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HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 10 Lesson 5 Consumerism Consumerism We spend money for different reasons. We buy foods, clothes or everyday essentials, pay for different services, entertain people, travel to places, help others in need or invest in business and thus spend money every day. In fact, spending is a part of our life. Spending may make us happy or unhappy depending on how and why we spend. When we spend money on things that we need and within our limit, it is good. When it becomes a compulsive behaviour, it makes life stressful. Unnecessary spending or spending beyond one's means has some bad effects. For one thing, it may lead to financial ruin or debt, and for another, it may create unhappiness within families. People who overspend are never satisfied with what they have. They always rush for brands, fashion items, designer clothes etc. Over a period of time it becomes an addiction which may eventually create psychological problems. Nowadays consumer i...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 10 Lesson 4 Instant vacation : Getting there through meditation Meditation Training the mind can get us to a place of flow more quickly. Meditation is one way to exercise our mental muscles. There are many types of meditation, but they all have the same objective: calming the mind, observing our thoughts and emotions, and centering our focus on a single object. The basic practice involves sitting with a straight back and focusing on your breath. Anyone can do it, and you feel a difference after just one session. By fixing your attention on the air moving in and out of your nose, you can slow the torrent of thoughts and clear your mental horizons. The Archer's Secret The winner of the 1988 Olympic gold medal for archery was a seventeen-year-old woman from South Korea. When asked how she prepared, she replied that the most important part of her training was meditating for two hours each day. If we want to get better at reaching a state...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 10 Lesson 3  Food and Culture Syed Mujtaba Ali, was an acclaimed Bengali author, academic and linguist. He was a travel enthusiast and his travelogues are regarded as precious gems in our Bangla literature. At some point of time between the two World Wars, Syed Mujtaba Ali set out on a ship from India on a journey to Europe. Leaving Sri Lanka behind, he sailed across the Arabian Sea, then along the coast of Africa, before reaching the Suez Port. Syed Mujtaba Ali's time in Egypt was punctuated by a number of funny anecdotes, both about the people and the pyramids. The following excerpt is from Syed Mujtaba Ali's travelogue, Tales of a Voyager (Jolay Dangay) where he gives a charming and insightful description of Egyptian food and language. Nazes Afroz translated the following excerpt. Our Bengali meals consist of five flavours of food-bitter, savoury, hot, sour sides and desserts. The English eat only sweet and savoury preparation...

Read the following text and answer the questions A and B Unit-10: Lesson-2 Once upon a time, there was a strange man who was highly bothered to see others' happiness. His own personal interest was at any cost important to him. Neither was he a polite man, nor did he like other people to be polite to each other. In fact, he hated the courteous and polite people around him and thus he hated a few expressions like please, thank you, don't mention it etc. It troubled him a lot when people around were smiling to use these expressions. The man considered all these expressions extravagant. So, he took a mission to invent a device that would steal these polite words. He calculated two benefits from his efforts. One, people won't use these words and thus he would be relieved of his apathy to people's polite behavior and the second one was earning money by selling the words stolen by the machine to somebody else. He took great caution so that nobody would understand his secret pl...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 10 Lesson 1  Manners around the World  China Dining Sit where you are instructed to sit. Be graceful and polite when taking food with chopsticks. Don't make much noise when eating or drinking soup. Don't play with chopsticks or point at anyone with them. For a formal dinner wear formal dress. Gift Do present and receive things with both hands. Politely refusing a gift before accepting it is the norm in Chinese culture, so don't be discouraged when someone initially refuses your gift. White flowers are not good as gifts as they symbolise death. Greetings Shake hands softly as a firm handshake could be considered a sign of aggression. It may make your Chinese friends feel uncomfortable. Greet the most senior first and gradually others. Children are expected to greet you rather than you greeting the children. South Africa Dining Arrive on time. Wear casual clothes. Offer help to the hostess with the preparation of the meal and c...

Essay - Dignity of Labour রচনা - শ্রমের মর্যাদা Essay - Dignity of Labour Introduction : Work is life. Man has to work to sustain his living on earth. To get success in life, work is the main medium. Thus, we have to work hard to keep our existence. And labour has much dignity and honour. Kinds of labour: Labour is of two kinds -physical labour and mental labour. Physical labour means the labour done by the movement of our hands, foot etc. Mental labour indicates the work of our brain. Both these types of labour are essential for us. Both have dignity and honour.  Labour and mentality: We have to work. We should not avoid it. Some people hesitate to work. They think it demeans their dignity. The rich men hate it. They forget that their riches are the results of someone's work. Thus we have to divert our mind to labour both physical and mental labour. We must be sincere to our work. Importance of labour : The world is a great workshop. Labour is life and life is labour. Labour is ...

Essay - Computer রচনা - কম্পিউটার Essay - Computer Introduction : Computer is an electric brain. It works like a human brain. It is the most useful and wonderful invention of modern science. Now we cannot imagine a single moment without this wonderful invention. It is an inseparable part of our modern life. It has made our life easy. History of invention: Computer was not invented overnight. It took a long time. Charles Babbage, a British mathematician, thought about this electric brain first. For this, he wrote a formula. Later an American scientist, Howard Akin invented computer in 1937. Kinds and functions : There are two kinds of computer. They are Analogue Computer and Digital Computer. Usually Digital Computer is used. A computer mainly does three functions. These are data receiving, data processing and delivery of data. How works: A computer has some units. The units have respective functions. It has a memory unit. It helps to store all the data. The input and output units help...