Q1.
What activities did the people in Anu’s and Kabir’s story engage in? Mention them in the table given below: (Character in the story / Activities they are engaged in)
Answer
Here is the table filled in. The third column is left for the next LET’S EXPLORE box on page 187 — you will label it there.
| Character in the story | Activities they are engaged in |
|---|---|
| Geeta Aunty | Works as a pilot in the Indian Air Force — she serves the country and receives a salary for it |
| Kabir’s grandfather | Retired from the Border Security Force. Now he (i) gives free Geography classes to the neighbourhood kids, (ii) tends the vegetable garden, and (iii) runs errands for the home |
| Anu’s father (Appa) | Runs a shop selling uniforms and other ready-made garments; he leaves for the shop early in the morning |
| Anu’s mother (Maa) | (i) Helps at the family shop after the children leave for school, and (ii) contributes to a voluntary group that teaches stitching to the women in the community |
| Rohan (Anu’s elder brother) | (i) Works as a software engineer in a company that makes computer applications, and (ii) on weekends volunteers to teach computer skills to those who have joined the youth development programme of the nearby college |
| Anu and Kabir | They go to school and study, and they play in the park — and here they are also observing and thinking about the work people around them do |
Check it yourself: the printed table has seven blank rows and this answer uses six. Use the spare row for the taxi driver who brought Geeta Aunty home in the very first line of the story — driving passengers for a fare is an activity too, and a good reminder that the story has more workers in it than the ones who speak.
Why this table is worth doing slowly: notice how many people in one small story do more than one kind of work. Maa works in a shop and teaches stitching for free. Rohan writes software and volunteers. The grandfather has already given a whole career to the country and is still working every day at home and in the neighbourhood. Nobody in this story does only one thing, and nobody stops being useful.