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Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi is a Nigerian novelist,writer of short story and a nonfiction. She is an excellent speaker. Her most recent book Dear Ijeawele or a feminists manifesto in fifteen suggestions was published in march 2017. For watching her video click the link She talked about 1) Talk on importance of single story 2) we should all be feminist 3) Importance of truth in post -truth era 1)Talk on importance of single story:- First she introduce herself . She started writing on  age of 7. She was earlier writer. She told that her characters of  story  were not white, eating mango etc... About African reading:- When she discovered African book ,words are available,quite easy to find. After reading African book she find out girl like her,chocolate color skin. She write about that thing that she recognized from the book. She also read American literature.  American literature change her imagination and open new world for her. But she doesn't know that people like her co

How to improve writing skill

How to improve writing skill? Need knowledge of basic grammar:- For student that is necessary to have perfect knowledge about grammar,vocabulary , punctuation mark etc. If they are weak in it, teacher  should help them. With this basic knowledge student can write without making mistake. Write like it's your passion :- Sometimes what happened that teacher gave the task of writing and students do it as a task only, not to think about it. So as a teacher that is his /her responsibility  to inspire student for writing as their passion. Write regularly:- For perfect handwriting and perfect written speed it is necessary to write regular. It is said do writing and reading both together so it will help you for remembering. So write regularly . Start to use complex sentence:- As a teacher he/she taught the student  that first write simple sentences. When they getting mastery in it then taught them write complexe sentence. Complexe sentence make their writing good and impressio

How to improve reading skill

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How to improve reading skill? Class notes:- Aa a teacher first I like to give them class note,because with this they can focused on it and improve their comprehension. I also tries to make their vocabulary good .with all this things they can read without hesitation . Understanding of text:- As  a teacher I like to make text easy for their understanding . With this they can get proper idea for the text and read it easily. Sometimes what happened that students read the text but do not get proper things of the text. So it is teachers duty that he/she make it easy for understanding. Improve problem solving skill:- Some student have not solution of their problems so they can not focus on their reading and just paying attention on the problem and became more and more confused. So group communication and sharing problem with friends/teacher  may be helpful for them. Read first easy writing:- Some student start reading from complicated writing and became confuse. So first studen

ELT class by Dr. Javed Husen Khan

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On 16,17 and 18 August in Department of English MKBU we have guest lecture by Dr. Javed Husen Khan. He had talk about ELT and make interaction with students. 1)key concept of ELT discussed in class In that ELT class he taught us about  what is ELT ,how ELT if different in  school level and higher education. He discussed about ESP, EAP and other things. He also  introduce us about other  important words like Microcardial, morphology, cockeny  dialect etc. He gave the knowledge about language, inflexious, semiotics  etc how used in ELT. He also mentioned about characteristic of knowledge era,what is assessments etc. 2)Core knowledge discussed in class Javed sir gave the information about assessment and evaluation. All the points of ELT  discussed by him , connected with each other. He said that in order to gain knowledge you should to seek it. 3)Teaching style /communication language/presentation His english language is perfect and speaking fluently. He has very good commu

ELT Task

How a teacher should be? '' Good teacher is like a candle, he consumes himself to light the way for student." Above sentence mentioned here that how a teacher should be. How a teacher should be:- I think a  teacher should be like a friend of student because one  good friend always guide us,scold us,make fun with us,give us guidelines and motivation etc. I think that a teacher is that figure in our life,who can change our life,who inspire us. My best teacher:- I have remembered my higher education teacher who is a my best teacher ever. She played vital role to make me ,what I am today. She always said that do as your heart says. She had found some my mistake also and tried to change it and give me right way of life. Role in students life:- A good teacher can change the life of student. It is in his/her hand that how he /she teach  the student. A good teacher can  be responsible for make good life of student or sometimes  responsible for bad  life also. Qua

The flying dragon snakes

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On 11 th August 2018 ,I saw one movie The flying dragon snake. This movie is about flying snake and vampire like animal. They are  looking like devil. In this movie there was one Guru who was the  follower of lord Buddha. He has also some spiritual strength so he can fight with this devils and make them unable. Power of spiritual strength In this movie the Guru was  very powerful. He was the worshipper of lord buddha. With his strong faith and his spiritual power he can fight with devils. His main purpose to fight with this devils was that to save life of humans for this vampires because this vampires sucking  blood of human and spread poison in their body. In this movie he tried  to save one man's life from one snake . He use all his spiritual strength to save his life and at last he was able to save him. This movie presents  people's faith in spiritual power. It show that every time God is win and evil is defeated. Spiritual power is win  and devils are died. L

Movie screening of Lagaan

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On 15th August 2018 in Department of English MKBU  film screening committee organized film screening of 'Lagaan'. Lagaan is bollywood movie directed by Ashutosh Gowariker and produced by Amir Khan in 2001. Movie is about fighting of Indian people against Britishers but not as a war. Here Britishers give Indian people one challenge about playing game of Cricket and if they will win,  they have not pay Tax for next 3 years. Main protagonist of movie, Bhuvan accept the challenge and tried to made team of his villagers. He doing lot of struggle with his villagers to involve them in his team and teach them how to play cricket. Elizabeth ,sister of Andrew Russel help Bhuvan ' s team and gave them guidelines for playing  the game. At last they won the match and his village get freedom from Tax and also  from  Britisher. British rule in India In this movie director present the real condition of Indian people under  the British rule. They treat Indian people as slave o

Mahotu by Ram Mori

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This mini movie 'Mahotu'(મહોતું) is about the situation of women in our society. I hope you all should watch it . Link of the movie is here https://youtu.be/_ZJ63k7fGz4 This movie is directed by Vijaygiri Bava. The original book Mahotu is written by Ram Mori . I hope all people of society can understand the moral of the movie and tries to change their perspective for women. I know that,that is not easy to tolerate  for any women in this world that she is beating by her husband.    In this movie Mahotu there is one lady whose name is Bhavu. She came back from her in laws house only because of she was walloped by her husband. That lady's father force her to go back in her in laws house and also she went , but situation is same again. Bhavu ' s mother has one friend who is selling all the jewellery of women . This seller's daughter has same problem as Bhavu has but the seller take her daughter with her and cultivate her. Bhavu 's father doesn't al

Poem 'Design' by Robert Frost

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The poem 'Design' The poem Design written by Robert Frost. In this poem he describe the situation of one insect Moth. Moth became victim of white,fat spider. Spider seat on the flower, heal - all. After death of moth , its body was totally poisoned. It is looking like  some ingredients of witches' broth. In the poem Frost compare the moth' s wings with paper kite. In this poem we can see that Moth is hero and Spider is villain. Moth looks like sad and died and  spider looks like happy. Whiteness  as a symbol In the poem poet use white spider,white flower, and white cloth. So the symbol of whiteness is also significant. At last in the poem poet speak about the design of darkness. Rule of nature: Here the poet present the rule of nature. Every animate has requirement of food. In animals world they depends on each other. One strong  animal  hunt other animal and use it for its food. The food chain is continually depend on each other. For example:rat is

Write story based on one picture

On 1st august 2018  in our Department of English MKBU  our madam had gave us one activity which was story writing  ,base on picture. This was  a group activity so one member of group was writing and others gave their view. This was the story : A masked lady A lady named Nancy who used to go in party every night. She attracts different man every night. The only reason behind it was that she was lonely lady without her husband. Her husband was a navy man.  Most of the time he remains outside. He hardly gets time to come at home. So here the lady dressed herself every night, with different look. She used to wear mask on her face.  Sometimes smiling sometime upset. She didn’t get love from her husband that’s why she remains in search for happiness. She was harassed by the tones of society. Society never likes a characterless lady; they can tolerate characterless man but not women. But Nancy never get affected by these all things. She lives in her own way. She just celebrates her fr