CBSE Class 6 English Jimmy Jet And His TV Set

A.1. Do you watch TV all the time? Read about this couch potato and his T.V set.

JIMMY JET AND HIS TV SET

I‟ll tell you the story of Jimmy Jet.

And you know what I tell you is true.

He loved to watch his TV set

Almost as much as you.

He watched all day, he watched all night

Till he grew pale and lean.

From „The early show‟ to „The late late show‟.

And all the shows in between.

He watched till his eyes were frozen wide,

And his bottom grew into his chair

And his chin turned into a tuning dial

And antennae grew out of his hair.

And his brain turned into TV tubes,

And his face to a TV screen,

And two knobs saying „vert‟ and „Horzt‟

Grew where his ears had been

And he grew a plug that looked like a tail

So we plugged in little Jim.

And now instead of him watching TV

We all sit around and watch him.

Shel Silverstein

A.1.1. Which of the following statements best describe Jimmy Jet?

(i) He sometimes watched T.V.

(ii) He watched T.V, quite often.

(iii) He watched T.V, too much.

A.1.2. Did Jim watch only some of the programmes on TV or all of them? What happened to him as a result?

A.1.3. Read stanzas 3, 4 and 5 and fill in the blanks in these sentences.

Jimmy watched TV so much that he soon began to look ____________________________ himself. As a result, his family sat around watching ______________ rather than ______________ ______________.

A.1.4. Is there a moral that this poem is perhaps teaching? Write down the valuable lesson that you‟ve learnt through this poem.

A.1.5. Write four pairs of words from the poem, that rhyme.

A.2. The Special Prize.

Little Helen had two constant companions – the six-year-old Martha, the daughter of her cook, and Belle, her dog. Martha loved playing childish tricks as much as Helen did.
One hot July day, the two little girls were busy cutting out paper figures; but they soon got weary of this amusement; and after cutting up their shoelaces and leaves fwroams M palartnhtas,‟ sH tuerlenn, ,s hweh ocu wt oasff soignhet loefs sH teulrenne‟sd chuerrls a attnedn twioonu ltdo hMaavret hcau‟ts thhaeimr. aWllh ief nth iet latter‟s mother had not appeared in time to save them.

Once Helen learnt to use the key, she locked her mother up in a small food store near the kitchen, where she had to remain for three hours, as the servants were in another part of the house. She kept knocking on the door while Helen sat outside on the steps and laughed with joy as she felt the shock of knocking.

A.2.1. Answer the following questions.

(i) Who were Helen‟s two regular companions?

(ii) How were the two girls amusing themselves?

(iii) Where did Helen lock up her mother?

(iv) Could Helen hear her mother knocking on the door?

(v) Put a tick mark (√) if the statement is true, and a cross (√) if it is false.

(a) The girls cut shoelaces and leaves from plants. [ ]

(b) Mother remained locked in the food store for four hours. [ ]

(c) Helen was upset after locking up her mother. [ ]