A crowd of people with umbrellas on the banks of the Ganges

Vocabulary Items bank (river), boat, coast, Ganges, to get on/off, to hold, to light, rainy season, river, to swim/float, to throw, umbrella, water

Lesson Topics religious elements -Varanasi and the Ganges (religious significance); religious practices -daily practices at the banks of the Ganges, men's and women's duties; seasons - the monsoon; weather;

Grammar Points conditional; relative/co-relative sentences;

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