A. Look at the picture and the caption below. How do you feel looking at the photo? Why do you think people take inch risks to go home to celebrate Eid?
B. Read the following text.
Eid is the main religious festival of the Muslims in Bangladesh. Eid means happiness. Everyone wants to share this happiness with near and dear ones. So most of the people, who are living outside their homes for different reasons have a strong desire to get back home during the Eid vacation. As a result, there is a mad rash to board buses, trains, or launches for going home. This often causes trans pest accidents that take away many lives.
However, these cannot stop people from going home to meet their family, in-laws, or friends. What makes people rush for their homes in spite of serious hazards? This is nothing but people's desire to return to the roots. Do human beings have mots like the trees? The answer is ‘yes' but unlike the roots of the trees they are invisible, they lie in our minds. Ifs these roots that make a bond between us and family members, in-laws, friends, neighbours or even between us and the land where we were born and grew up.
In that sense our families, our land of birth, relatives, our culture, traditions, or surroundings are our roots. And wherever we stay, we feel the power of our roots. It's our roots that develop our identity making us what we are. When we lose that bond, we become rootless. Human beings who do not have any roots are a non-entity. In other words, they do not have an identity. They don't know where they are from, and/or where they are heading to. This often makes them feel empty and lost.
C. Read the text in the speech bubbles. Make questions based on the bubbles and then compare them in pairs.
D. Fill in the grid with appropriate information from the text above.
That makes our roots
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E. Work in pairs. Talk about these questions.
1. Do you have any root other than the place where you are living now? If yes, where is it and who live there? If not, why not?
2. How do you label your roots?
I have my roots in
☐ a remote rural village ☐ a village ☐ a semi-urban area (upazila)
☐ a small town ☐ a midsize city ☐ a suburb ☐ a city
3. Do you feel any attraction for your roots? Any pull in your heart?
4. How do you nourish your roots?
5. What, according to you, are the reasons why people become rootless?
F. Make a classroom survey and present in a chart the types of roots your classmates have.
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