INTRODUCTION Md. Fuad Hasan Assistant Teacher (English) Dhamrai Hardinge High School & College, Dhamrai, Dhaka. Class: Nine Subject: English 1 st paper Time: 40 Minutes

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This things are very useful to our life Kerosene lamp Electric bulb Candle light Tube light Head light Hurricane Table lamp Energy saver bulb Gas light Stage light Charger light Oil lamp

Renewable Energy Source-1

By the end of the lesson ss will be able to… 1. describe familiar objects. 2. ask and answer questions about Renewable Energy. 3. read intensively and extensively. 4. learn some vocabs. 5. write a formal letters. Learning outcomes

Sohan lives in a village in the south-west part of Bangladesh. Last night he could not sleep. His sister had the SSC exam next morning. She could not read either. There was-load shedding. The summer night being sticky hot, life became hell without electricity. Most of their area remained dark for hours due to power shortage. In May-June, temperature shoots up to 40 degree Celsius. With almost 90 per cent of humidity in the atmosphere, it becomes all sweat, wet, damp and stinky. When you are busy fanning yourself all the time, how come you concentrate on studies? In the night it is impossible to sit in the study with a candle light or table lamp or hurricane lamp or a rural kerosene lamp. People simply come out of houses almost bare-bodied and sit in the open places. Some splash cold water on their faces.

Fans are still, lamps are out and it is dark everywhere. It is simply unbearable. What is the reason of frequent load-shedding? Press reports say there is a shortage in electricity production. According to the Power development authorities, the demand for electricity a few years ago was more than 6,000 MW* a day while the supply remained around 4,200 MW. In the rural areas, the Rural Electrification Board (REB) could supply barely half of the total demand which was around 2,400 MW per day. In the capital city, the demand stood at around 1,400 MW while the supply amounted to 650 MW. As a result, load-shedding is unavoidable for the time being. But situation is improving very fast. *MW is Mega Watt which is the unit to measure electricity

Demand want/need

Concentrate Give attention to

Stinky Having a strong unpleasant smell

outside the city/village Rural

Bare - bodied without clothes on the body

splash to strike someone or something with water

Group Work  Do you think load-shedding causes the same kind of problems to people both in and outside the city? Now make two different lists of problems caused by the long- time load-shedding, one in the city, and the other outside the city.

Evaluation  What happened to Sohan last night?  How was the summer night?  What is the demand of Electricity in our Rural area?  What do people use at night during load shedding?

Home work  Write a letter to an editor of a national daily expressing the sufferings of ordinary people caused by load shedding in your locality.

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