Unit-8 Lesson-4 Question No. 2 (Flow Chart)
1. Read the following passage and make a flow chart mentioning the works done by Amerigo and other street children.
The streets are now my home. Sometimes I find work. I used to collect trash and sell it to a vendor. I stopped doing that after I had a serious infection and a doctor told me to stay away from the trash dump. Once I worked for an ice cream shop owner and sold ice cream on the beach. But I got no money in return. The owner of the shop gave me something to eat and let me sleep in his hut at night. The work was difficult and painful. The ice cream box was quite heavy when it was full. I had to walk for hours, offering my ice cream to whoever wanted to buy. There were days when I could not even sell one ice cream. In a way, I am lucky because I am alive. My friends who work sorting rubbish in dumps often suffer from serious diseases. One of them was recently killed after he fell into a hole that opened up in the pile of trash. Many of us work for 10 to 12 hours and get so little in return that we can’t even buy food. Shoe-shining is very popular among the street kids. A few of my friends also work in factories and workshops. A boy I know lost one of his eyes after a piece of hot glass flew into his eye at the glass factory where he worked. The owner refused to pay for medical help and fired him.
Unit-11 Lesson-3 Question No. 3 (Summary)
Write a summary of the following text.
Saint Martin’s island is the only coral island in Bangladesh located in the north-eastern part of the Bay of Bengal. The roughly flat island is only above 3.6 metre above the sea level. The entire island can be walked about in 3 hours. The island is known for its unique natural beauty with whitesandy beaches fringed with coconut palms and diverse marine life. Due to the expansion of unregulated tourism, the island is facing increasing erosion, contamination of surface and ground water, wildlife displacement and loss of biodiversity. Other threats inclide cutting of sand dune vegetation for fuel-wood and hotel establishment, degradation of sand dune habitat, the harvesting of turtle eggs, idiscriminate exploitation of coral resources etc. To address this, the government has declared some areas of the island as Ecologically Critical Areas (ECA) prohibiting unauthorized construction here.
Ans: Saint Martin’s island, located in the north-eastern part of the Bay of Bengal, is the only coral island in Bangladesh. The island is known for its unique natural beauty with whitesandy beaches fringed with coconut palms and diverse marine life. However, due to the expansion of unregulated tourism, the island is facing increasing erosion, contamination of surface and ground water, wildlife displacement, loss of biodiversity etc. The government of Bangladesh has declared some areas of the island to Ecologically Critical. It has also prohibited unauthorized construction here.
সহযোগী অধ্যাপক ও বিভাগীয় চেয়ারম্যান, ইংরেজি বিভাগ, ঢাকা কমার্স কলেজ, ঢাকা।
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