Class 6 English Unit 2, Friendship, explores loyalty, empathy and the difference between casual acquaintances and true friends through the royal-stable story The Unlikely Best Friends, Jill Wolf’s poem A Friend’s Prayer, and the magical-test story The Chair.
What Class 6 English Unit 2 Covers
The Unlikely Best Friends (Prose) narrates the heartwarming bond between Gajaraj, a lonely royal elephant cared for by his mahout, and Buntee, a stray dog—when Buntee’s farmer owner takes him away, both Gajaraj and Buntee refuse to eat until they are joyfully reunited, bringing the mahout and the farmer together as friends too.
A Friend’s Prayer (Poem by Jill Wolf) & The Chair (Prose) shares a heartfelt poem on accepting friends as they are and striving to be a caring friend, followed by the story of Mario, whose grandfather gives him an invisible chair to take to school—only his three true friends (Guneet, Asma and Deepa) hold him up so he does not fall, while classmates who merely laughed are exposed.
Exercises in Unit 2
- 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.
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More Chapters
- Previous: Unit 1: Fables and Folk Tales (A Bottle of Dew, The Raven and the Fox, Rama to the Rescue)
- Next: Unit 3: Nurturing Nature (Neem Baba, What a Bird Thought, Spices that Heal Us)
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FAQ
What are the three selections in Unit 2 of Class 6 English Poorvi?
1. The Unlikely Best Friends (prose), 2. A Friend’s Prayer (poem by Jill Wolf), and 3. The Chair (prose).
How did the invisible chair help Mario identify his true friends in ‘The Chair’?
When Mario tried to sit on the invisible chair at school, most classmates laughed as he fell, but Guneet, Asma and Deepa held him up so he wouldn’t fall—proving that true friends support us rather than mock our struggles.