NCERT solutions for Environmental Studies - Looking Around [English] Class 4 chapter 15 - From Market to Home [Latest edition]

Does anyone in your house have to get up very early? What time does he or she get up? Why do they need to get up so early?

Babuji sells the previous day’s vegetables first. Why do you think he does this?

Have you seen dried or spoilt vegetables? Where?

How did you know that the vegetables were spoilt?

Chhotu is helping his family. What do you think Chhotu has learnt from it?

How do you help the elders in your family?

Look at the clock given below. Write what you do, and what Vaishali does, at the time which the clock is showing.

Morning	Vaishali - ______
	You - ______

Look at the clock given below. Write what you do, and what Vaishali does, at the time which the clock is showing.

Morning	Vaishali - ______
	You - ______

Look at the clock given below. Write what you do, and what Vaishali does, at the time which the clock is showing.

Night	Vaishali - ______
	You - ______

From where do you get vegetables for your home? Who brings the vegetables?

The next time when you get okra (Bhindi) at home, look at them carefully. Are all of them the same size?

• Find the longest and the shortest one. Measure them?
• Do all the okra (Bhindi) have the same thickness and colour? Cut two okra (Bhindi) lengthwise. Do both of them have the same number of seeds? Draw them in your notebook.

Seema’s mother has brought some fruits and vegetables from the market. Can you find them in this picture? write their names alongside.

Seema’s mother has brought some fruits and vegetables from the market. Can you find them in this picture? Colour them.

Given here is a list of vegetables and fruits. Which of these will spoil earlier, and which will stay for some days? Write the names in the correct column. You can add more names to the list.

Spinach, Potato, Banana, Tomato, Pear, Chikoo, Pineapple, Gourd, Onion, Cabbage, Cucumber, Grapes, Ginger.

Given here is a list of vegetables and fruits. 

Spinach, Potato, Banana, Tomato, Pear, Chikoo, Pineapple, Gourd, Onion, Cabbage, Cucumber, Grapes, Ginger.

Some of these fruits and vegetables are smooth to touch while some are rough. From the list above, put the names in the correct column. 

Which vegetable do you find the heaviest to carry? Write its name and draw its picture in your notebook.

Which is the lightest fruit or vegetable that you have eaten? Write its name and draw the picture in your notebook.

Write names of three vegetables which do not have seeds.

Fill in the table given below. You can add three more names and fill in the table.

Talk with a vegetable-seller in your area. Ask the following questions and make a brief report in the notebook.

• What is his or her name?
• How many people are there in his or her house? How many children are there at home?
• What are the names of the children? How old are they?
• Who all help in the work of selling vegetables?
• Who all stay with the vegetable cart or sit in the shop?
• What vegetables do they sell?
• What time do they start work?
• For how many hours in a day do they work?
• Ask them about any three vegetables that they sell.
  

  	Vegetable 1	Vegetable 2	Vegetable 3
  Name of the vegetable
  The price of the vegetable
  Where does it come from?
  How much of the vegetables do they buy at one time?
  In which months do this vegetable usually come?