III. Reading skills

Ex. 1. Read the text and get its central idea and say where the caste system derived from.

Ex. 2. Read the text again and note important details. Divide the text into logical parts, find the key sentences in each part.

Ex. 3. Find in the text and read aloud sentences that prove that...

1. the caste system prevented the Aryans from being assimilated by the native population;

2. the Rig Veda gives a story of human creation;

3. the indigenous Indian people fell outside the Aryan classes;

4. the Aryan classes were subdivided into castes;

5. the caste determined all the sides of a person's life;

6. to get too close to anyone not on a person's level meant defilement;

7. belonging to this or that caste was a result of an earlier life of an individual.

Ex. 4. List the items of Ex. 3 in the order in which they come in the text.