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HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 9 Lesson 1 Adolescence Storms and Stresses of Adolescence i. Children must pass through several stages in their lives to become adults. For most people, there are four or five such stages of growth where they learn certain things: infancy (birth to age 2), early childhood (3 to 8 years), later childhood (9 to 12 years) and adolescence (13 to 18 years). Persons 18 and over are considered adults in our society. Of course, there are some who will try to act older than their years. But, for the most part, most individuals have to go through these stages irrespective of their economic or social status. ii. World Health Organisation (WHO) identifies adolescence as the period in human growth and development that occurs after childhood and before adulthood. This phase represents one of the critical transitions in one's life span and is characterised by fast paced growth and change which are second only to those at infancy. Biological process...

 HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 8 Lesson 4 Butterfly Forever Butterfly Forever Chen Qiyou IT IS RAINING. The asphalt road looks cold and wet. It glitters with reflections of green, yellow, and red lights. We are taking shelter under the balcony. The green mailbox stands alone across the street. Inside the big pocket of my white windbreaker is a letter for my mother in the South. Yingzi says she can mail the letter for me with the umbrella. I nod quietly and hand her the letter. "Who told us to bring only one small umbrella?" She smiles, opens up the umbrella, and is ready to walk across the road to mail the letter for me. A few tiny raindrops from an umbrella rib fall onto my glasses. With the piercing sound of a vehicle screeching to a halt, Yingzi's life flies in the air gently, and then slowly falls back on the cold and wet road, like a butterfly at night. Although it is spring, it feels like deep autumn. All she did was cross the road to mail a lette...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 8 Lesson 3 A Mother In Mannville A Mother In Mannville The orphanage is high in the Carolina mountains. I was there in the autumn. I wanted quiet, isolation, to do some troublesome writing. I wanted mountain air to blow out the malaria from too jong a time in the subtropics. I was homesick too, for the flaming of maples in October, and for corn shocks and pumpkins and black-walnut trees.... I found them all living in a cabin that belonged to the orphanage, half a mile beyond the orphanage farm. When I took the cabin, I asked for a boy or man to come and chop wood for the fireplace...  I looked up from my typewriter one late afternoon, a little startled. A boy stood at the door and my pointer dog, my companion, was at his side and had not barked to warn me. The boy was probably twelve years old, but undersized. He wore overalls and a torn shirt, and was barefooted. He said, "I can chop some wood today." , .... 'You? But you...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 8 Lesson 1 Family Relationship Family Relationship The famous Greek philosopher Aristotle said, ‘Humans are by nature social animals.’ What he meant was that human beings, by instinct, seek company of others and establish relationships, much Iike most animals of the wild, for companionship and for physical and emotional support. Unlike the animals however, human relationships give meaning to their existence and inspires them to do well in education, in workplace or in a profession. Relationships are of different kinds. Some are familial and intimate, formed by blood and by marriage; some are social like the ones we have with friends and some are made in schools where we form close bonds with classmates and teachers. Relationships can also be fostered in workplaces, which may quickly change from professional to social. There are relationships also between human beings and animals, between children and their toys that they cannot part with...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 7 Lesson 3 The Unbeaten Girls The Unbeaten Girls The Unbeaten Girls in a traditional society like ours, little boys and girls are given separate sets of toys. While toys for boys include cars, guns or footballs, girls have to be satisfied with dolls (often Barbie dolls) and doll-houses or miniature cooking utensils. The underlying assumption is that boys are active and full of vigour, but girls are naive and lack the intelligence or energy to match their male counterparts.  This false assumption has been shattered plenty of times in the recent decades as girls began to show their power and women began competing with men in almost all areas of life. It has been conclusively proved wrong most recently by the girls of Kalsindur, a village in a remote area in Dhobaura upazila in Mymensingh district. The villagers are mostly low-income but hardworking people. Even a few years ago, there was no electricity in the village. But some girls ha...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 7 Lesson 2 Nishat Mazumder Scaling a Mountain Peak  Nishat Mazumder, a Bangladeshi woman in her early forties, is a sports icon. She comes of a modest background; her father is a businessman and her mother is a housewife. She is the second of four siblings. Nishat has three things that she can be proud of. These are: she has extraordinarily supportive parents who accepted her dreams as real; her father was a freedom fighter the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, and she scaled the highest peak in world as the first Bangladeshi girl in 2012. Nishat's life presents an inspirational story that the youth in Bangladesh needs to know.   Nishat was born on 5 January 1981 in a village called Teori, which is situated in Ramganj upazila in Lakshmipur District. She completed her schooling from Bottomley Home Girls’ High School in 1997, and passed HSC from Shahid Anwar Girls' College in 1999. She earned her bachelor's and master's...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 7 Lesson 1 Brojen Das I had not failed my country  Brojen Das I could hear very faint voices as if coming from the other side of the world. The time was about 4:00 in the morning and the date September 22, 1961. I was feeling tired and exhausted and was encountering stiff opposition from the strong tide. I looked towards my accompanying motorboat carrying my manager Quazi Mohammad Ali, skipper Len Hutchinson and the official observer, Mr, J. U. Wood. They were all pointing towards the Kent shore. As I looked up, I could see flashes. I realized I was very close to the shore.  I asked what the time was and how far I had still to go. They told me that if I put the last ounce of energy into my swimming, I would set a new world record for France to England swim. This electrified me. The goal for which I had been striving for the past four years could be mine. The aim, which goaded me to swim the Channel six times, each time risking m...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 6 Lesson 1 Dreams What is a Dream Dreams have fascinated philosophers for thousands of years, but only recently have dreams been subjected to empirical research and scientific study. Chances are that you've often found yourself puzzling over the content of a dream, or perhaps you've wondered why you dream at all.  Fust, let's start by answering a basic question: What is a dream? A dream can include any of the images, thoughts and emotions that are experienced during sleep. Dreams can be extraordinarily vivid or very vague; filled with joyful emotions or frightening images; focused and understandable or unclear and confusing.  Why do we dream? What purpose do dreams serve?  While many theories have been proposed about the reason and function of dreams. nu consensus has emerged. Considering the time we spend in a dreaming state. the fact that researchers do not yet understand the purpose of dreams may seem baffling. However,...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 5 Lesson 5 Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time. A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages.  I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege. I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it. He deemed all suc...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 5 Lesson 1 Human Rights Are We Aware of These Rights -1 Articles of the Declarations of Human Rights Article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home of correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference of attacks. Article 14. (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.  Article 15. (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.  Article 16. (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family,  (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. (3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of socie...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 4 Lesson 2  Marie Curie "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something above and this thing must be attained.” -Marie Curie  Do you know who was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize? Or the first person in history to achieve the remarkable feat of winning two Nobel Prizes? Do you know who is the only woman to receive two Nobel Prizes, and in two different scientific fields? The answer to all of these questions points to one extraordinary individual: Marta Salomea Sklodowska-Curie, more famously known as Marie Curie. Early life  Marie Curie née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. From childhood she was remarkable for her prodigious memory, and at the age of 16 she won a gold medal on completion of her secondary education at the Russian lycé...