Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Freshman Reading 1B: Traveling in south India ・南インドの旅行

Hello!



How are you? Today, to go with our textbook reading, I have a video made by an American who has learned how to travel without spending a lot of money. His name is Gabriel Morris and he made this video of his trip to Gokarna, a small town in south India that is famous as a Hindu temple site.

Look at the picture at the top. It's of the Mahabaleshwara Temple, which is the most famous in Gokarna. Here is where Gokarna is located in India:



Activity/homework
Watch the video below. Watch it as many times as you need. Answer the questions under the video in your notebooks.

(If you have trouble seeing this video, go to this link here, or look for “How to travel India ridiculously cheap! One day in India” at https://youtu.be/7Ok9sGor4ig)




1. What famous Indian person is on all the Indian money? 
2. Which is the most expensive meal of the day? 
3. What are the two kinds of things he bought to eat for breakfast? 
4. What is one thing he said his hotel room did not have? 
5. What kind of drink does he go to find? 
6. How much did he say it cost? 
7. How much did the man at the restaurant say that a multi-course thali meal cost? 
8. What did the sign at the Gokarna beach say that a personn cannot do? 
9. What is the other drink that he gets later in the afternoon? 
10. How much did it cost him to get his clothes washed? 
11. How much did his thali meal cost? 
12. How much did his total expenses for the day come to in U.S. dollars? 
      *About how much do you think this would be in Japanese yen? 
     
I hope this is interesting for you. See you next time!


Images: Top - by Sbblr geervaanee - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16847823/Map of India - annotated screenshot of image originally by Uwe Dedering at German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9639349
Video uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to the content. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom purposes only. 

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