PUMPA - SMART LEARNING

எங்கள் ஆசிரியர்களுடன் 1-ஆன்-1 ஆலோசனை நேரத்தைப் பெறுங்கள். டாப்பர் ஆவதற்கு நாங்கள் பயிற்சி அளிப்போம்

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     Mr Wonka said, “So once again I rolled up my sleeves and set to work. Once again I squeezed my brain, searching for the new recipe... I had to create age... to make people old... old, older, oldest... ‘Ha-ha!’ I cried, for now the ideas were beginning to come. ‘What is the oldest living thing in the world? What lives longer than anything else?’ ”
 
     “A tree,” Charlie said.
Explanation:
 
Mr. Wonka had already used his skills to make Wonka-Vite to make the grandparents strong and young. But it had backfired and his plans were altered. Now Willy Wonka has to put the rest of the plan of saving the astronauts to rest and busy himself with the job of creating an antidote. He sets to work by rolling up the sleeves of his shirt. Generally, people roll up their sleeves when they are about to perform a tiring or long task to aid them in the process. He squeezed his brain, as in he had to think from all the angles to get them out of the difficult situation. He set out to make a new recipe to make the grandparents come back to existence again.
 
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Potions and chemicals
 
The grandparents had gone out of existence as a result of  a strong overdose. So Willy Wonka prepares to make a reversal potion. He has to create the concept of age itself, as the grandparents have ceased to exist. He also says that it is a stage by stage process. He has to first make them be born, then a litter older for around ten or twelve years, then a little more to twenty years and so on until he reaches the original age eighty-seven. When he keeps talking about getting older, an idea for the recipe strikes him. He asks Charlie as to what was the oldest living thing that exists in the world. He wants him to think and answer as to what lives for the longest even when humans cease to exist. Charlie very promptly answers that trees are the only living things that can continue to exist even after a long time.
 
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The grandparents transformed into babies
 
Trees live for a long time as they have unique stem cells that allow at least a part of a tree to retain intact even if it does not apply for the whole. Trees are immortals as they have Meristems which has the capacity to repair any internal damages. Trees, if not damaged by external sources, can live across centuries.
 
Meaning of difficult words:
 
S.No
Words
Meaning
1
SleevesThe part of the dress that covers one's arms
2
SqueezeTo press firmly
3
BackfireThe opposite of the expected result
4
RecipeInstructions to prepare a dish/potion
5
PromptlyVery quickly
6
MeristemsA plant tissue found on the tips of the root and shoot of the plant
Reference:
National Council of Educational Research and Training (2007). Honeycomb. The Invention of Vita-Wonk- Roald Dahl (pp. 99-106). Published at the Publication Division by the Secretary, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi.