21st february of BD

1. WELCOME
MY DEAR STUDENTS

2. AlamKhan
Assistant Teacher of English
Boalia Secondary School
Chitalmary ,Bagerhat

3. Class:ix
Sub:English 1st
paper
Unit:Three,Lesson:3+ 4

4. Look at the picture.
Talk about it.
Are you familiar with this picture?
Where is it?
Which date is related to it?
What language do you speak?

5. Title: International mother language
day.

6. 21st
February
• Memorable day in our national history.
• Observe the day every YEAR as
INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY.
• The day is a national holiday.

7. Undivided Pakistan
• People pay tribute to the martyrs,on this
day,who establish Bangla as a state language in
undivided PAKISTAN in 1952.
• The seed of the language movement was sown
on 21 March 1948.

8. Mohammad Ali Zinnah
The Governor General of
PAKISTAN, 1948

9. • At a public meeting in
Dhaka
• Mohammad Ali
Zinnah declared that
Urdu would be the
only official language
of Pakistan.

10. Language movement
• The declaration raised a storm of protest in the East
Pakistan.
• The protest continued non-stop,gathering momentum
day by day.
• It turned into a movement and reached its climax in
1952.

11. • The government
outlawed all sorts of
public meetings and
rallies to prevent
movement.

12. • The students of
Dhaka University
defied the law.
• They brought out a
peaceful protest
procession on 21
February 1952.

13. • The procession reached near Dhaka Medical
College.
• The police opened fire on the students.
• They killed Salam,Rafiq,Barkat and Jabbar.

14. OUTCOMES
This kindled the sparks of
independence movement of
Bangladesh.

15. 21st
February---Shaheed Dibosh
• The occasion begins at the early hours of the day with
mourning songs.
• People wear black badges and go to the Shaheed Minar
barefoot in procession,singing mourning songs.
• They place wreaths at the Minar.

16. Azimpur graveyard
• People visit the
graves of the martyrs
to pray for them.

17. UNESCO
U=United
N=Nations
E=Educational
S=Scientific
AND
CO=Cultural Organisation

18. UNESCO‘S Proclamation
• On 17 november in 1999 UNESCO
proclaimed February 21 as International
Mother Language Day.
• In recognition of the sacrifices of the
martyrs for the rightful place of Bangla.
• The Day observed worldwide annually.