SEBA Class 6 English (Sunbeam Reader I) Lesson 1 – The Rainbow Solutions & Summary
Find SEBA Class 6 English (Sunbeam Reader I) Lesson 1 – “The Rainbow” solutions, designed for Assamese medium students. This chapter is a beautiful poem that describes the colors of nature and the magical appearance of a rainbow in the sky.
Students will learn about the imagery used in poetry, the natural phenomenon of a rainbow, and how different objects in the sky and on land create beauty in the world. The poem also highlights the poet’s perspective on how the rainbow adds charm to the environment.
Our solutions include NCERT-based textbook answers, multiple-choice questions (MCQs), and a detailed chapter summary to help students understand poetic expressions, rhyme scheme, and the deeper meaning behind the poem.
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ACTIVITIES
1 . Complete the following sentences by reading the poem ” The Rainbow ” :
(a) Boats sail _____________.
(b) _____________ sail on the seas.
(c) But ___________ sail across the sky.
(d) Boats and ships are pretty, but clouds are _________.
(e) The ‘ bow ‘ in the poem is ________.
Answer:- (a) on the rivers..
(b) And ships
(c ) Clouds that
(d) prettier
(e) rainbow
2. Match the following:
Boats Prettier
Ships Pretty
Clouds Prettier
Rainbow Pretty
Answer:- Boats Pretty
Ships Pretty
Clouds Prettier
Rainbow Prettier
3. What are the things that a rainbow does ? Fill in the blanks below with words from the poem.
______ ————— heaven
The Rainbow _______ ————— the trees
________ ————— from earth to sky
Answer:- Bridges , Over tops, Builds a road.
4. Two summaries of the poem are given below. Which one do you like more? Discuss your answer with the friend sitting next to you . Then share your thoughts with the rest of the class.
(a) The poem ‘ The Rainbow ‘ is about nature. Here the poet compares the beauty of nature and man – made Beauty. She finds that beauty created by nature is prettier than man – made beauty. The clouds that sail across the sky are prettier than boats sailing on rivers and ships sailing on the seas. But the rainbow is prettier than all the pretty things that sails on the rivers.
(b) Boats sail on the rivers and ships sail on the seas. But the clouds that sail across the sky are prettier than these boats and ships. Their bridges in the rivers are beautiful. But the rainbow that builds a road from earth to sky is prettier than the bridges.
Answer :- I like the first summary the most. Because it is a wider explanation of the meaning of the poem. The second summary is just the simple version of the poem. The first summary conveys the inherent meaning of the poem ” The Rainbow ” . The poet in this poem tries to explain that nature can create more beautiful objects than human beings.
5. (a) As you know, rhyming words are words that end with the same sound, such as sound- round. Here are some words from the poem ‘ The Rainbow ‘ . Work with your friend and write two words that rhyme with each of them:
Ans:-
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Boat – Goat , Coat |
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River– fever, never |
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Ship – hip, flip |
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Sea – see , bee |
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Cloud – loud, proud |
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Sky – fly , apply |
(b) Now say the words aloud and recite the poem ‘ The Rainbow ‘ for practice.
6. (a) Make a list of things that :
Answer:- Sails on rivers and seas :
Boats
Ships
Rafts
Vessels
Move on the road :
Cycles
Buses
Cars
Fly across the sky:
Aeroplane
Helicopter
(b) Now make three sentences with any of the words from the list above.
Answer:- Boat :- Boat sail on the river.
Bus :- We go to school by bus.
Aeroplane :- My dad came to Assam by aeroplane.
7. Read the following stanza of ‘ The Rainbow ‘ and write what you have understood about it. Draw a picture to go with it:
Boats sail on the rivers,
And ships sail on the seas;
But clouds that sail across the sky
Are Prettier far than these.
Answer:- The poet narrates that the boats that sail on the rivers and the ships that sail on the seas are doubtlessly pretty. But above them all, the clouds that sail across the sky are the prettiest.
8. Let’s learn some grammar : Read the poem ‘ The Rainbow ‘ once again. Find words belonging to the following word classes and write them in the spaces below. One is done for you. You may fill the spaces with others words if you do not find an appropriate word in the poem.
- Noun ( naming words, for example, ‘ boat’) : ________, ______
Answer:- Ship, River
- Pronoun (a word used instead of a noun; for example, ‘it’ ) : ______,____
Answer :- That, these
(C ) Adjective ( a word that describes a person or a things; for example, ‘pretty’) : _____,_____
Answer:- Big, Beautiful
(d) Verb: ( a word or a group of words that expresses an action; for example, ‘eat’, ‘ run’): _________,________
Answer :- sail, build
9. The words you have written in 8 (c ) are called adjectives because they say something more about a noun or pronoun. In the poem ‘ The Rainbow ‘ , you found the adjectives pretty and prettier. Such adjectives show the degree of something, as shown below :
Comparison of Adjectives
Now think of two other adjectives that can be compared in the same way, and write them in the their degree ( positive, comparative and superlative) in the space below:
positive comparative superlative
Tall Taller Tallest
High Higher Highest
Now complete the table below by filling in the columns as shown in the examples. Two have been done for you.
10. You must have seen in the poem how a word belonging to one word class may be used as a different word class. For example,
Bridge ( noun ) : There is a bridge on the river.
Bridge ( verb) : The rainbow bridges the earth and sky .
Now make a sentence using the following words first as a noun, and then as a verb :
Book, hand, back, sail, bow, water
Answer :- Book(noun) : I read a book.
Book(verb) : I booked my train ticket from Guwahati to Delhi.
Hand(noun) : Human beings have two hands.
Hand(verb) : The grandfather handed over his property to his grandchild.
Back(noun) : The worker has a heavy load on his back.
Back(verb) : Nobody backed me in my bad days.
Sail(noun) : The boat sailing because the wind is pushing its sails.
Sail(verb) : Boat sail on river.
Water(noun) : Water is life for animals.
Water(verb) : I Water my flowers regularly.
11. Let’s practice our word building skills. Make a few words with each of the letters from the word RAINBOW. First make a three letter word, then four letter word, and so on. One is done is done for you:
Answer:-
12. (a) Ask the following questions to your parents and write his/her answers in given space:
(i) Have you ever seen a rainbow?
Answer:- Yes, I have seen a rainbow.
(ii) What does the rainbow look like?
Answer :- The rainbow looks like a bow.
(iii) When do you see a rainbow?
Answer :- We see a rainbow during the rainy season.
(iv) What colours do you see on a rainbow?
Answer:- The colours that we see on a are – violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.
(b) Write a few sentences on how you feel when you see a rainbow in the sky. You can take help from the box.
Happy Excited Full of joy
Answer:- I always stand excited to see a rainbow in the sky. We see it rarely.
The appearance of a rainbow makes my mind happy.
The moment I see a rainbow is full of joy.
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