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'Sea Fever'- A Poem by John Masefield

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Hello Friends...  Sure, we all are doing well... Be careful, we must stay fit and shouldn't fall ill getting our studies affected. We shall eat and drink healthy, exercise regularly, and won't avoid our domestic and social responsibilities. And whatever time we get for ourselves at the end of the day, we must study hard for most of the time, so that we learn to think... and learn. We simply cannot afford to stop thinking, for we are learners, and we are the chosen ones who got the scope to learn...  Let's learn to think first... Here we meet again to study a poem together. Sea Fever is quite a short poem. And thanks to the collectors who are kind enough to upload rare personal collections for all. How about listening to the poet's own recitation of the poem  here  before we start reading the text on our own? A poem is not only meant for reading, but also for listening... You might find the words in the description box interesting as well. Sea Fever John Masefi...

'The Passing Away of Bapu'- An Extract from 'Prison And Chocolate Cake', by Nayantara Sehgal

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Hello Friends...  Sure, we all are doing well... Be careful, we must stay fit and shouldn't fall ill getting our studies affected. We shall eat and drink healthy, exercise regularly, and won't avoid our domestic and social responsibilities. And whatever time we get for ourselves at the end of the day, we must study hard for most of the time, so that we learn to think... and learn. We simply cannot afford to stop thinking, for we are learners, and we are the chosen ones who got the scope to learn...  Let's learn to think first... This time we meet again to study a portion from a memoir together. What is a memoir? Yes, whatever we recount or remember about the past from our memory can be termed as a memoir. Memoirs constitute a large portion of our everyday chats, and our history as well. And authentic autobiographies, must be purely memoirs then, isn't it? Here we are going to study an extract from Prison  And Chocolate Cake , a memoir by Nayantara Sehgal which is incl...

'Fable'- A Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hello Friends...  Sure, we all are doing well... Be careful, we must stay fit and shouldn't fall ill getting our studies affected. We shall eat and drink healthy, exercise regularly, and won't avoid our domestic and social responsibilities. And whatever time we get for ourselves at the end of the day, we must study hard for most of the time, so that we learn to think... and learn. We simply cannot afford to stop thinking, for we are learners, and we are the chosen ones who got the scope to learn...  Let's learn to think first... The Text Today, we meet again to study a poem together. This is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson,- Fable. Does the title ring a bell, friends?  Then why don't we go through the poem once to see if the text reminds us anything more about 'fable'? You may click  here  to listen to a wonderful reading of the same text as well, if you please... Fable Ralph Waldo Emerson The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel; And the former called the lat...

How to Describe a Family-tree

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Hello Friends... Sure, we all are doing well... Be careful, we must stay fit and shouldn't fall ill getting our studies affected. We shall eat and drink healthy, exercise regularly, and won't avoid our domestic and social responsibilities. And whatever time we get for ourselves at the end of the day, we must study hard for most of the time, so that we learn to think... and learn. We simply cannot afford to stop thinking, for we are learners, and we are the chosen ones who got the scope to learn...  Let's learn to think first... We meet this time together again to learn how to describe a family-tree. Family-tree A Flowchart Now, what's a family-tree? Certainly it's not a tree as we know trees to be. It's actually a flowchart,- a sort of diagram pointing out the relations between the members of a family. The arrows, or the linking lines look like the branches of a tree, at the end of which we have the members of the family pointed out just like we have flowers or ...

How to Write a Personal Letter

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Hello Friends... Sure, we all are doing well... Be careful, we must stay fit and shouldn't fall ill getting our studies affected. We shall eat and drink healthy, exercise regularly, and won't avoid our domestic and social responsibilities. And whatever time we get for ourselves at the end of the day, we must study hard for most of the time, so that we learn to think... and learn. We simply cannot afford to stop thinking, for we are learners, and we are the chosen ones who got the scope to learn... Let's learn to think first... Do we need to write letters at all? Have you ever written a letter to anyone? Have you ever received a letter from anyone either? Maybe your answer to both of the questions is a 'no'. But, if you ask me, I think that you all regularly write to and receive 'letters' from others. Don't you ever write notes on chits of paper and pass them to your friends to continue your 'important' conversation avoiding the interference of th...