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प्रश्न
Find information about Huen Tsang.
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उत्तर
Huen Tsang:
He was also a Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator, who travelled to India in the 7th century. On his route to India, he visited many Buddhist sites such as Nalanda University and wrote about them in his travelogue.
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Share your views on how travelling can be a hobby.
Discuss in the class the benefits of travelling and complete the web.
Make a list of your expectations when you travel to some new place:
- Food should be delicious and available whenever hungry
- ___________________
- ___________________
- ___________________
Discuss in the class the various types of travels. Add your own to ones given below:
Read the first two paragraphs and discuss the need to travel.
Prepare a list of the litterateurs and their quotations mentioned by the writer in the passage.
‘The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new places but in seeing with new eyes.’ Marcel Proust. Justify with the help of the text.
Read the third paragraph and find the difference between a tourist and a traveller as revealed through the complaints made by them.
Write four sentences with the help of the text conveying the fact that travelling brings together the various cultures of the different parts of the world.
By quoting Camus, the writer has stated that travelling sets us free from circumstances and all the habits behind which we hide. Write in detail your views about that.
Read the following groups of words from the text.
| A | B |
| crooked angle | walking video screens |
| censored limits | living newspapers |
| impoverished places | searching questions |
Words crooked, censored and impoverished in group ‘A’ describe the nouns ‘angle’, ‘limits’ and ‘places’ respectively. They are past participles of the verbs ‘crook’, ‘censor’ and ‘impoverish’. But in the sentences, they act as adjectives. Similarly, in group ‘B’ wordswalking, living and searching are the present participles (‘ing’ forms) of the verbs walk, live and search. But in the above examples they function as adjectives.
Discuss in pairs and make list of some more adjectives like this and make sentences using them.
There is boom in ‘Travel and Tourism’ career. Find information about different options in this field.
Find information about Fa Hien.
Find information about Ibn Batuta.
Find information about Marco Polo
Find information about Sir Richard Burton.
Further reading:
‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ – Lord Byron
Further reading:
‘Gulliver’s Travels’ – Jonathan Swift
Further reading:
‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea’ – Jules Verne
Further reading:
‘Travelling Souls’ – Brian Bouldrey
