Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2012

Entrance Exam Preparation Method

Entrance exams are the gateway to many prestigious colleges, which would help you construct a secure future. Nowadays, there are numerous career options for students, irrespective of their academic background. Since there are thousands of students enrolling themselves every year, these entrance exams works as a doorway, which lets only the most dedicated, and deserving students in. there are entrance exams for many courses like engineering, mba, nursing, MBBS etc. the exam paper of these entrance exams are set by a group of trained professionals in that field. They are difficult but not impossible to crack as they are designed keeping in mind the students. 

One has to prepare thoroughly for entrance exams. Unlike the exam papers in school, they are more difficult and cover a wider syllabus. One of the main pre-requisite of entrance exams is studying general knowledge. Many exams ask questions related to current affairs and discuss general topics. In order to answer them, one needs to have thorough knowledge of current events and news happening around you, both national and international. Many students get worried during these exams and end up failing miserably. One has to have a cool head and prepare in a systematic way. One of the best ways is to form a timetable of all the subjects. Following are some of the basic tips to prepare for the entrance exams: 

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Learn English Laughing


Humor and Learning

Humor is important in learning a language. Not only does it enable the student to learn new vocabulary in context but it also is a motivating force. When a student understands a joke she begins to feel like she is in the world of the new language. Puns are especially valuable because they stress meaning. We'll give a few jokes and puns as examples and hoope that they will move other teachers to use this powerful resource.

Puns

Laughing? Well, maybe not. Puns usually make people groan. They say that for a pun to be good, it has to be really bad. As a matter of fact, they are called "groaners". A pun is a little word game, playing with language. Most puns use a word that has two meanings, or use two words that sound almost the same.

Here are some puns. Use your knowledge of English, and your dictionary if necessary, to explain the pun.

Example: Why is an empty purse always the same? Because there is never any change in it. In this pun, the word "change" has two meanings: 1. coins and small bills, 2. alteration.

1. Do you know why it’s easy for a hunter to find a leopard? Because a leopard is always spotted.
"to spot", verb: to see, to identify. "spotted", adjective: with spots.

2. When gambling became legal in the city, everyone agreed that the city was now a bettor place.

What we hear could be either of two words that sound the same: "better", adjective, "an improvement", therefore "an improved place". "bettor", noun, "gambler", "someone who bets", therefore entonces "a place for gamblers".