Pranjol, a student from Assam, invites his classmate Rajvir to visit his home during summer vacation. Rajvir accepts the invitation. Upon arriving in Assam, Rajvir is amazed by the vast tea plantations. Assam has the largest concentration of tea gardens in the world. During the visit, Pranjol's father, who is the manager of a tea garden, shows them around the tea production process and plantations. Rajvir learns about the history and origins of tea, including different legends about its discovery in China and India.

1. LESSON 7.GLIMPSES OF INDIA
CLASS 10TH (FIRST FLIGHT)
Tea from Assam
-Arup Kumar
Dutta7/26/2020

2. Presentation By –
Sharwan Kumar Sharma
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3. ABOUT
THE
AUTHOR■ Born on July 2, 1946, at Jorhat,Assam, in
Eastern India,Arup Kumar Dutta did his Major
and Masters in English Literature from Delhi
University. He returned to Jorhat to teach
English at J. B.College for several years
before taking up writing as a full-time career.
■ Dutta made a permanent place in the hearts
of children with his very first book, Kaziranga
Trail, in 1978, after which there was no
looking back.The book not only won
prestigious awards, but was also translated
into many languages, both Indian and
foreign, including Japanese,German, Russian,
Czech, Hungarian and Italian. Kaziranga Trail7/26/2020

4. Main events of thelesson
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TEA FROM ASSAM

5. Teafrom Assam
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Pranjol, a youngster from Assam, is
Rajvir’s classmate in school in Delhi.
Pranjol’s father is the manager of a tea
garden in Upper Assam and Pranjol
has invited Rajvir to visit his home
during the summer vacation.

6. Model Lesson
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 Rajvir and Pranjol on the way to Assam :-
Rajvir and Pranjol were travelling to Assam. A tea vendor
called “chai-garam…garamchai” . They took tea and sipped
it. Rajvir told Pranjol that over 800,000,000 cups of tea are
drunk everyday throughout the world.
 Tea gardens scene :-
Rajvir looked at the beautiful scenery outside. Pranjol kept
raeding his detective book. There was greenery outside.
Soon the soft green paddy fields gave way to tea bushes .
There were shade trees also over the areas. In the distance
there was an ugly building. It was a tea garden

7. Teagarden
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8. ABOUT LEGENDS
BEHIND TEA:-
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 They were in Assam, the tea country. Assam
has the largest concentration of tea
plantations in the world. Rajvir told Pranjol
that no one really knew who discovered tea.
There were many legends about it.
 Chinese legend
 Indian legend

9.  Chinese legend :-
A Chinese emperor always boiled water before drinking
it. One day a few leaves of branches burning under
the pot fell into the water. It gave a delicious flavour.
These were tea leaves.
 Indian legend:-
Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk cut off his eyelids
because he felt sleepy during meditations. Ten tea
plants grew out of his eyelids. These leaves when put
in hot water and drunk, banished sleep.
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10. Tea and China :-
Rajvir told Pranjol that tea was first drunk in
China. It was as far back as 2700 B.C. Words
like ‘chai’ and ‘chini’ are Chinese. Tea came to
Europe in the sixteenth century. It was drunk
more as medicine.
 Reaching the destination :-
Both of them dropped at Mariani junction. They
were driven to Dhekibari Tea Estate. On both
sides of the road there were acres and acres of
tea bushes.
Women with bamboo baskets were plucking the
new leaves from them
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11. TEA PLANTATION
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12. Main Points of the Story
1. Tea is really a very popular beverage in
India.
2. You can bear the vendor shouting “chai-
garam-garam chai” at every railway station.
3. More than eighty crores of cups of tea are
drunk every day throughout the world.
4. It was green, green everywhere and Rajvir
had never seen so much greenery before.
5. The landscape changed and tea bushes took
the place of green paddy fields.
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13. 6. A sea of tea-bushes stretched as far as
the eyes could go.
7. Assam has the largest concentration of
plantations in the world.
8. No one really knows who discovered tea.
9.One Chinese legend says that a few
leaves of the twigs burning under the pot
fell into the boiling water.
10.The leaves gave it a delicious flavour.
They were tea leaves.
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14. 11. Words like Thai’ and thine are from the
Chinese language.
12. According to an Indian legend, an
ancient Buddhist ascetic cut off his eyelids
because he felt sleepy during meditation.
13. Ten tea plants grew out of his eyelids.
14 Rajvir saw acre upon acre of tea bushes
and nearly all of them were neatly pruned
to the same height.
15. Groups of tea-pluckers with bamboo
baskets on their backs were plucking newly
sprouted leaves.
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15. 16. A tractor was pulling a trailer-load of leaves.
Rajvir asked Pranjol’s father if it was the second-
flush or sprouting period.
17.The sprouting periods lasts from May to July
and this period yields the best tea.
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1. Which state did Pranjol belong to?
(A) Assam (B) Goa
(C) Karnataka (D) Delhi
2. Pranjol and Rajvir were students in a school in :
(A) Dhekiabari (B) Marian
(C) Delhi (D) none of the above
3. Pranjol and Rajvir go to Assam by :
(A) air (B) train
(C) taxi (D) ship

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4. Assam is famous for the production of :
(A) tea (B) coffee
(C) bread (D) all of the above
5. Tea was first drunk in____________.
(A) China (B) Europe
(C) India (D) America
6. What was Pranjol’s father?
(A) a bank manager (B) a school manager
(C) a tea-garden manager (D) a transport manager

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7. Tea came to Europe in______________ century.
(A) fifteenth (B) sixteenth
(C) seventeenth (D) eighteenth
8. Tea was first drunk in China in :
(A) 2000 B.C (B) 2300 B.C
(C) 2700 B.C (D) 3100 B.C

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9. How many cups of tea are drunk across the world daily?
(A) eighty thousand (B) eighty lakh
(C) eighty crore (D) eighty million
10. Tea was mainly drunk in Europe as____________.
(A) medicine (B) sleep banishing drink
(C) soft drink (D) all of the above

20. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN ABOUT 40 WORDS :-
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 Q.1 What did Pranjol told Rajvir about Assam?
Ans.1 Pranjol told that Assam is heartland of
tea cultivation in India. It is their commercial
crop. Assam has the largest concentration of
plantations in the world. It exports tea to other
countries in theworld.
• Q.2 What is the Chinese legend about tea?
Ans.2 A Chinese emperor liked to drink boiled
water. Once while boiling the water gave a
delicious flavor. They were tea – leaves. Since
then theses leaves are used as beverage.