Extract No. 05
Page No. 70 (Line, “This is …………………of another.)
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SOURCE: SCERT UPDATED QUESTION BANK
Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:
A1. Web : (02)
Complete the web by writing down the food items mentioned in the extract.
(This is a Practice Activity for students.)
I remember, in fact,
after my first trips to Southeast Asia, more than a decade ago, how I would
come back to my apartment in New York, and lie in my bed, kept up by something
more than jet lag, playing back, in my memory, over and over, all that I had
experienced, and paging wistfully though my photographs and reading and
re-reading my diaries, as if to extract some mystery from them. Anyone
witnessing this strange scene would have drawn the right conclusion: I was in
love.
When we go abroad is
that we are objects of scrutiny as much as the people we scrutinize, and we are
being consumed by the cultures we consume, as much on the road as when we are
at home. At the very least, we are objects of speculation (and even desire) who
can seem as exotic to the people around us as they do to us.
All, in that sense,
believed in “being moved” as one of the points of taking trips, and “being
transported” by private as well as public means; all saw that “ecstasy”
(“ex-stasis”) tells us that our highest moments come when we’re not
stationary, and that epiphany can follow movement as much as it precipitates
it.
When you go to a
McDonald’s outlet in Kyoto, you will find Teriyaki McBurgers and Bacon
Potato Pies. The placemats offer maps of the great temples of the city, and the
posters all around broadcast the wonders of San Francisco. And-most crucial of
all-the young people eating their Big Macs, with baseball caps worn backwards,
and tight 501 jeans, are still utterly and inalienably Japanese in the
way they move, they nod, they sip their Oolong teas - and never to be
mistaken for the patrons of a McDonald’s outlet in Rio, Morocco or Managua. These
days a whole new realm of exotica arises out of the way one culture
colours and appropriates the products of another.
A1. Complete : (02)
Complete the sentences by choosing the
information given in the extract.
a) Many of us travel not in search of answers
but of better questions.
b) The writer had some beautiful memories of
his trips to Southeast Asia as if he was in love.
c) The highest moment of our life comes when
we are not stationary.
d) Worldwide cultures are accepted
with respect.
A2. Describe : (02)
Describe the authors mentioned in the extract with their perspectives about Travelling.
Camus said that many of us
travel not in search of answers, but of better questions. Many people tend to
ask questions of the places he visit and relish most of the ones that ask the
most searching question back to him. Christopher Isherwood once said that the
ideal travel book should be perhaps a little like a crime story in which you
are in search of something and the best kind of thing.
A3. Give reasons : (02)
Anyone witnessing this strange scene
would have drawn the right conclusion,” I was in love. Write down the reasons
behind writer’s comment…………..
When the writer went for his first
trip to Southeast Asia more than a decade ago,he came back with some nostalgic
memories.Whatever he had experienced he was paying wistfully through his photographs and reading his diaries mysteriously.
A4. Personal Response : (02)
Globalisation has helped to remove the
barriers of Religion, caste, creed, language, culture, food culture etc. Do you
agree with the statement? Justify your answer with examples in about Fifty Words.
This is a Practice Activity for students
A5. Language study : (02)
a) we are being consumed by the cultures.
(Rewrite the sentence beginning
with,”The cultures,”)
The cultures are consuming
us.
b) When you go to a McDonald’s outlet in
Kyoto, you will find Teriyaki, macburgers and Bacon potato pies.
(Use As soon as /No
Sooner…….than construction and rewrite it)
As soon as you go to a McDonald’s
outlet in Kyoto, you will find Teriyaki, macburgers and Bacon potato pies.
No Sooner do you go to a McDonalds’s
Outlet in Kyoto than you will find Teriyaki, Macburgers and Bacon potato pies.
A6. Vocabulary : (02)
Find out words from the extract which mean the
following.
a) Freedom = emancipation
b) Eat = relish
c) Regretfully = wistfully
d) Different colours belonged to distant countries = exotica
Activities Prepared by
TUSHAR J BAGWE
K J SOMAIYA COLLEGE OF
SCIENCE AND COMMERCE
VIDYAVIHAR EAST MUMBAI 77
E Mail :
tushar@somaiya.edu
tushar8bagwe@gmail.com
jaisinghtushar812@gmail.com
110970.bagwe@mahaeschool.co.in
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