Chapters
Chapter 1.2: Who’s the Greatest ?
Chapter 1.3: Autobiography of a Great Indian Bustard
Chapter 1.4: Children are going to school ...
Chapter 1.5: A Kabaddi Match
Chapter 1.6: The Peacock and the Crane
Chapter 1.7: Param Vir Chakra : Our Heroes
Chapter 2.1: The Clothesline
Chapter 2.2: The Worth of a Fabric
Chapter 2.3: A Wall Magazine for your Class !
Chapter 2.4: Anak Krakatoa
Chapter 2.5: The Silver House
Chapter 2.6: Ad‘wise’ Customers
Chapter 2.7: Yonamine and Bushi
Chapter 3.1: It Can Be Done
Chapter 3.2: Seven Sisters
Chapter 3.3: Stone Soup
Chapter 3.4: Sushruta (A Peep into the Past)
Chapter 3.5: The Donkey
Chapter 3.6: The Merchant of Venice
Chapter 3.7: At the Science Fair
Chapter 4.1: Sleep, My Treasure
Chapter 4.2: The Story of Gautama’s Quest
Chapter 4.3: Mr Nobody
Chapter 4.4: A Mad Tea Party
Chapter 4.5: If I can stop one heart from breaking
Chapter 4.6: The Phantom Tollbooth (A Book Review)
Chapter 4.7: The Sword in the Stone
Chapter 4.8: An Autumn Greeting
Chapter 2: The Peacock and the Crane
Balbharati solutions for English 6th Standard Maharashtra State Board Chapter 2 The Peacock and the Crane Exercise [Page 19]
Read the following sentence carefully and choose the correct meaning.
The Peacock had a gorgeous tail like no other bird.
No other bird had a tail.
The Peacock’s tail was more beautiful than any other bird’s.
All birds had gorgeous tails.
Read the following sentence carefully and choose the correct meaning.
Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.
You cannot use feathers to make birds.
You can judge something by its outward beauty.
Something that looks beautiful may not really be useful.
Read the story aloud (or present it) in groups of three - the narrator, the peacock, and the crane.
Imagine you are the Crane. What actions and words of the Peacock would you not like? Write about it in short.
Discuss what a friendly and good-natured peacock would say to a crane. Write his speech. (5-8 lines.)
Find one more example which shows that a beautiful appearance is not enough.
List 5 adjectives and 5 nouns from the story.
Find five adjectives that end with
- ‘-ful’ and
- ‘-less’. Then write the antonym of each
Start a collection of proverbs. A proverb is a short, well-known sentence or phrase that gives advice or tells you what is generally true. For example, ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ means ‘If one does something in time or immediately, it saves a lot of work later’. A proverb is also known as a saying. Here are some proverbs for your collection.
- Appearances can be deceptive.
- Do not judge by appearance; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.
- All that glitters is not gold.
- You can’t tell a book by its cover.
- Clothes do not make the man.
Visit a library:
This story is a fable. Find two more fables. Share them with your friends.
Chapter 2: The Peacock and the Crane
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