Thursday 29 May 2014
Wednesday 28 May 2014
Saturday 17 May 2014
Sand and Stone
 John
and James were best friends. They fight for many reasons and but never
gave up their friendship. They went in search of a job and visited
many places to earn more money. They passed through various places,
villages, towns, forests, beaches, and were supporting each other all
the way through out their journey.
One day they reached a desert and they
had a very little food and water. John told James to eat half the
quantity of food and then once they get very tired and feel like they
cannot make a step they can eat another half and save water for the
late.
However, James disagreed. He wanted to
drink water as he was very thirsty. They quarrelled among each other to
have water. John slapped James and they walked in silent. They decided
to have food and continue their journey. James wrote in sand, ‘My best
friend slapped me!’
They shared the meagre amount of food and
water and finally reached an oasis. They were very tired after passing
through the dry and hot desert. James was so happy to see the oasis
and had a lot of fun in the water. While they both were bathing, James
was a bit careless and began to drown. John rushed to him and saved
James.
James hugged his friend and thanked him.
They had a little nap and decided to leave the place. They were about
to leave and James carved something on the rock.
It was ‘My best friend saved my life!’
John asked ‘why you were marking all
these here James?’ James replied, ‘You slapped me, I wrote in sand. It
was definitely not good. However, if you go and see the sand you can
find no letter wrote on the sand. Now I carved the good thing on the
stone, and it will remain forever!’
We have to forget the bad things done to us and engrave the good things in the stone.
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Monday 12 May 2014
Bruce Lee
Illustrations by: Amarjeet Malik
The Chinese American actor Bruce Lee, was born in San
Francisco on November 27, 1940. Born a sickly child, he was named Li Jun
Fan a female name by his mother to ward off evil spirits. His dad an
Hong Kong opera singer returned back to Hong Kong along with his family
in 1941.
As a kid martial arts and bodybuilding were his
only preoccupation, studies didn’t interest him. In 1946 he appeared in
first of many films as a child actor. He appeared in 20 movies and
rarely in school. He soon became involved with a gang and his mother
shipped him back to America before his 18th birthday so he could claim
his dual-citizenship and avoid winding up in jail. 
He soon picked up a job teaching the Wing Chun style of martial arts
that he had learned in Hong Kong. Lee also studied philosophy at the
University of Washington, at the same time acquiring his considerable
skills in the martial arts like karate, kung-fu, and so on. Shortly
after, Lee landed his first US show-biz role -- Kato in The Green
Hornet, A 1966-67 TV superhero drama from the creators of Batman.
However, Lee could not get Hollywood to embrace him and hence returned
to Hong Kong to make films. He made the Fists of Fury (1971), his martial arts debut. Almost immediately, he became a cult figure, and the world-wide martial arts phenomenon was under way. The plots of all films he made were uniform: Lee makes a vow not to fight; people close to Lee are exploited and Lee kills in retaliation. The films set box-office records in Asia and Hollywood finally gave him an action movie. But Lee died a month before the release of his first US film Enter the Dragon, considered the king of Kung–Fu movies. During the filming of Game of Death Lee died mysteriously of brain edema.
Saturday 10 May 2014
Why Do Horses Need Shoes?
Clip-clop, clip-clop goes a horse on the road. If you look
carefully you will see that it walks on the tips of its toes - like a
ballet dancer. Walking on tiptoe for a long time is difficult for us,
but horses find it the easiest thing to do.
The foot of a
horse is divided into a toe with a broad tip. While other animals have
nails and claws, the horse has a hoof surrounding the toe. The hoof area
cannot feel any sensation; it is made of dead tissue (A similar example
is our fingernails: we do not feel any pain while cutting them, because
they are made of dead tissue.) The heels of the horse do not touch the
ground. 
The centre of the horse's foot is soft. It is called the frog. When the
horse is carrying a rider or a heavy load, the hoof comes down heavily
on the ground. The frog may not be able to bear the weight and could
swell up. The horse could even become lame. It is to prevent this from
happening that an iron horseshoe is fixed to the horse's foot. It
protects the frog and ensures that the horse can run as fast as the
wind, or dance like a ballerina without worrying about its foot. Of
course, horses that run free have no need to put on their iron shoes.
Tuesday 6 May 2014
Form of Adjectives
Rules
1. Adjectives are invariable:They do not change their form depending on the gender or number of the noun.
| A hot potato | Some hot potatoes |
| A very hot potato | Some really hot potatoes. |
Position of adjectives
a) Usually in front of a noun: A beautiful girl.b) After verbs like "to be", "to seem" , "to look", "to taste":
Examples
- The girl is beautiful
- You look tired
- This meat tastes funny.
Examples
- The Princess Royal
- The President elect
- a court martial
Examples
- I want to see the people involved/concerned (= the people who have something to do with the matter)
- Here is a list of the people present (= the people who were in the building or at the meeting)
- An involved discussion = detailed, complex
- A concerned father = worried, anxious
- The present situation = current, happening now
Monday 5 May 2014
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