Unit 1.7 Why we Travel Extract 05

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.) 

   This is what Camus meant when he said that “what gives value to travel is fear”- disruption, in other words, (or emancipation) from circumstance, and all the habits behind which we hide. And that is why many of us travel not in search of answers, but of better questions. I, like many people, tend to ask questions of the places I visit, and relish most the ones that ask the most searching questions back of me: “The ideal travel book,” Christopher Isherwood once said, “should be perhaps a little like a crime story in which you’re in search of something.” And it’s the best kind of something, I would add, if it’s one that you can never quite find.

       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

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tushar@somaiya.edu

tushar8bagwe@gmail.com

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