Our food is rich because it have a lot of oil in them. - False
We get protein mostly from fish. - True
On Pohela Boishakh, the traditional food is steamed rice and fried hilsha. - False
Pitha Uthsab takes place almost all the year round in Bangladesh. - False
Sweets are not much appreciated by the people of Bangldesh. - False
Key words : characteristics communities maize poultry
A. Look at the pictures and talk with your partner about them. Then read the text.
Most of these ethnic people living in Bangladesh have some common characteristics. They have their own lifestyles.
They build their houses on bamboo or wooden platforms called 'machang'. Rice is their staple food. They eat vegetables, maize and fish, poultry and meat. Their kitchen utensils are bamboo, wooden and earthen pots which they make themselves. Men wear lungis and women wear thamis or sarongs and angis. Women weave their own clothes.
Hunting and fishing are their favourite pastimes. They are fond of songs, music, dances, theatre and fairs. Traditional musical instruments such as bugles are made from buffalo horns, drums and bamboo flutes. Wrestling is a popular sport for them.
B. Find the answers from column B to the questions in column A and write them in complete sentences.
| Column A | Column B |
|---|---|
| 1. Where do the ethnic people build their houses? | a) traditional musical instrument made from a buffalo horn |
| 2. What are their favorite pastimes? | b) clay, bamboo and wood |
| 3. What is a bugle? | c) rice |
| 4. What do the women wear? | d) on the wooden or bamboo platforms |
| 5. What are their kitchen utensils made of? | e) fishing and hunting |
| 6. What is their staple food? | f) thamis or sarongs and angis |
C. Complete the paragraph. Use the words below to fill in the gaps. There are more words than necessary.
| lungi sport earthen machang weave wrestling song rice fishing lifestyles wooden bugle |
The tribal people follow their _ The platform they build their houses on is called _ Men wear _ Women _ They are fond of songs, dance, music, and. _ is their favourite sport.
D. Imagine you are Sajeed and you have a Marma friend called Masing. Now, write a dialogue asking and answering questions about your dress, food, songs, sports and past times.
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We get the fishes from ponds, lakes and rivers.
Apart from fish we eat vegetables, curry, lentil soups and meat with rice.
Sweets are an important part of our life because sweets are distributed among close relatives on the occasion of good news like births, weddings, promotions, etc.
The variation with the use of many spices has made Bangladeshi food so special.
People celebrate their good news by distributing sweets to kith and kin. near and dear ones.
Fishes are now cultivated in ponds.
Yes, I do agree that panta ilish is a traditional platter of panta bhat. Because it is steamed rice soaked in water and served with a fried hilsha slice, often together with dried fish, pickles, lentil soup, green chilies and onion. It is a popular dish on the Pohela Boishakh.
The ingredients of preparing pitha are rice flour. sugar syrup, molasses and sometimes milk.
The people of Bangladesh are very fond of sweets. Sweets are distributed to close kith and kin when there is good news like births, weddings, promotions etc. This is why sweets are an important part of our life.
Our staple food is boiled rice. It is served with a variety of vegetables, curry, lentil soups, fish and meat.
'Panta ilish' is served with fried hilsa slice, often together with dried fish, pickles, lentil soup, green chilics and onion on the occasion of Pohela Boishakh.
We get the fishes from ponds, lakes and rivers.
Our traditional sweets or 'pitha' are made from rice flour, sugar syrup. molasses and sometimes milk.
'Panta ilish' is steamed rice soaked in water and served with fried hilsha slice, often together with dried fish, pickles, lentil soup, green chilies and onion.
(a) appetizing (b) vegetables (c) Hilsha (d) popular (e) pithas
Bangladeshi food culture is very rich with delicious and (a) appetizing items. For regular main meal, boiled rice is served with (b) vegetables fishes. meal etc. with fishes predominance. (c) Hilsha here which is also our national fish. Sweet is also a very (d) popular food here in our country. Morcover various types of (e) pithas are very common and are prepared and liked domestically. is one of the most popular fishes .
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