Lesson 4: Our ethnic friends (2)

Lesson 4:   Our ethnic friends (2)

Keywords: characteristics     communities     maize     poultry

A   Look at the picture 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 used are bugles 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.

A	B
1.       Where do the ethnic people build their houses?	A traditional musical
2.       What are their favourite pastimes?
3.       What is a bugle?
4.       What do the women wear?
5.       What are their kitchen utensils made of?
6.       What are their staple food?