Unit-5 - Respecting Self And Others - A Bad Dream - Reading Comprehension - Words/Meaning and Summary

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Unit-5 - Respecting Self And Others
Reading Comprehension
A Bad Dream
English For Class X (2022 and Onward

Words/Meaning 

S.NO.	Words	Meanings
1.	Airy	Well ventilated
2.	Appreciate	Recognize with gratitude
3.	Astonishingly	Extremely surprisingly
4.	Bother	Worry, Disturb, or Upset
5.	Chat	Talk in a friendly and informal way
6.	Comfortably	Without stress
7.	Compartment	A separate section
8.	Convince	Cause to believe
9.	Cucumber	A long, green-skinned fruit
10.	Dominate	Influence over
11.	Dusty	Covered with dust
12.	Frightened	Afraid
13.	Ghost	The spirit of a dead person
14.	Gossip	Casual or unconstrained conversation
15.	Hair-raising	Extremely frightening
16.	Haunted	Frequented by a ghost
17.	Horror	An intense feeling of fear
18.	Imagining	Suppose or Assume
19.	Incident	An event or occurrence
20.	Indication	A sign
21.	Lean	Move into a sloping position
22.	Long-awaited	Expected for a long time
23.	Narrate	Give a spoken or written account of
24.	Occurrence	An incident or Event
25.	Porter	A person employed to carry luggage
26.	Relaxed	Free from tension
27.	Scared	Fearful; Frightened
28.	Scream	Give a long, loud, piercing cry
29.	Shocked	Surprised and upset
30.	Shrug	Raise (one's shoulders) slightly
31.	Stare	Look fixedly
32.	Strange	Unusual; Surprising
33.	Stunned	Shocked
34.	Teasing	Make fun of someone in a playful way
35.	Utter	Complete; Absolute

Summary

Mr Aziz and his brother's families decided to take a ten-day holiday in the village. They travelled by train. They rented a house for ten days which was far from the station but close to the fields so that they could enjoy the life of the village.
They reached Patni. At the station, when they told the porter where to go, he was astonished and said, "Are you sure?" Outside the station, when they told the van driver where to go, he was also surprised and said, "Are you sure?"
The van driver told him that the house they had rented was haunted, but Mr Aziz said they did not believe such stories. The house was big and airy. They liked the house.
The next morning they went to the fields and the villagers told them to go back before the ghost could harm them. They just laughed and told the people that there was no such thing as ghosts. They kept having fun. A week later, weird things started to happen.
On the seventh night, Mr Karim felt that someone was pulling his blanket. This time he pulled the blanket up and held it tightly under his head and feet. Then someone pulled his bed. He was scared. Nothing happened after that but he could not sleep. No one believed him.
After a walk in the fields, everyone except Mr Karim returned. He felt that someone was following him, but no one was there. Suddenly the head blocked his way. He changed his route, but the head also came to this side. Mr. Karim was alone. He was terrified. He started running towards the house. He told everyone about the incident but no one believed him. They said that he had taken the words of the villagers seriously.
On the last night of their stay, Mr and Mrs Aziz, and Mr and Mrs Karim were sitting and talking. An empty chair sprang forward and it felt as if someone was sitting on it. Seeing this, they started screaming.
The next moment Mr. Karim woke up. He was having a bad dream. They just had to go on their trip.

OR

By Mrs. Ayesha Arif
(Jauhar Progressive School)
Mr. and Mrs. Aziz along with their children planned a ten days holiday trip. Mr. Karim along with his wife and children decided to accompany them. They travelled by train and reached a village called Patni where they rented a house. They hired a van to reach the house. On the way Mr. Aziz told the van driver about the house, but the driver told them about the house being haunted. Mr. Aziz did not believe him. On reaching the house they all liked it. It had three rooms. Mr. and Mrs. Aziz took one room while Mr. and Mrs. Karim settled in the second room. The children got the third room. After dinner they went to bed quite early as they were tired. Next morning they visited the fields where some villagers again told them to leave the house before any of them got harmed by the ghosts. They ignored the gossips. Strange things started to happen on 7^th night. Twice with Mr. Karim and finally all experienced same strange things. Mrs. Karim woke Mr. Karim up and at the end, all it turned out to be a horrible dream that Mr. Karim was seen.