Match the following. What is a must?
(i) As marriage gifts? | (a) Cakes and bolinhas |
(ii) For a party or a feast? | (b) Sweet bread called bol |
(iii) For a daughter’s engagement? | (c) Bread |
(iv) For Christmas? | (d) Sandwiches |
In the extract, the author talks about traditional bread-baking during his childhood days. Complete the following table with the help of the clues on the left. Then write a paragraph about the author’s childhood days.
Clues | Author’s childhood days |
The way bread was baked | |
The way the pader sold bread | |
What the pader wore | |
When the pader was paid | |
How the pader looked |
Compare the piece from the text (on the left below) with the other piece on Goan bakers (on the right). What makes the two texts so different? Are the facts the same? Do both writers give you a picture of the baker?
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Our elders are often heard remniscing nostalgically about those good old Portuguese days, the Portuguese and their famous loaves of bread. Those eaters of loaves might have vanished but the makers are still there. We still have amongst us the mixers, the moulders and those who bake the loaves. Those age-old, time-tested furnaces still exist. The fire in the furnaces had not yet been extinguished. The thud and the jingle of the traditional baker’s bamboo, heralding his arrival in the morning, can still be heard in some places. May be the father is not alive, but the son still carries on the family profession. |
After Goa’s liberation, people used to say nostalgically that the Portuguese bread vanished with the paders. But the paders have managed to survive because they have perfected the art of door-to-door delivery service. The paders pick up the knowledge of bread making from traditions in the family. The leavened, oven-baked bread is a gift of the Portuguese to India. [adapted from Nanda Kumar Kamat’s ‘The Unsung Lives of Gaon Paders’] |
Now fill in the blanks in the sentences given below by combining the verb given in brackets with one of the words from the box as appropriate.
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over, by, through, out, up, down |
(i) The Army attempted unsuccessfully to …… the Government. (throw)
(ii) Scientists are on the brink of a major …… in cancer research. (break)
(iii) The State Government plans to build a …… for Bhubaneswar to speed up traffic on the main highway. (pass)
(iv) Gautama’s ….. on life changed when he realized that the world is full of sorrow. (look)
(v) Rakesh seemed unusually ……. after the game. (cast)