1.
Studies on population growth indicate that it is not the rise in the number of births that causes concern; rather it is the unprecedented rise in the number of years older people happens to live that causes real concern.
How genuine is this concern in your point of view?
Do you think living longer is a liability to the society?
2.
Educating a female is like educating a family. However, it takes a village to raise a child, male or female.
Comment on these two views?
3.
Doctor shopping - consulting many doctors out of dissatisfaction or of some other reasons- is more common in poor nations than in the rich.
Look at reasons for this disparity?
How dangerous is this tendency in your point of view?
4.
Entertainment industry world over is posting unprecedented growth rates. Some social scientists look at it like it is something dangerous. Whereas there are others who feel that is a good sign.
Look at the pros and cons of industrialization in entertainment.
5.
Too much dependence on number crunching machines like calculators and computers has great impact on the man thinks and act these days.
What effects does it have on humans?
Do you think we can do without these machines?
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Five different questions for the week.
Some young professionals find it right to take a break from their professional life and go for higher studies whereas there are some who stick on to their profession and pursue their higher studies along with it.
How good or bad are these two propositions in your point of view?
Deforestation, ozone depletion, ground water fall and pollutions of different types threaten the planet in more ways than one, and human action is said to the most potential reason for all these.
Discuss it.
Juvenile disorders are said to be caused more by the pressures of modern times than by poor upbringing. However, there are many other agents that cause this.
How far can you agree or disagree with the first statement?
Look at the other factors that cause this.
Traffic related problems could be sorted out to greater extent if governments could impose ceiling on the number of cars a manufacturer can sell in a particular market.
· Argue for and against this statement.
The need for observing industrial holidays- suspending industrialization or halting existing industries for a while to achieve a particular goal- is being felt much more today than ever. But there is an argument that it is impractical for nations of all makes.
· Look at the pros and cons of industrial holidays.
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Some young professionals find it right to take a break from their professional life and go for higher studies whereas there are some who stick on to their profession and pursue their higher studies along with it.
How good or bad are these two propositions in your point of view?
Deforestation, ozone depletion, ground water fall and pollutions of different types threaten the planet in more ways than one, and human action is said to the most potential reason for all these.
Discuss it.
Juvenile disorders are said to be caused more by the pressures of modern times than by poor upbringing. However, there are many other agents that cause this.
How far can you agree or disagree with the first statement?
Look at the other factors that cause this.
Traffic related problems could be sorted out to greater extent if governments could impose ceiling on the number of cars a manufacturer can sell in a particular market.
· Argue for and against this statement.
The need for observing industrial holidays- suspending industrialization or halting existing industries for a while to achieve a particular goal- is being felt much more today than ever. But there is an argument that it is impractical for nations of all makes.
· Look at the pros and cons of industrial holidays.
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
1.
Opinions defer when it comes to the freedom of expression enjoyed by creative artists-like writers, cartoonists, painters, critiques and so on. Some say they be given absolute freedom to express their views. But, there are people who fear that absolute freedom will do more harm than good.
Which view do you endorse and state why?
2.
Art and literature are generally thought to be means of expression enjoyed by artists and men of letters.
How far are art and literature mere means of expression, in your opinion?
Is there anything art and literature can do for the community?
3.
Some people prefer to live a past-paced life, whereas there are people who appreciate a low key one. Both the parties enjoy certain advantages.
What advantages do they both enjoy?
4.
Expatiate community, students and workers, in foreign nations often take out protest marches to press for their needs and demands. There are differing views on the legitimacy of such means of protests.
How far is it right to take protests marches in a foreign land?
5.
Borderless migration prospects globalization offers are taken as opportunities for mutual growth of humanity in general. However, this free world order is seen, by some, as a platform for exploitation.
Look at the problems of and prospects of this free world.
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Opinions defer when it comes to the freedom of expression enjoyed by creative artists-like writers, cartoonists, painters, critiques and so on. Some say they be given absolute freedom to express their views. But, there are people who fear that absolute freedom will do more harm than good.
Which view do you endorse and state why?
2.
Art and literature are generally thought to be means of expression enjoyed by artists and men of letters.
How far are art and literature mere means of expression, in your opinion?
Is there anything art and literature can do for the community?
3.
Some people prefer to live a past-paced life, whereas there are people who appreciate a low key one. Both the parties enjoy certain advantages.
What advantages do they both enjoy?
4.
Expatiate community, students and workers, in foreign nations often take out protest marches to press for their needs and demands. There are differing views on the legitimacy of such means of protests.
How far is it right to take protests marches in a foreign land?
5.
Borderless migration prospects globalization offers are taken as opportunities for mutual growth of humanity in general. However, this free world order is seen, by some, as a platform for exploitation.
Look at the problems of and prospects of this free world.
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Communicative English Test: Time 75 mnts. All questions carry equal marks.
Total. 75 marks
I. Complete the following meaningfully. Any ten
1. When it comes to……….
2. How come……..
3. This is what I…………
4. All I want…………..
5. What do…………..
6. Do you know why………..
7. Is your……………
8. It goes without saying…………
9. It is something…………..
10. How many…………
11. Should we say…….
12. I don’t like……..
II. Write a question each using the following words. Any 10
· Do, does, did, have, has, had, is, am, are, was, were, have been and has been.
III. Answer these questions in different ways. Any 10
1. How many exams have they written so far?
2. Had your parents been working in madras for long?
3. Is there a meeting this evening?
4. Was that an accident?
5. Does he have three passports?
6. When are they coming to see you?
7. Has he got some friends in madras?
8. Are your parents government employees?
9. Was it raining heavily when you reached madras?
10. Has it been long since you saw him last?
11. What do you do to improve your language?
12. Does he know that you are here?
IV. Convert these sentences into questions. Any 10
1. They write letters to every week.
2. It rains here in June.
3. All trains stop here.
4. He called me the other day.
5. It made me angry.
6. We have tests every day.
7. Mr. John speaks three languages?
8. We are ten.
9. Our college is a research centre.
10. They had a few interviews last week.
11. The chief guest has arrived.
12. The meeting started late.
V. Apply these combinations in your own sentences. Any five
Going to, Planning to, Has to, Have to, Had to
Needs to, Should, is to, are to, and am to.
VI. Apply these combinations in your own sentences. Any five
Must be, could have, may have, can be, will be, must have
Might have, may be.
VII. Apply these openers in two sentences each: Any five
It, that, there, where, these and those
VIII. Apply these words in your own sentences: Any five
Take, turn, appears, get, find, go, make, keep and run
IX. Apply these words in your own sentences: Any five
Take up, turn up, get on, keep out, look up,
Run away, find out, make out.
X. Correct the following sentences: Any 10
1. He don’t know anything about this place
2. Solving these problems are difficult.
3. One of my neighbour is a government employee.
4. Not many people likes this idea.
5. Is your parents working.
6. When did you met him last?
7. Have you spoke to him?
8. This machine has not any warranty.
9. All children likes sweets.
10. I am going to church every Sunday.
11. I used to read newspaper nowadays.
12. I have done several things last Sunday.
XI. Write negative sentences: Any 10
1. He has an imported car.
2. They had a meeting last week.
3. They have prepared everything.
4. This hospital has three operation theatres.
5. Many patients get free medicine.
6. It works on battery.
7. Mr. Joseph has completed five years here.
8. These students are given permission to go.
9. Meeting is going to start at 9.
10. He made a very big mistake.
11. This question paper is very simple.
12. The doctor is in.
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Total. 75 marks
I. Complete the following meaningfully. Any ten
1. When it comes to……….
2. How come……..
3. This is what I…………
4. All I want…………..
5. What do…………..
6. Do you know why………..
7. Is your……………
8. It goes without saying…………
9. It is something…………..
10. How many…………
11. Should we say…….
12. I don’t like……..
II. Write a question each using the following words. Any 10
· Do, does, did, have, has, had, is, am, are, was, were, have been and has been.
III. Answer these questions in different ways. Any 10
1. How many exams have they written so far?
2. Had your parents been working in madras for long?
3. Is there a meeting this evening?
4. Was that an accident?
5. Does he have three passports?
6. When are they coming to see you?
7. Has he got some friends in madras?
8. Are your parents government employees?
9. Was it raining heavily when you reached madras?
10. Has it been long since you saw him last?
11. What do you do to improve your language?
12. Does he know that you are here?
IV. Convert these sentences into questions. Any 10
1. They write letters to every week.
2. It rains here in June.
3. All trains stop here.
4. He called me the other day.
5. It made me angry.
6. We have tests every day.
7. Mr. John speaks three languages?
8. We are ten.
9. Our college is a research centre.
10. They had a few interviews last week.
11. The chief guest has arrived.
12. The meeting started late.
V. Apply these combinations in your own sentences. Any five
Going to, Planning to, Has to, Have to, Had to
Needs to, Should, is to, are to, and am to.
VI. Apply these combinations in your own sentences. Any five
Must be, could have, may have, can be, will be, must have
Might have, may be.
VII. Apply these openers in two sentences each: Any five
It, that, there, where, these and those
VIII. Apply these words in your own sentences: Any five
Take, turn, appears, get, find, go, make, keep and run
IX. Apply these words in your own sentences: Any five
Take up, turn up, get on, keep out, look up,
Run away, find out, make out.
X. Correct the following sentences: Any 10
1. He don’t know anything about this place
2. Solving these problems are difficult.
3. One of my neighbour is a government employee.
4. Not many people likes this idea.
5. Is your parents working.
6. When did you met him last?
7. Have you spoke to him?
8. This machine has not any warranty.
9. All children likes sweets.
10. I am going to church every Sunday.
11. I used to read newspaper nowadays.
12. I have done several things last Sunday.
XI. Write negative sentences: Any 10
1. He has an imported car.
2. They had a meeting last week.
3. They have prepared everything.
4. This hospital has three operation theatres.
5. Many patients get free medicine.
6. It works on battery.
7. Mr. Joseph has completed five years here.
8. These students are given permission to go.
9. Meeting is going to start at 9.
10. He made a very big mistake.
11. This question paper is very simple.
12. The doctor is in.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Five essays for the upcoming week. Japeesdoc. www.jpsukham.blogspot.com
1.
Since many new generation employees are found to be spending much of their time in their working environments, their job satisfaction becomes very decisive for their successful personal and professional well being.
What are the major factors that contribute to better job satisfaction?
What all suggestions can you make to better working environments?
2.
In today’s 24/7, fast changing professional scenario, competition is rampant and this competition makes the life of the professionals highly demanding. Some are of the opinion that this professional pressure is a problem. However, there are people who take it the other way round; it has prospects.
How do you look at these two view points?
3.
Environmentalists world over are urging private and public sector organizations to slowly go paperless; that is to get their organizations automated. This demand is getting increased every passing day.
What advantages do environmentalists expect out of paperless offices?
Do you think such offices stand to gain something from this switch over?
4.
As pressure on the environment is mounting due to increasing human action, nations around the world are urged to cut down on population and industrialization.
How practical is this idea in your opinion?
Have you got a few suggestions to make human actions eco-friendly?
5.
Since children are a force to reckon with in all societies, the best way to send a message of some social value across is to let the children of a given society learn the message through their curriculum.
How good is this idea in your opinion?
Do you think the grown ups are as good as children in effecting social changes?
Jaypeedoc. 201/010
1.
Since many new generation employees are found to be spending much of their time in their working environments, their job satisfaction becomes very decisive for their successful personal and professional well being.
What are the major factors that contribute to better job satisfaction?
What all suggestions can you make to better working environments?
2.
In today’s 24/7, fast changing professional scenario, competition is rampant and this competition makes the life of the professionals highly demanding. Some are of the opinion that this professional pressure is a problem. However, there are people who take it the other way round; it has prospects.
How do you look at these two view points?
3.
Environmentalists world over are urging private and public sector organizations to slowly go paperless; that is to get their organizations automated. This demand is getting increased every passing day.
What advantages do environmentalists expect out of paperless offices?
Do you think such offices stand to gain something from this switch over?
4.
As pressure on the environment is mounting due to increasing human action, nations around the world are urged to cut down on population and industrialization.
How practical is this idea in your opinion?
Have you got a few suggestions to make human actions eco-friendly?
5.
Since children are a force to reckon with in all societies, the best way to send a message of some social value across is to let the children of a given society learn the message through their curriculum.
How good is this idea in your opinion?
Do you think the grown ups are as good as children in effecting social changes?
Jaypeedoc. 201/010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
1.
School drop out rates are much higher in poor nations, and many poor nations do not seem to be offering any kind of alternative education arrangements to see that these dropped out students are brought back to productive life.
What are the causes for this gross neglect suffered by the dropouts?
Do you think they pose any threat to the well-being of the society in general?
2
Some employers keep their employees as temporary trainees and probationers for longer time, whereas some employers keep their employees permanently in the payroll as early as possible and satisfy all their requirements.
What advantages do they enjoy?
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3.
Modern employment environment is so demanding that employees happen to suffer from a lot of work related hazards, and the intensity of the same is making many employees quit their jobs frequently.
What do you think are the reason for this mounting pressure in the work place?
How does this pressure impact the workforce in general?
4.
With the mounting of health care expenditure due to several factors, the need for having a personal health regime is generally felt and many people are found to be turning towards healthy lifestyle practices.
How common is this tendency in your place?
What do you think are the factors that keep the medical bills spiraling up?
5.
Children these days are much more informed and enlightened than those in the past. However, when it comes to real life situation, many are found to be failing to catch up with the changing demands of their times.
Some say it is due to the changes that take place now much more frequently than before, whereas some others opine that it is due to several other individual factors.
How far can you endorse these two viewpoints?
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School drop out rates are much higher in poor nations, and many poor nations do not seem to be offering any kind of alternative education arrangements to see that these dropped out students are brought back to productive life.
What are the causes for this gross neglect suffered by the dropouts?
Do you think they pose any threat to the well-being of the society in general?
2
Some employers keep their employees as temporary trainees and probationers for longer time, whereas some employers keep their employees permanently in the payroll as early as possible and satisfy all their requirements.
What advantages do they enjoy?
Jaypees.doc. 19.01.010.www.jpsukham.blogspot.com
3.
Modern employment environment is so demanding that employees happen to suffer from a lot of work related hazards, and the intensity of the same is making many employees quit their jobs frequently.
What do you think are the reason for this mounting pressure in the work place?
How does this pressure impact the workforce in general?
4.
With the mounting of health care expenditure due to several factors, the need for having a personal health regime is generally felt and many people are found to be turning towards healthy lifestyle practices.
How common is this tendency in your place?
What do you think are the factors that keep the medical bills spiraling up?
5.
Children these days are much more informed and enlightened than those in the past. However, when it comes to real life situation, many are found to be failing to catch up with the changing demands of their times.
Some say it is due to the changes that take place now much more frequently than before, whereas some others opine that it is due to several other individual factors.
How far can you endorse these two viewpoints?
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Advertising as a marketing exercise is found to be exploiting all possible means to lure customers to new products and services. One such ploy is to exaggerate the merits of a service or product. However, advertising serves us in many ways.
What advantages does advertising as a means of information offer consumers in general?
What are the disadvantages consumers suffer when facts and figures are exaggerated?
What advantages does advertising as a means of information offer consumers in general?
What are the disadvantages consumers suffer when facts and figures are exaggerated?
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Write about 150 words on the following. A jaypeesdoc. 10.1.10
Rehabilitating the older generation is the responsibility of the State as their whole life has been of service to the State.
How far do you agree or disagree with this?
Educating the younger generation is the duty of the State because an educated generation is the greatest asset of any State.
How far is this Statement acceptable to you?
Banking Institutions are found to be approaching the State when they face failures and down turns, and the States help them out. Some say that it is not fair because it is the tax payers’ money.
Argue for this statement.
Some universities honour the talented people, like artistes, actors, sportsmen et al, with honorary title like doctorates. Some people say that it is unfair as these titles are other wise given based on very stringent academic standards.
Argue against this statement.
Some people believe that money is all powerful whereas there is another argument that money is a big menace and it causes great concerns to people.
How do you look at these view points?
A jaypeesdoc.
All commercial advertisements are exaggerations of facts and figures of the products and services they try to sell. This, to a certain extent, is unethical.
How far can you endorse this viewpoint?
7. Eating habits of a given community is influenced more by its native agricultural practices than by external forces like food corporate food chains.
Do you this view holds true in today’s circumstances?
Industrialization that is taking place in the field of entertainment is both an opportunity and a matter of great concern.
Discuss it.
High rise buildings-both commercial and residential- are popping up even in semi urban areas, this tendency is catching up fast.
Look at the possible causes and effects of this trend.
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Rehabilitating the older generation is the responsibility of the State as their whole life has been of service to the State.
How far do you agree or disagree with this?
Educating the younger generation is the duty of the State because an educated generation is the greatest asset of any State.
How far is this Statement acceptable to you?
Banking Institutions are found to be approaching the State when they face failures and down turns, and the States help them out. Some say that it is not fair because it is the tax payers’ money.
Argue for this statement.
Some universities honour the talented people, like artistes, actors, sportsmen et al, with honorary title like doctorates. Some people say that it is unfair as these titles are other wise given based on very stringent academic standards.
Argue against this statement.
Some people believe that money is all powerful whereas there is another argument that money is a big menace and it causes great concerns to people.
How do you look at these view points?
A jaypeesdoc.
All commercial advertisements are exaggerations of facts and figures of the products and services they try to sell. This, to a certain extent, is unethical.
How far can you endorse this viewpoint?
7. Eating habits of a given community is influenced more by its native agricultural practices than by external forces like food corporate food chains.
Do you this view holds true in today’s circumstances?
Industrialization that is taking place in the field of entertainment is both an opportunity and a matter of great concern.
Discuss it.
High rise buildings-both commercial and residential- are popping up even in semi urban areas, this tendency is catching up fast.
Look at the possible causes and effects of this trend.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Conversation A
S1. Do you speak English
S2. Only a little, and not very well.
S1. Do you know many words?
S2. No. I don’t. Only the important words.
Conversation B
S1. Does your brother speak English?
S2. Well, he speaks a little English
S1. Do your sisters speak English?
S2. Yes, they do. They speak it very well.
Conversation C
S1. Can I help you?
S2. Yes , I speak only French.
S1. I’am sorry. But I don’t understand French.
S2. Please find someone who speaks French.
Conversation D
S1. What’s the matter?
S2. I don’t speak English.
S1. Do you need some kind of help?
S2. Yes, but I can’t explain it in English.
Conversation E
S1. Do you think English is easy?
S2. No, I don’t.
S1. Why don’t you think so?
S2. Because I don’t understand it.
Exercise 1 Line A1 and B1.
Do you speak English?
Your bother
Your sisters
Mr. John
The lawyers
The girl
Exercise 2 Do you speak English
Greek, Spanish, Italian, French
Exercise 3
Do you speak English. Fluentlly, Rapidly, Very well, Correctly.
Exercise 4
Do you speak English?
Japanese
Your bother
Fluently
Greek
Your sisters
Exercise 5.
Can I help you?
Any of you
We
Assist
With anything
You two.
Exercise 6 Please find someone who speaks English
Get
Bring
Ask for
Direct me to
Take me to
Please find someone who speaks English
German
Arabic
Turkish
Chinese
Do you think English is easy?
Hard
Difficult
Simple
Complicated
I don’t speak English.
The man
Fluently
The boys
Very well
Understand
Do you watch television very often? Yes, I do.
How often do you watch television I watch it twice a week
Does john watch television very often? Yes, he does.
How often does John watch television? He watches it twice a week.
Do the boys watch television very often? Yes, they do.
How often do the boys watch television? They watch it twice a week.
Write answers.
Did you watch television last night? Yes, I did. I watched television last night.
Did you listen to the radio last night?
Did you go to the movie last night?
Did you go to the market last week?
Did you want the finals last night?
He is happy. Usually He is usually happy.
They are at home.
She is there.
I am very nervous.
You are in your office.
They are quite busy.
He writes carefully Usually He usually writes carefully.
They practice at home.
She watches popular films.
I watch television here.
He enjoys seeing movies.
They leave home early.
We get up before eight.
He is kind to them. Always
He is always kind to them.
They help her.
We are busy on Fridays.
I work extra hours
They are polite to us.
He drinks black coffee.
She is calm about things.
Write questions.
He always works hard. Does he always work hard?
They are always late.
She is always serious.
They always speak English
She is always patient with them.
They always wait for her.
Conversation A
When did you eat lunch today?
I ate from twelve to one.
Where did you have your lunch?
I had it at Azad.
Did you have a good time at the party?
Yes, we had a wonderful time.
It was really a lot of fun.
We ought to have another party like that one.
Did you work at home last night?
Yes, I washed my clothes and cleaned my room.
Did you do anything else?
Yes. I watched the football highlights.
Did you have a good time last night?
Yes, I had a wonderful time.
You’ll probably have fun tomorrow too.
I’m sure I’ll have an excellent time.
Where did you go?
I went to the beach. We went to the beach.
Did you swim in the ocean?
Yes, I swam close to the shore. We swam close to the shore.
When did you eat lunch today?
Have the meeting When did you have the meeting today.
Where
Meet your friends
What time.
Leave for home.
It was really a lot of fun. It was certainly a lot of fun.
A great deal of
Definitely.
Lots of
Actually
Did you work at home last night?
At office Did you work at the office last night.
Yesterday
At school
This morning
At the farm.
Conversation drill. A
Please sit down and talk to me.
Are you--------(A)-------------?
Yes, I am. What are you doing?
At the moment, I am -----------(B)-----.
A B.
Typing a letter looking for someone
Painting a picture just walking around
Reading the paper waiting for a friend
Watching television just resting a bit
Listening to the radio getting ready for the party.
Working on something doing my work.
Writing a letter practicing English with you.
Solving a problem. Relaxing for a few minutes.
Conversation drill B
What do you want to do tonight?
Would you like to-------(A)-------?
That would be nice.
There is a good---------(B)---.
A. B.
Watch television. Programme on channel 3
Go bowling with us football court nearby.
See a movie show at the new theatre.
Listen to the radio comedy on the network.
Attend a party orchestra at the auditorium.
Hear some classical music group of singers at the auditorium
Go to a movie. Movie which just released.
Look for paintings. Art gallery in the theatre hall.
Exercise 1.
I must I must go to the railway station.
Have to
Ought to
Should
Supposed to
Did you get to the station on time?
The airport
Late
Arrive at
The theatre
Early.
We got on the train just as it was starting.
The bus We got on the bus as it was starting.
Before it left
The airplane
A minute or two early.
Did your brother arrive on time.
Come Did your brother come on time?
Get there
Return
Leave
Get back
How do you get home everyday?
I take the Intercity to my place.
Isn’t it rather expensive going by train?
No I buy season ticket each month.
How often does the train leave?
It leaves in 10 minutes.
Do I have time to take my lunch?
I don’t think so.
How much is the fare to Cochin?
Ninety-six rupees.
What time does the next train leave?
The next train leaves at 6.30.
Exercise.
Where will you meet your friends?
See, find, wait for, take, drive, leave
Where will you meet your friends?
Cousin, relatives, parents, brother, sister, uncle.
Where will you meet your friends?
Parents, see, when cousins, get together with.
I will meet them at the airport.
You’ll, we’ll, she’ll, they’ll, he’ll.
I will meet them at the station.
At the airport, the busstand, the secretariat, the ticket counter, the gate.
We will meet them at the railway station.
The bus stand, we’ll, wait for, the ticket counter, she will, see
When are you meeting your friends?
Seeing, visitors, where, taking, guests, why.
I’ll meet them at eight o’clock tomorrow night.
Eight thirty, a quarter to nine, ten to nine, midnight.
I am meeting them at eight o’clock tomorrow night.
Tomorrow morning
Friday night
Friday morning
Tonight
This morning.
I am meeting them at eight o’clock tomorrow night.
Tuesday, we’re, eight thirty, her, morning.
S1. Do you speak English
S2. Only a little, and not very well.
S1. Do you know many words?
S2. No. I don’t. Only the important words.
Conversation B
S1. Does your brother speak English?
S2. Well, he speaks a little English
S1. Do your sisters speak English?
S2. Yes, they do. They speak it very well.
Conversation C
S1. Can I help you?
S2. Yes , I speak only French.
S1. I’am sorry. But I don’t understand French.
S2. Please find someone who speaks French.
Conversation D
S1. What’s the matter?
S2. I don’t speak English.
S1. Do you need some kind of help?
S2. Yes, but I can’t explain it in English.
Conversation E
S1. Do you think English is easy?
S2. No, I don’t.
S1. Why don’t you think so?
S2. Because I don’t understand it.
Exercise 1 Line A1 and B1.
Do you speak English?
Your bother
Your sisters
Mr. John
The lawyers
The girl
Exercise 2 Do you speak English
Greek, Spanish, Italian, French
Exercise 3
Do you speak English. Fluentlly, Rapidly, Very well, Correctly.
Exercise 4
Do you speak English?
Japanese
Your bother
Fluently
Greek
Your sisters
Exercise 5.
Can I help you?
Any of you
We
Assist
With anything
You two.
Exercise 6 Please find someone who speaks English
Get
Bring
Ask for
Direct me to
Take me to
Please find someone who speaks English
German
Arabic
Turkish
Chinese
Do you think English is easy?
Hard
Difficult
Simple
Complicated
I don’t speak English.
The man
Fluently
The boys
Very well
Understand
Do you watch television very often? Yes, I do.
How often do you watch television I watch it twice a week
Does john watch television very often? Yes, he does.
How often does John watch television? He watches it twice a week.
Do the boys watch television very often? Yes, they do.
How often do the boys watch television? They watch it twice a week.
Write answers.
Did you watch television last night? Yes, I did. I watched television last night.
Did you listen to the radio last night?
Did you go to the movie last night?
Did you go to the market last week?
Did you want the finals last night?
He is happy. Usually He is usually happy.
They are at home.
She is there.
I am very nervous.
You are in your office.
They are quite busy.
He writes carefully Usually He usually writes carefully.
They practice at home.
She watches popular films.
I watch television here.
He enjoys seeing movies.
They leave home early.
We get up before eight.
He is kind to them. Always
He is always kind to them.
They help her.
We are busy on Fridays.
I work extra hours
They are polite to us.
He drinks black coffee.
She is calm about things.
Write questions.
He always works hard. Does he always work hard?
They are always late.
She is always serious.
They always speak English
She is always patient with them.
They always wait for her.
Conversation A
When did you eat lunch today?
I ate from twelve to one.
Where did you have your lunch?
I had it at Azad.
Did you have a good time at the party?
Yes, we had a wonderful time.
It was really a lot of fun.
We ought to have another party like that one.
Did you work at home last night?
Yes, I washed my clothes and cleaned my room.
Did you do anything else?
Yes. I watched the football highlights.
Did you have a good time last night?
Yes, I had a wonderful time.
You’ll probably have fun tomorrow too.
I’m sure I’ll have an excellent time.
Where did you go?
I went to the beach. We went to the beach.
Did you swim in the ocean?
Yes, I swam close to the shore. We swam close to the shore.
When did you eat lunch today?
Have the meeting When did you have the meeting today.
Where
Meet your friends
What time.
Leave for home.
It was really a lot of fun. It was certainly a lot of fun.
A great deal of
Definitely.
Lots of
Actually
Did you work at home last night?
At office Did you work at the office last night.
Yesterday
At school
This morning
At the farm.
Conversation drill. A
Please sit down and talk to me.
Are you--------(A)-------------?
Yes, I am. What are you doing?
At the moment, I am -----------(B)-----.
A B.
Typing a letter looking for someone
Painting a picture just walking around
Reading the paper waiting for a friend
Watching television just resting a bit
Listening to the radio getting ready for the party.
Working on something doing my work.
Writing a letter practicing English with you.
Solving a problem. Relaxing for a few minutes.
Conversation drill B
What do you want to do tonight?
Would you like to-------(A)-------?
That would be nice.
There is a good---------(B)---.
A. B.
Watch television. Programme on channel 3
Go bowling with us football court nearby.
See a movie show at the new theatre.
Listen to the radio comedy on the network.
Attend a party orchestra at the auditorium.
Hear some classical music group of singers at the auditorium
Go to a movie. Movie which just released.
Look for paintings. Art gallery in the theatre hall.
Exercise 1.
I must I must go to the railway station.
Have to
Ought to
Should
Supposed to
Did you get to the station on time?
The airport
Late
Arrive at
The theatre
Early.
We got on the train just as it was starting.
The bus We got on the bus as it was starting.
Before it left
The airplane
A minute or two early.
Did your brother arrive on time.
Come Did your brother come on time?
Get there
Return
Leave
Get back
How do you get home everyday?
I take the Intercity to my place.
Isn’t it rather expensive going by train?
No I buy season ticket each month.
How often does the train leave?
It leaves in 10 minutes.
Do I have time to take my lunch?
I don’t think so.
How much is the fare to Cochin?
Ninety-six rupees.
What time does the next train leave?
The next train leaves at 6.30.
Exercise.
Where will you meet your friends?
See, find, wait for, take, drive, leave
Where will you meet your friends?
Cousin, relatives, parents, brother, sister, uncle.
Where will you meet your friends?
Parents, see, when cousins, get together with.
I will meet them at the airport.
You’ll, we’ll, she’ll, they’ll, he’ll.
I will meet them at the station.
At the airport, the busstand, the secretariat, the ticket counter, the gate.
We will meet them at the railway station.
The bus stand, we’ll, wait for, the ticket counter, she will, see
When are you meeting your friends?
Seeing, visitors, where, taking, guests, why.
I’ll meet them at eight o’clock tomorrow night.
Eight thirty, a quarter to nine, ten to nine, midnight.
I am meeting them at eight o’clock tomorrow night.
Tomorrow morning
Friday night
Friday morning
Tonight
This morning.
I am meeting them at eight o’clock tomorrow night.
Tuesday, we’re, eight thirty, her, morning.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Single words and their expansions printed on 20/12
One words
Agenda - Item of business to be considered at a meeting.
Aggressor - One who attacks first.
Amateur - One who does something for pleasure.
Amnesty - A general pardon of political offenders.
Anarchist - One who plans to destroy governments.
Anniversary - The yearly return of a date.
Antidote - A substance that acts against the effects of poison.
Anonymous - That which of unknown authorship.
Arbitrator - One appointed to settle disputes.
Atheist - One who doesn’t believe in the existence of God.
Autobiography - The story of a person’s life, written by that person.
Bankrupt - Unable to pay one’s debts.
Bigamy - Having two wives/ husbands at a time.
Bigot - One with narrow religious thoughts.
Biography - The story of a person’s life, written by another.
Bilingual - One who speaks two languages.
Brittle - That which can easily broken.
Catalogue - List of books/ articles.
Cannibal - One who eats human flesh.
Carnivorous - One who eats meat/ flesh.
Cemetery - A place of burial.
Colleagues - Those who work in the same office/ dept.
Coach - One who trains sportsmen.
Contemporary - Living at the same time as another.
Conductor - A person who collects fare on public vehicles.
Conscription - Compulsory enrolment for military services.
Congregation - An assembly of worshippers.
Cosmopolitan - That which belongs to the whole world.
Credulous - One who easily believes.
Democracy - Govt. by representatives of the people.
Detective - One whose business is to find out criminals.
Diplomacy - The art practiced by statesmen.
Dictatorship - Govt. by an absolute leader.
Egoist - One who thinks only of oneself.
Edible - That which is fit to be eaten.
Efficacious - That which produces the desired effect.
Effeminate - Behaving more like woman than a man.
Exchange - Giving and receiving in return.
Extempore - A speech without preparation.
Emigrant - One who leaves one’s country to settle elsewhere.
Epidemic - A disease that spreads over a large area.
Fratricide - Killing of one’s brother.
Fastidious - Hard to satisfy one’s taste.
Germicide - That which kills germs.
Herbivorous - That which lives on herbs.
Honorary - An office without any pay.
Homicide - Killing of a human being.
Hospitable - Fond of entertaining guests.
Impenetrable - That which can’t be penetrated.
Impregnable - That which can’t be taken by force.
One words
Agenda - Item of business to be considered at a meeting.
Aggressor - One who attacks first.
Amateur - One who does something for pleasure.
Amnesty - A general pardon of political offenders.
Anarchist - One who plans to destroy governments.
Anniversary - The yearly return of a date.
Antidote - A substance that acts against the effects of poison.
Anonymous - That which of unknown authorship.
Arbitrator - One appointed to settle disputes.
Atheist - One who doesn’t believe in the existence of God.
Autobiography - The story of a person’s life, written by that person.
Bankrupt - Unable to pay one’s debts.
Bigamy - Having two wives/ husbands at a time.
Bigot - One with narrow religious thoughts.
Biography - The story of a person’s life, written by another.
Bilingual - One who speaks two languages.
Brittle - That which can easily broken.
Catalogue - List of books/ articles.
Cannibal - One who eats human flesh.
Carnivorous - One who eats meat/ flesh.
Cemetery - A place of burial.
Colleagues - Those who work in the same office/ dept.
Coach - One who trains sportsmen.
Contemporary - Living at the same time as another.
Conductor - A person who collects fare on public vehicles.
Conscription - Compulsory enrolment for military services.
Congregation - An assembly of worshippers.
Cosmopolitan - That which belongs to the whole world.
Credulous - One who easily believes.
Democracy - Govt. by representatives of the people.
Detective - One whose business is to find out criminals.
Diplomacy - The art practiced by statesmen.
Dictatorship - Govt. by an absolute leader.
Egoist - One who thinks only of oneself.
Edible - That which is fit to be eaten.
Efficacious - That which produces the desired effect.
Effeminate - Behaving more like woman than a man.
Exchange - Giving and receiving in return.
Extempore - A speech without preparation.
Emigrant - One who leaves one’s country to settle elsewhere.
Epidemic - A disease that spreads over a large area.
Fratricide - Killing of one’s brother.
Fastidious - Hard to satisfy one’s taste.
Germicide - That which kills germs.
Herbivorous - That which lives on herbs.
Honorary - An office without any pay.
Homicide - Killing of a human being.
Hospitable - Fond of entertaining guests.
Impenetrable - That which can’t be penetrated.
Impregnable - That which can’t be taken by force.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
How to present data on survey results in IELTS exams.
Over 60 percent of employees in India ready to quit
Even if the going is tough in the market, more than half of the people surveyed are ready to quit job, switch the professions or take break. 62 percent of the respondents were ready to consider quitting; taking a career break or shifting to a firm with flexi-work options in order to handle the family responsibilities better, said a survey.
Even if the going is tough in the market, more than half of the people surveyed are ready to quit job, switch the professions or take break. 62 percent of the respondents were ready to consider quitting; taking a career break or shifting to a firm with flexi-work options in order to handle the family responsibilities better, said a survey.
According to the findings of the survey conducted by Outlook Business and Avtar Career Creators, the high competition at work place, lead employees towards extreme job conditions and they are gradually realising the need for family life. The survey was conducted on 745 private sector employees between November and December 2009, and was done across seven cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune across varied sector, including FMCG, IT, ITES, consulting and telecom.Also, the survey found that as many as 40 respondents felt that internal issues of the company are responsible for unhealthy work life balance and an equal number said they know people who took a break or resigned last year due to their responsibilities at home. There is a crying need for work-life balance measures. Hyper competition has meant all the stops are being pulled out for customer service, which leads to extreme jobs. There is a renewed awareness and interest in personal life, the survey said.According to the survey, while 38 percent of the respondents blamed the location of the workplace for bad work-life balance, 44 percent believed a balanced life would give them time to study or train further."In a society filled with conflicting responsibilities and commitments, work-life balance has become a predominant issue in the workplace," Avtar Career Creators' Founder-President Saundarya Rajesh said.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Humans are exploiting the existing resources far beyond their needs causing huge ecological deficit. How is this situation going to affect our future life? Suggest your own ways to cut down on this ever-increasing deficit.
A write up
by Ms. Bindu K. Joy
Since time immemorial, man has been depending on the environment for most of his basic needs. But, because of the Industrial Revolution, the machines and factories of the western world changed production forever. According to Worldwide Fund for Nature’s bi-anneal report, our over-consumption is threatening ourselves and all our species with extinction. 50 words
There is a decline in the Planet’s capacity to provide food, fibre and timber and absorb carbon monoxide. We are using 25% more resources than are renewed naturally in a year. Uncontrolled deforestation and habitat destruction is the cause for the world’s man-animal conflict. This growing pressure on ecosystem may threaten both biodiversity and human life. For example, the deforestation endangered the biodiversity of the Amazon rain forests. According to some Environmental Groups’ latest findings, the ecological ‘overshoot’ will be 100% by 2050, making the likelihood of large scale ecosystem collapse likely and conflict and political tension certain. 100 words
There are many ways to cut down on this ecological deficit. The increasing population can be slowed down by having smaller families. Thus we can improve the equality of life and reduce consumption. Using excessive resources for the production of goods should be prevented. Reclamation of land through better management and protection of soils, fisheries and forest will help lot. Cooperative Societies and Self Help Groups can do great service in this direction. And above all, instead of demanding exotic foods we need to learn to make do with locally available foods. 90 words
In short, all growth must be sustainable by the environment and brought about in a manner that seeks to nurture nature. This can be achieved by factoring the environment in all our projects, and proper assessment of the environmental impact of all such ventures. 45 words
285 words.
Typeset by Jaypee. 13/12/08
A write up
by Ms. Bindu K. Joy
Since time immemorial, man has been depending on the environment for most of his basic needs. But, because of the Industrial Revolution, the machines and factories of the western world changed production forever. According to Worldwide Fund for Nature’s bi-anneal report, our over-consumption is threatening ourselves and all our species with extinction. 50 words
There is a decline in the Planet’s capacity to provide food, fibre and timber and absorb carbon monoxide. We are using 25% more resources than are renewed naturally in a year. Uncontrolled deforestation and habitat destruction is the cause for the world’s man-animal conflict. This growing pressure on ecosystem may threaten both biodiversity and human life. For example, the deforestation endangered the biodiversity of the Amazon rain forests. According to some Environmental Groups’ latest findings, the ecological ‘overshoot’ will be 100% by 2050, making the likelihood of large scale ecosystem collapse likely and conflict and political tension certain. 100 words
There are many ways to cut down on this ecological deficit. The increasing population can be slowed down by having smaller families. Thus we can improve the equality of life and reduce consumption. Using excessive resources for the production of goods should be prevented. Reclamation of land through better management and protection of soils, fisheries and forest will help lot. Cooperative Societies and Self Help Groups can do great service in this direction. And above all, instead of demanding exotic foods we need to learn to make do with locally available foods. 90 words
In short, all growth must be sustainable by the environment and brought about in a manner that seeks to nurture nature. This can be achieved by factoring the environment in all our projects, and proper assessment of the environmental impact of all such ventures. 45 words
285 words.
Typeset by Jaypee. 13/12/08
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
1.
Spending on defense is on the rise even when nations, both poor and rich around the world, have got several pressing domestic issues which need great financial outlay.
What do you think are the causes of this mounting defense expenditure?
Do you think defense spending can be cut down someway?
2.
Though poverty alleviation is said to be the responsibility of the State, some say, the richer section of the society can do a lot to do away with poverty. But it does not happen due to many factors.
What are the factors that stand on the way of poverty alleviation?
Do you think the rich can do something about it? If yes, how?
3.
Water shortage is going to grip the whole world very hard shortly, and life is going to be very difficult unless available water is wisely managed.
Is water shortage manmade or it is a natural development?
In what all ways can water be used optimum?
4.
Though security to life and property is safeguarded by the state for ages, many people suffer from insecurities of many sorts these days compared to the past.
How safe was human life and property in the past?
What difference do you see in today’s life with regard to security?
5.
Human society is currently witnessing unprecedented developments in all walks of life and, as a result, there are visible changes in social, personal and cultural life of the people.
What are the changes you see in your place?
Do you think these changes are for good?
Jaypees. 8.30 pm 9/12/09
Spending on defense is on the rise even when nations, both poor and rich around the world, have got several pressing domestic issues which need great financial outlay.
What do you think are the causes of this mounting defense expenditure?
Do you think defense spending can be cut down someway?
2.
Though poverty alleviation is said to be the responsibility of the State, some say, the richer section of the society can do a lot to do away with poverty. But it does not happen due to many factors.
What are the factors that stand on the way of poverty alleviation?
Do you think the rich can do something about it? If yes, how?
3.
Water shortage is going to grip the whole world very hard shortly, and life is going to be very difficult unless available water is wisely managed.
Is water shortage manmade or it is a natural development?
In what all ways can water be used optimum?
4.
Though security to life and property is safeguarded by the state for ages, many people suffer from insecurities of many sorts these days compared to the past.
How safe was human life and property in the past?
What difference do you see in today’s life with regard to security?
5.
Human society is currently witnessing unprecedented developments in all walks of life and, as a result, there are visible changes in social, personal and cultural life of the people.
What are the changes you see in your place?
Do you think these changes are for good?
Jaypees. 8.30 pm 9/12/09
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Investing in education: the Indian intelligence
A. Jayaprakash.
It is money. It is investment. And it is returns, no matter what. This is the mindset of Indian parents. They go to any length and travel extra miles to find an intelligent investment option even when it is something pertaining to their children’s education. It starts much before a baby gets born, and this investment pursuit even goes up to the extent of blocking a Medical or Engineering seat in one of the premier colleges or institutes investing millions.
Some parents are ready to pay 3 to 4 million Indian rupees for a medical seat. But some parents are so intelligent that they beget intelligent children, and these wizkids forego all odds and grab the much coveted 4 million worth seats out of sheer intelligence and hard work. It is just wonderful to see brilliant children just doing it. The investment side of education is applicable more to those parents who stubbornly believe that their getting-to-be-bourn kids are wizards and they would make it to the Medical or Engineering seats.
This notion gets shattered when they come to terms the SSLC or Plus 2 results. Without realizing their potential and limitations, these parents identify high end schools, pay for the seat, and even register for an admission to upcoming courseware which would revolutionize the very way the world rotates. Their calculations come crashing and they go for seats that are hawked out for sale. They invest there. They wisely invest with their eyes set right on returns. Once their kids transform themselves into Docs and Execs, the parents find themselves on top of the world. Now it is time for returns. If they had paid three or four million for a seat, they are going to make millions all through their life using their kids.
Their market is so big. NRI dependent patients, obsessed with the fear of death, are out there to pay millions to keep themselves alive for a day or two more. Multinational business tycoons are whirling around our just-out candidates. They grab and offer them pay cheques big enough to make a few millions look much smaller in a few years’ time. So it is returns all the way. New, budding parents; invest in education and rest assured that your money is bound to get appreciated many times more than what your wildest imagination has ever expected.
Never ask your kids what they want to study. Never spare a minute to understand the fears and anxieties of your kids. Never bother if they commit suicide out of academic pressures. What our country needs are Docs. Execs. Artists, writers, danseuse, cartoonists, actors, novelists, journalists, scientists, thinkers, philosophers, reformers, social workers, teachers, guides, resource persons, intellectuals, administrators, humourists, comedians, creative artist and innumerable similar inevitable and highly rewarding social resources are not investment-friendly areas.
And if ever you find any traits of the above social human resources in your kids in their formative years, take all possible steps to nip that trait in the bud, and stuff your kids’ little brains with equations and information and thus lead your kids to the mesmerizing landscape of money, material and mammon worship.
jaypeesarefine@gmail.com
A. Jayaprakash.
It is money. It is investment. And it is returns, no matter what. This is the mindset of Indian parents. They go to any length and travel extra miles to find an intelligent investment option even when it is something pertaining to their children’s education. It starts much before a baby gets born, and this investment pursuit even goes up to the extent of blocking a Medical or Engineering seat in one of the premier colleges or institutes investing millions.
Some parents are ready to pay 3 to 4 million Indian rupees for a medical seat. But some parents are so intelligent that they beget intelligent children, and these wizkids forego all odds and grab the much coveted 4 million worth seats out of sheer intelligence and hard work. It is just wonderful to see brilliant children just doing it. The investment side of education is applicable more to those parents who stubbornly believe that their getting-to-be-bourn kids are wizards and they would make it to the Medical or Engineering seats.
This notion gets shattered when they come to terms the SSLC or Plus 2 results. Without realizing their potential and limitations, these parents identify high end schools, pay for the seat, and even register for an admission to upcoming courseware which would revolutionize the very way the world rotates. Their calculations come crashing and they go for seats that are hawked out for sale. They invest there. They wisely invest with their eyes set right on returns. Once their kids transform themselves into Docs and Execs, the parents find themselves on top of the world. Now it is time for returns. If they had paid three or four million for a seat, they are going to make millions all through their life using their kids.
Their market is so big. NRI dependent patients, obsessed with the fear of death, are out there to pay millions to keep themselves alive for a day or two more. Multinational business tycoons are whirling around our just-out candidates. They grab and offer them pay cheques big enough to make a few millions look much smaller in a few years’ time. So it is returns all the way. New, budding parents; invest in education and rest assured that your money is bound to get appreciated many times more than what your wildest imagination has ever expected.
Never ask your kids what they want to study. Never spare a minute to understand the fears and anxieties of your kids. Never bother if they commit suicide out of academic pressures. What our country needs are Docs. Execs. Artists, writers, danseuse, cartoonists, actors, novelists, journalists, scientists, thinkers, philosophers, reformers, social workers, teachers, guides, resource persons, intellectuals, administrators, humourists, comedians, creative artist and innumerable similar inevitable and highly rewarding social resources are not investment-friendly areas.
And if ever you find any traits of the above social human resources in your kids in their formative years, take all possible steps to nip that trait in the bud, and stuff your kids’ little brains with equations and information and thus lead your kids to the mesmerizing landscape of money, material and mammon worship.
jaypeesarefine@gmail.com
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Feeding kids with lies and Lays alike
When it comes to parenting, we Indians have a rare flair of feeding our kids with all kinds of nonsense. The tradition of such parenting has started taking its toll and families have started experiencing untold miseries triggered by their own kids..
Vaatupura A Jayaprakash.
PARENTS HAVE always been role models for kids of all ages. This has been endorsed time and again, everywhere in the world. This is a similarity found in all cultures and when cultures communicate and exchange their niceties, naturally there will be polarisation in parenting too.
Howsoever hard and fast that polarisation might be, when it comes to real parenting, we Indians have a rare flair of feeding our kids with all kinds of nonsense, thinking that it is all for the children’s good. And the children, who have the rare faculty of not differentiating between what their parents are doing and what they are supposed to do, pick up wrong signals and precedents from a very early age, and become the chips of the old blocks by the time they come of age and be parents themselves.
The tradition of such parenting has started taking its toll, and families in this subcontinent have started experiencing untold miseries triggered by their own kids. It starts from basic human habits to telling lies and committing crimes. Eating too much, drinking, smoking, disclaiming and dishonouring, scaring and browbeating and so goes the list.
However, our children pick up these evils, don’ts and lies the same way they chip down fatty Lays chips, cookies, wafers and other confectionaries. What is the price the modern nuclear family pay for this? What is the risk the kids come to shoulder when they come of age? How is this going to put the society to ransom in the long run? We parents hardly take time off to think about it. We are obsessed with the welfare of our kids, and we feed them with flat lies and fatty Lays alike. The consequences are manifold.
The kids become the replicas of their parents; with everything attached, both good and bad.
They take things for granted thinking that if parents do, it must be right. A kid grown with a lot of browbeating turns out to be a bully.
If the parents tell lies or break their promises, or fail to keep their word, the kids of such parents will also have the same traits in the long run.
When parents are not able to imbibe qualities that last for a lifetime, children pick up the worst qualities from other social agencies, and these qualities last for a lifetime and beyond in the form of familial ignominy.
Mothers force-feed their kids. They do it as if the kid is going to die if he skips a meal. This feeding tendency leaves the kid fed up with food. He or she resorts to eating junk and drinking deadly beverages.
If the need is for maintaining restraint, attitudinal balance, being responsible etc are not taught in the family, kids naturally grow into wanton boys and girls.
Commitments like caring for the weak, elderly and lonely, either in the family or in the society, have to be nurtured in the family ambience itself, and as and when there is an occasion for the parents to be committed and responsible, they have to be so in such a way that their kids pick up this lesson at an early age itself. But do we do this?
What the parents do is that give some lame excuses and lie right in front of their children to free themselves of their responsibilities.
When someone seeks help from our family, we have to help him or her according to the nature of the help and our limitations. Instead, many parents play hide and seek when someone approaches for help. Can we expect our kids to be different when they grow up?
It is unhealthy to eat out for long, and it is hazardous to eat junk food. How many parents are ready to shun such habits? How many new parents have the tolerance to teach their kids the need for maintaining a healthy diet regime?
We feed our kids with all the junk available in the market, and we boast of their chubby size, tastes and the nowhere seen talents and skills. And the kids in turn happen to grow up in a world of illusionary achievements and false prides. Can they ever be what they actually are? We spoil our kids the same way we toil ourselves for their welfare.
Television eats on our health, wealth and happiness. Why are our kids too tip-toeing the same line? They are put in the rut by their own parents.
Consumerism is taking us to new lows everyday; still we take our kids to supermarkets and stuff them with all types of nasty tendencies like buying things we don’t want, buying much more than what we want, eating things that are hazardous, and finally feeding them with a regular doses of ‘use and throw culture’.
No wonder, modern materialistic and monitory criteria that reflects our social, personal and moral values are meticulously copied by our offspring, and they transform themselves into chronic insensible figurines, symbolising falsehood, lies, greed, hypocrisy and snobbery; the dirty and disastrous signs of modern parenting.
It is investment all the way, and the talk of the family is all about returns. The power of money is equated with prestige; and eventually the finer lines that demarcate good and bad, vice and virtue and modesty and malice, truth and falsehood are made to look non-existent and meaningless.
Thus, a generation slowly gets deprived of those humane values that have had much greater sway on human civilization and sustenance than any material or monetary possession ever had. The ugly face of modern parenting is visible in our families, day in and day out.
Will our kids ever be able to grow into beings of virtue and values?
Among us are innumerable parents who go that extra miles and ensure that their kids pick up good social, personal and cultural values from their parents themselves. There are parents who try to transform their kids into better beings than what the parents had been when they were kids. There are parents who dedicate their whole life carving a niche for their kids by the sweat of their blood. Some parents practice impeccable lifestyle so that their kids would follow their footsteps.
However, in a heterogeneous society like ours, their number is dwindling. Thanks to the pressures exerted by modern market, material and monitory forces, the alien cultures and civilisations that come to play in our society via our so-called modern world order, dictate new benchmarks. The consequences of this cultivated benchmarks of falsehood and felony are so ubiquitous that a little slice of it could be seen on the faces of our modern kids who are raised by lies and Lays alike: by their parents themselves.
When it comes to parenting, we Indians have a rare flair of feeding our kids with all kinds of nonsense. The tradition of such parenting has started taking its toll and families have started experiencing untold miseries triggered by their own kids..
Vaatupura A Jayaprakash.
PARENTS HAVE always been role models for kids of all ages. This has been endorsed time and again, everywhere in the world. This is a similarity found in all cultures and when cultures communicate and exchange their niceties, naturally there will be polarisation in parenting too.
Howsoever hard and fast that polarisation might be, when it comes to real parenting, we Indians have a rare flair of feeding our kids with all kinds of nonsense, thinking that it is all for the children’s good. And the children, who have the rare faculty of not differentiating between what their parents are doing and what they are supposed to do, pick up wrong signals and precedents from a very early age, and become the chips of the old blocks by the time they come of age and be parents themselves.
The tradition of such parenting has started taking its toll, and families in this subcontinent have started experiencing untold miseries triggered by their own kids. It starts from basic human habits to telling lies and committing crimes. Eating too much, drinking, smoking, disclaiming and dishonouring, scaring and browbeating and so goes the list.
However, our children pick up these evils, don’ts and lies the same way they chip down fatty Lays chips, cookies, wafers and other confectionaries. What is the price the modern nuclear family pay for this? What is the risk the kids come to shoulder when they come of age? How is this going to put the society to ransom in the long run? We parents hardly take time off to think about it. We are obsessed with the welfare of our kids, and we feed them with flat lies and fatty Lays alike. The consequences are manifold.
The kids become the replicas of their parents; with everything attached, both good and bad.
They take things for granted thinking that if parents do, it must be right. A kid grown with a lot of browbeating turns out to be a bully.
If the parents tell lies or break their promises, or fail to keep their word, the kids of such parents will also have the same traits in the long run.
When parents are not able to imbibe qualities that last for a lifetime, children pick up the worst qualities from other social agencies, and these qualities last for a lifetime and beyond in the form of familial ignominy.
Mothers force-feed their kids. They do it as if the kid is going to die if he skips a meal. This feeding tendency leaves the kid fed up with food. He or she resorts to eating junk and drinking deadly beverages.
If the need is for maintaining restraint, attitudinal balance, being responsible etc are not taught in the family, kids naturally grow into wanton boys and girls.
Commitments like caring for the weak, elderly and lonely, either in the family or in the society, have to be nurtured in the family ambience itself, and as and when there is an occasion for the parents to be committed and responsible, they have to be so in such a way that their kids pick up this lesson at an early age itself. But do we do this?
What the parents do is that give some lame excuses and lie right in front of their children to free themselves of their responsibilities.
When someone seeks help from our family, we have to help him or her according to the nature of the help and our limitations. Instead, many parents play hide and seek when someone approaches for help. Can we expect our kids to be different when they grow up?
It is unhealthy to eat out for long, and it is hazardous to eat junk food. How many parents are ready to shun such habits? How many new parents have the tolerance to teach their kids the need for maintaining a healthy diet regime?
We feed our kids with all the junk available in the market, and we boast of their chubby size, tastes and the nowhere seen talents and skills. And the kids in turn happen to grow up in a world of illusionary achievements and false prides. Can they ever be what they actually are? We spoil our kids the same way we toil ourselves for their welfare.
Television eats on our health, wealth and happiness. Why are our kids too tip-toeing the same line? They are put in the rut by their own parents.
Consumerism is taking us to new lows everyday; still we take our kids to supermarkets and stuff them with all types of nasty tendencies like buying things we don’t want, buying much more than what we want, eating things that are hazardous, and finally feeding them with a regular doses of ‘use and throw culture’.
No wonder, modern materialistic and monitory criteria that reflects our social, personal and moral values are meticulously copied by our offspring, and they transform themselves into chronic insensible figurines, symbolising falsehood, lies, greed, hypocrisy and snobbery; the dirty and disastrous signs of modern parenting.
It is investment all the way, and the talk of the family is all about returns. The power of money is equated with prestige; and eventually the finer lines that demarcate good and bad, vice and virtue and modesty and malice, truth and falsehood are made to look non-existent and meaningless.
Thus, a generation slowly gets deprived of those humane values that have had much greater sway on human civilization and sustenance than any material or monetary possession ever had. The ugly face of modern parenting is visible in our families, day in and day out.
Will our kids ever be able to grow into beings of virtue and values?
Among us are innumerable parents who go that extra miles and ensure that their kids pick up good social, personal and cultural values from their parents themselves. There are parents who try to transform their kids into better beings than what the parents had been when they were kids. There are parents who dedicate their whole life carving a niche for their kids by the sweat of their blood. Some parents practice impeccable lifestyle so that their kids would follow their footsteps.
However, in a heterogeneous society like ours, their number is dwindling. Thanks to the pressures exerted by modern market, material and monitory forces, the alien cultures and civilisations that come to play in our society via our so-called modern world order, dictate new benchmarks. The consequences of this cultivated benchmarks of falsehood and felony are so ubiquitous that a little slice of it could be seen on the faces of our modern kids who are raised by lies and Lays alike: by their parents themselves.
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