Class 3 English The Big Laddoo Questions and Answers Chapter 7
Good Food Question Answer
Picture Reading (Pages 68 and 69)
Look at the picture and answer.
Question 1.
What can you see in Picture 1?
Answer:
In Picture 1, some farmers are loading wheat grains on vehicle from their field.
Question 2.
Look at Picture 2. What is the man doing with the wheat?
Answer:
The man is processing flour (atta) from wheat.
Question 3.
Look at Picture 4. Who are they? What are they doing?
Answer:
They are husband and wife. They are making chapattis.
Question 4.
What is the girl doing in the last picture?
Answer:
The girl is eating her food.
Question 5.
What do you have along with chapatti?
Answer:
We have vegetables (sabzi) or lentils (dal) along with chapatti.
Question 6.
Have you seen a field? What was growing there? Speak about it.
Answer:
Yes, I have seen a field. I saw farmers growing grains, fruits and vegetables there.
The Big Laddoo Question Answer
Let us think (Page No. 72)
Question 1.
Have you seen a big laddoo? How big was it? Did you eat it all by yourself? Tell your friends about it.
Answer:
I have seen a big laddoo but not as big as mentioned in the poem. It was like a football. It could not be eaten by me alone. My whole family enjoyed that.
Question 2.
Have you eaten anything that is very big? What was it? Talk about it.
Answer:
There are so many things now that look big in size. I had a big dosa in a famous South Indian restaurant. I enjoyed it with my parents and sister.
Question 3.
What different kinds of laddoos have you eaten?
Answer:
I have eaten many varieties of laddoos, like besan laddoo, boondi laddoo, churma laddoo, motichoor laddoo, coconut laddoo, etc.
Question 4.
Name a few things that are round in shape. Can you eat all of them? Write them in the correct column.
Answer:
There are so many things that are round in shape but we cannot eat all of them:
That can be Eaten | That cannot be Eaten |
Chapatti | Football |
Laddoo | Coins |
Pizza | Buttons |
Pie | Bangles |
Cookies | Plates |
Cake | Tires |
Burger | CD/DVD |
Oranges | Marbles |
Pancakes | Wheels |
Question 5.
The child threw the Big Laddoo into the sea. What do you think happened to the Laddoo?
Answer:
The laddoo would have melted in the seawater.
Let us speak (Page No. 73)
Jithu and Meena are friends. Meena cannot see properly. It was her birthday. Jithu gifted her a box of mixed sweets. She felt the sweets and excitedly picked up the big laddoo. She said, “I love laddoos!” Jithu was surprised and asked her, “How did you know it was a laddoo?”
Think and say what Meena answered.
Answer:
Meena told Jithu that she guessed the laddoo correctly because it was round in shape.
Let us learn (Page No. 73)
Laddoos are sweets, commonly eaten in every house. Write words that tell us about the laddoo.
Answer:
- Round in shape.
- Traditional sweet.
- Sweet made with besan, boondi, coconut, churma etc.
- The most eaten sweet in every household.
Let us write (Page No. 74)
A. Frame a few sentences using the given words.
- Play _______________________
- Plum _______________________
- Cloud _______________________
- Clock _______________________
- Blue _______________________
- Blanket _______________________
Answer:
- Play: Students play many games in the school playground.
- Plum: Plum is a small, round fruit.
- Cloud: There are dark clouds in the sky.
- Clock: There is a big clock in my school.
- Blue: My father has a blue umbrella.
- Blanket: We use blankets in winter.
B. Match the following.
Answer:
- Cock – Hen
- Lion – Lioness
- Peacock – Peahen
- Mare – Horse
- Bull – Cow
- Drake – Duck
Let us explore (Page No. 75)
A. Look at these objects shown here. Collect and put them one by one into a tub of water. See which one float and which one will sink. Tick the objects that float and cross the objects that sink.
Answer:
Let us learn (Page No. 76)
Did you know that not only sweets but a few other dishes are also prepared especially during festivals?
Answer:
For self-attempt.
Let us write (Page No. 77)
A. Which is your favourite festival? Write the names of some sweets and dishes prepared on that day.
Answer:
Holi is my favourite festival. It is also known as the festival of colours. It is celebrated in the spring season. We play with bright colours like red, green, blue, pink, yellow, etc. Many delicious sweets and savouries like gujia, laddoos, thandai, chaat, pakoda, etc. are prepared. Holi begins with burning the demoness, Holika. We collect wood and burn it and celebrate by dancing and singing around it. Holi teaches us the victory of good over bad.
The Big Laddoo Class 3 Summary
The poem introduces the learners to imagine things as big as it could be. It expresses the thought of a bigger world where all the things are big in size. It takes the learners into an imaginary world where all the things are only one of its kind and very big in size.
The Big Laddoo Class 3 Word Meanings
- laddoo (लड्डू) – a traditional Indian sweet, एक पारंपरिक भारतीय मिठाई।
- oh! (ओह) – expression to show emotions, भावनाओं को दर्शाने वाला भाव।
- sea (सी) – a huge body of salt water, समुद्र।
- picked (पिक्ड) – took hold of, उठाया।
- threw (थ्रूिव) – propelled through the air, फेंका।
- splish-splash (स्प्लिश – स्प्लैश) – a repeated splashing sound, छपाक।