My Home District                                                           Unit 10

Lessons 1-2

A. Read about Mamun's home district.

My home district is Kishoreganj. It is about 145 kilometers from Dhaka. It is a district headquarters. The district has 8 municipalities, 13 upazilas, 108 unions and 1745 villages. The name Kishoreganj comes from the name of an old landlord known as Brojakishore Pramanik or Nandakishore Pramanik. The area of Kishoreganj municipality is about 10 square kilometers. The river Narasunda flows through the town.

Kishoreganj is a small town, but there are many important places in and around it. The largest Eid fairgrounds, called Solakia Eid Ground and the well-known Government Gurudayal College are in the town. People from many districts come to this place to celebrate Eid. The Pagla Shah Muhammad Mosque Mosque is also in my home district. Outside the town, you can visit the fort of Isah Khan at Jangal Bari. You can also see the Shah Muhammad Mosque at Egaroshindhur. Near the Fuleshwari River, you can see the Shiva Temple of Chandrabati.

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Kishoreganj is also the home district of some famous people. Chandrabati, the first woman poet of Bangla literature, was bom here. Two writers of children's literature, Upendrakishore Roy Chowdhury and Sukumar Roy are also from here. The great painter Zainul Abedin comes from Kishoreganj, too. Syed Nazrul Islam, the first acting President of Bangladesh, is also from here. I love my home district!

B. Pairwork. Ask and answer the questions.

1 What's the name of Mamun's home district? 

2 How far is it from Dhaka?

3 How did it get its name?

4 What is the name of the river in the town?

5 What are two things you can see in the town?

6 Who are two famous people from this town?

C. Groupwork. Make a list of the important places in Kishoreganj. Which place do you think is the most 

interesting? Why? Discuss with your groupmates.

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D. Prepare to write about your home district. Answer the questions 

     in your exercise book.

1 What is the name of your home district?

2 What type of town is it? (district/ upazila / divisional town)

3 How did your home district get its name? 

4 What are the interesting places in your home district?

5 Who are some famous people from your home district? 

6 What do you like about your home district?

E. Write a short composition about your home district. Use the 

    information in Activity D.

F. Look, listen and say.

Look at this. Look at that.

Look at these. Look at those.

Touch your ears and touch your nose.

Look at that. Look at this.

Look at those. Look at these.

Clap your hands and touch your knees.

G. Underline the words in the last paragraph on page 34 with the th sound.

Lessons 8-9

1 Joy do you see that butterfly on the yellow flower? 

2 Yes, I do. It's blue yellow brown and red! Those are beautiful

   colours.

3 Yes, they are! Oh, it's coming this way!

4 Mary can we try to catch it?

5 No we can't.

6 Well I can take a picture of it.

7 Oh great idea!

J. Pairwork. Look at the dialogue on page 5. Underline 

the commas. Say why the commas are used in each sentence.