২১ ফেব্রুয়ারি আমাদের ইতিহাসের একটি স্মরণীয় দিন, দিনটি উপলক্ষে আমরা শহিদ মিনারে ফুল দিয়ে থাকি। ছবি-সংগৃহীত
Unit-3, Lesson-3 (B)
Read the following text and fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text.
21 February is a memorable day in our national history. We observe the day every year as International Mother Language Day. The day is a national holiday.
On this day, we pay tribute to the martyrs who laid down their lives to establish Bangla as a state language in undivided Pakistan in 1952. The struggle to achieve our language rights is known as the Language Movement.
The seed of Language Movement was sown on 21 March 1948 when Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the Governor General of Pakistan, declared in a public meeting in Dhaka that Urdu would be the only state language of Pakistan. The declaration raised a storm of protest all over the country. The protest continued non-stop, gathering momentum day by day. It turned into a movement and reached its climax in 1952. The government outlawed all sorts of public meetings and rallies to stop it.
The students of Dhaka University defied the law and brought out a peaceful protest procession on 21 February 1952. When the procession reached near Dhaka Medical College, the police opened fire on the students, killing Salam, Rafiq, Barkat, Safiur and Jabbar. As a result, there were mass protests all over the country and the government had to declare Bangla as a state language. This kindled the sparks of independence movement of Bangladesh.
Fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text and answer the questions no. 3.
21 February is an (a) ___ day in our national history. We observe the day with a view to (b) ___ respect to the language martyrs. The heroic sons of the soil sacrificed their lives for the (c) ___ of Bangla as one of the state languages of Pakistan. This sacrifice led the Bangalees to the (d) ___ movement of Bangladesh. In other (e) ___ , language movement worked as the inspiration of our freedom.
Read the following unseen text carefully and answer the questions no. 4 and 5.
William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth in England. He was sent to St. John's College, Cambridge in 1789. Upon taking his Cambridge degree in 1791, he moved to France where he formed a passionate attachment to a French woman Annette Valon and stayed with her till 1792. Subsequently he settled down with his sister Dorothy and Coleridge at Alfoxden house near Bristol in 1792. He published Lyrical Ballads in 1798 in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He married in 1802. He was appointed in a sinecure office in 1813. In 1814 he published his largest poem 'The Excursion.' For the last fifty years of his life, he lived first at Dove Cottage, Grasmere and finally at Rydal Mount. Many of his sonnets were written during the years of 1820-1835. He died on 23 April 1850.
4. Complete the following table with information from the passage.
5. Write a summary of the above passage in your own words.
Answer: 3. (a) important/essential, (b) showing, (c) recognition/ acceptance, (d) independence, (e) words.
4. (i) was born, (ii) to St. John's college, Cambridge. (iii) till 1792, (iv) Many Sonnets, (v) Rydal Mount.
5. William Wordsworth was a great romantic poet. His contribution to English Literature is undeniable. He was in France for a while. Afterwards he settled down with his sister Dorothy and Coleridge at Alfoxden. 'Lyrical Ballads' by Wordsworth and Coleridge is a great literary work. It was published in 1798. He married at the age of 32. He wrote a large number of sonnets. He breathed his last in 1850.
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