What a Bird Thought Class 6 Question Answer NCERT Solutions

What a Bird Thought Class 6 Questions and Answers

What a Bird Thought Question Answer Class 6 English Poorvi Chapter 8

Let us these activities before we read (Page 85)

Question 1.
Look at the picture and discuss what you see in the picture with your teacher and classmates.

Think of a time when you worked hard. What did you do then?

• How did it help you?
• How did it make you feel?

Also, discuss in groups.
Answer:
Classroom discussion.

Question 2.
Where are the places you see birds? What do you see the birds doing?
Answer:
I see birds at several places like on the trees, in the sky and on the terrace. I see birds sitting on the trees, flying in the sky and drinking water on the terrace.

Question 3.
Do you want to fly like a bird? Why?
Answer:
Yes, I want to fly like a bird, because the more we go out of our home, the more we understand the world.

Question 4.
What does a baby bird think about its world?
Answer:
A baby bird thinks that the world is as small as its nest.

Question 5.
Read the sentences and replace the underlined words with their correct meanings.

Answer:
(a) pale – light
(b) moved lightly and quickly – fluttered
(c) Finally – at last
(d) hard work – labour

Let us discuss

Question 1.
Read the poem again. Identify the main idea of each stanza. There are two extra given.

(a) The bird steps out into the world. []
(b) The bird lived happily in a small world. []
(c) The bird becomes blind due to leaves. []
(d) The bird flies away as an adult. []
(e) The bird is unhappy with the straw nest. []
(f) The bird lived in a cosy nest with its mother. []
Answer:
St. 1. (b)
St. 2. (f)
St. 3. (a)
St. 4. (d)

Question 2.
Look at the pictures (a)-(d) and write the matching line from the poem for each.

Answer:
(a) I lived first in a little house.
(b) I lived next in a little nest.
(c) One day, I fluttered from my nest.
(d) At length I flew beyond the tree.

Question 3.
Answer the following with a word from the poem and check the answers with your partner.
(a) What was the shape of the bird’s first house? __O __ ___ ___
(b) What was the bird’s second nest made of? _ _ R _ _
(c) What did the bird see when it came out of its nest? L__ __ __ E _
(d) What did the bird do at the end? W
Answer:
(a) ROUND
(b) STRAW
(c) LEAVES
(d) FLEW

Question 4.
Now, recite the poem aloud along with your teacher and classmates.
Answer:
Do it yourself.

Let us think and reflect (Pages 88-89)

Question 1.
Write whether the following sentences are True or False.
(a) The bird changed its house two times. []
(b) The neighbours tell the bird about the world. []
Answer:
(a) False
(b) False

Question 2.
Read the following lines from the poem and answer the questions given below.
(a) I thought the world was made of straw, And nestled by my mother.
(i) Who lived in the nest along with the baby bird?
(ii) Complete the following by choosing the correct option.
The bird thought the world was made of straw because ………
(a) it lived in a straw hut
(b) its nest was made of straw
(c) its mother fed straw to it
(d) there was straw all around
(iii) Which word tells us that the baby bird was warm and comfortable?
Answer:
(i) The baby bird’s mother lived in the nest along with the baby bird.
(ii) (b) its nest was made of straw.
(iii) nestled
(b) I said the world is made of leaves,
I have been very blind.
(i) Why did the bird think the world was made of leaves?
(ii) What does the set of words ‘I said’ mean?
(a) flew
(b) shouted
(c) spoke
(d) cried
(iii) Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence. The bird felt that it had been very blind because it could not __ __ ___ the leaves from n __ ___ ___ e the nest.
Answer:
(i) The baby bird thought so because it came out of its nest first time and sat on a tree on which it saw only leaves.
(ii) (c) spoke
(iii) see, inside

Question 3.
Why did the baby bird think that its first world was small, round and blue?
Answer:
The baby bird thought so because it first lived inside a shell which was small, round and blue.

Question 4.
Where did the bird go when it fluttered from its straw nest?
Answer:
When the baby bird fluttered from its straw nest, it sat on the tree.

Question 5.
What quality did the bird say it had, when it flew away?
Answer:
When the baby bird flew away it had grown up as an adult.

Question 6.
Who do you think were the bird’s neighbours? Why do you think so? Discuss.
Answer:
The ‘bird’s neighbours’ refer to all animals and birds because all animals and birds live in forests and they don’t know how the world is made.

Let us Learn (Pages 89-90)

Question 1.
Let us write some rhyming words. One has been done for you.

Now, complete a new stanza with rhyming words at the end of each line.
I fly high and I fly low,
But one thing I surely k __ ___ ___,
Whenever I wish to rest,
My little nest is the __ ___ ___ t.
Answer:

Words from the poem
Stanza 1	Stanza 2	Stanza 3	Stanza 4
well	other	find	labours
shell	mother	blind	neighbours
New rhyming words
fell	‘bother	kind	sabres

Question 2.
The poet uses words like ‘pale’, ‘blue’, ‘round’, ‘straw’ and ‘little’ to describe the bird’s nest.
Read a few more describing words.

Now, use the describing words given in the box to create six sentences based on the given picture.
(a) …………
(b) …………
(c) ………..
(d) ………
(e) …………
(f) …………..

Answer:
(a) This is the wooden home of birds.
(b) A brown bird with pointed beak is sitting in front of the home.
(c) The home is hanging on a tree branch.
(d) The tree branch has many green leaves.
(e) There are two round windows of the home.
(f) The small window is just above the big window.

Let us listen (Page 90)

You will listen to a short poem. As you listen, fill in the missing words. You can listen to the poem more than once, (refer to page 102 for transcript)
I’m a parrot, my name is Paro,
My feathers are ___ ___ ___ g ___ ___ and they glow.
In the morning, I spread my wings,
___ ___ ___ around and see wonderful things.
Come with me through the skies so __ l ___ ___,
To places old and places new.
Among the __ ___ e ___ ___, where the breeze is light,
Many new s t ___ ___ ___ ___ s, oh, what a sight!
Answer:
Bright, fly, blue, trees, stories

Let us speak (Pages 90- 91)

Speak with your classmates about which bird you would like to be. Include the following points.

• Which bird are you? [I am _____]
• What do you look like? [I am ___ in colour. I am a big/small bird. I have _____].
• Where do you live? [I live in ____ It is (where) ____]
• What do you do during the day? [I ___ I also ___]
• Do you have any message for humans? [ I want to tell the humans ___]

Answer:
Classroom task

Let us write (Page 91)

Question 1.
Read how the bird perceived its world.
My world was small, round and light blue at first. After that my world was warm and comfortable. It was made of straw. In this world I could only see leaves whenever I stepped out. In the end, my world became big. It had the sky and the earth as a part of it.
Answer:
Classroom discussion

Question 2.
Now, discuss with your teacher and classmates how you think the world would look to the following.
(a) a baby
(b) a fish
Answer:
Classroom discussion

Question 3.
Now, write five sentences each, for both (a) and (b), in your notebooks. You can take help from the example given in 1.
Answer:
(a) A baby

1. When a baby is in its mother’s womb, it must be thinking that the world is small like a stomach with different parts around it.
2. When it is born, it must be thinking the world as small as a home as it is not taken out of the home for some days.
3. After one or two months, the baby is taken out of home and moved to his cummunity, then it would be thinking that the world is as big as a community.
4. Then the baby grows up and walks in its village, then the baby must be thinking that the world is as big as a village.
5. When the baby grows up and becomes an adult and travels to different cities, then it understands that the world is very vast.

(b) A fish

1. The baby fish must be thinking the world as small as an egg when it is in the egg.
2. When it is born it must be thinking that the world is very small and full of water only as it is unable to move too far.
3. When it grows up a little bigger and moves around and sees some plants also, then it thinks that the world is full of water with some plants.
4. When it becomes more big and moves far distance, then it sees varieties of animals also in the water body, then it realizes that world is very big with varieties of animals and full of water.
5. When it comes out of water, then it realizes that the world is so vast that it is difficult to understand how vast the world is.

Let us explore (Pages 91- 92)

Question 1.
The bird’s first home was made of a shell. Later its home was among leaves and made
of straw.

• Look at your home carefully and make a list of all the materials it is made of.
• Why do you think our homes are not made of straw?
• If you had to own a home of your choice, what would it look like and what materials would you like to use?
• How is a home different from a house? Discuss with your classmates and teacher.
• Look at the list of some workers who build houses. Find out the work they do and write, as shown in the example. You can think of other workers and add them too.

Answer:

Workers	Their work
Example: mason	Lays bricks and stones
1. painter	paints our home
2. electrician	installs and repairs electrical systems
3. plumber	installs and repairs water pipes, valves and fittings
4. carpenter	makes and repairs wood furniture
5. architect	designs the overall look of houses
6. Do it yourself	……………..
7. Do it yourself	……………

Question 2.
Look at the different kinds of nests and homes the birds make. Have you seen any? Discuss these type of nests with your teacher and classmates.

Answer:
Do it yourself.

Poorvi Book Class 6 Solutions