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Question
When Tsering’s father showed the letter to his family, how do you think the different members would have felt?
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Solution
Everyone in the family felt very happy about the promotion of Tsering’s father. Moving to a new town excited Tsering. But Tsering’s father, mother and grandparents were slightly worried about making arrangements to shift to the new town.
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| 1. | Since how many years has your family been staying here? | |||
| 2. | Where did your family live before coming here? | |||
| 3. | How many members are there in your family today? | |||
| 4. | How many members were there in your family 10 years ago? | |||
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| 7. | What problems do you face with changes in technology? |
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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.
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- 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.
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Up to which class do you want to study?
Up to which class have your parents studied?
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- Are there any such children in your neighbourhood who had to drop out of school? Do they want to go back to school?
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