ACTIVITES-

1. Answer these questions to check your understanding.

(a) When do Kashmiri vendors travel to-cities to sell their goods?

Ans:  At the end of rainy season and the beginning of winter season the Kashmiri vendors travel to cities to sell their goods.

(b) Why is it a hard life for the Kashmiri Vendors?

Ans: It is a hard life for the Kashmiri vendors because  because they have to travel long journey from Kashmir to the city. They stay in cheap hotels and roam around the city streets all day, carrying their products on their backs. They also have to look for buyers.

(c) Why was the author surprised when his brother in law called the vendors?

Ans: The author was surprised when his brother-in-law called the vendors because they were not in need of any Kashmiri clothes from the vendors.

(d) “I felt sad and guilty at being a party to such behaviour.”- What does the word ‘party’ mean here? And what kind of behaviour did he refer to?

Ans: The party here means to take sides. He refers to the behaviour that he did not want to buy anything from the vendors.

(e) Who was kind? What was his deed of kindness?

Ans: The brother in law of the author was kind. His did of kindness was to offer food to the two Kashmiri vendors.

 2. Here is some information about the Kashmiri vendors and the author’s brother-in-law. Rewrite them in the correct columns according to what you have understood from the story.  

Asked the vendors to show their goods, Travel from Kashmir to different cities. Stay at hotels with minimum facilities. Did not intend to buy anything. Walk around the city on foot to sell their goods. Asked wife to serve food to the vendors. Made the offer of food look unplanned.

3. Rearrange the sentences according to the order in which events happened in the story and write them in your notebook.

(a) Two Kashmiri vendors came in to sell their goods.

(b) The brother in law made the offer of food look incidental.

(c) The vendors had food and left.

(d) The brother in law asked his wife to bring some food for the vendors

(e) The brother in law enquired about their goods.

(g) The vendors left, promising to bring better things next year.

 5.  Look at the pictures below carefully. Then listen to your teacher read a travel guide for Assam. As you listen, fill in the boxes under the pictures with the correct words. After you finish, exchange your textbook with a partner. Then read the passage yourself and check if your friend has written the answer correctly.

6. Let’s practise some grammar :

(a) The wares belong to the Kashmiri vendors. They are their wares.

(b) The wares were carried on the back of the younger vendor. He carried the wares on………….Back.

(c) The author’s brother-in-law called out to the vendors. He called them in…………… House.

(d) The author was unhappy when the brother-in-law called in the Kashmiri vendors. He thought, “I do not want to buy anything and waste…………. money”.

7. Read the text once again. Find out the nouns that have been qualified by possessive determiners and complete the table given below. One example has been done for you.

Possessive determiner	Nouns qualified
Their	Shawls

Now, Practise using some determiners. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate possessive determiners. One is done for you.

(i) The wares belong to us. They are our wares.

(ii) The wares were carried by you. You carried the wares on ……….back.

(iii) I am writing a book. It is……….book.

(iv) The Coorgis are a proud people. They are known for………….pride.

(v) We are from Assam. Assam is…..State.

Besides possessives, there are other kinds of determiners, such as articles (a, an, the), demonstratives (this, that, those, these), qualifiers (few, a few, some, any etc) numerals (one, two, three, four and so on), ordinals (first, second, third, fourth and so on) and distributives (each, every)

8. (a) In the passage below, Radha is telling her friend Rohit about her neighbourhood. In Radha’s description, all the words underlined and written in bold are determiners.

Radha : “We live in Adarsh Nagar. Our locality is Clean and green. There are many tall trees lining the roads. There are twenty five houses in our neighbourhood and. My house is located in the second lane of our locality. We have a beautiful garden in front of our house. My mother looks after it. My neighbours also have beautiful gardens in front of their house. Every neighbour has one or more pet dogs. One of our neighbours is Mr Rahman. He has four dogs. I love to play with his dogs. His wife loves to back cakes and biscuits. I love her cakes and biscuits. Here are a few pictures of her cakes. Don’t they look very tasty? She has decorated these cakes very beautifully. Hasn’t she? She sent some cakes for me yesterday

How would Rohit describe his neighbourhood?

Working in pairs, help Rohit write a few sentences describing the place where he lives. Fill in the blanks in Rohit’s description with appropriate determiners from the brackets. Then take turns to play the roles of Radha and Rohit and enact their conversation.

Rohit : ……………(Our/His/Her) locality is called Boragaon. It is beside the National Highway bypass. You can see ………….(his/their/my) house right from the road. It is…………. (a/an/the) green roof. Next to…………. (his/her/our) house is…. (an/the/my) uncle’s  bungalow…………….. (My/Her/His) roof is also green, but it has a red border. Every house in…………. (his/their/our) lane has a beautiful garden, with lots of flowers and big trees…………… (My/His/Her) mother loves spending time tending to …………… (my/their/her) favourite plants. She and…… (his/their/our) neighbours sometimes have garden competitions My friends and I love these competitions because everyone decorates ……………..(his/our/their) houses and we all come to decorates together to clean the neighbourhood.

(b) Here are some more sentences for practice. Fill in the blanks in the sentences with the appropriate determiner from the choices given.

(i) There is …………..water in the jug. (some/any/many)

(ii) The teachers gave him ……………. (many/much/ a lot of)

(iii) …………..Of the boys was given a prize. (Each/Every/Much)

(iv) He relies on the ……….. Friends he has .(little/few/any)

(v)There are …………… book on The shelf, you may choose one. (few/a few/the few)

(vi) Do you have ……………relatives in the city?(some/any/few)

(vii) He is………….. electrical engineer. (a/an/the)

(viii) He left ………… hour ago (a/an/the)

9. Look at these sentences from the lesson :

(a) She knew that her husband wouldn’t buy anything from them.

(b) His wife, who was in the kitchen, got busy making tea.

(c) When my brother in law asked me to buy something, I politely declined.

In all these sentences, there is a part that can make complete sense on its own. This part is called the main clause (prin- cipal clause also.) The other part is dependent on the main clause to complete its meaning. So it is called the dependent or subordinate clause.

Now can you say which parts of the sentences (b) and (c) are the main clauses?

Write the answers here.

Here are a few more sentences. Each of these sentences has a main clause and a subordinate clause. Underline the main clause and circle the subordinate clause in each sentence.

(i) I was surprised when my brother-in-law called the vendor.

(ii) I was sure he needed nothing from them.

(iii) He knew that they were hungry and tired.

(iv) When I saw them, I wanted to offer them food.

(v) l pretended that I was interested in their wares.