Comfort is not company
The best booth in the stables.
Gajaraj has a king who is fond of him and orders on his care. He is still sad, because none of it is somebody to play with.
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The Unlikely Best Friends · Class 6 English · Poorvi
English 3 topics 87 leveled MCQs 45 flashcards 7 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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The story draws the line itself
A good caretaker. Not a friend.
The mahout feeds him, bathes him and is kind to him. The story says in one sentence that this is not the same as friendship, and then spends the rest proving it.
How it starts
Food pushed across a floor.
No speech and no introductions. A tired, hungry stray, and an elephant who moves some of his own dinner towards it. Everything else follows from that.
Four letters at the front
An opposite you can build.
Not every opposite is a separate word. Kind becomes unkind, correct becomes incorrect, appear becomes disappear. A small piece at the front does all the work.
Why prefixes are easy to read
The word underneath stays whole.
Kind is still sitting inside unkind, untouched, unhappy. Nothing is spelled differently, so you can always see what has been reversed.
Un-, in-, dis- or mis-
There is no rule for which.
Unhappy is right and inhappy is not a word. Which prefix a word takes has to be learned by meeting it, which is the only hard part of this.
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1
The Story: The Unlikely Best Friends
A royal elephant has everything except company. A stray dog wanders in one evening, and what grows between them turns out to matter more than food.
- Gajaraj has the finest stall in the royal stables and is carefully looked after, yet he is unhappy because he has nobody to play with.
- The mahout feeds him and bathes him every day. The story is careful to call him a good caretaker and not a friend.
- A hungry stray dog wanders in one evening, and the elephant pushes some of his own food towards it.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Words at Work: Opposites Built with Prefixes, and Three Pasts
How a few letters at the front of a word can reverse it, and the three different ways English has of telling you that something already happened.
- Not every opposite is a different word. Many are built by putting a few letters in front of the word you already have.
- Un- is the commonest: unhappy, unkind, untouched. In- gives incorrect, dis- gives disappear, and mis- gives misuse.
- The prefix does not change the word it joins. Kind stays whole inside unkind, which is what makes these easy to read.
~32 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Speak, Listen and Write about Friends Like and Unlike You
Saying how two people are alike and how they differ, in one piece of writing, using the small words that hold a comparison together.
- A comparison does two jobs at once: it says what is shared and it says what is not.
- Writing only the similarities makes two people sound identical, and writing only the differences makes them sound like strangers.
- And joins things that agree. But joins things that pull against each other, and it is the word a comparison usually turns on.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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87 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Why is Gajaraj unhappy at the beginning of the story?
Beginner
A The king has forgotten about him completely
B He is given very little food in the stables
C He has nobody to be friends with
D The mahout treats him unkindly
Show answer & explanation
He has nobody to be friends with
He has every comfort. What he does not have is company.
Why does the story call the mahout a good caretaker but not a friend?
Intermediate
A Looking after somebody is not the same as keeping them company
B The mahout is too busy with the other royal animals
C The mahout does not actually like elephants very much
D Friendship is impossible between a person and an animal
Show answer & explanation
Looking after somebody is not the same as keeping them company
The story separates the two on purpose, in a single sentence.
What does Gajaraj do when the stray dog first appears?
Beginner
A He calls loudly for the mahout to come
B He moves away to give the dog more room
C He lifts the dog onto his back at once
D He pushes some of his own food towards it
Show answer & explanation
He pushes some of his own food towards it
One share of dinner, and the friendship starts there.
A new pupil sits alone at lunch, and a girl moves her plate across to share. Which moment does this repeat?
Intermediate
A The farmer untying the rope from Buntee's neck
B Gajaraj pushing his food towards the stray dog
C The mahout laughing at the pond
D The dog licking the farmer's hand goodbye
Show answer & explanation
Gajaraj pushing his food towards the stray dog
Sharing food with somebody who has none is exactly how it begins.
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