Unit 1.7 Why we Travel Extract 05

Extract No. 05

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

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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

 

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Unit 1.7 Why We Travel Extract 04

 

Extract No. 04

 

Page No. 69 / 70 

[Line, “ Abroad…………………to chance”]

Read the extract and do all the activities that follow.

       Abroad is the place where we stay up late, follow impulse and find ourselves as wide open as when we are in love. We live without a past or future, for a moment at least, and are ourselves up for grabs and open to interpretation. We even may become mysterious-to others, at first, and sometimes to ourselves-and, as no less a dignitary than Oliver Cromwell once noted, “A man never goes so far as when he doesn’t know where he is going.”

       There are, of course, great dangers to this, as to every kind of freedom, but the great promise of it is that, travelling, we are born again, and able to return at moments to a younger and a more open kind of self. Travelling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year-or at least 45 hours-and travelling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand. Language facilitates this cracking open, for when we go to France, we often migrate to French, and the more childlike self, simple and polite, that speaking a foreign language educes. Even when I’m not speaking pidgin English in Hanoi, I’m simplified in a positive way, and concerned not with expressing myself, but simply making sense.

       So travel, for many of us, is a quest for not just the unknown, but the unknowing; I, at least, travel in search of an innocent eye that can return me to a more innocent self. I tend to believe more abroad than I do at home (which, though treacherous again, can at least help me to extend my vision), and I tend to be more easily excited abroad, and even kinder. And since no one I meet can “place” me -no one can fix me in my risumi – I can remake myself for better, as well as, of course, for worse (if travel is notoriously a cradle for false identities, it can also, at its best, be a crucible for truer ones). In this way, travel can be a kind of monasticism on the move : On the road, we often live more simply (even when staying in a luxury hotel), with no more possessions than we can carry, and surrendering ourselves to chance.

A1. True or false :                                                                                       (02)

State whether the following statements are True or false.

a) When we travel abroad we live for the moment.               (T)

b) Travelling is a desire for the unknown as well as the unknowing.               (T)

c) Travel does not help in expanding the vision.                     (F)

d) Travelling is a wastage of time.                                           (F)

A2.   Find out :                                                                                                   (02)

          Find out the expressions that deal with the benefits of Travelling.

          1.  By travelling we are born again.   2. We are able to return at moments to a younger  and a more open kind of self.   3. Travelling is a way to reverse time, to as much extent and make a day.   4. Travelling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves that we can’t understand in childhood days.

A3.    Infer :                                                                                                        (02)

 Infer the famous quote of Oliver Cromwell when he says,” A man never goes so far as he doesn’t know where he is going.”

A4. Personal Response :                                                                                         (02)

          Do you agree with the views expressed by the writer in this extract? Narrate your own experience when you were on a voyage.

A5.    Language study :                                                                                        (02)

a)       We live without a past or future.

          (Rewrite the sentence using Present perfect continuous tense)

          We have been living without a past or future.

b)       Travelling is a way to reverse time.  (Frame a Rhetorical Question)

          Isn’t travelling a way to reverse time?

c)       We cannot understand.   (Use be able to ) Or ( Make it Affirmative)

          We are not able/ unable to understand or we fail to understand.

d)       I can remake myself for better.

          (Replace the modal auxiliary by another showing,” Possibility’)

          I may/might remake myself for better.

e)       Travel can be a kind of monasticism.  (make it interrogative)

          Can’t travel be a kind of monasticism?

A6. Vocabulary :                      (02)

a)       Difficult to understand = mysterious

b)       Influential person = dignitary

c)       Make it easier = facilitates

d)       Long search = quest

e)       Small bed for baby = cradle.

Unit 1.7 Why We Travel Extract 03

Extract No. 03

Page No. 68 / 69 [Line, “By now…………………from home”]

Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:

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By now all of us have heard (too often) the old Proust line about how the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new places but in seeing with new eyes. Yet one of the subtler beauties of travel is that it enables you to bring new eyes to the people you encounter. Thus even as holidays help you appreciate your own home more not least by seeing it through a distant admirer’s eyes they help you bring newly appreciative-distant-eyes to the places you visit. You can teach them what they have to celebrate as much as you celebrate what they have to teach. This, I think, is how tourism, which so obviously destroys cultures, can also resuscitate or revive them, how it has created new “traditional” dances in Bali, and caused craftsmen in India to pay new attention to their works.

       Thus travel spins us round in two ways at once : It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty. For in travelling to a truly foreign place, we inevitably travel to moods and states of mind and hidden inward passages that we’d otherwise seldom have cause to visit.

       On the most basic level, when I’m in Tibet, though not a real Buddhist, I spend days on end in temples, listening to the chants of sutras. I go to Iceland to visit the lunar spaces within me, and, in the uncanny quietude and emptiness of that vast and treeless world, to tap parts of myself generally obscured by chatter and routine.

       We travel, then, in search of both self and anonymity-and, of course, in finding the one we apprehend the other. Abroad, we are wonderfully free of caste and job and standing; we are, as Hazlitt puts it, just the “gentlemen in the parlour,” and people cannot put a name or tag to us. And precisely because we are clarified in this way, and freed of inessential labels, we have the opportunity to come into contact with more essential parts of ourselves (which may begin to explain why we may feel most alive when far from home).

A1. Complete :                (02) 

Complete the following sentences using the information given in the extract.

a) The beauties of travel is that..It enables you to bring new eyes to the people you encounter.

b) Tourism can revive or activate cultures.

c) The writer spends his days in temples when he was in Tibet.

d) We travel in search of self and anonymity.

 

A2.    Describe :                    (02)

          Describe how Tourism can revive or reactivate cultures with reference to the places mentioned in the extract.

          Tourism encourages travelling. Dances in Bali, craftsmen in India have to pay attention to their works as they represent our country and culture. When the writer was in Tibet even though he was not a real Buddhist, he used to spend days in temples; listening to the chants of sutras .whenever he visited Iceland he used to visit the lunar spaces within him.

A3.    Interpret :                   (02)

          Interpret the statement,” Abroad we are just like gentleman in the parlour,”

(This is a Practice Activity for students)

A4 Personal Response :    (02)

 Do you think Travelling helps us to improve our personality? Justify your answer with suitable examples.

This is a Practice Activity for students 

A5. Language study :         (02)

I)       All of us have heard the old Proust line.

          (Rewrite the sentence beginning with,” The old..”)

          The old Proust line has been heard by all of us.

II)      You can teach them what they have to celebrate.

  (Replace the modal auxiliary by another showing Advice/suggestion)

          You should teach them what they have to celebrate.

III)    I go to Iceland to visit the lunar spaces within  me.

          (Rewrite the sentence using the ,” Gerund form of the underlined word)

          I go to Iceland for visiting the lunar spaces within me.

IV)    People cannot put a name or tag to us.

          (Use be able to and rewrite)

 People are not able to / unable to put a name or tag to us.

A6. Vocabulary :                  (02)

          Find out words from the extract which mean the following.

a)       Long journey = Voyage

b)       rarely  = seldom

c)       very strange = uncanny

d)       calm and peaceful = quietude

e)     unknown = anonymity                           

f) to understand = to apprehend

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