I Dream of Spices - Poem by Raj Arumugam - Term 1 Unit 3 - 6th English - Book Back Questions Answers | 6th English : Term 1 Unit 3 : Poem : I Dream of Spices
Chapter: 6th English : Term 1 Unit 3 : Poem : I Dream of Spices
Book Back Questions Answers
READ AND UNDERSTAND
A. Answer the following questions.
1. Who is Raj?
Raj is a small boy. i.e., the poet.
2. Where did Raj’s mother
send him?
Raj’s mother send him to shop to buy some spices.
3. Who is Muthu?
Muthu is the shopkeeper.
4. What did mother ask
Raj to buy?
Mother asked Raj to buy some cinnamon, betel leaves, ginger
and garlic.
5. What did Raj buy?
Raj bought sesame seeds, onions, tomatoes and pickles.
B. Choose the correct answers.
1. Mother called ___________________.
a. Muthu
b. Raj
c. Ram
Answer: b. Raj
2. Mother did not ask
for ___________________.
a. cinnamon
b. cardamom
c. betel leaves
Answer: b. cardamom
3. Raj did not buy ___________________.
a. onions and sesame
b. ginger and garlic
c. tomato and pickles
Answer: b. ginger and
garlic
APPRECIATING THE POEM
C.
Find an example of alliteration in the poem.
Alliteration: is repetition of the consonant at
the beginning of two or more words in a line.
Example: mother twists my ears.
Example: add ginger and
garlic
D. Listen to the poem read by your teacher.
Read the poem aloud in pairs. One person reads out
Raj’s words and the other reads the mother’s. Take turns and read.
[CLASSROOM ACTIVITY]
E.
Tell the story of the poem in three or four sentences with the help of the pictures
given below.
♦ Mother asked Raj to buy
some cinnamon, betel leaves, ginger and garlic from Muthu's shop.
♦ Raj went to the shop
singing all the way.
♦ Raj rattled off a list
"sesame seeds, onions, tomatoes and pickles" out of confusion.
♦ When Raj came home his
mother twisted his ears for buying wrong items.
WRITING
F.
Read the jumbled lines from the poem and rearrange them in correct order.
1. cinnamon, betel leaves
2. and ginger and garlic”
3. Go to Muthu’s
4. My mother would say:
5. and get some
6. “Little boy Raj…
7. And so I go to the
shops
8. singing all the way
9. tomatoes and
pickles”
10. “Sesame seeds,
onions
11. I rattle off a
list:
12. what I’d want
13. and when Muthu
asks me
14. my mother
twists my ear
15. and back home
16. ouch!
Answer:
1. My mother would say:
2. "Little boy Raj...
3. Go to Muthu's
4. and get some
5. cinnamon, betel leaves
6. and ginger and garlic"
7. And so I go to the shops
8. singing all the way
9. and when Muthu asks me
10. what I'd want
11. I rattle off a list:
12. "Sesame seeds, onions
13. tomatoes and pickles"
14. my mother twists my ear
15. and back home
16. ouch!
G. Fill in the blanks with different words and write your
own poem.
Your Title for the poem: I dream of vegetables.
My mom would say:
“Little boy/girl
Go to
and get some
greens, chillies
potatoes and tomatoes”
And so I go to the
singing all the
way
and when Nandu asks
me
what I want
I rattle off a list:
"Cucumber, cabbage
Ladies finger and drumstick”
And back home,
mother twists my ears
Ouch!
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