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Welcome Bangla New Year

Welcome My blog readers in Bangla New Year 1418.

Qualification is Nothing Where Fame is All

In Dhaka city, there lived a teacher. His  name was Mr. Abbas. He was a good teacher  no doubt with several Master degrees. But he was teaching in an unfamiliar school along with living  near familiar schools.
Actually, he had  less students in his home. So everybody was estimating him an inferior teacher. It dissatisfied him but he had nothing  to do for this. He tried to transfer from his unfamiliar school to a familiar one. But it  was not so easy to do.
There he faced a lot of troubles to transfer. At last he was able  to transfer himself into a familiar school nearby where he was residing long before. When  he changed his signboard, the people saw it. They were coming with their boys and girls towards his home. Mr. Abbas was astonished and looking them silently. The people were making  contact with him. But we know he  had no improvement  accept changing his school. It was only the the quality that he made!
What the guardians were doing then? They were not judging his knowledge but they were judging his school.
Gradually guardians were making a line to contact with him. But then Mr. Abbas  had no time. He became  busy more and more. He was avoiding  them saying  "I have no place to admit your kids."
Some days  over,  Mr. Abbas hit upon a plan to teach the guardians a good lesson.
As he  thinks, he was planning. He separated a room and  named it as a reputed school. When the guardians used to  come to his home. He sent them to the separated room but said nothing.
The guardians were astonished, " Why does Mr. Abbas behave such a behaviour with  us?"
They went to Mr. Abbas to ask why he did not talk with them. Mr. Abbas said to them, " I was living  here more than eight years, wasn't I?  But  you never came to me as now. What did you think about me than? Did you like me then  as  you do now?  Actually you come to  my reputed school not to me, am I not right? So I think you should meet with my signboard and reputed room but  not myself.
The Guardians said, " We greatly made a mistake, you're right, we could not judge you before while you were living with us. Now we promise,  we never do that again."
"But Mr. Abbas stand silently, he says nothing."
(NB. This story was written from the teachings of Sheikh Saadi. It is an imaginary story, it may compare with creative story not with a report that a newspaper reporter can do. Our students reveal that  it is also true for  the guardians of Dhaka City still now.)

Participles

Def: A Participle is a  form of verb  working as both an adjective  and  a  verb in  the sentence.
Participles are of three kinds:
1. Present Participle
2. Past  Participle
3. Perfect  Participle
Present participle : A present participle exprecesses an action going on. It is formed  by  adding - 'ing' to verb  in the sentence. When  a  participle  works  as an  adjective , it qualifies  the noun.
In other words a present participle works both as a verb  and an adjective.
Examples: (a) A rolling stone gathers no moss.(rolling  qualifies stone). (b) The hunter looked at the flying bird (flying qualifies bird). (c) We saw him running (running indicates that the action of the verb was going on).(d) The beauty of rising sun charms all (rising  qualifies sun). (e) Give me some writing paper (writing  indicates paper). (f) I found the  boy standing (standing  qualifies the boy).
Past Participle: It is the past participle  form of verb. It works  as a verb and an  adjective.
Examples: a. A burned child dreads the fire.b. The president came to visit the eroded riverbanks. c. There is a broken chair in the room. d. They will not receive the rejected goods. e. Bulbul has built a house.
In the above sentences 'burnt, eroded, broken, rejected' qualify the  nouns  child, riverbanks, chair, goods, respectively. Built indicates  what  Bulbul has done.
Perfect-participle: It is formed by using  having  before the past participle . Perfect  Participle  also works as verb and adjectives.
Examples: a. Having reached  home , he went straight to his mother. b. Having read the book , he gave it to me. c. Having seen the film, we shed tears. d. Having informed of the incident , he  went  to the spot.

Kazi Nazrul Islam The mental child of Freedom and Democracy

Kazi Nazrul Islam is the National Poet of Bangladesh. Probably he was not born in this country but became the pioneer of freedom, democracy and universal person. In his contemporary period there were many people. But how he became  the ideal of Bangladesh. He became the ideal by his working, writing and thinking. He was known as a rebel poet. At first he would like to change the country by ruling power so he joined the army as habildar. After passing several years, he understood none can change the society using arms.  Then he started  writing to aware the people against any regression.  

He started his writings on behalf of social awareness.

Justification the opinion for discarding arithmetic from SSC level.

In 1997 Arithmetic was removed from S.S.C. level in Bangladeshi  Curriculum. So testing became very important on this issue.  Have any impact  in teaching - learning  for this changing in the lower level? It was justified in  a  research, mentioned above . It was an experimental thesis. The result was not definitely on behalf of  removing  Arithmetic. This thesis is  stored in the library of I.E.R. of  DU.  Please, read the thesis from I.E.R. of DU library. Or communicate  with the following email- mhb.mian@gmail.com for the thesis.

Reading Skills in English Language

Everybody knows that reading is very important skill. Sometimes  we want to find specific  information  and general idea of what we are reading. It is a constant process of guessing. It is a part and parcel for learning English. So it  is very important for us. There are three types of reading skills in English Language. They are - a. Skimming  b. Scanning    and  c. Inference .
Skimming is one of the reading strategies. It is a useful reading skill. This skill requires to jump through the text ignoring parts of it. We may be looking quickly over the text to get a general specific idea of the content. This is called skimming . For example,  we can think about newspaper articles.  We read it quickly and  after that we forget it, we only remember the  idea of it or  the subject matter of the content. In other words skimming means looking through a piece of English to get the general idea or gist . We often read an article quickly , perhaps to see if  we  want  to read it  in detail or not , or just  to see  what  it is  about.

Scanning is  another skill which is different  from skimming. When we read a paragraph we may be interested in information than reading. We are going to find some information from the paragraph. Actually the specification of having  information is known as scanning.

Interference  means  making  use  of  syntactic, logical and cultural clues to discover  the  meaning  of  unknown elements. If  these are words then word-information and derivation will also play  and important  part .When  dealing  a new  text, it is  better not to explain  the difficult words  to the learners beforehand. They would only get used to being given pre-processed texts and  would  never make  the  effort  to cope  with  a difficult passage on their own. On the contrary the student should be encouraged to make a guess at the meaning of the words they  do not  know rather than look them up  in a dictionary. If  they  need  to look  at the  dictionary to get a precise meaning which is an important and necessary  activity  too. They  should only do  so  after  having  tried  to work  out  a  solution  on their own. This is why from the very beginning  it is vital  to  develop  the skills of inference. The exercises suggested try to develop inference different ways. On the other hand it indicates grammatical analysis.