Blacky Wishes

1. Black Goggles +1's my look.So I like wearing it.To me BLACK is an all time trendy color.It easily gets matched with my dresses.I want to be very careful in my personal style and look as it projects me to the outside world.In my view,Goggle is an important accessory which has an impact on my look. I opted Black Goggles because it best suits my skin color and  also matches my black hair and eye color.

2. Black Pen looks sublime.Black color(Parker) pens I use particularly for exams as it builds my confidence and helps to maintain a good attitude.

3.Black Footwear - Black color gives perfect stylish look.It is an elegant color and definitely compliments all kind of outfits is my belief.Dress and all accessories are important for perfect look.Specifically, footwear gives the finishing beauty for our look.So preferably I opt black footwear.

4.Black Masks are really terrifying.I woo to use it to frighten my kith and kin in midnight on their birthdays.Wearing black mask and making others feel creepy is an excellent game to play in dark room.

5.Black Gadgets( Laptop) I love as it is mesmerizing,appealing,attractive,stylish,elegant and beautiful to my eyes.Mainly using black gadgets gives me a sense of pride.

This post is a part of #WhatTheBlack activity at BlogAdda.com

5 Effective Steps to Teach English for Kids

Step 1 : Letter Reading,that is,Teaching Alphabets to read and write.

Step 2 : Word Reading.Teach most commonly used words relating to a object or person or an animal.Show the objects,name them and then spell it them to your kids.

If your child is 4-5 years old,then he/she must be familiar with alphabets and some common words like this.
Eg : FAN,TAP,RAT,CAT,BOY,GIRL,COT,MAT,FAT,HAT,BAT,BALL,CAP,TALL.Phonics learning is a long process and don't expect your child to master over it in a short time.You introduce more words to them and the different sounds helps them to understand phonics gradually.

Step 3 : Your next step must be to make them read simple sentences.So what I suggest is to teach them the primary and very important (to be) verb conjugation.Teaching this conjugation will be a good start to your child for both reading and English speaking.

In young years,it is the visual learning which helps your kid to understand easily.Showing a ball,you can easily teach kids what it is and how to spell it.But it is not the case when you want to teach basic verbs like am,are,is etc.

We know pronouns are the beginners in the sentences and are followed by the verbs.Instead of teaching pronouns separately,I feel teaching them with verb make more sense.

If you teach this primary conjugation they will read verbs which are difficult to read alone together with pronouns.

By this,you can teach your kids the powerful words like "are" and "is" which are used to frame the sentence in English.

Reading and speaking both we must concentrate from young age.

Teaching "I" ends your child there itself.Teaching " I am" helps them to continue and think after that.

I feel this is the more structural way to learn as it helps in reading,writing and speaking English.

Show your kids with actions and teach them the following.Picture example is given for " I am".

I am 

With " I am" teach simple sentences
eg:

I am Yashika.
I am tall.

Additionally if you introduce them some adjectives  like thirsty,beautiful,kind.They learn to use it while speaking.

I am beautiful.
I am thirsty.

Don't teach such big words now for writing or reading.Just introduce them many words when you are speaking to them.

You are
You are good .
You are smart.

Teaching basic action verbs like running,walking will be also more useful to them to start speaking.
He is

He is running.

She is

She is singing.

It is
It is hot.
It is cold.
It is a cot.
It is a ball.

We are 

We are friends.
We are students.

They are

They are elders.
They are teachers.

With this basic conjugation together with common verbs,adjectives and objects - your can help your kids to frame tonnes of sentences.

Step 4 : Show comic strips,picture stories and ask them to say what they can see in the picture.Ask them to say in their own words.In this way you can teach new words and make them to learn a lot visually.

Step 5 : Bilingual teaching helps a lot.Teach English with the help of your mother tongue it reaches their mind easily.Don't forget introduce more and more words to them while you speak as it increases their vocabulary.

Learning English in Chunks

Chunks are group of words which are used together.Learning chunks helps to frame the sentences easily and correctly.Knowing chunks of a language is a must for fluent speaking.

Eg : We will describe wind as " a strong wind " not as " a powerful wind ".

Although the words "Strong" and "powerful" conveys the same meaning,the word "strong" is used in common.Like this,the words which are commonly grouped and used together are called as chunks of a language.This type of linking words together is called collocation.

Eg :  Bread and Butter is a common collocation.We won't say butter and bread.

Compare to idioms and phrases,learning chunks greatly assists in speaking English more naturally and confidently.

When you know chunks of a language,you can frame the sentence with group of words and need not struggle to build the sentence word by word.

List of chunks

1. utter disaster
2. remote area
3. vague reply
4. the ups and downs in life
5. warm welcome
6. go ahead
7. clear up
8. comparative analysis
9. commonly referred
10. creative thinking
11. ethical principle
12. financial aid
13. gain insight
14. welfare scheme
15. visual representation
16. technical support
17. the bride and groom
18. developing world
19. social responsibility
20. younger generation
21. Do me a favor
22. sense of humor
23. terrible accident
24. upside down
25. out of my mind

Reading and listening is crucial for learning the chunks of a language.

Which Decade are You?

How will you refer your age in terms of decades?

Just check it out!

                 Age Group

Denarian:  10-19 yrs old
Vicenarian: 20-29 yrs old
Tricenarian: 30-39 yrs old
Quadragenarian: 40-49 yrs old
Quinquagenarian: 50-59 yrs old
Sexagenarian: 60-69 yrs old

Septuagenarian: 70-79 yrs old
Octogenarian: 80-89 yrs old
Nonagenarian: 90-99 yrs old
Centenarian: 100-109 yrs old
Supercentenarian: 110 years old and above

EG.,- Rajni Kanth(63) is a stylish sexagenarian actor.A person who is between 60 and 69 years old are referred as Sexagenarian.

How will you draw your Robot?

Hi Kids,With basic shapes like square,rectangle and circle you can try drawing your robot.

Do you know?
Drawing helps to improve your imagination skill.

Easy Robot Drawing for Kids

Basket Drawing for Kids

Hi Kids, What you must know to draw this basket?
It's very easy.If you know to put lines and curves then drawing a basket is not a wonder for you.

Hello Parents,Drawing helps in brain development.So encourage your young ones to practice drawing.

Lovely Dessert

A mouth-watering dessert is a perfect end for the perfect meal.

Serving food with beautiful Borosil glassware makes it more perfect.

Smooth creamy ice cream with melted chocolate topping is teamed with rich brownie cake in the bottom surrounded with nuts. Borosil crystal clear serving plate enriched its texture, which urges and makes everyone irresistible to taste and left everyone with mouth-watering.

When it was tasted,ah! it just melts in my mouth.

What a marvelous good great and delicious dessert and how good to taste it in a exquisite Borosil plate.

11 Amazing Vocabulary Phrases

English Phrases

1. Every day I start my work at the crack of dawn. - very early morning
2. I am blogging  for my bread and butter for Donkey's years. -living(in terms of money) ie., regular income, long years
3. Blogging about single topic is really a Donkey Work which I hate to do.- hard,boring and repetitive work.
4. The key to boost income is a tough nut to crack.-ways to,very hard
5. Choosing blogging as a career is really scraping the barrel for me to earn income.- using worst idea/things as no other option available.
6. Every day I fight to carve out time for blogging.-create
   
   
   
7. I blog about interesting topics and try to butter up my readers. - flatter
8. Announcing contests and prizes will make my blog popular?Money doesn't grow on trees.So I don't want to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.- money not available in surplus so must not spend more,using more efforts/force than necessary
9.  I'm keyed up about my writing style. - anxious
10. But I don't want to feel blue thinking about my current situation.- feeling sad
11. Catch you later.Now I m going to crack on with my newspaper.- continue

10 Smart Vocabulary instead "Beautiful"

Vocabulary: to describe person

when we use the word beautiful often it will be boring.
eg : beautiful bead work,beautiful cinema,beautiful song may sound boring to use same words.
Try using different words - an exquisite bead work,a delightful movie,a lovely song

Instead of saying she is beautiful.You can use the following vocabulary .
He/She is attractive/charming/alluring/stunning/arresting,pretty(female), handsome(male), good-looking, nice-looking, lovely(female), gorgeous(female),

ravishing - anything which is very beautiful and attractive. eg : ravishing speech,ravishing eyes

The word "magnificent" is used to describe beautiful landscape,scenery,art work or any good work/performance and also used for everything which is excellent and outstanding.

Eg: BJP had a magnificent victory in the 16th Lok Sabha Elections.

When you say beautiful building - it means it looks good and beautiful.That's it.

When you want to say something extremely beautiful,excellent and outstanding -use correct vocabulary
 like magnificent painting,magnificent building,magnificent dance.Here if you say beautiful paining.then the word won't get enough emphasis to tell about the painting.

 The word "delightful" is used to describe person, place or events which is joyful,happy or pleasant.
Eg : a delightful movie,a delightful birthday party/occasion.

The word "appealing" is used to describe a person,idea,thing or an event which is pleasing and attractive.

aesthetic - to appreciate the good taste,art or beauty eg : The hotel served aesthetic food in an appealing environment.

graceful - to describe good manners,beautiful movements,attractive pleasing speech. eg: a graceful walk

exquisite - anything which is extremely beautiful. eg : an exquisite wall hanging

elegant - anything which is stylish,luxury,fashionable
Eg : an elegant necklace,an elegant woman,an elegant dress

31 Adjectives to Enhance your Vocabulary

Simple way of expressing that you are more tired. - I am very tired.
Enhanced way of expressing that you are more tired - I am exhausted,I am really exhausted,I am absolutely exhausted.

Here tired is a normal adjective used with "very" to express that you are more tired.Instead you can also use strong adjective "exhausted ".

Eg : Ants are very small insects.
Ants are tiny insects.
Which sentence sounds good? Isn't the second sentence?
Hope now it is better understood that strong adjectives are really impressive and also expressive.

The film was very/really bad.
Here "bad" is a normal adjective.
Words like "very" and "really" are used to tell more about the normal adjective.

The film was absolutely/really awful/dreadful/terrible/disgusting.
 Here  awful/dreadful/terrible/disgusting are strong adjectives. 
Words like "absolutely" and "really" are used to tell more about the strong adjective.
Don't use"very" with a strong adjective.

Eg : He is very exhausted is a wrong sentence.We mustn't use "very" with a strong adjective.
He is absolutely exhausted is correct.
He is really exhausted is also correct.

Similarly we mustn't use "absolutely" with a base/normal adjective.
Now like this,I like to share with you a set of commonly used words.

31 Enhanced Vocabulary Words/31 Base and Extreme Adjectives Vocabulary

Simple Vocabulary	Enhanced Vocabulary
"very"+Normal Adjective Expensive	Strong Adjective Exorbitant
tired	exhausted
small	tiny
tall	giant
clever	brilliant
hungry	starving
good	Excellent,splendid,perfect,ideal, wonderful,superb,great,fantastic
bad,ugly	awful,dreadful,terrible,disgusting, hideous
sure	certain
tasty	delicious,yummy
excited	thrilled
hot	boiling
cold	freezing
beautiful,pretty	lovely,exquisite,ravishing, gorgeous,awesome
angry	furious
big	huge,enormous
interesting	fascinating
sad	miserable,devastated
happy	overjoyed,ecstatic,jublient,elated
silly	ridiculous
dirty	filthy
funny	hilarious
fat	obese
afraid,scared,frightened	terrified
surprising,shocking	astonishing,amazing,astounding
clean	spotless
old	ancient
worried	anxious
bright	dazzling
weak	feeble
pleased	delighted