TS 6th Class Social Study Material 19th Lesson Language, Writing, and Great Books

Telangana SCERT 6th Class Social Study Material Telangana 19th Lesson Language, Writing, and Great Books Textbook Questions and Answers.

TS 6th Class Social 19th Lesson Questions and Answers -Language, Writing, and Great Books

(Improve Your Learning)
Question 1.
What is the importance of languages? (Conceptual understanding)
Answer:

1. Language is the medium to learn, think and understand and to communicate with others.
2. To organise and plan out own work.
3. To attract the attention of others.
4. To understand the world around us.
5. it is the medium to tell others about what we feel and experience.

Question 2.
How can you say that Azyahhatta was the father of astronomy? (Conceptual understanding)
Answer:

1. Before Aryabhatta many people felt that stars, planets and sun and moon contained secrets about the entire universe which were not known to the mankind.
2. It is Aryabhatta in his book Aryabhattiyam in which he said that the earth rotates causing day and night.
3. He proved that sun did not go around the earth. Hence Aryabhatta is known as father of astronomy.

Question 3.
Differentiate between Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita? (Conceptual understanding)
Answer:

1. Both the books laid the foundation of Ayurveiia.
2. Charaka Samhita is the book which tells about medicine and how to lead healthy lives.
3. Sushruta Samhita focuses on surgeon,. Sushruta is said to be father of surgery.

Question 4.
Mention a few Inventions In Mathematics. (Reflection on Contemporary Issues and questioning)
Answer:

1. Adoption of decimal system of numbers.
2. Adoption of place value system.

Question 5.
Look at a currency note and write down different scripts on them. Identify the language. is the same script, used for different languages? Which are they? (Information skills)
Answer:
The following languages and scripts are printed on currency notes.
Language Script
1. Assamese – Assami,
2. Bengali – Bengali
3. Gujrati – Gujrati
4. Kannada – Kannada
5. Kashmiri –  Kashmiri
6. Konkani – Konkaru
7. Malayalam – Malayali
8. Marathi – Marathi
9. Nepali – Nepali
10. Oriya – Odisi
11. Punjabt – Gurumukhi
12. Sanskrit – Devanagari
13. Tamil – Tamil
14. Telugu – Telugu
15. Urdu – Arabic

Konkani, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali, Hindi are written in the same script called Devanagari.

Question 6.
Refer to general knowledge book list out and tabulate five great books in Telugu language and other languages. (Information skills)
Answer:
Telugu:
1. Nannaya, Tikkana Errapragada – Andhra Mahabharatam
2. Allasani Peddana – Manucharitra
3 Tenali Ra naKrishna – Panduranga Mahatmyam
4. Pingali Surana – Kalapoor nodasram
5. Srinadha. Kasikhandam, Hhimcswara puranam
6. Molla – Ramayanam

Tamil
Kamba – Ramayanam
Toikapiar – Tolkapiam
English:
Shakespeare – Macbeth
RK Narayan – Guide
Salman Rushdie – Mid-night children
H.G.wells – The invisible man
M.K. Gandhi – Experiments with truth

Question 7.
How did the work done in various fields by the ancient Indian scientists inspired the present time scientists. (Appreciation and Sensitivity)
Answer:

1. India is a land of traditional knowledge and brilliant scientists in various fields like astronomy. medicine, education, etc,
2. The accurate and tremendous work done by ancient Indian scientists has been inspiring modern scientists not only in India but throughout the world,
3. The discovery of zero and decimal systems by Aryabhatta is helpful in making mathematical operations easy and modern scientists are still working on that theory.
4. The observation of movement of earth, moon, and other planetary bodies and estimating upcoming weather conditions by Aryabhatta is still a guideline for modern meteorology.
5. The clear description on different surgery techniques? method put forward by Sushrutha in his Sushrutasamhita acts as inspiration to modem anatomy (study of internal body parts)
6. The detailed version of herbs and their usage in form of Ayurveda helps modem day homeopathy and allopathy.

Question 8.
Locate the following in the map of India. (Mapping skills)
a) Bihar
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Maharashtra
e) West Bengal
Answer:

Question 9.
Read the below para under the title The great Epics of page 165 and comment on it. (Reading the text (given), understanding and interpretation)
The great Epics – the Pamayana and the Mahabharata
Epics are deeds of heroic and legendary figures. They describe conflicts between good and evil, dharma’ and adharma’. Every country has its own epic and in Tndia we have two important epics – the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The Ramayana is the story of Rama and Sita and the fight between Rama and Ravana.The Ramayana tries to portray an ideal human being – an ideal son, an ideal wife, an ideal brother, an ideal ruler etc. This epic, composed by Valmiki, is considered to be the first Kavya in Sanskrit literature. Initially, it was recited orally by wandering preachers and later on edited and written down.

The Mahabharata is the story of the conflict between two sets of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas. It finally ended in a great war which was won by the Pandavas with the help of Lord Krishna. It protrays a very wide range of human beings and the moral dilemmas they face and how they try to resolve those dilemmas. It is one of the largest poems in the world and contains hundreds of small stories. This was composed by Vyasa and again recited orally by wandering storytellers and eventually written down.
Answer:
1. The above-mentioned paragraph explains about two great epics of India – The Ramayana, The Mahabharata.
2 They are called epics because they have important content to be learned and following lowed by common man to lead happy and healthy life.
3. Raniayana hies to portray an ideal human being – an ideal son, an ideal brother, an ideal wife etc and shows the victory of good (Rama) over evil (Rayana)
4. Mahahharatha portrays wide range of human beings and the moral dilemmas they face and offers solutions to all those problems in the form of Bhagavadgita (Krishna’s preachings to Arjuna). This also shows victory of Oharma (Pandavas) over Adharma (Kauravas).
5. It is the duty of the citizen of a country. to go through the epics of their country. They have to and adopt the best and necessary qualities out of them to survive in present-day world happily and positively.

(Project)

Question 1.
Listen to different languages on TV or Radio and try to think of the similarities and
differences.
Answer:
Language is medium of instruction to exchange our Ideas. It is an organized and agreed method which communication takes place. Language is commonly understood to be verbal or written.

Similarities:

• All languages are useful to express our ideas and thoughts freely.
• Language is the mean of communication to share the ideas with others.

Differences:

• We can speak and write some languages but some of them are not.
• People speak freely and fluently in their native language.

(Intext Questions)
Questions given in Box P. No. 163

Question 1.
Why are there so many languages?
Answer:
a. Language is developed by a group of people living together.
b. Language is a form of sounds of symbols used to communicate with other.
c. Different languages are formed when different sounds or symbols are used.
d. When a group of people who speak a language begins to live in distant places and mix with other people. a new language is developed.
e. In South India, we have Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gondi etc., belong to one family i.e. early Dravidian.
f. Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali. Marathi which are spoken in North India belong to Indo- Aryan family.

Question given in Box P. No. 164

Question 2.
Write your name in as many scripts as possible on a card sheet and display it in the
class.
Answer:
Student is advised to write his name first in Telugu, English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and other known languages.
Eg:

Name	Language
నాగమణి	తెలుగు
Nagamani	English
नागमणि	हिंदी
நாகமணி	Tamil

Question 3.
Take three Telugu words and write them In at least three other languages.
Answer:

Telugu	English	Tamil	Kannada	Odiya
Nanna	Father	Appa	Tande	Nona
Akka	Sister	Akka	Akka	Nanni
Anna	Brother	Annan	Anna	Bhaina
Alludu	Son-in-law	Maru Magan	Aliya	Joi

Question 4.
Think of how the following persons would have used writing. Who would have needed it more?
Answer:
Kings and Emperors. Traders – Brahmi script
Peasants, Peasant women – Pictorial script
Brahmin Priests, Buddhist Monks – Devanagari script
Poets, Artisan – women – Devanagari
Labourers, Soldiers – Pali
It is kings and emperors who needed writing most to issue orders-declarations- inscriptions.

Questions given In Box P. No. 165

Question 5.
What did people write on?
Answer:
a. In the beginning people probably, wrote on cloth, leaves, barks etc, which decayed and got destroyed with time.
b. Some people even wrote on pots by scratching on them. Some of these pots have survived.
c. However the earliest writing of a long text that has survived to our own time is Ashokas inscriptions which were engraved on rocks or stone pillars.
d. In many parts of South India people wrote on palm leaves which were cut to a definite size. They’, used a pin likeS pen to scratch on the dried leal and coloured in with black ink.
e. In North India they used the barks of Bhoja trees which grew in the Himalayas. These barks peeled oíl just like paper and one could easily write on them using ink.
f. in those days paper was not in use.

Questions given in Box P. No. 165

Question 6.
Collect at least three stories, three songs, and ten sayings from your elders and write them down on a pester and display them in the class.
Answer:
Students are advised to contact their grandfather/grandmother/elders in the house for the stories and proverbs/popular savings of the region. 1f it is not possible for any reason they can collect the stories from Chandamama, Balamitra, Amar Chitra Katha etc., and narrate them on a poster to display in your class/assembly.

Question 7.
Try to illustrate the stories and prepare a handwritten book.
Answer:
Student’s activity

Question 8.
Have you also wondered how the world started? This verse tries to imagine how it would have been before the world started and how the world would have started. Can you write your opinion about this problem?
Answer:
It is yet a puzzle to human brain to understand the evolution of this Universe. Scientists too are trying to solve the mystery of origin of the Universe. Everything is made of atoms. Yet, how the atom got the life is an unanswered question. Let us hope that a day comes when the secret behind the creation gets revealed.

Questions given in Box P. No.166

The Story of Kisogotami.
Here is a famous story about the Buddha. Once there was a woman named Kiscigotami, whose son had died. She was so sad that she roamed through the streets of the city carrying the child with her; asking for help to bring him back lo life. A kind man took her to the Buddha.

The Buddha said ‘Bring me a handful of mustard seeds, and I will bring your child back to life.” Kisogotami was over loved and started off at once. But the Buddha gently stopped her and added: The seeds must come from the house of a family where nobody had died.’ Kisogotami went from door to door, but wherever she went, she found out that someone or the other – father, mother, sister, brother, husband, wife, child, uncle, aunt. grandfather. grandmother had died.

Question 9.
What is the Problem of Kisogotami?
Answer:
Unable to bear the death of her son, Kisogotami went to everybody urging them to help to bring back life to her son.

Question 10.
What is the condition put by Buddha to bring hack life to Kisogotamis son?
Answer:
Buddha asked Kisugotami to bring mustard seeds from the house of a family where nobody had died.

Question 11.
Is Kisogotami able to bring Mustards from such house?
Answer:
No, she could not find a house where there were no deaths.

Question 12.
What was the Buddha trying to teach the sorrowing mother?
Answer:
Buddha tried to teach Kisogotami that death is inevitable to everybody.

Questions given in Box P No. 167

Question 13.
Identify the medicinal plants in and around your house and prepare a list of their
uses.
Answer:
Tulasi: Useful as powerful anti-bacterial medicine
Neem: Useful and powerful anti-viral and bacterial medicine
Turmeric: Useful as an anti-fungal and anti-bacterial.
Ginger: Useful in digestion.

Question 14.
Find out from your parents about saying about the health and medicine and note them down to prepare a small booklet.
Answer:
There are many sayings or proverbs about health and medicine in your area/language. Eg. : Talli Chevani Melu, Ulli Chestundi’ (Onion can do good what a mother can not) like that collect some more sayings and note them in a booklet.

Questions given in Box P. No.168

Question 15.
Find out about any work of Kalidasa and share its story in the classroom. Do you find it interesting? Give reasons.
Answer:
Students Activity

(Additional Questions)

Question 1.
What did people write on in earlier days?
Answer:

1. In the beginning, people wrote on cloth, leaves, barks etc.
2. Some people wrote on pots.
3. In many parts of south India people wrote on palm leaves.
4. In North India, people wrote on barks of balsa trees.

Question 2.
What is the contribution of Aryabhatta to Mathematics?
Answer:

1. Aryabhatta and other Mathematicians of ancient India adopted the decimal system of numbers.
2. They also adopted place value system, writing numbers the way we do today.
3. These inventions made use of zero and removed the difficulties in adding etc.

Question 3.
Observe carefully the following table and then answer the questions given.
Answer:
1) Early Dravidian Language – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. Malayalam. Condi etc.
2) Indo-Aryan Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, etc,
3) Brahmi script Devanagari, Telugu, Tamil
4) Early writing Cloth, leaves, barks
5) Palm leaves South India
6) Bhoja trees North India
7) Epics Heroic deeds
8) Sangam literature Tamil
1) Which were called as early Dravid ¡an languages?
Answer:
Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gondi etc.

2) Which languages belong to Indo-Aiyan family?
Answer:
Sanskrit, Hindi. Bengali, Marathi etc.

3) What are the languages developed from Brahmi script?
Answer:
Devanagari, Telugu and Tamil.

4) In the early days on what people wrote?
Answer:
Cloth, leaves, barks etc.

5) On what, South Indian people wrote in early days?
Answer:
Palm leaves.

6) On what North Indian poeple wrote in early days?
Answer:
Bhoja trees.

7) Which are known as Epics?
Answer:
Epics are records of deeds of great heroes and heroines, Ramayana and Mahabharata.

8) Which is called Sangam literature?
Answer:
Sangam literature is a collection of poems composed b’s a large number of poets and poetesses of Tamil.

Question 4.

Author	Book	Content
1) Chraka	Charaka Samhita	Medicine
2) Sushruta	Sushruta Samhita,	Surgery
3) Aryabhata	Aryabhatiyam	Astronomy

1) What is the subject focussed in Sushruta Samhita?
Answer:
It focuses on Surgery.

2) Who wrote Sushruta Samhita?
Answer:
Sushruta

3) What is Charaka Samhita?
Answer:
It is a great ancient book on Ayurveda medicine and health.

4) Who wrote Charaka Santhlta?
Answer:
Charaka

5) What Is the subject matter of Aryabhattiyan’i?
Answer:
It is a great ancient book on Astronomy.

6) Who wrote Aryabhatiyam?
Answer:
Aryabhatta

Question 5.
Answer the following questions:
1) Compare the situation when there is no language in modern world.
Answer:
Whole world come to a standstill.

2) According to your opinion which prevails most when you are asked to select a cartoon and a written statement.
Answer:
It is the cartoon which impresses me most.

3) Name the funny day which is celebrated every year.
Answer:
World Laughter day. (First Sunda of May every year)

4) Why one has to learn English language?
Answer:
English is a universal language and is being used everywhere in the world. Hence it is easy for us to communicate to others in English in other parts of the country or world.

5) Name the prevailing oral literature of your area.
Answer:
Folk songs/ballads sung by coolies. shepherds animal rearers, beggars etc.

Question 6.
What do the pictures tell?
Answer:
1. This is the Indus script 4000 years ago, the people of Indus valley used this script but unfortunately, we don’t know how to read it.

2. This is Bhattiprolu inscription. This is in Brahmi script. This inscription was inscribed around 200 B.C. years ago. This was found in Bhattiprolu Stupa.

(Two Marks Questions )

Question 1.
What do you mean by language?
Answer:
Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of signals, such as voice. sounds, gestures. or written symbols

Question 2.
Who developed language?
Answer:
Language is developed by a group of people living together.

Question 3.
Name the languages from which Telugu adapted some words.
Answer:
Telugu adopted many words from Sanskrit, Marathi, Arabic, Persian, and English.

Question 4.
Name same of the scripts you know.
Answer:
Roman, Devanagari, Telugu, and Tamil scripts

Question 5.
How much time has taken to develop scripts which we are using now.
Answer:
it took thousands of years to develop scripts like the ones, we use today.

Question 6.
Trace the origin of scripts we use in India today ?
Answer:
Most of the scripts we use in india today like Devanagari. Telugu and Tamil are
developed from Brahmi script used by Ashoka.

Question 7.
Where was the earliest inscription found?
Answer:
It is Bhattiprolu stupa in Krishna district which was inscribed around 200 B.C.

Question 8.
Which is called Oral literature?
Answer:
When there is no written word many poems and songs, stories, and savings were passed from mouth to mouth. This type of propagation is known as Oral literature.

Question 9.
What is the status of Vedas in the beginning?
Answer:

1. The Vedas were also composed and taught orally in earlier days.
2. They were preserved for over three thousand years in this manner.

Question 10.
What do the epics describe?
Answer:
The epics describe conflicts between heroes and evil forces.

Question 11.
Name some important epics of India.
Answer:
Ramayana and Mahabharata.

(Objective Type Questions)

Question 1.
Most of the scripts we use In India today are developed from ( )
A) Brahmi script
B) Devanagari script
C) Tamil script
D) Telugu script
Answer:
A) Brahmi script

Question 2.
Ashoka inscriptions were engraved on ( )
A) Wooden Pillars
B) Rock Pillars
C) Iron Pillars
D) Bronze Pillars
Answer:
B) Rock Pillars

Question 3.
Propagation of literature through mouth-to-mouth is known as ( )
A) Musical Literature
B) Memorised literature
C) Oral literature
D) Recorded literature
Answer:
C) Oral literature

Question 4.
A good example of ancient oral literature is ( )
A) Mahabharata
B) Ramayana
C) Bhagavadgita
D) Vedas
Answer:
D) Vedas

Question 5.
The first Kavya in Sanskrit composed by Valmiki is ( )
A) Ramacharita Manas
B) Geeta Govinda
C) Ramayana
D) Mahabharata
Answer:
C) Ramayana

Question 6.
The story of the conflict between two sets of cousins over who should rule the kingdom is ( )
A) Mahabharata
B) Buddhachantam
C) Raghuvamsam
D) Mudrarakshasam
Answer:
A) Mahabharata

Question 7.
Jataka stories relate to ( )
A) Mahabharata wars
B) Ramayana wars
C) Births of Buddha
D) Birth of Mahavira
Answer:
C) Births of Buddha

Question 8.
Sangam literature is a collection of ( )
A) Sri Krishna Devaraya poetry
B) Kannada poetry
C) Telugu poetry
D) Tamil poetry
Answer:
D) Tamil poetry

Question 9.
The book which focuses on surgey is ( )
A) Charaka Samhita
B) Sushruta Samhita
C) Aryabhatiyam
D) Mihira Samhita
Answer:
B) Sushruta Samhita

Question 10.
Day and night are caused due to the rotation of earth is said by ( )
A) Aryabhatta
B) Varahamihra
C) Charaka
D) Brahmagupta
Answer:
A) Aryabhatta

Question 11.
Buddhcharita was written by Ashwagoshr who belonged to ( )
A) Kushan time
B) Mourya period
C) Gupta’s period
D) Sangam period
Answer:
A) Kushan time

Question 12.
In many parts of South Indias people wrote on palm leaves. In North India, they used ( )
A) the barks of mango tree
B) the barks of Chopra tree
C) the barks of palm tree
D) the paper and cloth
Answer:
B) the barks of Chopra tree

Question 13.

The Above is
A) Indus script
B) Brahmi Script
C) Arabic Script
D) Urdu Script
Answer:
A) Indus script

Question 14.
“Who knows it for certain – out of what It was born and where from this creation came. This is the verse from?
A) The Rigveda
B) Upanishad
C) Ashtadhyayi
D) Brahmasutras
Answer:
A) The Rigveda

Question 15.
Choose the correct matching.
i) Mahabharata ( ) (a) Ashoka
ii) First Kavya in Sanskrit ( ) (b) Veda vyasa
iii) Rock edxis ( ) c) The Ramayana
A) i-a,ii-b,iii-c
B) i -b,ii-c,iii-a
C) i – c, ii – b, iii – a
D) i -b,ii -a,iii-c
Answer:
B) i -b,ii-c,iii-a

Question 16.
Choose the correct matching.
i) Kistagomi ( ) a) Tamil Literature
ii) Sangam literature ( ) b) Aryabhata
iii) Decimal system ( ) c) Gouthama budha
A) i – c, ii – a, iii – b
B) i – a, ii- b, iii – c
C) i – b, ii – c, iii – a
D) i – b, ii – a, iii – c
Answer:
A) i – c, ii – a, iii – b

17. Choose the correct matching.
i) Panini () a) Buddacharitha
ii) Ashwagosha () b) Ashatadhyayi
iii) Kalldasa () c) Abhijinana Shakuntalam
A) i – a, ii – b, iii – c
B) i – b,ii – c,iii – a
C) i – a, ii -c, iii – b
D) i – b, ii – a, iii – c
Answer:
D) i – b, ii – a, iii – c

Question 18.
This is not true with Amarakosa
A) It is written in Sanskrit
B) Patanjali wrote it
C) Amarakosa is a kind of dictionary
D) The writer of Amarakosha was in the court of Chandra Gupta II
Answer:
B) Patanjali wrote it