Class 6 English Chapter 5 NCERT Solutions
The following questions cover the main poem-based exercises from the source. Try answering them yourself before checking the solutions.
Q1. Which of the following sentences is closest to a prayer? Explain.
(a) I wish my friend would bring idli in her tiffin tomorrow.
(b) I hope my friend and I win the race tomorrow.
(c) May my friend get well soon.
Answer: Sentence (c), “May my friend get well soon,” is closest to a prayer because it expresses a sincere wish for someone else’s recovery and well-being.
Q2. What would you pray for your friend?
Answer: You can pray that your friend finds peace and happiness, remains healthy, faces challenges with strength and courage, and achieves their dreams and aspirations. This is a personal-response question, so you can also express your own wishes for your friend.
Q3. Which parts of the poem can you underline if you agree with them?
Answer: This is a personal-response activity. You can choose the parts that express ideas you value, such as considering friendship important, feeling blessed to have special friends, supporting friends in achieving their wishes, and accepting them without judgement.
Q4. Why might you like the parts of the poem about giving your best to friends and accepting them as they are?
Answer: These ideas show that genuine friendship involves giving support in return, helping friends with their hopes and plans, understanding them, and accepting them without judging them.
Q5. Which lines were underlined by most people in the sample response? Why?
Answer: The sample response selects the concluding idea about understanding friends through the heart, not judging them from afar, and loving them as they are. These lines emphasise unconditional love and acceptance, which are important qualities of true friendship.
Q6. Complete the summary of the poem by choosing the correct highlighted words.
Answer: The correct choices are:
prayer
complete life
special
listen to
imagines
heart
as they are
true
Together, these choices show that the speaker considers friendship an important part of life and wants to understand, support, and accept friends.
Q7. Answer in one word only.
(a) How does the poet feel about special friends?
Answer: Blessed
(b) What does the poet use to realise what friends can be?
Answer: Heart
Q8. Read the lines about wanting to do more than share friends’ hopes and plans. What do they tell you about the speaker?
Answer: They show that the speaker is caring. She does not want to simply know what her friends want; she wishes to make an effort to help their wishes come true.
Q9. How will the speaker try to make her friends’ wishes come true?
Answer: The speaker will do so by trying hard.
Q10. Complete the sentence: My friends will feel ______ if their wishes come true.
Answer: happy
Q11. Which line tells you that feelings are important in understanding friendship?
Answer: The line is “Let me use my heart to see.” It suggests that understanding a friend requires empathy and feelings, not just observation.
Q12. What do the lines about using the heart and making no judgements tell you about the speaker?
Answer: They show that the speaker is thoughtful. She wants to understand her friends and accept them without making judgements.