It was Sunday. Mita, Zara, Jhuma Islam and Mazharul Islam woke up very early. They quickly got ready and started for Tha Kha floating market. They planned to have breakfast at the market. They reached the market place sharp at 7. The canals were surrounded with coconut palm trees. They hired a boat. The boatman started to row slowly taking them to the centre of the market.
There were boats everywhere. The sellers were mainly elderly Thai women. Their small boats were laden with bundles of lotus flowers, farm-fresh coconuts,fruits, vegetables, local food, and delicious sweets. The sellers and buyers rowed their boats slowly. The sellers displayed their goods for sale and the buyers chose their pick. They could have a little chit-chat as buying and selling was going on.
Questions
1. What kind of market was it?
Answer It was a floating market.
2. Why did the boatman row slowly?
Answer The boatman row slowly as there were boats everywhere.
3. Who were selling goods? How were they selling their goods?
Answer Elderly Thai women were mainly selling their goods. Both the buyers and sellers were rowing their boats slowly so that the sellers can display their goods and both the parties can negotiate.
4. What were they selling?
Answer They were selling bundles of lotus flowers, farm-fresh coconuts, fruits, vegetables, local food, and delicious sweets.
5. What was the atmosphere at the market?
Answer The atmosphere at the market was full of activity. There were boats everywhere. People were busy buying and selling goods.
6. What did Mita, Zara and Zara’s parents plan?
Answer They planned to have breakfast in the market.
D. True or false? If false give the correct information .
1. Tha Kha floating market is a tourist place.
Answer False: The Tha Kha market is a tourist place.
2. It sits only six or seven days a month.
Answer False: It sits on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
3. The buyers and sellers are the local people living near Tha Kha river.
Answer True.
4. They all knew each other.
Answer True.
5. The locals were very much excited to see the tourists.
Answer False.
E. Read the text further and write the answers to the following questions.
1. Why is Tha Kha floating market ‘traditional'?
Answer The Tha Kha market is ‘traditional’ as it serves mainly as a market rather than a tourist place.
2. How many days a week does the market sit?
Answer The market sits three days a week.
3. Why do you think people at the floating market know each other so well?
Answer As the main buyers of the market are Tha Kha native people, they know each other quite well.
4. Why do you think the native people did not notice the tourists very much?
Answer I think it was usual of tourists visiting the market. Besides, the people were too busy to notice them.
F. Read the text and answer the following questions
They passed an hour and a half at the market and enjoyed the business. Then all of them were hungry. They rowed near the boat of an elderly woman, who was selling food. She welcomed them with a smile and showed them the foods. They bought the traditional and very popular food called 'Pad Thai', a kind of noodles with shrimps, tomato and some vegetables, with freshly roasted crushed peanut. The food was served in a bowl made from banana leaf. After Pad Thai, they ate ‘Kanom Krok’. It is a coconut pancake which is very sweet.
The Tha Kha people are simple and easy going. They are very friendly and polite. They do not understand English or any other language. Yet they have a way to communicate with Mita and others.
Mita was delighted to see a traditional Thai floating market. She took a lot of pictures with the elderly sellers.
Questions
1. Who were hungry?
Answer All of them were hungry.
2. How did the elderly woman know that Mita and others want to buy food?
Answer The elderly woman knew that Mita and others were hungry because she was selling food and they rowed towards her.
3. What does the phrase "easy going' mean?
Answer The phrase ‘Easy going’ means relaxed and not easily upset.
4. Describe the foods that Mita and others ate.
Answer Mita and others ate traditional Thai foods called ‘Pad Thai’ and ‘kanom krok’. ‘Pad Thai’ is a kind of noodles with shrimp, tomato and other vegetables served in banana leaf bowl, and ‘kanom krok’ is a very sweet pancake made of coconut.
5. How many languages did the Thai people know?
Answer They did not know any other languages except their native language.
H. Describe a nearby bazar/market in your locality by answering the bazar/m following questions:
a. What is the market called? (give its name if there is any)How far is it from your home?
b. When does the market sit?
c. What can you buy at the market?
d. Do you like going to the market? If you do, write why.
The Bazaar in our Locality
We have a bazaar in our locality and that bazaar is named ‘Bou bazaar’. The bazaar is ten minutes away from my home. Bou bazaar sits at the very early morning. It closes almost at 8 pm of the night. This bazaar provides the locality dwellers with all the opportunities of purchasing daily life’s commodities. We can buy foods like meat, fish, fresh vegetables, milk, eggs, spices etc. Again, clothes, shoes, cosmetics etc. other necessary products of daily use are also found in the bazaar. Almost once a week, my mother goes to the bazaar for weekly purchase. Sometimes I accompany my mother, though I do not like going to the market because of its congested and dirty environment.
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