NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English Chapter1 The Unlikely Best Friends

This worksheet provides complete and accurate NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English Chapter The Unlikely Best Friends. The chapter focuses on the theme of friendship and helps students understand the meaning of true friendship through engaging stories and a meaningful poem. It highlights how real friends care, support, and stand by each other during difficult times. This worksheet strictly follows the NCERT structure and ensures that students receive clear, chapter-based answers aligned with the textbook.

The chapter is important for students because it builds emotional understanding, moral values, vocabulary skills, grammar concepts, and communication abilities. Through stories and activities, students learn the difference between true friends and companions and understand how kindness, care, and honesty define real friendship.

Chapter summary: stories, poems & themes

This chapter includes the story The Unlikely Best Friends, which tells the story of Gajaraj the elephant and Buntee the dog. Their unexpected friendship shows how care and love create strong bonds.
It also includes another story titled The Chair, which teaches students how to identify real friends through actions rather than words.
The poem A Friend’s Prayer expresses the importance of caring for friends, understanding their wishes, and accepting them as they are.
The chapter also contains listening, speaking, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and activity-based exercises that strengthen language skills. Some tasks are discussion-based and student-generated activities.
The main theme of the chapter is true friendship, care, honesty, and emotional understanding.

What this NCERT chapter covers?

• Understanding the theme of friendship 
• Reading comprehension through stories and poems 
• Vocabulary development from the text 
• Opposites and word formation using prefixes 
• Past tense forms of verbs 
• Use of neither…nor and either…or 
• Root words and suffixes 
• Adjectives and adjective-noun pairings 
• Listening and speaking activities 
• Paragraph writing and message writing 
• Value-based learning 

How to use these NCERT solutions?

Students should first read the chapter carefully and attempt all questions on their own. After attempting, they can use this worksheet to check their answers.
Parents and teachers can use these NCERT Solutions to guide students in understanding the chapter better. The solutions follow the exact order and structure of the NCERT textbook, making revision easier.
Using these solutions regularly helps students improve comprehension, grammar accuracy, and answer presentation as per NCERT expectations.

Student tips & learning tricks

• Read each story carefully before answering. 
• Focus on the actions of characters to understand themes. 
• While answering comprehension questions, use words from the text. 
• In grammar sections, identify verb forms carefully. 
• For activity-based tasks, write clearly and meaningfully. 
• Avoid writing very short or one-word answers unless instructed. 

Why NCERT solutions are important?

NCERT Solutions help students build strong foundational language skills. They follow the textbook structure and ensure accurate understanding of concepts.
For Class 6 English, learning correct answer format is important for assessments. These solutions improve confidence, comprehension, grammar accuracy, and writing skills.
They also help students understand values such as friendship, kindness, loyalty, and honesty.

Complete answer key – NCERT solutions

Let us do these activities before we read – The Unlikely Best Friends

I. Student-generated activity.

II. 
1. Student-generated activity. 
2. Student-generated activity. 

Let us discuss

1. Buntee and Gajaraj played, took a bath together, splashed water, and rode together. 
2. The farmer hugged Buntee because he had been looking for him ever since he disappeared from his house. 
3. Buntee was sad to leave Gajaraj but went with the farmer when pulled. 

Let us discuss (Part II)

1. Gajaraj did not eat his food because he was missing his friend Buntee. 
2. Gajaraj and Buntee were friends. The mahout and the farmer also became friends. 

Let us think and reflect

I 
1. (i) sad 
(ii) food, bath 
(iii) A caretaker looks after someone’s needs, but a friend shares feelings and companionship. 

2. (i) friend 
(ii) Buntee had not touched his food. 
(iii) Because Buntee was missing his friend. 
(iv) Buntee 

II 
Gajaraj splashed water playfully and lifted Buntee with his trunk in a joyous swing. 

III 
The mahout saw that Gajaraj had not touched his food. 

IV 
Buntee licked the farmer’s hand to show love and gratitude. 

V 
It was unlikely because an elephant and a dog became best friends. 

Let us learn

1. Puzzle answers include opposites such as: appeared, happy, touched, love, etc. 

2. Paragraph completion:
My pencil was missing. I was very sad as it was a gift from my friend. I woke up my elder brother who was asleep on the bed. I told him that my pencil seemed to have disappeared. He laughed and told me to look under my pillow. I was relieved when I found the pencil there. 

3. Verb classification: 
Simple Past – looked, gave, hated, went, told, asked, felt, touched, joined, arrived, threw 
Past Progressive – was looking, was missing, was munching 
Past Perfect – had ordered, had followed, had remained, had tied 

Verb passage answers:
noticed, had tied, asked, felt, was missing 

4. Practice sentences – student-generated activity. 

Let us listen

Listening activity – student-generated activity.

Let us speak

Student-generated activity.

Let us write

Student-generated activity.

A Friend’s Prayer – Let us think and reflect

I 
prayer, complete life, special, listen to, prays, heart, as they are, true 

II 
1. blessed 
2. heart 

III 
1. (i) B. caring 
(ii) by trying hard 
(iii) happy 

2. (i) Let me use my heart to see 
(ii) B. thoughtful 
(iii) judgements 

IV 
It is a prayer because the poet is praying for her friends. 

V 
She wants to make her friends’ wishes come true. 

VI 
Yes, because she listens to their hopes and plans. 

VII 
Student-generated activity. 

Let us learn

I 
grateful, thankful 

II 
helpful, kind, caring, honest 

Fill in the blanks: 
1. loyal 
2. caring 
3. helpful 
4. honest 
5. respect 

The Chair – Let us discuss

1. False 
2. An invisible chair 
3. Yes 
4. Yes 

Let us discuss (Part II)

1. False 
2. fruit chaat 
3. (i) Guneet, Asma and Deepa 

Let us think and reflect

I 
1. (i) special and invisible 
(ii) Because it was invisible. 
(iii) Because it helped identify real friends. 

2. (i) he kept missing the seat 
(ii) False 
(iii) strong-willed 

II 
1. The bet was about whether Mario had real friends. 
2. He fell down. 
3. His real friends held him up. 
4. Student opinion-based answer. 
5. Friends forever. 
6. Student-generated activity. 

Let us learn

Root and suffix examples:
friend – ly 
sudden – ly 
talk – ing 
carry – ing 
call – ed 
show – ed 

Matching and sentence creation – student-generated activity.

Adjective pairing paragraph:
1. happy boy 
2. old book 
3. amazing stories 
4. magical adventures 
5. colourful creatures 
6. old castles 
7. fantastic adventures 

Let us listen

Listening activity – student-generated activity.

Let us speak

Student-generated activity.

Let us write

Mario’s message to Guneet:
thankful to 
real 
laughing at 
care for 
blessing 

Write your own message – student-generated activity.

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