English for today Class Eight Unite one Lesson: 4 | Our ethnic friends (2)
Lesson: 4 | Our ethnic friends
Key words: characteristics
communities maize poultry
A. Look at the pictures and talk with your partner about them. Then read the text.
A. Look at the pictures and talk with your partner about them. Then read the text.
Most of these ethnic people living in Bangladesh have some common
characteristics. They have their own lifestyles.
They build their houses on bamboo or wooden
platforms called machang. Rice is their staple food. They eat vegetables, maize
and fish, poultry and meat. Their kitchen utensils are bamboo, wooden and
earthen pots which they make themselves. Men wear lungis and women wear thamis
or sarongs and angis. Women weave their own clothes.
Hunting and fishing are their favourite pastimes. They are fond of
songs, music, dances, theatre and fairs. Traditional musical instruments used
are bugles made from buffalo horns, drums and bamboo flutes. Wrestling is a
popular sport for them.
B. Find the answers from column B to the questions in column A and write them in complete sentences.
B. Find the answers from column B to the questions in column A and write them in complete sentences.
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B
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1. Where do the ethnic people build
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a) traditional musical instrument
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2. What are their favorite pastimes?
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b) clay, bamboo and wood
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3. What is a bugle?
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c) rice
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4. What do the women wear?
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d) on the wooden or bamboo platforms
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5. What are their kitchen utensils made of?
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e) fishing and hunting
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6. What is their staple food?
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f) thamis or sarongs and angis
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C. Complete the paragraph. Use the words below
to fill in the gaps. There are more words than necessary.
lungi, sport, earthen, machang, weave,
wrestling, song, rice, fishing, lifestyles, wooden, bugle;
The tribal people follow their_____________ . The platform they
build their houses on is called ___________________ . Men wear
______________ Women _____________ their own clothes. Their staple
food is _____________ They are fond of songs, dance, music, and ______________
. _________________ is their favourite sport.
D. Imagine you are Sajeed and you have a Marma
friend called Masing. Now write a dialogue asking and answering questions about
dress, food, songs, sports and pastimes of both of you.
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