Primary School (English Medium) Class 4 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Environmental Studies

How long did your journey take?

Omana’s Appa bought tickets for the train and the bus. Can you think of other means of transport for which we need to buy tickets?

Sometimes we need to buy tickets to enter a place. Can you think of such places?

Look at this picture of a railway ticket. Find the following information on the ticket and circle them with different colours and discuss.

Write what other information you can find out from the ticket.

Some portions of the time-table for the route of the train on which Omana travelled are given. Look carefully at it and answer the following questions.

• Underline the names of all the stations in the table that are mentioned in Omana’s diary.
• From which station did the train start?
• How many minutes did the train stop at Ahmedabad station?
• On which day of the journey did the train reach Madgaon?
• Sunil and Ann got off at Kozhikode station. Omana got off at Kottayam station. How many hours does the train take to reach Kottayam from Kozhikode?
• What is the distance that the train travelled over the whole route?
• How many kilometres did Omana travel by train?

Would you like to keep a diary? Take a notebook or a diary. Every day for a week, write about what you did. Also, write your thoughts and feelings. Share your diary with your friends.

Who were the members of Nimmi’s family before the arrival of her baby sister?

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 -

1. How will Nimmi spend her day now?
2. What new work will her mother do now?
3. 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?

Has a small brother or sister been born in your home or in any house in your neighbourhood?

1. How does it feel to have a new baby at home?
2. How have things changed at home with the new baby?

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.

When Tsering’s father showed the letter to his family, how do you think the different members would have felt?

What will change in Tsering’s family after his father’s transfer? For example -

1. Who from Tsering’s family will live with his father at the new place?
2. Which school will Tsering go to now?
3. Will he have new friends?
4. Has anybody in your family moved to a new place because of work?
5. What do you feel about this change?

Is there anyone in your class or school who has come to your school from another place? If so, talk to him or her.

1. Where has she or he come from?
2. What was his or her old school like?
3. What does he or she find different here?
4. Does he or she like the change?

Do you think that there will be any change in Nazli’s family after this wedding? What will change?

1. Do you think there will be changes in the home from where the new bride has come? What kind of changes?
2. Talk to your mother and aunts in the family. Ask them about where they lived before they got married.
3. Who were the members in their families then?
4. Has anybody in your family been married recently? Who?

Talk to your classmates and write all about what happens during weddings in their families.

1. What kind of special food is cooked?
2. What special clothes do the bride and bridegroom wear?
3. 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 -

Write down the reason for this change.

In Tsering’s family -

Write down the reason for this change.

In Nazli’s family -