CHAPTER -5 Where Do All the Teachers Go? Class 6th | Poem | CLASS 6th |IMPORTANT QUESTIONS & MCQs | NCERT ENGLISH | EDUGROWN

(b) if teachers live in ordinary houses

(a) that teachers go home after work

(c) perfect

(b) make mistakes in spellings

(a) wear unclean clothes

(b) use fingers to remove mucus from the nose

(c) they relax at home

Answer: (b) ordinary people

Answer: (b) dressed like a teacher

Answer: (d) teachers

Answer: (d) teachers

Answer: (b) punished

(a) Peter Dixon

(c) his teachers

(b) ordinary people

(b) dressed like a teacher

(d) entertainment

(a) teachers

(d) ill-mannered

(b) ordinary people

(d) teachers

(c) pull mucus from the nose

(c) how the children think

(b) punished

(c) decent

(d) desks

(a) adverbs

(d) Where do All the Teachers Go?

(c) a student

(a) the teachers

(d) the students

(b) poetic

Important Questions 

Question 1.
Why does the poet want to know where the teachers go at four o’clock?
Answer:
The poet wanted to know where the teachers go at four o’clock because this is the time when school got over.

Question 2.
What are the things normal people do that the poet talks about?
Answer:
Normal people go home after work. They relax in their houses wearing an informal dress and watch T.V. They live with their parents and children. Normal people commit mistakes. Sometimes they are seen wearing dirty clothes also.

Question 3.
What does he imagine about?
(a) where teachers live?
(b) what they do at home?
(c) the people with whom they live?
(d) Their activities when they were children in school?
Answer:
(a) In house
(b) Washed their socks, wore pyjamas, picked their noses, and watched TV.
(c) Lived with other people and if they also had mother and fathers.
(d) They were also bad made mistakes, never spelled right and were punished in the comer for pinching the chocolate flakes. They lost their hymn books scribbled on the desk tops or wore old dirty jeans.

Question 4.
Why does the poet wonder if teachers also do things that other people do?
Answer:
The poet wonders because the teachers do not appear to him as normal human beings. They seem to be so perfect that they cannot make the mistakes or do chores which ordinary people do.

Question 5.
How does the poet plan to find out? What will he do once he finds out?
Answer:
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 so, he would compose it into a poem, which then those teachers would read to their students.

Question 6.
What do you think these phrases from the poem mean?
(i) punished in the comer
(ii) leave their greens.
Answer:
(i) getting punishment of standing in the comer of the class room.
(ii) Greens refer to cooked green vegetable leaves. Children do not like to eat them.

Where Do All the Teachers Go Extra Questions and Answers Reference to Context

Question 1.
Where do all the teachers go
When it’s four o’clock?
Do they live in houses

And do they wash their socks?
Do they wear Pyjamas
And do they watch TV?

Explanation
The poet enquires about the place where the teachers go at 4 o’ clock. He asks if they live in houses and do petty chores like washing their socks. Do the teachers wear pyjamas and watch TV like everyone does?

(i) What is the name of the poet?
(ii) About whom does the poet want to know?
(iii) Why did he mention ‘pyjamas’?
(iv) What does he want to know about the teacher?
(v) What is the idea behind the question of the child?
Answer:
(i) Peter Dixon is the name of the poet.
(ii) The poet wants to know about the teachers.
(iii) Teachers are always dressed nice and wearing pyjamas is a common man’s habit. So he asks if teachers live ordinary life too.
(iv) He wants to know about the activities of the teacher.
(v) The teachers live an ideal life so it is difficult for the poet to believe that teachers live like common people.

Question 2.
And do they pick their noses
The same as you and me?
Do they live with other people

Have they mums and dads?
And were they ever children
And were they ever bad?

Explanation
The poet asks whether teachers pick their noses as most of the children do. He asks if they have parents and how were they as children. Did they ever behaved badly?

(i) What is the name of poem?
(ii) Who are ‘they’ referred to is the extract?
(iii) What was difficult to believe for teachers?
(iv) Why did the poet mention ‘pick their noses’?
(v) Give antonym of pick
Answer:
(i) Where do all the teachers go?
(ii) ‘They’ is referred to the teachers.
(iii) The poet fails to imagine teachers as ‘ill mannered’ as he himself is.
(iv) ‘Picking of the nose’ is done by ill-mannered children. The poet finds it hard to believe for teacher.
(v) Reject

Question 3.
Did they ever, never spell right
Did they ever make mistakes?
Were they punished in the comer
If they pinched the chocolate flakes?

Did they ever lose their hymn books
Did they ever leave their greens?
Did they scribble on the desk tops
Did they wear old dirty jeans?

Explanation
The poet questioned whether the teachers have ever committed mistakes and at young age were they also used to write wrong spelling. Were they ever punished for pinching chocolate flakes. The questions raised about losing a hymn book. And leaving green vegetables in plate. Did they ever write on desk tops. Wearing dirty jeans is also a concern for the child.

Questions
(i) Whom does the poet refer to in the above line?
(ii) What are the things for which a child is punished?
(iii) What is the general habits of children?
(iv) Why was the poet concerned about dirty clothes?
(v) What is the meaning of ‘scribble’?
Answer:
(i) The poet refers to teacher.
(ii) Children are often punished for incorrect spellings, pinching chocolate flakes, for leaving vegetables.
(iii) The children often leave vegetables in plates and scribble on desks.
(iv) The poet always see their teachers nicely dressed so it was unacceptable to him to think of worn and dirty clothes.
(v) Write.