Social Studies 1

“Eat the tiffin at break; don’t fight with your friends,” she tells
me. “Bye-bye, Sudeep.”
She goes shopping. She buys
vegetables and grocery. And
she buys books and pencils for
me. My father also works. He
goes to office. But my mother
manages everything at home.
She cares for my grandmother
and grandfather. And she loves
me and my brother. She is the
most important person in my family. She is the best mother.

In-class Activities
Role play
Get in a group of 4-5 students. Assume that it is your family.
Each student in the group plays the role of father, mother,
grandfather, uncle, etc. Imagine you are sitting at the dinner
table. Ask each other how the person spent the day. Have fun!

Exercise

1. Fill in the blanks.
a. Sudeep’s mother ........................... early.
b. She takes him to ........................... .
c. She buys ........................... for him.
d. She is the ........................... person in the family.

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2. List three things that your mother does.
a. My mother .........................................................................
b. She .......................................................................................
c. She .......................................................................................
3. Write three things that your father does.
a. My father ............................................................................
b. He ........................................................................................
c. He ........................................................................................
4. Look at the pictures below and write what they are doing.

She is ........................... clothes.

He is ........................... .

They are ........................... .

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Lesson My Mamaghar

6.4

Pre-reading Activities

What do you call them?
a. Your mother’s father ..........................................................
b. Your mother’s brother .......................................................
c. Your mother’s sister ...........................................................
d. Children of your mother’s brother ..................................

Reading

Everyone has a mamaghar. A
mamaghar is the home where
our mother was born. It is an
important family. In mamaghar,
there can be grandfather and
grandmother. They are our
mother's parents. There are
mamas, maternal uncles. Mamas
are our mother's brothers.
There are maijus, aunties. They
are wives of mamas.

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My mamaghar is in Palung of Makawanpur district. I have two
mamas. I also have grandfather. He loves me very much. I go
to my mamaghar at Dashain. My mama carries me on his back.
“My bhanji is so sweet,” he says and kisses me.

In-class Activities

Fill up this table. Ask your friends for information.

Friends Names Place of mamaghar

Friend 1 mama:...................... .................................

Name: ....................... maiju:......................

Friend 2 mama:...................... .................................
Name:........................ maiju:.......................

Exercise

1. What is a mamaghar?
.....................................................................................................
2. What do you call your mother’s parents?
.....................................................................................................
3. Who are mamas?
.....................................................................................................

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4. Who are there in your mamaghar?
In my mamaghar, there are .....................................................
.....................................................................................................

5. Where is your mamaghar?
My mamaghar is in .................................................................

6. Draw a beautiful picture of your mamaghar and
colour it.

Projects for Unit Six

1. Find date of birth of your father and mother and write.
Also use their photos.

Father : .......................... Mother : ..........................

Name : .......................... Name : ..........................

Date of Birth : Year ................. Date of Birth : Year .................

Month ............. Month .............

Day .................. Day ..................

Born in : .......................... Born in : ..........................

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2. Write about your mamaghar. Find the photos and place
them here.

Maternal uncle : .........................................................................
Date of birth : .........................................................................
Place of birth : .........................................................................

Maternal aunt : .....................................................................
Date of birth : .........................................................................
Place of birth : ........................................................................

Revision Activities
In this unit, we have learned:

:: each of us has our own family history.
:: each of us was born on a particular day, called birthday.
:: each family has someone as the head of the family.
:: birth date and place of birth are important to us; they are part of our

family history.
:: often we move from one place to another to live or work.
:: moving from one place to another is called migration.
:: we have relations on both father and mother’s sides.

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Test Your Knowledge

1. Write names of seven days in order. Friday
a. ....................................................... Tuesday
b. ....................................................... Saturday
c. ....................................................... Monday
d. ....................................................... Wednesday
e. ....................................................... Sunday
f. ....................................................... Thursday
g. .......................................................

2. Rearrange the months in order, beginning with January.

a. January b. .............................. February
c. .............................. d. .............................. December
e. .............................. f. .............................. January
g. .............................. h. .............................. March
i. .............................. j. .............................. June
k. .............................. l. .............................. April
November
August
May
September
July
October

3. Check on your school calendar. Write when the following
events fall.
a. Bhaitika ...............................................................................

b. Buddha Jayanti ....................................................................

c. Last day of class .................................................................

d. Final exams begin .............................................................

e. School closes for summer/winter vacation ....................
f. School reopens after summer/winter break ..................

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4. Complete the chart of your family history.
My name .........................................................................
My birth date ..................................................................
My birth place ...............................................................
My age ...........................................................................
My grandfather’s birth date: .......................................
My mother’s birth date ................................................
My family lives in .........................................................
My family migrated from ............................................
5. Paste the pictures of your family in the given boxes.

Family Tree

Grandfather Grandmother

Elder Father Elder Mother Uncle Aunt

Father Mother

You Your sister/
brother

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Unit Our Economic

7 Activities

Teaching Objectives
Upon completion of this unit, students will learn:
:: about the work our family members do.
:: to respect every work.
:: to help others in their work.
:: to be economical while using things on a daily basis.
:: to take care of our things such as books, pens, shoes and clothes.
:: to eat healthy and home-made food.
:: to use things produced at home and the country.

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Lesson

7.1 They Work; I Help

Pre-reading Activities

Write what work the following members of your family do.
Father
Mother
Uncle
Aunt
Brother
Sister

Reading

They Work; I Help
My name is Pratik. I am a little boy. I
cannot work. But my mother, father,
uncle, aunt, brother and grandparents
can work. I also want to work. But I
cannot as they do. So I help them.
My grandmother is very nice. She
performs puja in the morning. I bring her flowers for puja.
“Thank you, child,” she says. My grandfather brings vegetables
from the market. I go up to the door. “Give the bags to me.

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I will take them to the kitchen,” I tell him. “Thank you, my
child,” he tells me.

My father works in the
field. He digs the field.
He plants vegetables.
I take a bottle of water
and box of snacks for
him. “Thank you, son,”
he tells me.

I have a younger sister.
She is in Nursery. I bring
her book from the shelf.
“Thank you,” she tells me with a smile.

In-class Activities

Look at the pictures below. Say who they are. Write what
they do for a living.

He is a ......................................... He....................................................
He ................................ for living. He ....................................................

..................................................... .....................................................
..................................................... .....................................................

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Exercise

1. Match the following: I am a postman.
I catch thieves. I am a policeman.
I sell vegetables. I am a pilot.
I make shoes for students. I am a vegetable vendor.
I fly planes in the sky. I am a farmer.
I bring your letters home. I am a cobbler.
I work in the field.

2. Answer the following questions.

a. What does Pratik’s grandfather do?
..............................................................................................
b. What work does Pratik’s father do?
..............................................................................................
c. What does Pratik do to help his sister?
..............................................................................................
d. What work do you often do to help others?
..............................................................................................

3. How do you help the following people?

Grandfather : I help my grandfather by ...............................

............................................................................
Grandmother :...........................................................................
Mother : ............................................................................
Father : ............................................................................
Teacher : ............................................................................

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Lesson I Keep My Things
7.2 Safe

Pre-reading Activities

Where do you put the following things at home?
Books : ...............................................................................
Shoes : ...............................................................................
Uniform : ..............................................................................
Toothbrush : ..............................................................................

Reading

I Keep Them Safe
My name is Riya. I have many things:
books, notebooks, pencils, pens,
shoes, uniform, brushes and bags.
So many things. I love them all. I
take care of my things.
I put covers on my books and
notebooks. I do not tear off any
page. I put books in the bag and go
to school. Other books, I keep on the shelf. My pencils and
pens are in the box.

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I polish my shoes myself. I put
them on and go to school. When
I come back home, I take them
off. I put them on the rack. I
hook my uniform on the hanger.
I do not throw it on the floor.

Oh, my toothbrush! I brush my
teeth with it. Then I put it in
the right place. I use my things
properly. I do not misuse and
waste them. I love them.

In-class Activities

Divide the class into two groups. The first group collects
everything they can find in the classroom: wiper, marker,
globe, map, water bottle, etc. Put everything in the middle
of the class in a single heap. Then, another group puts each
object in the right place so that the classroom looks neat
and clean.

Exercise

1. What things do you have of your own?
a. ..............................................................................................
b. ..............................................................................................
c. ..............................................................................................
d. ..............................................................................................
e. ..............................................................................................
f. ............................................................................................

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2. How do you take care of the following things? Choose
options from the box alongside.

a. Books : • not making it dirty

................................................. • putting on a hanger
................................................. • not tearing pages off
b. Uniform :
................................................. • putting waste papers
................................................. • in the dustbin
c. Pens and pencils : • keeping in a pencil
................................................. box
................................................. putting on a cover

d. Your classroom : page

................................................. • polishing
................................................. • washing
• not breaking
e. Shoes :

................................................. • not biting it

................................................. • not losing them

3. Write Yes or No for the following statements:
a. While brushing teeth, we should use too much paste.

b. We should sharpen pencil every hour.

c. We should put the soap in a soap-case.

d. We should keep our clothes in the wardrobe.

e. We should tear off the page of books and notebooks.

4. How do you take care of your books?
......................................................................................................

5. Where do you put marker and wiper at school?
......................................................................................................

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Lesson

7.3 Home-made Food

Pre-reading Activities

Work in a group of 4-5 students. Each member takes a
sheet of paper.
Fold it four times and tear off to make four pieces. Each student
writes names of four favorite food items in each piece of paper.
Put all the papers in a box. Pick one piece at a time. Then list
out the food items in the correct column below.

Food prepared at home Food bought from the market


How many food items are prepared at home?
.............................................................................................................
How many food items are bought from the market?
.............................................................................................................
Why should we eat food prepared at home? Ask your teacher.

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Reading

Home-made Food
My name is Rupak. I live in a village
near Kathmandu. There is a field
by my house. Maize, wheat, paddy,
soyabean, and millet grow there.
At the back, there is a shed. There are
cows and buffaloes. In the orchard, there are orange, banana,
plum and guava trees. We do not buy anything from outside. We
eat what grows in the field.
My mother cooks rice. I eat

rice with milk.
I eat beaten rice
with curd. I eat
oranges, bananas,
guavas and plums.
They grow in my garden. I drink a glass of milk in
the morning. I take fruits, roti and curd to school
for tiffin. I share my tiffin with my friends “How
tasty! How sweet!” they say. They don’t want to
eat biscuits and noodles. They want to eat tiffin like mine. We
have to eat what is made in our own home. Not junk food like
noodles, biscuits or chips. But some students don’t care about
eating healthy food. This is bad.

In-class Activities

Work in a group. Prepare a list of good and bad food.

Good and healthy food Bad and unhealthy food
bread, .................... biscuits, .........................

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Exercise

1. See the pictures and write what they are doing. Also
write whether it is good or bad.

She is eating a chocolate. ......................................................
It is bad. ......................................................
It harms our teeth. ......................................................

2. Write the names of food prepared at your home.
................................................................................................................

................................................................................................................

3. Where do you live? What crops, vegetables and fruits are
grown in your field?

................................................................................................................

................................................................................................................

4. What do you eat for tiffin? Who makes it?
................................................................................................................

................................................................................................................

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Lesson Made at Home

7.4

Pre-reading Activities

Look at the pictures below. Say what they are. Write
what they are used for.

.................................................................................
.................................................................................

.................................................................................
.................................................................................

.....................................................................................
.................................................................................

.................................................................................
.................................................................................

.................................................................................
.................................................................................

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Reading

My name is Bibek Khadka. I live in a village. At my home,
there are no plastic chairs. No
carpet. Instead, there are sukul and
wooden chairs. Most things we
use are made by my parents. My
sweater is knitted by my mother.
So is my woollen cap. This shirt
is sewn by my father. He makes
clothes by himself.

My school bag was made by my auntie. On the floor of my
room, there’s a sukul. Sukul is a
straw mat. There are a table and
a chair for me to study. They are
made by my father. He also makes
brooms, dokos, dalos, namlos, and
nanglos. He sells some of them in
the market. With that money, he

buys me books, pens and pencils. “We should use things made
at home. Only if it is not possible to make at home, we have to
buy from the market,” he tells everyone.

In-class Activities

Write things that your mother, father, uncle or aunt make
at your home.

My mother : ................................................................................

My father : ................................................................................

My uncle : ..............................................................................

My aunt : ..............................................................................

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Exercise

1. Complete the table.

Goods Materials
Straw
Sukul

Doko, Dalo

Chair, table

Sweater
Books/Notebooks

2. Look around the kitchen and the living room of your
home. List things you see in the table below under the
correct category.

Made at home Bought from the market

3. Who knits the sweater for Bibek?
......................................................................................................
4. What does Bibek’s father make?
......................................................................................................

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Projects for Unit Seven

1. In a blank sheet of paper, stick the samples of grains
which are produced at your own home such as maize,
wheat, barley, paddy, etc. And write the name below
each grain.

2. In the table below, write things your mother makes at
home and those she buys.

Things made at home Things bought

Revision Activities
In this unit, we have learned that:

:: we must respect every work.
:: we must help others in their work.
:: we should be economical while using things on a daily basis.
:: we should take care of our things such as books, pens, shoes and

clothes.
:: we must eat healthy and home-made food.
:: we should use things produced at home and in the country.

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Test Your Knowledge

1. Write what do you need for what.

What ? What do you need?
To clean house
To cook rice
To wash clothes
To work in the field

2. Arrange the objects in a pair so that they match with
each other.

brush, clothes, bag, soap, teeth, book,

soap case, ruler, hanger, instrument box

brush
teeth

3. Name the things that your friends bring for tiffin.
........................... ................................. ................................

........................... ................................. ................................

4. List things you see below under the correct category.

Made at home Bought from the market

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