chapter 22 worksheet

CLASS- 5

SUBJECT- EVS

CHAPTER- 22 (ON THE MOVE AGAIN)

WORKSHEET

Q1. FILL THE FOLLWING BLANK WITH THE CORRECT OPTION:-

Huts, sugarcane, rain, mukadam, before rainy seasons, six months, Dussehra.

a.       Families like Dhanu’s work on the lands of the big farmers’ from_____ till _____. (rainy season, Dussehra)

b.      ________ is an agent who lends money.                                                             (Mukadam)

c.       Mukadam helps them to find work in ______ factories.                                (sugarcane)

d.      When there is no ____ there is no work in the villages like Dhanu’s.         (rain)

e.      The caravans of these families stay in _____ made of dry sugarcane.      (huts)

f.        Children like Dhanu cannot go to school for __________.                            (six months)

Q2. MARK TICK (√) FOR THE CORRECT STATEMENT AND CROSS(X) FOR THE WRONG STATEMENT AND ALSO CORRECT THE WRONG STATEMENT:-

a.        Mother’s brother’s wife is called mami.                                                                                [√]

b.      Father’ brother’s wife is called Chachi or kaki.                                                                     [√]

c.       Puranpolis are the other name of spicy samosa.                                                                [X]

Ans: - Puranpolies are sweet roties made of jaggery.

d.      The caravans of the poor farmer’s families were given pukka houses to live.       [X]

Ans: - They were given huts made of dry sugarcane.

e.      The women and children tie the bundles of sugarcanes.                                                [√]

Q3. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BRIEFLY:-

a.       Who is Mukadam?

Ans: - Mukadam is an agent of sugarcane factories. He lends money to the poor farmers.

b.      Why did the Families like Dhanu’s work in sugarcane factories?

Ans: - Families like Dhanu’s worked on the lands of big farmers only for six months.

So they had to borrow money from the Mukadam.

Since mukadam is an agent of the sugarcane factories so the families had to work in the sugarcane factories.

c.       Why did Dhanu’s family wish that Dhanu should go to school for the whole year?

Ans: - Dhanu’s family wished that Dhanu should go to school for the whole year so that Dhanu should get something better in life.

d.      Who are the people left behind the village? Why?

Ans: - Ladies with small children, the old and the sick people stay behind. They could not work and they had to look after the houses and the cattle so they had to stay back.

Q3. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN DETAIL: -

a.       What happen if you are not able to go to school for a long time?

Ans: - If I am not able to go to school for a long time I cannot cope up with the advance syllabi.

b.      Why Dhanu did not use his pencils, erasers and notebooks for a long time?

Ans: - Dhanu could not go to school for six months as he had to move out of the village for six months. So he could not study and use his stationary.

c.       Why the moods of the people of Dhanu’s village suddenly change after the celebrations of the festival?

Ans: - The mood of the people suddenly changed because the mukadam had come to lend them money and for that they had to leave their village and move to the sugarcane factories for work.

d.      Is farming possible without rain? How? Name some means of irrigation.

Ans: - Yes, farming is possible without rain. These days there are many artificial means of irrigation for farming e.g. tube wells, rahat and electric pumps etc.