Class 6 The Skylark NCERT solutions

Answer the following questions

1 What is a skylark?

Ans.A skylark is a small singing bird found in Europe, Asia and in the mountains of North Africa.

2 What does the poet mean by the line’A skylark hang between the two’ ? 

Ans. A skylark hang between the two means the skylark is between the earth and sky.

3 What is being described as ‘a stage’ in the poem ?

Ans. ‘A stage’ in the poem is being described as ‘Sky’.

4 What can the poet see on either side of her ?

Ans. The poetess can see the cornfield stretched a tender green on either side of her.

Choose the correct option

(i) The line ‘A singing speck above the corn’ means

• (a) like a dot in the sky,
• (b) like a dot on the corn stalk.

(ii) The line ‘while swift the sunny moments slid’ indicates

• (a) the skylark is moving away,
• (b) the sun is setting.

(iii) The words ‘tender green’ suggest which season?

• (a) winter,
• (b) spring.

Ans.

• (i)   (b),
• (ii)  (b)
• (iii) (a),

Choose the correct words to complete thesummary of the poem

(a)…….. (content / sad/ lonely) she feels as she walks through a cornfield. As she walk along. She sees a skylark

(b)…….. (flying away from the cornfield / flying in the sky / falling towards her). It doesn’t sing as it flies

(c)…….. (lower/ higher). Below it, butterflies

(d)…….. (sit quietly/move slowly/move quickly) in the cornfield. The poet knows. that the skylark’s nest is

(e)…….. (visible in /hidden in/far away from) the cornfield. She

(f)…….. (notices /imagines/knows) that its companion is also listening somewhere in the cornfield.

Ans.

• (a) content,
• (b) flying in the sky,
• (c) lower,
• (d) move quickly
• (e) hidden in,
• (f) imagines.

Match the words that go together in the poem

Ans.

• (a) → (iv),
• (b) → (v),
• (c) → (i),
• (d) → (ii),
• (e) → (iii).

PROSE

• 1a. The Emperor and the Nightingale
• 2a. The King and the Tree Goddess
• 3a. Sardar Patel: The Iron Man of India
• 4a. Simba
• 5a. Sindbad the Sailor: SecSolutionond Voyage
• 6a. Indigenous Games of India
• 7a. Letter to a Penpal
• 8a. Examination Time
• 9a. Florence Nightingale”The Lady with the Lamp”
• 10a. The Tiny Little Thing

POETRY

• 1b. The Skylark
• 2b. A Teacher for All Seasons
• 3b. A Nation’s Strength
• 4b. I Dram a World
• 5b. Foreign Lands
• 6b. Paper Boats
• 7b. Indian Weavers
• 8b. Exam Stress
• 9b. A Little Girl’s Poem
• 10b. I Would Choose to be a Daisy