- Contents
- Unit-1| Good citizens
- Lesson 1| Can you live alone?
- Lesson 2| Knowledge, skills and attitudes
- Lesson 3| Good character
- Lesson 4| Responsibilities
- Unit-2 | Pastimes
- Lesson 1| Have you any favourite pastime?
- Lesson 2| Reading really helps!
- Lesson 3| Change in pastime
- Lesson 4| Change in pastimes in Banglades
- Lesson 5| Pastimes vary
- Unit-3 | Events and festivals
- Lesson 1| Mother's Day
- Lesson 2| May Day
- Lesson 3| International Mother Language Day-1
- Lesson 4| International Mother Language Day-2
- Lesson 5| Independence Day
- Lesson 6| Pahela Boishakh
- Unit-4 | Are we aware?
- Lesson 1| The ferry boat
- Lesson 2| Are we too many?
- Lesson 3| Our food and shelter
- Lesson 4| The story of Lipi
- Lesson 5| Let's become skilled workforce
- Unit-5 | Nature and environment
- Lesson 1| The greed of the mighty rivers
- Lesson 2| Environment pollution
- Lesson 3| Man and climate
- Lesson 4| Putting our fish in hot water!
- Lesson 5| A friend of the Earth
- Unit-6 | Our neighbours
- Lesson 1| Nepal, the land of Everest
- Lesson 2| Sri Lanka: The pearl of the Indian Ocean
- Lesson 3| The Maldives
- Lesson 4| India: Unity in diversity
- Lesson 5| Bhutan: The land of happiness
- Unit-7 | People who stand out
- Lesson 1| Zainul Abedin, the great artist
- Lesson 2| The art of silence
- Lesson 3| Flashback
- Lesson 4| The begining
- Lesson 5| The missionary
- Lesson 6| Love for humanity
- Lesson 7| The wizard of Apple
- Lesson 8| Job's childhood
- Unit-8 | World heritage
- Lesson 1| The Shat Gambuj Mosque
- Lesson 2| The Somapura Mahavihara
- Lesson 3| The Statue of Liberty
- Lesson 4| Lake Baikal
- Unit-9 | Unconventional jobs
- Lesson 1| Jobs that people do
- Lesson 2| Weird jobs around
- Lesson 3| Floral career
- Unit-10 | Dreams
- Lesson 1| I have a dream
- Lesson 2| What I dream to be
- Lesson 3| They had dreams 1
- Lesson 4| They had dreams 2
- Unit-11 | Renewable energy
- Lesson 1| Renewable energy sources-1
- Lesson 2| Renewable energy sources-2
- Lesson 3| Renewable energy sources-3
- Unit-12 | Roots
- Lesson 1| My roots
- Lesson 2| My roots-2
- Lesson 3| The return of the native
- Lesson 4| In search of identity
- Unit-13 | Media and modes of e-communcation
- Lesson 1| Media and modes of e-communication
- Lesson 2| Social network services
- Lesson 3| E-learning
- Unit-14 | Pleasure and purpose
- Lesson 1| Books
- Lesson 2| Two Mothers Remembered
- Lesson 3| The Sands of Dee
- Lesson 4| Time, You Old Gipsy Man
- Lesson 5| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Lesson 6| The Purple Jar-1
- Lesson 7| The Purple Jar-2
- Lesson 8| The Purple Jar-3
- Lesson 9| A Pound of Flesh
- Lesson 10| The three caskets
- Lesson 11| The trial
- Home
- Elements
The Somapura Mahavihara
Pair Work
D. Read the text again. Work in pairs. Ask and answer the following questions.
1. Why is the village named Paharpur?
Answer The village is named Paharpur as there is a Pahar or hill in the middle of it covered with jungle.
2. Where is it located? What is it famous for?
Answer It is located in Naogan district of northern Bangladesh. It is famous for the relics of the ancient Buddhist monastery.
3. What did Cunningham find when he was digging the Paharpur site?
Answer Cunningham found the evidence of an ancient archaeological site.
4. Why was the site officially stated to be preserved?
Answer The site was officially preserved to protect the ancient relics of this particular place.
5. Who operated the further excavation after independence?
Answer The Department of Archaeology of Bangladesh brought the site of ‘Paharpur’ under further excavation after independence.
6. What facts were revealed by the pre-liberation expeditions of the place?
Answer Pre-liberation excavation revealed the architecture of a vast Buddhist monastery, the Somapura Mahavihara.
Now write the answers in your exercise book.
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