Class 1 English Mridang Chapter 6, Fun with Pictures (Unit 3: Food), explores a colourful chart of fruits and vegetables, the sharing poem Fruits for All (‘Five yellow mangoes hanging on the tree’), and Mini’s weekend shopping trip with her father in A Visit to the Market.
What Class 1 English Chapter 6 Covers
Picture Reading — Fruits and Vegetables: Naming red, yellow, and green fruits and vegetables (apple, mango, banana, papaya, watermelon, tomato, potato, brinjal, peas, carrot, spinach) and discussing why they keep us healthy.
Poem — ‘Fruits for All’: Five yellow mangoes hang on a tree — one for the traveller, one for the bird, one for the squirrel, one for the rabbit, and one to share with you and me.
Story — ‘A Visit to the Market’: Mini goes to the Saturday market with her father, sees stalls of vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and learns how different parts of plants (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits) become our food.
Exercises in Chapter 6
- Let us Speak & Sing (Pages 84–87): Answer questions on the fruit-and-vegetable picture and recite ‘Fruits for All’.
- Let us Read, Write & Draw (Pages 88–97): Read ‘A Visit to the Market’, match fruits and vegetables to their colours, and draw your favourite fruit.
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More Chapters
- Previous: Chapter 5: A Farm
- Next: Chapter 7: The Food we Eat
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FAQ
Who all get the five yellow mangoes in the poem ‘Fruits for All’?
One mango is for the traveller, one for the bird, one for the squirrel, one for the rabbit, and one to share between you and me.
With whom does Mini go to the market in ‘A Visit to the Market’?
Mini goes to the market with her father every Saturday.