The Kites Textbook Questions (NCERT Solutions)
Let us do these activities before we read.
1. Answer the following questions and share them with your teacher and classmates.
(a) Have you ever flown a kite or seen someone fly it? Where? When?
(b) Describe the kite—colour(s), shape, design and tail, any other detail.
(c) What did you think when you saw the kite up in the sky?
Ans.
(a) Yes, I have seen my brother flying a kite over the rooftop of our home on the occasion of Basant Panchmi.
(b) It was a blue diamond-shaped kite with a silver tail.
(c) I found the view beautiful. The sky was windy and the kite flew to and from along the powerful wind.
2. Search the internet for videos on Kite Festivals and watch them with your teacher and classmates.
(a) Share the things with your teacher that you saw and what the people were doing.
(b) Would you like to participate in this kind of festival? Why?
(c) What kind of kite would you like to fly?
Ans.
(a) I saw many children with their parents on the rooftops of their homes. The sky was bright and colourful with several kites of various shapes and colors decorating it.
(b) Yes, I would love to participate in this kind of festival as they were enjoying and happy to be together.
(c ) A pink or blue kite with circles pasted on it, with a silver tail.
3. Look at the picture and complete the sentences. Share your responses with your teacher
| windy | kite | flying | birds | sky | looking | has ribbons |
(a) I can see ___________, ___________ and ___________ in the picture.
(b) The weather in the picture is ___________.
(c) The kite is ___________ high in the sky.
(d) The child is ___________ from below.
(e) The tail of the kite ___________.
Ans.
(a) I can see a bird, kite, and sky in the picture.
(b) The weather in the picture is windy.
(c) The kite is flying high in the sky.
(d) The child is looking from below.
(e) The tail of the kite has ribbons.
4. Now, think and answer.
(a) List two more things that you want to add to the picture.
(b) If I were the child, I would ___________.
(c) If I were the kite, I would ___________.
Ans.
(a) Sun and children.
(b) like to fly the kite higher in the sky.
(c) go higher in the sky.
Let us discuss
1. Read the poem silently. As you read, mark the given statements as True or False.
| Statements | T/ F |
| (a) The child is looking at the kites. | |
| (b) The kites look like birds of different colours. | |
| (c) It was a rainy day. | |
| (d) The child wants to be like a kite. | |
| (e) The child wishes to climb on a kite. | |
| (f) The kite is made of cloth and plastic. | |
| (g) The child wants to ride the kite. | |
| (h) The child knows they would have fun. | |
| (i) The child wants to look at the kite from a rooftop. | |
| (j) The child would like to look at people down below. | |
| (k) The child knows that the people would stare. |
Ans.
| Statements | T/ F |
| (a) The child is looking at the kites. | T |
| (b) The kites look like birds of different colours. | T |
| (c) It was a rainy day. | F |
| (d) The child wants to be like a kite. | F |
| (e) The child wishes to climb on a kite. | T |
| (f) The kite is made of cloth and plastic. | F |
| (g) The child wants to ride the kite. | T |
| (h) The child knows they will have fun. | T |
| (i) The child wants to look at the kite from a rooftop. | F |
| (j) The child would like to look at people down below. | T |
| (k) The child knows that the people would stare. | T |
2. Complete the following sentences.
(a) The poet says that the kites are like coloured birds – See the kites fly/Like coloured birds in the sky.
The kites have been compared to b __ __ __ __ because they ______________.
(b) The child wishes to be like air – I wish I were small / And as light as air.
The child wishes to be as l __ __ __ t as __ __ __. The child wishes to be able to c __ __ m __ on a kite and fly.
| The poet uses similes in (a) and (b) to compare the kites with coloured birds and the quality of being light as air. The poet uses ‘like’ and ‘as’ to compare. |
Do you think that the use of a simile in this poem helps us imagine better when we read the poem? Share your thoughts with your teacher and classmates.
Ans.
(a) The kites have been compared to birds because they fly in the sky.
(b)The child wishes to be as light as air. The child wishes to be able to climb on a kite and fly.
Yes, simile helps us to understand the other aspects of kite. The kite is colourful and flying high like a bird in the windy sky. It also describes the desire and the aspect of the poet to be small and light like air, which he wasn’t.
3. Find a set of words from the poem that begin with the same consonant sound.
Stanza 1
Which consonant sound do both words begin with?
Stanza 3
Which consonant sound do both words begin with?
This is called alliteration. For example, a big bright blue bag, a funny fan, etc.
Create 4 other sets of words using alliteration.
Ans.
Stanza 1: wind-whipped
Stanza 3: wild wind
Other 4 sets: fluttering fledgling, witty words, prose poetry, caramelized cookies
4. In the last stanza, the two words that the poet repeats are __________ and __________ to tell us that the kite is flying __ __ __ y high.
Ans. In the last stanza, the two words that the poet repeats are high and high to tell us that the kite is flying very high.
5. Study each stanza and underline the rhyming words from the end of each line. Also, circle the end words in the stanzas that do not rhyme.
| Rhyming Words | Non Rhyming words |
| Fly, sky | Air, bird |
| Air, there | Small, kite |
| Wing, sings | Upon, songs |
| Down, town | Be, park |
| Stare, air | Below, me |
Let us think and reflect.
1 .Read the given lines from the poem and answer the following questions.
What fun it would be
To look right down,
Over the park
And the rooftops of town.
(a) Circle the word that does not share the same feeling as ‘fun’:
joy, excitement, care, happiness.
(b) Which line tells us that the poet was somewhere above?
(c) Choose the scene the child saw.
Ans.
(a) Care
(b) To look right down
(c) (ii) The child saw the second scene as it has a park and the rooftops of the town.
2. Answer the following questions.
(a) How does the poet describe the kites in the first two lines?
(b) Why does the child say that they have to climb a tree first to get onto the kite?
(c) What are the songs that the child hears when flying atop the kite?
(d) Why did the people look up at the child and stare? If you looked up and saw that, what feelings would you have?
(e) If you were the kite carrying the child high up in the air, what would you tell them?
Ans.
(a) The kite is colourful like birds, flying in the sky. Like the birds, the kite is driven by the strong winds.
(b) The kite was entangled in the tree and the child had to climb the tree first to untangle it.
(c) The child wants to hear the wild wind sing songs when he would be flying atop the kite.
(d) The people would look up in admiration at the child in the sky. They would want to be in the sky like him. I would have the same feelings as them.
(e) I would tell them to be careful while the child explores the world. You are viewing the world from my perspective.