Subodh Bhattarai (English & Communication Notes - BBA/BBS/BBBS/BHM/BIM/BMS/MBA/MBS & +2)

 Sushila's Determination Vocabulary in Use Find the words from the drama which have the meanings given below. feeling fear and uncertainty = anxiety catching the breath in surprise = gasping thoughtfulness (for the feelings of others) = consideration  lucky = fortunate chart showing the position of the stars at birth, used for fortune-telling = horoscope Reading comprehension Read the drama again and tick the best answer. Sushila’s parents are concerned about her: marriage . Sushila wants to be: a nurse . Sushila seems as she was brought up in an overseas country . According to Sushila, who is lucky? Mrs Ojha At the end, Sushila’s parents decided to: let her join the nursing course . Read the drama again, and answer the following questions. Why don’t Sushila’s parents want to send her to university? Ans: Sushila's parents don't want to send Sushila to a university because they could not afford her fees/because of their poverty. Was her parents’ marriage a love marriage? H...

  UNIT 16: CONFIRMING AND DENYING   Jitiya Festival   Vocabulary in use   Read the text above, and find the synonyms of the following words from the text. luck = fortune harmony = good relationships statues = idol renowned = popular poured = flow Reading comprehension Read the text again, and decide whether the following statements are true or false. All women and unmarried girls celebrate Jitiya festival. False It is celebrated all over Nepal. False Married women never go to Maiti to celebrate Jitiya festival. False It is celebrated for three days. True Even the eagle and the jackal are remembered and offered prasad by the devotees of Jitiya. True Jimutavahana is a legendary deity. True Singing and dancing do not play any role during the Jitiya festival. False Read the text again, and answer these questions. Why is Jitiya festival celebrated? Ans: Jitiya festival is celebrated for the good fortune and long life for the husband, children and family members. How long ...

  SUMMARY Thomas Hood was a British poet and humorist. I Remember, I Remember which was first published in 1844; is a poem in which Hood reflects his sentiments of life and his childhood. The poet recalls his childhood memories and compares his childhood joy with his gloomy present. This poem is about the changing nature of time. The speaker recalls his blissful childhood that is still green in his memories. He recalls his bedroom with its little window where the sun used to appear every morning. He also recalls seeing many flowers in the garden around his house and the laburnum tree. The tree was planted by his brother on his birthday, which is still standing at the same place. The poet recalls how he used to swing and move through the air without any care in the world. He also has the memory of fir trees with their tall branches and summer pools, which refreshed him. Now, as an adult, he misses that carefree time because the real world has stolen his innocence and joy. He ...

UNIT 14: TALKING ABOUT THE PAST (II): INTERRUPTED CONTINUOUS ACTIONS  Vocabulary in use  Read the story, and collect the words/phrases in bold letters. Then write each bold word/phrase next to the correct meanings given below.  a. looking at something/somebody for a long time = staring shouted = yelled disappeared = vanished died = passed away attention = heed held each other tightly = cuddled afraid = scared Reading comprehension Read the story, and put the following sentences in the correct order.  Dinesh asked his grandma where she was going. Pabitra continued packing her things. She would quickly change the topic and start talking about something else. Jayaram congratulated his son for being second in the class. There was a tablet on the table in his room. Junakiri took a half-day leave from her office to welcome her mother-in-law at home. As he talked about Kanchhu, she hurried to come home back. TIME FOR GRAMMAR Read the following sto...

SUMMARY:  The speaker of the poem is a small boy who was sold into the chimney-sweeping business when his mother died. He recounts the story of a fellow chimney sweeper, Tom Dacre, who cried when his hair was shaved to prevent vermin and soot from infesting it. The speaker comforts Tom, who falls asleep and has a dream or vision of several chimney sweepers all locked in black coffins. An angel arrives with a special key that opens the locks on the coffins and sets the children free. The newly freed children run through a green field and wash themselves in a river, coming out clean and white in the bright sun. The angel tells Tom that if he is a good boy, he will have this paradis e for his own. When Tom awakens, he and the speaker gather their tools and head out to work, thinking that one day they would have a better life. VOCABULARY  IN USE scarcely: hardly, none chimney: smoke tract, pipe soot: dirt, stain shaved: cut off, clear locked up: confined, caged c...

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud The poet was wandering lonely over the valleys and the hills when suddenly he came across a lot of daffodil flowers beside a lake. The poet was overjoyed at the lovely sight of the flowers which seemed to be “tossing their heads” and “dancing” in the mild breeze. Charmed the daffodils, he gazed at them for long. Later in his life, when in a vacant or pensive mood, the poet felt pleasure with the memory of those flowers flashing upon his “inward eye”. SUMMARY : I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is one of the most popular poems of Wordsworth. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802 in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils while wandering in the forest. In this poem, there are four stanzas with six lines in each stanza. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABABCC and the main theme is the beauty of nature . The speaker was wandering alone like a floating cloud ...