Sunday, November 17, 2024

MYSTERIOUS PLACES IN INDIA

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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