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 General Guidelines 1

Life and Nare

1. A Tortoise Superstar 1 4. Plants That Eat Insects 1
2. Native Animals 1 5. Plant Records 2
3. Don’t Go by the Name 1 6. Unique Fruits 2

Around e World
7. Travellers and Explorers 2 10. Tribes of the World 2
8. Old Places New Names 2 11. Parliaments 2
9. Major International
Organizations 2

Incredible India
12. Famous Gardens 2 15. Women Achievers 3
13. Unique Festivals 2 16. Nek Chand’s Wonderland 3
14. India and the Nobel 3

e Magic of Words
17. Famous Literary 19. Travel Words 3
Characters 3 20. Types of Books 3
18. Loanwords 3 21. Gabriel García Márquez 3

Sci-Tech Trek
22. Great Scientists
22 3 25. Bionics 4
23. Saving Corals
23 3 26. 3D Printing 4
24. Rise of the Machines
24 4
 Brainwaves
27. Warming Up 4 30. Strain Your Brain 5
28. Lock-and-Key Puzzle 4 31. Numerical Ability 5
29. Visuospatial 4

e World of Sport
32. Wimbledon 5 35. Sports Quiz 5
33. Asian Games 5 36. Gymnastics 5
34. Sporting Arenas 5

Leons for Life

37. Sensible Spending 5 40. Choice Is Yours 6
38. What Will You Do? 6 41. Be Right, Do Right 6
39. First Aid 6 42. Teamwork 6

More  Know
43. Hayao Miyazaki 6 46. Major Religions 7
44. Body Language 6 47. Venkatraman
45. Leaders and Their Ramakrishnan 7
Assassins 7

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 General Guidelines
• The What’s What series aims to achieve the educational ideal of having fun while learning.
• This book is divided into ten thematic sections and has forty-seven chapters. You can try different techniques
or methods to teach them.
• There are several descriptive chapters in the book, like ‘A Tortoise Superstar’, ‘Nek Chand’s Wonderland’,
‘Rise of the Machines’, ‘3D Printing’, etc. Explain each chapter thoroughly with examples so that the students
will understand it better. Always give some additional information.
• When you teach the chapter ‘Unique Festivals’ ask the students to form small groups. Each group should
discuss all the answers. After that ask questions to any member of any group.
• When you teach the chapter ‘First Aid’ explain to the students the importance of first aid and the urgency of
its nature. Explain to them why it has to be delivered timely on the sick or injured victim.
• While teaching the students the chapter ‘Choice Is Yours’, conduct a class discussion on stereotypes. Give
different scenarios revolving around the theme and ask the students to pick the biased statements in them.
Teach them to not make generalizations or to discriminate.
• When teaching the chapter ‘Body Language’, pick students from the class to perform each one of the given
actions before the class and make them guess the emotions.
• There is a biography on Hayao Miyazaki in the book. Talk to the students about animation and its various
styles. Bring some manga comic books to class, show them to students and talk to them about the anime
in it. Show them Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning film Spirited Away and discuss the Japanese style of
animation with them.
• Once you finish a section, conduct a class test with the help of the revision exercises. You can change some
questions if you want and add your own.
• Always encourage the students to ask questions of any kind. In fact you can have a separate session
for that. If a student is shy, he/she can always write his/her questions and give it to you. Do answer each
question and make the teaching time as enjoyable as you can.

Answer Key

1. A Tortoise Superstar
Descriptive/Informative Chapter

2. Native Animals
1. I. (Australia) 2. A. (South Central China) 3. H. (Madagascar) 4. D (Arctic Circle)
5. G. (Africa, Asia and Southeastern Europe) 6. C. (Southern Asia, the Himalayas) 7. E. (Tibet)
8. F. (Antarctica) 9. B. (Indian Subcontinent)

3. Don’t Go by the Name

1. marsupial 2. fish 3. dolphin 4. bat 5. bison 6. lizard 7. bird 8. rodent

4. Plants That Eat Insects

1. Venus flytrap 2. cobra lily 3. sundew 4. bladderwort 5. butterwort 6. pitcher plant

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5. Plant Records
1. foxglove tree 2. Wolffia 3. titan arum 4. General Sherman 5. Cereus peruvianus
6. King’s Holly

6. Unique Fruits
1. dragon fruit 2. jaboticaba 3. passion fruit 4. star fruit 5. horned melon

7. Travellers and Explorers

1. Hsuan Tsang 2. Ibn Battuta 3. John Cabot 4. Henry Hudson 5. Abel Tasman
6. James Cook

8. Old Places New Names

1. Sri Lanka 2. Iran 3. Democratic Republic of the Congo 4. France 5. Bangladesh
6. Thailand 7. Jakarta 8. Mali 9. Iraq 10. Vadodara 11. Oslo 12. Istanbul
13. Zimbabwe 14. New York 15. Ethiopia

9. Major International Organizations

1. Amnesty International 2. International Monetary Fund 3. United Nations
4. World Health Organization 5. World Wide Fund for Nature 6. United Nations Children’s Fund

10. Tribes of the World

1. Ayoreo 2. Eskimos 3. Sherpas 4. Bedouins 5. Tatars 6. Berbers 7. Zulus
8. Mayas 9. Māoris 10. Magyars

11. Parliaments
1. L. (Federal Parliament) 2. O. (Althing) 3. J. (Folketing) 4. G. (Majlis)
5. K. (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) 6. B. (Knesset) 7. M. (Bundestag and Bundesrat)
8. D. (National Diet) 9. N. (Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara) 10. I. (State Great Khural)
11. F. (Storting) 12. C. (National Panchayat) 13. E. (Federation Council and State Duma)
14. A. (House of Commons and House of Lords) 15. H. (House of Representatives and Senate)

12. Famous Gardens

1. Deeg Palace Garden 2. Chashme Shahi 3. Shalimar Bagh 4. Itmad-ud-Daula Tomb Garden
5. Zakir Hussain Rose Garden 6. Mughal Gardens 7. Umaid Bhawan Garden
8. Roshanara Bagh

13. Unique Festivals

1. D. (Thrissur Pooram) 2. B. (Hemis Festival) 3. E. (Rath Yatra) 4. F. (Muharram)
5. H. (Makar Sankranti) 6. A. (Raksha Bandhan) 7. C. (Chithirai Thiruvizha) 8. G. (Bohag Bihu)

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14. India and the Nobel
1. A. (Rabindranath Tagore) 2. E. (Venkatraman Ramakrishnan) 3. H. (C.V. Raman)
4. F. (Saint Teresa) 5. B. (Har Gobind Khorana) 6. G. (Amartya Sen)
7. C. (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar) 8. D. (Kailash Satyarthi)

15. Women Achievers

1. A. (Rajkumari Amrit Kaur) 2. H. (C.B. Muthamma) 3. B. (Chokila Iyer) 4. C. (Surekha Yadav)
5. G. (Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi) 6. D. (Vijayalakshmi Pandit) 7. E. (Santosh Yadav)
8. F. (Arati Saha)

16. Nek Chand’s Wonderland

Descriptive/Informative Chapter

17. Famous Literary Characters

1. D. (Captain Haddock) 2. F. (Little Prince) 3. H. (Miss Marple) 4. B. (Victor Frankenstein)
5. C. (Dorothy) 6. G. (Sherlock Holmes) 7. A. (Willy Wonka) 8. E. (Miss Havisham)

18. Loanwords
1. an assumed name 2. genuine 3. happy journey 4. in fact 5. a unit of servicemen
6. for a specific purpose 7. without previous preparation 8. on the very first view
9. existing state of affairs 10. in relation to 11. a common language 12. an oral test

19. Travel Words

DOWN: 1. Pilgrimage 2. Migrate 4. Expedition 6. Excursion 7. Voyage 11. Trek
ACROSS: 3. Hitchhike 5. Trip 8. Safari 9. Tour 10. Outing 12. Explore

20. Types of Books

ACROSS: 2. Almanac 5. Autobiography 9. Glossary 10. Atlas 11. Dairy
DOWN: 1. Yearbook 3. Chronology 4. Encyclopedia 6. Phrasebook 7. Dictionary
8. Thesaurus

21. Gabriel García Márquez

Descriptive/Informative Chapter

22. Great Scientists

1. F. (William Harvey) 2. C. (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek) 3. D. (Sir Isaac Newton)
4. B. (Antonie Lavoisier) 5. A. (Jagdish Chandra Bose) 6. E. (Marie Curie)

23. Saving Corals

Descriptive/Informative Chapter

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24. Rise of the Machines
Descriptive/Informative Chapter

25. Bionics
Descriptive/Informative Chapter

26. 3D Printing
Descriptive/Informative Chapter

27. Warming Up
1. D. (`158.10) 2. Archana 3. 496 4. C. (They are both forms of carbon.) 5. Bhat
6. A. (gesture) 7. A. (10, 11.5) B. (33, 46) 8. area

28. Lock-and-Key Puzzle

B A T O R

T E A D I C E

T A P N E T

C L H

O G I R A F F E

W E E K T O O L

Precious
L E T Jewel G E M

29. Visuospatial
× ×
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. × ×

7. 8. 9. 10.

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30. Strain Your Brain
1. Mary
2. A. papaya, apple, guava, peach – fruits
B. tiger, elephant, monkey, leopard – animals
C. capsicum, onion, potato – vegetables
3. 9 4. 23rd August 5. 4 + 4 – (4/4) 6. nine 7. 4

31. Numerical Ability

1. 130: Starting from top go clockwise; double the number and subtract 2 from it.
2. 9: Add all the numbers and divide it by 4.
3. 62: Add 1 to each number and double to get the answer.
4. 5: Going round the square clockwise, multiply each number by 3.
5. 66: The number on the head is obtained by adding the difference of the numbers in hand and feet.

32. Wimbledon
1. 1877 2. 1884 3. Charlotte Dod and Boris Becker
4. US Open, French Open, Wimbledon, Australian Open 5. Margaret Court 6. It is a grass court.
7. Martina Navratilova 8. Ramanathan Krishnan

33. Asian Games

1. C. (India) 2. D. (Jawaharlal Nehru) 3. A. (Ever Onward) 4. H. (Bright full rising sun)
5. B. (11 countries and around 500 participants) 6. E. (Beijing Asiad, 1990) 7. F. (New Delhi Asiad, 1982)
8. G. (Indonesia)

34. Sporting Arenas

1. D 2. J 3. I 4. G 5. K 6. H 7. O 8. B 9. M 10. N 11. F 12. A
13. E 14. C 15. L

35. Sports Quiz

1. G. (Chris Hoy) 2. L. (Devendra Jhajharia) 3. M. (Mary Kom) 4. B. (Michael Phelps)
5. K. (Mithali Raj) 6. A. (P.V. Sindhu) 7. I. (Roger Federer) 8. D. (Geeta Phogat)
9. F. (Sakshi Malik) 10. H. (Usain Bolt) 11. J. (Lionel Messi) 12. C. (Sachin Tendulkar)
13. E. (Serena Williams)

36. Gymnastics
1. 1928 2. Yelena Sergeyevna Produnova 3. Dipa Karmakar
4. floor exercises, horizontal bar, parallel bars, pommel horse, rings, vault, individual all round, team competition
5. Larisa Latynina 6. 1984 7. Ashish Kumar 8. ribbon, club, hoop, ball

37. Sensible Spending

Students will answer this question on their own.
(Multiple answers)

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38. What Will You Do?
1. C. (tell an elderly person you trust that someone is making you uncomfortable.)
2. B. (inform your parents and elders that someone is following you.)
3. B. (tell that person that he/she is making you uncomfortable and report the incident to your parents or elders
immediately.)
4. A. (immediately report whatever that happened to your parents or elders whom you trust.)
5. C. (report that to your parents or elders whom you trust.)

39. First Aid

Descriptive/Informative Chapter

40. Choice Is Yours

Descriptive/Informative Chapter

41. Be Right, Do Right

1. C. (wait patiently for your uncle to finish what he is saying and then talk to him.)
2. B. (introduce your old friend to the friend you are talking to before you break into conversation.)
3. A. (ask the nearest person to pass it.)
4. B. (listen to all the things that he/she says and then apologize for your behaviour.)
5. C. (take it as an opportunity to study well and do well in the coming tests.)
6. A. (stop whatever you are doing on the smartphone, look at the person who talked to you and answer politely.)

42. Teamwork
1. B. (A team should be well aware of its aim. All members should know the team goal and work towards
achieving it. So the first thing that you will discuss is the goal that your team is going to achieve.)
2. A. (The essential thing for a group to work properly is effective communication. Each member of the team
should be able to talk to each other freely. All members should share their ideas and concerns even if they are
minor ones. So you will ask everyone to talk about anything that they want and discuss those issues.)
3. C. (You will assign specific roles and responsibilities to each team member depending on his/her individual
strength. But you will consult that team member first before assigning him/her that role.)
4. A. (The one important thing that is needed for any team to work is complete trust. Members should be able to
listen to each other, respect each member’s contribution to the team and share their burdens.)
5. C. (You will take up the matter during the team meetings. Even when mistakes are pointed out, it will be done
in a constructive manner. If any member is facing a problem, discuss it and try to find a solution. The feedback
and discussion will always be positive.)
6. B. (Yes, all the team members are equal. A team doesn’t work if there is no respect between the members.
A leader is just a bonding factor. Each member is important.)

43. Hayao Miyazaki

Descriptive/Informative Chapter

44. Body Language

1. e 2. j 3. n 4. b 5. c 6. l 7. o 8. k 9. m 10. h 11. g 12. d
13. i 14. a 15. f

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45. Leaders and Their Assassins
1. Nathuram Godse 2. Lee Harvey Oswald 3. James Earl Ray 4. Charlotte Corday
5. John Wilkes Booth 6. Beant Singh and Satwant Singh 7. Dhanu

46. Major Religions

1. Sikhism 2. Hinduism 3. Buddhism 4. Jainism 5. Christianity 6. Islam 7. Judaism
8. Zoroastrianism

47. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Descriptive/Informative Chapter