Want to write a perfect summary? Try following these 7 simple techniques!
Sometimes we were asked to summerize a writing or to write in our own words. We want to express in our own point of view as well as summerizing.
But when we try to do so we become confused about where to start and where to finish and what topics should we highlight.
**In one of my previous articles I've mentioned that I'm a part time English teacher and I've two students at a college level.**
**In my students syllabus they have a question name write a summary of the given passage and they need to write the summary.**
First I studied how to write a perfect summery and tried to teach them. Though they are still learning hope one day they will be perfect enough to get full marks on summary writing.
Than I realized these techniques we can also implement on our real life too. Not only in the exam hall we continuously need to express our thoughts , express a summary.
This is one of the most common practice in our day to day life. As we don't know the techniques sometimes we can't express ourselves in a most perfect way.
For example after reading a story book when we are told to express the insights of the book we fall into great dilemma. We become confused about what to say and what don't need to say.
Here I'll share some of the techniques of how to write a good summary that I personally follow and teach my students.
If you maintain these simple techniques I can assure you at least you'll not fall into dilemma from now on.
You'll be much more confident when expressing your thoughts and also summerize something.
I think you've already understand what is the topic of my today's article so no more talks let's dive into the discussion now.
**Imagine you've a x-ray vision and can see everything what is hidden inside**
What a general x-ray machine does? It scans through our body and can see the bone structures inside of our body.
Imagine you've that scanning power too and after reading a passage or story you can scan what this story is built on.
**For example focus on**
**1)What is the main theme of the passage and try to relate it with the real life.**
Say if the passage is about bad effects of smoking than focus on what does the passage speaks.
**2)What is the starting point of the main theme and when it ends.**
We all know that a passage have different parts e.g. introduction, elements, main body, conclusion etc. If your passage have these parts too than focus on the main body.
**3) You've focused on the main body already now look closely what this passage is trying to say? Say the passage is about how to lessen your electric bill.**
Than if the passage is giving solutions than oviously you'll summarise the solutions only.
**4)If your passage is explanatory or descriptive than start writing your summary in a descriptive way.**
**5)Use wide range of vocabulary and try not to use the same words that used in the main passage**
I always tell my students if grammar is the heart of your writing than vocabulary is like artery and veins. As long as your your heart is pumping blood than diverse use of vocabulary will take to every corner of your body. Here body means your writing.
As I've said try to use similar ones instead of copying word's from the main passage. This will make your writing more interesting to read and listen.
Here you're told to write a summary in your own words not an essay
My students also make this mistake often. They forget they were asked to summerize. Summery means making something short but it should have everything as the main passage have.
So you need to write a shorter version having every characteristics of the main passage.
**If you need to share your thoughts or need to write with your own words than listen:**
**6) If want to write from your own perspective than emphasize on practical life experiences.**
By doing so, you'll never run out of topics. As we experience a lot of things everyday so we will have a huge collection of experience.
**7) What would you do if you are there in the passage say you already know the consequences of smoking than you can write what would you do to stop smoking.**
Say you've a smoker friend than you can express how did you stop your friends smoking.
Before you start writing than get together your ideas first. Think first what topics you'll emphasize and what topics you'll skip. Only this way you'll never miss any important topic.
My students start writing without any thinking or proper planning. Than write few sentences than just like everyone fall into dilemma what things they will include.
To avoid these kind of circumstances make a proper plan as well as following the above mentioned techniques.
**Here I'm sharing a little secret of myself and from this you'll be benefitted from it too just like me.Every single time I write something I make a plan in my head as well as in my notepad.**
Drowned in social media sickness? Think this 3 matters twice!
**Social media's on one side the most useful communication tool and on the other side a time killing tool.**
Well that depends on the user whether he uses for the right purpose or just wasting time. But at a time social media users may discover they are actually wasting time a lot.
These realisations came to me one time and I was thinking how can I get rid of this social media addiction.
But first I've investigated social medias not only creating addiction but also impacting our mental health too.
**Now here is my investigation report you will find it very relatable because once you've also felt and experienced the same like me.**
**Here is how various kinds of social medias harming our mental health with explanations.**
**We always share only good times of life in social media.**
We have some friends who keeps uploading pictures going out to restaurants, hanging out with friends, going to tours , eating on a five star restaurant. I've seen some people and I'm sure that you've also seen the same kind of people in your friendlist.
Now you can ask me if they are uploading that kind of photos or statutes what is wrong with it? The answer is in the name.
We call it social media. You may have thousands of dollars in your pocket but there are lots of people in your friend list who lives very hardly. These people feel poorly inferior.
This is a pandemic situation we all are going through struggles , economical problems.
Imagine what those people's think when they see a person is always chilling out and as they don't have any money they are inferior.
Well don't take me otherwise I'm not telling you to stop uploading pictures. I'm just calculating the outcomes and results of our stupidity on the mass people.
From my perspective whenever I go to restaurants I never upload photos of foods because I know there are a lot of people who don't get enough food to eat. We have the ability to buy foods that doesn't mean we will upload photos of food continuously.
Let's keep in a moderate level. As a lot of people watch our photos on timeline let's think twice what impacts can bring before uploading our statuses.
As people always share their good times on social media you can think that only you are going through struggles.
Its a quite simple psychological feeling. There are millions of people in world after seeing the good statuses you can easily feel only you are dealing with hardship in this world. Sometimes we may feel depressed and started blaming our luck and life too.
**Not only depression and inferiority the blue world of social media makes us feel very lonely too. If the above writings are relatable to your life too my techniques can help you to get rid of social media sickness.**
Here I'm sharing what I do to avoid social media sickness and addiction and my techniques.
**This techniques might be very helpful for you too.**
**1) You are not inferior nor a useless person**
Don't judge yourself with others activity and statuses. Yes they are enjoying their life to the fullest you still have time to fight back.
**Now see how ridiculous is that! Your friends are uploading pictures and you are feeling inferior why man?**
Do you really need to watch what others are doing? Who cares what others are doing? Don't you have your own life and own enjoyment?
You've! So why not try to find enjoyment in your own world? And again I'm telling you don't judge yourself with what others are doing.
**Don't waste your time doing this kind of stupidity.**
**2) Using specific app blocker e.g. App Blocker**
For this you don't need to install another app ,you can use your phones built in App Blocker.
**You'll find it in the settings digital wellbeing and parental controls. You can choose your social media using time.**
After you pass your time that specific app will be freezed. If you can't get over your social media temptation this is the perfect way to do so.
**3)Put your phone by your side think and explore what other things to do beside social media.**
This is an exceptional way and this is the way how I get rid of social media sickness. In the last seven days I've decorated my study wall with paper made butterflies.
I put my phone away and staring at my wall. I thought how can I increase the beauty and suddenly hit the idea of making paper made butterflies.
**Me and my brother worked together after seven days my wall became a colourful butterfly hot spot.**
I am confident you've some creativity too and don't waste that using social media blindly.
Now let's summerize here it your personal choice what to do outside social media. I can only give you some ideas that might be helpful for you to rethink.
**Again I'm telling you don't get drowned into the blue world of social media sickness. Don't let your productivity waste away.**
**Watching people hanging out with friends will only make you feel inferior and nothing at all.**
"I'll struggle for my child's till my last breath!" My neighbors untold story
Instead of reading story books I would like to explore real life stories around me. I like to hear and feel the stories of people happening in every milliseconds around me.
Here in this article I'll be sharing a story of a struggling mother who recently got divorced by her husband.
**As she is my neighbour I heard all the details of her journey and I find her story a motivating, eye opening, fighting and brave one.**
She once said that she will fight for her children's betterment and will do anything to save them untill her last breath. Whether she find anyone beside her or not,as she is a single mother, her children's are now her world and everything.
**The beginning of her miserable days:**
Her name is Taasnia. She is the fourth daughter of her family and at a very early age she lost her mother.
After her mother passed away her father was the only earning source of her family. He was a village school teacher and they are living very hardly.
As Taasnia grew older she saw the sufferings of her sisters and her family. She than stop studying because bearing educational expenses was quite impossible for her.
After she dropped out from school, she started working as a garment worker. She hardly earned 120 dollars per month from her job.
**As urban life is very much expensive it is clear that with that amount of money surviving in a city become impossible.**
After her father retired from teaching, he became paralyzed. Soon their family lost another earning source. Taasnia has a sister at college level.
Taasnia knew the importance of education so she tried her best to continue her sisters education.
As she is my neighbour she loves to share her stories with me.
I sat beside her and listened to her stories whenever I got time.She once told me she became very tired of life and life also seems like paralyzed.
**Taasnia was married at the age of 19,at a very young age.In our society women's are not safe anywhere not outside nor home.**
After her marriage, misfortune grips her life more tightly. **Her marriage life was not a happy one like others ,like everyone dreamt of. Her husband was a ruthless, merciless and very hard person.**
Every single day I heard her crying because after coming from office her husband bit her for no reason. Some said her husband used to take drugs that's why he became more violent.
Sometimes for small mistakes she was almost bitten to death. Blood leaked from her noses.
**Why a husband instead of loving his life partner used to torture? Taasnia was a victim of home violence.**
In the seven years of her marriage they became parents of two very sweet child one is boy and the other is girl.
Everyone thought that after becoming parents her husband will become a normal person. But it was a false assumption.
**Not a single night passed without quarreling and fighting in her seven years of marriage.**
She said to me with a very sad voice that she didn't get happiness in her family. She expected she would get some affection and love in her marriage life. But all her expectations went in vain after her marriage.
**I've read an article on a newspaper that in this pandemic home based violence increased heavily mostly on women and child.**
As people lost their jobs, they become more frustrated and depressed with their lifes.
**But instead of working hard they expressed their frustration in a very hateful way.**
**She was divorced in last month in November**
Taasnia never imagined that this kind of situation will ever happened to her life. Just like every evening both husband and wife are fighting.
At a point he divorced her and left her without taking any responsibilities of two child's.
**How can a father can do this to his children's?**
In my life I've never seen this kind of terrific and bad mannered father who never looks after his children's.
She takes a bow and will not get married anymore
She than said to me with a heavy heart everyone left me my mother, my father and today my husband. Now only my two children's are my world. Though my earnings are very low to feed them but I'll fight until my last breath.
She also had a bitter taste of her married life and she takes a strong determination that no matter what happens to me I'll not get married anymore.
**Here the findings I've explored from listening to her story.**
**1) The only way to stop home violence on women is to empower women's.** If our women's are self dependent so that they will not have to depend on their husbands anymore.
**2) Before getting married to someone especially girls family should be careful.** As we know that a simple mistake can done a lot damage in life. They should go through the groom's profile again and again.
**3)Being silent and tolerating every misdeeds of husband can be very harmful.** Silence is not the answer to stop this kind of violence.
**So if you are a women and don't want to be a home violence victim try your best to become a self dependent women first than marry.**
How I teach my brother to fight against bullying in school
Bullying someone in public or in front of someone is a offensive crime.You can't bully someone only because of her face is dark or height is short or any physical characteristics.
A person is not responsible for his physical characteristics and this is not matter of fun.
But it's true that in every society there are some people who used to bully only for physical characteristics.
These bad minded people exist in every part of the world and they just do it for fun purpose. Personally I hate bullying and those persons too who bully others.
I've also experienced this kind of situations but I knew how to handle these things very well.
So this is the story of my brother who used to be a victim of bullying everyday in his school days.
Here the advices I've given to him to fight back against those people.
My brother was a teen-ager and you know that it is very hard to bear the pain of being bullied for a teen-ager.
If you are a teen-ager and reading my article you'll get to know to get over these stupid things.
Not only in teenage time , bullying can take place in any time of life. **If you are experiencing this in any stage of life, this tips might be helpful for you.**
Teenage mind is very impulsive, shaking and emotional.This is the age when a person go through several mental changes.
We all have go through these mental instabilities in our life. So we know the feelings don't we? At that age if a person is bullied for no reason imagine how bad consequences it can bring?
**Here are the few things I've taught my little brother to handle the situation more conveniently.**
**1)First rule of survival is to ignore what you are hearing and watching**
Look! You may be short in height or dark in skin tone it's quite natural. Every person in the world is different from each other and that's how the world works.
There are huge diversity of people living in peace and harmony together from the start of the civilization.
Than who are these people to judge others height or skin colour? Who gave these people the power of judgement? Why do they bully others?
Only because they are frustrated with their own life that's why they show their frustration in a demoralising way. Now you know why do they judge others. It's better not to engage with them just ignore can work as a tonic.
They try one day two day or at least one month after seeing your reluctancy they will let you go.
My brother applied in his real life and do you know the best part? They didn't bully my brother not a single time later.
**2) Do not let your emotions come out e.g. Do not cry in front them**
I know this is very insulting but do not let your emotions come out.
You need to be stronger from inside so that any signs emotional instability doesn't reveal.
If you had to face those people than try your best to avoid eye contact. Don't get hurt by their talks because they will do it to hurt you.
So you know their intention,act accordingly. They will try their everything to make you feel bad. Don't take any decision emotionally.
**3) Never reveal your internal weaknesses to anybody.**
As long as you can keep your secrets only to your own self you are safe.Those douches will always try to discover your internal weaknesses.
If you don't let them find your weaknesses as long, they will think that you are strong from the inside and will let you go.
Sometimes this is also seen that ,you've shared your personal stories with somebody and he leaked to everyone else in the class. Before sharing and trusting other person observe him closely.
If you think he is trustworthy than you can share. But I've told my brother whoever it is, never ever share your weaknesses to anyone. Because a person can change in a second.
**4)Always wearing a killing smile like Heath ledger**
They are bullying you again, again and again. Instead giving them reply or overreacting or showing your emotions you are giving them a sweet smile.
Imagine that moment how much effective that killing smile can be? I can assure you this smile will make them feel nothing but some stupid folks. After that they will not waste a single moment behind you.
**5) Making new friends and keeping them close**
If you stay lonely those people will take this chance.My brother is a person of introvert personality.
As you know these peoples love to stay in their own world.
Try to make new friends and stay with them all day. If you can build a strong friend circle you and your friends can easily fight back bullying boldly.
These are the tips I've shared with my brother and he is getting the good results implementing in his life.
**Now he is brave and rigid one to fight back the odd consequences of life. So, never break down listening the stupid talks.**
Imagine you've a magic lamp! 5 wishes you shouldn't wish to genie!
Yesterday,on weekend I've watched an amazing movie named Disney's Aladdin. Those who have watched this movie already know the story.
Genie gives Aladdin three wishes and Aladdin wished three times three different things.After watching that movie an idea of writing an article come to my mind.
I'm not telling the whole story because there are some people who may not watched the movie yet and I don't want to give spoiler to them.
**Here in my article I'll try to write what wishes should not be wished to genie.**
**Let's imagine you've a magical lamp and you've only three wishes and those wishes will be accomplished as soon as you wish.**
So what will be your ultimate three wishes that can change your life forever but any wrong wish can worsen your life.
**Now you need to be more judgemental before wishing for anything. Though it's just a imaginative story let's discuss it from a different perspective.**
**1)No amount of money can satisfy your inner self and it doesn't matter how much money you wish for it is still countable.**
You can ask for billion dollars but still it can be calculated how much money you have. We may think that only money can keep ourselves satisfied,calm and happy but money is a name of sorrow and unhappiness too. Imagine you've received billion dollar overnight what is the first you'll do?
I can assure you you'll never be that normal presently you are. You'll feel that everyone beside you is thief and they are trying to steal your money.
Besides money is a worldly thing. In this world how much year shall we live? 60 years or 70 years or 80 years?
After our death is it possible to take our money to our graveyard? No this is never possible. Now you can ask me so why people run after money after birth?
Because to survive in this planet earth, money is important I've no doubt on that. But too much of it can really squeeze your happiness out from you.
On the contrary there are thousands of people out there who is food less, homeless and deprived of everything.
If we can do something from them buying them foods only that will be the best use of money.
If we can create a smile in the pale faces that will be the best use of money. It's just a simple example if you look around or think out from the traditional money making bias you'll realize.
I also agree on using money for personal causes. But again I'm telling you too much of it can seriously take away happiness, delightfulness and complacency.
Now it's time to choose how much money is needed and how much of it is nothing but a heavy burden?
We need money of course but we don't need thousands and thousands of dollars which will go in vain after we passed away. Money can't keep ourselves alive forever.
**2) You can wish for becoming the most powerful man in the universe but without a master you are nothing but a useless entity.**
As I've watched movie and realized it's definitely true.
**3) You can wish to bring someone back from dead but can you imagine how bad consequences it can also bring?**
Death is a natural phenomenon and every single living existence will have to go through death. Death is a part of life and if there is life there must be death.
**4)You can wish for becoming the most happiest man in the whole world but I've question for you can genie really give you happiness unless you didn't give it to yourself?**
Happiness is a very much abstract and relative matter. Some people find happiness in the smile of innocence on the other hand there are some people too who find happiness ruining some others life.
No can give you happiness if you don't try to achieve it.
**5)You can wish for a huge amount valuable resources like tons of gold,silver or other riches.**
You may also think that this will keep you happy and you'll be become the most richest man in the world over night.
Just go through the lines again and again will it really keep you happy or just take away your sleep.
If you posses that much wealth you'll need to think how save them from thefts and other dangers.
Now you can sleep very peacefully but with that amount of riches you'll only think about saving those instead of sleeping. On the other hand you may become target of looters easily.
I think peaceful sleep hundred times better than possessing that amount of riches. After getting those amounts of riches you'll think that your previous life was much better.
To sum up my whole writing let me keep a question for you.
**Isn't it wise to wish for something worldly or that is really important to live?**
**If you ask me to be honest I would like to wish for sleeping peacefully without any worries of life.**
Before you take that jump consider this 5 things first! Be strong!
Few days ago I have watched a video while I was scrolling through my newsfeed.
A man who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder one day decided to commit suicide by jumping off from the golden gate bridge.
As soon as he jumped off the cliff, he realized that he had done a great mistake but it was too late. As he hit the water very hard he broke his legs and unable to move his muscles.
**When he is drowning inch by inch and regretting for his mistake a miracle happened.**
Two sea lions saved his life that day. By watching that video I got inspiration to write something about this worst decision.
I've heard a lot of stories from the survivors of suicide attempt taker's that they realized they were doing the greatest mistake of their life.
Isn't it odd that a person only understand this when he was taken the worst decision of life.
**Now here is my article is about before you take the worst decision of life please I beg you consider these things.**
****1) Will it solve everything or you just making your problems more complex.****
No! This is not going to solve any of your physical,mental or economical problems. Suicide is not the solution you are thinking hence you just taking the worst decision of your life.
Whatever the problem you are drowned into , go through the key points again and again. Try to find out what really is bothering you?
Is everything your fault or are you responsible for the sufferings of yours? Just go through the questions and soon you'll realized that you've find more fruitful way to solve your problems.
****2) Pay a visit to ICU ( Intensive care unit) before doing anything stupid****
In ICU unit you'll find people in between life and death. You'll find people fighting with life and death in every second they pass there.
They don't wish for death rather they want to live another Day. If they are young they want to hug there loved ones once more. If they are older they want to experience the mesmerising fall another year.
In the ICU unit you'll find how people want to live another Day , another hour and another minute.
In the above circumstances how can you take the most stupid decision of your life? Only than you'll realize how much valuable a life is!
****3) Do all of us living our life problem free?****
If you think that you are the only victim of life you are wrong. Some people don't share their sufferings that doesn't mean they are living their life amazingly.
We, every single being,I can assure you not perfect and all have problems in their respective life. Do all of us take the stupid decision?
No we are not taking any decision rather we want to keep fighting until our last breath. Now if you don't find any reason to fight for anything ,focus on your life.
You are not fighting for anyone or anything instead you are fighting for your own soul, for your own life. Nobody matters in your life untill you know the value of your own existence.
****4) We all have a purpose in our life to accomplish****
Look we all have come to this earth not to just eat,sleep or to be failure or something. We all have a destiny and the ultimate purpose of our life is to fulfill our destiny by following the flow of life.
If I want to say more precisely say you can make people smile or you have this extraordinary ability to make a gloomy face a smiley one.
There are thousands of people out there who is in great distress or suffering from diseases eventually he would forget how to smile.
If you can make that person smile this will the greatest achievement of your life because you are destined to make a dark sad face to a everlasting smiley one.
Always remember that we all have purpose in our life and don't do anything stupid which will not let you complete your destiny.
****5) Try to feel our mother's sacrifice****
We passed almost nine month in our mother's womb. In this nine month all the mothers of the world fight everything for their child to make him see the daylight.
A mother would sacrifice everything even her life just to save her baby.
I've heard a lot of stories where mother failed to survive but the child survived. Now try to feel the mothers sacrifice and ask yourself a question what makes you take the stupid decision?
These are the five things we must consider before taking any rough decision.
**I have a request if you see someone your friend who is in emotional trouble give him time.**
**All the countries have National Suicide Prevention Call Centre or toll free mental health counseling service If you see your friend is doing something stupid like call there and seek for help.**
**Let's live together strongly to watch the sunrise again tomorrow.**
Coursera:an outstanding example of distance learning
We spent a lot of time from our everyday life only scrolling through the newsfeed, watching movies, gossiping with friends, streaming songs or playing video games and much more.
As of the pandemic situation seems like these idol times have increased dramatically.
But what if we pass one hour by taking an online course that will be very much fruitful for our professional life?
What if we pass that lazy time of ours by doing something productive which is very much meaningful than wasting time in the internet?
Look we all have internet access don't we? So why not taking this opportunity to improve our life, future and situation altogether?
I think you've already guessed what will be the context of my article? Yes today I'll be talking about an extraordinary productive activity than can keep you ahead of the curve and you can conduct it from your from.
Let's take a vow today at least we'll do something productive or learn something meaningful that will help us in the future. Look I'm not telling you to study whole day I'm just telling you to be more functional and productive.
From the starting of the pandemic I've done various courses and I'm one hundred percent sure that these learnings and insights will be more helpful for me in the future.
Internet is a media where we can make ourselves a global citizen very easily on the other hand if we misuse the blessings of internet we can be diverted from our ultimate destination.
So its time to choose whether you'll destroy yourself or be someone who can change the world.This is must be a wise choice to use internet to enlighten ourselves and to prepare ourselves for the future.
Coursera , you've heard the name before I guess. Yes you can pass your idol times completing one courses from this outstanding learning platform.
**One thing I must mention that all this things are free of cost! Isn't it amazing that you are learning and you don't have to pay for that?**
In Coursera you'll find learning materials from the top ranked universities along the top ranked teachers modules. All these opportunities brings to your home by this amazing platform,Coursera.
To study in top ranked universities are one of our dreams.Sometimes our dreams comes true,some succeed too.
But I'm talking about others you can get the opportunity of getting quality education from the top ranked universities from Coursera.
****Here are the other benefits:****
**You can choose your own time based on your schedule.**
**You can search for your own personal courses according to your need and likeliness.**
**You can also complete your desired courses on your own. Upon completion of the courses you'll get a certificate. You can add this certificate to your CV.**
When you are going to apply for a job you application will get priority.
****Now here are the basics of how to start learning on Coursera.****
**First of all you need to sign up by using your Facebook or Google account.**
**You can also open a free Coursera account on your own.**
**After you've done the paperwork's all the learning opportunities will be at your premises.**
If you want to pursue any online course or want to know the details you can visit here:
https://www.coursera.org/
Now if you need to study a particular course you can just search for your desired course on the search option.
Say you are interested on internet related courses. You can search by typing the specific topic name.
Business, Data science, Information technology or Computer science courses you can easily get on Coursera. Some of these courses are taken by great institutions like Google,IBM.
You've Internet access, smartphone or PC have all the equipment at your hand so why wasting time scrolling through the newsfeed?
**Let's start together doing something productive and start preparing for the struggles of future.**
Fruits to jelly: an interesting journey of fruits
Fruits irrespective of the colour,shape or size is the ultimate source of vitamin and nutrients. These are the building blocks of our body.
To enjoy a healthy and disease free life we must take some fruits on our daily diet.
We all have a soft corner for fruits and all have particular choice of fruit. But do you know that these fruits are the raw materials of jam,jelly or juices.
But you'll wonder knowing that jam jelly's that we consume today, in the previous centuries these methods are used to preserve fruits for a very long time.
Day by day it has become a daily diet of our every day life.Jam,jelly or juices has become a must have part of our dinning table.
To make jelly different types of fruits are used and these are used to maintain different flavours.
For example jelly's made from Mango, Pineapple and Guava are available in every chain shop's. So today in my article I'll share an amazing journey of fruits and how they become jam and jelly.
Though we all have different particular choice but all the fruits have to go through the same path for becoming a jar of jelly. To be honest I love jelly's made from oranges.
The first step is to pick up fruits from the farmers garden. When picking up the fruits the best quality is ensured. But do you know that some fruits were picked ripe and some picked raw.
**All it takes 12 to 24 hours to reach at the factory.** They need to hurry because if the fruits reach to the factory late than the good quality will be lost.
Jam or jelly, the process starts with sugar and a chemical element named Pectin. Juice is used to make jelly and the body of the fruit is used to make jam. Most interesting fact is when the question of jelly comes some vegetables also attend there.
Sugar is used mainly to make the jelly more sweet and some cases e.g. Apple, Berry, Grape's it is used to condense the liquid mixture**.In order to make the jelly more flavoursome some other elements like vanilla is added.**
When the fruits finally reached at the factory than they again go through a special quality checking. These checkings ensure the quality of jam or jelly.
Only the fruits passed the quality test can move forward to the next step. **In the next step they go through a funnel where the fruits were washed , cut and mashed**.
Continuous flow of water makes the washing process more accurate. Now it's the time to choose there destiny.
**If the batch is selected for the production of jelly than only the juices were picked and if jam than the main body is picked.**
**In the next step fresh juice were dumped into a huge oven where it was cooked at the temperature of 212 degree Fahrenheit and about to cool down very shortly.**
The cool down process is done very rapidly. If any extra flavour is needed to add , they add it in this step. After cooling down the liquid juice get condensed and move towards next step. Can you name what the next step is?
Yes the jelly is finally made and the batch is finally start moving towards the filling station. Jelly came from one way and the containers came from one way by a belt. The container gets filled with a blink of an eye.
Here is the last step of the successful journey. In this step labelling is done and go to the storage unit. From the storage jelly goes to the shop and than to our dinning table. That is how after a completing a long journey it reaches our food table.
Here is my last two talks. We just eat our food and don't know how these foods are made and **how much labor a farmer gave behind a red apple**. We should know the background stories of farming because this is one of the most underrated profession.
**Just imagine if the farmers stops cultivating foods how can we get food to eat?** Let's respect the farmers who work that hard to keep us free from hunger and **let's take a vow today we will not waste a single slice of food from today.**
Geography Now! The best geographical learning channel!
**Geography always fascinates me and I know a lot of people who loves geography too.**
If you are a explorer or loves to explore the world and if you don't have money to bear expenses than you can explore the world easily through the eyes of geography.
There are almost two hundred plus countries and regions around the world. They all have distinct culture, practice, social system and rituals, nature, language etc.
Who doesn't love to explore the world and getting familiar with the new traditions.
All these things you can learn , experience , feel for free through geographical learnings. You'll see mountains you never heard about.
You'll feel diverse people's lives you never imagined. You'll hear thousands of stories around the world from the books of geography.
Some of us have a passion deep inside their heart to see the world once.
They want to roam **from the cold Antarctica to the hot Saharan desert, from dry Australian grasslands to icy Alaskan mountains,from north American forest to the densely populated Asian countries.**
But these sometimes remains as a incomplete dream because of shortage of money.
But if you take the cruise of geography, it will never ask you for money rather it will take you an adventure of lifetime you'll remember for a long time. Only through the study of geography you can explore the riches of cultural diversity.
For that reason I'm a big fan of geographical learnings and insights. As I don't have enough money to watch the world by myself I take help of geography. So if you want to set out for a journey this article will be helpful for you.
In YouTube, I have found an outstanding geographical YouTube channel that will help you learn and explore the world of natural diversity.
Now let's make it clear why I'm telling about exploring on YouTube. If you learn something visually ,along with auditory senses these learnings will last longer than anything.
Moreover you'll be able to feel the real nature by the visual presentation. All these things is missing on the dry book pages.
Geography now is the best, I've seen by far.There presentation system is well organized.Most interestingly, you'll find every countries details in their playlist. You can learn and explore the whole world very conveniently.
Literally if you want to know about an unknown African country named Senegal you'll find it there. Now let me ask you a question do you heard about Senegal before? How many African countries can you name?
**YouTube channel name:**
**Geography now**
**Here is the link of that YouTube channel:**
https://youtube.com/c/GeographyNow
When they describe about a country they mainly discuss on location so that you can get the exact location of that country.
It is must to know the countries location and where it is situated.
Mostly the neighbouring countries you should know.
**They describe the demographic information, cultural , economical views, natural sights very precisely.**
In the cultural section you'll find everything of that country.
I,loved their every content just for their presentation.Here we are, if you want to roam around the world and to experience multicultural practices by sitting your home this can be a very good choice.
As for the pandemic, there are travel restrictions. That means you can't get anywhere now.
We all are accustomed to stay at home. But we still have chance to take a look at the world from our bedroom. Let's never stop learning and exploring.
**And if you want to know about other best YouTube geography learning channels you can visit here:**
https://blog.feedspot.com/geography_youtube_channels/
**Let's explore the unknown together from our home having a cup of coffee!**
2 simple app to reduce smartphone addiction! Be more productive!
Smartphone addiction, nowadays has become a matter of concern undoubtedly. Those who are addicted to their smartphone now trying to lessen their addiction.
But first you need to get over your own self. The way you are using your smartphone, seems like your hand,eyes and ears are glued to the 6 inch screen.
At the beginning I also had the same kind of addiction to smartphone and I hardly went outside of my room.
This is a malpractice and hampering not only your valuable time but also your physical health to be sure.
So I was thinking how can I lessen my smartphone addiction because when I wake up in the morning first thing I search where is my phone?
I am one hundred percent sure most of us do the same thing. After waking up, opening those eyelids I search my phone.
It is high time to stop this addiction and do something at least outside phone.
Those who work on phone you also need to take a break often.
Working on phone hours after hours hampers productivity. So here in my article I'll be writing about how to reduce your smartphone addiction. I'll introduce two apps to you and they'll help you.
**First, you need to have strong promise and hard will to reduce your addiction.**
**If you don't have these, no matter what you do you'll never be able to get over your addiction.**
Build a strong will inside you that you don't overuse your phone from today and strong promise that you'll spend one hour outside this six inch screen.
**Forest: stay focused**
Imagine you've a piece of land and in every second this place is getting greener and greener. You are planting trees and these trees are getting bigger and bigger every second you pass in that land.
But once you stopped watering those plants every single plant died and the place become black and white with no tree left alive. You'll feel this amazing experience in the forest app.
This app will help you to create a forest just like the name and whenever you touch the phone means stop watering the plants your forest will die.
Let's make it more clear for better understanding.
**After you install this app you will see a piece of land and a tree in it.**
**Now choose your time. How much time do you want to stay out of the phone? Say you've chosen 1 hour.**
**In this one hour you'll not be able to use your phone. In the meantime, this app will not give you access to do anything.**
**In 1 hour your little plant will grow bigger and bigger, eventually will create a huge forest. If you use your phone in the middle your plant will die.**
You can peacefully leave your phone ,pass some time outside the phone. The most interesting fact is when you come back after one hour you'll see a forest in front of you.
I, personally loved this idea of creating forest. Those who are in smartphone addiction problem this app might be a gem to you. One thing you can also white list some apps which is for emergency purpose.
Here is the Google play application link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.forestapp
Or you can search Forest in Playstore.
And here is my second application to lessen smartphone addiction.
**Appdetox**
Besides Forest, Appdetox can be a wise choice if you need to smartphone using time. Say you use Facebook too much or plays online games too much.
Now you are thinking to stop using only these particular app. If you use Appdetox you can lock those apps for a specific time.
If you lock down Facebook for one hour at least, after using Facebook for one hour you'll never be able to use this app. That locked app will be freezed.
If you still use locked app Appdetox will send you notification as a reminder. You've passed your time.
Here is the download link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.dfki.appdetox
****To know more about other smartphone addiction reducing apps you can visit here:****
https://www.geckoandfly.com/23509/smartphone-addiction-boost-productivity/
To sum up my writing you can use the above mentioned apps to lessen your smartphone addiction.
**But first you need to have strong promise as I have said earlier. Without promise, no matter what you are using you'll never be able to reduce your smartphone using time.**
Want to study in Europe? Coventry university of Wrocław is open!
**If you are a non European and want to pursue higher education in the European environment than this can be a very good news for you.**
Coventry university, one of the renowned university of London has opened a second campus on Poland.
Non-European students are now being admitted at the undergraduate level at ****the British University Coventry University in Wrocław, Poland.****
Do you know that Coventry University is a high ranked university in the world? It'll be a great opportunity and experience getting a chance to study there undoubtedly. Everyone wants to study in Europe.
**Europe is best known for the qualitative education atmosphere it provides to every students. I can assure you you'll not get this opportunity anywhere in the world.**
I personally would like to study in Europe too that's why I keep myself updated with the latest news. Few days ago I've come to know that a British university is enrolling especially non European students.
If you are a non European student like me this can be a great opportunity for you. Isn't it?
**Here in my article I'll discuss the pros and cons of Coventry University of Poland and there admission process.** If are enthusiastic about study abroad this might be helpful for you.
So recently this British university is in Arklo, Poland Campus opened a second campus there and seeking non-European international students for admission.
The long awaited moment ended with the approval of the Polish Ministry of International Relations.
“By enrolling international students on our Arklow campus, we will be able to create a diverse learning environment,” said John Disman, the university’s vice-chancellor.
Which will build our current students as global citizens. Listening to his generous words,makes me wonder how much promising they can be.
Here in this university you can choose diverse subjects to study.
**You can study digital technology, business management and leadership, aviation management and cyber security at Conventry University's Worklo campus.**
But avobe all the most interesting fact is you can get a degree from the original British university by sitting in Poland. Isn't it a great achievement?
The university now offering admissions in six blocks a year in September, November, January, February, April and June respectively.
Students can also benefitted from the admission procedures. This university is open for all kind of students. You have the opportunity to be admitted either part time or full time.
However, part-time students have to complete their studies in the desired subjects in four blocks and twelve blocks a year.
Language is big problem to study abroad. Most of us get backlog in the question of language. Sometimes you need to learn local language. In that case you don't need to learn Polish.
Although the university is in Poland, the language of instruction will be English.
The most happiest thing is that you don't have to take the pressure of exams at the end of the year.Building Career is also an important for students.
Besides study this university will give you opportunity to build your career.
To know more about the admission process and the university you can simply visit here:
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/news/2020/wroclaw-non-eu-students/
If you want to study abroad with a whole new polish environment ,you can try this University and here in this link you'll find how to apply on this University and other requirements.
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/wroclaw/study/how-to-apply/
**As study abroad enthusiast, on my next articles I'll try to come with other amazing opportunities.**
How I fight with this pandemic: Momma's kitchen our homemade food journey
The Covid-19 pandemic hit badly all around the world, my life was also get hitted by it. Before the pandemic, I was passing a very good normal life without any economical problems.
Covid-19 hit my beautiful city also and soon it become a ghost town. I'm a student my life also changed. I had some tuitions eventually I lost all of them.
As a student you'll feel economical crisis is like bone cracking crisis of life that particular time.
**This is the story article of my fighting days. Though the pandemic didn't end yet, I'm still fighting with aspirations.**
****Lockdown month of April: Where the fighting starts****
My city went full lockdown on the first morning of April. I didn't know how will I get money or how will I pass these days without any earning. If you are from a middle class family you'll understand easily.
They don't have any kind of savings. How will they save? At the end of the month they have already finished there earning. They earn that little.
Soon I've realized that my savings have already finished. And the most rough truth is if you are from a middle class family, you can't beg for money.Their self respect is much more higher than any other person.
They will die in hunger but they won't utter to anyone about their sufferings. You'll never feel what kind of depression he or she is going through.
I've passed one month in lockdown and I've felt now I need to do something whatever it is but I need to do something or else I'll die in hunger.
Most importantly I don't have any money to pay rent of my house. The house is not a good person at all. Very bad mannered person, he will not take pandemic in his account. Beside I've a family of my own.
In this kind of situation a lot of people seems to break down.
They lost all of their hope , strength and courage to fight back. Being blessed,from my childhood I didn't lose my faith. I believed I had to fight back and this is become matter of survival nothing else.
I need to survive not only for me but also for my family and loved ones too. All these words are moving here to there inside my head.
****Beginning of my fight back: My own survival****
I've realized, to cope up with the situation, I need money first. I need to create a alternative source to earn money.As for the pandemic,traditional sources of earning become unavailable moreover everything become unstable.
So thought differently and I've discussed everything with my family members.
****Idea of selling homemade foods: One revolutionary step****
**An idea have the power to change the world.An idea can create a revolution.**
Because of the pandemic,people are accustomed to stay inside their house for their own health safety.
All the restaurants become closed because social gathering places can become a Covid-19 hotspot.
**People can't go out to the restaurants and eat.**
**Soon the demand of fast food item's especially home made items increased dramatically.**
As people have nothing to do they start ordering food from the restaurants from home.
As the cooking environment of restaurants are always questionable so people tend to order home made food. People preferred homa made foods very much.
****Journey of Momma's kitchen****
My mother and I decide that I'll sell home made foods online.My mom will prepare the foods according to the orders we get and I'll deliver the foods.
Than I create a Facebook page and start telling about our foods to the people. We sometimes shared our cooking video to show people how much hygiene we've practiced.
We eat food to live and if we eat adulterated food we'll catch various diseases. Practicing hygiene become our first priority. Soon we started receiving orders from the customers.
**Every day from 8 AM to 2 PM is our order receiving time and than 4 PM to 10 PM is the time of my delivery.**
On the earlier days we didn't received that much orders but after two weeks of serving good and healthy foods our "**Momma's Kitchen**" become famous in my area.
As we maintained hygiene very strictly people were much more interested.
To delivery foods fast I've designed a smart delivery process.
I've used my bicycle in that case. The big advantage of using bicycle is fast delivery and having no extra cost.
Everyday we receive almost 15 to 20 orders and it increases slightly in the weekends.
**As the orders are increasing day by day my sister help preparing the foods and I've employed friend to deliver the foods.**
**Last month in November we've sold home made foods worth of 150 USD.**
**All my family members,my friend are putting heart and soul together.**
**Here is my message:**
**Whatever the situation is , you just need a idea to cope up with the situation. Just a simple idea can give you a reason to fight.**
**Don't lose faith. There is a saying with every one door closes and ten more new opportunities open. You need to find the silver lining through your idea. I pray for the lost souls due to pandemic. May almighty bless us all.**
5 significant health benefits of drinking water! Bonus: This app will remind to drink water
Our life is wholly dependent on water. We have been hearing this since our childhood. But why is water's another name is life? Did you search the answer?
A huge percentage of our human body is made up of water. Blood is an important component of our human body.
Almost 90 percent of the blood is mainly water. Water plays an important role in the health of the kidneys and in keeping our body's digestive system active.
When the amount of water in the body decreases, daily activities such as: ****Digestion of food, various functions of the brain, physical work, keeping the cells of the body alive, the work of the organs are severely disrupted.****
It is absolutely impossible to survive without drinking water. There is no substitute for water to keep our body healthy.
****Now let’s get to know in a little wider and informative range, how we are benefiting by drinking water.****
****1) Water helps to produce saliva which is must for digestion process****
When we eat food, saliva is excreted from our mouth glands. The function of this saliva is to help digestion of food and to take the food easily to the stomach.
If adequate amount of saliva is not excreted, it will take a long time for the food to be digested and the food will not reach the stomach easily. Saliva reduces the amount of friction when the food reaches the stomach. And water plays an important role in the production of saliva.Drinking water will produce saliva in the mouth.
****2) Water works as a oxygen transporter****
Water plays an important role in transporting oxygen inside our body. Oxygen is transported through the blood and 90 percent of the blood is water I've said earlier.
****3) Water keep our skin fair and healthy****
We need to drink water to keep our skin healthy. When we suffer from dehydration skin burns, some people's skin gets wrinkled. There is no alternative to drinking water to keep our skin healthy.
****4) Water is a fuel of our brain****
We have some very fine functions of the brain, the functions of our spinal cord are hampered by the lack of water.
Hormone production, neuron transmission means that the transport of information from one cell to another is disrupted.
****When our body doesn't have adequate water for a long time, the ability to think, the ability to make decisions gradually disappears and the brain stops working after a certain period of time. To keep it active, we need to drink plenty of water every day.****
****5) Water balances our internal body temperature****
Each of us has a certain body temperature. When we are in the heat or work hard, our body produces heat. This heat comes out in the form of sweat and helps our body to cool down.
But when enough water is preserved it come out in the form of sweat. When we have less water in the body, various complications occur. The heat can't come out and we get sick.
****After working hard, you must take a little rest and drink enough water to make up for the lostl of water in the form of sweat.****
I said at the beginning that the food we eat goes through the process of digestion. It takes a lot of water from the time of eating to the end of digestion.
****Lack of adequate amount of water can cause constipation and acidity problems.****
Our kidneys are working relentlessly to get rid of wastage from our body. Kidney failure means that waste products cannot be expelled from the body and various diseases will be caused.
There is no substitute for water for proper functioning of the kidneys. It comes out through water. Drinking less water can lead to kidney stones. Water also has a role in controlling blood pressure in our body.
Since water is so much important to our body that we forget to drink it most of the time.
**So today in my article I will introduce you to an app that will remind you to drink water every hour as a bonus. You will be benefitted, your body will be healthy eventually.**
****Water drink reminder, you can download it from Google Play Store.****
****You can get this application directly from here:****
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northpark.drinkwater
Then you set the unit of measurement of your choice i.e. millimeter or ounce and give your weight.
**This app will tell you automatically how many liters of water you need to drink daily according to your weight.**
Now click on the amount of water you drank. Suppose you drink 300 ml of a glass of water, you click on it. Above toolbar you will see how many milliliters of water you need to drink.
****Every one hour the app will remind you to drink water. You will get a notification. This is most useful feature of this app that I liked.****
You will remember it whenever you pick up the phone. It is a very useful app to stay healthy especially in daily life.
Even if you forget, the water drink reminder app will forget.
It is not too late, drink water regularly, stay healthy.
**The condition to stay healthy is to drink water and don't forget to thank me later! Just kidding!Stay healthy!**
Accept your weaknesses: You are one step away from the solution
**What we should do when we are searching for solution of a problem?**
**The first requirement for solving any problem is to identify the problem, and to acknowledge that it is indeed a problem.**
If I make a flow chart of problem solving steps then it will be like this.
****1) Identifying the main problem****
****2) Accepting it as a problem****
****3) Finding solutions for the problem****
Because no matter how much we suffer in our life because of a specific problem, if we don't find the root of the problem, or if we don't want to accept it from the heart even after finding it, then it becomes impossible to find a solution.
****Do you wonder why I'm talking about problems and solutions?****
Because the same is true about a person's personality. It is undeniable that none of us as human beings are perfect.We all have many weaknesses, shortcomings.
Now if we want to get rid of them, there is no point in denying or hiding them. If the calculation of something does not match, then you have to open the accounts and keep trying to do the calculation again and again.
**If you keep the books closed, answers will not come.**
So we also need to identify the specific weaknesses than keep focused on that specific problem in order to solve them.
Maybe some of us lie in words. We may use dishonest methods to succeed in any endeavour.
Although we always utter the words of ethics, we engage in immoral activities to protect our own interests. We tend to not accepting our own weaknesses.
**By doing this we no longer want to correct ourselves. So it is a wise decision to start trying to overcome these weaknesses on our own first.**
We can do this with the help of others around us, mostly we ourselves.
****These are the benefits you'll get if you focus on your own weaknesses first.****
****1) You've reached at the root of your problem:****
Let's not be become blind. We should not be blind about ourselves first. This life is ours. Nobody has nothing to do with it. I have a friend of mine who blames me for his failures.
**Can you imagine the same thing happened with you too? Someone is failed in something and put the blame on you.**
How ridiculous and stupidity it is! How can I or you be responsible for someone failures?
If you aren't want to be stupid like my friend and some other people than stop blaming others.
**Focus on your own problems. Why did you fail?You'll get more effective result than, instead of blaming others.**
****2) You'll get enough time as a reward to recover****
Time is the most valuable element of our entire life. If you don't stop blaming others, you'll lose literally your most important times which you can use to recover your loses.
**Once I had a problem of English writing.**
Writing was one of my weaknesses. I realized that the problem was in me. If I didn't accept my problems than, I would never be able to improve my writing.
**If I blamed others for my weaknesses, I would never be able to come up with new ideas of improvement.**
Though I didn't become a great writer indeed my confidence level increased twice than before. Start working with your own self first.
****3) Ten new doors of opportunity will open eventually****
If you accept that you've would've been done better than that or if you accept that you've some weaknesses as you've identified your core problem you'll see that a lot of problem solving doors have opened.
If one solution doesn't workout than you'll have chance to seek another solution. Anything will not happen if you don't accept your weaknesses.
****4) You'll get someone beside you to solve your problems****
I bet if you seek help from someone who really cares for you will help you surely. Because they know what your main problem is.
As you've not lied about your problems, they will help you to reach you above.
Do you know whom I got when I was having problems writing English? I told everything from start to end to my teacher.
What is my strong point and what is my weak point everything. After listening to all my words finally he gave me some beautiful solutions.
**I bet to get the same treatment if you can manage yourself that you've really a problem.**
****5) And finally you wouldn't have to lie****
Some of us have this tendency to hide our problems from people who will help us greatly and keep lying that we don't have any weaknesses but deep down we all know we have.
It will not bring any kind of benefit rather you may lose someone potential to help you. So if you think this is the right person to share your thoughts than don't hesitate for your own sake.
Here my article is all about, a simple mistake we do in our life and we suffer for it.
We will not be able to change anything until we reconstruct our broken self.
**When solving a problem, first thing is to do is identifying the root cause of the problem.**
If your problem is your own weaknesses, you'll not never be able to solve anything until you emphasize them first.
**These should be the first priority. I hope and wish for the betterment of you. Remember first priority is you.**
Love your ownself:one simple way to be a good human being
**Before going to further discussion let me ask you two question.First what is the biggest achievement of a human being and the second question is what is the main purpose of life?**
Though different people have different perspectives, but we all have a common answer of these questions. These are the things we may want in our life.
**We may want to be famous so that people can recognise us.**
**We may want to earn millions of money.**
**We may dream of living a luxurious life or having a fancy car.**
**All these things are material achievement.**
These material achievements are temporary. Now let's go back to our questions. I'm asking about a permanent achievement.
**Our life is very short and very temporary too. In these short time, we need to achieve that should be permanent and will be remembered for eternity.**
But since we are human, the greatest achievement of our lives is to become a 'good person or good human being.
**Being a good human being can be a permanent achievement of life.**
Both being good to himself and good to others. But how to be a good person and is it really possible to get rid of any kind of material lust and pleasures. Yes it is possible.
In our history, there are good personality and only for that reason the world is colorful today.
**You may think in today's world it is impossible to get rid of the material lust. But our ancestors have done it several times and if we try we will be able to do it also.**
Being a good person or being a good soul is not a tough task at all. Today I'll write about how you can be a good person only by following a simple rules of life.
Life is very much simple, we just make it complicated without any reason. So what are the secrets of a good soul? What rules they've followed on their journey?
**Love your own self**
You may think everyone tells to love others but I'm telling you to love his own self first. How ridiculous is that? But it's true.
**If you don't love yourself or don't have any affection for your own self how can you feel others pain? First of all you need to feel the pain inside you.**
If you are numb to your own pain, I can assure you you'll never be able to understand what others is going through.
**If you break your leg by accident,you'll feel what it is meant of having no leg. You will recover one day for sure but there are lot of people out there who has lost their leg permanently.**
There are lots of people who is blind, aren't able to see the lights of this wonderful world. Will you be able to feel the darkness?
No you can't! You've eyes and you are watching the colours of joy everyday. You don't know what is darkness.
**So first love yourself. Feel the pain you are going through, the same way other persons are going.**
Than you'll find people are in much more trouble than you. Last night when after taking dinner, I took my phone and started scrolling my newsfeed.
Than I saw poor woman who is in deep sleep with a little child in her hand. Her child is also in deep sleep. Seeing their face it's clear that they are very hungry.
They didn't eat anything whole day. They fall asleep begging for alms. They have a small pot in front of them and there are some money.They don't have any energy left to go and buy foods.
As I was in full stomach I felt ashamed of myself.If you were me, than you would too. There are lots of people suffering from hunger and we are eating our full stomach. We will not understand or be able to feel their hunger.
Only if we go through these kind of hunger than. If you love yourself and put your attention to your body and don't have anything to eat you'll feel what hunger is felt like.Than the mentality of donating something to the poor people will grow naturally.
**Again if we look at the history of criminals and bad persons we'll see a thing in common. Did you ever ask yourself why people become criminals?**
They are deprived of love, affection and everything that is necessary to live a happy life moreover they don't love themselves too. They don't have any emotion for themselves let alone for others.
When someone is in good condition in his life, they become jealous. They say themselves I don't get anything in my life and I'll not let enjoy people their life too.
**That's why they want to ruin others life.If they loved themselves they would have love for the people's too. They would feel the same way a sufferer feel.**
Only for this reason I'm emphasizing on loving oneself. These idea came to my mind and I feel myself enlightened.
If you want to be a good person and want to do good for others than it is mandatory to love your own self first.
**Loving oneself, the one simplest way being a good soul.Than it'll be the achievement of our lifetime. I wish for everyone's wellbeing.**
**Let's not stop feeling others sufferings and devote ourselves for the wellbeing of people.**
3 ways a pandemic ends! Better days are coming!
**The World Health Organization declared it an epidemic in March after the coronavirus first started in China in January. But some research claims that covid-19 pandemic started in 2019.**
About eleven months have passed since then and it has spread to more than 218 regions around the world and caused massive loss of life.Every day we are losing a lot of people. Thousands of people dying everyday.
The coronavirus has killed more than a million people till now. Every country in the whole world seems to be isolated from one another, every human being in the world seems to have moved away from one another.
There is a kind of isolation all over the world.We are feeling like trapped in a cage and nature is taking revenge of our misdeeds.
However, some countries have tried to return to normal life by lifting the lockdown, but it is seen that the coronavirus has re-emerged in those countries.
Now those countries are thinking again about the lockdown and some countries are proposed new lockdown measures.
After living in this isolation for so long and seeing so many deaths all around, the only question in people's minds now is when this pandemic will gone?
When will we be able to return to normal life? When will everything be normal again or when will this epidemic end?
These two same questions came to my mind. I have found some answers. I love to share knowledge. Now I'm sharing my knowledge insights.
**I will write this article on how an epidemic can end and will try to give you some good news.**
So before answering the two questions, let's look go back to history. Coronavirus epidemic is not the only epidemic in the history of human civilization.
Over the ages, different countries have witnessed different epidemics from time to time. Like the Spanish flu in the 19th century, the plague spread throughout Europe in the 16th century.
So how did those epidemics end? If those epidemics were to end, it would be possible to figure out how to end the coronavirus outbreak. Because at that time medical science is not that much developed like today.
**Let's find out more. What is meant by epidemic? When a new disease spreads very fast over a large area and causes massive loss of life, we call it an epidemic.**
However, it should be noted that there is no specific country hampered by it. Pandemics spread from one country to another, from one continent to another. Human civilization, like all other epidemics, are witnessing the coronavirus epidemic.
**Let's take a look at the prerequisites which an epidemic ends:**
**1) Discovery of a vaccine**
A vaccine or a specific medical treatment system is invented to treat the particular disease.
However, it is important to note that no specific treatment for coronavirus has not been discovered yet and people have so far only been able to find an effective cure for only smallpox.
So it can be said that the previous epidemics are not over yet, they still exist among us but not in such a manifest form.
The effectiveness of these epidemics has been greatly reduced. So the question is how did those epidemics end without any vaccines or medical procedures? I will discuss about this on the other part of my article.
**2)Infection or mortality rate sees a downward trend**
This means many people as there are in a particular area are infected, or all those who are infected have recovered, or the death rate has dropped drastically, or no one survived the disease.
If no one is infected then no one else will be infected by him. Similarly, the Spanish flu pandemic, which began in 1918, came to an end. However, this is not a very effective solution. This increases the risk of death for many people.
**3) Ending a pandemic socially**
How can the epidemic be ended socially?
When a person is adapted to a new situation, overcome the fear of an epidemic, and somehow prepares mentally to survive the epidemic.
Because at a certain time I or you have to go out for work or livelihood. If there is a livelihood, there will be life.
In this case, people learn to survive by fighting the disease, the grief by taking some precautions. We have been taking some precautions since the onset of the coronavirus epidemic.
**Such as using a mask, washing hands with soap regularly, maintaining social distance, staying indoors, sanitizing hands regularly.**
**A healthy person can be infected only when if he comes in contact with the virus.**
If the virus cannot pass from one person to another, then no one will be infected. So you have to use a mask.
The use of a mask reduces the transmission of the virus in many cases. By taking these precautions, we can keep the rate of virus transmission very low.
Until an effective treatment (vaccine) is discovered, we need to follow these precautions to make a living.
But the good news is that all the big companies in the world, such as Oxford AstraZeneca, Pfizer are working tirelessly to find an effective vaccine against the corona virus. We need to survive until that day.
**To learn more about vaccine you can visit:**
www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/health/pfizer-covid-vaccine.amp.html
Hopefully in the coming days we will get an effective vaccine. It is estimated that, we are going to get vaccine in January.
We need to remember that as long as we do not get an effective vaccine, the warnings will have to be obeyed.
**One thing again I'm telling you, make sure you are wearing mask when you are outside and keep your hand sanitized.**
**Just remember this is not the first time we are experiencing a pandemic. Our ancestors fought against all these pandemics and their blood is running between our veins. We can end this pandemic just by taking some measures.**
**We'll be able to fight against all the odds.Good days are coming. Pray to Almighty,for everyone's safety,stay safe and wear mask.**
10 effective preventive measures against hypertension! A silent killer!
**High blood pressure or hypertension is commonly referred to as the silent killer. There are a number of reasons for calling it a silent killer.**
In most cases it contracts in our body without any previous symptoms and we are completely unaware of it.
****Now let's find out what we usually mean by blood pressure.****
Our blood pressure is measured based on how much blood our heart is circulating and if the arteries are obstructing that amount of blood.
The more the artery constricts, the more the blood will be obstructed during blood flow and the higher the normal blood pressure will be.
****The normal level of blood pressure****
**If the blood pressure is below 120/60 mm Hg (mercury) then it is considered normal.** On the other hand, if it is 130/160 mm Hg (Mercury) or more, it is considered as high blood pressure.
****Let's move on to the main article. Today we will learn how to reduce or control blood pressure. Let's start:****
****1) Exercise regularly, increase the scope of work and stay active:****
As we exercise or work, our heart rate increases and so does our respiratory rate, which causes the heart to use less energy to circulate blood.
So that the arteries that are related to the blood circulation can circulate blood very fast and easily.
So the question is how much exercise do we need to do daily? **In that case, of course, no extra pressure should be put on the body.**
**According to experts, at least forty minutes of exercise should be performed every day.**
If it is not possible to do it at once, it can be broken down if you want. For example, if it is ten minutes in the morning, it can be broken down for ten minutes in the afternoon and exercise can be done at your convenience.
****These exercises can be very simple:****
****1) Using stairs, avoiding elevators.****
****2) Instead of driving, you can ride a bicycle or walk short distances. This will reduce the extra cost moreover keep the body healthy.****
****3) Do your daily household chores as much as possible.****
****4) Gardening****
****5)Play some outdoor games if possible****
By doing the above things every day, we can control the problem of high blood pressure.
****2)Weight loss if your body weight is more than age:****
If you are overweight, your risk of high blood pressure can be greatly reduced by reducing excess body fat.
****3) Avoid sugar and sugary foods****
Several scientific experiments and studies suggest that avoiding sugar and sugary foods may play a vital role in reducing excess body fat as well as lowering blood pressure.
****4) Eat foods rich in potassium and avoid salt****
It is possible to reduce blood pressure by taking potassium enriched foods and giving up salt.
In this case, eating foods enriched in potassium has the potential to benefit in two ways.
It reduces the presence of salt in our body and also reduces the risk of obstruction of blood flow in the blood vessels.
**So let's ask the question these foods have a lot of potassium**
**1)Milk or yogurt**
**2)Fish**
**3) Among the fruits are banana, avocado, orange etc.**
**4)Sweet potato, potato, tomato etc. in vegetables.**
**5) Quit smoking completely**
Smoking is not only a prerequisite for high blood pressure but also for overall good health and disease free living.
As a result of smoking, that is, when a person smokes, the amount of blood pressure increases and the heart rate also increases.
Prolonged smoking can increase long-term blood pressure and constrict the blood vessels.
The more the veins constrict, the higher the blood pressure. So in order to live a beautiful, healthy and wholesome life, it is advisable for us to abstain from smoking
****6) Avoid excessive mental fatigue or stress:****
We are in a time where it is much harder for us to think in a healthy way. It affects everything from our social life. But this extra mental exhaustion is another obstacle to our healthy normal life.
We must always remember that we cannot change anything as we think. Instead, think of these as actions that you must take on a regular basis to get the most out of your life.
So how can we stay away from mental depression? To stay away from mental depression we can do different things.
Listening to music, having a good time with family members, walking, talking to loved ones, taking frequent long and short breaths, reading a good book or concentrating on a movie, choose what you like best and what you can worry about.
****7) Adequate sleep and full rest:****
When we are asleep, our blood pressure is usually very low.
**If you don't sleep on time or don't get enough sleep i.e. 7-8 hours of sleep every day then it can play a role in raising blood pressure.**
Adequate sleep is essential to reduce the risk of high blood pressure. Choose a specific time, according to your work schedule. Of course, to get a good night's sleep, you must avoid daytime sleep.
****8)Avoid coffee****
The presence of caffeine in coffee can raise our blood pressure for a short time. This short-term increase in blood pressure can have a detrimental effect on the body of someone who already has high blood pressure.
Avoiding caffeinated coffee can greatly reduce the risk of high blood pressure.
****9) Ginger and foods made from ginger****
Ginger and ginger extract are very effective in lowering blood pressure.
****10)Do yoga and meditation****
Meditation has been practiced for a long time as a solution to high blood pressure.
Doing yoga exercises, which can be of various types such as slow breathing exercises, physical exercises these can play a very good role in lowering blood pressure.
High blood pressure is a problem that acts as a silent killer and we tend to take it lightly because we don't have any symptoms. But hypertension is killing us from the inside.
**We can easily solve and control the problem of high blood pressure and keep ourselves free from any kind of unwanted diseases. I pray for everyone's well being. May God bless you all.**
8 common preposition mistakes explained! Grammar is fun!
In English grammar, there are tons of prepositions. It is very hard to memorise them all moreover we don't use all the prepositions at a time.
There are some common prepositions we use everyday. And sometimes they are confusing,we make mistake.
Here in my article,I will discuss those prepositions and where to use them correctly and will explain them.
****Grammar is fun, you'll every thing. Let's start with our first preposition.****
**1) Above**:
You can use this preposition to denote something i.e temperature, height, sound is comparatively more,high or increased.
When you are expressing the weather and it is more cold than today,you need to use "above" in the sentence. Let's study an example.
****Example: Today's temperature is five degree above zero.****
In this sentence we are comparing today's temperature with the previous day's temperature.
In previous day the temperature was zero and today it increased to five.That means today is warm than yesterday. I think I've made it clear.
Again I'm repeating, if you want to express something which is more in number or proportion than you need to use the preposition "above".
**2) Beyond**:
You'll use this preposition when something has gone past the border. Say we use a term "beyond imagination" that means imagining out of the box.
That has no limit. If you want to write something limitless you need to use this preposition "beyond".
Just remember one thing, beyond means anything limitless.
****Example: Her artworks are beyond imagination.****
This sentence means her artworks are splendid, you are very impressed with them and these artworks have gone past your imagination limit.
You didn't imagine anything before. Let's repeat this again.Beyond means limitless,out of the box.
**You'll be amazed knowing that this word "beyond" also means limited.** Well, that depends on the sentence and how this word are used there.
**Confused?Let me make it clear to you. See this example:**
****She must not go home beyond this month.****
Now what you are understanding with this sentence? That means she should not go home this month.
She can go home next month but not this month. If you want to draw a border of time or border of something you can use this preposition easily.
Just remember whenever you use focus what you are trying to express.The way you use "beyond" in your sentence, the meaning will change the same way.
Everything depends what your sentence is demanding from you.
**3) Against:**
This preposition means opposite to something. Say you are not agreeing with someone.
You've different opinions.We can say you are against his proposals. If you want to write something opposite to the main one you can easily use "against".
Not only opinions remember you can use against to express something opposite to.
****Example:****
****I and my friends are against his proposals.****
****Karen is swimming against the current.****
If you look closely the second sentence you will see that Karen is swimming the opposite way of the current.
So,to express something opposite to, contrary, contradictory you can use "against".
****4) Difference between among and between:****
Sometimes we tend to create confusion between these two words. See here I used between. Now when to use between and when to use among.Let's start with between.
**Between:**
To express something in middle of two.Always remember between means two. Say your mother is divided an apple between you and your brother.
In that case there are two subject in that sentence. One is you and the other is your brother. **Now calculate how many subject are there?**
Two! Now you can use "between". Remember between means anything related to in the middle of two.
****Example:****
****He need to take a crucial decision between life and death.****
****I have lost my phone between my bed and table.****
****Rafee sat between Rupal and Dilip.****
****We need to choose one between tea and coffee.****
See above the sentences there are two different entities that are corresponding. I think from now on you'll never do the mistake again.
If you need to write something in the middle of two than take "between".
Among:
To be precise, among means more than two. It can be three,four or more. To denote something in the midst of more than two you need to use "among".
Among means more than two. Let's study few examples of "among"
****Example:****
****Our volunteer team is working among the deprived people.****
****The big house is among the trees.****
****Our teacher is sharing knowledge among the students.****
Now have a look at the main theme of the above sentences. **People, trees, students all the words means more than two in number.**
If you still didn't understand,you can ask me any questions.
5) About:
To express something relating to, regarding.
****Example: I've nothing to say about the incident.****
6) After:
Someone's or something's back.
****Example: Karen is running after money. D comes after C.****
7)Before:
It means first, face to face or in front of someone or something.
****Example: The thief was brought before the crowd.****
****I will share everything before him.****
8)Over:
A mean of communication, how you communicate.
****Example: I've talked to Karen over telephone.****
****Before the word telephone I've used over. Telephone is a media of communication.****
Here are the most common prepositional mistakes that we make every day. I've tried to make it clear some of them in my article.
There are more prepositions like these. **On my next articles, I'll share more mistake prone prepositions so that you can make your writing better and correct.**
5 most fruitful PowerPoint presentation hacks! Be more organized!
A few months ago I joined an online skill development workshop.
There I learned various tasks and tips of Microsoft Office software.
**These 3 things I've learned from that skill development workshop.**
**1)How to organize a fruitful presentation**
**2)How to reach more audience and how to keep attention of the audience**
**3)How to create an out of the box presentation**
In this article I will share some of my learned Microsoft PowerPoint tricks.
**Using these techniques you can make your presentation more interactive, effective and clean to your audience.** So let's get started.
**1)Before you start making slides, note down the points in the notebook.**
If you point the ideas in the notebook on the main topic, you can think more about them.
If you start making slides without any proper idea from the beginning than if any mistake occurs there is no chance to correct it. Make a proper plan before hitting the road.
So even if it sounds a bit strange to hear, you have to draft it in the notebook before the whole presentation.
That is, whatever is in the main slide such as: headline, main topic, detailed discussion has to be written in the notebook first.
**A presentation usually consists of three parts:**
**1)Starting slide based on the main topic**
**2)The middle part**
**3)Summary of the whole discussion**
Before you sit down at the laptop, you need to sort out these tasks especially **where the presentation starts and where it ends.**
**2)A** **title slide that draw attention or create interest inside the viewer:**
The title will indicate that the audience will learn something new from this presentation.
**For example: Why does your business organization need an auditor?**
Starting with such a question creates an idea that the audience will know something new.We are always interested to know about something new.
Since you are starting your presentation with a question, the audience will understand that the rest of your presentation has the answer.
They will enjoy your presentation with full attention.
**3)Avoid any kind of dazzling designs and use simple designs instead**
Usually the viewer wants to learn, understand or know something new. Due to the use of eye-catching designs, the viewer's attention shifts from the main presentation to the design.
Always use basic designs or simple backgrounds and use the same design on each slide.
**You can use some basic fonts such as: Calibri, Arial, etc.**These are very easy to read and work on all computers.
**Use only one point per slide:**
Using too many points on a single slide makes it difficult for the viewer to understand and the main point becomes complicated.
If the viewer or audience does not understand then the whole presentation will fail.
**Points can be written in small words such as: Each point can be written in three to five words.**
**4)Using pictures related to the main subject**
This is the skeleton of your presentation and can make your presentation more visually pleasing and interesting. **However, be careful not to use exaggerated pictures.**
**Using graph charts such as having an auditor in a business organization has increased the profit margin of that organization by 18% at the end of the year.**
This is a great and effective process. The audience can understand more about your original message.
**5)The more you practice, the more you will be proficient at that task**
The slides you make are not the main subject of the presentation only thing matters is how you are presenting them.
You've made a lot of good slides but if you couldn't say anything while standing in front of the audience than all your efforts will go in vain.
So you have to practice the whole presentation on your own.
And it will be best if you can practice using everything including your laptop, microphone system. Your talking inability will come down to zero.
You can record it while you are practicing. Then when you listen, the mistakes will be caught very easily. You will be able to correct them.
**5)It should end with a message**
The last slide will be your main message. There will be a summary of the whole presentation.
That means you are coming up with a solution after a presentation.
The audience will expect a solution from you in the end. **For example, hiring an auditor will increase your company's revenue by another 13 percent.**
The above points I learned from that skill development workshop and then used in my various presentations and found success.
These points multiply the value of the presentation.When everyone is following an traditional boring method, be one to stand out of the rest and make your presentation more fruitful. I will write more about these amazing learning hacks!
**I love to share my knowledge and if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask me.**
Ensure your internet safety,avoid these scams! Stay safe!
**The internet world is making everything easy and handy on the one hand and on the other hand there are viruses, malicious programs, data theft, money laundering,black mailing working behind it unseen.**
Anything bad consequences can happen with just one wrong click. You'll never know what a wrong click can take you.
**In this article I will write about the ways to keep yourself safe in the online world from basis of my experience.**
**I refrain from doing these things and you can also keep yourself safe on the internet. So let's take a look:**
**Do not click on any link out of curiosity**.Refrain from clicking on any kind of link. We upload various personal information of our life on various social media sites such as **Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.**
**You do not know what is in this link. In the online world there are so many people out there trying to hurt you.**
As I say from my experience. A friend of mine clicked on a malicious link out of curiosity a few days ago. **The link was told that you can win 500 dollar by playing a quiz.**
**In this way, his Facebook ID got victim of hacking**. You have to curb your greed. In the online world, no one gives anything to anyone for free. Use your conscience and intellect.
**Not only that, if someone sends you a message with such a link,if you see something suspicious,dont click on it.** There will be no shortage of people to who wants to harm you.
**Always turn on two-factor authentication:**
**Turn on two-factor authentication for accounts that have this feature. Two-factor authentication is a combination of "double layers" of security. In that case, you are the second security.**
If this feature is not enabled in any of your accounts, then do it today immediately.
Phishing
The most used way to steal information from someone. You will see various messages in your email. A very familiar way is to win the lottery.
To get money they ask you to give all the information of your bank account. It may seem very common to you but every day many people make this mistake. With money, you lose all kinds of bank information.
Not only you can lose money, but your mobile or computer can be infected with a virus.So do everything to avoid these bad situations:
**Don't click on emails from strangers no matter how tempting the offer may be.**
If you receive an email from an organization such as a charity or business, find out about that organization before you make a transaction. Find out if they exist in reality.
**The language of the email, such as: Grammatical errors, pay a close attention.** No official email will ever make this small grammatical mistake. Have a close look at the type of email writing very carefully.
If you need to give your email address to create an account on a site, never give your personal email address. Use a secondary email address.
Because there are some sites that collect your emails and sell them to third parties. **You do not know who these third parties or how your email address is being used. So never give a personal email address when signing up on any site.**
Keep your smartphone updated regularly Our phones get security patch updates from time to time. **Update your phone as soon as the update comes. Always keep the Android version and software version of your phone updated.**
Refrain from using public WiFi or free WiFi Whether you go to a restaurant or a market, you see that there is free Wi-Fi. Don't connect to them without any worries.You are giving your important information to fraudsters through a small mistake. Or whether it is ensuring your safety at all.
**Never transact your personal information such as passwords, credit card numbers using public networks.**
**Ensure the security of the smartphone**
**Do not share OTP or one time passwords that came to your phone.**
**No organization or banking company will want to know your password. Never make this mistake.**
**Use a more effective pattern or password instead of your phone's fingerprint or face unlock.Give a strong password or pattern. So that no one from outside can enter your phone.**
If there are people around, if you are out or in the car, be careful about giving passwords, giving patterns.
Always turn off Bluetooth, Hotspot, Wi-Fi. If these are turned on, your phone's battery runs out very quickly, as well as a threat to the security of the phone.
Before downloading any type of file, take a good look at the extension of that file. The extension of the file is what kind of file it is.
**For example, if you download an audio song, the name of the song usually has .mp3 at the end. When you download a book, it usually has .pdf, .doc, etc.**
Check the extension before downloading the file. Do not download any file from any spamming site. There are some sites where if you press the download button, you will see five tabs open in the browser at a time. Avoid these sites.
If you ever need to have your phone serviced, put your photos, videos and everything else in the service before putting it in service, then put it in servicing.
**Don't give a stranger or suspicious person chance. There are some apps that need to be installed on the victim's phone from outside.Giving someone you trust means calling your own danger.**
A little caution can protect you from such scams, from data theft and black mailing. And don't get lost in the colorful light of the online world. You have to pay a lot for a simple mistake here.
So be careful, protect your personal information, avoid internet based scams. **On my next articles,I will write about more about cyber security.I was busy last few days for my online classes and assignment. All my assignments have done,I will write today continuously.**
5 ultimate writing tips for fluent writing! Now never run out of words!
**I'm an part time English teacher. I didn't choose it as profession rather I choose it because learning English is my passion.**
Though I'm learning everyday but I try to share my knowledge and insights with my students. Once my English teacher told me a teacher shouldn't stop learning!If he stops learning than how he can be able to teach his students?
So when I tell my students to write a paragraph or to describe an topic every time I see they start writing without any thinking,any preparation or any ideas.
After writing one sentence, they become unable to write any more words and started asking me.
I've seen this problem more often,in most of the students. Not only students I've seen this writing problem in adults too. To be honest, once I had this problem too.But I've already overcome that and now I'm trying to eradicate this writing problem from my students too.
I think you've already guessed what I'm going to share with you today!
**Today I'm going to share with you some awesome hack on how to write fluently without any stopping.**
**If you follow these steps, I can assure you, you'll never run out of words.**
**1)** **Before writing any article or any specific topic whatever it is take a mental preparation**
I,too have taken mental preparation today that I'm going to write about the hacks on fluent writing.
Mental preparation is must, tell your brain that now you are going to write a paragraph on " **Globalization**" and in response your brain will visualise everything you've learnt about "Globalization" in the past.
This is one kind of brain storming. All the other thoughts will soon go away from your mind and your brain will come out with informations about "Globalization". I always tell my students before writing you must think. They get the benefit later.
**So from now on if you are about to write something, than take mental preparation.If the topic is unfamiliar to you, than study the topic.**
**2) Answer these five WH questions when you are writing**
**This is the most exclusive tip.** So you've already taken mental preparation that you are going to write about "**Globalization**" today.
But no ideas are coming and your brain is not helping! Now how to make your brain work? To make your brain work, all you have to do is ask your brain a few WH questions before writing.
**I can ensure you this method will work hundred percent.**
**The questions are given below:**
**1) What?**
**2) When?**
**3) How?**
**4) Why?**
**5) Whom?**
Ask this questions to yourself based on the topic you are writing. Say we are writing about "Globalization".
Now ask yourself these five questions.
**1) What is really meant by "Globalization"? What is the word "Globalization" refers too?What is the outcomes of "Globalization"? What is the key points of "Globalization"?**
**2) When the type of incident like "Globalization" occurs? Is it happen naturally? Is "Globalization" a man made phenomena? Is there any particular time for "Globalization"?**
**3)How incidents like "Globalization" happens around the world? How can we say "Globalization" is happening?**
**4)Why this type of incident occur in world? Why everyone especially the news channels are emphasizing on "Globalization"**
**5) Whom is benefitted from "Globalization" and whom is suffered from this?**
Before writing, make answer of this questions and start answering of your own questions in your writing.
In that way you'll never run out of thoughts or topics and most importantly you'll never run out of words.
**If you had to study your topic, these topics will help you too.Seek answers of this specific questions and study them.Theresult is,your writing will be an exceptional and creative one.**
Ask your brain these type of specific, topic based questions and you brain will answer you.These answers are your paragraph. You can try this method on any topic.
**3)** **Choice of words and keeping everything simple**
As we aren't not that good in English grammar, we can still write superb paragraphs by keeping everything simple.
If you want make less mistakes, all you need to do is keeping the sentences simple. If you are good at grammar,than you can oviously go for complex sentences.I prefer complex sentences too.
But if you are not good at complex sentences, you can simply follow simple sentences. Moreover you can make simple sentences an attractive one by choosing words wisely. Don't repeat words again and again.
If you aren't good at vocabulary and want to improve your vocabulary, you can read my article. **Here is my article link:**
https://read.cash/@Grammarian/an-ultimate-guide-to-learn-english-vocabulary-be-a-pro-today-d00b8191
One thing I forgot to mention. Do not repeat same meaning or same type of sentence again and another advice from me you don't need to follow grammatical rules strictly.Just keep writing ,put aside grammar.
**4)** **Pay full attention in your writing, try not to lose track of your thoughts**
Losing attention when writing can result in losing important words or answers. Then all your thoughts will become a chaotic one eventually. So when you are writing,keep your concentration.
Ironically, if you lose attention when writing "**Globalization**" you may end up writing "**Climate change**" ! Anything can happen! Especially when you are in the exam hall, a little distraction can cause you a huge damage.
**5)** **Increase outside knowledge, study outside from books**
This is important as same as answering WH questions. You'll never be able to answer the questions of globalization if you don't know exactly what globalization is really meant by! I've a friend, whom I call Mr. Google! He enriched his outside knowledge that much.
You've already some outside knowledge now you need to know more,seek more and feed more. If you have more outside knowledge, you can write two sentences more than your friends. **Watch TV, read newspapers, books,blogs anything!**
All these things I've teach my students too. They are improving day by day. When I'm judge there answers, I sometimes ignore little grammatical errors only to build confidence in them.
**I think, if you are facing problems in writing and run out words like my students these hacks will surely help you. Let's end up today. Don't forget to ask questions!**
Now stay more focused on your study with these 9 study hacks!
We always complain that we are unable to keep attention.That is why we can't make a good result in the exam.
**Look, study is all about techniques.**
**You don't need to study whole day, study one hour by following simple but effective techniques.**
My article is all about,how to keep focus and how you can stay more focused.I will share the techniques that I follow everyday. **Here the mechanics of stay focused:**
**1) Give up the habit of reading silently, read aloud**
First of all you need to give up the habit of reading silently. You've experienced that when you are reading silently you've already sank into an ocean of unnecessary thoughts. **I've experienced it many times when I used to study silently.**
You will never know when you're going to sink into a sea of other thoughts. But if you read it aloud or with sound, your reading as well as the words will stay in your head more and more.
Moreover you can keep your focus, as your voice is entering in your ear than no other thoughts will be able to get inside. Most importantly you can easily understand what you are reading and those will last long in your brain.
Because our brains have more ability to store heard memories than the seen ones. If you are a silent reader than you've to give up this habit if you need to memories something. This is scientifically proven.
**2) Don't let your subconscious mind eat your hard works**
Our subconscious mind is always working. When we are sleeping , reading or whatever we are doing, our subconscious mind never stops working and this is a great obstacle of course.
You are reading but in your subconscious mind you are thinking about your friends! Why? Because your subconscious mind is thinking about your friends.
So you are trying to keep your focus, trying memorise something but the words aren't reaching to your brain for your subconscious mind.
So when you are at the reading table, keep all your focus on the words. Do not let your subconscious mind eat all your hard works.
**3) Make a communication bridge between you and your study**
Don't just go through the lines.Try to understand what it is trying to say. Make a communication bridge between you and your book.
If you can talk with your books,than you can keep your focus surely. If you find any topic is complicated and hard than skip. First read the topics that seems easy to you.
**If you understand clearly than :**
**1) become more curious to learn more**
**2) become more focused**
**3) be able to memorise more**
These three benefits you will get. On the contrary, if you don't understand what your books are telling you, soon you will lose communication and lose focus.
**4) Close your ears, study at a place, where is pin drop silence**
It may sound weird to you, but it's actually very effective indeed. Just give it a shot and than tell me. We hear a lot of unnecessary sounds while reading.
Whether it can be the ceiling fan spinning or the ticking of the clock, knocking on the door! These sounds ruins your focus and concentration. So try to study in a place where your study will not be interrupted with any pin drop sound.
Our ears works as a gateway of sound. Sounds enter to our brain through the ears.
If you are studying ,study sounds are entering inside your brain on the other hand other sounds are also entering into your brain. These sounds make a conflict inside your head.
**5) Don't just read, write as well as you are reading**
Be sure to keep a notebook pen in front while reading. Write down the things that you don't remember easily.
It is said that, to memorise something writing works five times better than reading. Writing will also keep your attention and focus. As a result,your brain does not get a chance to forget or to lose attention.
**6) Relaxing study music , brain waves can help you**
Neuroscience has proven that the human brain can be affected greatly by music. Just like when you were a child, you would fall asleep listening to lullaby, same goes when you hear some melodies, you focus on the topic of reading.
As a result, any other thought is a hundred hands away. **If you search by typing study music on YouTube, you will find such music**. There are different kinds of apps available on Playstore.
**7) Don't try to multitask!**
Multi tasking means your are doing a lot of tasks at a time.Your brain can never give equal and maximum attention to all the tasks at the same time. It is impossible for our brain.
This is one of the reasons why your mind is distracted while reading. So stay away from using mobile phone while reading.
Then the thought of someone give you a message, whether a notification come from Facebook etc will get away from your head. **Just read while reading. Make a strong promise to yourself that you will never multitask when you are reading.**
**8) Be curious about what you are studying**
Must read with curiosity. When we read a story book or a novel we feel like we are imagining the characters in front of us.
Because we read story books with curiosity,we have the curiosity to know where the story will go.This keeps working in inside our brain all the time. As a result, we are immersed in it.
In the same way, if you read with a keen interest your academic subject, you will not have any other thoughts. I know it may sound crazy and there are subjects which is not interesting at all.
**But as these is our academic books, we have to study. Find your own way of interest.**
And the last thing most of us don't sleep well at night. We stay up late. But that should not be done.Our neurons need adequate rest and sleep.
**One study found that students who slept at night at least 6-8 hours had a 35% better result than those who didn't sleep at night.**
A quality sleep also refreshes our mind that's why at the morning we become more productive and proactive. **Try to study in the morning.**
**These are the hacks I follow every day especially before my exam and get good result every time. I can assure you will be benefitted too and if you have any questions please don't forget to ask me.**
Free hand story writing hacks- write your own story today
To write a great story ,you don't need to be a novelist.You just need to have your imagination power and follow some techniques.
**In my article,I will tell you all about free hand story writing and everything about imaginative exploration.**
**But first let's learn about the basics of a story. Because to create something,you must go through the basics first.**
A story has five parts in it. Though there are different types of stories like short stories,long stories,moral stories etc.But in every story you will find these five parts.
I will write about the most basic form of story writing so that everyone can be benefitted and anyone can start writing today.
**Here the skeleton of a story:**
**1) A plot where your story is built**
**2) Choosing of characters and their role**
**3) Interaction of the characters and their words**
**4) Reaching climax point**
**5) Riding down from the climax with a great dramatic ending.**
Now let's learn more about the above points in detail:
**1) A story needs a plot,on which the characters play their role. Every story has a plot.**
If you have imagination power you can make a plot by yourself. Say you not good at imagining,where you will get the plot? Then look around you.Talk with people,listen there stories.
I bet you'll hear stories you didn't hear before. Your world is changing everyday,in every second just like me and everybody else.
You need to catch those moments. Than you will have a great plot of your story.
**2)Characters and their role in the story**
Characters are heart of a story and their role is like blood is running through artery and veins. It's your freedom how many characters you will take and how will they interact with each other.
You can choose a main character or every character can participate in the story same way like the main character. Everything will depend on the writer himself and how he imagined the plot.
**3) Interaction of the characters and their use of words**
You need to put all the elements together. Characters Interaction is one of most important element of your story. Just remember, don't let your character get detached from the plot. Interaction is must.
You can glue story and characters together with creative interactions. If you are a newbie,in the writing world,you will find it difficult to continue long interaction.
**But if you practice writing more and more,you will be able to put the elements together genuinely.**
**4) Climax point of a story**
Every story has a climax point whether it is in the short form or long form. What is a climax point of a story?
**Climax point means highest point. Climax point of a story means where your story hits the highest spike.** Say you are writing a story of a lifetime of someone.
**In our lifetime, our marriage ceremony, winning a lottery ticket, buying a fancy house, watching a ghost,losing loved ones or losing most favourite pets etc.**
all these things can be a climax point. It will depend on the plot where your story will hit the climax point.
If you reached climax, that means you've written almost half of your story. Now you need to think when and where you story will hit the climax. Everything is in your hand.
**5) Riding down from the peak or climax and writing a great ending**
So you've already reached climax of your story.Now you need to get down from the climax point with your characters carefully.
Any wrong movement,can make your story fall from the peak.That means you're are walking slowly to the ending of your story.
Now you need to think about how to end your story. The great your ending is ,the more it will touch your readers heart. There is a saying that all's well that ends well.
To won the heart of your reader, think of an dramatic ending.**When I read short stories, I feel mesmerized by reading the endings. That is also depend on you, your freedom. To get love,you need to bring some essence of dramatic end.**
Now let's write a demo story!
**If you go through the demo story, I think everything will become more clear to you.**I am writing this demo story by following the five sections of story, I mentioned above.
**Our story plot:**
This is a story of women who got divorce recently. Her name is Sayrah. She is an educated women. She passed honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from a reputed Engineering university. But her life was not smooth at all.
Though she was a meritorious student,had a lot of potential to offer everything went in vain.When she got married just before her graduation, darkness fall over her life.
Her parents were greedy and get her married to an abusive husband.Heused to bit Sayrah everyday.
Her husband didn't permit her to do job outside.This is the story of Sayrah's everyday struggle.
**Story characters:**
**Sayrah, Her husband Roney, Sayrah's parents, Neighbours, Sayrah's only sister Sufyah.**You can choose any character for your story purpose.
**Interaction of the characters:**
You can design freely your characters Interaction untill you hit the climax point of your story. Remember, Interaction of the characters make your story more alive.You can talk about how you main character Sayrah deals with her abusive husband every day. This is your freedom.
**Climax point:**
Our story hits the climax point when her husband Roney divorced Sayrah. **This is one kind of turning point of someone's life. Our main character, Sayrah got divorced and abused by her husband.**
He used to torture her every day.One day he broke Sayrah's left hand for a simple reason. But the most cruel fact is Sayrah's parents,her own parents aren't at her side.
**Ending**:
**She always wanted to escape from this inhuman acts from her husband. She always wanted to flee from this living hell**.Now she is a free women,can live her own. Nobody will torture her anymore.
Here is a demo story. I've shown it dissecting every part to make it more clear to you.
To write more stories like this, first you need to practice writing and improve your imagination power.
**Try this method,I bet you'll be able to write a great story.If you've any questions you can ask me. On my next articles I will come with more new surprises.**
An ultimate guide to learn English vocabulary! Be a pro today!
**Every time I read vocabulary, I forget it after a few days.**Than I've figured out that I can't learn vocabulary the same way like I learn mathematics. Learning vocabulary requires specific technique.
**In my article I'll show you how you can become a master of vocabulary!**
To learn a language fully it is very important to know the vocabulary of that language. But first let me ask you a question.
What do we usually do when it comes to learning vocabulary? **I will write down many words and meanings in a notebook. Than I expect "If I learn 10 words every day, 300 words a month,3650 words a year.**
**But the truth is in reality it never happens.** The reason is that just learning to write in a notebook is not useful at all. How people learn? **People usually learns in four different ways.**
**1)Visual learning**
If you remember a thing well by reading books or looking at pictures, then you are a visual learner. Visual learning is the process of mastering a thing by reading or seeing.
**2) Auditory learning**
Sometimes it is seen that you are unable to remember even after reading a thing many times, at that time your friend came and explained the whole thing and immediately and everything become clear to you like ice. This feature is called auditory learning. If you don't remember reading or writing, if you hear it from somewhere else,you can remember those for a long time.
**3) Communicative learning**
No matter how many times you read a thing, you will remember it in a real sense only when you try to explain it to someone else or adding some reality in it. One thing that can be easily memorized by speaking aloud or listening to someone is verbal or communicative learning.
**4) Kinaesthetic learning**
Let's go to our childhood. How we used to learn at that time?Our childhood learning is called kinaesthetic learning. This method of learning more lasting if it is learned through walking or various activities than sitting at a chair table. You can learn new words by going somewhere in a vehicle or walking down the street. You will see a lot of words around you.
**Now it's time to choose which method suits you best!I personally choose communicative learning.The more I share my insights,the more I learn.**
Here are the ultimate hacks:
**Mnemonic:**
Mnemonics is a funny and interesting way to remember words. You can't believe it! In this way you can remember any words.
**For example:**
**Take Critic and Critique.** Many people are confused by these two words. If you think about it this way, critic means one judges things based on the conditions.
If you look at the word "critic" it seems simple and light. Say critic is an ordinary man who expresses his thoughts. See the word "Critique". It feels heavy.It is very hard to take criticism of your favourite works.
**Mnemonics is very simple. Make a definition of your own to remember words.**
In this way you can find out a lot of funny mnemonics by yourself, these will come in handy to remember word
**Learning the word roots:**
Any word has a building part which is called Word root. Words changes but the root meaning remains the same.
**So if you learn word roots, even if you don't know the meaning of the words that have been generated from root you can guess the meaning easily.**
For example:
-**bene**- This root means good
Examples:Benefit (Profitable), Benign (Gentle, not harmful), Beneficial (Beneficial).
-**Mal**- This root means bad. The words are just as negative. Take Malaria! Maleficent (harmful), Maladroit (incompetent)
-**Cardio**- it means heart (cardiovascular, electrocardiogram) These means heart related words.
-**Dem** means people (democracy, democrat, demographic)
-**Derm** this means skin (dermatitis, dermatology, epidermis)
-**Omni**,this root means all (omnipotent, omnipresent, omnivore)
-**Poly** which means many. Here are some examples:(polygamous, polygon, polytheist) Polytheist means who believes in more than one God.
Same goes as "**Tri**" which means three. Tricycle means a three wheeled cycle.
-Script- means "to write" Example: (manuscript, postscript, scripture)
**To know more you can visit this link:**
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-root-words.html
**If you know a word root, if you don't know the meaning of all the words made up of it, you can guess the meaning just by looking at the root!**
**Learning the Suffix and prefix :**
Like Word root, prefix & suffix is an important part of the word. Even if you know these, you can get a good idea about the meaning of the words.
Let's see, **ante**- meaning before, earlier example anterior (located in front), antecedent (something that has happened in the past)
**uni**-means single, one example Unilateral (one-sided), Unicycle (one-wheeled bicycle)
**To learn more you can visit here:**
https://www.enchantedlearning.com/grammar/prefixsuffix/index.shtml
**So learning Prefix & Suffix will make it much easier to remember the meaning of words.**
By using your smartphone, you are getting all the nice dictionaries! If you search by typing “English Dictionary” in Playstore, you will get many dictionaries.
There are many interesting dictionaries, including color pictures, puzzles, games, even the Oxford dictionary. There are several word games you'll find very interesting to play.
The biggest advantage of these is that you get to know the meaning of the words as well as the pronunciation, synonyms and antonyms. You will also get a new word everyday as notification.
**Make a habit to watch CNN,BBC or any kind of English news or listen to Podcast regularly.**
**When you watch a movie, use subtitles. If you don't know any meaning,than search the word in dictionary.**
Remember you have to make a sentence with the word that you have learnt. This will make your word memory more lasting. **Don't forget to make a sentence with every new word you learn .**
**Learn a new English word every day and use it on a daily basis.** Then the vocabulary will be rich. You too can become confident by learning new words!
So if you work hard, the results will come one day. In addition to this, you have to practice reading a lot more English. Books, magazines, magazines, thousands of pages on Facebook will read English from them.
Learning vocabulary is not a difficult task, **just requires a little hard work and proper techniques.**
**Let's start learning English much easier and faster from today!**
Want to study abroad?Here are the basics of TOEFL exam
**If you want to study abroad or want to take higher education than you need to go through some test along with your ability to pursue higher education.**
Usually you have to take two tests that examines your English language skills.The whole thing is designed to test how much are you capable of learning English as your first language. Because you are not a native English speaker.
**One is IELTS and the other is TOEFL**. If you want to study in Commonwealth countries like UK and Australia, you have to show IELTS score as proof of your proficiency in English and in USA, Canada etc. you need TOEFL score.
In some countries both methods are acceptable. And these scores are valid for two years.
So you should sit for the exam before applying to study at the university. You may also need to take SAT, GRE, GMAT exams to pursue higher education.
**Today in my article I'll talk about a test of English Language which is mandatory to study abroad.**
This exam is known as Test of English as Foreign Language,often abbreviated as TOEFL.
This test is taken to test proficiency in English for students who are not native English speakers.This is to test your English Language ability.
This test is very important for undergraduate and postgraduate students who are planning to enroll in various universities in the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom.
**In TOEFL exam four skills are tested. These are :**
**1) Reading**
**2) Writing**
**3) Listening**
**4) Speaking**
In more than 130 countries, more than eight and a half thousand institutions recognize the TOEFL score.
There are two types of tests, the Internet based test aka iBT and the Paper Based Test.Internet based test can be given 30 to 40 times in a year and paper based test can be given 6 times a year.
There are more than four and a half thousand Internet-based testing centers around the world.
Only paper based tests are taken in places where internet based tests are not available. That means you can give internet based test from anywhere.
**Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing and each of these four sections are distributed with 30 marks with a total of 120 marks.**
**Reading**:
The examinee has 60 to 100 minutes for this section. Of these, 4-6 passages have to be read and 12 to 14 questions have to be answered in each.
**Listening test:**
The allotted time for this session is 60 to 90 minutes, in which you will listen 6-9 passage, and after listening the passage you need to answer 5-6 questions which is based on the passages you've already listened.
**Speaking test:**
The speaking section is a little different than that. Here the examinee is given some instructions on a total of six subjects, on the basis of which he is asked to express his opinion. **In this 20 minute section, it is checked how well the examinee can speak English fluently.**
**Writing test:**
Here you are allowed to write on two topics and it takes 50 minutes. Depending on how proficient the examinee is in English writing.
To take preparation for writing test, you can take a few weeks to several months.I think this is more than enough.Practice more free hand writing .
The TOEFL test can be given throughout the year and a candidate can take the test as many times as he wants.
Note that you cannot participate in the second test within 12 days of taking the test once and the result is expired after two years.
For example: Oxford University in the United Kingdom accepts both TOEFL and ILTS scores and has to have a minimum score of 110 in the case of TOEFL. In addition, their minimum score for each section is 24 in Reading section, 22 in Listening section, 24 in Writing section, 25 in Speaking section.
Sometimes the minimum scores are different for students of different subjects in the same university, so you have to take care of these things before preparing for the exam and prepare yourself accordingly.
**If you want to enroll in the TOEFL exam or want to learn more about this exam just go there:**
https://www.ets.org/toefl/
**Here are a list of top universities that accepts TOEFL score and minimal scores.**
**Yale University,Harvard University,Duke University**
If you are a non native English speaker and want to admit above-mentioned first class universities than you need
600 TOEFL paper based scores is needed to enroll
If you take TOEFL iBT (internet based test) than you need a score of 100.
University of California – Berkeley requires TOEFL Paper score of 570 and TOEFL iBT score 68.
To study in University of Washington 540 TOEFL Paper score needed and 76 TOEFL iBT score.
To study in University of Wisconsin – Madison you need TOEFL Paper score of 550 and TOEFL iBT score of 80.
**Johns Hopkins University**,one of the renowned University of America. If you want to study in Johns Hopkins university you need a TOEFL paper score of 600 and 100 TOEFL iBT score.
To study in University of Minnesota–Twin Cities you need TOEFL Paper score of 550 and TOEFL iBT score of 79.
To study in University of Texas 550 TOEFL Paper score is needed and 79 TOEFL iBT score is mandatory.
To study in University of South Carolina – Columbia 570 TOEFL Paper score is needed and 80 TOEFL iBT score.
**To know more about the other universities requirement you can go to this link:**
https://www.meetuniversity.com/blog/top-usa-universities-accepting-toefl-test-score
That's all for today. On my next articles I'll write pros and cons of other exams like GMAT,GRE, SAT etc. If you have any questions,you can ask me. I'll very happy answering your questions.
10 Study hacks for more effective learning
We have some friends in our friends circle who are not able to achieve the desired results even after studying a lot.
Again, there are many people who do not read as much as those friends, but at the end of the day they make a good result.
All of us are curious to know the secret of the amazing result of that friend who has good results with little studying.
The mystery is quite simple. **It is better to read 3 hours with attention than to read all day without proper attention. But, what is the way to keep the attention or being focused?**
In my article I'll write about effective study hacks. You don't need to study whole day, only 5 minutes effective study is enough for you. Let's go through the hacks.
**1) Keep your smartphone out of your eyesight**
Our today's generation is afraid to imagine a moment without mobile and gadgets.But this mobile is the biggest distraction while studying.So you have to say no to the mobile while reading.
Although it's not a tough task to stay away from mobile,today I will tell you three small hacks that will keep you away from mobile while reading. I also practice these hacks when I study.
**Sit down to read in the afternoon or at a time when people are not usually online.**
**Keep the mobile out of reach. That is, in a place where you can't reach without raising your hand. A place where you need to get up from the study place from where you have to bring your phone.**
**Use the reading break wisely. When we take a break from reading, we usually take the mobile phone in hand first. This thing can't be done.Drink water or walk inside your room,but dont touch the phone.**
**2) Taking breaks frequently when learning something new or complicated**
Taking a break in the middle, learnings last more in the reading memory than studying continuously.**The process of reading with a break in the middle of studying is called spaced repetition system.**
This trick can be used to reduce the risk of forgetting what you've studied.And a little sleep during the break will increase the durability of reading times.
**3) A smart study place,full of light and air,away from any kind of distractions**
The place where you are studying plays an important role in keeping you focused. Place your reading table in a quiet, secluded and clean place in your home or on a bed by the window!
The place should be where you are accustomed to go so that the attention goes as soon as you go there. Don't forget the light.So, find a nice place to read today.
**4) Share your learning insights with someone**
Say you've learn something new today. Now try to discuss it with your friends. If you don't have any friends than talk with you. If you can express your learning your learning fluently that means you've learned it perfectly.
So from now on, whatever you learn on your own, you will try to teach it to others. Only then will learning be more lasting and effective.
**5) Keeping a water bottle beside when studying**
We have been hearing the sentence from childhood. "Drink water more and more." We are very accustomed to hear this advice.
The role of this water is also very important to keep the attention stable. Drinking a glass of water every time we sit down to read increases the efficiency of our brain. It is scientifically proven information not my opinion.
**6) Highlighting new things or keeping notes**
Whenever you come across an important word, sentence or information especially when learning English vocabulary while reading, always mark it with highlighter or other colored ink and it will work during revision.
Any new important information can be added to the book by highlighting pen or note by writing on a sticky note. If the amount of information is more, it can be written in a book or note with a pen of another color.
**These sticky notes, highlighted points and other important points written in the notebook will be the first thing that comes to mind during revision.** This will make it easier to revise just before the exam.
**7) Practice real life application**
When you learn something, you have to try to put it into real life practice. This will increase both knowledge and skills. If you read a new book or watch a movie, try to write a review.
Then you you'll increase the ability to explain to everyone what you understand or learn. If you learn a software skill, you have to put it into practice. You have to learn how to teach others what you have learned.
**8) Don't fall in the trap of "Procastination"**
“Procrastination” is one of the major obstacle of effective study. Given a lot of time, most of us will sit down to read the night before the exam. You will sit down to write a research paper just a few hours before the submission. Our biggest problem is regaining consciousness at the very last moment. You can't do that!
It is important to make a habit of setting these deadlines and goals even in general studies or work. Because by doing this, the urge to finish work or study will work in us. By setting these short, short-term deadlines and goals and following them, we will develop the habit of working on time.
**9) Exercising before studying or during study breaks**
If you do a little light exercise before sitting down to read, you will feel much fresher while reading.You can also take a bath. If you are not interested in exercise, you can also take a walk around the house. If you sit down to read with a cheerful and fresh mind, you will remember that reading more.
**10) Again try to relate with the real life elements**
Increase learning efficiency by practical application of knowledge. Therefore, the knowledge of science, which can be applied practically this should be applied hand-in-hand and should be learned through experimentation.
Use these techniques to increase concentration and make learning faster and more effective.
I can assure you, you will not have any attention issue from now on. Just follow these instructions.
**I personally follow these techniques and get better result.**
**Remember one thing, you need to study only one hour effectively. It is five times better than studying whole day ineffectively.**
IELTS writing task basics and tips to get good marks
The most complex and difficult part of IELTS is the written part-2 and in this writing task, the answer of the questions and the opinion of the examiner is complicated.
In other words, it is not possible to guess which is the correct answer. There can be several answers.
**I will discuss in my article the pros and cons of the writing task, basics and how to get good marks oviously.**
Therefore, the key to the success of this written section is to understand the context of the question paper and write the answers according to the questions.
Don't forget to keep in mind what the examiner might expect from you.You will be able to get good marks if you follow the following tips and avoid some common mistakes.
**Let us first learn about the Writing Task of IELTS very briefly. First of all, this is a task of writing an essay.**
That is to write an answer based on a short essay or statement.After reading the questions you need to write the answers with necessary reasons and examples.
**How the marks are distributed?**
Numbers will be given based on four subjects.
**Task achievement (25%)**
**Coherence and cohesion (25%)**
**Vocabulary (25%)**
**Grammatical range and accuracy (25%)**
For those who are very concerned about grammar,the good news is only few portion of marks are deducted for your grammatical errors.
It also means that if you neglect any of the four subject that I mentioned above, there will be a 25% chance of getting a less score.
So a well organized essay can help you getting good marks.
**How much time will you get?**
Usually 40 minutes is allotted for writing an essay. However, without proper preparation on how to write,you can run out of time quickly.
Here are some basic tips.Go through the following tips well and practice,then you will be able to give a good test I can assure you.
**1) Answer the questions based on the context.**
Reading quickly often leaves out much-needed material.The first thing you need to do to improve your skills is to mark the main mark of the given article and underline the required information.
**2) Focus on the main theme**
An example is given- Do you support Mr. Kamal's argument behind the violence in our society? In this case, you dont not need to express your opinion. You have to analyze what Mr. Kamal thinks or what ideas are given in the article about the violence.You have to explain whether you support the argument or not.So, the questions need to be answered carefully based on the context.
**3)Don't forget about time management**
Students are often asked to use the sentence in the questions in the essay. This practice, however, has an effect on word counting. An essay usually has to be between 150-200 words. But if you write more than 50 words (200 or 300) the number will be reduced. This can be a waste of time and numbers. So it is wise not to take sentences out of the question.
An essay of 250 words should normally take 40 minutes (1 hour is allotted for the entire written section, the first 20 minutes of which should be spent on the first question of the written section).
Although it may seem like there is no time at all, a strategy should be taken by thinking about the answer for 5-10 minutes before starting the answer.
Even then it takes 30 minutes to write 250 words. The examiner was not really interested in how many words he had learned, he was more concerned with the quality of the writing.
**4)First write the composition part**
We know that the written section of IELTS has 2 parts. In this case, it is better to write the composition or task-2 first. Because it has more numbers and required more time.
However,in this case,it is better to keep the time 40 minutes or less, otherwise it will be difficult to write the other part.
**5)Think what kind of answers the examiner might expect**
The examiner will judge on the basis of subject of Task Achievement, Coherence and Cohesion, Vocabulary, Grammatical Range and Accuracy.
So the composition must be neatly arranged and accurate. Incomprehensible essays cannot be written. Simple but well-structured essays are good so that the examiner does not have to go back and forth again and again to understand.
Think about it, if he gets bored reading your writing, will he give you more marks?
**6) IELTS Vocabulary**
Choosing a really long, difficult and unused word choice is not so important. No matter what word is used, repetition must be avoided.
When the essay is finished, go back quickly to see if any words have been written more than once. In particular, the simple words.
For example: simple, good, hard takes only 5 seconds to change to write plain, nice, difficult.
**7) Coherence and cohesion**
One of the four topics in question is coherence.You will be judged on how beautifully you can express your thoughts through words,sentences and paragraphs and this task is difficult for most people. A simple method for this is shown below with examples:
Think about the pros and cons of using coal as a source of energy.In your first paragraph you can write about the advantages and in the second paragraph you can write about the disadvantages.Now you need to create a connection between the two paragraphs.
The last line of the first paragraph should indicate what to say in the next paragraph.
Though coal is a relatively safe and reliable source of energy. But it also has some negative effects on our environment.
Now the reader will be interested to know what are the harmful effects?
It is important to remember that 25% marks are allotted for this cohesive discussion.
**8) Avoid the penalties**
This penalty is an obstacle.Thus you can get band score above 8.If you can overcome these penalties,success will come in the palm of your hand.
It is possible to achieve the highest score writing only quality paragraphs. The whole essay should never be written in a long paragraph.Several paragraphs can be used and it should be appropriate.
**9) Using of paragraphs**
Although there is no set number for how many should be used, three more - a total of five paragraphs - including the opening conclusion is enough.But everything depends depends on your answer.
**10) Using of complex sentences**
If you do not use a complex sentence, you will not be able to score above the band.For this, it is advisable to make a list of connecting words and memorize them.
**These were the tips of IELTS Writing Task-2. If you practice well, you will definitely be able to give a nice test. I think I've made everything clear to you.**
Avoid these words to grab attention of your audience
My purpose of this article is to present the spoken / written sentences beautifully. Most of the time, we can't keep the audience's attention because we use the same word over and over again.
Today I will write about the words that will make your writing / words interesting if you avoid using them again and again!
When you are in front of any audience or writing something avoid this words to make your speech or writing more fruitful.
**Here are the list of todays selected words which should be avoided:**
**1)That**
**2) Honestly**
**3) Absolutely**
**4) Very**
**5) Amazing**
**6) Always**
**7) Just**
**8) Stuff**
**9) Irregardless**
**That**:
Read on to see if the word ‘That’ is needed. If the meaning of the sentence is clear without ‘That’,do not use ‘That’.
And, ‘That’ should not be used to refer human.
"Rudea have seen many students '**that'**
live in the apartment"
"Rudea have seen many students '**who**' live in the apartment. "
No matter where you go, whether it's school, college or abroad, use drove, skated, walked, ran, flew, etc instead of using "I 'went to '…".
This adds a different dimension to the sentence. Tell your story differently without being lazy.
**Honestly**:
"Honestly" is used to emphasize a particular sentence. Whatever it is, we soon let the audience decide that they don't really need to hear the other sentences I say. A horrible mistake I must say!
**Absolutely**:
It is a simple mistake to use this word over and over again.
If you say this word, the work will be referred as ‘Necessary’, but if you don’t say it, the work will be as ‘Essential’. Have you noticed the difference?
**Very**:
This term basically defines or modifies a Verb, Adjective or Adverb. In this case, two words have to be used to describe a particular situation. This makes the sentence often misunderstanding.
**You can use "Depressed, Melancholy or Woebegone" when referring something very sad.**
**On the other hand to refer something very happy or very beautiful you can use "Ecstatic".**
Again, the word Very refers to an indefinite value with no straight answer. Sometimes your audience wants a direct answer.
When we say "He is very tall", it means we are referring to something indefinite. So it is better to use certain values.
**Note this the sentence says, “He is 7’3” tall. ” This increases the acceptability and understanding of the sentence.**
**Amazing**:
We use this word when we are very surprised. It is synonymous with words like **Wonderful, Incredible, Startling, Marvelous, Astonishing, Astounding, Remarkable, Surprising, Mind-blowing, Staggering.**
If you want to diversify your writing why not using the synonyms?The word "Amazing" is too common to use. Come out of the traditional choice of words.
**Always**:
The indefiniteness of this widely used term also makes the listener suffer. The listener run into dilemma.
Again, when the author gives such an indefinite amount, it is soon puts a boundary in the world of the reader's imagination. It can only be used when writing any kind of instruction.
**Just**:
This adjective weakens the sentence. ‘Just’ can only be used if it is used as a synonym for words like Fair, Even-handed, Impartial.
**Stuff**:
When the speaker use this word, it seems like, the speaker himself is in uncertainty. So it is better not to use the word especially when writing or speaking formally.
**Irregardless**:
Irregardless and Regardless are the same word. Moreover Irregardless did not receive any kind of recognition in the dictionary.
The use of the word should be stopped before tells you that you are making a mistake. You are using wrong words in the wrong place. Don't make this mistake.
According to a study, 30 million people around the world try to express their opinions in around 140 words or less.
Whatever the content quality is,good or bad,the person who is reading any kind of paragraph reads the necessary words and only attention seeking words grabs the reader's eyes.
In other words, the reader tries to put the necessary words in his eyes. When it comes to speaking or writing, our purpose is always to attract the attention of others, isn't it?
My aim is to capture the attention of the reader or listener while writing a paragraph or any content or standing in front of the debate show.
How to grab the attention of your listener? Choice of words can be a great option. I've already given my answer of this question above.
When you are writing or speaking,try to avoid this words for a better result.
Start exercising from today and the more you exercise the more you will become perfect when delivering a speech or writing a paragraph or any good content.
I think my article will be helpful for you in this regard. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask me.
Decorate your writing with these beautiful words
Let's start from my previous article where I've said I will write about how to make your writing more beautiful. I've kept my promise here is how to do it. Just use some special words and nothing else. Your writing will stand alone in the middle of thousands others writing. I can assure you.
In between words we often use different English words. Again, many times we have to speak directly to a foreign friend in English.Sometimes we have to send a message to someone in Messenger or WhatsApp in full English format.
The use of some wonderful words can make your English massage or spoken word more beautiful, interesting and very pleasing to hear which can attract the listener or the person you are sending the message to.
So here some of the words you can use in your day to day conversation.Today I'll write about 10 of the most beautiful english words. Here we go!
**Today's words list :**
1) Mellifluous
2) Ephemeral
3) Inglenook
4) Demure
5) Aurora
6) Alluring
7) Serendipity
8) Sonorous
9) Effervescent
10) Petrichor
**Mellifluous means very sweet voice or something very sweet to hear. When to use it?**
Suppose a friend of yours sang a song to you. Now do you know what you can say by praising him?You replied her saying that "You have a mellifluous voice." How is it?
**Ephemeral means a very short time happiness or something good that last very short time.**
You and your best friend went to eat at a restaurant with something good achievement. But before she could start eating, a phone call came from her house saying that his mother become very ill. And she was not happy! Then she said to you in frustration, "My happiness is ephemeral."
**Inglenook means a heating space of inside your house.**
Say you and your father are talking. If you tell your father, your wish that you will become established one day and you will build a big house. He said, "And I dream to have a large wooden house with an inglenook at the corner."
**Sonorous another beautiful word. It means very touching and emotional words. A word that melts your heart.**
In your college, your head teacher gave a speech and you heard it and said, "This is a sonorous speech, very pleasant to the ear." Isn't the sentence looks pretty now?
**Demure means soft,sweet and calm.**
If you are the first to sing in a college cultural competition. Your class teacher said beautiful things about you to everyone; Appreciated. And seeing and hearing all this, do you know what you did? "You gave a demure smile."
**Aurora one my favourite word. It means something first, dawn, morning.**
You woke up very early in the morning and saw the light outside and said, "I love the rose-pink light of aurora."
**Alluring another mouth watering word. I've said mouth watering because it means so! Something very beautiful to enjoy, something very tasty to eat whatever it is you can use the word "alluring".**
Suppose your older sister brings you some sweets after dinner. Do you know what to say? Say, “Wow! This is an alluring desert. "
**Serendipity means something very profitable.**
Your friend joined as a math teacher after finishing college and you want to know why he joined so early? He replied, "I got into it through my serendipity."
**Effervescent means watery bubbles. I loved the word.**
When you see a liquid in a chemistry lab, you say, "Why is this effervescent?"
**Petrichor,the word is related to a beautiful smell. It refers to the smell after the rain.**
It hasn't rained for a long time. It is also quite hot. One day it started to rain and at the end of the rain you smelled the air and said, "The air is ripe with the pleasant, dewy petrichor."
The narrator or the friend - the listener or everyone around wants to learn something new from everyone. If you use some beautiful words in your speech, then someone else can learn by listening to it. Because he will listen to you very carefully for using some wonderful words.
More coming soon! I've fallen love with the English language.
Using of verbs basics by Grammarian
In my previous articles, I've shared some of the basic right form of verbs hacks and to make sure your writing more perfect.
Now I'll write about some basic other grammar rules to make your writing more formal. If you want to go through my previous articles you can read form here.Here is the link:
https://read.cash/@Grammarian/right-form-of-verbs-hacks-by-grammarian-part-2-79a3c816
Let's study our first rule.If you use "to" your sentence than you need to keep the present form of your verb. Whatever the sentence is,if you use "to" than you don't need to change the form of verb. As I've said keep the present form. Now let's see some examples with this rule.
**Tasnea went to Market to buy some foods.**
**You need to play football.**
**We have to realise the importance of good health.**
Now have a close look at the verbs.
**"Buy", " "Play", "Realise"** are in the present form because these words have "to". Let me repeat it again.
**If you use "to" in your sentence than after "to" the verb form will be in present form. Clear?**
Let's go to our second rule today.This is very simple.
**If you use "by" in your sentence the verb should be in the "-ing" form.** We often use "by" in our sentence but forget to add "-ing" to the verb which is totally wrong. So from next time don't do this mistake.
**Rudea expressed his grief by saying that the thief had stolen his favorite smartphone.**
See here after using "by" I've added "-ing" with the verb "say". Thats why it has become "saying". Let me remind you again.
If you use "by" in your sentence than dont forget to add "-ing".
Not only "by",the verb should be in the **"-ing" form if you use "with a view to, looking forward to"** in your sentence. After these words, the verb must be in the "-ing" form. Let's see an example.
**I'm looking forward to playing cricket with you.**
**They are looking forward to enjoying the new year.**
**Rudea went to the market with a view to buying some necessary household items.**
Now have a close look at the verbs.After using "with a view to" and "looking forward to" the verbs are "play","enjoy","buy" in the "-ing" form.
I've added "-ing".I'm reminding you again.Our avobe rule is all about when to use "-ing" form. Here is the answer.After using "by", "with a view to,"looking forward to" you need to add "-ing" to the verb. I think I've made it clear.
Now let's go to our third topic today.
If you want to express something that doesn't clearly say anything about the time or the time isn't specific than we often use "generally", "usually", "always","sometimes" ,"regularly", "daily" etc.
"Always" means something that happened every day. "Usually" means habit. The mentioned words means almost same.
Something that happens generally in the present time. Now what will be the form of after using these words?
The whole sentence will be in the "present indefinite tense" form. That means the verb will in the "present" form. Now let's see some example.
**Rudea learns her lessons regularly.**
**He visits London sometimes.**
**She goes to office daily.**
**Do you read books regularly.**
Now have a look closely at the verb form. "**Learn", "visit", "go","read**" are verbs I've used here and these verbs are in the present form and the whole sentence is in the "present indefinite tense." Is it clear?
Lets go to our fourth rule.After using have/has you need to change your verb to past participle form. If you use "had" the verb will be in the past participle form too. I'm telling you again.After using "have/has/had" the verb should be in the past participle form.
Don't forget this. Its a pure basic thing. Lets study some examples of this rule.
**I have added salt.**
**He had planned a trip.**
**Rudea has planted a guava tree.**
**They have played tennis.**
Now have a look closely the form of verbs.The verbs are in the past participle form.
After using "just,just now, already,yet, lately,ever and yet" you also need to follow the structure of present perfect tense and keep the participle form of the verb.Have you understood?
**Ruda has taken his medicine just now.**
**Have you ever been to west Michigan?**
**I haven't received the fund yet.**
Now have a close look at the formation of the verbs."Taken, been, received" are the verbs I've used in the sentence and these verbs are in the participle form. So let me remind you again. After using the mentioned words,you need to use the participle form of the verb.
There are thousands of rules. It is very hard to maintain every rules. I won't pressurise you. Just stick to basics of grammar. I think if you clear about your basics you writing will be more perfect.
It is impossible to follow all the grammatical rules but it is possible to follow some basic rules and most importantly we fear english grammar a lot. Please don't fear.
If you fear, you will not be able to learn anything. I'm here to dimminish your internal fear and phobia of grammar. Lets make learning easy.
On my next articles I will write about how to write fluently in English. If you have questions and didn't understand any of the rules ask me. I will give your answer.
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