COMPREHENSION
CHECK PAGE
27
Say whether the following are true or false.
1.
Ignesious lost his wife, two children, his father-in-law, and his
brother-in-law in the tsunami.
Answer: True
2.
Sanjeev made it to safety after the tsunami.
Answer: False
3.
Meghna was saved by a relief helicopter.
Answer: False
4.
Almas’s father realised that a tsunami was going to hit the island.
Answer: True
5.
Her mother and aunts were washed away with the tree that they were holding on
to
Answer: True
COMPREHENSION
CHECK PAGE 28
Answer the following in a phrase or
sentence.
1. Why did Tilly’s family come to
Thailand?
Answer:
Tilly and her family had come from England to celebrate Christmas in Thailand.
2. What were the warning signs that both
Tilly and her mother saw?
Answer:
Both Tilly and her mother saw the water was swelling and coming closed. The
beach was also getting smaller and smaller. The warning signs observed by Tilly
were- rising, bubbling and forming a whirlpool in the sea.
3. Do you think Tilly’s mother was
alarmed by them?
Answer:
Tilly’s mother didn’t understand what was happening. She realised only when
Tilly started screaming and talked about an earthquake under the sea.
4. Where had Tilly seen the sea behaving
in the same strange fashion?
Answer:
Her Geography teacher had shown a video of a Tsunami in which she had seen the
sea behaving in the same strange fashion.
5. Where did the Smith family and the
others on the beach go to escape from the tsunami?
Answer:
They all protect themselves from the Tsunami on the third floor of the hotel.
6. How do you think her geography teacher
felt when he heard about what Tilly had done in Phuket?
Answer:
He must have felt proud of Tilly for what she had done in Phuket. The Geography
lesson and the video he had shown helped Tilly to think about the behaviour of
waves in the sea. She warned her family and others too that save the lives of
many people from Tsunami.
COMPREHENSION
CHECK PAGE
30
Answer using a phrase or a sentence.
1. In the tsunami, 150,000 people died.
How many animals died?
Answer:
As per the report, more than 150,000 people were washed away by the Tsunami in
a dozen countries. However, there were not many animals reported dead in
comparison to humans.
2. How many people and animals died in
Yala National Park?
Answer:
There were 60 people who died in the park and no animals were reported dead.
3. What do people say about the elephants
of Yala National Park?
Answer:
People say that the elephants started running from Yala National Park an hour
before the Tsunami.
4. What did the dogs in Galle do?
Answer:
The dogs didn’t go for their daily run on the beach.
WORKING WITH
THE TEXT PAGE
30
Discuss the following questions in class.
Then write your own answers.
1. When he felt the earthquake, do you
think Ignesious immediately worried about a tsunami? Give reasons for your
answer. Which sentence in the text tells you that the Ignesious family did not
have any time to discuss and plan their course of action after the tsunami
struck?
Answer: No, he was not worried
about the tsunami. He thought it was just an earthquake so he turned off his
TV, put it under the table to avoid damage, and then took his family out of the
house. The sentence in the text “In the chaos and confusion, two of his
children caught hold of the hands of their mother’s father and mother’s
brother, and rushed in the opposite direction.” tells us that they didn’t have
opportunity to talk about and plan anything after the tsunami struck.
2. Which words in the list below describe
Sanjeev, in your opinion?
(Look up the dictionary for words that you are not sure of.)
|
Cheerful,
ambitious, brash, brave, careless, heroic, selfless, heartless, humorous |
Use words from the list to complete the
three sentences below.
(i) I don’t know if Sanjeev was cheerful,
_____________or _______________.
(ii) I think that he was very brave, ____________and __________________.
(iii) Sanjeev was not heartless, ____________or ____________________.
Answer:
(i)
I don’t know if Sanjeev was cheerful, ambitious or humorous.
(ii)
I think that he was very brave, heroic and selfless.
(iii)
Sanjeev was not heartless, brash or careless.
3. How are Meghna and Almas’s stories
similar?
Answer: They both have
similar stories. Both of them lost their families in the tsunami. Each of them
was floating for days in the sea. The waves brought them to the seashore.
Meghna floated in the sea holding a wooden door while Almas climbed a log of
wood. The incident put both of the girls in trauma.
4. What are the different ways in which
Tilly’s parents could have reacted to her behaviour? What would you have done
if you were in their place?
Answer: The different ways could
be, they could not have paid attention to Tilly’s frightening behaviour. They
could have calmed her down. Doing so, the consequences would have been
different. The giant waves would have washed them away too. If I were in their
place, I would have also listened to Tilly and immediately got off the beach.
5. If Tilly’s award was to be shared, who
do you think she should share it with— her parents or her geography teacher?
Answer: I think, the award
should have been shared with the Geography teacher. It was her teacher who made
her aware of the tsunami that helped her save the lives of her family and other
people.
6. What are the two different ideas about
why so few animals were killed in the tsunami? Which idea do you find more
believable?
Answer: There are two ideas mentioned in this chapter. The first one says
that the animals have a sixth sense and the second one says that they have
acute hearing, they can feel or heal the earth’s vibration as well. With the
help of these qualities, they can sense upcoming disaster before humans. So,
they start finding safer places for them and moved themselves to a safer place.
I think we should believe in the second idea. Animals have definitely better
sense of hearing than humans. It is also scientifically proved that they can
hear low-frequency sounds that we humans can’t hear.
WORKING WITH LANGUAGE PAGE
31
1. Go through Part-I carefully, and make
a list of as many words as you can find that indicate movement of different
kinds.
(There is one word that occurs repeatedly — count how many times!) Put them
into three categories.
fast
movement slow movement neither slow nor fast
Can
you explain why there are many words in one column and not in the others?
Answer:
|
Fast movement |
Slow movement |
Neither slow nor fast |
|
Earthquake |
Floating |
Walking |
|
Rushed |
Recede |
Climb |
|
Tremors |
Rising |
|
|
Swept away |
||
|
Ran |
||
|
Fall |
||
|
Washed away |
2. Fill in the blanks in the sentences
below (the verbs given in brackets will give you a clue).
(i) The earth trembled, but not many
people felt the ________. (tremble)
Answer: trembling
(ii) When the zoo was flooded, there was
a lot of ________ and many animals escaped into the countryside.
(confuse)
Answer: confusion
(iii) We heard with ________ that
the lion had been recaptured. (relieve)
Answer: relief
(iv) The zookeeper was stuck in a tree
and his ________ was filmed by the TV crew. (rescue)
Answer: rescue
(v) There was much ________ in
the village when the snake charmer came visiting. (excite)
Answer: excitement
3. Study the sentences in the columns A
and B.
|
A |
B |
|
Meghna
was swept away. |
The
waves swept Meghna away. |
|
Almas's
grandfather was hit on the head. |
Something
hit Almas’s grandfather on the head. |
|
Sixty
visitors were washed away. |
The
waves washed away sixty visitors. |
|
No
animal carcasses were found. |
People
did not find any animal carcasses. |
Say
whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A
or P after each sentence as shown in the first sentence.
(i) Someone stole my bicycle. __A__
(ii) The tyres were deflated by the
traffic police. ____________
(iii) I found it last night in a ditch
near my house. ____________
(iv) It had been thrown there. _______________
(v) My father gave it to the mechanic.
________________
(vi) The mechanic repaired it for me. _____________
Answer:
(i)
Someone stole my bicycle. __A__
(ii)
The tyres were deflated by the traffic police. ______P______
(iii)
I found it last night in a ditch near my house. ______A______
(iv)
It had been thrown there. ______P_________
(v)
My father gave it to the mechanic. _____A______
(vi) The
mechanic repaired it for me. _____A______
Poem: Geography
Lesson by
Zulfikar Ghose
WORKING WITH
THE POEM PAGE 35
1. Find three or four phrases in stanzas
one and two which are likely to occur in a geography lesson.
Answer:
The phrases are-
(i) “the city had developed the way it had”
(ii) “it scaled six inches to the mile”
(iii) “the country had cities where the rivers ran”
(iv) “the valleys were populated”
2. Seen from the window of an aeroplane,
the city appears
(i) as
haphazard as on ground.
(ii) as neat as
a map.
(iii) as
developed as necessary.
Mark the right answer.
Answer:
(iii) as developed as necessary.
3. Which of the following statements are
examples of “the logic of geography”?
(i) There are cities where there are rivers.
(ii) Cities appear as they are not from six miles
above the ground.
(iii) It is easy to understand why valleys are
populated.
(iv) It is difficult to understand why humans hate
and kill one another.
(v) The earth is round, and it has more sea than
land.
Answer:
Statements (i), (iii), (iv) are examples of “the logic of geography”.
4. Mention two things that are
(i) clear from the height.
Answer:
It is clear why a country has cities near the rivers and the valleys are
populated.
(ii) not clear from the height.
Answer: It is not clear why people on earth hate each other and build walls across the cities.
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