EVS Class 3 NCERT Solutions, Chapter-11: From Here to There

Question 1 : How did you like the poem?

Answer : I enjoyed the poem about the moving train.

Question 2 : Have you ever travelled in a train? When?

Answer : My family and I went from Mumbai to our village in Konkan by train during Diwali.
[Students should mention their experience based on the above lines.]

Question 3 : Can a train move anywhere? Why?

Answer : A train cannot move anywhere like other vehicles. A train moves on the metal tracks built on the ground.

Question 4 : What is meant by ‘roads of iron’?

Answer : The ‘roads of iron’ in the poem refer to the iron railway tracks on the ground on which a train moves.

Question 5 : What places did the train pass by? Make a list.
___________, ___________, ___________,
___________, ___________, ___________.

Answer : The train passed across the meadows, then over the hills, passed by the mills, passed the aged farmers, temples, wells in the villages, lush green fields having broken walls, fields of potato, clouds of smokes, village fairs, birds, riders with their mares, dhobi ghats, tea shops and many more.

Question 6 : Which vehicles have you travelled in? Write their names in your notebook.

Answer : I have travelled in buses, autorickshaws, trains, boats, and bullock carts.
[Students should mention their experience based on the above lines.]

Question 7 : Which all vehicles did the children travel in?
____________, _____________, _____________,
____________, _____________, _____________.

Answer : The children travelled from their homes to different places by a variety of vehicles—

Question 8 : How would you choose to go from your house to the places written below? Write in the box.

Answer :

Question 9 : How would you keep yourself safe while travelling?

Answer : (i) If I am travelling by car or aeroplane, I would always fasten the seatbelts.
(ii) I would not stand by the open doors of a moving train.
(iii) When travelling by boat, I would not lean over to touch the water.
(iv) I will not board a moving bus or get down from it.
(v) I will obey the traffic signals.

Question 10 : Write in front of each picture what the vehicle is used for. In the spaces provided, draw the pictures of some other vehicles. Write their names and what they are used for. Are all these vehicles used for our travel?

Answer : No, not all vehicles are used for our travel. Some of these are used for transporting goods, letters and parcels while others are used for moving patients and disabled persons, towing heavy things, and farming.

Vehicle	Used for
Push Cart	Transporting small goods, selling fruits and vegetables.
Mail Truck	Carrying letters, parcels, and packages.
Rickshaw with hand-operated pedals	Used by disabled people.
Tractor	Ploughing the fields.
Double-decker bus	Carrying passengers.
Ambulance	Carrying patients.
Cargo Ship	Used for transporting goods from one country to another through seas and oceans.
Police Car	Police officers travel in these cars to patrol the roads, chase criminals, and arrive at the crime scenes.

Question 11 : Names of some vehicles are given in the centre of a wheel. Join these on one side to the number of wheels each vehicle has and on the other, join them to what is used to run them.

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Question 12 : Find out from your elders – How did people travel fifty years ago? Were the present means of travel available at that time also?

Answer : Fifty years ago, people travelled mostly by bicycles, bullock-carts, horse-driven tongas, steam engine trains, ships, etc. Vehicles, such as trucks, trains, airplanes, and ships, were available only for the rich people. Cars, buses, and motorcycles were seen in the big cities

Question 13 : Can you imagine which vehicles people will use for travel twenty years from now? Ask your family members and friends and fill in the table.
You can add more—

Answer :

Question 1 : From the sounds given below can you tell which vehicle it is? One example is given.
Chuk-Chuk       Train
Pon-Pon __________
Gharr-Gharr __________
Peen-Peen __________
Tup-Tup __________
Tring-Tring __________

Answer :

Question 2 : These are the sounds of single vehicles. How does it sound when many vehicles run together on the road making different noises? Isn't there a lot of noise?

Answer : When many are vehicles running together on the road it becomes an unpleasant scene because different types of loud noise can be heard at once, which is quite irritating.

Question 3 : Where have you heard the maximum noise?

Answer : I have heard the maximum noise during traffic congestion when all the vehicles start honking their horns loudly.
[Students should mention their experience based on the above lines.]

Question 4 : Do you like so much noise? Why?

Answer : I do not like such noise because it gives me a headache and I feel extremely disturbed.
[Students should mention their experience based on the above lines.]

Question 5 : What all can you see in the picture?

Answer : In this picture, we can see that a building has caught fire. Firefighters are rushing to the building with their hose pipes. Water is gushing out of the fire engine towards the upper storeys of the building. One fireman is at the top of a ladder, also trying to control the fire using a hosepipe. A police van is there to control the alarming situation, and an ambulance is ready to take the injured people to the nearby hospital

Question 6 : Which vehicles can you see in the picture?

Answer : Fire truck, fire engine, police van and ambulance.

Question 7 : What are these vehicles usually used for?

Answer : A fire truck and a fire engine are used for carrying the firemen to the site of an accident along with the necessary things required to put out the fire, like—water, pump, hosepipes, ladders, and rescue equipment. The policemen come in the police van to the place they are needed. An ambulance is used for moving injured people and patients.

Question 8 : Look at the boxes in the picture on the top. Draw them in the correct sequence in the bottom boxes and colour. What did you get? Write its name

Answer : I got a picture of an elephant.