Once there was an old woman.Her husband was dead.Her children were married.She lived alone with her helpers.This old woman was a hard working woman.She was not lazy.She got up with the cock.The cock crowed at 4 o’clock.She woke up the helpers.
Then they began to work. They swept the house and dusted the furniture.They swept the compound and cleaned the garden. They picked the vegetables and prepared the meals.They washed the clothes and then bathed and rested. Again the following morning they got up with the cock.The helpers did not like to get up early.
They thought of a plan.”well get rid of the cock,then we don’t have to get up early-we can sleep till late,they said. So they got rid of the cock.The old woman was sad.”oh,what can we do?”she said.She couldn’t tell the time by the light.
So she woke up the helpers when she opened her eyes.Sometimes it was 2o’clock in the night.Sometimes it was 3o’clock. Often it ws 4o’clock.It was her habit to get up at 4o’clock,earlier.But now it was always before four.”What have we done.” Cried the helpers.”now we have less sleep without the clock.
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Lightning flashed-faded away.
Thunder roared-rain poured.
All night long-the storm lased.
Houses torn-tress blasted.
Morning came-storm gone.
Streets wet-the gloom lingerson.
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TRAIN.
Which is better-I don’t know.
To go on a train-Or to see people go!
Which is better-To be inside.
Waving and going-For a vide.
Or to be out side-and waving back.
And watching the train-Speed down the track.
Which is nicer-I think I know.
It’s nicer to watch-Except when you go.
The sinhala and hindu new year has a special food.It is milk rice.The milk rice is made with rice and coconutmilk or cow’s milk.
Most people in Sri Lanka love milkrice.People eat milk rice with different things.Some make a spicy onion,chillie samba.Others eat it with treacle or juggery.People make a lot of traditional sweets for the new year.Some of them are kewum,kokis,athiraha and asmee.
Bananas are a must on the new year table.Easter too has its special foods.Easter eggs and easter bunnies are very popular with children.Easter eggs are made out of chocolate and butter cream.The out side is hard and is often painted.You can buy one easter egg
.Several easter eggs or a box of easter eggsThey are good as presents.Easter eggs and easter bunnies tell us about spring.
They mean new life.April is a beautiful month.You can see flowering trees every where.Pretty birds sing.The singing of the koha is loud and clear during thisseason.
The koha and the cuckoo bird sing about the spring new life.New year time is a happy time.
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THE FESTIVALS.
April is a month of festivals.The Sinhalese and the hindus celebrate the new year.The new year is generally on the 13th or 14th of April.
The new year is a national festival.The Sinhalese and the hindus celebrate it in different aways.
The catholics and the Christians celebrate easter.Easter is on a Sunday.
The Friday before easter is good Friday.Easter and good Friday are important religious days.
Sometimes the muslims too celebrate a day in mid-April.Muslims festivals do not always come on the same day
.The muslims follow the lunar calendar.The new year festival has very special customs
.
On this day Sinhalese and the hindus light the hearth at an auspicious time.They also take their new year meal at an auspicious time.
This is a very special day to Sinhalese and hindus.
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August is a very important month.The kandy perahera is held in August.This procession is held for days.Lots of people come to see the perahera.It is very beautiful.There ere many elephants in the perahera.They are dressed beautifully in clothes different designs and colours.
The whip crackers announce the arrival of the perahera.They are followed by colourfully dressed dancers,drummers,tom tom beaters.flag bearers and stilt walkers.The torch bearers illumin ate the pathof the procession.The kandy perahera is a religious festival.The Buddha’s tooth relic is taken in the perahera.
The place where the tooth relic is kept is called the Dalada Maligawa.The Diyawadana Nilame is the guardian of the Dalada Maligawa and is an important person in the procession.The of the devalas,Vishnu,natha,katharagama and patthini join the kandy perahera.Every year the tooth relic is taken out for the perahera.
Only the Maligawa elephant will carry the beautifully decorated relic casker.He kneels and the casket is kept on his back.Then he walks very majestically in the procession.People young and old gather in thousands to see the perahera.
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The Pinnawala Elephant orphanage is in the Kegalle district.The road that leads to the orphanage is about two kilo metres from legally
town on the handy road.
It was started in 1975.There are baby and adult elephants in the orphanage.They are all rescued elephants.Farmers shoot at elephants when they come to their villages.sometimes they throw fire brands to scare them away.Some elephants fall into pits,wells and water holes,when they come insearch of water,in the dry season.
Some injured elephants fall on the way.They cannot get up because of pain,hunger and thirst.Such elephants arerescued
and brought to the orphanage.Every morning the elephants walk in a line to the Maha oya for bathing,like school children going for the
morning assembly.
They love to be in the water for a longtime.They look like rocks when they lie in water.The mahouts scrub,brush and rub
their bodies with coconut husks.The playful little ones spray and splash water on each other.The baby elephants below one year are the infants.
Those between 1 year and 5 years are calves.The male adults are bullsw and the female adults are crows.An infant drinks 5 litters of milk at a time.
They are bottle fed five times a day.The adults eat fodder,coconut leaves,jak leaves and kitul trunks.You can spend hours and hours watching them.
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In an era like this the increase of population will be a great blow an our economy,because nothing will be increased at the rate how the population is being increase.Lands and other resources will be divided and sub divided into small portions.Our agricultural products will be diminished due to lack of accommodations.
The government is going to improve the cuttege industries,local crafes and fisheries industries as a solution to provide jobs for unemployed persons.But it wan”t be a success as all the raw-materials aren’t available in our country.Even if we switch on to new industries we have to get halled of foreign investors.
That also wan’t be a success as Sri Lanka is a war prone country.Even if the produce various kinds of iteam people don’t have enough money to by them.Our country has suffered enough by war an the Tsunami.The world community was rede to grant a large amount of money provided that a peace settlement is carried out by the L.T.T.E.guerillas and the government.But as it didn’t come wring foreign aide was not granted.
As a result of that every citizen of our country is indebted to the world.So our economy has been very badly hit.The government has more money to give employment to educated.One in meant time the price of every iteam is going up.Day by day an in future only the baggers and the affluent category of people will be able to live happily the middle class people will have to suffer.
In time to come at the rate of the increase of population their wan’t be enough food,clothing and shelter for many unless the government sets up of plan to increase the economy of our country.
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A: Hello,I raise objection over that judgement.
B; How dare you raise objections like that?
A: As viwers we appreciated the dance of the dancer who was in green costume.
B: We have got down two expertise in that profession for the judgement you see.
A: But they have favoured the one who was brown costume.Her dance wasn’t so good as that of the one in green costume.
B: They have judged not by the dance alone.They have given marks for the smile rythem and variations.
A: The one in green too had all these qualifications and the runner up also should be one red jeans and blouse.
B: One thing we have to accept their final judgement.
A: Please,See that fair play is done in future.
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Every being,every nation,every object and every country has a history.The beginning of life in the world is an ameeba.So there is a long history rainging from ameeba to the develop human being.
We can understand the progress of man through evolution.If the ancient people had droped out history we Wouldn’t have understood that.Not only that our forefathers had invented many things for our benefits.So unless we know their names and what they have contributed to the world we wouldn’t have practice.Had it not been return in the past.It is the history that held us to study about religion.
Their had been many scientist,creators,velvisors,patricts and hiero who haves contributed a lot to the world from whom we can get example to adupt our life.It is the history that gave us the opportunity to remember them and imitate them.
Out culture has a long history an those good qualities and horms practice by the our forefathers wouldn’t have been hand an down from generation to generation without the history.So what is happening today will going history by tomorrow.
In that case we can understand that history meangs a continues froses.Which will gone until the day the world comes to and end can aduct our lives by studing history and from up our future life to soot to the future living situation.in that case history the very valuable thing for a child to a study.
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