A long way home

​Reading and Vocabulary

​Grade 6
MyPerspectives

​What do you think after watching these pictures?

​Take sticky notes and write in minimum words about:
1-If you are in this situation what could be your perspective?
2-What would be your efforts to get back home?

​Summary
Saroo Brierley (born c. 1981) is an Indian-born Australian businessman and author who, at the age of five, was accidentally separated from his biological family. He was adopted out of India by an Australian couple but was reunited with his original family 25 years later after finding his hometown via Google Earth.

Vocabulary

1. a long or arduous search for something.

   "the quest for a reliable vaccine has intensified"

   Similar: search,hunt

   
   

​quest

noun
kwest

​thorough

adjective
thuh·ruh

​complete with regard to every detail; not superficial or partial.

"planners need a thorough understanding of the subject"

Similar: rigorous, in-depth

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1. the quality of being intense.

   "the pain grew in intensity"

   Similar: strength,power

   potency​

​intensity

noun
uhn·ten·suh·tee

1. of the nature of an obsession.

   "people dogged by obsessive jealousy"

   Similar:all-consuming

   consuming,compulsive

   dominating​

obsessive

adjective
əbˈsesiv