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Question
When your grandmother and grandfather were children like you, was your family just like it is today?
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Solution
No, it was different from today. There were more family members who lived together. They used to live in a village.
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How many members are there in Nimmi’s family now?
How do you think the lives of Nimmi’s family members have changed after the arrival of the new baby? For example -
- 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.
What will change in Tsering’s family after his father’s transfer? For example -
- 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?
- Has anybody in your family moved to a new place because of work?
- 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?
- Do you think there will be changes in the home from where the new bride has come? What kind of changes?
- 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?
Talk to your classmates and write all about what happens during weddings in their families.
- What kind of special food is cooked?
- What special clothes do the bride and bridegroom wear?
- What kinds of songs and dances are performed at weddings?
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 Nimmi’s family -
There can be many reasons for changes in families. Can you think of some more reasons?
- Are there any such children in your neighbourhood who had to drop out of school? Do they want to go back to school?
- What are they doing these days?
