Unit 1.7 Why We Travel Extract 02

 

Extract No. 02

age No. 67/68 

[Line, “But for the rest…………with tenderness”]

 

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       But for the rest of us, the sovereign freedom of travelling comes from the fact that it whirls you around and turns you upside down, and stands everything you took for granted on its head. If a diploma can famously be a passport (to a journey through hard realism), a passport can be a diploma (for a crash course in cultural relativism). And the first lesson we learn on the road, whether we like it or not, is how provisional and provincial are the things we imagine to be universal.

       We travel, then, in part just to shake up our complacencies by seeing all the moral and political urgencies, the life-and-death dilemmas, that we seldom have to face at home. And we travel to fill in the gaps left by tomorrow’s headlines. When you drive down the streets of Port-au-Prince, for example, where there is almost no paving your notions of the Internet and a “one world order” grow usefully revised. Travel is the best way we have of rescuing the humanity of places, and saving them from abstraction and ideology.

       And in the process, we also get saved from abstraction ourselves, and come to see how much we can bring to the places we visit, and how much we can become a kind of carrier pigeon - an anti-Federal Express, if you like - in transporting back and forth what every culture needs. I find that I always take Michael Jordan posters to Kyoto, and bring woven ikebana baskets back to California.

       But more significantly, we carry values and beliefs and news to the places we go, and in many parts of the world, we become walking video screens and living newspapers, the only channels that can take people out of the censored limits of their homelands. In closed or impoverished places, like Pagan or Lhasa or Havana, we are the eyes and ears of the people we meet, their only contact with the world outside and, very often, the closest, quite literally, they will ever come to Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton. Not the least of the challenges of travel, therefore, is learning how to import - and export - dreams with tenderness.

A1. True or false :                (02)

a) According to the writer ,we travel in part just to shake up our satisfaction that we seldom have to free at home.             (T)

b) We imagine that provisional and provincial things are universal.                                  (T)

c) The writer always bring woven ikebana baskets back to India.                                          (F)

d) We Carry values, beliefs and news to the place.                    (T)

A2.    Explain :                           (02)

  Explain the concept of cultural relativism.

(This is a Practice Activity for students.)

A3.    Interpret :                        (02)

     Interpret the statement, “We are eyes and ears of the people.”

This is a Practice Activity for students 

A4.    Personal Response :      (02)

         Do you agree with the views expressed by the writer .Justify your answer with suitable examples.

(This is a Practice Activity for students.)

A5.    Language study :            (02)

a)       Travel is the best way we have of rescuing the humanity of places.

          ( Rewrite the sentence using the "Infinitive form'' of the underlined word)   OR

          ( change the degree)

          Travel is the best way we have to rescue the humanity of places.

          P.D.   : No other way we have of rescuing is as good as travel.

          C.D.  : Travel is better way we have of rescuing.

b)       We can become a kind of carrier Pigeon.

          (Rewrite the sentence using a modal auxiliary which indicates,” possibility”)

We May/ Might become a kind of carrier Pigeon 

A6. Vocabulary :                       (02)

          Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a)       Regional = provincial

b) Confusion/double mind situation = dilemmas

c)       Poverty stricken places = impoverished places

d)       A set of ideas which form a basis for political economic system = ideology

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Unit 1.7 Why We Travel Extract 01

 Extract No. 01

Page No. 66 / 67 [Lines, ‘ We travel……..the same’]

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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

Unit 1.5 The New Dress Extract No 04

 

Extract No. 04

Page No. 49/50

 [Lines, “Her wretched ……….twenty years”

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Read the first activity, the extract and do all the activities that follow.

       Her wretched self again, no doubt! She had always been a fretful, weak, unsatisfactory mother, a wobbly wife, lolling about in a kind of twilight existence with nothing very clear or very bold, or more one thing than another, like all her brothers and sisters, except perhaps Herbert- they were all the same poor water-veined creatures who did nothing. Then in the midst of this creeping, crawling life, suddenly she was on the crest of a wave. Wretched fly - where had she read the story that kept coming into her mind about the fly and the saucer? -struggled out. Yes, she had those moments. But now that she was forty, they might come more and more seldom. By degrees she would cease to struggle any more. But that was deplorable! That was not to be endured! that made her feel ashamed of herself !

       She would go to the London Library tomorrow. She would find some wonderful, helpful, astonishing book, quite by chance, a book by a clergyman, by an American no one had ever heard of; or she would walk down the Strand and drop, accidentally, into a hall where a miner was telling about the life in the pit, and suddenly she would become a new person. She would be absolutely transformed. She would wear a uniform; she would be called Sister Somebody; she would never give a thought to clothes again. And for ever after she would be perfectly clear about Charles Burt and Miss Milan and this room and that room; and it would be always, day after day, as if she were lying in the sun or carving the mutton. It would be it! So she got up from the blue sofa, and the yellow buttoning the looking-glass got up too, and she waved her hand to Charles and Rose to show them she did not depend on them one scrap, and the yellow button moved out of the looking-glass, and all the spears were gathered into her breast as she walked towards Mrs. Dalloway and said “Good night. “But it’s too early to go,” said Mrs. Dalloway, who was always so charming. “I’m afraid I must,” said Mabel Waring. “But,” she added in her weak, wobbly voice which only sounded ridiculous when she tried to strengthen it, “I have enjoyed myself enormously.” ‘I have enjoyed myself,” she said to Mr. Dalloway, whom she met on the stairs. “Lies, lies, lies!” she said to herself, going downstairs, and “Right in the saucer!” she said to herself as she thanked Mrs. Barnet for helping her and wrapped herself, round and round and round, in the Chinese cloak she had worn these twenty years.

A1. True or false :                (02)

i) Mable was not stable in her life. (T)

ii) Mable decided to read a book by an American clergyman. (T)

iiI) Mrs. Barmet was not helpful to Mable. (F)

iv ) Mable enjoyed herself in the party as per her own declaration. (T)

 

A2.  Find out :                             (02)

          Find out expressions that show that Mable was not contented with her life (sense of inadequacy)

          She had always been a fretful, weak, unsatisfactory mother, a wobbly wife, lolling about in a kind of twilight existence with nothing very clear or very bold, or more one thing than another, like all her brothers and sisters, except perhaps Herbert- they were all the same poor water-veined creatures who did nothing.

A3. Describe :                            (02)

  Describe the sentences that shows the transformation of Mable.

          She would become a new person. She would be absolutely transformed. She would wear a uniform; she would be called Sister Somebody; she would never give a thought to clothes again.

A4.  Personal Response :         (02)

          Are you an optimistic person or a pessimistic person? How far is it useful to you in your day to day life.

(This is a Practice Activity for students.)

A5.Language study :                 (02)

a)       I have enjoyed myself enormously.

          ( Rewrite the sentence using present perfect continuous tense)

I have been enjoying myself enormously.

b)       “I have enjoyed myself,” she said to Mr.Dalloway.

          ( Rewrite in Reported speech)

          She told Mr.Dalloway  that she had enjoyed herself.

A6. Vocabulary :                     (02)

Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a)       Restless = fretful

b)       Sleeveless coat = cloak

c)       Feeling very happy = crest of wave

d)       Gradually = by degrees

Unit 1.5 The New Dress Extract Number 03

 Unit 1.5 

Prose Section 

The New Dress Extract Number 03

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Page No. 46/47 [Lines, “I Feel like…… with tears”]

Read the extract and do all the activities that follow.

A1. Web :                                       (02)

 Complete the web by writing down what Mable feel about herself.

(This is a practice Activity)

“I feel like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly,” she said, making Robert Haydon stop just to hear her say that, just to reassure herself by furbishing up a poor weak-kneed phrase and so showing how detached she was, how witty, that she did not feel in the least out of anything. And, of course, Robert Haydon answered something, quite polite, quite insincere, which she saw through instantly, and said to herself, directly he went(again from some book), “Lies, lies, lies!” For a party makes things either much more real, or much less real, she thought; she saw in a flash to the bottom of Robert Haydon’s heart; she saw through everything. She saw the truth. This was true, this drawing-room, this self, and the other false. Miss Milan’s little workroom was really terribly hot, stuffy, sordid. It smelt of clothes and cabbage cooking; and yet, when Miss Milan put the glass in her hand, and she looked at herself with the dress on, finished, an extraordinary bliss shot through her heart. Suffused with light, she sprang into existence. Rid of cares and wrinkles, what she had dreamed of herself was there-beautiful woman. Just for a second (she had not dared look longer, Miss Milan wanted to know about the length of the skirt), there looked at her, framed in the scrolloping mahogany, a grey-white, mysteriously smiling, charming girl, the core of herself, the soul of herself; and it was not vanity only, not only self-love that made her think it good, tender, and true. Miss Milan said that the skirt could not well be longer; if anything the skirt, said Miss Milan, puckering her forehead, considering with all her wits about her, must be shorter; and she felt, suddenly, honestly, full of love for Miss Milan, much, much fonder of Miss Milan than of any one in the whole world, and could have cried for pity that she should be crawling on the floor with her mouth full of pins, and her face red and her eyes bulging-that one human being should be doing this for another, and she saw them all as human beings merely, and herself going off to her party, and Miss Milan pulling the cover over the canary’s cage, or letting him pick a hemp-seed from between her lips, and the thought of it, of this side of human nature and its patience and its endurance and its being content with such miserable, scanty, sordid, little pleasures filled her eyes with tears. 

A2. Describe :                           (02)

Describe Miss. Millan’s workroom as mentioned in the extract.

Milan’s little workroom was really terribly hot, stuffy, sordid. It smelt of clothes and cabbage cooking.

A3. Give reasons :                 (02)

Mabel’s eyes were filled with tears because …………………………………

She felt that what the other person was doing all this as one human being should be doing for another.  she saw them all as human beings merely, and herself going off to the party, and Miss Milan pulling the cover over the canary’s cage, or letting him pick a hemp-seed from between her lips, the human nature, patience and its endurance and its being content with such miserable, scanty, sordid, little pleasures filled Mabel’s eyes with tears. 

A4. Personal Response : (02) 

“When you feel beautiful, you are beautiful” Do you agree with this Notion. Justify your answer with suitable examples in fifty words.

(This is a Practice Activity for students.)

A5. Language study :            (02)

a) “ I feel like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly,’ she said. 

(Rewrite in Reported speech) 

She said that she felt like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly.

b) How detached she was ! (Make it Assertive) 

She was very/really detached.

C) She saw the truth.

 (Frame a wh question to get the underlined part as an answer) 

What did she see?

d) Miss. Millan’s little workroom was really terribly hot. 

 (Make it Exclamatory)

How terribly hot Miss. Millan’s little workroom!

A6. Vocabulary :                     (02)

*Find out examples of compound words from the extract. 

Weak-kneed, drawing-room, work-room, grey-white, self-love, hemp-seed etc. 

*Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a) Renovate = furbishing

b) Spread with warmth, colour = suffused

c) Unpleasant = sordid 

d) Sticking out = bulging

 

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