The Food We Eat

Given: A question about personal experience at school.

Answer: I sit with my friends on the bench near my classroom (or in the school dining hall/under a tree) when I have lunch at school.

Note: Children may give their own personal answers based on their school setting.

Given: A question about sharing food with friends.

Answer: I share my food with my friends by offering them some from my lunchbox. If a friend has forgotten their lunch or is still hungry, I give them a part of my food with a smile.

Note: Children should be encouraged to give their own personal answers.

Given: A question about personal experience of receiving shared food.

Answer: Yes, once when I forgot my lunchbox at home, my friend shared her/his food with me. I said 'thank you' and felt very happy.

Note: Children may give their own personal answers based on their experiences.

Given: Fill-in-the-blank sentences based on pictures (images not visible, but standard textbook content is used).

(i) We eat vegetables and fruits which farmers grow.
(ii) Some farmers keep bees.
(iii) We get honey from bees.
(iv) Some farmers keep cows.
(v) We should say 'thank you' to farmers.

Note: The exact picture words may vary; the above are the standard expected answers for this NCERT Mridang Chapter 2 activity.

Given: A picture of various food items (image not visible; standard textbook content used).

Answer: The food items seen in the picture include sweets such as ladoo, barfi, jalebi, and other traditional Indian sweets/dishes.

Note: Children should name the food items visible in their own textbook picture.

Given: A personal preference question about sweets.

Answer: My favourite sweet is ladoo (or gulab jamun / barfi / kheer — children may write their own favourite).

Note: This is an open-ended personal answer; any sweet name is acceptable.

Given: A question about who cooks at home.

Answer: My mother (or father / grandmother / grandfather) cooks food at home.

Note: Children should write the name of the person who cooks in their own home.

Given: A question about good habits after eating.

Answer: Yes, I pick up my plate after a meal and keep it in the kitchen sink. This is a good habit and helps keep our home clean.

Given: Pictures of food items and their shapes are to be matched (images not visible; standard textbook content used).

Expected matches (typical for this activity):
- Roti / Chapati → Circle (round shape)
- Carrot → Triangle / Long shape
- Banana → Curved shape
- Orange → Circle
- Brinjal → Oval shape
- Mango → Oval/heart shape

Note: Children should draw lines matching each food item picture to its correct shape in their textbook.

Given: A creative drawing activity.

Step 1: Think of special dishes eaten at home, for example: dal-chawal, biryani, idli, roti-sabzi, kheer, etc.
Step 2: Draw the dish in the space provided in the textbook.
Step 3: Colour the drawing neatly using crayons or colour pencils.
Step 4: Share and compare your drawing with your classmates.

Note: This is an open-ended creative activity. There is no single correct answer. Children should draw and colour freely.

Given: One-syllable words to be read aloud with one clap each.

Concept: A syllable is a unit of sound in a word. One-syllable words have only one vowel sound.

Words and clapping:
- man → 1 clap
- food → 1 clap
- cat → 1 clap
- hut → 1 clap
- eat → 1 clap
- mat → 1 clap
- go → 1 clap
- come → 1 clap
- sit → 1 clap

All these words have only ONE syllable, so we clap only ONCE for each word.

Given: Two-syllable words to be read aloud with two claps each.

Concept: Words with two syllables have two separate units of sound. We clap once for each syllable.

Words split into syllables:
- farmer → far | mer (2 claps)
- carrot → car | rot (2 claps)
- market → mar | ket (2 claps)
- brinjal → brin | jal (2 claps)
- mango → man | go (2 claps)
- breakfast → break | fast (2 claps)
- dinner → din | ner (2 claps)

All these words have TWO syllables, so we clap TWICE for each word.

Given: Five images and five sentences to be matched.

Concept: Read each sentence carefully and match it to the correct picture.

Expected matches:
- Image of a brown cow → This cow is brown.
- Image of four oranges → These are four oranges.
- Image of a purple cap → This is a purple cap.
- Image of a lunchbox/lunch plate → This is my lunch.
- Image of a green jeep → This is a green jeep.

Note: Children should draw lines from each sentence to its matching picture in the textbook.

Given: A riddle about a fruit whose name is the same as its colour.

Thinking: Which fruit has a name that is also a colour?
- Orange → the fruit is called 'orange' and its colour is also 'orange'.

Answer: Orange

Given: A riddle about something hard and brown outside, soft and white inside.

Thinking:
- Hard and brown on the outside → like a shell or skin
- Soft and white inside → white flesh
- This describes a coconut.

Answer: Coconut

Given: A riddle about a vegetable that is pink or white and makes you cry when cut.

Thinking:
- Pink or white vegetable
- Makes you cry when cut → this is a well-known property of onion.

Answer: Onion

Given: A riddle about a fruit that comes in green or purple colour and grows in a bunch.

Thinking:
- Comes in green or purple colour
- Comes in a bunch → grapes grow in bunches and come in green or purple varieties.

Answer: Grapes