Class 6 English Unit 1, Fables and Folk Tales, opens NCERT’s Grade 6 Poorvi textbook (2026-27) with three classic tales of wisdom, hard work and quick thinking: Sudha Murty’s A Bottle of Dew, Jean de La Fontaine’s poem The Raven and the Fox, and the Amar Chitra Katha graphic folk tale Rama to the Rescue.
What Class 6 English Unit 1 Covers
A Bottle of Dew (Prose by Sudha Murty) tells how landlord’s son Rama Natha chases a mythical magic potion that turns copper into gold until sage Mahipati tasks him with tending a banana plantation and collecting five litres of winter dew with his own hands—revealing that honest hard work and his wife Madhumati’s market sales created the real gold.
The Raven and the Fox (Poem) & Rama to the Rescue (Graphic Story) presents Jean de La Fontaine’s fable where Reynard the Fox flatters a proud Raven into singing so he drops his morsel—teaching us to beware of empty flattery—followed by the Tenali Rama comic folk tale where a husband and wife shout ‘Rama’s name’ in Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit to alert the village kotwal and foil a thief breaking into their house.
Exercises in Unit 1
- Let us discuss and Let us think and reflect comprehension & extract-based questions.
- Let us learn (vocabulary & grammar), Let us listen, Let us speak, Let us write, and Let us explore activities.
Read Class 6 English Unit 1 Online
More Chapters
- Next: Unit 2: Friendship (The Unlikely Best Friends, A Friend’s Prayer, The Chair)
- All English chapters and the other Class 6 books: Class 6 NCERT books 2026-27
- All Class 1 to 12 NCERT Textbooks: NCERT Books PDF (Class 1–12)
FAQ
What are the three selections in Unit 1 of Class 6 English Poorvi?
1. A Bottle of Dew (prose by Sudha Murty), 2. The Raven and the Fox (poem by Jean de La Fontaine), and 3. Rama to the Rescue (Amar Chitra Katha graphic folk tale).
How did sage Mahipati teach Rama Natha the value of hard work in ‘A Bottle of Dew’?
By asking Rama Natha to plant banana trees himself and collect five litres of morning dew over six years, during which his wife Madhumati sold the rich banana harvests in the market and earned a bag of gold coins.