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Question
There can be many reasons for changes in families. Can you think of some more reasons?
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Solution
Changes happen in families because of several reasons.
Some of the reasons for changes are-
- Birth of a new child.
- Marriage of a family member.
- Transfer of a family member to other places because of work.
- Getting a good job by a family member.
- Getting admission to a good school or college by a family member.
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- How will Nimmi spend her day now?
- What new work will her mother do now?
- 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?
Find out all about the youngest child in your home or in the home of a relative. Then write -
- When was the baby born?
- Is the baby a boy or a girl?
- How are you related to him or her?
- Where was the baby born?
- Who does the baby look like?
- What is the colour of his or her hair?
- What is the colour of his or her eyes?
- Does the baby have any teeth?
- What do we feed the baby with?
- What is the baby’s length?
- How many hours a day does the baby sleep?
- What different sounds does the baby make?
- Who does the baby stay with most of the time?
- Stick a photograph of the baby or draw a picture in your notebook.
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- Who from Tsering’s family will live with his father at the new place?
- Which school will Tsering go to now?
- Will he have new friends?
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- What do you feel about this change?
Do you think that there will be any change in Nazli’s family after this wedding? What will change?
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- Talk to your mother and aunts in the family. Ask them about where they lived before they got married.
- Who were the members in their families then?
- Has anybody in your family been married recently? Who?
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.
Write down the reason for this change.
In Nazli’s family -
Do you remember the picture of Sitamma’s family tree which we saw in Class III?
- You had also drawn a family tree of your own family. Let us again draw the family tree of last year in your notebook.
- Ask your grandmother or grandfather how many members were there in their family when they were your age? Then draw a family tree in your notebook of their family when they were young.
- Can you see yourself, your brother or your sister, your mother or your father, anywhere in this family tree?
- Now draw a family tree of your present family in your notebook.
- Can you see yourself anywhere in this family tree? Who are the members of your family today? Where are your grandparents?
Can you tell in what ways the family tree of your grandmother or grandfather in their childhood is different from your family tree today?
Up to which class do you want to study?
Have you heard of a Law that talks about the ages before which girls and boys must not get married?
