Village by the Sea - Chapter 1 (Part 2)

Village by the Sea - Chapter 1 (Part 2)

Read through Sections 4 to 8

in Chapter 1 and answer the following questions

Open Ended

Describe Hari using three words

​Section 4

​After the chat Hari has with Lila, where he promises to get work to help the family, Hari begins to wonder if he promised too much

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​Read the section and answer the following questions

Multiple Choice

What do these lines tell you about Hari?

"Hari could not work any more. Although he had felt hopeful when talking to Lila of the future, he now wondered if he could really do anything about it."

• He is hopeful about the future

• He doubts his abilities

• He believes in himself

• He wants Lila to work harder

Multiple Select

Hari met Ramu and two other boys at the beach because they didn't go to school too.

Tick TWO reasons why they gave up going to school

• They could not afford to pay the fees

• They had grown bored

• Their fathers had also sold their fishing boats

• They were waiting for a chance to earn money and have a good time

Multiple Select

Give two reasons why Hari doubts that they can get work in the factory?

‘We don’t know anything about machines,’ Hari protested. ‘We only know how to fish and how to grow

coconuts.’

‘We will learn!’ they shouted.

‘How can we? We haven’t even finished school, we know nothing,’ Hari said, with disgust and despair

lining his young face and darkening his black eyes. ‘You have to go to college to learn – learn engineering.’

• They will only hire people who have finished school

• You need to learn engineering at college to handle the machines

• He can learn the skills to work in the factory

Multiple Select

According to these lines find two ways Hari is different to the other boys?

‘What factories are they? What will they make?’ Hari asked, trying hard to be optimistic like them and stop feeling so worried and afraid.

• He is not optimistic

• He does not worry

• He is worried and fearful about the future

• He is friendly

​Section 5

Soon Bela and Kamal come down to the beach with other women from the village to start chipping molloscs from the rocks.

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They all begin to start gossiping about someone

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​Read the section and answer the following questions

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Multiple Select

Hari didn't join his sisters to pick at the barnacles on the rock?

Find TWO reasons why

• There was a large crowd of people already near the rocks

• He wanted to be alone

• He didn't want to be seen

• It was a woman's occupation

Multiple Select

How was Biju different to the others in the village?

Find TWO differences

• His family had to find molluscs

• He earned a huge profit from selling his fish in the town

• He was wealthy enough to build a boat with engines

• He didn't go fishing

Multiple Select

According to the following line:

What TWO problems do the ordinary fishermen in Thul have?

"They will go far out to fish – far, far out where there is still plenty to catch. Over here there is not enough left.’

‘No,’ they agreed, ‘not enough left, so little left.’

• They catch plenty of fish

• They cannot go out far too fish

• They have to go far out into the sea to  get a good catch 

• There isn't enough fish in th sea near Thul

Multiple Select

As they listened to the women, Bela and Kamal thought that 

CHOOSE two

• Our

  father does not even go fishing.

• Hari is doing a great job taking care of us

• Hari catches hardly anything at all with his net

• Why does Lila get us to work so hard?

​Section 6

As​ Hari tries to catch fish in his net the fishing fleet come in with their catch

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​Read the section and answer the following questions

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Multiple Select

Hari was ashamed that ...

Find TWO Answers

• his father was a drunkard

• he did not have a job

• he didn't work on the fishing boats

• his sisters were collecting molluscs on the beach

Multiple Select

After watching the way baskets of fish are auctioned off at the beach Hari wishes for TWO things

He wished

• he could have bought one of those fish for his family.

• that he was working one a boat

• he could have

  caught a fish in his net

• Lila was there to see the whole scene

​Section 7

As​ Hari returns home the sight of Pinto reminds him of his father's mistakes

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​Read the section and answer the following questions

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Multiple Choice

Hari remembers an incident when his father and other villagers were promised work

• with Biju

• in Goa

• with the De Silvas

• in the factory

Multiple Choice

The dog Pinto was named after

• the man who tricked their mother

• their grandfather

• a cartoon character

• The man who tricked their father

Multiple Choice

Hari never touched Pinto and always looked at

him accusingly because the dog

• ate their food

• reminded him of his mother's illness

• reminded him of his father's foolishness

Multiple Choice

Hari and Lila both felt relieved that their father was out of the house and disgusted because

• he had not told them where he was going

• he had gone to the toddy shop to drink all night

• their meal wasn't great

• they had to do all the work

​Section 8

Hari's father returns home from the toddy shop late at night

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​Read the section and answer the following questions

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Multiple Choice

Hari's father went out drinking with 

• Hari

• Mr. Pinto

• Two brothers from a neighbouring farm

• Three brothers from a neighbouring farm

Multiple Choice

Whose thoughts are these about whom?

"Maybe a poisonous snake will bite him. He may step on one and be

bitten, there are so many of them and it is dark. Then he would die.’Who

• Hari think this about Biju

• Lila thinks this about Biju

• Hari think this about his father

• Lila thinks this about her father

Multiple Choice

He thought this with 

• worry

• fear

• anx

• hope

Poll

What is the biggest challenge the children have to face

• poverty

• sickness

• uncertainty about the future

• lack of unity among the siblings

​Let's explore chapter 1 in more detail in class