CBSE Class 7 EVS Understanding Advertising Worksheet

1. State whether True or False:

a. Advertisement draws our attention to various products so that we become interested in watching them [ ]

b. The word branding came from cattle grazing. [ ]

c. We never judge people according to the brand product the use. [ ]

d. By linking our personal emotions to products, advertisement tend to influence the ways in which we value ourselves as persons. [ ]

e. Advertisements often show us images of the lifestyles of poor people. [ ]

f. The rich feel that they are unable to give their loved ones the best care that brand products appears to offer. [ ]

g. Producing and showing advertisements in the media is very expensive. [ ]

h. By critically understanding what advertisements do, we can make better decisions about whether we wish to buy a product or not. [ ]

2. Fill in the blanks.

a. _____________ plays a crucial role in trying to convince us to buy the product that is advertised.

b. The advertisers try to differentiate the products from other similar products by adding _________to it.

c. _____________ spend crores of rupees to make sure that we see their advertisements where ever we go.

d. Advertisements seldom show us the reality of _________ lives that we see around us.

e. Advertising makes us believe that things that are packaged are ____________ than the things that do not come in packets.

f. _____________ promotes a certain lack of respect for the poor.

g. Only _________ companies can advertise.

h. __________________ have to sell their products in weekly markets and neighbourhood shops.

i. Advertising helps us forget about issues of _____________ , ___________ and ______________ all of which are central to the functioning of equality in a ______________.