G.D.
GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL, DWARKA
ENGLISH WORKSHEET
CLASS- VI
NAME: ……………… POEM: VOCATION DATE: ……………….
I. Choose the correct answer.
1. A child wishes to……….. .
(a) take breakfast at noon (b) be a watchman
(c) wash his dress (d) get up early in the morning
2. When no one checks him, he will……………. .
(a) not get baked in the sun (b) not spoil his clothes
(c) walk the street all night (d) not indulge In gossip
3. The child wishes to become………………. .
(a) a doctor (b) an engineer
(c) a hawker (d) a teacher
4. The word giant’ is a/ an …………… .
(a) noun (b) gerund
(c) verb (d) adjective
5. The hawker leads a…………….. life
(a) pious (b) carefree
(c) miserable (d) peaceful
6. According to the poet, what should the gardener do?
(a) Plant only weeds. (b) Be punished for soiling his clothes.
(c) Plant flowers and vegetables. (d) Plant fruit.
7. What is t4he poet’s emotion when the mother sends him to bed?
(a) unhappy (b) happy
(c) revengeful (d) jealous
8. When all seem free, the poet feels………… .
(a) choked (b) to join them
(c) envious (d) to go to sleep
9. The speaker seems to be disgusted with ……………. .
(a) the gong (b) the hawker
(c) the school (d) the discipline
10. The speaker loves the gardener’s ………… .
(a) gardening (b) digging
(c) freedom (d) dress
11. The one who is taken to task for getting baked in the sun is ……………. .
(a) the gardener (b) the bangle-seller
(c) the speaker (d) the watchman
12. The watchman comes on duty when…………….
(a) the child sleeps. (b) the gardener comes
(c) the bangle seller comes. (d) the sun rises.
13. The street is lonely because ……………………….
(a) people fear to come out. (b) people are asleep.
(c) there is curfew. (d) nobody lives in this lane.
II. Read the extracts from the poem and then choose the correct answer:
(1)
When the gong sounds ten in the morning and
I walk to school by our lane,
Every day I meet the hawker crying. Bangles.
crystal bangles!”
There is nothing to hurry him on. there is no
road he must take, no place he must go to, no
tune when he must come home.
I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in
the road, crying. ‘Bangles, crystal bangles !
1. Who is the speaker of the passage?
(a) a baby (b) a young man
(c) a school-going child (d) a school teacher
2. What is the speaker repelled with?
(a) the gong (b) the hawker
(c) the school (d) the discipline
3. The speaker seems to love ………… .
(a) his school (b) the bangles
(c) the hawker (d) the freedom
4. The passage has been taken from
(a) Vocation (b) What if
(c) Beauty (d) The Quarrel
5. Choose the noun form of ‘spending’.
(a) spend (b) spender
(c) sperm (d) spent
(2)
When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school.
I can see through the gate of that house the
gardener digging the ground.
He does what he likes with his spade, he soils
his clothes with dust, nobody takes him to
task, f he gets baked in the sun or gets wet.
1. The author of this passage is………….. .
(a) R.N. Tagore (b) Shel Silverstein (c) L.M. Hall (d) Eleanor Farjeon
2. The speaker loves the gardener’s ………………… .
(a) gardening (b) digging (c) freedom (d) dress
3. The one who is taken to task for getting baked In the sun is………… .
(a) the gardener (b) the bangle-seller (c) the speaker (d) the watchman
4. The gardener’s tool is his…………….. .
(a) trees (b) plants (c) soil (d) spade
5. The noun form of ‘see’ is………… .
(a) saw (b) sight
(c) seen (d) seeing
