Saturday, 25 April 2020

English X - Chapter No.15 - Words/Meaning and Summary

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AN AFRICAN VILLAGE
Words/Meaning and Summary

Words / Meaning


S.No. Words Meanings
 1. Activity Being active, A thing that a person or group does or has done.
 2. Agriculture Farming
 3. Aluminium Light silver white metal
 4. Beans An edible seed
 5. Beast Wild-animals
 6. Bush-dwellers People living in bushes
 7. Century One hundred
 8. Compounds An area surrounded by fences or walls that contains a group of buildings
 9. Consists Composed of
 10. Continent A very large area of land, such as Africa or Asia, that consists of several countries. .
 11. Courtyard Compound
 12. Cultivate To grow
 13. Circular Round in shape
 14. Dense Thick
 15. Earthenware Pot made of clay
 16. Electricity Power, Energy
 17. Export A product or service sold abroad.
 18 Facility Convenience
 19. Furniture Furnishings
 20. Firmly Strongly
 21. Forest Jungle
 22. Grind Break into powder
 23. Groundnuts A type of peanuts
 24. Inhabitant People living in a place
 25. Introduce Acquaint
 26. Independent Free
 27. Lanes Narrow street
 28. Link Relation, Join
 29. Mosquito A small insect
 30. Patch Apart of something marked out from the rest
 31. Pepper A hot tasting powder used in food
 32. Plaster A soft mixture of sand, cement and sometimes lime water, for spreading on walls, ceilings etc
 33. Plantains Bananas
 34. Poultry Hen and ducks etc
 35. Pile A large quantity
 36. Protect To save
 37. Pots Pottery
 38. Remote area Distant area
 39. Reed Tall grass
 40. Remote Distant
41. Separate Different
 42. Settlement Area inhabited  by people
 43. Sting A small sharp-pointed organ of insects
 44. Scatter Disperse
 45. Space Vacant Place
 46. Tend To look after
 47. Thatch Cover (a roof or a building) with straw or a similar material.
 48. Transport Conveyance
 49. Utensils Cooking-pots
 50. Undergrowth Bushes under big tree
 51. Yield Produce
 52. Yam The edible starchy tuber





Short note Or Summary on AN AFRICAN VILLAGE


Nigeria is the largest country of West Africa. A Nigerian village may consist of a dozen to about three dozen huts. Formerly a farmer's hut was a single room. Now, bigger and better huts are built and more modern building methods and materials are used. A farmer's house may now have two or more rooms. Close to the farmer's dwelling is a patch of land for growing food crops which include plantains, potatoes, yams, groundnuts and pepper. Usually, women look after the food crops while men tend the cash crops like oil-palms and cocoa trees. Cocoa beans and powder is obtained from cocoa fruit which are also the major export of Nigeria. In many parts of Africa, farmers cannot rear cattle on account of a kind of fly whose sting kills the cattle and causes sleeping sickness among human beings. He may, however, keep a goat for milk, and poultry for eggs. The bush-dwellers are being introduced to the modern facilities of transport and communications. They will soon be connected by road with towns and cities.

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