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Saturday, December 17, 2022

Unit 1.7 Why We Travel Extract 03

Extract No. 03

Page No. 68 / 69 [Line, “By now…………………from home”]

Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:


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By now all of us have heard (too often) the old Proust line about how the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new places but in seeing with new eyes. Yet one of the subtler beauties of travel is that it enables you to bring new eyes to the people you encounter. Thus even as holidays help you appreciate your own home more not least by seeing it through a distant admirer’s eyes they help you bring newly appreciative-distant-eyes to the places you visit. You can teach them what they have to celebrate as much as you celebrate what they have to teach. This, I think, is how tourism, which so obviously destroys cultures, can also resuscitate or revive them, how it has created new “traditional” dances in Bali, and caused craftsmen in India to pay new attention to their works.

       Thus travel spins us round in two ways at once : It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty. For in travelling to a truly foreign place, we inevitably travel to moods and states of mind and hidden inward passages that we’d otherwise seldom have cause to visit.

       On the most basic level, when I’m in Tibet, though not a real Buddhist, I spend days on end in temples, listening to the chants of sutras. I go to Iceland to visit the lunar spaces within me, and, in the uncanny quietude and emptiness of that vast and treeless world, to tap parts of myself generally obscured by chatter and routine.

       We travel, then, in search of both self and anonymity-and, of course, in finding the one we apprehend the other. Abroad, we are wonderfully free of caste and job and standing; we are, as Hazlitt puts it, just the “gentlemen in the parlour,” and people cannot put a name or tag to us. And precisely because we are clarified in this way, and freed of inessential labels, we have the opportunity to come into contact with more essential parts of ourselves (which may begin to explain why we may feel most alive when far from home).



A1. Complete :                (02) 


Complete the following sentences using the information given in the extract.


a) The beauties of travel is that..It enables you to bring new eyes to the people you encounter.


b) Tourism can revive or activate cultures.


c) The writer spends his days in temples when he was in Tibet.


d) We travel in search of self and anonymity.

 


A2.    Describe :                    (02)

          Describe how Tourism can revive or reactivate cultures with reference to the places mentioned in the extract.


          Tourism encourages travelling. Dances in Bali, craftsmen in India have to pay attention to their works as they represent our country and culture. When the writer was in Tibet even though he was not a real Buddhist, he used to spend days in temples; listening to the chants of sutras .whenever he visited Iceland he used to visit the lunar spaces within him.



A3.    Interpret :                   (02)


          Interpret the statement,” Abroad we are just like gentleman in the parlour,”


(This is a Practice Activity for students)


A4 Personal Response :    (02)


 Do you think Travelling helps us to improve our personality? Justify your answer with suitable examples.


This is a Practice Activity for students 


A5. Language study :         (02)


I)       All of us have heard the old Proust line.

          (Rewrite the sentence beginning with,” The old..”)


          The old Proust line has been heard by all of us.


II)      You can teach them what they have to celebrate.


  (Replace the modal auxiliary by another showing Advice/suggestion)


          You should teach them what they have to celebrate.


III)    I go to Iceland to visit the lunar spaces within  me.


          (Rewrite the sentence using the ,” Gerund form of the underlined word)


          I go to Iceland for visiting the lunar spaces within me.


IV)    People cannot put a name or tag to us.

          (Use be able to and rewrite)


 People are not able to / unable to put a name or tag to us.


A6. Vocabulary :                  (02)

          Find out words from the extract which mean the following.


a)       Long journey = Voyage

b)       rarely  = seldom

c)       very strange = uncanny

d)       calm and peaceful = quietude

e)     unknown = anonymity                           

f) to understand = to apprehend






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