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NCERT
SOLUTIONS
CLASS - 4th
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Class : 4th
Subject : Environmental-Studies
Chapter : 9
Chapter Name : Changing Families
Q1 Who were the members of Nimmi’s family before the arrival of her baby sister?
Answer. Father, mother, grandmother, uncle and Nimmi.
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Q2 How many members are there in Nimmi’s family now?
Answer. Now there are six members in Nimmi’s family.
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Q3 How do you think the lives of Nimmi’s family members have changed after the arrival of the new baby? For
example –
(i) How will Nimmi spend her day now?
(ii) What new work will her mother do now?
(iii) There will be a change in the daily work of Nimmi’s father, grandmother and uncle with the arrival of the new
baby. Can you tell how?
Answer. (i) Playing with the newborn baby.
(ii) Looking after the newborn baby.
(iii) They will be looking after the new baby. They will be playing with her.
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Q4 Has a small brother or sister been born in your home or in any house in your neighbourhood?
Answer. Yes, a baby boy is born to my aunty.
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Q5 How does it feel to have a new baby at home?
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Answer. It feels very nice.
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Q6 How have things changed at home with the new baby?
Answer. Everybody is very happy. They are playing with new baby.
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Q7 Find out all about the youngest child in your home or in the home of a relative. Then write-
(1) When was the baby born?
(2) Is the baby a boy or a girl?
(3) How are you related to him or her?
(4) Where was the baby born?
(5) Who does the baby look like?
(6) What is the colour of his or her hair?
(7) What is the colour of his or her eyes?
(8) Does the baby have any teeth?
(9) What do we feed the baby with?
(10) What is the baby’s length?
(11) How many hours a day does the baby sleep?
(12) What different sounds does the baby make?
(13) Who does the baby stay with most of the time?
(14) Stick a photograph of the baby or draw a picture in your Notebook.
Answer. (1) Two months back.
(2) Boy
(3) He is my cousin.
(4) In the hospital.
(5) He looks like his father that is, my uncle.
(6) The colour of hair is black.
(7) Brown.
(8) No, the baby does not have teeth.
(9) Milk, water, juice
(10) Around one and half feet.
(11) More than 17 hours.
(12) He cries and makes various other sounds.
(13) His mother that is my aunty.
(14) DIY.
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Q8 When Tsering’s father showed the letter to his family, how do you think the different members would have felt?
Answer. Everyone was happy that Tsering’s father got promotion. At the same time, all were a little sad also that he
has to go to another city.
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Q9 What will change in Tsering’s family after his father’s transfer?For example –
(i) Who from Tsering’s family will live with his father at the new place? Which school will Tsering go to now? Will he
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have new friends?
(ii) Has anybody in your family moved to a new place because of work?
(iii) What do you feel about this change?
Answer. (i) Tsering’s mother. Tsering’s sister and Tsering. Tsering will go to a school there. He will have new friends
there.
(ii) Yes, my uncle moved to a new place because of work.
(iii) We feel sad about this change.
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Q10 Is there anyone in your class or school who has come to your school from another place? If so, talk to him or her.
(i) Where has she or he come from?
(ii) What was his or her old school like?
(iii) What does he or she nd different here?
(iv) Does he or she like the change?
Answer. Yes, one girl came to our school last month.
(i) She came from Varanasi.
(ii) Her old school was like this school.
(iii) She found Different people, different uniform, different timing.
(iv) At rst, she had some problems to adjust to new conditions but now, she enjoys it.
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Q1 Do you think there will be changes in the home from where the new bride has come? What kind of changes?
Answer. Yes, there will be a new member in Nazli’s family. She is Nazli’s sister-in-law.
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Q2 Do you think there will be changes in the home from where the new bride has come? What kind of changes?
Answer. Nazil’s sister in law stays them family member and works for them.
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Q3 Talk to your mother and aunts in the family. Ask them about where they lived before they got married.
Answer. They lived with their parents before they got married.
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Q4 Who were the members in their families then?
Answer. Their parents, brothers and sisters were the members in their families.
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Q5 Has anybody in your family been married recently? Who?
Answer. My cousins sister got married recently.
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Q6 Talk to your classmates and write all about what happens during weddings in their families.
(i) What kind of special food is cooked?
(ii) What special clothes do the bride and bridegroom wear?
(iii) What kinds of songs and dances are performed at weddings?
Answer. (i) Vegetables, shahi paneer, Basmati rice, dal etc is cooked.
(ii) The bride wore red lengha choli and the bridegroom wore sherwani and pagri.
(iii) Traditionals as well as modern songs and dances are performed at weddings.
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Q7 What did you see at the wedding that you attended? Draw some pictures in your notebook. Then look at the
pictures drawn by your classmates.
Answer. DIY
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Q8 Write down the reasons for these changes
(i) In Nimmi’s family –
(ii) In Tsering’s family –
(iii) In Nazli’s family
Answer. (i) In Nimmi’s family. New baby is born. One family member increases.
(ii) Tsering’s father got transfer in job. Family members are reduced.
(iii) Her cousin got married. As a result, her sister-in-law came in their family.
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Q9 There can be many reasons for changes in families. Can you think of some more reasons?
Answer. (i) Getting married.
(ii) Transfer in job.
(iii) Birth of new child.
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Q10 Talk to three old people – one from your family, one from your friend’s family and one from a family in your
neighbourhood. Ask them these questions and ll in the table.
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Answer. DIY
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Q1 All families change in some way or the other because of different reasons. Has your family changed too?
Answer. DIY
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Q2 When your grandmother and grandfather were children like you, was your family just like it is today?
Answer. DIY
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Q3 You had also drawn a family tree of your own family. Let us again draw the family tree of last year in your
notebook.
Answer.
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Q4 Ask your grandmother or grandfather how many members were there in their family when they were your age?
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Then draw a family tree in your notebook of their family when they were young.
Answer. DIY
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Q5 Can you see yourself, your brother or your sister, your mother or your father, anywhere in this family tree?
Answer. No, I cannot see myself, my brother, my sister, my mother or my father anywhere in this family tree.
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Q6 Now draw a family tree of your present family in your Notebook.
Answer. DIY
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Q7 Can you see yourself anywhere in this family tree? Who are the members of your family today? Where are your
grandparents?
Answer. DIY
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Q1 Can you tell in what ways the family tree of your grandmother or grandfather in their childhood is different from
your family tree today?
Answer. During their childhood , my grandparents were at the bottom of the family tree. Now they are at the top.
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Q1 Upto which class do you want to study?
Answer. I want to study till Phd.
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Q2 Upto which class have your parents studied?
Answer. DIY
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Q3 Till which class did your grandmother get a chance to study ?
Answer. DIY
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Q4 At what age did your grandmother get married?
Answer. DIY
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Q5 Have you heard of a Law that talks about the ages before, which girls and boys must not get married?
Answer. Yes, Boys must not get married before 21 years and girls should not get married before 18 years.
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Q1 Are there any such children in your neighbourhood who had to drop out of school? Do they want to go back to
school?
Answer. No, there are no childrens in my neighborhood who had to drop out of school. They are all going to school.
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Q2 What are they doing these days?
Answer. They are all studying.
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Q3 Has anybody in your family got married recently? Who?
Answer. Yes, my cousins is married recently.
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Q4 What was the age of bride and the groom?
Answer. The bride is 24 years old and groom is 27 years old.
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Q5 What kind of dresses they wore?
Answer. Bride - Red lengha Choli with Red Dupatta.
Groom - Sherwani and Pagri.
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Q6 What kind of dishes were there? Name them.
Answer. There were many dishes like:
Puri Sabzi
Biryani
Sweets
Raita
Chow Mein
Veg plow
Mixed vegetables.
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