Chapter 21 – Like Father, Like Daughter

Page No 192:

Question Fill in the Table:

  • Ashima sneezed just like her father. Do you have any such habit or trait which is similar to that of someone in your family? What is it? Whom is it similar to?
Your special habit or trait
Whom is it similar to?
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________

Answer:

  • Disclaimer: The answer to the questions in this section is based upon one’s own experience. Considering this, the answers to the same have not been provided.

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Question Tell:

  • Does your face or anything else look similar to that of someone else in your family? What is it?
  • Did someone tell you this or did you find it out yourself?
  • How do you feel when people compare you with someone else in your family? Why do you feel so?
  • Who laughs the loudest in your family? Laugh like that person.

Answer:

Disclaimer: The answer to the questions in this section is based upon one’s own experience. Considering this, the answers to the same have not been provided.

Question Who is whose aunt?:

  • Make a list of all the family members from Nilima’s nani to little Samir. How are they all related to Nilima? Write.

Answer:

  • Nilima’s relationship with her family members is:
    • Nilima’s eldest nani – Nilima’s nani
    • Nilima’s eldest nani’s son – Nilima’s uncle
    • Nilima’s eldest nani’s son’s daughter, Kiran – Nilima’s cousin sister
    • Nilima’s eldest nani’s son’s daughter Kiran’s son, Samir – Nilima’s nephew

Question Find out:

  • In your family are there any such examples of uncle, nephews or brother-sisters, where there is a big difference in the age? Find out from your elders.

Answer:

  • Disclaimer: The answer to the questions in this section is based upon one’s own experience. Considering this, the answers to the same have not been provided.

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Question Find Out and Write:

  • Does Nilima have curly hair like her nani’s ? Now you look for some special trait in your sister or brother (could also be cousins). Like the colour of eyes, dimples in cheeks, height, broad or sharp nose, voice, etc. See if this trait comes from the father’s side or the mother’s side. Make this table in your notebook and fill it. An example is given.
Special trait
Whom does it resemble?
From whose side?
Mother’s
Father’s
Nilima’s Curly hair
her nani (grandmother)
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  • Have you seen a very young child in your (or any other) family? Whom does the child’s eyes, nose, hair or fingers look like in the family? Write their names.
  • Nimila’s hair is like her nani’s – thick and curly. Nilima’s mother has straight, brown and limp hair? What type of hair do you have – black or brown, oily or dry?
  • What is the colour of your hair? Measure and write the length of your hair.
  • Is your hair like that of anyone else in your family? If yes, then name the person.
  • Measure the hair of other members of your family.
  • Who has the longest hair in your family?
  • How many people do you know whose hair is longer than one metre? Does having long hair run in their family?
  • Do you know how to measure your height? Measure yourself from head to toe and write how tall you are.
  • How tall do you think you will be when you grow up? Is anyone else in your family of the same height?
  • Measure the height of your family members and rote it down.

Answer:

Disclaimer: The answer to the questions in this section is based upon one’s own experience. Considering this, the answers to the same have not been provided.

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Question Discuss:

  • What is similar between Saroja and Suvasini? What is different?
  • Do you know any twins? What is similar in them? How are they different?
  • Do you know of twins who don’t look the same?

Answer:

  • Saroja and Suvasini were twins. They looked alike, one looked like the mirror-image of the other. They were different in their activities and behavior. Saroja knew both the languages, Tamil and Marathi. She could sing songs in both these languages. On the other hand, Suvasini knew karate very well.
  • Disclaimer: The answer to this question is based upon one’s own experience. Considering this, the answer to the same has not been provided.
  • Disclaimer: The answer to this question is based upon one’s own experience. Considering this, the answer to the same has not been provided.

Page No 197:

Question But Not This from Pa:

  • Have you read or heard anything about polio? Where?
  • Have you read or heard any news about ‘pulse polio’? What?
  • Do you know of anyone who has pulse polio?

Answer:

  • Disclaimer: The answer to this question is based upon one’s own experience. Thus, this solution might vary from one student to another.Yes, I have read something about polio.Polio is a disease caused by virus. Infected person suffer limb deformation and may lose their ability to walk properly. I have seen a poster with a picture and some text on the wall of a hospital.
  • Disclaimer: The answer to this question is based upon one’s own experience. Thus, this solution might vary from one student to another.Yes, I have seen a television advertisement about the ‘pulse polio’ programme. It is an immunization campaign that was started in the year 1995. It aims to eradicate polio from the country. In this campaign, every child below the age of 5 years is given two doses of oral polio vaccine.
  • Disclaimer: The answer to this question is based upon one’s own experience. Considering this, the answer to the same has not been provided.

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Question What we Have Learnt:

  • What do you think – what all is a part of you that you got from your mother’s side?

Answer:

  • Disclaimer: The answer to the questions in this section is based upon one’s own experience. Considering this, the answers to the same have not been provided.

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