Lesson-1
A Letter to God
1. What did Lencho hope for?
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2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?
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3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho fields?
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4. What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stoppes?
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5. Who or What did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
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6. Who read the letter?
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7. What did the postmaster do then?
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8. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
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9. What made him angry?
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Thinking about the text
1. Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in story tell you this?
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2. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sing the letter God?
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3. Did lencho try to find out who had sent the Money to him? Why/Why not?
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4. Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in the situation? ( Remember that the irony of a situation is an unexpected aspect of it. An ironic situation is strange or amazing because it is the opposite of what is expected? )
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5. Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is? You may select apprapriate words from the box to answer the question.
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6. There are two kinds of conflict in the story between humans and nature and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
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Thinking about language ( ভাষাৰ বিষয়ে ভাবা )
1. There are different names in different parts of the world for storms, depending on their nature. Can you match the names in the box with their description below, and fill in the blanks.
1. A violent trapical strom in which strong winds move in a circle
2. An extremely strong wind:
3. A violent tropical strom with very strong wind:
4. A violent strom whose centre is a cloud in the shape of a funnel:
5. A violent strom with very strong winds expecially in the western Atlantic Ocean:
6. A very strong wind that moves very fast in a spinning movement and causes a lot of damage: