Class 6 English Unit 5, Culture and Tradition, celebrates India’s folk arts, perseverance and national pride through Hamara Bharat—Incredible India!, Daphne Lister’s poem The Kites, the inspiring biography Ila Sachani: Embroidering Dreams with her Feet, and the poem National War Memorial.
What Class 6 English Unit 5 Covers
Hamara Bharat—Incredible India! (Prose) & The Kites (Poem) showcases four traditional Indian crafts under the Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat programme—Aipan floor art (Uttarakhand), Dhokra lost-wax brass casting (Odisha), coconut-shell craft (Kerala) and Kondapalli softwood toys (Andhra Pradesh)—followed by Daphne Lister’s poem imagining flying high on a colourful kite.
Ila Sachani: Embroidering Dreams with her Feet & National War Memorial tells the true story of Ila Sachani from Moti Vavdi village in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, who overcame congenital hand disability by mastering exquisite Kathiawar embroidery with her feet and receiving the President’s Medal, concluding with the tribute poem to India’s fallen soldiers at the National War Memorial and its eternal flame (Amar Jawan).
Exercises in Unit 5
- 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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FAQ
What are the four selections in Unit 5 of Class 6 English Poorvi?
1. Hamara Bharat—Incredible India! (prose), 2. The Kites (poem by Daphne Lister), 3. Ila Sachani: Embroidering Dreams with her Feet (prose), and 4. National War Memorial (poem).
Which four traditional Indian folk crafts are featured in ‘Hamara Bharat—Incredible India!’?
Aipan folk art from Uttarakhand, Dhokra metal craft from Odisha, Coconut shell craft from Kerala, and Kondapalli wooden toys from Andhra Pradesh.