Today is our topic of discussion-A Garments Worker
A Garments Worker
Discussion
Nasima is a garment worker. She works in ‘Oriental Garmets’ which is located in Elephant Road, Dhaka. She has been working there for about three years. Her main task is sewing garments.
Nasima lives near Azimpur with some other garments workers. Every day she goes to work and comes back home on foot. It takes nearly 30 minutes, but she wants to save money and therefore walks much.
Nasima is from Hatibandha, Lalmonirhat. She passed her SSC exam in 1998.
She then wanted to go to college, but her father. Abu Hanif, told her that he was unable to bear her expenses. She was sad to hear this, but she knew that her father was poor. They have a big family of 3 sisters and 2 brothers. She is the second child of her parents. Her elder sister. Hasina, is married. The younger sister.
Selina, and the brothers, Manik and Sohel, go to school. It is difficult for her father to maintain this big family. He has a tea-stall in a local market. But he does not earn enough. Her mother. Atta Begum, looks after the family. She is very often sick.
Nasima wanted to help her family. So she came to Dhaka with a girl from their village. She was sad to leave her parents behind. She was unhappy to give up her studies, but she knew that she couldn’t continue to do so. After coming to Dhaka, Nasima started looking for a job. But it was difficult for her to get one. At last she got a job in ‘Oriental Garments’. A girl from her village who works there, managed to get her the job.
Read, Think and Answer
Answer each of the following questions:
1. Where does Nasima work?
2. How does she go to work every day?
3. Where is she from?
4. Why couldn’t she go to college?
5. Why is it difficult for her father to maintain their family?
6. Why has she come to Dhaka?
Let’s Learn Grammar
A. Look at the following sentences from the above passage.
- She was sad to leave her parents behind.
- She was unhappy to give up her studies.
These sentences tell us how Nasima felt when she left her parents behind and
when she decided to stop studying. The structure of the sentences is:
Subject + was / were + adjective + to verb
In the examples above, we see the use of the past tense (was) but we can also use the present tense (am/is/are). Remember that we use this kind of sentence to describe our feelings about activities or happenings.
Now make sentences with the words in the following table. One exmaple is given for you.
Example :
1. I will be happy to see you again
2……
3…….
4……
Now use the following sets of words and make sentences like the above. One example is given for you.
Note that we can use another structure instead of the above one.
Look at the following example. It is bad to copy in the exam = Copying in the exam is bad. It is easy to take a picture = Taking a picture is easy. It is hard to climb a mountain = Climbing a mountain is hard.
Increase Your word Power
Make sentences with the following words: sad, younger, give up, unable, expenses.
Let’s talk
Perhaps you can understand that all the sentences above talking about something that is correct for all of us. But we may also say something that is appropriate only for particular people. Then we will have to add something to the structure. Look at the following example from the above passage.
It is difficult for her father to maintain this big family It was difficult for her to manage one. Similarly, we can say It is difficult for Nasima to earn 5000 taka per month It is easy for him to do the sum It is good for me to do exercise in the morning Now say 5 activities that you do using the adjectives below. Use sentences like the above.
1. Easy = It is easy for me to
2. Difficult
3. Good
4. Dangerous
5.Safe
Let’s Write
A. Describing a family
We know about Hanif’s family from the above passage. The writer tells us something about all the members of the family. The description is given below with some gaps. Fill in the gaps by using suitable words. You may take words from the passage above. One example is given for you.
Hanif’s Family
Hanif’s family is a………. family. It has members. The father, Abu Hanif,
of the family. He is a shopkeeper. He has a tea-stall in the local market. The mother, looks. the family. But she is very often
is the The eldest child of the family is She works In She Is. The next is The third child is also a Her name is……. She is in the school. and………… are two boys. They are also school-going children.
The above description includes the following points.
1. Family size:
2. Total members:
3. Head of the family along with profession :
4. Mother:
5. Children, what they do: