Questions for 6th class

Lanchipur village is beside the sea on the Bay of Bengal. Most of the men in the village work in the fishing industry. If they are fishermen they often spend nine days at a time out on the ocean.
The women are at home doing all the household chores you see in the pictures and movie clips. They also tend their vegetable plots and help at planting rice in the watery paddy fields.
The primary children go to school at 11.00am each day and finish at 2.30 pm. The secondary school that we are building will have longer hours but not as long as we have at home.
Cricket is the favourite game of the boys. Yesterday we played the team from the local town and they were amazed to see two girls on our team. Although we were beaten in a great match Leah Telford scored one of our goals, the other was by Fares Aggad.

Questions for sixth class:
Look at all the pictures and videos and send us answers to the following questions:
1.What fuel do the village people use on their fires?
2.Why do you think cows are so contented in India? Find out why Hindhus consider that cows are sacred.
3.How did cricket become so popular throughout India to the extent that it is now the most popular game in the sub-continent?
4.Lanchipur is right beside the sea. Look at the video of coastal defences and say why you think they are afraid of the sea?
5.What do the photographs and video of the women at the pump tell you about the availability of water?
6.Look at the video of the villge girls on their way to school....what class do they say they are in and why do they bring a plate to school? What do you see in the video that tells you they come from poor families? If they started school in Class 1 at the age of 5, what age do you reckon they are now?
7.Look at the woman washing clothes by the pond. Why do you think she slaps the clothes on the wood? Does your washing machine at home work anyway like this? Have a discussion in class on the pros and cons of hand washing as against machine washing
8. Look at the video of the village shop and say why you think the brown rice is left lying in the sun.
9. What items are for sale in the shop. From what you see who would you say are its principal customers?
10. Twice you have heard it said that the Tulsi bush is very important. Why is this and would you think it is true?