Lesson 3: Our ethnic friends (1)

Lesson 3:  Our ethnic friends (1)

Key words:   ethnic   region   majority   shifting

A   Look at the question and discuss in groups:

      Have you heard the word ‘ethnic people’? Can you tell what it means?

      Now look at the pictures. Then discuss the following questions.

1.       Do you know where these people live in Bangladesh?

2.       What are they called?

B   Now read the text.

The ethnic people in Bangladesh hold a very important place in the culture of the country. The majority of this people live in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The other live  in  regions  of  Mymensingh, Rajshahi and Sylhet. They live in forest areas, in the hills and in rural areas. They practice Jhum cultivation. They clear a piece of land in forest, prepare it and sow seeds in it. They are mostly farmers. By religion they are Hindus, Christians or Buddhist. They speak their own mother tongues. Some of them are the Chakmas, the Marmans, the Tipperas and the Moorangs who live in the Hill tracts. The Santals live in Rajshahi. The Khasias and the Monipuries live in Sylhet and the Hajongs and the Garos in Mymensingh.    

C   True or false? If false, give the correct information.

1.       All the ethnic people of the country live in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

2.       Most of them are farmers.

3.       By religion all of them are Buddhists.

4.       The Moorangs are an ethnic group.

5.       They practice jhum cultivation.   

D   Ask and answer the question in pairs.

1.       Where do you find the Marmans?

2.       What language do you speak at home?

3.       Where and how do they do the Jhum cultivation?