NCERT Solutions for Class 3 EVS Chapter 12: Work We Do

(i) Students learn different things.
(ii) Teachers teach the students and motivate them.
(iii) The Principal manages the school.
(iv)The Librarian maintains the school library and monitors the lending of books.
(v) The cleaning staff keeps the school premises neat and clean

Some children in the picture are not going to the school; instead, one boy is serving tea, a girl is helping her father with his cart, and some kids are playing under the tree.

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In the first picture—
(i) A woman is sweeping outside the post office.
(ii) A kid from Balbir’s stall is giving tea to the customers.
(iii) A flower seller is sitting beside the road.
(iv) A girl is riding a scooter.
(v) Students are running towards the school.
(vi) Workers are building a house.
(vii) A barber is doing his business under the tree.
(viii) A traffic constable is managing the traffic.
In the second picture—
(i) A shop owner is waiting for the customers.
(ii) A doctor is going to the clinic.
(iii) A boy is riding a bicycle.
(iv) A fruit vendor is selling watermelons on a pushcart along with his daughter.
(v) A woman is carrying goods on her cart towed by a camel.
(vi) Kids are entering the school.
(vii) Cars and a bullock are on the road.

Deepali does the following work—
(i) Preparing food for her siblings.
(ii) Taking care of the house.
(iii) Cleaning the utensils.
(iv) She carries her brother to her father and then drops her sisters in the school.
(v) She helps her mother in her work also.
(vi) Deepali then brings her siblings back home from her father and school.
(vii) At night, she then reads her sister’s school books.

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My mother does most of the household work but does not get paid for it. My brother and grandparents also help around the house without getting money.
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My grandmother used to accompany her mother in cooking and household work when she was my age. My grandfather, when he was a child, used to collect dry timber for lighting the chullha. He also used to milk a cow in the morning.
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Yes, there is a change between the work the elders did when they were young and the work I do now. They had so much work to do in and around their houses as they had a large family. I do quite less work than my grandparents did.
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Besides household work, I neatly fold my clothes every day after they are washed and dried.
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Yes, I also do some household work, like—
(i) I go to the nearby shop to bring whatever my mother needs.
(ii) I serve water to the guest.
(iii) I water the plants daily.
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Yes, our school bus driver’s children do not go to school. My mother always asks him to send his children to school.
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I wake up at 7 o’clock, go to school at 8 o’clock, return from school at 4 o’clock, then start to do my homework at around 5 o’clock, go out to play at 6 o’clock, go to bed at 9 o’clock.
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