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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 6 English Prose Chapter 1 The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes
Preparatory Activity:
1. a) Discuss in pairs: What are some of the useful inventions made by scientists? How useful are these inventions?
- B.C.G. vaccine invented by Calmette and Guerin to fight tuberculosis.
- Television by John Baird. It has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
- Cardiac pacemaker by Lidwell – It helps to know how to maintain a healthy heartbeat with an electronic device.
- Digital Electronic Computer: by Zuse Konrad. To create a computer was to make life easier for the fellow scientists.
- Rabies vaccine: Louis Pasteur – to fight against Rabies.
- Edward Genner: Smallpox vaccine to fight against smallpox.
A scientist is someone who investigates the secrets of Nature.
- Archimedes: Best known Mathematician and scientist Archimedes screw.
- Robert Hooke: Discovered plant cells.
- Benjamin, Franklin: Laws of physics/ invented bifocal spectacles.
- Louis Pasteur: Pasteurization of milk. William
- Rantgen: Discovery of X-rays. Pierre
- Curie: Electrometer.
1. b) What would our life be like without inventions? Discuss how our life will be if we do not have the following (you can speak in your mother tongue):
- The electric light: have to study in the dark.
- The telephone: have to travel and meet the people.
- The computer: have to rely on manual work.
- The bicycle: have to walk for long distances.
- The television: have to depend on Radio. Tape recorder.
- The medicines: have to suffer from many diseases.
- The plastic material: have to use other bags.
- The X-ray: have to undergo much suffering without proper diagnosis.
2. Make a list of all the words that come to your mind when you hear the word ‘lighthouse’. Read out the list to the class.
Answer:
It is a tower, building or other type of structure. The following words come to our mind. Light, top, tower lamps, aerial navigation etc.
Let’s Understand:
C1. Discuss in pairs and answer the following questions:
Question 1.
Why was Rajiv thrilled?
Answer:
Rajiv was thrilled to see the lighthouse when he went out with his father to watch it.
Question 2.
What is a lighthouse?
Answer:
Lighthouse is a tall, strong building in the shape of a tower with powerful lights at the top.
Question 3.
How are lighthouses useful to sailors?
Answer:
They help the sailors to locate the land and the place. The lighthouses guide and warn the sailors.
Question 4.
Where are the lighthouses built?
Answer:
Lighthouses are built on the seashore and sometimes in the sea.
Question 5.
What did people use in lighthouses before the invention of electricity?
Answer:
They used wood to light fires and candles in a glass enclosure.
Question 6.
How was the first lighthouse built?
Answer:
The people collected a few huge logs and lots of dry branches and set fire to them and continued to keep the fire burning.
Question 7.
Find words, from the story, which mean the opposite of the following:
- Dangerous
- short
- far
- low
- old
- stop
Answer:
- Dangerous × harmless
- short × long
- far × near
- low × potor
- old × new
- stop × begin
C2. Sit in pairs. Answer each of the following questions in a sentence:
Question 1.
Rajiv was thrilled because his father was going to take him out on a visit to the lighthouse. What incidents in your life made you thrilled? Narrate them.
Answer:
I was thrilled to watch the X-ray machine when I went with my grandfather to a super specialty hospital. He was suffering from a severe fracture. When the X-ray was taken out, the doctors came to know about the fracture and they treated him. Now my grandfather is well.
Question 2.
Do you want to invent something new? What kind of new invention do you want to make?
Answer:
I want to invent a T.V which will be handy and can be carried wherever we go.
Question 3.
Lighthouse is not an invention made by any single person. In the same way, there are many other such inventions which were made with the collective effort of many persons. Make a list of them and discuss them in the class.
Answer:
Mercator projection, Modern World Atlas, Computers, Blue tooth, Modern Medicine, Electro Cardiograph, Microscope, etc.
Let’s Listen:
2. The following are a few sounds we hear almost every day. Divide them into loud and soft sounds:
- clapping hands
- a bee buzzing
- stamping feet
- a car moving
- the wind blowing
- rustling leaves
- a feather dropping
- a horn blowing
Answer:
Let’s Practise Words:
VI. What are the following?
1. One who sails across a river or a sea
Answer:
sailor
2. One who catches fish for his living
Answer:
fisherman
3. A tall building in the sea which guides the sailors
Answer:
lighthouse
4. The area of land by the
side of the sea
Answer:
sea shore
5. A journey by sea
Answer:
voyage
V2. Look at the word grid given below. Names of some vehicles are hidden in the grid. Look horizontal and vertically Circle them and write down in your notebook. One is done for you.
Answer:
- BUS
- TRAIN
- TRUCK
- AIRPLANE
- AUTO RICKSHAW
- SCOOTER
- CAR
- TRACTOR
- BOAT
V3. Read the following passage.
Asha and Gopal are going on a trip to a village. Their journey is not long. They both like to travel by train. They wish to go on a voyage when they grow up.
Now fill in the blanks with suitable words choosing from the ones underlined in the above passage.
1. My brother is fond of space travel. His dream is to go on a _____ into space.
Answer:
voyage
2. My parents always _______ by train.
Answer:
travel
3. We went on a short _______ to Dehra Dun in the summer vacation.
Answer:
trip
4. The _______ from Bengaluru to Mysuru is quite comfortable.
Answer:
journey.
V4. “_______ The people on the land were worried and yet helpless to guide them.” Here the underlined word has a suffix ‘less’ to mean ‘without’. Now write more words with the suffix ‘less’. Look at the clues given.
[Clues: use, fear, colour, weight, help, hope]
1. Don’t dry my redshirt in the sun. It’ll become _______
Answer:
colourless.
2. There isn’t enough drinking water in our place. The situation is _______
Answer:
hopeless.
3. This apple is not fresh. It has become _______
Answer:
useless.
4. I emptied all the contents of the bag. Now it is _______
Answer:
weightless.
5. I don’t know what to do next. I’m feeling _______
Answer:
helpless.
6. Raju is a strong boy. He is _______ too.
Answer:
fearless.
V5. Complete the set.
Answer:
- happy, excited, thrilled (8 letters), delighted (9 letters)
- picnic, trip, excursion (9 letters), tour (4 letters).
- wise, clever, intelligent (11 letters), bright (6 letters), smart (5 letters).
- adorable, pet, favourite (9 letters).
Let’s Speak and Write:
Look at the following pictures. Describe each of them.
Now speak about “A Visit to the Zoo” in your own words.
Narrate any other such visits you made to different places – Visit my Grandmother’s house, visit to a museum, Visit a park, etc.
Write a short paragraph on ONE of the above topics. Present your paragraph to the class.
Answer:
Visit a Park:
I visited the park with my parents. It is a big park with colourful flowers. There are many plants and trees. People sit and enjoy it here. We observed all the plants and trees and saw beautiful flowers. I observed some people playing in the park. We enjoyed eating our breakfast here. We wandered here and went home at noon.
Self Assessment:
Read the statements and tick the appropriate box. (Answers)
Let’s Learn a language:
G1. In the lesson, the lighthouse is described as a tall, strong building in the shape of a tower with powerful lights at the top. Now write the describing words for the following. One is done for you.
- man – tall man
- girl – beautiful girl
- rose – red rose
- day – bright day
- handwriting – neat handwriting.
Write a few more phrases like these.
Answer:
- clever – very clever
- huge – huge building
- warm – warm milk
- cute – cute child
- long – long way
- short – short story.
G2. Rajiv exclaimed. “How clever of the humans!”
When Rajiv learnt from his father about the invention of the lighthouse, he made the above statement to express his feeling of surprise.
1. You see a beautiful rose. “Oh! How _____ !”
Answer:
beautiful is the rose !”
2. Your friend is wearing a pretty dress. “How _____ !”
Answer:
pretty dress it is !” OR
What a pretty dress are you wearing! OR How pretty is your dress!
3. Your mother has prepared a tasty dish. “How _____ !”
Answer:
tasty is the dish !”
4. One of your classmates pushes the bench. “How _____ !”
Answer:
rude you are !” OR
How noisy it is !”
Extended Activity:
Minimal Pairs:
1. Repeat after the teacher. Add a few more words:
Answer:
Suggested reading:
a. Read the poem given below:
b. Underline the unfamiliar words and find their meanings from a dictionary.
c. Present the summary of the poem in the next class.
Answer:
Thomas Alva Edison (poem)
Thomas Alva Edison,
A most unusual boy,
Never really bothered much
With any childish toy.
His teacher thought he couldn’t learn
And sent him home from school,
But Tommy’s mother knew for sure
He wasn’t any fool.
He worked as newsboy on a train
He learned to telegraph,
The way he concentrated
Made some people laugh.
Thomas Alva Edison
Had inventions by the score.
In his laboratory
He kept inventing more.
The phonograph, electric light
(With fuses, sockets, too),
A super storage battery
And the movies were a few.
If not for Mr. Edison
How dull our lives would be!
We might not have the radio,
The X-ray, or TV.
Glossary:
Summary:
The poem is about Thomas Alva Edison and his life. He was an unusual boy and never cared for toys. The teachers thought he would not learn but his mother knew for certain that he would learn. So she taught him. He kept on inventing the phonograph, electric light, a storage battery, and movies. Really his contribution is great otherwise our life would be dull.
The Lighthouse Summary in English
In this lesson, we come to know about the inventions and uses of the lighthouse through the dialogues between Rajiv and his father Madhav.
Madhav took his son Rajiv to watch the lighthouse. They made a small trip. Madhav told his son to look at the lighthouse. Rajiv wanted to know the uses of the lighthouse. Lighthouse was a tall strong building in the shape of a tower with powerful lights at the top.
Madhav pointed out the uses of the lighthouse.
- It helps the sailors to know where the land is and can locate the place.
- The lighthouse warns and guides the sailors.
Then Rajiv asked about the working of the lighthouse. Madhav replied that modern lighthouses use powerful electric lights.
Madhav also told that wood fires would be lit in high places on the shore. Later plenty of candles were used. They used the glass to protect the candle from the air. Earlier the sailors had the danger of dashing against high rocks and unable to locate the place. But the lighthouses helped them. In the past, many fishermen were lost in the sea and were unable to return home.
So to help these people, some wise men came with the idea of the lighthouse. They gathered logs and dry branches. They set fire. The elder people laughed at this, but the wise men were succeeded in keeping the fire burning. Then Rajiv had his favorite ice-cream and both went home.
The Lighthouse Summary in Kannada
