MS/6/E/1

Name: _______________ Date: ______________

Grade VI – English
Topic Covered: Reading Comprehension (Poetry) ; Grammar (Sentences, Kinds of nouns),
Creative Writing

Month: April Worksheet Number: 1

General Instructions:
All work should be done in your notebook. You must number the questions clearly and write the answers in
your notebook in sequential order.

Task 1 – Reading Comprehension (Poetry)

Q1) Complete the text below, using the words/expressions in the box. Do not use the same word/expression
more than once. Some may not be relevant.

Grandpa’s lap was his golden throne

Where sat the budding little prince
Curling up old man’s moustache as his own,
Grandpa didn’t as much as wince!

They were a constant company,

The best of pals and mates,
They needed not playthings any,
Yet made palaces with gates!

When others had no time nor words,

The young prince chattered all day,
About fairies and giants and chirpy birds,
He had a lot to say.

One night when they came from the sky,

To lead old grandpa away,
While others waited and sobbed,"Oh my!”
The prince was sad, “What about my good night kiss today?”

1. Who was in grandpa’s lap in the poem?

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2. Why didn’t grandpa wince?

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3. Who did the little prince chatter all day with?

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4. What did the grandpa give the little boy that others didn’t?

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5. What does the expression ‘to lead old grandpa away’ suggest?

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6. We all have spent some quality time with our grandparents. Narrate one incidence when you shared
your problem and the solution was given by your grandma or grandpa.

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7. Give a suitable title to this poem.

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8. Write six pairs of rhyming words from the poem.

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9. Which is your favourite quatrain in the poem.

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10. Write the two couplets from the last quatrain.

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11. What is the rhyme pattern in the poem?

a) abab b) aaab c) aabb ( Answer - _________________________)

 12. Create a New Word Bank. Refer to the poem and find the meanings of the given words using a
dictionary. Create your own sentences for each new word and pull out subject and the predicate from
them.

Word List – budding, curling, wince, constant, chattered, sobbed

Example:

budding: growing, developing, rising, in the making, aspiring

Usage: The leaves were budding on the trees below.

The leaves- Subject; were budding on the trees below- Predicate

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Task 1I – Grammar Enrichment (Sentences)
Complete Exercise A and B on page 45 of your Grammarplus Book