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Finding your way around
Read a hand-drawn map the way the chapter draws one, say which way is north on it, and name what a flyover, a hospital and a police station each give the people around them.
Navya went home the long way, past the market, and watched the neighbourhood go by from the bus window. A metro train shot past on a high road above the traffic. A hospital had put up a banner for an eye check-up camp. When she got home she took a pencil and paper and sat down to draw the whole route.
Which way is which on paper
Navya could not draw the directions until she had worked out one of them, and she got it from the sky: the sun comes up in the east. Once one direction is fixed, the other three follow. Maps are drawn to one shared arrangement so that a stranger can pick one up and read it — and that arrangement is what the practice below asks you for.
Have a play
Navya's drawing of her neighbourhood, with her own house in the middle and four buildings around it.
Tap any part of the picture.
Worked example
A friend is coming to your favourite place near the school for the first time. How do you tell them the way?
Do not start with distances. Start with the turns: forward to the corner, then left, then right at the second turning.
The chapter asks for exactly this — directions such as left, right, forward and backward.
Try it together
Let us think about the high road Navya saw, together.
Dada ji explained the flyover to her, and then said something about it that surprised her.
1.A train shot past the bus on its own track. How does the chapter describe the way metro trains travel?
Have a go
Your turn. Flyovers are not built for one kind of vehicle. What does the chapter say?
Ready to practise?
Eight questions on what you have just read. Nothing is timed, and you can play as many times as you like.