Unit - 2 : The Tsunami English - Unit - 2 : The Tsunami

The Yala National Park in Sri Lanka is home to a variety of animals including elephants, leopards, and 130 species of birds. Sixty visitors were washed away from the Patanangala beach inside the park; but no animal carcasses were found, except for two water buffaloes.
About an hour before the tsunami hit, people at Yala National Park had observed three elephants running away from the Patanangala beach. A Sri Lankan gentleman who lives on the coast near Galle said his two dogs would not go for their daily run on the beach. "They are usually excited to go on this outing", he said. But on that day they refused to go, and most probably saved his lfie.
1. Where is the Yala National Park?
2. How many species of birds are found there?
3. What did the people observe about elephants at Patanangala beach?
4. How did the two dogs of Galle beahve before tsunami?
5. Write the one word for the following sentence, "dead body of an animal".
6. Find the opposites of the following from the passage :
(i) far
(ii) night

Almas Javed was ten years old. She was a student of Carmel Convent in Port Blair where her father had a petrol pump. Her mother Rahila's home was in Nancowry island. The family had gone there to celebrate Christmas When the tremors came early in the morning, the family was sleeping. Almas's father saw the sea water recede.
He understood that the water would come rushing back with great force. He woke everyone up and tried to rush them to a safer place. As they ran, her grandfather was hit on the head by something and he fell down. Her father rushed to help him. Then came the first giant wave that swept both of them away.
1. How can you say that Almas belonged to a rich family?
2. Where had Almas' family gone to celebrate Christmas?
3. How did Almas's father understand that the sea water will come back with great force?
4. Who rushed for Almas's grandfather's help?
5. Write the one word for the following sentence,"group consisting of parents and their children".
6. Find the opposites of the following from the passage :
(i) young
(ii) last

Ignesious was the manager of a cooperative society in Katchall. His wife woke him up at 6 a.m. because she felt an earthquake. Ignesious carefully took his television set of its table and put it down on the ground so that it would not fall and break. Then the family rushed out of the house. When the tremors stopped, they saw the sea rising In the chaos and confusion, two of his children caught hold of the hands of their mother's father and mother's brother and rushed in the opposite direction. He never saw them again. His wife was also swept away. Only the three other children who came with him were saved.
1. Why did Ignesious's wife wake him up?
2. Why did Ignesious take the television off its table?
3. Why did the family rush out of the house?
4. Which two dangers almost came together?
5. Write one word for the following sentence, "sudden violent movement of the earth's surface".
6. Find the opposites of the following from the passage :
(i) carefully
(ii) rising

What do people say about the elephants of Yala National Park?

How do you think her geography teacher felt when he heard about what Tilly had done in Phuket?

Where did the Smith family and the others on the beach go to escape from the tsunami?

Do you think Tilly's mother was alarmed by them?

What are the two different ideas about why so few animals were killed in the tsunami? Which idea do you find more believable?

Her mother and aunts were washed away with the tree that they were holding on to.

Almas's father realised that a tsunami was going to hit the island.

Meghna was saved by a relief helicopter.

Sanjeev made it to safety after the tsunami.

Ignesious lost his wife, two children, his father-in-law and his brother-in-law in the tsunami.