# People Around Us

## Overview
The chapter "People Around Us" helps students observe, describe, and draw people’s physical features and clothing styles. It encourages creativity by designing patterns, selecting colours, and noticing how clothes change based on occasion and use. Through engaging drawing activities, students also explore body parts and elements of art like line, shape, and pattern.

## Key Topics Covered

### 1. Observing Differences in People
- Everyone has different features such as **eyes, nose, hair, and skin colour**.
- People wear different kinds of clothes made from various **materials** for different occasions.
- Students are encouraged to observe these differences and express them through drawings.

### 2. Let’s Dress Up! (Activity 1)
- Reflects on whether we wear the same clothes all the time.
- Encourages observation of different **types of clothing**.
- Activity: Draw yourself in your favourite dress, using **patterns, colours, lines, dots, and shapes**.
- Introduces the concept of **patterns** — when shapes are repeated to form a design.

### 3. What to Wear and When? (Activity 2)
- Students imagine and draw what they would wear for:
- A **mela (fair)**.
- A **cousin’s wedding** in traditional attire.
- Their **birthday party**.
- Enhances understanding of **cultural and occasion-specific dressing**.

### 4. Draw a Face (Activity 3)
- Students draw a **face** and add features like **eyes, ears, nose, lips, and hair** in any style they choose.
- Extension: Draw other parts such as **hands, fingers, feet, toes**, or use imagination to create something different.
- Promotes observation, creativity, and artistic expression.

### 5. Draw Hands (Activity 4)
- Compare and draw:
- Your **own hand**.
- An **adult’s hand**.
- Encourages noticing **differences in size, shape, and structure** between children and adults.

## New Terms

| Term | Simple Definition |
|--------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| pattern | A repeated design made using shapes or lines |
| features | The parts of the face like eyes, nose, mouth, and ears |
| traditional | Something that follows customs or cultural practices |
| observe | To look at carefully |
| draw | To make pictures using pencil, pen, or colours |
| shapes | Forms like circles, squares, and triangles |
| material | The fabric or cloth used to make clothes |
| mela | A fair or public celebration with food, games, etc. |
| design | A planned pattern or drawing |
| activity | A task or exercise to do something |

## Practice Questions

### Easy (3)
1. **What is a pattern?**
**Answer:** A pattern is a repeated design made of shapes or lines.
**Explanation:** Repeating circles, dots, or zigzags makes a pattern.

2. **Name two features of the face.**
**Answer:** Eyes and nose.
**Explanation:** They are visible parts of the face.

3. **What do people wear for a wedding?**
**Answer:** Traditional clothes.
**Explanation:** Special clothes are worn for celebrations.

### Medium (2)
4. **Why do people wear different types of clothes?**
**Answer:** Because of different occasions, weather, and culture.
**Explanation:** Clothes vary by event or purpose (like parties or daily use).

5. **What is one difference between a child’s and an adult’s hand?**
**Answer:** An adult’s hand is larger.
**Explanation:** Adults grow bigger than children, so their hands are larger.

### Difficult (3)
6. **Draw and describe a pattern using three shapes.**
**Answer:** Example: Circle, triangle, square repeated.
**Explanation:** You can draw and label the repeated shapes as a pattern.

7. **What is the role of material in clothing design?**
**Answer:** It affects the look, comfort, and use of the clothing.
**Explanation:** Cotton is good for summer, wool for winter.

8. **How can you make a face look unique in your drawing?**
**Answer:** By changing features like eye shape, hairstyle, or lips.
**Explanation:** Each person has different facial features.

### Very Difficult (2)
9. **Describe how you would design your birthday dress using patterns.**
**Answer:** I would draw a frock with star and heart patterns in red and blue.
**Explanation:** You use your imagination and knowledge of shapes to design it.

10. **How do physical features help us tell people apart?**
**Answer:** They are unique to each person, like face shape or hair type.
**Explanation:** No two people have exactly the same features.

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