Class 8 - L14 - Travelia

14. Travelia

Reading Comprehension

I. Answer the following Questions:

(1) What is 'Travelia'?

Answer - Travelia is a modern age disease caused by the travel bug. The disease has been spreading fast.

(2) Who falls prey to it?

Answer - Wealthy people fall prey to it.

(3) Why do people feel anxious to contact travel agents?

Answer - People feel anxious to contact travel agents because they become eager to collect information about tourist places.

(4) When do we see the seasonal outburst?

Answer - The seasonal outburst of the disease can be seen around the time of summer vacation.

(5) Research is still required on two things. What are they?

Answer - Research is required on the following two things –

(i) The discovery that one’s neighbours are interesting people.

(ii) You do not have to travel too far to satisfy your curiosity.

II. Write true or false in boxes:

(1) The patient grows restless and starts rushing to the travel agent. (True)

(2) Travelling increases knowledge. (True)

(3) 'Travelia' is a modern disease of the rich. (True)

(4) The people living in rural areas easily fall prey to it. (False)

(5) The disease mentioned in the lesson is not infectious. (False)

(6) The seasonal outburst can be seen during the summer vacations. (True)

(7) The German and British are fond of taking photographs of themselves before places of historical interest. (False)

  

III Complete the table filling the blanks with the information you got from the lesson about the following:

No.	Places / Ideas	Information
1	Places in Delhi	Jantar-Mantar, Mughal Garden
2	Agra	Taj Mahal
3	Religious Place	Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chistie
4	Museum	Salar Jung Museum

Vocabulary

A. Given are the names of diseases, categorise them in the table given below:

Malaria, Cancer, Paralysis, Small-pox , Cholera, Typhoid, Pneumonia, AIDS, Jaundice, T.B., Polio, Diarrhoea.

Infectious disease	Non-infectious disease
Malaria Small-pox Cholera Typhoid AIDS T.B.	Cancer Paralysis Pneumonia Jaundice Polio Diarrhoea

  

B. Complete the sentences with one of the words given in the brackets:

(1) Our colleague in the staff made a plan to visit Agra this week. (colleague/neighbour.)

(2) Scientists ase trying to discover a vaccine for a disease called AIDS. (disease/pneumonia)

(3) The Red-fort, Jantar-Mantar and the Taj Mahal are monuments. (monuments/museum)

(4) 'Travelia' is a modern disease. People living in urban areas fall prey to it. (urban area/rural area)

(5) The disease mentioned in the lesson is infectious. (infectious/serious)

C. Give one word for the following expressions:

(1) One who is sick. He is a patient.

(2) We can get it from a newspaper radio and T.V. information.

(3) The place where we can see old things museum.

(4) It is the opposite of 'familiar' strange / unfamiliar.

(5) A sign of change in your body or mind that shows that you are not healthy symptoms.

Grammar

1. Kutumsar caves 2. Chitrakoot fall 3. Kanger valley 4. Sirpur 5. Bamleshwari Temple 6. Ramgarh paintings

7. Bhilai Steel Plant 8. Bhoram Dev 9. Sonakhan 10. Bastar Mela 11. Keshkal Ghati 12. Mainpat

  

Work in pairs :

(1) Pick up the words given above and ask your partner questions, as given in the example and complete the table:

Example: (A) Have you ever seen Kutumsar Caves ?

(B) Yes, I have.

(A) When did you go there ?

(B) I went there in the summer vacations.

or

No, I haven't. I went to Orrisa.

Note – Can be done easily by replacing the names only. Encourage the students practice it orally.

(2) Make your sentences from the table given below:

I We You They He She Ramu

have seen has seen

Sirpur Kanger Valley Bhoram Dev Sonakhan Mainpat Chitrakoot Fall Bhilai Steel Plant

Answer –

I have seen Sirpur.

We have seen Kanger Valley.

You have seen Bhoram Dev.

They have seen Sonakhan.

He has seen Mainpat.

She has seen Chitrakoot Fall.

She has seen Bhilai Steel Plant.

Note : Make more such statements by adding the names of all the seven places in each sentence.

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