ARE YOU READING ENOUGH IN ENGLISH?
Remember the importance of reading! Reading gives you knowledge, culture, vocabulary,and improves your writing skills. Just read. The rest will come on its own.
READING COMPREHENSION
METAPHOR
Morning is
a new sheet of paper
for you to write on.
Whatever you want to say,
all day,
until night
folds it up
and files it away.
The bright words and the dark words
are gone
until dawn
and a new day
to write on. Eve Merriam
E-MAILS CAN CAUSE PANIC
A couple from Minneapolis decided to go to Florida for a long weekend to thaw out during one particularly icy cold winter. They both had jobs, and had difficulty coordinating their travel schedules. It was decided the husband would fly to Florida on a Thursday, and his wife would follow him the next day. Upon arriving as planned, the husband checked into the hotel. There he decided to open his laptop and send his wife an e-mail back in Minneapolis. However, he accidentally left off one letter in her address and sent the e-mail without noticing his error.
In the mean time:
In Houston, a widow had just returned from her husband's funeral. He was a minister of many years who had been "called home to glory" following a heart attack (died and gone to report in heaven). The widow checked her e-mail, expecting messages from family and friends. Upon reading the first message, she fainted and fell to the floor. The widow's son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor and saw the computer screen which read:
To: My loving Wife
From: Your Departed Husband
Subject: I've arrived!
I've just arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then. Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.
P.S. Sure is hot down here.
INTERESTING QUOTATIONS
'Our lives are like a candle in the wind' Carl Sandburg
'Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism' Carl Jung
'Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one' Anonymous
'Patience and perseverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish' John Quincy Adams
'Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope' William Blake
'Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration' Thomas A. Edison
'There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can' Henry Ford
A TRUE STORY
Shortly after the 911 emergency number became available, an elderly and quite ill lady appeared in a Rochester hospital emergency room, having driven herself to the hospital and barely managing to stagger in from the parking lot. The horrified nurse said, 'Why didn't you call the 911 number and get an ambulance?'
The lady said, 'My phone doesn't have an eleven.'
THE IMPORTANCE OF READING
'Couple reading under a tree' Warren Dennis
Read! Read all you can. Read as much as you can. Read a variety of texts. Read books, articles, novels, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, brochures, leaflets, textbooks, text in films, tickets, etc. Even though you may not always understand everything you read, you will probably understand the general idea, and be able to deduce vocabulary and ideas. This will increase your comprehension, vocabulary and grammar. All this information will be stored in your passive knowledge area, and although you may not use the language or information immediately, one day you will find it becomes useful when the situation arises. So... read, read, read !