TEACHGYAN • CBSE CLASS 6 ENGLISH • POORVI

Unit 2 – Friendship

Complete lesson-wise study resource: explanation • themes • vocabulary • literary skills • grammar • questions • MCQs • worksheet

Unit idea: friendship is explored through companionship, empathy, trust, sacrifice and the ways people value relationships.

🤝 Lesson 1 — The Unlikely Best Friends

Story at a Glance

Gajaraj, a royal elephant, has comfort and care but feels lonely because he lacks a true companion. A stray dog enters his space and the two animals develop a close friendship. Their bond becomes important enough that separation affects both of them, showing that friendship is built on companionship and affection rather than status or appearance. citeturn1search3turn1search15

Key Ideas

• Material comfort cannot replace companionship.
• Friendship can cross differences in size, status and background.
• Emotional bonds involve care, loyalty and mutual trust.
• Small acts of companionship can have deep value.

Questions

1. Why is Gajaraj lonely despite having a comfortable life?
2. What changes after the dog enters his life?
3. Why can the two animals be called “unlikely” friends?
4. What does their friendship teach us about judging others?

🙏 Lesson 2 — A Friend’s Prayer

Understanding the Poem

The poem presents friendship as something connected with goodwill, sincerity and concern for another person. Instead of focusing only on receiving help, it encourages an attitude in which a friend wishes for the well-being and strength of another.

Poetry Skills

• Identify the speaker and the speaker’s attitude.
• Notice repetition and emotionally important words.
• Separate the literal prayer from the values it expresses.
• Explain how tone creates the feeling of the poem.

Questions

1. What qualities does the speaker value in friendship?
2. How does the poem show concern for another person?
3. What is the difference between a true friend and a friend only in good times?
4. Write two values from the poem that can guide your own friendships.

🪑 Lesson 3 — The Chair

Story at a Glance

The lesson uses a humorous situation involving a chair to explore relationships, behaviour and the way ordinary objects can become important in a social situation. Read the sequence carefully and notice how the characters’ reactions create humour and reveal their attitudes.

Reading Skills

• Identify the source of humour.
• Track how a situation changes from beginning to end.
• Infer character attitudes from actions and dialogue.
• Explain how an ordinary object becomes central to the situation.

Questions

1. What creates the humour in the lesson?
2. How do the characters’ reactions move the situation forward?
3. What does the incident reveal about people’s behaviour?
4. Retell the incident from another character’s point of view.

📚 Vocabulary & Language

Build a friendship vocabulary bank: companionship, affection, loyalty, trust, empathy, concern, quarrel, reconcile, generous, sincere. Use each word in a meaningful sentence.

✏️ Grammar Focus

Practise pronouns, subject–verb agreement and sentence types while writing about characters and relationships.

1. Replace repeated nouns with suitable pronouns.
2. Correct five subject–verb agreement errors.
3. Write five interrogative sentences and five exclamatory sentences related to the unit.
4. Combine pairs of short sentences using conjunctions.

🧠 Competency / HOTS

1. Can two people be good friends even when they are very different? Justify your answer.
2. Imagine Gajaraj had judged the dog by appearance. How would the story change?
3. Describe a situation where empathy is more useful than advice.
4. Compare friendship in the three lessons.
5. Write five rules for being a responsible friend.

🧩 MCQs

1. Gajaraj’s main emotional need is — A. companionship B. wealth C. food only D. fame
2. A strong friendship is usually based on — A. trust and care B. social status alone C. competition only D. fear
3. Poetry questions should be answered using — A. clues from the poem B. unrelated opinions C. only the title D. guesses
4. Empathy means — A. understanding another person’s feelings or situation B. winning every argument C. avoiding people D. copying others
5. Humour in a story can help reveal — A. character and situation B. only spelling C. only setting D. nothing about characters

Answer Key: 1-A, 2-A, 3-A, 4-A, 5-A

📝 Writing Task

1. Write a diary entry about meeting a new friend.
2. Write a paragraph: “A true friend helps us become better.”
3. Write a dialogue between two friends resolving a misunderstanding.
4. Write a short character sketch of Gajaraj using evidence.

📄 Unit Worksheet

1. Summarise each lesson in 80–100 words.
2. Write ten friendship-related vocabulary words.
3. Answer four inferential questions.
4. Complete five grammar questions.
5. Write one poem response in your own words.
6. Compare the three lessons in a table.
7. Answer two HOTS questions.
8. Write one real-life example of empathy.

🔁 Quick Revision

Remember: Gajaraj → companionship; A Friend’s Prayer → sincere goodwill; The Chair → humour, behaviour and relationships.

✅ Mastery Checklist

• ☐ I can explain each lesson.
• ☐ I can identify theme and tone.
• ☐ I can support answers with textual clues.
• ☐ I understand key vocabulary.
• ☐ I can apply grammar in context.
• ☐ I can write about friendship clearly.

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