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Pranjol, a student from Assam, invites his classmate Rajvir to visit his home during summer vacation. Rajvir accepts the invitation. Upon arriving in Assam, Rajvir is amazed by the vast tea plantations. Assam has the largest concentration of tea gardens in the world. During the visit, Pranjol's father, who is the manager of a tea garden, shows them around the tea production process and plantations. Rajvir learns about the history and origins of tea, including different legends about its discovery in China and India.
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- 1. LESSON 7.GLIMPSES OFINDIA CLASS 10TH (FIRST FLIGHT) Tea from Assam -Arup Kumar Dutta7/26/2020
- 2. Presentation By – SharwanKumar Sharma 7/26/2020
- 3. ABOUT THE AUTHOR■ Born onJuly 2, 1946, at Jorhat,Assam, in Eastern India,Arup Kumar Dutta did his Major and Masters in English Literature from Delhi University. He returned to Jorhat to teach English at J. B.College for several years before taking up writing as a full-time career. ■ Dutta made a permanent place in the hearts of children with his very first book, Kaziranga Trail, in 1978, after which there was no looking back.The book not only won prestigious awards, but was also translated into many languages, both Indian and foreign, including Japanese,German, Russian, Czech, Hungarian and Italian. Kaziranga Trail7/26/2020
- 4. Main events ofthelesson 7/26/2020 TEA FROM ASSAM
- 5. Teafrom Assam 7/26/2020 Pranjol, ayoungster 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.
- 6. Model Lesson 7/26/2020 Rajvirand Pranjol on the way to Assam :- Rajvir and Pranjol were travelling to Assam. A tea vendor called “chai-garam…garamchai” . They took tea and sipped it. Rajvir told Pranjol that over 800,000,000 cups of tea are drunk everyday throughout the world. Tea gardens scene :- Rajvir looked at the beautiful scenery outside. Pranjol kept raeding his detective book. There was greenery outside. Soon the soft green paddy fields gave way to tea bushes . There were shade trees also over the areas. In the distance there was an ugly building. It was a tea garden
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- 8. ABOUT LEGENDS BEHIND TEA:- 7/26/2020 They were in Assam, the tea country. Assam has the largest concentration of tea plantations in the world. Rajvir told Pranjol that no one really knew who discovered tea. There were many legends about it. Chinese legend Indian legend
- 9. Chinese legend:- A Chinese emperor always boiled water before drinking it. One day a few leaves of branches burning under the pot fell into the water. It gave a delicious flavour. These were tea leaves. Indian legend:- Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditations. Ten tea plants grew out of his eyelids. These leaves when put in hot water and drunk, banished sleep. 7/26/2020
- 10. Tea and China:- Rajvir told Pranjol that tea was first drunk in China. It was as far back as 2700 B.C. Words like ‘chai’ and ‘chini’ are Chinese. Tea came to Europe in the sixteenth century. It was drunk more as medicine. Reaching the destination :- Both of them dropped at Mariani junction. They were driven to Dhekibari Tea Estate. On both sides of the road there were acres and acres of tea bushes. Women with bamboo baskets were plucking the new leaves from them 7/26/2020
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- 12. Main Points ofthe Story 1. Tea is really a very popular beverage in India. 2. You can bear the vendor shouting “chai- garam-garam chai” at every railway station. 3. More than eighty crores of cups of tea are drunk every day throughout the world. 4. It was green, green everywhere and Rajvir had never seen so much greenery before. 5. The landscape changed and tea bushes took the place of green paddy fields. 7/26/2020
- 13. 6. A seaof tea-bushes stretched as far as the eyes could go. 7. Assam has the largest concentration of plantations in the world. 8. No one really knows who discovered tea. 9.One Chinese legend says that a few leaves of the twigs burning under the pot fell into the boiling water. 10.The leaves gave it a delicious flavour. They were tea leaves. 7/26/2020
- 14. 11. Words likeThai’ and thine are from the Chinese language. 12. According to an Indian legend, an ancient Buddhist ascetic cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditation. 13. Ten tea plants grew out of his eyelids. 14 Rajvir saw acre upon acre of tea bushes and nearly all of them were neatly pruned to the same height. 15. Groups of tea-pluckers with bamboo baskets on their backs were plucking newly sprouted leaves. 7/26/2020
- 15. 16. A tractorwas pulling a trailer-load of leaves. Rajvir asked Pranjol’s father if it was the second- flush or sprouting period. 17.The sprouting periods lasts from May to July and this period yields the best tea. 7/26/2020
- 16. 7/26/2020 1. Which statedid Pranjol belong to? (A) Assam (B) Goa (C) Karnataka (D) Delhi 2. Pranjol and Rajvir were students in a school in : (A) Dhekiabari (B) Marian (C) Delhi (D) none of the above 3. Pranjol and Rajvir go to Assam by : (A) air (B) train (C) taxi (D) ship
- 17. 7/26/2020 4. Assam isfamous for the production of : (A) tea (B) coffee (C) bread (D) all of the above 5. Tea was first drunk in____________. (A) China (B) Europe (C) India (D) America 6. What was Pranjol’s father? (A) a bank manager (B) a school manager (C) a tea-garden manager (D) a transport manager
- 18. 7/26/2020 7. Tea cameto Europe in______________ century. (A) fifteenth (B) sixteenth (C) seventeenth (D) eighteenth 8. Tea was first drunk in China in : (A) 2000 B.C (B) 2300 B.C (C) 2700 B.C (D) 3100 B.C
- 19. 7/26/2020 9. How manycups of tea are drunk across the world daily? (A) eighty thousand (B) eighty lakh (C) eighty crore (D) eighty million 10. Tea was mainly drunk in Europe as____________. (A) medicine (B) sleep banishing drink (C) soft drink (D) all of the above
- 20. ANSWER THE FOLLOWINGQUESTIONS IN ABOUT 40 WORDS :- 7/26/2020 Q.1 What did Pranjol told Rajvir about Assam? Ans.1 Pranjol told that Assam is heartland of tea cultivation in India. It is their commercial crop. Assam has the largest concentration of plantations in the world. It exports tea to other countries in theworld. • Q.2 What is the Chinese legend about tea? Ans.2 A Chinese emperor liked to drink boiled water. Once while boiling the water gave a delicious flavor. They were tea – leaves. Since then theses leaves are used as beverage.