Family & Friends (Relationships, Work, Animals, Plants) • Topic 2 of 4

Work and Play

EVS explores the many kinds of work people do and how work and play fill the daily routine. Occupations are grouped in different ways: some are traditional, often passed down in families and tied to local skill and materials (potter who makes pots, weaver who weaves cloth, blacksmith who shapes iron, cobbler who mends shoes, farmer, fisherman), while others are more modern (engineer, computer operator, pilot, bank clerk). The textbook highlights that every occupation, manual or not, is valuable, and that many traditional crafts are tied to the local environment. The chapter also celebrates games and festivals: indoor games (chess, ludo, carrom) versus outdoor games (kabaddi, kho-kho, hide-and-seek, gilli-danda), and festivals that bring families and communities together (Diwali, Eid, Holi, Pongal, Onam, Christmas). A daily routine question may ask the child to sequence activities (wake, brush, school, play, sleep). CTET tests who does which job, the tool or product linked to a craft, and traditional-versus-modern grouping.

✅ Solved examples

1. A person who makes pots and other items out of clay on a wheel is called a:
Potter (kumhar). This is a traditional occupation that uses clay from the local environment.
2. Kabaddi and kho-kho are best classified as:
Outdoor games. They are played in the open and need physical movement and space, unlike indoor games such as chess or ludo.
3. Pongal and Onam are festivals most associated with which kind of celebration?
Harvest festivals of South India, celebrating the gathering of crops. EVS links many festivals to seasons and farming.
4. A weaver is a person who:
Weaves thread or yarn into cloth. It is a traditional craft, distinct from a tailor, who stitches the cloth into garments.

✏️ Practice — try these, take hints as needed

1. A person who mends and makes shoes is called a:
Works with leather.
Mochi in Hindi.
Cobbler
2. Chess, ludo and carrom are examples of:
Played sitting, indoors.
Opposite of kabaddi.
Indoor games
3. A blacksmith (lohar) mainly works with:
A hard metal.
Heated and hammered into tools.
Iron / metal
4. Which of these is a modern, not traditional, occupation?
Needs new technology.
Flies an aircraft or uses computers.
Pilot / computer operator (modern occupation)
5. A festival of lights celebrated by lighting diyas is:
Autumn festival.
Crackers and sweets.
Diwali

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