What a Bird Thought Class 6 Worksheet English Poorvi Chapter 8

Class 6 English Poorvi Chapter 8 Worksheet What a Bird Thought

Question 1.
Have you seen any person in your surroundings who keeps water everyday for birds to drink? Discuss it with your teacher and classmates.

• Where does she/he keep the water pot?
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• When does she/he keep water into the water pot?
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• Should she/he keep water for birds or not?
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• Why does she/he keep water for birds?
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• What thoughts come in your mind when you see it?__________________________________________
• What would you like to do something good for birds or animals?__________________________________________

Question 2.
In the following sentences, replace the underlined words with their correct meanings.

Let us Discuss

Question 1.
Discuss with your partner and tick (✓) the ideas which are correct based on the poem.
(a) In the poem a bird describes only one home.
(b) The bird was very happy in its small home.
(c) One day, the bird flew out of its nest.
(d) The bird realised that the whole world was made of straws.
(e) Finally, the bird understood completely about the world.

Question 2.
Look at the picture and discuss what you see in the picture with your classmates,

(a) How do you feel when you see this bird and its babies?
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(b) Where do you see them generally?
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(c) What are the baby birds called?
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(d) What are the mother bird and the baby birds doing?
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(e) What are the special characteristics of these birds?
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Question 3.
Answer the following with a word from the poem and check the answers with your partner.
(i) What is the bird’s second house? _ _ S _
(ii) Who protected the baby bird? M _ _ H _ _
(iii) What does;the bird see when it flies beyond the tree? _ _ Y
(iv) Whose help does the bird seek at last? R _ _ _ _ R’s

Think beyond

Question 1.
Complete the following sentences.
(i) The bird first lived in a __________________________________________
(ii) It was covered by the body of __________________________________________

Question 2.
Read the following lines from the poem and answer the questions given below,
(i) I thought the world was small and round,
And made of pale, blue shell.
(a) Why does the baby bird think that the world is small?
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(b) Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct option.
At this moment, the bird is __________________________________________
(i) in a nest
(ii) in a shell
(iii) flying in the sky
(iv) feeding on food

(c) According to this extract, what is the world made up of?
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Question 3.
What was the little nest of the bird made up of?
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Question 4.
What was the baby bird curious about?
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Question 5.
What does the world of a baby revolve around?
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Let us learn

Question 1.
Write some words from the poem and then write their rhyming words. One has been done for you.

Now, complete a new stanza with rhyming words at the end of each line.
A black bird on top of a mango tree
Sitting on the branches, set to f _ _ _ _
Likes to sing, play and tweet
Holds its prey with one of its f _ _ _ _

Question 2.
Describing words are the words that give more information about nouns, for example, intelligent girl, red pen, big car.
Use the following describing words in sentences based on the given picture.
shallow – long – clever – selfish – tall

(a) __________________________________________
(b) __________________________________________
(c) __________________________________________
(d) __________________________________________
(e) __________________________________________

Let us listen

Listen to the two stanzas of a poem read out by the teacher. As you listen, fill in the missing words. You can listen to the poem more than once.
(Refer to the page 106 for the transcript.)
What does little _ _ r _ _ _ say
In her n _ _ _ at peep of day?
“Let me fly,” says little birdie,
“Mother, let me _ _ _ away.”
Birdie, rest a little longer,
Till the little _ _ _ _ _ are stronger.
So she rests a _ _ _ _ I _ longer,
Then she files away.

The baby bird wants to know something about the world from her mother. In pairs, have a conversation as the baby bird and his mother based on the poem ‘What a Bird Thought’. Write your conversation below.
Baby bird : Mom, is the world as small as the shell?
Mother : No, my son, the world is very vast.
Baby bird : __________________________________________
Mother : __________________________________________
Baby bird : __________________________________________
Mother : __________________________________________
Baby bird : __________________________________________
Mother : __________________________________________

Let us write

Question 1.
Read how the bird perceived its world.
My first house was small but I was very comfortable there. It was made of pale blue shell. When I started living in the second house, I thought that the entire world was made of straws. When I came out of the nest, I thought that the world was not only the nest but it was made of leaves of trees as well. At last, I flew out of the tree and saw that the world was very vast.
Now, discuss with your teacher and classmates how you think the world would look to the following.
(a) a mouse
(b) a dog

Now, write five sentences for each, both (a) and (b).
(a) (i) ____________________________________________
(ii) ____________________________________________
(iii) ____________________________________________
(iv) ____________________________________________
(v) ____________________________________________

(b) (i) ____________________________________________
(ii) ____________________________________________
(iii) ____________________________________________
(iv) ____________________________________________
(v) ____________________________________________

Let Us Explore

Question 1.
The bird first lived in a small home-shell, then in a little bigger home, nest. Look at the pictures given below and write a few sentences about these nests made by the birds. Find out more about them.

Question 2.
A mason builds our homes. Similarly there are many other professionals who help us in our day-to-day life.
Write the work done by the following professionals.

Question 3.
Look at the houses of different animals. What are they called? Name these houses.

Question 4.
A cuckoo bird does not make its nest. It lays its eggs in a crow’s nest. Find out more about it.
Answer:

Question 5.
How does a weaver bird make its nest?
Answer:
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