Extract No. 01
Page No. 66 / 67 [Lines, ‘ We travel……..the same’]
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Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:
We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again-to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. The beauty of this whole process was best described, perhaps, before people even took to frequent flying, by George Santayana in his lapidary essay, “The Philosophy of Travel.” We “need sometimes,” the Harvard philosopher wrote, “to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”
Few of us ever forget the connection between “travel” and “travail,” Travel in that sense guides us toward a better balance of wisdom and compassion - of seeing the world clearly, and yet feeling it truly. For seeing without feeling can obviously be uncaring; while feeling without seeing can be blind. Yet for me the first great joy of travelling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.
Though it’s fashionable nowadays to draw a distinction between the “tourist” and the “traveler,” perhaps the real distinction lies between those who leave their assumptions at home, and those who don’t. Among those who don’t, a tourist is just someone who complains, “Nothing here is the way it is at home,” while a traveler is one who grumbles, “Everything here is the same as it is in Cairo - or Cuzco or Kathmandu.” It’s all very much the same.
A1. Web : (02)
Complete the web by writing down the views of George Santayana about travelling.
(Practice Activity for students)
A2. Differentiate :. (02)
Differentiate between Tourist and Traveller.
Those who leave their assumptions at home and those who don’t. A tourist is just someone who complains like there is nothing it is like the same at home. While a traveller is the one who grumbles by saying that everything here is the same as it is there in various parts of the world.
A3. Interpret : (02)
Interpret the statement, “ whose riches are differently dispersed.”
(This is a Practice Activity)
A4. Personal Response : (02)
“Travelling broadens our perspective, “do you agree with the view. Justify your answer with suitable examples in about Fifty Words.
A5. Language study : (02)
a) For seeing without feeling can obviously be uncaring.
(Rewrite the sentence using the Infinitive form of the underlined word)
To see without feeling can obviously be uncaring.
Or it can be obviously uncaring to see without feeling.
b) We travel, initially to lose ourselves and we travel next to find ourselves.
(Rewrite the sentence Using,” not only …..But also’)
We travel initially not only to lose ourselves but also to find ourselves.
OR
Initially we travel not only to lose ourselves but also to find ourselves.
c) We travel to open our hearts.
( Rewrite the sentence using the ,”Gerund form” of the underlined word)
We travel for opening our hearts.
A6. Vocabulary : (02)
Find out words from the extract which mean the following.
a) Forced to = compelled to
b) Difficult or unpleasant experience = Travail
c) Improper angle = crooked angle
d) Presumptions = assumptions
