Go through Part-I carefully, and make a list of a many words as you can find that indicate movement of different kinds.

Question

Working with Language

Go through Part-I carefully, and make a list of a many words as you can find that indicate movement of different kinds. (There is one word that occurs repeatedly - count how many times!) Put them into three categories.

| fast movement | slow movement | neither slow nor fast |

Can you explain why there are many words in one column and not in the others?

Answer 1

| Fast movement | Slow movement | Neither slow nor fast |
| Earthquake | Floating | Walking |
| Rushed | Recede | |
| Tremors | | |
| Swept | | |
| Ran | | |
| Fell | | |
| Climb | | |

The ‘fast movement’ column has many more words as compared to the other two columns. This is because the story is about tsunami, which is a fast movement of waters. Due to tsunami, all the immediate actions are fast, such as running, climbing and sweeping away of people by water.