Q1.
How did your parents and grandparents go to school or other places, when they were of your age? Is it different from how you travel today? Note it down below.
| You | Parents | Grandparents |
|---|---|---|
Answer
Ask at home, then fill the three boxes.
- Ask your mother or father: “How did you go to school when you were nine?”
- Ask the same question to a grandparent.
- Ask them how long the journey took.
- Write your own way of travelling in the first box.
| You | Parents | Grandparents |
|---|---|---|
| School bus and metro train. The bus comes to my lane and takes 20 minutes. | Bicycle, and a city bus for longer trips. About 30 minutes. | Walked to school every day. A bullock cart or a train for far-off places. |
What you will find: the older the person, the more they walked. Faster and easier ways of travelling have come one after another — bicycle, bus, car, metro.
Tip: also ask what the road looked like then. Many of our elders grew up with kutcha roads and no street lights.