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

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Q1.

Read how the bird perceived its world. 'My world was small, round and light blue at first. After that my world was warm and comfortable. It was made of straw. In this world I could only see leaves whenever I stepped out. In the end, my world became big. It had the sky and the earth as a part of it.'

Answer

Read the model aloud and notice how it is built — one stage of life per sentence, in time order, with the linking words at first, after that, in this world, in the end.

Stage	Stanza of the poem	Sentence in the model
Inside the egg	Stanza 1	“My world was small, round and light blue at first.”
In the nest	Stanza 2	“After that my world was warm and comfortable. It was made of straw.”
On the branch	Stanza 3	“In this world I could only see leaves whenever I stepped out.”
Beyond the tree	Stanza 4	“In the end, my world became big. It had the sky and the earth as a part of it.”

Copy the plan, not the words. When you write your own five sentences in part III, keep this shape: begin small, add one new thing at each step, and end with the widest view.

Q2.

Now, discuss with your teacher and classmates how you think the world would look to the following: 1. a baby 2. a fish

Answer

In the discussion, keep asking one question: what can this creature actually see, hear and touch? Whatever it cannot reach is simply not part of its world.

	A baby	A fish
Size of its world	The cradle, the mother's arms, one room	The pond or the river it swims in
What it sees	Big faces bending over it, a fan going round, light and shadow	Green water, waving weeds, stones, other fish, a wobbling sky above
What it hears / feels	Voices, a lullaby, warm hands, hunger	Cool water pushing against it, the current, ripples when someone throws a stone
What it does not know	That there is a street, a school, a country outside the room	That there is air, dry land and a whole world above the surface

The link with the poem: Like the bird in its shell, both the baby and the fish believe that their small world is the whole world — and both are in for a surprise.

Q3.

Now, write five sentences each, for both 1 and 2, in your notebooks. You can take help from the example given in I.

Answer

Sample answer — 1. A baby

My world is warm and soft, and it is only as big as my cradle. Above me I can see a white ceiling and a fan that goes round and round. Big faces come near me, smile at me and go away again. When I am hungry I cry, and my mother's arms become my whole world. I do not know that there is a street outside the window, or a sky above the roof.

Sample answer — 2. A fish

My world is cool and green, and everything in it moves slowly. Long weeds wave above my head, and smooth stones lie on the floor of my world. The sun looks like a shaking yellow patch far above me. Whenever a shadow falls on the water, I dart away and hide among the plants. I do not know what lies beyond the shining roof of my world, and I have never once wanted to go there.

What earns marks here: the sentences must be written as the baby or the fish (‘My world is…’), must stay in one tense, and must contain details that only that creature would notice — the fan going round, the shaking yellow sun. Facts about babies or fish written from outside will not do.

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