The lesson begins with the Kanyakumari Express reaching Chennai Central Statine, where Velu, an eleven
year old boy, had tn get down. He was very nervous to step down on the platform and once he did, his legs felt wobbly. He found himself a place ro sit, at a hench on the platform. Never in his life, he had seen sn many people all at once except once a year at his village fair, He was terrified and as he hit his head and put it un his knees. he heard a strange voice. He tried looking here and there and found a girl of about his own uge. The girl was weuring a loose bunion und was carrying u sack on one of her shoulders, in which she collected plastic cups that she picked up from the platform. The girl asked him how he got here but Velu did not answer. He did tell her his name but was reluctant to tell a stranger that he had run away because he was fed up of being beuten up by his father everyday. He could nut tuke it unymore thut his father snatched away all that he and his sisters earned to puy for his drinking. Suddenly, he felt his stomach pinching him us he had not euten much in those two days. The weird expression on the face mude it clear to the girl, who then offered to help him with food. She got up and begun working. At first, Velu was not sure if he should follow her, but then he thought to himself that he had nowhere else to go. so he got up too und matched her speed. They quite a bit to find a gap between the moving traffic so that they could cross the road. The smoke and dust in the united nude Velu head spin. Velu was hesitant to CRoss the roud but the girl somehow drugged him to the other side. They then sturted walking along the side of the roud where Velu saw various sign boards. He could not read anything that was written on them because it was all in English but he surely saw pictures. His naked feet burned from the beat that was being releused from the star. It was nothing like walking on mud. They then turned into a bridge where Velu used to peep down. Jaya warned him about
the big building with walls. She said if he wasn't careful, he could end up counting bars Velu managed to read the Tamil sign on the building that said Central Jail
1. Where does the train mentioned in the passage come from und where does it go!
2. Who travelled in the train? 3. Where did the bay sit after getting down from a train?
4. What was Velu fed up of?
5. What was that in Tamil that Velu was uble to read?
6. What was the reason that Velu ran away from his home? 7. Find out the words from the given passage that mean
1. a flat surface where you get on or off trains 3. frightened
2. a structure built over something to connect
4. Strange
Answers
Answer:
1.Velu stood on the platform but felt as if he was still on a moving train because his legs were still wobbly and shaky after the journey to Chennai. Usually, the effect of a moving train stays for some time after the end of the journey.
2.Velu felt miserable and exhausted because he had run away from his village two days ago and had not eaten anything except some peanuts and a piece of jaggery for the last two days.
3.(i) Velu travelled without a ticket because he had no money to buy a ticket.
(ii) He escaped the ticket collector’s attention because luckily the ticket collector did not come to the unreserved compartment
4.Velu had run away from home because his father used to beat him everyday. His father would also spend the money earned by Velu and his sisters on drinking.
5.He decided to follow the ‘strange’ girl because he did not know where to go and what to do. Basically, he did not have a plan for himself
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