Question answers of the lesson Shopping

Q1: Why did mother ask Najma and Ajmal to go with her for    shopping?

Ans: Mother asked Najma and Ajmal to go with her for shopping as   they had run out of groceries and provisions. Shopping was

          usually  done by father, who was on tour.

Q2: How much fare did the taxi driver demand?

Ans: The taxi driver demanded 25 rupees as fare upto the market.

Q3: What did mother tell taxi driver?

Ans: Mother told the taxi driver that she would pay him only 15 

        rupees or else she would report to the police.

Q4: Where did mother and children go first for shopping?

Ans: Mother and children first went for shopping to the mutton   

        market.

Q5: What is the difference between beef and mutton?

Ans: The difference between beef and mutton is that beef is the 

         meat of cows and calves while mutton is the meat of goats and 

         sheep.

Q6: What did mother buy at the butcher's shop?

Ans: Mother bought one kilo of leg meat and one kilo of minced meat 

        from the butcher's shop.

Q7: Where did mother go after making purchases at the butcher's 

      shop?

Ans: After making purchases at the butcher's shop, she went to the 

        fruit and vegetable market.

Q8: How did mother buy bananas and apples?

Ans: Mother bought ten (10) bananas for twenty rupees and a kilo of 

       apples for twenty four rupees.

Q9: What did mother buy last of all?

Ans: Mother bought two dozen eggs and a kilo af dressed chicken in 

        the last.

Q10: How far is the market from the house of Najma and Ajmal?

Ans: Najma and Ajmal's house is about 2 km far from the market.

Q11: What did mother ask the children to do when they had reached 

        back home?

Ans: Mother asked Ajaml to polish his own and Najma's shoes and 

        Najma was asked to press her own and Ajaml's clothes, while 

        she herself went to the kitchen for cooking.

Q12: When do we use meter, Kilo Meter, Kilo Gram and liter?

Ans: Meter is the unit of length kilometer is the unit of distance, 

        kilogram is the unit of weight (solid), liter is the unit of volume 

        to measure a liquid.