Look at the picture very carefully and guess

Look at the picture very carefully and guess what our today’s lesson is. . CHILD MARRIAGE

Our today’s lesson is. . . The Story of Lipi

At first I am reading the topic loudly. Listen to carefully. The year before last, Lipi, a 14 -year old girl, was in class 9 in a rural school in Rangpur. Lipi is the eldest of five children-three daughters and two sons. Their father is a day labourer working on other people’s land mother is homemaker and a parttime worker at other people’s house. The parents particularly the mother, found it real difficult to raise five children on the small income the father could earn. Perhaps that is why Lipi’s father wanted to marry her off. But Lipi was not ready to accept what her parents wanted to impose on her. She wanted to pursue her education. So long her mother stood beside her, though secretly. But when her father arranged her marriage with Tara Mia, the only son of a farmer in the same village, she became a little upset. Tara Mia was a widower illiterate, but well ff. His father has afew acres of arable land was influential in the village. The marriage seemed to be inevitable.

New words Impose enact inflict force Make someone to do something in a forceful or harmful way

New words Secretly covertly furtively surreptitiously Without other’s knowing

New words influential powerful important significant prominent Having great influence on someone or something.

New words Upset distressed disappointed frustrated irritated Feeling unhappy or worried.

Choose the best answer from the alternatives. 1. Lipi was a______student. X a) primary X b) Higher secondary X c) university √ d) secondary 2. Lipi had_____sisters and two brothers. X a) three √ b) two X c) one X d) four Click on the correct option

Choose the best answer from the alternatives. 3. Her father was a_______ X a) trader X c) businessman X b) carpenter √ d) Wage earner 4. What is the closest meaning of ‘raise. ’ X a) lift √ b) rear up X c) elevate X d) nurture Click on the correct option

Choose the best answer from the alternatives. 5. Lipi’s mother is a_____ X a) Service holder X b) labourer X c) seamstress √ d) homemaker 6. Lipi wanted to______her education. X a) discontinue √ b) continue X c) utilize X d) pause Click on the correct option

Discuss in pairs and write an answer the following questions: a) Who is Lipi? b) How old is she? c) Why did Lipi’s father want to marry her off? d) Why didn’t Lipi agree to get married? e) Who is Tara Mia?

Discuss in group and answer the following question. How is the social condition of Lipi’s parents?

Fill in the blanks with the correct words four off works difficult manage Lipi is the eldest child or her parents, . Her parents have (a). . . more children. Two of them are sons and two others are daughters. Lipi’s family is not well (b). . . Her father (c). . . as a day lobourer on other’s land. Her mother works as a part-time worker at other people’s house. It was so (d). . . for Lipi’s mother to (e). . . the family with their very limited income.

Home Work Write a summary of the above passage in your own words.

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