Poem 05 Where do all the Teachers Go

NCERT solutions for Class 6 English 

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Honeysuckle

• Chapter 1 Who Did Patrick’s Homework
• Chapter 2 How the Dog Found Himself
• Chapter 3 Taros Reward
• Chapter 4 An Indian American Woman in Space
• Chapter 5 A Different Kind of School
• Chapter 6 Who I Am
• Chapter 7 Fair Play
• Chapter 8 A Game of Chance
• Chapter 9 Desert Animals
• Chapter 10 The Banyan Tree

Poem

• A House, A Home
• The Kite
• The Quarrel
• Beauty
• Where Do All the Teachers Go?
• The Wonderful Words
• Vocation
• Whatif

A Pact With The Sun

• Chapter 1 A Tale of Two Birds
• Chapter 2 The Friendly Mongoose
• Chapter 3 The Shepherd’s Treasure
• Chapter 4 The Old-Clock Shop
• Chapter 5 Tansen
• Chapter 6 The Monkey and the Crocodile
• Chapter 7 The Wonder Called Sleep
• Chapter 8 A Pact with the Sun
• Chapter 9 What Happened to the Reptiles
• Chapter 10 A Strange Wrestling march

NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English Where do all the Teachers Go

Chapter-05

Where Do All The Teachers Go 

Page No: 68

Working with Poem

1. Answer these questions.

(i) Why does the poet want to know where the teachers go at four o’clock?

Ans: The poet wanted to know where the teachers go at four o’clock because this is time when school got over.

(ii) What are the things normal people do that the poet talks about?

Ans: The things normal people do that the poet talked about are living in houses, washing socks, wearing pyjamas, watching TV, picking their noses, living with their parents, not spelling right, being bad, making mistakes, getting punished, losing books, scribbling on desk tops, wearing old dirty jeans.

(iii) What does he imagine about

(a) where teachers live?

Ans: In houses

(b) what they do at home?

Ans: washed their socks, wore pyjamas, picked their noses, and watched TV.

(c) the people with whom they live?

Ans: lived with other people and if they also had mothers and fathers.

(d) their activities when they were children in school?

Ans: 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?

Ans: 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?

Ans: The poet plans to follow one of the teachers on the way back home that day to find out what they did. Once he succeeds in doing do, he would compose it into a poem, which then those teachers would read to their students.

NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English Where do all the Teachers Go

2. What do you think these phrases from the poem mean?

(i) punished in the corner

Ans: getting punishment of standing in the corner of the classroom

(ii) leave their greens

Ans: Leaving the playground after the bell strikes for the next class to begin