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Lesson 2 Unit 1
toolS

Objectives:

On completion of this lesson, students will be able to:
• Enlist the names of different tools and their uses.

Bal Krishna Chaudhary’s family lives in
the Terai region. His father’s occupation
is farming. He grows food crops such
as paddy, maize, wheat, etc. and cash
crops such as sugarcane, vegetables,
fruits, etc. Being a farmer, he needs
different kinds of tools. He needs a
plough to plough field, spade to dig

the earth, sickle to cut grass. Besides,
he needs different tools for different
purposes. For example, an axe to split
the wood for firewood, etc. Our tools

Bal Krishna’s elder brother is a carpenter. He makes all types of furniture;
such as desk, bench, table, chair, bed, etc. To make furniture, he needs a
handsaw, a screwdriver, a wrench, a hammer, a plainer, etc.

Rajani Shrestha lives in town. Her mother runs a 'Ladies Tailoring' shop
in the nearby market. She prepares different kinds of dresses for ladies.
She always needs different tools such as scissors, a needle, a measuring
tape, etc.

Dolma Sherpa is a house-wife. She needs different tools such as a knife
to chop vegetables, utensils in the kitchen, a broom to sweep the floor,

an iron to iron clothes, etc. Similarly, her son, Pasang is a doctor. He
works in a hospital and a clinic at the district headquarter. He needs a
thermometer to measure the temperature of the body of his patients.

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