NCERT Solutions Class 6 English (Honeysuckle)
The NCERT Solutions in English Language for Class 6 English (Poetry) (Honeysuckle) Chapter – 5 Where Do All the Teachers Go? has been provided here to help the students in solving the questions from this exercise.
Poem – 5
(Where Do All the Teachers Go?)
Where do all the teachers go
When it’s four o’clock?
Do they live in houses
And do they wash their socks?
Do they wear pyjamas
And do they watch TV?
And do they pick their noses
The same as you and me?
Do they live with other people
Have they mums and dads?
And were they ever children
And were they ever bad?
Did they ever, never spell right
Did they ever make mistakes?
Were they punished in the corner
If they pinched the chocolate flakes?
Did they ever lose their hymn books
Did they ever leave their greens?
Did they scribble on the desk tops
Did they wear old dirty jeans?
I’ll follow one back home today
I’ll find out what they do
Then I’ll put it in a poem
That they can read to you.
– PETER DIXON
Working With the Poem
1. Answer these questions
(i) Why does the poet want to know where the teachers go at four o’clock?
Answer – The poet thinks that his teachers are not ordinary persons. He looks upon them as super or special human beings. So he wants to know where they go and what they do after the school hours.
(ii) What are the things normal people do that the poet talks about?
Answer – Normal people return to their home, change their clothes, wash their faces and become fresh. They also rest for a while. Some of them go for shopping or help the children with their homework.
(iii) What does he imagine about
(a) where teachers live?
Answer – The teachers lived in houses.
(b) what they do at home?
Answer – He imagines if the teachers also washed their socks, wore pajamas, picked their noses, and watched TV.
(c) the people with whom they live?
Answer – He imagines if they lived with other people and if they also had mothers and fathers.
(d) their activities when they were children in school?
Answer – They were also bad, made mistakes, never spelled right, and were punished in the corner for pinching the chocolate flakes. They ever lost their hymn books, scribbled on the desk tops, or wore old dirty jeans.
(iv) Why does the poet wonder if teachers also do things that other people do?
Answer – The poet wondered if teachers also do things that other people do because he had seen them as super humans. They are strict, did not make any mistakes and punish those who did.
(v) How does the poet plan to find out? What will he do once he finds out?
Answer – The poet plans to get first hand information about his teacher. He plans to follow one of his teachers and find out what he/she does. Then he will record his findings in a poem for the benefit of other children.
2. What do you think these phrases from the poem mean?
(i) punished in the corner
Answer – getting punishment of standing in the corner of the classroom.
(ii) leave their greens
Answer – Leaving the playground after the bell strikes for the next class to begin.
Poem
- Poem 1 : A House, A Home
- Poem 2 : The Kite
- Poem 3 : The Quarrel
- Poem 4 : Beauty
- Poem 6 : The Wonderful Words
- Poem 7 : Vocation
- Poem 8 : What if
