SLU English 5 SBP

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STUDENT LEARNING UNIT 5

Festivals and Family Functions,and Life in Your Village or Town


Festivals and Family functions, and life in your Village

Before we start …..

This unit has two parts. In the first part there are activities related to festivals and family celebrations. These are occasions when everyone has fun. That's what people say. Do you think so too? Go through the activities in this unit and say what you think.

The second part of the unit has activities that encourage you to think about our actions and responsibilities to the area we live in and the people we live among. We encourage you to discuss ideas and issues with your friends, your teachers and your family. We hope you enjoy working on this unit. Let us know which activities you enjoyed doing. As always, get in touch with us through your teachers

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Activity-1: Here is a crossword puzzle for you to try. All the words are related to festivals and celebrations. The answers to the clues are given somewhere in this unit.

Gjò bûMùe [ôaû g± ùMûfK]¦ûKê icû]û^ Keòaû _ûAñ ùPÁûKeö Gjûe VòKþ g± iaê _að_aðûYú Gaõ Celebration C_ùe @û]ûeòZö C�e _ûAñ iõùKZ MêWÿòK unit ùe ùKCñVò ^û ùKCñVò \ò@û~ûAQòö


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Across 4. a piece of music with words that are sung 6. a day when offices and schools are closed 7. a light that burns in a clay bowl filled with oil 8. gifts 9. a festival celebrated on 25 December Down 1. when people enjoy themselves they have ... 2. the sound made by musical instruments 3. they light up the sky or make a loud noise when you light them 4. these are nice to eat and are made with sugar 5. an animal sacrificed on Bakrid 7. movement in time to music


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Activity – 2: In many homes sweets and other special things are made on

festival days. Here is a recipe for Sooji halwa. Is this how you

make it in your family?

You will need: * 1/2 cup sooji * 2 small spoons of ghee * 1/3 cup sugar * 1.5 cups of water

Method • Boil the sugar with water and make a sugar syrup. • Heat a kadhai. Add the ghee. Fry the sooji till it is brown • Add the sugar syrup and stir till the halwa is thick • The halwa is ready to eat.

Which is your favourite sweet or snack? Find out how it is made and write the recipe. You can write it in your notebook or on a separate piece of paper. Activity – 3 :

Read the story below and complete it. You can work with a friend. 'Will you buy some firecrackers for me, for this Diwali?', said Malati, the daughter of Gadadhar, a truck loader. Malati is 15 years old. Gadadhar had been out of work for two months. He fractured his hand when lifting a large stone. 'Malati beti, we cannot afford to celebrate Diwali this year. We have no money. The money that Mama brings is just enough for our daily food.'

'1 know that. That is why I thought of taking up a job during the holidays so that we will have some money. The maalkin of the house where Mama works needs some help with house cleaning for Diwali. She asked me to help her. If I go, I will get some money for Diwali.'


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'1 don't want you to go to work at this age Malati. We may be poor, but we will not allow our children to work for money,' Gadadhar replied angrily.' And don't you have to study for your class 10 exams?'

'What is the point of studying well when we don't have any

money for me to go to a good inter-college?

'We will find the money somehow, Malati beti, to send you to

college,' said Gadadhar in a tired voice. 'Papa, let me go to

work. I will earn some money. Maybe I can continue school

after a few years. If I can work now and save some money we

can send Ramesh to college. He will be in class 10 in two years.'

How would you complete this story ? Should Malati got to work

? What would you do Gadadhar’s situation ? (Write your ending

to the story in Odia or English)


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Activity – 4 :

Here is a problem for you to solve. You are crossing the Mahanadi in a small boat. The boat can hold only seven but there are 30 people in it, including you. None of you knows how to swim. Suddenly the boat seems to be sinking because of the overload. You can save only some of the people in the boat. You have to get a few people out of the boat! That would reduce the weight of the boat and it won't sink. Those who are in the boat will be saved. There is nothing else that can be thrown out to save the boat from sinking.

What would you do? How would you get people to leave the boat? Would you push them, request them,

etc.? Which people would remain on the boat? Would you, yourself: leave the boat? Remember, you can't

swim. Do you think you could save any people or would everyone drown with the boat? Activity – 5 :

Here's another interesting little story. A year ago, my brother got a job in the city. He went away, and I got his cycle. So every day, I come to school on his nice, big, strong cycle. He took very good care of this cycle. It runs smoothly. It has a nice bell. I can go really fast on it. But the school is so near that I am there in just 5 minutes. That is why I love going on long rides with my friends. Last week we went to the river. It is about 10 kms away. I really enjoyed the ride. Mama told me not to swim in the river at that spot. The water flows fast there. It can be dangerous. We had so much fun playing cricket in a field close to the river that there was no time to enter the water. In the evening we returned home tired but very happy. Do you think he would have been happier with a motorcycle? What would you have done in his place?

Activity – 6 : Read this story about whether young people should have mobile phones. I wanted to get a mobile phone.

My father said, 'It is very expensive.' I said, 'No, it's just Rs. I000.'

'But then you have to pay for the call charges every month. Where will

that money come from?' My mother said, 'I don't like the idea of giving you a mobile. You will always be on the phone, talking.' 'No, Mummy. You know I'm responsible. If I am getting late I can let you know. Won't you feel better knowing I am safe?'


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'No, I don't like the idea of you having a mobile phone.'

My younger brother said, 'If Didi has a mobile phone you have to get me one too.' 'See?'

said Mummy. 'Now you are making him also want one.'

'But she should have a mobile phone!' We turned around. It was my Dadi. 'She

should have a phone? Why Ma-ji?,' asked my mother.

'So I can talk to her whenever I want! Especially when she is away from home.'

'But how will you talk to her, Ma-ji ? We don't have a land-line, and you don't have a phone yourself.' 'That is what I am saying. Why don't you get me a phone too!' So what do you think, who got a phone in the end? Activity – 7 :

Read the incident below and decide what you would do in this situation? As you and your friend were cycling to school, your friend loses his balance. A car coming from behind hits your friend's cycle. He falls down, you drop your cycle, run to him and you find that he is conscious but is bleeding. The car driver has stopped the car and is willing to take your friend and you to the closest hospital, which is 5 km away. The driver insists that you be with him till your friend is admitted to the hospital. You want to do that, but it is your first board exam - your English paper! You have prepared well and do not want to miss the exam. But you have to help your friend who is injured badly, by being with him in the hospital till his parents come. But then, you will miss your exam and perhaps will have to sit out one year. What will you do?

Activity : 8 :

You find something that doesn't belong to you.

What would you do? Your family is poor and so are most families in your neighbourhood. You have always wanted to help your own and the other families. Your parents work very hard, but don't earn much. One day, you are walking on the road to the school, when you see a huge sack full of expensive basmati rice packets falling from the back of the truck. You try to stop the truck but


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it drives away. There is no one else on the road. It is festival time and your family would love to have that kind of rice to make biryani. You can feed the entire neighbourhood.

The rice belongs to someone else, and to take it and use it for your family would be stealing. What would you do if:

• you have noted the truck number ?

• you have not noted the truck number but can find out some details written on the sack ? A telephone number in Delhi is mentioned on the sack.

• You don’t know and have no way of knowing who the owner is ?

• Your younger brother is with you and tells you that you should sell it in the local grain shop and use the money to buy some things for everyone in your family ?

• Your sister tells you that you should share the rice with everyone in the neighbourhood ?

Answers to the crossword Across Down 1. Song. 1. Song 2. Holiday 2. Music 3. Diya 3. Crackers 4. Presents 4. Sweets 5. Christmas 5.Goat 6. Gance

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