red.

12. (b) Write a few sentences on how you feel when you see a rainbow in the sky.
You can take help from the box:

happy , excited , full of joy

Answer:
I always stand excited to see a rainbow in the sky.
The appearance of a rainbow makes me happy.
The moment I see a rainbow is full of joy .

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