NCERT Solutions Poorvi Chapter 3 What a Bird Thought — Let us speak

Book page 90 & 91 Updated on2026-09-05

Q1.
Speak about which bird you would like to be. Include the following points. • Which bird are you? [I am ….] • What do you look like? [I am …. in colour. I am a big/small bird. I have ….] • Where do you live? [I live in …. It is (where) ….] • What do you do during the day? [I …. I also ….] • Do you have any message for humans? [I want to tell the humans ….]
Answer

Speak in the first person — you are the bird, so every sentence begins with ‘I’. Use the five sentence-starters in order; that is your whole speech.

Sample answer (peacock):

“I am a peacock, the national bird of India. I am blue and green in colour. I am a big bird, and I have a long tail of shining feathers with eye-shaped spots on them. I live in the forest near the fields, close to the village where the trees are thick. During the day I walk about looking for grain and insects, and when the clouds gather I spread my tail and dance. I also call loudly before the rain comes. I want to tell the humans that they should not pull out my feathers or cut down the trees where I sleep at night — I look beautiful only when I am free.”

Sample answer (sparrow):

“I am a house sparrow. I am small and brown, with a short beak and a black patch on my throat. I live in a hole in the wall of an old house, right above a window. All day I hop in the courtyard, pick up grains and tiny insects and chirp with my friends. I want to tell the humans to leave a little water and grain on their balconies, and to keep a few holes and corners in their new buildings, because we are slowly disappearing from the cities.”

What makes such a speech good: exact details (a black patch, eye-shaped spots), the present tense throughout, and a message that comes out of the bird's own life. Do not simply list facts — sound like the bird.
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