Chapter 6: The Chair
Mario thinks he has lots of friends, until his grandfather gives him an invisible chair that reveals who his real friends are. Read the story in your Poorvi book, then use these topics to understand it, learn suffixes and adjectives, and write a message to a friend.
In this chapter you will
- understand and retell the story
- tell real friends from companions
- form words with suffixes (-ly, -ful, -tion, -ship, -ous)
- use adjectives to describe people and things
- write a message to a friend
Topics
- Read: The Story NCERT pp. 59–63
Grandpa's invisible chair test shows Mario who his real friends are.
- Think and Reflect NCERT pp. 64–65
Mario is boastful at first, but brave, determined and strong-willed.
- Words: Suffixes and Adjectives NCERT pp. 65–67
A suffix is added after a root word: friend + ship = friendship; celebrate + tion = celebration.
- Listen, Speak and Write NCERT pp. 68–70
A message has a greeting, warm sentences and a closing.
Key words
- Showed off
- boasted
- Invisible
- impossible to see
- Determined
- firm in decision
- Suffix
- letters added after a root word (-ful, -ship)
- Adjective
- a word that describes a person or thing
Summary
- Grandpa's invisible-chair test shows that Guneet, Asma and Deepa are Mario's real friends.
- Real friends care for us and never enjoy our bad luck.
- Suffixes make new words (friendship, careful); adjectives describe nouns (brave soldier).
- A message to a friend has a greeting, warm words and a closing.