SOMETHING TO KNOW
A. Tick the correct option:
1. What do all the family members share in common?
(a) Toys
(b) Rooms
(c) Surname (✔)
Answer – (c) Surname (✔)
2. Who provides all the support to children in a nuclear family?
(a) Uncle and Aunt
(b) Parents and siblings (✔)
(c) Both
Answer – (b) Parents and siblings (✔)
3. Where do you get an environment of love, care and belongingness?
(a) Market
(b) Family (✔)
(c) Garden
Answer – (b) Family (✔)
4. People move to the different parts of the world for-
(a) Job
(b) Education
(c) Both (✔)
Answer – (c) Both (✔)
B. Fill in the blanks:
[Help Box – support, joint, chores, important, respect]
1. All the family members love and respect one another.
2. The family members share the household chores.
3. A joint family has parents and their married children.
4. In nuclear family, parents provide support, companionship and advice to the children.
5. Each member of a family is important.
C. Match the following:
1. Family (c) care, protection, belongingness
2. Adopted child (e) permanent member
3. Nuclear family (a) parents and children
4. Family crafts (b) weaving, painting, pottery
5. Joint family (d) many nuclear families
D. Correct the following sentences:
1. Sharing of chores increases the burden.
Answer – Sharing of chores decreases the burden.
2. The older family member pass on the family traditions to the older generation.
Answer – The older family member pass on the family traditions to the younger generation.
3. There is less interaction between parents and children in nuclear families.
Answer – There is more interaction between parents and children in nuclear families.
4. A surname is a school name.
Answer – A surname is a family name.
E. Answer the following questions:
1. What is a family? Name two types of families.
Answer – Two or more people (married couple and their children) connected by love belongingness and live together is called family.
Two types of family are –
Joint family
Nuclear family
2. Mention the things children learn by watching the family members.
Answer – The things children learn by watching family members are –
How and care for one another
Good behaviours
Moral values
Skills
Decision making
Sharing
Helping others
3. Differentiate between a joint family and a nuclear family.
Answer – Nuclear family
Parents and their unmarried children live together.
There is more interactions between parents and children.
Members provide all the Support companionship and advice to each other.
Joint family
Parents live with their married and unmarried children.
There are less interactions between parents and children.
They learn cooperation, sharing, living harmony from members.
4. What are the advantages of sharing your home with other members of family?
Answer – The advantages of sharing home are:
Learning cooperation.
Living in harmony.
Learning sharing and caring.
5. State two reasons that are responsible for changing family fibre in India.
Answer – The reasons responsible for changing family fibre in India are:
Better job opportunities.
Better quality education and lifestyle.
Better climate.
Value Based Question:
Each member of a family is important, unique and has special qualities. What special qualities of your family members do you admire and appreciate?
Map Skill
Look at the political map of India. Trace the boundaries of the following:
• Delhi
• Uttar Pradesh
• Jammu and Kashmir
• Assam
• A state that you want to visit. Odisha
SOMETHING TO DO
1. Discuss with your parents and list five moral values that are important for every
person-
(a) Truth
(b) Honesty
(c) Sharing/ helping others
(d) Caring
(e) Respecting others
2. Extended family includes paternal and maternal families. Meet your extended family and fill the following:
(a) Your father’s brother’s/sister’s name Rajat Kumar Gupta
(b) Your mother’s brother’s/sister’s name Ranjeeta Sahu
(c) Your cousin’s name Sudhakar Gupta
(d) Your grandfather brother’s/sister’s name Mathura Gupta
(e) Your grandmother’s brother’s/sister’s name Haimabatee Sahu
3. Prepare a family album. Write down a small poem or few lines about any three family members.
Answer – Students will do this task with the help of family members.
4. Family celebrations are a time of enjoyment for all the members of a family. Name a family celebration that you enjoy the most and explain the reason for the same.
Answer – I have enjoyed a birthday party of my cousin Rajat Kumar Gupta on 23rd May, at Mayfair hotel in Puri. There I enjoyed a lot because all the family members including other guest were present there. I took the blessing of all of them and also got many pieces of suggestion regarding my career.
5. The size of the family increases with the birth of a baby or by marriage. There must have been a marriage or a birth of a baby in your family in recent years. How do you address the new member?
Answer – I address the new member by telling her Chhoti Pari because she is my cousin sister.
6. See your old family album or talk to your grandparents. Compare the house in which they lived when they were your age, with the house you live now.
Answer –
7. Riddle Game
(a) He is your father’s father but is your Grandfather.
(b) She is your mother’s niece but is your Cousin sister.
(c) Your sister’s aunt is your Aunt .
(d) Your maternal grandparents only daughter is your Mother.
(e) He has the same parents; he is your Brother.