MP Board Class 6th Special English Solutions Chapter 9 The Naughty Boy

The Naughty Boy Text Book Exercise

Word Power

1. Match the words in column A with the clues given in column B.

Answer:
(i) → (f)
(ii) → (g)
(iii) → (j)
(iv) → (h)
(v) → (i)
(vi) → (b)
(vii) → (e)
(viii) → (c)
(ix) → (d)
(x) → (a)

Comprehension

Answer the following questions.

Question 1.
What did the naughty boy do?
Answer:
The naughty boy ran away from England to Scotland.

Question 2.
Why did he go to Scotland?
Answer:
He went to Scotland to find a world something different and more wonderful than the world he found in England.

Question 3.
What did he learn in Scotland?
Answer:
He learnt the things are exactly similar everywhere.

Question 4.
Why did he wonder at this?
Answer:
He wondered because he could not understand the reasons of this similarity of the world everywhere.

Let’s Talk

1. Work in group. Talk with your friends and fill in the blanks in the phrases given below.
Find out more such comparison.
Example:
as hard as – stone

as soft as ……………
as busy as ………….
as green as …………..
as white as …………..
as merry as ……………
as hot as …………..
as black as …………….
as cold as …………….

(Hints, snow, a cricket, grass, fire, crow, ice, stone, bee, butter)
Answer:

butter
bee
grass
snow
a cricket
fire
crow
ice.

Let’s Write

Write an essay on the town or village you live in. Use the following hints.
1. Its location
2. Surroundings
3. Places worth seeing
4. How to reach
5. Opportunities of education
Answer:
My City : Gwalior
Gwalior is in the northern most part of Madhya Pradesh. The city is dominated by its hill top fort. Gujri Mahal has a museum of sculpture. A great musical festival is held at Gwalior every year where Tansen is lying buried. The routes to Gwalior pass through forests and fertile land. Orchha and Shivpuri are the two loveliest places worth visiting. They are about 120 km from Gwalior. Sakhia Sagar and Madhav Sagar are the two lakes at Shivpuri. Madhav National Park surrounds these. A variety of deer, chinkara, gazelle, sambhar, antelope, wild dogs, blue bull, sloth bear live in it. It is a good centre of education. There are a number of schools are colleges in Gwalior.

The Naughty Boy Word Meanings

Naughty – mischievous, शराश्ती। Ground – land, भूमि। Merry – glad, प्रसन्न। Weighty – heavy, वजनी। Wondered – got amazed, चकित हुआ। Fourscore – eighty in number, अस्सी।

What is the full form of MPBSE?

MPBSE is the short form for Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education. Hemant Singh

About Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education

The Madhya Pradesh Board which conducts the Class 10 and Class 12 examinations in the state was established under the Madhya Pradesh Secondary Education Act, 1965. The Board was formed to regulate and conduct the affairs of the secondary education in the state. The MP Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) serves as an exam conducting body and it regulates the education policies in the affiliated schools. The MPBSE conducts annual board exams to evaluate the academic performance of students at the HSC and the HSSC levels. The first MP Board examinations were held in the year 1959-60, in which approximately 80,000 students participated. Since then, the MP Board has managed to raise the number of participants significantly to approximately 10 lakh in past few years. Each year lakhs of students participate in the MP Board 12 Examinations and MP Board 10 Examinations conducted by the MPBSEs.