Best sayings by Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare is the most well-known poet and playwright in English literature. He wrote around 38 dramas and 154 sonnets and two narrative poems.
The potency of his language and the novel expressions he used, made his sayings vivid and effective. Here are some of his most common and influencial sayings:

From King Lear

1. "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" - ( Act I, Scene IV).
Meaning: Having a thankless child is even sharper than the tooth of a serpent.

2. "I am a man more sinned against than sinning". -  (Act III, Scene II).
Meaning: I have done wrong doings but the wrongs done to me are more and worse.

3. "My love's more richer than my tongue". (Act I, Scene I).
Meaning: I cannot express my love in words.

4."Nothing will come of nothing." (Act I, Scene I).
Meaning: If you have nothing, then you will give nothing.

5. "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest". - ( Act I, Scene IV).
Meaning: don't expose all what you have.

From Romeo and Juliet

6. "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" ( Act II, Scene II).
Meaning: Juliet is from the east and she is the sun because she is as beautiful as the sun that rises from the east.

7. "Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
( Act II, Scene II).
Meaning: It is both sweet and sorrowful to part with the beloved that he wishes to say good night until the next day comes and they both meet again.

8. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". ( Act II, Sc. II).
Meaning: would the rose smell sweet if we change it's name?

9. "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast". ( Act II, Scene III).
Meaning: We should not rush and take things slowly and rationally because hastling will engender stumbling.

10. "O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright" (Act I, Sc. V).
Meaning: she is so beautiful that she teaches the torches how to light and be bright.

11. love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. ( Act ii. sce. 6. )
Meaning: under the influence of love, the lovers don't notice the silly things they do.

From The Merchant of Venice

12. "All that glisters is not gold." (Act ii. scene 7)
Meaning: Appearance is deceptive.

13. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?". - (Act III, scene I)
Meaning: We should have sympathy for others and not let any racial, religious, or other differences pose us to do injustice to them. Further, these who are being wronged against might revenge someday.

From Hamlet

14. "To be, or not to be: that is the question". (Act III, Sc. I).
Meaning: this is one of the most well-known sayings ever. It indicates the dilemma of hesitation and making decisive decisions.

15. "Brevity is the soul of wit". -  Hamlet (Act II, Scene II).
Meaning: to be brief is to be witty.

16. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
Meaning: our thinking determines the situation whether good or bad. In other words, if we control our thoughts, we can control the situation.

From Macbeth

17. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow. (Act V, Scene V)
Meaning: life is as short and fast as a shadow that passes by.

18. what 's done is done".  ( Act III, Scene II).
Meaning: we cannot bring back the past.

From his Sonnets

19. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments." (Sonnet 116)
Meaning: We should not prevent those who love each other truly from getting married.

20. "So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." ( Sonnet 18)
Meaning: As long as people live and read these verses, they will know about you. Therefore, you will be alive as they read about you.

Note: many of Shakespear's sayings became proverbs.

Read them, use them, and enjoy English!

Do you want to be a distinguished student?!

Excellent students are everywhere. They share some common things, yet they differ in the way they think and the attitueds they have. Every student wishes to be the best, but the wish will remain a wish if it is not put in action. The following tips are given from the viewpoint of a teacher and the experience of an excellent student. Remember, they are of little avail if you don't apply them and make them your studying discipline.

1.Prepare the lesson and write some questions before you come to class. Preparation provides you with an overview of the lesson and helps you create a mental picture of the lesson.

2. Be punctual. Come to class on time. Teachers tend to be disturbed by latecomers because they interrupt their train of thoughts and ruin the momentum of the lecture. Besides, latecomers usually make noise pulling a chair or asking a classmate about the page.

3. Sit properly and bring all the stuff you need for the class.
You better sit like a student in class rather than like you are at home. Further, you should come to class having all the stuff you need so that you don't disturb the class borrowing a pen or a ruler every now and then.

4. Smile during class and nod your head. When you smile you understand more. It's no joke! It's scientifically proven that smiling during lectures increases the mind's capacity to understand and obtain knowledge. Nodding your head, on the other hand, helps indicating to your teacher that you are following, so s/he will have a feedback and give all they have.

5. Participate. Feeling shy will not do any good. There are many intelligent students who don't participate due to their timid nature. Some of them get full grades,  but what's the use of excellent grades while they can't use their language? So, you should break the ice and speak your mind.

6. Be initiative.
Never wait for other students to do it. Go ahead and do it yourself. Raise your hand and try to answer any question no matter how difficult it is.
Accept any challenge and take responsibility.
Be the leader in any activity. Never be satisfied with the second rank. Always aspire for the first.

7. Jot down any new info. Whatever is new for you, write it down because you will surely forget a grat deal of it.

8. You've got to be an avid learner and have thirst for knowledge. Always ask and find answers for things you don't know. Make researches and make sure to learn at least one thing everyday.

9. When you go back home, study and revise. Understanding lectures is not enough. You surely need to organize and expand your information. Studying at home trims and orients your information and ideas.

10. Search further.
You should supply yourself with more than what the teachers or books provide. When you search, you make an effort and the information acquired after making an effort will be easily stored and remembered.

Remember: today' sweat will be tomorrow's sweet.

Kindly, share and let your friends  know about us.

Powerful tips to speak English fluently

Speaking English fluently is the dream that all English learners pursue. Actually, there are no pills you can swallow and wake up the next morning speaking like natives! And there is no speaking-English-button!
Speaking needs a lot of hard work and implementation for the two decoding skills(listening and reading).
In your journey to speaking English fluently, you'll need to get a 'special recipe'( a technique that shall guide you and make you a fluent speaker.

1. Be confident.
Having confidence is the key for speaking successfully because when you are confident, you can make use of the minimum amounts of resources effectively and skilfully. You can actually sound like professionals. In fact,  confidence magnifies you in people's eyes. Confidence conceals your shortcomings and makes your language impeccable. In order for you to  ooze confidence, you need to convince yourself that you are so. You just fake it and believe me you will make it.

2. Practice makes perfect.
The more you practice, the better you speak. Speaking is the way to put all what you have learned in action. So, it is the way to show what you are worth and to make use of all the accumulative knowledge that you have.

3. The more you listen, the more you speak.
Listening is the way to a smooth and automatic speaking. When you listen a lot, you will speak naturally and soud like natives because you will be, unconsciously repeating what you have listened to.

4. Listen and repeat.
When you listen and repeat, you train your tongue and adapt it to English. This is a guaranteed method to speak a native-like accent. Listen to a sentence, pause the listening material, repeat it many times, and then resume.
Mind you, you should do this technique persistently in order to have a tangible improvement in your accent.

5. Enrich your vocabulary repertoire.
If you have no words, you have no language. How can you speak about education if you don't know words like teacher, student, curriculum, or so?  Thus, increasing your English words  is a must. Moreover, you should have a variety of ways to express yourself; therefore, you need to have a number of words that communicate one idea.
Note: You should keep learning new words even though you feel like you know many, for English language keeps getting new words almost everyday.

6. Think in English.
As a matter of fact, this is the most powerful tip because when you think in English, you make it an integral part of your daily life. It is also a great and easy way to practise, for when we speak, we need to think first and then speak, but thinking in English requires the initial stage only what makes practice easier for you. Thus, your confidence will be built and reinforced.

Notice that when you love something, you keep thinking about it.  The same thing is applied to English. If you love it, you think using it.

Reading these tips only will do you no good. You need to put them in action. get the desired results, you should make use of this article and the ones about listening and vocabulary in the other articles.

If you share and tell your friends about us, we will save you the effort and send u the speaking-pills. :-P

Duplication

Duplication is one way of vocabulary growth in English. It is kind of amusing to use such words when you speak, but they are informal. By and large, duplication is doubling one word with a change in either the initial consonant or the medial vowel. From this basis, there are two types of duplication:

1. Change in the initial consonant.
Examples:
Mumbo-jumbo: magician
Helter-skelter: something done quickly and without order.
Hotch-potch/ hodge-podge: a number of mixed up things.
Hob-nob: to spend time talking to people who are in a higher social rank than you.
Teeny-weeny: very small.
Nitty-gritty: the important details.
Higgledy-piggledy: confused
Hocus-pocus/ hanky-panky: language or activity that is meant to trick or confuse people, especially those of magicians.

2. Change in the medial vowel.
Examples:
Zig-zag: a line with many left and right turns.
Ping-pong: table tennis
Chit-chat: a casual conversation.
Mish-mash: a confusing mess.
Flip-flop: a pair of hosewore shoes.
Wishy-washy: someone who doesn't have a clear idea of what they want to be and can't decide what they want.
Riff-raff: an insulting word for people who are noisy, badly-behaved, or from a lower class.
Tittle-tattle: gossip
Dilly-dally: waste time because of not being able to decide.
Tick-tock: sound of the clock.

Note: words like fifty-fifty, goody-goody, and bye-bye don't belong to duplication, for there is no change at all in these words.

Thanks for visiting our blog, and don't forget to share and tell your friends about us. :-)
Don't get higgledy-piggledy and enjoy English. ;-)

Eight tactics to Study any Book effectively

To approach any book, you should follow a procedure that would enable you to comprehend  it and get the best out of it. Here are eight tactics to help you get the maximum benefits of the book.

1. First of all, you need to explore the book thoroughly. You should first read the contents in order to have an overview of the whole book. Then read the entire book so that you get to know the different parts and understand the main idea of the book.

2. After having gotten a clear  general idea of the book, ask yourself how to benefit from the book, and how can the book make a turning point in your personality and life as a whole.

3. Raise some questions about the book and some of inquiries you expect to encounter.

4. Read the book again and pay attention to the details and underlying information. Don't forget to highlight keywords and significant points so that you can easily find the piece of info you look for.

5. While reading, try to summarize each chapter or section of a chapter.  When you finish reading the book, weave the chapter summaries into one integral summary for the whole book.

6. After havivg finished, answer the questions which you have already raised. Ask more questions and answer them.

7. Relate the book's theme to you and your society. This way, you can make a good use of the book and widen your intellectual scope of thinking and data association.

8. Write the lessons that you got from reading and studying the book and how you can apply them in your life.

Following these tactics will absolutely help you studying more effectively. If you like the article, please share and let others know about us.

Creative Methods for Teaching English Tenses

Teaching the tenses in English is something inevitable for all teachers. Moreover, the ability of the teacher to simplify his/her lesson, determines his/her proficiency in their career. Here we have a number of steps that would lead you to the best way to teach the tenses:

1. Provide the examples first.
The traditional technique of giving the rule then the examples is so much boring and ineffective because it makes the students' role so passive. But by giving the examples first, you give the students a chance to deduce the rule by themselves and have a contribution in the lesson. Here, the students interact and have an active role.

2. Let them infer the rule by themselves. After having given them the examples, let them infer the rule and then provide more examples by themselves.

3. Teach them the usage of the tense. Students must know appropriately when to use each tense so that they differentiate between them and use them aptly.

4. Give them the keywords. Keywords make it easy for students to determine the tense and use it properly.Examples of keywords are: soon, now, ago, since, already, usually, etc.

5. Teach them the negative and interrogative forms of the tense. They ought to be able to negate and interrogate  the sentences as they speak.

6. Let them give examples about their own lives. This helps them make grammatically correct sentences about realistic things they experience in their daily life.

7. As a task, write some statements and let them determine what are the tenses then change them into the negative and interrogative  forms.

Hope you like these new ideas and found them interesting and innovative. If you did, please share and tell a friend about us. O:-)

Mastering spelling

Spelling is one of the hardest parts of learning English language because of the huge difference between letters and sounds. To be able to spell a word correctly,  you need to consider these tips:

1. When memorizing a new word: look at it carefully. Consider each and every letter.

2.Break it down into it's basic constituents. For example: the word "international". Its root(basic constituent) is "nation". So, inter- and -al are infixes. Now it becomes easier for you to memorize the spelling of the word international after having known that it consists of three parts.

3.Think of a similar word in English. E.g: "notion" is similar to our word "nation". It is easier for us to learn when we make comparisons; therefore, comparing nation to notion helps us to remember its spelling.

4.Close your eyes and imagine the letters one by one. Sometimes we memorize the words while we think about other stuff. We might look at the word and say it out, but our mind is busy thinking about another issue. Consequently, closing our eyes and imagining the word would absolutely help solving this obstacle and keep the mind present.

5. Spell it aloud letter by letter.
You might be asked about the spelling of a word when you don't have a chance to write it down. You will be coerced to spell it out then. spelling out the words is difficult because the mind gets busy with two processes: speaking and thinking of the word's spelling simultaneously. But you will have no problem if you have already trained yourself by spelling out the words letter by letter.

6. You need to understand some basic rules for spelling. For instance, we use 'ie' except before 'c'. we use 'ei' as in believe, achieve, chief, etc and conceive, receive, ceiling, etc.
Remember: there are always exceptions like seize.

7. Memorize the words as smaller chunks. It's hard to remember long words that include silent and doubled letters. But when we divide such words into smaller parts it becomes easier. For instance, the word millennium can be divided as mill.enn.ium.

8. When you make a mistake in spelling, go and check it up in the dictionary instantly, for we learn better from our mistakes.

Applying these steps, you will be able to remember the spelling of words easily. It might be hard to apply them, but this is natural because everything is hard in the beginning.

Expect amazing lessons, tips, and information next time. Kindly, share and invite.