SOMETHING TO KNOW
A. Tick (✔) the correct option:
1. Your maternal grandparents are your-
(a) Mother’s parents ✔
(b) Father’s parents
(c) Both
Answer – (a) Mother’s parents✔
2. A nuclear family generally has-
(a) Parents
(b) Children
(c) Both ✔
Answer – (c) Both✔
3. Vishu’s grandmother runs a training centre for-
(a) Old people
(b) Poor women ✔
(c) Children
Answer – (b) Poor women✔
4. People should follow correct eating habits for a-
(a) Healthy life ✔
(b) Tired life
(c) Both
Answer – (a) Healthy life✔
B. Fill in the blanks:
Help Box – (help, yoga, rangoli, members, different)
1. We live in our home with the members of our family.
2. Family members can look alike or different.
3. Vishu learnt yoga from his grandfather.
4. Vishu learnt to make rangoli from his grandmother.
5. Family members help each other in time of need.
C. Match the following:
1. Vishu’s grandmother runs (c) a training centre for poor women.
2. Vishu’s grandfather (e) teaches yoga in a park.
3. A family is two or more people who are (a) connected by love or kinship.
4. Manmeet teaches (b) Manipuri dance.
5. In a big/joint family, many members (d) of a family live together.
D. Answer the following questions:
1. Where do Vishu’s maternal grandparents live?
Answer – Vishu’s maternal grandparents live in Lucknow.
2. What is the difference between a nuclear and a joint family?
Answer – Nuclear family
It is also known as small family.
Father and mother live with their children.
More interaction with parents
Joint family
It is abo called big family
Many members like grandparents, parents, uncles, aunties, cousins and children live together in same house
Less interaction with parents but children learn sharing and caring.
3. How does Vishu’s grandmother help the poor women?
Answer – Vishu’s grandmother runs a training centre to teach embroidery to help the poor women.
4. Mention three important things that make a family.
Answer – Three important things that make a family are –
Love one another.
Share their happiness.
Help each other
5. Name three things that the members of a family do together.
Answer – Three things that family do together are:-
Gat together
Play together
Celebrate festivals together
Value Based Questions:
Mother, My Best Friend
Mother, you taught me to care from you I learnt to share, Scold me whenever I am wrong But never remain angry for long.
Mother, do not hold my hand But guide me to understand, Good and evil, the world unknown, Help me to recognise on my own.
(a) In what ways does your mother guide you?
Answer – My mother guide me to distinguish, between good or evil. She helps me to understand what is good and what is bad for me. She also motivates me toward my future endeavours.
(b) What values have you learnt from your mother?
Answer – My mother taught me values like –
Sharing and caring.
Be sensible.
Being polite to others.
(c) Ask your teacher/parents to tell the stories of great deeds of some famous mothers like Jija Bai, Yashoda and Mother Teresa.
Answer – Some famous and great deeds of mothers like –
Jija Bai – She managed her husband’s Jagir in pure and developed it. She established Kasba Ganpati Mandir. She taught her son Shivaji Ramayan, Mahabharta which ended in independence.
Yashoda – Yashoda is known and respect for her unsurpassable love for Krishna even after knowing that he was not her own born son.
Mother Teresa – She crossed the boarders to help children and poor. She opened her charity house.
(d) What are the qualities that you admire in your mother/father?
Answer – qualities that you admire in your mother/father are
They are humble and polite.
They are loving and caring.
They are ca courageous and stand for what is right.
Map Skill
Look at the political map of India.
It shows 28 states and 8 Union Territories. Each state has a capital, many cities, towns and villages. Locate the-
Delhi-the Capital of India
Uttar Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Manipur
Rajasthan
SOMETHING TO DO
1. The mother of your grandmother or grandfather is your great-grandmother. The father of your grandmother or grandfather is your great-grandfather. If you go back one more generation, the grandmother of your grandparents is your great-great-grandmother. The grandfather of your grandparents becomes your great-great-grandfather.
Ask your parents to show you old albums.
(a) Find out the names of your great-grandparents-
Answer – Students must write their own great-grandparents name.
(b) Where did they live?
Answer – They lived in Odisha (Students must write their own)
(c) What was their occupation?
Answer – Farming
Complete your family tree by filling the names.
Students will fill the blank area by their own.
(a) What do you call your mother’s father?
Answer – Nana ji (Aja)
(b) What do you call your father’s father?
Answer – Dada Ji (Jeje Bapa)
(c) What do you call your mother’s brother/sister?
Answer – Mama/Mousi (Mamu/ Mausi)
(d) What do you call your father’s brother/sister?
Answer – Chacha/ Bua (Kaka/Piyushi)