Chasing Dreams

 

UNIT 3: EDUCATION AND CAREERS

                                      CHASING DREAMS

                          CRITICAL SUMMARY

Jameel entered his house in a gloomy mood. His father asked about his sad look. But he didn’t respond. As the family had finished the dinner, his mother again asked if there is any problem with him.  He replied the results of him and his sister Sara had been announced and they had passed with flying colors and now he is worried about his future studies. He told that as there was not any college in their village and the nearest one was in the city about 50 miles away, so he was upset about getting admission in any college.  He intended to become a doctor to serve the suffering humanity. Her mother suggested him that they could hire a horse cart for him and Sara to take them to the college. Their family friend Aunt Sadoori offered them to stay with her as far  as their studies ended in the city. His father didn’t agree this for Sara but her brother Khalid favored the idea. Thus they both started their college studies in the city with zeal and efforts. The family supported them with great difficulties and they also  gave tuitions to meet the expenses.

Twelve years later, they had chased their dreams by  becoming doctors  and setting up a hospital in the village  in order to treat the sick people.  They had their families with full of life and happiness.

   SOLUTIONS OF IMPORTANT                     EXERCISES FROM TEXT BOOK

WHILE READING:

EXERCISE #01:

Read the text and write the answers to the following questions  in your notebooks.

1.      How many characters are there in the story?

Ans: There are Ten characters in the story.

2.       Write their names?

Ans:  Their names are given below.

1.      Jameel

2.      Sara

3.      Khalid

1.      Father

2.      Mother

3.      Aunt  Sadori

4.      Uncle Noor Ali

5.      Allah Dino

6.      Jameel’s wife

7.      Allah Bachayo

EXERCISE #02:

VOCABULARY

EXEERCISE #03:

Work in pairs. Read the text and underline the bold words given in the following exercise in your text book. Discuss and guess their meanings. (CHECK BOOK  FOR THE EXERCISE PG#)

EXERCISE #04:

Fill in the blanks in the following exercise with the words given inn bold in exercise #03. You can use each word only once. 

The old woman reluctantly got up from her bed. She had borne many difficulties but now her preoccupied hands could not lift heavy things. She got up and looked out of the window. As she looked a smile came to her lips when she saw the big, weathered, beautiful lawn, with plants and creepers and mango trees serving as a backdrop.

She collapsed on her bed once again and became impressive with her thoughts. She thought of her shabby, old house, her five siblings, and how they always use to offer their obligatory prayers. She also recalled how her mother always hosted meeting for the village women to teach them various skills. She thought about how she always dreamed of owning a big house with a big garden. Thinking of those times and the life she had now, she thanked God for making it possible for her to realize her dreams.

EXERCISE #05:

Write the short answers of the following questions.

1.      What was Jameel’s father doing when he came home?

Ans: When Jameel came home, his father was taking tea.

2.      When the family did had the dinner?

Ans: The family had their dinner in the middle of the  yard under the cool moonlight sky on a table down near the charpoy.

3.      Where did Jameel and Sara go to study?

Ans: Jameel and Sara went to Aunt Sadori’s home for the  study.

4.      Where did they build the  hospital?

Ans: They built the  hospital in their village to serve the needy people.

5.      How many children did Sara have?

Ans: Sara had two young children.

6.      In which vehicle did they travel?

Ans: They travelled in a small jeep.

POST READING:

EXERCISE #06:

1.      Why do you think nobody spoke while eating?

Ans: At the time of dinner, Jameel looked worried and environment of the home turned to in tensed situation. Also there is good manner not to speak during having meals. So none of them spoke while eating.

2.      Why was Jameel upset?

Ans: Jameel was very upset as his results have been announced and although he  passed it with flying colors, he was worried about his future study  plan.  As there was not any college nearby the village and the nearest one was in city about 50 miles away.

3.      Why do you think Sara was trying to hide her feelings?

Ans: When her father refused to send her city for higher studies, she didn’t protested against her father due to respect and family traditions. Although she also wanted to be a doctor by getting higher studies but she wiped the tears and tried to hide the feelings.

4.      Both Sara and Jameel had to pass every test in the first go. Why was it so?

Ans: As they could not afford to fail in any subject, both Jameel and Sara had to pass every

Test in the first go.

5.       How Sara and Jameel and their family did managed the expenses of their studies?

Ans: To meet the expenses both Sara and Jameel started tuition. Their parents and cousin Khalid sold a big piece of fertile land to pay their expenses.

6.      How did life change for Jameel’s family and the villagers?

Ans: When Jameel and Sara became doctors after a long hardship, the life of their family and villagers certainly changed. For being professional, they earned a suitable amount to change their life style while they also served their village people free of cost by setting up a hospital in their village.

7.      How was Sara educating the village women?

Ans: Sara after becoming a doctor, hosted many seminars for women in order to  improve their personal and family health. She also worked on their hygiene.

 

8.       What lesson do we get from the story?

Ans: The story gave us lesson that we never lose courage to chase our dreams. We should always have a broad vision and work hard to get our dreams come true.

LANGUAGE PRACTICE:

TYPES OF SENTENCES:

In English we have types of sentences. Each type is used for specific purpose. Below are two sentences types and the purpose of which each type is used.

Declarative Sentences are sentence that are generally called statement. They can be affirmative or negative.

FOR EXAMPLE:

I am tired.                   I am not tired.

Raheel is hungry.        Raheel is not hungry.

Interrogative sentences are those which are used for asking the questions. They can be affirmative or negative.

FOR EXAMPLE:

Are you hungry?                      Aren’t you hungry?

Did you do homework?           Didn’t you do homework?

EXERCISE #01:

Below is the list of sentences. Against each one write the type of sentence it is. For example declarative, Affirmative or Interrogative

EXERCISE #02:

Change all the affirmative sentences in exercise 1 into negative and all the negative into affirmative.

1.     1. Sabiha is not shivering.

2.     2. Aren’t we going to the football field?

3.      3. The stranger was not calling from the hospital.

4.      4. Won’t you come to my house tomorrow?

5.   5.    I don’t like to play cricket.

6.  6.     This is not your book.

7.     7.  Are you the girl who won the gold medal?

8.     8.  Juman likes to play hockey.

LANGUAGE PRACTICE:

EXERCISE #04:

Fill the following blanks with a, an, the where necessary. Remember that a/an are used with countable singular nouns and the is used in a number of places, for example when referring to a particular thing before superlative degrees, using two comparative degrees together, before the names of rivers, mountains etc. before titles, nationalities, names of institutions, communities son on.

1.      I know that the Indus is the largest river in the Pakistan.

2.      In order to learn a language, we need two things; a good teacher and a good will to work.

3.      The capital of Pakistan is Islamabad.

4.      Some people have bicycles, some have car, I have the both.

5.      In many countries, children go to school at the age of five.

6.      They are studying geography and in a particular the geography of the United Arab Emirates.

7.      Her friend loves eating an orange at breakfast time, an apple with her lunch, a banana at dinner.

8.      My mother says, the more you exercise the better your health.

9.      The Chinese are helping the Pakistanis to build a road from Gwadar to the Chinese border.

10.  An intelligent person always thinks before speaking, but many people just say whatever comes in mind.

EXERCISE #05: (USE BOOK FOR QUESTION)

In a poor zoo of Pakistan, a lion was very sad as he was given only 1kg of meat a day. The lion though was the luckiest lion on earth when one day the manager of the Dubai Zoo visited the zoo where the lion was, and requested the zoo management to shift the lion to the Dubai Zoo. The lion was very happy and started thinking of having an air conditioned cage and a goat to eat every day.

On its first day of arrival the lion was offered a big bag, sealed nicely, for breakfast.  The lion opened it quickly, but was shocked to see that the bag contained a few bananas only. The lion thought that since he had recently came from Pakistan the zoo management were worried about upsetting his stomach, so they had given him bananas.

Next day the same thing happened. On the third day again when the same food bag of bananas was given him the lion stopped the delivery boy and shouted at him, “Don’t you know I am a lion, the King of the jungle”? What’s  wrong with the management of the zoo? What nonsense is this? Why are you delivering bananas to me? The management boy politely said, “Sir I know you are the king of the jungle”, but you have been brought here on the monkey’s visa!!!

The moral of the story is, better to be a lion in your own country than a monkey elsewhere.

  

 

 

EXERCISE #05: (USE BOOK FOR QUESTION)

In a poor zoo of Pakistan, a lion was very sad as he was given only 1kg of meat a day. The lion though was the luckiest lion on earth when one day the manager of the Dubai Zoo visited the zoo where the lion was, and requested the zoo management to shift the lion to the Dubai Zoo. The lion was very happy and started thinking of having an air conditioned cage and a goat to eat every day.

On its first day of arrival the lion was offered a big bag, sealed nicely, for breakfast.  The lion opened it quickly, but was shocked to see that the bag contained a few bananas only. The lion thought that since he had recently came from Pakistan the zoo management were worried about upsetting his stomach, so they had given him bananas.

Next day the same thing happened. On the third day again when the same food bag of bananas was given him the lion stopped the delivery boy and shouted at him, “Don’t you know I am a lion, the King of the jungle”? What’s  wrong with the management of the zoo? What nonsense is this? Why are you delivering bananas to me? The management boy politely said, “Sir I know you are the king of the jungle”, but you have been brought here on the monkey’s visa!!!

The moral of the story is, better to be a lion in your own country than a monkey elsewhere.

  

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