STD 6 English Unit 04 Work is Worship - The Grain as Big as a Hen’s Egg, Clever Carla, The Ploughman - Questions and Answers
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Unit 04 Work is Worship - The Grain as Big as a Hen’s Egg
Work is Worship - Questions and Answers
Work is Worship
1. Why do the ants work hard?
Answer: To collect their food for the rainy season.
2. What do you think will happen during the rainy days?
Answer: During the rainy season, ants will have enough food. But the grasshopper cannot go out to collect the food.
3. If you happen to see the grasshopper, what advice will you give?
Answer: Don't be lazy. Store something for the future also.
The Grain as Big as a Hen’s Egg
1. Pick out the sentence that gives you the idea that the wise men could not understand anything about the corn.
Answer: The wise man thought and thought, but couldn't make head or tail of it.
2. The learned men failed to find answers about the corn. What do think the king would do next?
Answer: The King would get the help of old men especially the old peasants in his kingdom.
3. Why did the peasant suggest that his Scodebteee better solution?
Answer: His father who is older and more experienced might know where such grains grew.
4. ‘.. for in my time, money was not yet in use.” How would the people have got the grain they wanted?
Answer: They would have exchanged their other agricultural products with farmers.
5. What difference do see in the grandfather and the old peasant?
Answer: The grandfather could walk easily without crutches. His eyes were
clear, his hearing good and he spoke distinctly unlike his grandson.
6. What details of the grain did the great grandfather give?
Answer: Big corn grew everywhere. People cultivated corn together.
7. What is the sin mentioned by the grandfather?
Answer: Buying and selling grains for earning money was considered a sin in grandfather's time.
8. What moral do you learn from the old man’s words?
Answer: We have to live by our own labour, live according to God's law and don't covet the things of others.
Let’s revisit the story
1. How did the wise men try to find the details of the corn?
Answer: The wise men pondered over the corn and referred to different books.
2. Why was the great grandfather healthier than his son and grandson?
Answer: The great grandfather was hard-working, and had earned his living through his own labour.
3. How did the king become aware of the merit of labour, at the end of the story?
Answer: When the great grandfather explained that men during his times lived by their own labour without being selfish and that they were much healthier, the king understood the merits of labour.
4. How was the life of the people in olden days?
Answer: Men lived according to the law of nature. They had what was their own and coveted not what others had produced. The land belonged to all.
Activity 1
1. The journey of the big grain of corn started when the children playing found the corn in a ravine and ended when it reached the old peasant’s grandfather, who unfolded the details about the grain. Let’s complete the journey of the big grain of corn by filling in the empty boxes.
The king sent for the old man’s grandfather and he was brought before the king. The king showed him the grain. The great grandfather looked at it and smiled.
Imagine and write the possible conversation between the king and the great grandfather.
Answer:
King: Dear grandfather, can you tell where this corn was grown?
Great Grandfather: Everywhere, when I was young we were fed on it. Your Highness
King: Did you buy it anywhere?
Great Grandfather: Never, your Highness. We thought it a sin to buy or sell anything it
King: Where did you grow corn like this?
Great grandfather: My field was God's earth. Nobody then owned any land.
King: Will you please answer two more questions of mine?
Great grandfather: Surely, My Lord.
King: Why did the earth bear such grains then and has ceased to do so now? Why are you healthier than your son and grandson?
Great Grandfather: I live by my own labour according to god's law and I am fully satisfied with what I have
Activity 3
3. Look at the pictures carefully.
Why do you think there are no flies around the fruits in Basket B?
Discuss and write.
Answer: The fruits in basket B are coated with pesticides. Hence, there are no flies on it.
Activity 4
4. In Kerala, we buy most of the vegetables and food items from the market. But, there are many people who grow vegetables and food grains in their houses/farms/schools.
a. Name some vegetables and fruits that you can cultivate at home/in your school.
b. Now, write down the advantages of growing vegetables and fruits at home. The following hints will help you.
(fresh, pesticide-free, healthy life, nutritious, stress reduction, satisfaction, additional income, natural manure)
Answer:
b. We can lead a healthy life by cultivating vegetables and fruits at home. We must try to use only natural manure in our farm. Studies have proven that the cultivation and consumption of certain vegetables and fruits can reduce our stress. They not only give fresh and nutritious food but can also be a source of income for our family. As they are free from pesticides, they can never cause diseases like cancer, liver cirrhosis etc.
Activity 5
5. The king decided to honour the great grandfather. He organised a function to felicitate him. The great grandfather made a speech about the difference between the lifestyle and the methods of farming during his own time and that of the present generation. What would be the likely speech made by the great grandfather? Write the speech using the hints given in the box below.
Answer:
Honourable His Majesty, the king and the courtiers,
I am very happy that the court has decided to felicitate me. It is a great honour for a peasant like me and I am only happy to share with you the details of lifestyle and farming during our time. At that time, my grandfather and I lived by our own labour. No one coveted what others had produced, We used natural methods of cultivation. People were not selfish and self-centred so - were much happier healthier than the present generation. But what is going on now? People live by depending on others. Moreover, they are jealous and greedy. Now farmers have a profit motive. So they use artificial methods of cultivation that lead to dreadful diseases.
I don't want to prolong my speech. I convey my wholehearted gratitude
to His Majesty, the King. Before I conclude I have a humble request to the
king, to promote natural methods of cultivation for the sake of all our
people.
Thank you all.
Activity 6
6. Look at the words given below. Compare the features of the old peasant and the great grandfather. One is done for you.
Answer:
Using the words you have listed, write a description each about the old peasant and the great grandfather.
Answer:
Old Peasant
The old peasant has poor eyesight. He is greedy, lazy and unhealthy. He is irrational and selfish. He is toothless and his speech is indistinct. He is deaf too.
The Great Grandfather
The great grandfather is a generous man with bright eyesight and sharp ears. He is hardworking and healthy. He is rational and unselfish. His speech is quite clear
Activity 7
7. Read the words given in the bubble. Find out words that are related to the encircled words. Write them in the blanks given.
Read the sentences given below. Rewrite them using ‘hardly’. One is done for you.
e.g. The king showed him the grain but the man could not see it.
The king showed him the grain but the man could hardly see it.
Answer:
1. The old man was so deaf that he could not hear what the king said.
The old man was so deaf that he could hardly hear what the king said.
2. The wise men thought for a long time but couldn't make head or tail out of it.
The wise men thought for a long time but could hardly make head or tail out of it.
3. The leamed men pondered again and searched in their books, but could not find anything about it.
The leamed men pondered again and searched in their books but could hardly find anything about it.
4. We knew nothing of money in our old days.
We hardly knew anything of money in our old days.
Activity 9
9. Read the following sentence from the story.
The grain was as large as a hen’s egg.
We can split this sentence into two:
The grain was large.
A hen’s egg was large.
Now, find out the appropriate pair of sentences from the table and combine using ‘as....as’. One is done for you.
1. Kishore is as tall as Anand.
2. Nithin is as young as Athul.
3. Tintu Luka runs as fast as a deer.
4. A jasmine is as beautiful as a lotus.
5. A grain is as small as an ant.
Clever Carla
Activity 1
Number the pictures in the same order as the events took place in the play.
Write the events in the right order in the space given below.
1. The farmer loaded his wagon with grains.
2. A merchant came there.
3. The merchant made a deal with the farmer and the merchant cheated him.
4. The farmer became very sad.
5. The farmer told everything to Carla.
6. Carla made a deal with the merchant.
7. The merchant showed her three copper coins. Carla asked for his three lovely rings also.
8. Merchant gave her his rings.
9. She returned the rings and told him that she can't cheat anybody as he did.
Activity 2
Read these lines which describe a farmer’s work.
When the sun rises, I go to work.
When the sun goes down, I take rest.
I dig the well from which I drink.
I farm the soil which yields my food.
A farmer tills and toils in the farm to produce good products.
The work of a farmer is hard and eventful as described in the above lines.
Do you know any farmer in your locality? Collect their names, the crops they cultivate, the products, the way they sell it, etc.
Answer:
There are many farmers in our village.
They work very hard in their fields from dawn to dusk.
They cultivate crops such as rice, wheat, vegetables etc.
They use only organic manure.
They sell their products in the nearby market.
Look at the picture and describe the work of a farmer.
Don’t forget to describe the work done by the family members of the farmer too.
A farmer is working in his field.
There is a small hut located at the edge of the field.
The farmer's wife helps him in farming. She cares the cattle.
Their children are enjoying a bath in the nearby pond.
There are many trees and hills in the picture.
The wind is blowing and the coconut tree is swaying in the wind.
Editing
The king of Ananthapuri wants to promote farming in his kingdom. One of his courtiers prepared a news report. There are some errors in it. Help him edit the report.
Ananthapuri: The king of Ananthapuri is worried about the poor condition of farming in his kingdom. He visit all parts of his kingdom. He could hardli see any cultivated land except in some areas. So he issued orders to began farming in all parts of the kingdom as early was possible. The king offered hundred gold coins for the best farmer, which makes the best result in farming.
Answer:
Ananthapuri: The king of Ananthapuri is worried about the poor condition of farming in his kingdom. He visited all parts of his kingdom. He could hardly see any cultivated land except in some areas. So he issued orders to begin farming in all parts of the kingdom as early as possible. The king offered hundred gold coins for the best farmer, who makes the best result in farming.
Project
Collect names of as many fruits and vegetables as possible. Add the names of vegetables and fruits listed in Activity 4 on Page 115. Find out the vitamins and nutrients present in them, with the help of the Science textbook and your teacher.
List them down in the format as given below. One is done for you.
Activity i
A poet turns letters and words into various styles to frame lines of a poem. Likewise, a farmer turns seeds to crops. Which lines give you this idea?
Answer:
This is the page whose letters shall be seen,
Changed by the sun to words of living green;
Activity ii
In this poem, the poet considers both farming and writing as creative work. Let’s examine
how the poet compares these two activities. Study the following table and fill in the missing parts. Use the hints given in the bracket.
(pen, page, crops, seeds)
Answer:
Pick out pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Answer:
brings - kings
seen - green
pen - men
toil - soil
Activity iv
We are aware of the importance of agriculture. Why can’t we celebrate Chingam 1st as the ‘Farmer’s Day’ in our school? To make the programme colourful, what preparations are to be made?
Answer:
1. Inviting farmers to the school.
2. Fixing a date and time.
3. Arranging Schedule Programmes
4. Decorate the School.
Now, prepare a letter of invitation for the farmers.
12 July 2021
Dear Ramu, Kollam
We have decided to celebrate Chingam 1st as farmer's day. On this occasion, we would like to honour the farmers in our locality. You are one of the traditional farmers in our locality. we would like to invite you to the celebration of our school during ‘Farmer's day. We are eager to know the ways of cultivation of different crops and also the difference in cultivation between the present and the past. So with great honour, we are inviting you to the function.
Yours Lovingly
Students
Govt. School Kollam
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