Family & Friends (Relationships, Work, Animals, Plants) • Topic 1 of 4

Relationships & Community

EVS begins with the family because it is the child's first environment. A nuclear family is small: parents and their children living together. A joint family is large: grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts and cousins living together, common in many Indian homes and a favourite CTET comparison. Children must know kinship terms in standard relation form: the father's sister is the bua / aunt (paternal aunt), the mother's brother is the mama / maternal uncle, the father's brother is chacha or tau, and the mother's sister is the mausi / maasi. Beyond the family the child meets the community: neighbours who live nearby and help in need, and community helpers who provide services everyone depends on (doctor, teacher, postman, farmer, policeman, carpenter, cobbler, milkman, sweeper). EVS stresses respect and gratitude for every kind of work, and the idea that we all depend on one another. CTET often asks who performs a given service or how two family types differ.

✅ Solved examples

1. A family made up of grandparents, parents, their children, uncles and aunts living together is called a:
Joint family. A nuclear family, by contrast, has only parents and their children.
2. In Indian kinship, your father's sister is your:
Bua (paternal aunt). The mother's sister is the mausi and the mother's brother is the mama.
3. Who among these is a community helper that delivers letters?
The postman. Community helpers (doctor, teacher, farmer, postman) provide services that everyone in society depends on.
4. EVS teaches that the people who live close to our home and often help us in times of need are our:
Neighbours. Good neighbourly relations and mutual help are a key value stressed in primary EVS.

✏️ Practice — try these, take hints as needed

1. A small family with only parents and their children is called a:
Opposite of joint family.
Just two generations.
Nuclear family
2. Your mother's brother is called your:
Maternal side.
Not chacha (that is father's side).
Mama (maternal uncle)
3. A person who treats sick people and works in a hospital is a:
A community helper.
Checks your health.
Doctor
4. EVS asks children to show respect and gratitude towards:
Every kind of work and worker.
No work is small.
All community helpers / every kind of work
5. A person who grows crops and food for everyone is a:
Works in the fields.
Feeds the nation.
Farmer

📝 Topic test — 8 questions

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