Reading Maketh a full man. Explain in the context of Tea from Assam
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To test student’s prior knowledge and use it as scaffold to promote comprehension of the text.
To encourage students to use different words to express themselves
To enable the students to share their personal experiences
To enable the learners to extrapolate from the given text.
To sensitise the students to the feeling on an individual
To give information about something crucial.
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Twigs : Slender woody shoots growing from a branch or steam
Willow twigs have been planted to form a hedge on the bank side.
Ardent : Enthusiastic or passionate
I am still an ardent lover of books
Beverage : A drink other than water.
Coca cola is a beverages.
Clatter : A loud rattling sound as a hard objects striking each other.
He pulled a table with milk vessels and a few pots with me, making a big clatter.
Sprouting : growing
The sprouting leaves of the tea plants are used to make tea.
Answer:
Tea from Assam”, written by Arup Kumar Dutta is an informative story. The story revolves around the tea garden of Assam.
Pranjol, a youngster from Assam, is Rajvir’s classmate in school in Delhi. Pranjol’s father is the manager of a tea garden in Upper Assam and Pranjol has invited Rajvir to visit his home during the summer vacation. Rajvir visits Assam in a train with Pranjol and he keeps taking pleasures of the scenery. They arrive at Mariani junction and then at the tea garden of Pranjol’s father.
Almost 8 carore cups of tea are drunk every day in the whole world.
About the origin of the tea it is said that a Buddhist monk while meditating felt sleepy. To avoid it he cut his eye lids and threw them. Few sapling sprouted out of them. It is said they were tea leaves that banished sleep after boiling and drinking it.
The other under current story lies like this that a king in China was in habit of drinking water after boiling it. Few twigs fell into his boiling water. After drinking it, his sleep went off. They called it tea. Tea was first drunk in China as far back as 2700 BC. Chai & chini words have their origin in China.
Tea from Assam is supposed to be the best kind of tea in the whole world. The best yield comes from May to July every year.