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प्रश्न
Compare your house with that of Jasma. List in your notebook what materials were used in making both the houses.
| Jasma’s House | Your House |
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उत्तर
| Jasma’s House | Your House |
| It was made up of clay, cow, dung, mirror, etc. | It is made up of cement, bricks, glass, steel, etc. |
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This is not very strong and can break due to heavy rain, storms. |
It is very strong and can withstand all adverse climatic conditions. |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Have you or anyone that you know ever faced such difficulty?
Have you been told in your school or anywhere else about what to do in case of an earthquake?
According to the TV report, thousands of people were injured and some died in Gujarat. If the buildings had been made in a way that they would not fall in the earthquake, would the damage have been different? How?
In such situations whose help would be needed and for what? Write in your notebook as shown here.
| Whose help will be needed | How will they help |
| Dog | To smell out where people are lying trapped |
Imagine living in a place where there were no other houses or people around. How would it be? For example, whom would you play with? To whom would you celebrate festivals and special days? Would you be scared?
Make your own report which mentions the following:
– Cause of the disaster, date, and time
– What kind of damage did it cause-to lives, belongings, livelihoods?
– Which people came forward to help? Which government offices or other groups?
Have people in your area ever got affected by famine or drought? Find such reports of different countries from newspapers. Make your own report.
Write a report with the help of the following words:
floods, river water, injured people, food packets, rescue work, camps, dead bodies, dead animals floating in the water, houses underwater, aerial survey (to see the scene of the disaster from a plane), sad people, diseases spread by dirty water, homeless people, trapped people.
What will you do to save pet animals during a natural disaster?
People face a lot of difficulties when they lose people from their family, or their houses and belongings. In newspapers of the last one month, look for news related to such disasters - earthquakes, floods, fire, cyclones, etc., in different parts of the world. Collect these news reports and paste them into your notebook.
