SSC (English Medium) ६ वीं कक्षा - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Can you name different types of fabrics? Which is the most expensive fabric you know? Talk to your parents or to a textile shop assistant. Collect samples of as many types as you can and paste them into your scrapbook. Name each type.

Find out the different processes by which fabrics are made. Find illustrations and write a few lines on each process.

Name the type of fabric closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation. Why did Gandhiji want all of us to use this fabric?

India is famous for its handloom fabrics. Write the story of a handloom kurta in your own words.

Find the following adverbs in the story. What verbs do they tell us more about? Write down the pairs of verbs and adverbs.

• ago
• greatly
• Today
• politely
• calmly
• hard

Draw a diagram to show a volcanic eruption from its description given in this passage. Label the diagram. Show the following in it :

Volcano; earth’s crust; crack in the earth’s crust; hot molten rock; red, hot lava; smoke; ash; burning chunks of rock.

Show the stages in the process in which Krakatoa collapsed and then Anak Krakatoa formed in the course of volcanic eruptions. Use the flowchart given below.

Draw a diagram to show how life returned to the island. Label the diagram.
(Use the technique of drawing diagrams when you study science, geography, etc.)

Write short note on the following:

The 1883 eruption

Write a short note on the following:

The living world on Rakata

Find the pronunciation of the following words from a good dictionary.
strait, eruption, tremendous, dormant, extinct, tsunami, crater, plume.

Show the three categories of volcanoes using the following tree diagram structure.

Read aloud with the leader: Form groups of five. Read the passage aloud in groups. The leader begins every sentence and stops after a few words. The other members complete the sentence, reading it aloud in the chorus.

Look at the following words carefully for one minute. Now close your book and try to write down as many of the words as you can remember.

Read the passage and find the verbs used with the following nouns and phrases:

• volcano 
• molten rock
• volcanic mountain
• dust
• 165 village and towns
• the wind and the sea
• seeds
• bird

What do the following words in the poem mean?

1. crown
2. round
3. draw
4. blind

Do these words have other meanings? List them.

Find four pairs of rhyming words from the poem.

In each of the following line, spot the sound that is used repeatedly -

• There’s a silver house in the lovely sky.
• As round as a silver crown
• It takes two weeks to build it up. And two to pull it down.

What is implied in the following phrases or lines?

1. A silver house in the lovely sky
2. It takes two weeks to build it up
3. And two to pull it down.

Make a ‘pair presentation’ of the poem, in the class.