How The Little Kite Learned To Fly|Katherine Pyle| West Bengal board class 6 English solution|Model Activity tasks|question and answer
Activity 1
Tick(✓) the correct alternative:
(a) The little kite thought it could not (i) run (ii) fly (iii) swim
Ans: fly
(b) The big kite told the small kite to (i) try (ii) know (iii) think
Ans: try
(c) While flying the little kite was filled with (i) pity (ii) pride (iii) pain
Ans: pride
(d) The boys looked like small (i) dots (ii) patches (iii) spots
Ans: spots
Activity 2
Complete the following sentences with information from the text:
(a) The big kite rose towards the tranquil sky.
(b) The little kite's paper stirred at the sight.
(c) The little kite sailed with the big kite side by side.
(d) The little kite and the big kite rested high in the sky.
Activity 3
Answer the following question:
What made the little kite's paper stir at the sight of the tranquil sky?
Ans: The eagerness to fly like the big kite made the little kite's paper stir at the sight of the tranquil sky.
Activity 4
Fill in the following chart with information from the text:
Activity 5
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
(a) What did the big kite tell the little kite to do?
Ans: The big kite told the little kite to try again and again to fly.
(b) How did the little kite prepare himself for flight?
Ans: The little kite stirred at the sight of the big kite's flight, whirled and then grew braver for flight. This he prepared himself for flight.
(c) Whom did the kites get as companions high up in the quiet air?
Ans: The kites got birds and clouds as companions high up in the quiet air.
(d) "Oh, how happy I am"-Why did the little kite feel so?
Ans: The little kite was happy because he became brave and tried to fly.
Activity 6 (a)
Fill in the blanks with suitable articles:
(i) The Nile flows through Egypt.
(ii) Iron is a useful metal.
(iii) I waited at the station for an hour.
(iv) She is a European.
Activity 6(b)
Tick(✓)the appropriate form of the given verbs in brackets:
(i) No news (is/are) good news.
Ans: is
(ii) Each of the children (has/have) arrived.
Ans: has
(iii) The mother and her child (is/are) going to the market.
Ans: are
(iv) Esha as well as her sister sports. (is/are) taking part in the school
Ans: is
Activity 7(a)
Add a prefix or a suffix to the following words to form opposites:
learn : unlearn / learned
steadily : unsteadily
rest : restless
cloud : cloudy
happy : unhappy
Activity 7(b)
Make meaningful sentences of your own with the following words:
tranquil :
frightened:
sailed :
brave :
Ans: Do it yourself.
Activity 8(a)
Read the paragraph carefully and fill in the following chart with information from the passage:
Last summer, four of us went to Arun's aunt's place in the Sunderbans. They were my friends- Sumit and Arun and his younger brother, Barun. Sumit, Arun and I study in class X and Barun is two years younger to us. We began the journey on Monday. We travelled by bus and then by boat. We stayed there for three days. We visited the bird sanctuary. We returned on Thursday evening at 7.30pm.
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