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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.....

Friday, November 28, 2008

SPEAKING QUESTIONS(COCHIN)


FEEDBACK QUESTIONS IN NOVEMBER

Part – 1


What sorts of magazines do you read?
Do you follow fashion?
Are fashion magazines popular in your country?
Do you keep pets at home?
Briefly describe a pet animal you are familiar.
Tell me something about your favorite mode of transport.
What kind of outdoor sports activities you are interested in?

Part-2

Describe a person good at work
Where he/she works
How long do you know this person
Say what made you to think that this person is good at work

Part-3


What is an ideal working environment in your opinion?
What are some of the factors that influence the performance of workers?
How the work environment of the present and the past differ?
What can be done to improve the productivity of workers?
Explain the importance of stress management at work place?

Part-2
Describe a news story you watched on the television
What the story was about
How did you feel about it
How it influenced you

Part-3
What responsibilities the media have to the general public?
What differences you see in covering news between TV and newspaper?
Who is an ideal journalist in your opinion?
Why do we see a lot of sensational news in TV and newspapers these days?

Part-2
Describe something you like to wear on special occasion
What it is?
Where did you buy this?
Say how do you feel about wearing this.



Part-3
Can you judge a person by appearance?
What kind of dress materials you prefer wearing on parties?
Why it is important for people to wear formal clothing at interviews?
Do you think that personal grooming is important in modern times?

Part-2
A much polluted area you been to
Which the place was?
How polluted it was?
Say what did you feel about that place?

Part-3
What are the bad impacts of pollutions in cities?
What are the major causes of pollution ?
Which do you think is more dangerous - indoor or outdoor pollution?

NGO(ANSWER TO THE QUERY)

NGO is

Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) AND a legally constituted organization created by private organizations or people with no participation or representation of any government. In the cases in which NGOs are funded totally or partially by governments, the NGO maintains its non-governmental status insofar as it excludes government representatives from membership in the organization.


Non-governmental organizations need healthy relationships with the public to meet their goals. Foundations and charities use sophisticated public relations campaigns to raise funds and employ standard lobbying techniques with governments. Interest groups may be of political importance because of their ability to influence social and political outcomes.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

NOVEMBER IELTS FEEDBACK(PHILIPINES)


I. First Part


What is your name?
Describe your hometown.
What is interesting in your hometown?
Why do you think weekends are important?


Second Part

Describe a place where people listen to music most.
What kind of music are they playing?
Who mostly go there?

Third part

Why is music important to children?
What are the benefits? How does it increase mental skills?
Comment about the free downloading of music in the internet.
What kind of music do you usually download and why?



II
. First Part

Do you live in a flat or a house?
Describe to me your house.
Tell me about the walls.
What can I see from the windows?
How do you celebrate birthdays in your country?
Tell me your activities on a typical evening.



Second Part

Tell me about a book that you have read.
When did you read the book?

Third part

Do you think books will become obsolete with the emergence of
the internet?
Who would you rather teach children how to read, parents or
teachers?
Is it important for a reader to read more on topics not related to his
field?
Will books still be important to the next generations?



III. First Part

What’s your name?
What will I call you?
Tell me about your place
When you were a child, did you ride a bicycle?
Do some people use the bicycle as a mode of
transportation?


Describe a family that you admire most?
Who are they?
Where do they live?
Why do you admire this family?
How often do you see them
?


Second Part

Describe a picture that you saw that captured your attention.
What is the picture?
When it was taken.
Why it is important to you.



Third part
Discuss the importance of the internet.
How do computers affect photography nowadays?
How does digital photography affect the accuracy of photos
found in textbooks?

WRITING TOPICS


1
Comment on the importance of fashion and self-expression through clothing.



2 Comment on the following:
Society is based on rules and laws. A society cannot function well if an individual would be able to do what he wants to do.



3.Fashion nowadays has been of great importance to people. Why is this so? Do you agree or disagree?


Wednesday, November 26, 2008

QUOTABLE QUOTES


Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life" -- F. W. Robertson


Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."-- Albert Einstein



"All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts" -- William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII)



"The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand." -- Robert Vallett



"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." -- G. B. Shaw



"The voyage to discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes"-- Marcel Proust



"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." --Albert Einstein



"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell."-- Joan Crawford



"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson



"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." -- John Burrough



"Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to see them come true." - - Claude Pepper



Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - - A. Einstein (1879-1955)



"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - - Antoine de Saint Exupery



"The most important thing about goals is having one." - - Geoffrey Albert



"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves." - - Galileo Galilei



"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful, lest you let other people spend it for you." - - Carl Sandburg, poet



"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes." - - Oscar Wilde



"Money can't buy friends. But you can afford a better class of enemy." - - Lord Mancroft


""Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -- Oscar Wilde



"Modern technology Owes ecology An apology." -- Alan M. Eddison



"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."-- Bo Jackson



"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad." -- French Existential Writer Albert Camus (1913-1960)



The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." -- Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923



"Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still." -- Lou Erickso



"The most important thing to do in solving a problem is to begin." - Frank Tyger



"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." - Jawaharlal Nehru



"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson




"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)


"Only after the last tree has been cut down…the last river has been poisoned…the last fish caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Indian Prophesy



Tuesday, November 25, 2008

SPEAKING QUESTIONS(NOVEMBER)


(1)
STAGE ONE

DESCRIBE YOUR HOMETOWN
DO YOU LIKE ARTS
HAVE YOU VISITED ANY ART GALLERY
WOULD YOU LIKE TO TEACH IN FUTURE
ARE TEACHER STRICT IN YOUR COUNTRY

STAGE TWO

A PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WOULD YOU LIKE TO INDULGE IN FUTURE
WHAT IS IT
WHEN AND WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO INDULGE IN IT
WHY WOULD YOU LIKE TO INDULGE IN IT


STAGE THREE

HOW IMPORTANT IS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN TODAYS WORLD
DO YOU THINK PEOPLE INDULGE IN MORE PHYSICAL CTIVITY THESE DAYS
COMPARE INDULGENCE IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF THE PAST AND PRESENT
WHY ARE LOT OF HEALTH CENTRES COMING UP PRESENTLY


(2)
STAGE ONE

INTRODUCTION
DO YOU STAY IN A HOUSE OR AN APARTMENT
WHAT CAN YOU SEE OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE
DID YOU PARTICIPATE IN GAMES/SPORTS WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG
DO YOU THINK CHILDREN SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN GAMES

STAGE TWO

DESRIBE A PHOTOGRAPH YOU LIKE
WHOSE PHOTOGRAPH IS IT?
WHAT IS IT ABOUT
WHY DO YOU LIKE/DISLIKE IT

STAGE THREE

DO YOU THINK PHOTOGRAPHS IMPRESS PEOPLE
HOW ARE PHOTOGRAPHS USED TO MOTIVATE PEOPLE
HAVE YOU BEEN MOTIVATED BY ONE?
HOW CAN PHOTOGRAPH HELP US TO LEARN HISTORY


(3)
STAGE 1

MAY I KNOW YOUR NAME?
DO YOU WORK OR STUDY?
WHAT ARTICLES/EQUIPMENTS ARE USED IN YOUR PROFFESSION?
WILL MORE EQUIPMENT BE USED IN FUTURE?
DO PEOPLE RIDE BICYCLES IN YOUR COUNTRY?
IS IT SAFE FOR CHILDREN TO RIDE BICYCLES IN YOUR SOCIETY?


STAGE2

DESCRIBE A SPORTS EVENT YOU HAVE PARTICIPATED OR WATCHED

WHAT WAS IT
WHEN DID YOU WATCH/TAKE PART IN IT
WHAT YOU LIKE/DISLIKE ABOUT IT


STAGE 3

DO YOU STILL WATCH SPORTS PROGRAMS?
WHICH PROFFESSION DOES NOT REQUIRE A COMPETITIVE PERSONALITY?
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PEOPLE IN CO-OPERATING SOCIETY?

(4).

STAGE 1

INTRODUCTION
WHAT DOES YOUR HOUSE LOOK LIKE?
WHAT DOES THE WALLS OF YOUR HOPUSE HAS?
WHAT CAN YOU SEE FROM THE WINDOW OF YOUR ROOM?
DO YOU LIKE PLAYING GAMES?
WERE YOU INTERESTED IN GAMES WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG?
DO YOU INDULGE IN EXERCISE
DO YOU THINK EXERCISE IS NECESSARY FOR CHILDREN


STAGE2
DESCRIBE A PHOTOGRAPH YOUI HAVE TAKEN /SEEN

WHAT IS IT ABOUT
WHERE DID YOU SEE/TAKE IT
WHAT DO YOU LIKE/DISLIKE ABOUT IT


(5)
STAGE 1
INTRODUCTION
WHAT DO YOU DO IN THE EVENING
DOES YOUR PAST TIME CHANGES ACCORDING TO SEASON.HOW?

STAGE2
DESCRIBE A GIFT YOU GAVE SOMEONE

WHAT WAS IT?
WHY DID YOU GIVE IT
WHERE DID YOU BUY IT
WHY DID IT BRING PLEASURE


STAGE3
IS YOUR PROFFESSION ACCORDING TO YOUR WISH
WHY DID YOU CHOSE IT
WHAT ARE OTHER OCCASSIONS APART FROM MARRIAGE/BIRTHDAY WHEN PEOPLE GIVE GIFTS

6
STAGE1
INTRODUCTION
TELL ME ABOUT YOUR HOMETOWN
WHAT ARE THE SPECIAL PLACES IN YOUR HOMETOWN


STAGE2

EXPLAIN ABOUT AN ELECTRONIC ITEM EXCEPT COMPUTER

WHAT IS IT
WHAT IS THE USE
WHY DO YOU LIKE OR DISLIKE IT

STAGE3

WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ABOUT LAUNCHING NEW THINGS AND THEIR RESEARCH
ARE ELECTRONIC ITEMS GOOD OR BAD INFLUENCE ON YOUNGSTERS

WRITING TOPICS

1. WHAT IS SPACE TOURISM.IS IT GOOD OR BAD


2. PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR CAREER AND PLACE OF RESIDENCE FREQUNTLY THESE DAYS.WHAT ARE THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF IT?

GIVE RELEVANT EXAMPLES