SSLC (English Medium) इयत्ता ६ - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions for English

Read the jumbled lines from the poem and rearrange them in correct order.

Fill in the blanks with different words and write your own poem.

Your Title for the poem:______

My ______would say:

“Little boy/girl______

Go to ______

and get some ______, ______

______ and ______”

And so I go to the _______

_____ all the way

and when ______ asks me

what I want

I rattle off a list: “

______, ______

______ and ______”

And back home,

______ twists my ears

Ouch!

Why do we add spices to food?

Which spices are used a lot in Indian food?

Which parts of a plant are collected as spices?

What are the uses of spices?

What happened after Columbus discovered America?

People say curry comes from a Tamil word ‘kari’ which means ______.

Pepper is also known as______.

______wrote about cinnamon in 2700 BCE.

The Greeks, Romans and Egyptians all bought cinnamon from______.

Compare the travel maps of Vasco da Gama and Columbus.

Fill in the table with the prompts. Frame sentences with the help of the table.

Look at the pictures and read the given information.

Look at the table carefully. Then complete the points below.

1. The paddy plants are given manure is the ______  after ______.
2. The plants take ______days to grow before ripening. 
3. It takes 10 days to______ the rice. 
4. The rice grains have to be ______ and then stored. 
5. We ______ the grain for ______ days before boiling.

Talk in groups. Then share your thoughts with the class.

• Do you usually eat all the food served to you? If not, what are the reasons? When you eat lunch at school, which dishes do you not eat or waste?
• Why do you avoid certain food items?
• Can you think of ways to reduce the amount of food wasted in your school?
• Have you seen or known anyone in need of food? Have you helped them? How?
• Take a pledge in your group not to waste food.

Four of the following five are alike in certain ways and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

In a certain code language if KBOVBSZ is the code word for JANUARY, what is the code word for OCTOBER?

A school-going girl writes the diary account.

The boy was so inspired by Mithali that he was happy for his sister to play cricket.

Mithali Raj is happy to be recognised as Tendulkar of Indian Women’s Cricket.

Women should not be compared with men in cricket, says Mithali.