1.7 Why We Travel Extract 06

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Extract No. 06

Page No. 70 [Line, “The other …………………collapsing”]

Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:

       The other factor complicating and exciting all of this is people, who are, more and more, themselves as many-tongued and mongrel as cities like Sydney or Toronto or Hong Kong. I am, in many ways, an increasingly typical specimen, if only because I was born, as the son of Indian parents, in England, moved to America at 7 and cannot really call myself an Indian, an American or an Englishman. I was, in short, a traveler at birth, for whom even a visit to the candy store was a trip through a foreign world where no one I saw quite matched my parents’ inheritance, or my own. Besides, even those who don’t move around the world find the world moving more and more around them. Walk just six blocks, in Queens or Berkeley, and you’re travelling through several cultures in as many minutes; get into a cab outside the White House, and you’re often in a piece of Addis Ababa. And technology, too, compounds this (sometimes deceptive) sense of availability, so that many people feel they can travel around the world without leaving the room-through cyberspace or CD-ROMs, videos and virtual travel. There are many challenges in this, of course, in what it says about essential notions of family and community and loyalty, and in the worry that air-conditioned, purely synthetic versions of places may replace the real thing not to mention the fact that the world seems increasingly in flux, a moving target quicker than our notions of it. But there is, for the traveler at least, the sense that learning about home and learning about a foreign world can be one and the same thing.

       All of us feel this from the cradle, and know, in some sense, that all the significant movement we ever take is internal. We travel when we see a movie, strike up a new friendship, get held up. Novels are often journeys as much as travel books are fictions; and though this has been true since at least as long ago as Sir John Mandeville’s colourful 14th century accounts of a Far East he’d never visited, it’s an even more shadowy distinction now, as genre distinctions join other borders in collapsing.

A1. Summarise :                          (02)

          Find out two most appropriate sentences that summarise the extract.

a)       The world is moving very quickly.

b)       The extract deals with the fact how travelling seems to be fruitful to all of us.

c)       The drawbacks of travelling are mentioned in the extract.

d)       The writer believes that there is discrimination in the world in terms of Nationality.

A2.    Find out :                              (02)

          Write down four sentences with the help of the text conveying the fact that travelling brings together the various cultures of the different parts of the world.

          Walk just six blocks, in queens or Berkeley and you are travelling through several cultures in as many minutes, get into a cab outside the white House, and you are often in a piece of Addis Ababa.

          Learning about home and learning about a foreign world can be one and the same thing.

 

 

A3.    Give reasons :                    (02)

 The writer feels that he is a traveller by birth because………

          The writer was born as the son of Indian parents. He was born in England. He shifted to America at the age of 7.He could not call himself as Indian ,an American or an Englishman.  He considered himself as a traveller.

A4.    Personal Response :          (02)

          Do you think that the writer believed in Universal brotherhood. Justify your answer with  suitable examples.

(This is a Practice Activity for students.)

A5.    Language study :               (02)

a)       They can travel around the world.  (Use "be able to" and rewrite)

          They are able to travel around the world.

b)       The world seems increasing in flux. (Frame a Rhetorical question)

          Doesn’t the world seem increasing in flux ?

A6. Vocabulary :                           (02)

          Find out examples of compound words from the extract. 

Many-tongued, 

CD-ROM,cyberspace,

air-conditioned etc.

A6. Vocabulary :                         (02)

          Find out words from the extract which mean the following:

a)       Mixed descent = Mongrel

b)       Legacy = inheritance

c) Misleading = deceptive

d)       Ideas = Notions

Unit 1.7 Why we Travel Extract 05

Extract No. 05

Page No. 70 (Line, “This is …………………of another.)

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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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