Class 4 EVS

Day 1
Fill in the blanks.

preparing, traditional, bullock-cart, farmer, onion seeds, weeds, belvanika, karnataka,

khunti, the right amount, regular

(i) Appa planted ............... in the field.

(ii) The ............... is an iron rod used to dig the soil before planting seeds.

(iii) Basva lives in ............... village in ............... state.

(iv) To have a good crop, it is required to drop ............... of seeds at ............... distances.

(v) ............... grow along with the sprouting onion plants.

(vi) Basva's father is a ............... .

(vii) Basva's father is ............... the Field for sowing.

(viii) He uses ............... methods of farming.

(ix) He used a truck or a ............... to carry fruits and vegetables to the market.

Day 2

1- Why was Basva's family happy this year?

2- Give three uses of 'Khunti'.

3- Why illige is used?

Answer in 30-40 words.

4. If the ripe onion crop is not taken out at the right time, what will happen?

5. Why is it important to remove weeds from the field where the crops are grown?

Day 3
1. How will we come to know that onions are ready to be taken out?

2.Basva's father takes the onions to the market in a truck. Find out and write

what other means of transport are used by farmers.

3- In this chapter, the steps for growing a vegetable crop are given. Find out from your teacher or
elders and write what steps are required for growing (i) a cereal crop like wheat or

rice, and (ii) a leguminous crop which gives a dal

4. Give one word.

(i) Unwanted plants on farm which grow along with main crop. ................... .

(ii) Cutting of ready crop ................... .

(iii) Removing of grains by beating on hard surface machines ................... .

(iv) Removing of unwanted things like hay, sticks, stones from seeds ................... .

(v) To make soil loose, soft using tractor or plough ................... .

5- What kind of vehicles are used to carry fruits and vegetables? Draw a picture of one of

these vehicles.

Day4
1.Fill in the blanks.

(i) Vaishali has to reach her school by ................

(ii) The family has their morning tea after taking out the previous day's unsold

vegetables from the ................

(iii) Their family looks like a small vegetable market when Babuji returns from the

............... with baskets and sacks full of fresh vegetables.

(iv) If Babuji is late in reaching the bazaar, then his ............... may buy their vegetable

s from elsewhere.

(v) Babuji and Bhaiya return from the bazaar at around ................

2. Match the properties/characteristics of vegetables is Column A with their names in Column B by

drawing arrows.

Column A Column B

(i) Fruit which spoils quickly (a) Ginger

(ii) Vegetable with rough surface (b) Onion

(iii) Vegetable which spoils quickly (c) Brinjal

(iv) Vegetable which does not have seeds (d) Banana

(ii) Vegetable with smooth surface (b) Tomato

(iii) Vegetable which has seeds (c) Lady finger

Day 5
1. What is vaishali doing at 10 o'clock at night?
2. Why does the vegatable seller have to sell the previous day's leftover vegetables

first?

3. Does Chhotu attend school? If so when does he go?

4. Who helps in sorting the vegetables brought from the mandi?
5. What preparation does the vegetable seller's family make fro bringing fresh vegetables from
the mandi?
6. Calculate how many hours Vaishali's father remains awake.
7. Why do Babuji and Bhaiya go to the mandi early in the morning? Give two reasons.

Day 6
1. Fill in the blanks.

sharp, food, breaking and crushing, male, side, chew, migratory, summer, squirrel, eat,
beak
(i) The baby in the robin's nest had its beak wide open because it was waiting for
............... to be given by its mother.
(ii) The ............... weaver bird make beautifully woven nests.
(iii) The cat's teeth are ............... so that it can tear and cut meat easily.
(iv) Cows have large and flat teeth on the ............... of their mouth to ............... grass.
(v) A curved upper beak in a bird is useful for ............... seeds.
(vi) Most birds make their next in the beginning of ............... season.
(vii) Bird's ............... depend on the food they eat.
(viii) ............... birds migrate for food, change of habitat or because of extreme climate.
(ix) Teeth of a ............... grow thoughout its life.
(x) Enemies of birds wait for a chance to ............... their eggs.
2. - Match the bird in Column A with the description of its nest in Column B by drawing
arrows.
Column A Column B
(i) Indian robin (a) Made in a mehendi hedge or among thorns of a cactus
(ii) Crow (b) Made inside a house
(iii) Dove (c) Does not make its own nest
(iv) Pigeon (d) Made in a hole in a tree trunk
(v) Barbet (e) Made in between stones with grass, covered with soft
twigs and roots
(vi) Koel (f) Made high on a tree with wood and wire
(vii) Sun bird (g) Hole in a tree trunk
(viii) Coppersmith (h) Hangs from the branch of a tree

Day 7
(i) How is Indian robin's nest made?
(ii) Where does the dove make its nest?
(iii) Which creatures are enemies of birds?
(iv) Which bird makes its nest even with spider's cobwebs?
(v) What is odd about squirrel's teeth compared to those of other animals?
(6) Why is April a very busy month for birds?
(7) What is the behaviour of weaver birds when they decide to have a nest for laying ggs?
(8) How do birds use their nests?
(9) Fill the following table regarding some animals' teeth- what they are like and what
they do.
 Day 8
(i) Why did Nandita close the tap in Babloo's house?

(ii) Why did Nandita catch hold of her mother's hand when they reached Mumbai
station?

(iii) Why is Nandita's family not able to fill water for the day if they are just a little
late?

(iv) What work does Nandita's Mami do?

(v) What facilities are there in the lift, which takes people up and down in the building
in which Babloo lives?

Day 9
1. Why does Nandita's Mama have to move out from his house?
2. What difficulties will Nandita's Mama and Mami face if they have to live in another
corner of the city?
3. What things was Nandita afraid to do when she first came to Mumbai?
4. Why is the building in which Babloo lives called a high-rise building?
5. What are the differences between the house of Babloo and the house of Nandita's Mama?
6. What are the probable reasons for this?
7. Nandita's Mama was living in an area called a 'slum'. What is a slum? Explain briefly.

Day 10

(i) Why was Deepak happy?

(ii) What was the reason for the villagers making a noise outside the water park?

(iii) Why did Holgundi not have water shortage earlier?

4. Why did Sugun'a father tell the visitor not to drink water in their house?

5. If diarrhoea does not stop after taking medicines and the specially prepared water, what should we
do?
 Day 11
(i) Why was it difficult for Abdul to pull out a small grass plant?

(ii) Does banyan tree also has roots? If yes, then where?

(iii) Abdul wondered whether radish was a root. Can you tell why he thought this way?

(iv) What is the purpose of the hanging branches of a banyan tree?

(v) How does a desert oak tree gets water for its roots?

Day 12
1. Do all plants need water? If so, then what will happen if nobody gives water to

these plants?

(2) On putting water in the soil where plants are growing, their drooping leaves become

fresh again, How?

3- The shape of the moon looks different every day. Why does this happen?

Take help from your NCERT Book.

4- What happens to very old trees when they die? Do they fall down or do they dry up?

5- You must have seen plants growing from a crack in a wall. How deep must their roots be growing?
How do you think its roots get water?

Day 13
(i) What was David's idea about eating and having fun together?

(ii) In which state was Bihu being celebrated?

(iii) What is the meaning of Uruka?

(iv) Why were the children not able to pay attention to the lesson in the class?

(v) Why did the children want to have a class party?

 Day 14
(i) What did Rehana say about parties in her colony?

(ii) When and why did Reena want to have the class party?

(iii) How is cheva rice prepared?

( iv)In which month do the Assamese people normally celebrate the Bihu festival? Why is it celebrated?

(v) Write a short note on: (i) Bhela Ghar (ii) Mid-day meal

Day 15
Fill in the blanks.

Sikhs, Guru Granth Sahib, langar, activity, flour, The Gurudwara, halwa,

the channa and urad dal, in the end, langar

(i) Manpreet's parents were at ............... when Divya and Swastik visited them.

(ii) A lot of ............... was going on in the Gurudwara when the children reached there.

(iii) When the children entered the Gurudwara kitchen they saw ............... boiling.

(iv) All the people in the Gurudwara sat on durries to have ................

(v) The people who served the food in the Gurudwara ate ................

(vi) Chapaties are made from ................

(vii) The kadhah prasad is a kind of ................

(viii) The Golden Temple is a place of worship for ................

(ix) Every Gurudwara serves free food for all called ................

(x) Ardaas is reading of ................

(xi) A place where children stay and study is ................

(xii) The cooking and eating together in a Gurudwara is called ................

 Day 16
(i) What was Gurnoor's mother doing when the children met her?

(ii) What happens when someone in Swastik's hostel gets home-made food?

(iii) Why does Divya say, 'hostel life is fun'?

(iv) Had Swastik ever cooked food before he visited the Gurudwara?

(v) What is kadhah prasad?

Day 17

(i)Name the food items prepared in the Gurudwara

(ii) Who arranges all the material to cook so much food in the Gurudwara?
(iii) After washing hands, what was Divya doing?
(iV)What is Langar? What is so special about Langar is in the Golden Temple?
(v) Describe what was happening in the kitchen of the Gurudwara when the children
reached there.

Day 18
(i) Why was Pratibha hurrying home?
(ii) Why did the children at the beach think that they had saved some money?
(iii) Why did Akshay not want to drink water at Anil's house?
(iv) Why could Dhondu not do what he wanted to do?
(v) What TV programmes did the different people in Marietta's family want to watch?

Day 19
1-* What happended when Anil invited all his friends and Akshay too?

2-What did Phali, Nazu and their friends do at the beach

3) Why did Dhondu want to buy a chakki machine? Give two reasons.

4-What similar problems do you find after reading the different stories in this chapter?

5-- Have you ever been stopped by your parents from playing with some kinds of children? What kind of
children were they? What reason did your parents

give for stopping you? Do you think it was right?

Day 20
Fill in the blanks using the correct options from these those given in brackets.

(i) The newly bought threads are first put in ............... (boiling/cold) water to remove dirt and stains.

(ii) The threads are rolled into bundles after ............... (wetting/drying) them.

(iii) The cloth is woven after the bundles of ............... (needle/thread) are put onto looms.

(iv) Great skill is needed to weave special ............... (sheets/sarees)

(v) ............... (Silk/Cotton) thread is used to weave sheets.

(vi) Pochampalli sarees have ............... (bright/dull) colours.

(vii) Size and number of ............... (threads/needles) change according to the design.

Day 21
(i) How did Pochampalli cloth get its name?

(ii) Why does the loom need many needles?

(iii) Why is Vani's home always filled with birghtly coloured threads?

(iv) From where did Vani's parents learn to make such beautiful sarees?

(v) Why are many weavers giving up this craft which has been done by their family members for
generations?

Day 22
(i) Why was there a lot of activity at Maalu's house today?

(ii) Why were Shanta and Sashi surprised?

(iii) What did Chittappan give Maalu?

(iv) Why did Chittappan say that in Abu Dhabi they could not open the house windoes?

(v) What did Maalu decide to do for her class?

Day 23
(i) Describe what interesting things Shanta saw from the plane during the flight.

(ii) Describe the gifts Kunjamma gave everyone.

(iii) How do people living in Abu Dhabi protect themselves from the heat?

(iv) Chittappan said the 'In fact, petrol is cheaper than water.' Why did he say so?

(v) What differences were given by Chittappan and Kunjamma about greenery, rain etc. between Abu
Dhabi and Kerala.

Day 24
Answers in one word or one sentence.

(i) which spice makes us cry if we take too much of it?

(ii) Which spice, when added to curd or jaljeera, makes them tasty?

(iii) Why is Aniseed (Saunf) always eaten after meals?

(iv) Which spice has a strong smell and has the colour of chocolates.

(v) Which spice is used in food to make it taste sour?

Day 25
(i) Differentiate between Aniseed (Saunf) and Cuminseed (Zeera).
(ii) (ii) What are the differences between Red chillies and Black pepper?
(iii) List the items used in potato chaat mentioned in the chapter.
(iv) Garam masala is made by grinding many spices together. Write the names of these spices.
(v) Name the following.
(i) Four spices used to make 'gram masala'

(ii) Four spices used as medicine also.

(iii) Two spices which grow underground.

(iv) Spice which is used as mouth freshener.

Day 26
1. Fill in the blanks.
(i) Wahida Prism is a Lieutenant Commander in the ................
(ii) Wahida took ............... training after her MBBS to join the Armed Forces.
(iii) ............... commands have to be given in a passing out parade.
(iv) She was asked to lead the ............... after her performance was seen for three years.
(v) She conducts ............... of all the officers and sailors on board the ship so that they
remain healthy.
(vi) Wahida did MBBS from ............... .
2. Fill in the blanks using the correct options from those given in brackets.
(i) Wahida completed her class twelve from ............... (Jammu/Rajouri)
(ii) Wahida got her MBBS degree from ............... (Jammu/Srinagar) Medical College.
(iii) Wahida's main duty on board the ship is to ensure that all people should remain
............... (sick/healthy).
(iv) For joining the Armed Forces, Wahida had to appear for ............... (a test/an
interview).
(v) When an opportunity was given for going on ............... (ship/boat), Wahida gave
her name.

Day 27

(i) Wahida Prism belongs to which place?

 (ii)in what new things Wahida was interested in her childhood?

(iii) What did Wahida's father want his daughters to become?

(iv) What made Wahida think of joining the Armed Force?

(vi) What honour was given to her at the end of her training?

Day 28

i) Why did Wahida's parents have to leave their village?

(ii) What does Wahida tell us about her big dream?

(iii) Why does Wahida want to go in a submarine?

(iv) What duties does Wahida carry out when she is on board a ship on the sea?

(v) Describe all the steps Wahida took and the preparations she made for joining the Defence Forces.

Day 29

(i) What explanation did Chuskit give when Abdul asked her the reason of not going to school?

(ii) Describe the way to reach school from Chuskit's house.

(iii) Write Abdul's idea of getting Chuskit to school.

(iv) What was Chuskit's dream? How did it come true?

(v)Who all helped Chuskited to reach the school easily?

 Day 30

(i) How old is Chuskit?

(ii) What did Chuskit used to do all day?

(iii) When did Chuskit realise that she did not need her father to carry her everywhere?

(iv) What did Chuskit's grandfather say about not being possible?

(iii) Write Abdul's idea of getting Chuskit to school.