‘Out in Umphang’
As you read the article, work on the following questions. Write your answers in complete sentences and look for evidence from the text to back up your claims.
1.What kind of animals would you be able to find in Umphang?
Elephant, bird, deer-like creature Munjac
2. Why is the journey into Umphang ‘half the fun’? What does the writer mean by this?
Because you get to see lots of trees and furry animals, but the trip is quite danger and long.
3. What type of people live in the area?
Remote and poor.
4. What type of trip did the writer want to do?
An adventure trip.
5. Why is the area known as Tee Lor Su Waterfall so clean?
Because the park rangers are always checking for rubbish.
6. What does the former village headman do now that he is not working?
He sells beer and soda!
7. What makes the village so special or how is it different from Hong Kong?
It’s wild and not populated and polluted like Hong Kong.
8. Why do the village people appear ‘healthy and happy’?
Because they have many things to do so they don’t have time to worry about very much.
9. List all the ways that bamboo is used by the people of the area? There are many…
Raft
Cooking
Make Fire
Building houses
Fashioning the saddles for elephants
Cups
Spoon
Ropes
10. Why do fewer tourists go to Thi Po J?
Because it is more normal compared to Ban Kho Tha.
11. What type of joke did they make to Dee and why?
The said to left him behind when they cross the mountain next morning because he said that there are far more women than men, and he said that in the village men moves to their wives house..
12. Why does the writer refer to the Karen villages as ‘living monasteries’?
Because the pace there is slow and peaceful
13. Why does the writer say that it is ‘a way of life that is becoming harder to find’?
Less people knows about the tradition of Umphang.