English for today Class Eight Unite one Lesson: 3 | Our ethnic friends (1)

Lesson: 3 | Our ethnic friends

 Key words: ethnic region majority shifting

A. Look at the question and discuss in groups.
Have you heard the word 'ethnic people'? Can you tell what it means?
Now look at the pictures. Then discuss the following questions.

1. Do you know where the ethnic people live in Bangladesh?

2. What are they called?

B. Now read the text.

The ethnic people in Bangladesh hold a very important place in the culture of the country.

The majority of these people live in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The others live in the regions of Mymensingh, Rajshahi and Sylhet. They live in forest areas, in the hills and in rural areas. They do Jhum cultivation. For this work they clear apiece of land in the forest, prepare it and sow seeds in it. They are mostly farmers. By religion they are Hindus, Christians or Buddhists. They speak their own mother tongues. Some of them are the Chakmas, the Marmans, the Tipperas and the Moorangs, who live in the Hill Tracts. The Santals live in Rajshahi. The Khasias and the Monipuries, live in Sylhet and the Hajangs and the Garos in Mymensingh.

C. True or false? If false, give the correct information.

1. All the ethnic people of our country live in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

2. Most of them are farmers.

3. By religion all of them are Buddhists.

4. The Moorangs are an ethnic group.

5. They practise jhum cultivation.

D. Ask and answer the questions in pairs.

1. Where do you find the Mar/nans?

2. What language do they speak at home?

3. Where and how do they do the Jhum cultivation?