Lesson 6
Dhunu’s Guitar
ACTIVITIES
- Let’s find out how much we have understood:
a) What is meant by the word ‘profession’?
Ans: The job that we do to earn money when we grow up is called a profession.
b) Where is Dhunu from?
Ans: Dhunu is the young girl from Kalardiya village near Chaigaon in Kamrup district of Assam.
c) Who made the film Village Rockstars?
Ans: Rima Das made the film Village Rockstars.
d) What was the name of Dhunu’s brother?
Ans: Manabendra was the name of Dhunu’s brother.
e) Why did the village women often scold Dhunu?
Ans: The village women often scolded Dhunu because she liked to climb trees, ride bicycles, swim in the river, and play in the paddy fields like boys. So, the village women scolded her as she behaved like a boy and played with boys instead of girls.
f) What did Dhunu’s mother tell the women who scolded her daughter?
Ans: Dhunu’s mother told the women who scolded her daughter that none of them came to help her after her husband’s death. She has been doing both a man’s job as well as a woman’s job, earning money and looking after her children, her animals and her land.
g) What did Dhunu decide to do after meeting the musicians at a local event?
Ans: After meeting the musicians at a local event Dhunu decided to form their own band.
h) What plan did Dhunu propose after she realized that she could not afford to buy a guitar?
Ans: The plan that Dhunu proposed her friends after she realized that she could not afford to buy a guitar was to make Styrofoam musical instruments and found their happiness by playing with Styrofoam instruments.
i) Why did Dhunu start doing odd jobs around the village?
Ans: Dhunu started doing odd jobs around the village because her mother did not have money in the bank to buy a guitar. When she asked her mother for money to buy guitar her mother told her that they would have to sell off Dhunu’s goat to buy her guitar. So in order to earn money to buy a guitar she started doing job.
j) “But Dhunu believes that if you really want something and work towards it, you can achieve it.”- What does this line tell you about Dhunu’s character?
Ans: Dhunu is a practical and hardworking girl. Dhunu suggests that if someone really wants to achieve something, he or she would have to work hard to achieve that goal.
- Given below is the summary of a part of the lesson ‘Dhunu’s Guitar’. There is some wrong information in it. Underline the wrong information, make corrections and rewrite the summary.
‘ Dhunu ‘ s Guitar’ is the story of a young eleven-year-old girl who lives in Kalardiya village with her mother. They are quite well off. Dhunu has a pet monkey who she loves to spend time with. One day, Dhunu and her friends come across some cricketers playing at a local event. She is fascinated by the band and their musical instruments, especially the guitar. She dreams of owning one herself, and forming her own dance band with her friends someday. But she is too poor to own a guitar. So, she and her friends make clay guitars and play on them.
Ans: Dhunu ‘ s Guitar’ is the story of a young eleven-year-old girl who lives in Kalardiya village with her mother. They are quite well off. Dhunu has a pet monkey who she loves to spend time with. One day, Dhunu and her friends come across some cricketers playing at a local event. She is fascinated by the band and their musical instruments, especially the guitar. She dreams of owning one herself, and forming her own dance band with her friends someday. But she is too poor to own a guitar. So, she and her friends make clay guitars and play on them.
‘ Dhunu ‘ s Guitar’ is the story of a young ten-year-old girl who lives in Kalardiya village with her mother. They are quite poor. Dhunu has a pet goat who she loves to spend time with. One day, Dhunu and her friends come across a group of boys practising music at a local event. She is fascinated by the band and their musical instruments, especially the guitar. She dreams of owning one herself, and forming her own music band with her friends someday. But she is too poor to own a guitar. So, she and her friends make Styrofoam guitars and play on them.
- In the lesson we have read that Dhunu faced many difficulties in life because she was poor. Still she never gave up hope and faced life cheerfully and bravely. Write down a few adjectives to describe Dhunu’s character and complete the word web given below. You can add more arrows in the web if you ,wish.
Ans:
• Hardworking,
• Practical
• Understanding
• Talented
• Diligent
- Here are some things you have learnt from the lesson. Complete the web with the information. One is done for you:
Ans:
• We should not lose our hopes.
• To achieve something we have to do hard work to achieve that aim.
• We should be patient.
- We have found in the lesson that Dhunu met by chance a group of boys practising music for a local event. Dhunu was very happy to see the musicians. You know that a person who plays music is a musician. Do you know the names of other professions? Fill in the blanks below with an appropriate words:
- a) a person who repairs shoes: cobbler
- b) a person who repairs water pipes: plumber
- c) a person who operates the controls of an aircraft, especially as a job: pilot
- d) a person whose job is to take care of people’s teeth: dentist
- e) a person who makes, repairs of sells articles made of gold: goldsmith
- f) a person who can do magic tricks: illusionist
- g) a person whose job is to cut men’s hair and sometime to shave them: barber
- h) a person who takes care of gardens: gardener
- Now fill in the blanks using the correct possessive form.
a) This is Dhunu. The tea stall belongs to her mother. The tea stall belongs to Dhunu’s mother.
b) She even does jobs normally done by a man. She does mans’ jobs.
c) Bhaskar is a friend of Dhunu. Dhunu is Bhaskar’s friend.
d) The cars belong to the director. They are the directors’ cars.
e) They made four Styrofoam cut-out guitars. The guitars’ colours are red.
- Now choose the right phrases and idioms to complete the following sentences. Remember to write them in the appropriate tense forms:
i. Dhunu’s mother make a living by selling snacks at local events.
ii. When the monsoon months begin, the fun of the children is cut short.
iii. In spite of the difficulties Dhunu and her mother face, life must go on.
iv. Though Dhunu knows she cannot afford a guitar, she doesn’t give up hope.
v. Dhunu was worried that the bamboo post where she had saved money to buy a guitar might have been sweep away by the flood.
vi. Dhunu accepts her destiny bravely instead of cry over it.
- Rewrite the following sentences in their passive forms:
ii) The monsoon months cut short the children’s fun.
= The children’s fun is cut short by the monsoon months.
iii) Dhunu and her friends made Styrofoam guitars.
= The Styrofoam guitars were made by Dhunu and her friends.
iv) Dhunu accepted her destiny.
= Her destiny was accepted by Dhunu.
v) Dhunu and Bhaskar rescued their belongings.
= Their belongings were rescued by Dhunu and Bhaskar.
vi) The women of the village often scold Dhunu.
= Dhunu was often scolded by the women of the village.
- (c) Look at the complex sentences given below. Underline the
subordinate clauses and say whether they are adjective clauses or adverb clauses-
(i) If it rains, we won’t have the match.
= Adverb clauses
(ii) I have read the books that are on the shelf.
= Adjective clauses
(iii) He creates problems wherever he goes.
= Adverb clauses
(iv) She hasn’t written to me since she left the place.
= Adverb clauses
(v) She is absent because she is ill.
= Adjective clauses.
Dipshikha Das
Check by –Mukesh Borah