What the Elders Miss
The eaters went. The makers stayed.
Goa's elders reminisce nostalgically about the good old Portuguese days and their famous loaves.
↳ The Portuguese left; their bread did not.
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Glimpses of India · Class 10 English · First Flight
English 3 topics 135 leveled MCQs 60 flashcards 4 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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How We Know the Trade Survives
Five proofs, all in the present tense.
↳ He shows survival rather than stating it.
The Vocabulary of the Piece
Four Goan words worth marks.
↳ Learn the four words exactly; the paper asks for them by name.
Where Coorg Is
A piece of heaven, precisely located.
↳ Two cities fix the place; one fact fixes its status.
Rainforest and Coffee
One hard number in a page of praise.
Evergreen rainforests cover thirty per cent of the district.
↳ Learn the thirty per cent — it is the section's most asked figure.
The Season of Joy
When to go, and when not to.
↳ A travel writer honest about the rain is worth trusting about the rest.
📖 Smart notes
What you'll study, topic by topic
1
A Baker from Goa
A pen-portrait of the Goan village baker, the pader: the jingling bamboo that woke the children, the bread-bangles they ran for, the kabai he once wore, the wall on which his accounts were kept in pencil, and the bol, bo…
- The elders of Goa reminisce nostalgically about the good old Portuguese days and their famous loaves of bread; the eaters of those loaves ma…
- The age-old, time-tested furnaces still exist and their fire has not been extinguished, and the thud and jingle of a baker's bamboo is still…
- In the writer's childhood the baker was a friend, companion and guide who came at least twice a day — once on his morning selling round and…
~26 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Coorg
The smallest district of Karnataka, written as a travel piece: rainforests and coffee, a people said to descend from Alexander's army or from Arabs, the only Indians allowed to carry firearms without a licence, the Kaver…
- Coorg, or Kodagu, lies halfway along the road from Mysore down to the coast at Mangalore and is the smallest district of Karnataka; the writ…
- It is a land of rolling hills, home to evergreen rainforests — which cover thirty per cent of the district — as well as spices and coffee pl…
- The monsoon rain is heavy enough to drive most visitors away; the pleasant season runs from September till March, when the weather is perfec…
~27 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Tea from Assam
The third piece, told as a story rather than a description: two schoolboys on a train to Upper Assam, a vendor's cry of chai-garam, eighty crore cups a day, two legends of tea's discovery, a sea of tea bushes, and an arr…
- Pranjol, a boy from Assam whose father manages a tea-garden in Upper Assam, is Rajvir's classmate in Delhi and has invited him home for the…
- The section opens on the train with a vendor crying 'Chai-garam, garam-chai'; the boys buy two cups, and almost everyone in the compartment…
- Rajvir tells Pranjol that something like eighty crore cups of tea are drunk around the world in a single day; Pranjol, an ardent reader of d…
~27 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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135 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
What does the writer mean by saying that the eaters of loaves have disappeared but the people who bake it have not?
Intermediate
A Bread is no longer eaten in Goa, though it is still baked
B The Portuguese have gone, but Goan bakers continue their trade
C The old bakers have died and no one has replaced them
D The furnaces have been abandoned but the recipes survive
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The Portuguese have gone, but Goan bakers continue their trade
The sentence sets the whole portrait going: rulers depart, but a craft they brought is now Goan and continues without them.
Which of these is NOT offered as evidence that bread-making survives in Goa?
Intermediate
A Bakeries have opened in every town of the district
B The mixers, moulders and bakers are still among us
C The old furnaces still exist and their fire is not extinguished
D The son carries on the father's profession
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Bakeries have opened in every town of the district
The writer's proofs are people, furnaces, fire, the sound of the bamboo and the passing of the trade from father to son.
What is the Goan village baker called?
Beginner
A A kabai
B A bol
C A bolinha
D A pader
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A pader
Kabai is his old dress, bol a sweet bread and bolinhas the Christmas cakes; the man himself is a pader.
How often did the baker visit, and why twice?
Beginner
A Twice a day — once on his morning round and again after emptying his basket
B Once a week, on market day
C Twice a week, on Sundays and Wednesdays
D Only on festival days
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Twice a day — once on his morning round and again after emptying his basket
Coming twice daily is what made him part of the household's routine rather than a shop to be visited.
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