2nd Class EVS Food, Shelter and Cloths Housing and Clothing

Housing and Clothing

Synopsis

Types of Houses  

• A house is a place where we live.
• A house protects us from the hot sun, cold wind, rain, wild animals and thieves.
• There are many kinds of houses, e.g., permanent or pucca houses, kutcha houses, huts, tents, caravans, house boat and igloos.
• Permanent houses are built of bricks and cement. They last for a long time.

• Kutcha houses are small and are made of mud and straw

• Huts are small, temporary houses made of wood and bamboo.
•  Tents are temporary houses, easily movable and are made of canvas cloth.   

• Caravans are houses on wheels. These are mobile houses.
• A house boat is a house floating on a lake.
• Igloos are houses made by Eskimos with solid ice cubes in semi circular shape.

• People use different kinds of materials to build their houses. These materials are usually easily available in the places they live.
• People use bricks, cement, stones, wood, mud, straw, etc. to build their houses.
• People living in areas where it rains a lot build houses on stilts with sloping roofs.
• People living in mountains build houses of wood with sloping roofs.

• People living in plains usually make houses with flat roofs.
• Snow houses or igloos have semi-circular roofs.   

Clothes we wear

• Long long ago, people wore animal skins for clothes. Today we wear clothes made of cotton, silk, wool, nylon, etc.
•  We need clothes to cover our bodies. Clothes protect us from heat, cold, wind and rain. We wear clothes according to the changing weather.
•  We wear light cotton clothes when it is hot.
• We wear warm woollen clothes when it is cold.
•  During rains, we need to wear a raincoat or carry an umbrella.
• Cotton clothes are made of cotton. We get cotton from the cotton plant.
•  Woollen clothes are made of wool. We get wool from the fleece of sheep.
• Silk clothes are made of silk. We get silk from the cocoons of silkworms.