Activities On 4.3 A Yawning Divide

A1. Choose the correct alternative
1. Early risers /late risers miss trains on regular basis.
2. It’s almost as if they live in different time zones and different countries/same time zones and different countries.
3. All over the country, things are likely t be much the same/ different in this respect.
4. The writer’s sister, a teacher and her husband, a doctor wake at 4 am/10 am each day.
5. It is learnt that the garbage man turns up at the writer’s house/ his sister’s house every day at five in the morning.
A1 State whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false statement.
1.The media personality goes for morning walk at 1pm.
2.The writer is a late riser.
3.Late risers are the early birds.
. 4.Writer’s sister finishes her household work by 6 am.
5.Differentiate the young and the old.
A2. Choose the correct alternative. Purpose of the text is .. 1. To encourage the people to work hard.
2. To encourage the people to rise early.
3. To highlight the importance of early rising.
4. To tell about the writer’s different relatives’ wake up habit.
Complete the flow chart

A3. Guess the reason
Supply suitable reasons for the following statements.
1. Some people have never seen a sunrise.
2. Father would be left shaking his head.
A4.Find out one word substitutes from the text for the following meanings:
a. Done quickly and with a lot of activity in an unorganised manner = frantic
b. Connected with a house and people living in it = household
c. A person who treats ill and injured people = doctor
d. A group of people or nations who have united for a particular purpose = zones
e. A group of people who meet together regularly for a particular activity = team
f. Means which offer information and entertainment to large number of people i.e. television, radio, newspaper, and internet = media
g. A person who collects waste food, paper. Etc. that you throw away = garbage man
A4 Make a list of 4 compound words( with a hyphen, without a hyphen , using separate words) from the text.
1. Slumber-land, rubbing-eyes
2. Milkman , sunrise, household, newspaper
3. Morning walk, snooze button, media personality, distance calls ,text messages , quality time, operating team
A5 PRT
1.Do you like to rise early? Give reason.
2. Narrate disadvantages of late risers.