The six lessons
which you have gone through should make you feel reasonably comfortable
with the formation of simple sentences. By now
you may be in a position
to read and understand sentences which may include words not yet known
to you, by looking up the meaning of the word. All along, the lessons have
presented sentences in the present tense (mostly). For the first time,
we formally introduce past tense in this lesson.
The lesson deals with an
abstract concept, that of creation of the universe. In India, the scriptures
are quite clear about the process of creation though today, the scientific
mind may not accept the theory. The point is not whether the theory makes
sense or not but how the language is used to express abstract ideas, The
language that we have used here is quite simple and this should make it
easy for you to follow the lesson.
The lesson is also cast as
a story told by a grandfather to his grandchildren. Hence expressions heard
during conversation between
elders and children also
find a place in the lesson.