BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
MYSTERIOUS PLACES IN INDIA
Word Meaning
1. delicious – very tasty and enjoyable
2. mysterious – difficult to understand or
explain
3. amazed – wonder; surprised.
4. haunted – ghosts’ area
5. cursed – blamed with misfortune, evil intention
6. legends – traditional stories of
supernatural things
7. dwelling – a house or home.
8. columns – pillars
9. supposedly – assumed
10. eager – interested
11. accessible – reachable, approachable
12. isolated – faraway places, buildings,
remote.
13. apparently – looked like
14. unidentified – not recognized; not
identified.
15. wandering – moving about; roaming.
16. resident – person who lives in a
particular place.
17. premises – piece of land with its
buildings
18. recently – not long ago.
19. roaming – wandering.
20. too – also
21. explore – travel to unfamiliar area
22. appears – seems
B.3 From the text.
Do you watch
documentaries? What kind of documentaries do you like to watch?
DO BY SELF
What is an ET? How was it
popularized?
The word ET is an
abbreviation for the word extraterrestrial, which means in or coming from a
place outside the planet Earth. The word ET was popularised when it was adopted
as the title of a film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg.
What do you understand by the
term ‘viral’? Where has it been used in the text ‘Mysterious Places in the
World’?
When an image, video,
comment or post is shared rapidly and widely on the internet, it is termed
viral.
When the picture of a
giant crocodile was shared widely on the internet, it went viral.
What does the word 'curiouser and curiouser' mean? Where is the phrase taken from?
The phease 'curiouser and curiouser' is used to mean increasingly strange.
This phrase is taken from teh famous book Alice's Adventure in Wonderland written by the English author, Lewis Carroll.
B.9 Answer the following
Questions.
a. What makes the narrator
eager to visit Kongka Pass?
Kongka Pass is not
easily accessible and is located in an isolated area in Ladakh and is believed
to be the base for unidentified flying objects. This makes the narrator eager
to visit the Kongka Pass.
b. What do you think makes
a place ‘mysterious’? Support your answer with examples from the text?
Mythical stories and the
legends associated with the place make it mysterious. Since there is no
scientific or rational backing behind the stories and myths, they’re believed
to be peculiar or baffling.
Bhangarh Fort is
described as mysterious in the documentary due to the story of the curse
attached to it. Since there is no fact or evidence supporting the rumours
related to UFOs, the Kongka pass is also believed to be a strange place.
c. Which of the three
mysterious places mentioned in the text would you like to visit and why?
I would like to visit
Bhangarh Fort. As it is one of the scariest places, I am curious about the
place and want to know more about if the rumours and beliefs connected with the
place are actually true. However, I would like to visit the place in a group
and not alone.
d. Complete the following table with information about the places mentioned in the passage.
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