Text Book Back Questions and Answers - Chapter 3 I Dream of Spices Term 1 6th English Poem Guide Samacheer Kalvi Solutions - SaraNextGen [2024-2025]

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Samacheer Kalvi 6th English Solutions Term 1 Poem Chapter 3 I Dream of Spices - Text Book Back Questions and Answers

Poem Overview

Glossary

cinnamon – the bark of a tree that gives a delicious flavour to food

garlic – a small bulb with a strong taste used in cooking
rattle off – recite
sesame seeds – gingelly seeds
ouch – sound that expresses pain

Read and Understand

A. Answer the following questions.

Question 1.
Who is Raj?
Answer:
Raj is a little boy.

Question 2.
Where did Raj’s mother send him?
Answer:
Raj’s mother sent him to a shop.

Question 3.
Who is Muthu?
Answer:
Muthu is the owner of a shop.

Question 4.
What did mother ask Raj to buy?
Answer:
His mother asked him to buy some cinnamon, betel leaves, ginger and garlic.

Question 5.
What did Raj buy?
Answer:
Raj bought sesame seeds,onions, tomatoes and pickles.

B. Choose the correct answers.

1. Mother called _______
(a) Muthu
(b) Raj
(c) Ram
Answer:
(b) Raj

2. Mother did not ask for _______
(a) cinnamon
(b) cardamom
(c) betel leaves
Answer:
(b) cardamom

Question 3.
Raj did not buy _______
(a) onions and sesame
(b) ginger and garlic
(c) tomato and pickles
Answer:
(b) ginger and garlic

Appreciating The Poem

C Find an example of alliteration in the poem.

sesame – seeds
what – want
ginger – garlic

D. Listen to the poem read by your teacher.

Read the poem aloud in pairs. One person reads out Raj’s words and the other reads the mother’s. Take turns and read.
(To be done by the students)

E. Tell the stoiy of the poem In three or four sentences with the help of the pictures given below.

Answer:
 

• Mother asks her son to go to shop and buy a few items.
   
• The boy goes to shop and buys different items.
   
• He returns home.
   
• Mother sees the items & punishes him.

Writing

F. Read the jumbled lines from the poem and rearrange them in correct order.

Answer:
4. My mother would say:
6. “Little boy Raj…
3. Go to Muthu’s
5. and get some
1. cinnamon, betel leaves
2. and ginger and garlic.”
7. And so I go to the shops
8. singing all the way
13. and when Muthu asks me
12. what I’d want
11. I rattle off a list:
10. “Sesame seeds, onions
9. tomatoes and pickles”
15. And back home,
14. My mother twists my ears
16. Ouch!

G. Fill in the blanks with different words and write, your own poem.

Your Title for the poem : Me and Mani!
My mom would say :
“Little boy / girl Mano
Go to Mani’s
and get some
Tomato, Brinjai
Carrot and Onion”
And so I go to the Mani’s
singing all the way
and when Mani asks me
what I want
I rattle off a list:
“Biscuit, Candies
Cakes and Wafers”
And back home,
My mom twists my ears
Ouch!

Additional Questions

I. Poem Comprehension.

1. My mother would say:
“Little boy Raj….
Go to Muthu s

Question a.
Who would say to go to shop?
Answer:
Raj’s mother.

Question b.
How does she call Raj?
Answer:
Little boy

2. get some
cinnamon, betel leaves
and ginger and garlic. ”

Question a.
Where will he get the items?
Answer:
Muthu’s shop.

Question b.
What should he buy?
Answer:
Cinnamon, betel leaves, ginger, garlic.

3. And so I go to the shops
singing all the way

Question a.
Who goes to shops?
Answer:
Raj goes to shops.

Question b.
How does he go?
Answer:
He goes singing all the way.

4. when Muthu asks me

what I’d want

I rattle off a list:

“Sesame seeds, onions

tomatoes and pickles ’’

I Dream Of Spices Poem Images Question a.

What does Muthu ask?

Answer:

Muthu asks Raj what he would want.

Dream About Spices Question b.

List the things he will buy?

Answer:

Sesame seeds, onions, tomatoes and pickles.

5. And back home,

Mother twists my ears

Ouch!

Question a.

What does mother do?

Answer:

Mother twists Raj’s ears.

Question b.

Why does she do so?

Answer:

He forgot the list of items told by her.

II. Poetic Devices.

1. And back home

Mother twists my ears.

What Is the poetic devise used in the second line?

Answer:

Alliteration – Mother – my

2. Cinnamom, beetal leaves

and ginger and garlic

Pick out the Alliteration.

Answer:

Alliterati on – ginger – garlic.

III. Paragraph Questions.

Question 1.

Describe Raj’s experience in helping his mom at shopping?

Answer:

This is a simple and interesting poem by Raj Arumugam on a little boy’s memory while shopping for his Mom. One-day when Raj’s Mom asks him to buy cinnamon, betel leaves, ginger and garlic but Raj bought sesame seeds, onions, tomatoes and pickles. He gets lovingly punished by his Mom.

Question 2.

How did Raju react when his mother asked him to buy a list of items?

Answer:

Raju’s mother called him and gave him a list of items to be bought from Muthu’s shop. She told him to get some cinnamon, betel leaves, ginger and garlic. But, being a little boy, he goes to the shop, singing happily all the way. When the shop owner asks him what does he want, he forgets what his mother had told him to buy and recites different items like sesame seeds, onions, tomatoes and pickles. When he gets back home, his mother gets angry and twists his ears due to his poor memory.

I Dream of Spices Summary

This is a simple and interesting poem by Raj Arumugam on a little boy’s memory while shopping for his Mom. One-day when Raj’s Mom asks him to buy cinnamon, betel leaves, ginger and garlic but Raj bought sesame seeds, onions, tomatoes and pickles. He gets lovingly punished by his Mom.