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Based on the following points write a story :

● Your aunt has gone to her mother’s house.


● Your uncle does his cooking.


● He is absent-minded.


● He puts vegetables on the stove.


● He begins to clean his bicycle outside.


● The neighbour calls out saying something is burning.


● Your uncle rushes to the kitchen.


● To save vegetables, he puts some oil on them.


● Unfortunately, it’s machine oil, not cooking oil.


● What do you think happens to the vegetables?


My aunt is an adorable person. She is short & plum and smiles all the time. She was a teacher but gave up teaching in school because standing for too long would make her back hurt. Now she teaches neighbourhood kids at home after school and does all the cooking and cleaning for my uncle who is a absent minded Mathematics professor at the University. One day, my aunt had gone to her mother’s place for a short visit when my uncle decided to make lunch for himself. He put on some chopped vegetables on the stove and went out to clean his bicycle in the yard in the meanwhile. It was only when the neighbour, passing by the his yard, shouted to him that something was burning that he remembered the vegetables. He rushed in and panicked observing the smoke rising from the pan. He quickly poured some oil into the pan to salvage what was left of the vegetables. Unfortunately, it was machine oil for his bicycle, and not cooking oil. That afternoon my uncle had only bread for lunch.


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Speak to five adults in your neighbourhood. Ask them the following questions (in any language they are comfortable in). Then come back and share your findings with the class.

(i) Do they buy their provisions packed in plastic packets at a big store, or loose, from a smaller store near their house?


(ii) Where do they buy their footwear? Do they buy branded footwear, or footwear made locally? What reasons do they have for their preference?


(iii) Do they buy ready-made clothes, or buy cloth and get their clothes stitched by a tailor? Which do they think is better?

5

Look at the picture.


Let pairs of students talk to each other about leaving the country. One student repeats Ajit’s statement. The other gives a reason for not agreeing with Ajit. The sentence openings given below should be used.


● If I leave this country, I’ll miss _______.


● There are some things which you can get only here, for example _______.


● There are some special days I’ll miss, particularly _______.


● Most of all I’ll miss _______ because _______.


● I think it’s impossible for me to leave my country because _______.


● How can you leave your own country except when _______?


● Depends on one’s intention. I can’t leave for good because _______.


● Maybe for a couple of years _______.

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2

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