Saturday, April 9, 2016
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
'Meditation'- A Sonnet on meditation
Meditation
A silent moment
of reckoning-
of God’s
beckoning;
a moment of
silence,
and spiritual
clearance…
When the heart
listens not to its own pounding
but to another
call of silence, resounding;
It’s a moment of
‘not being’,
breathing in a
sphere of ‘not seeing’…
A moment of soul
searching-
after the endless
darkness lurking;
when you are not
you
and I not I-
Without any
trepidation…
That is the
moment, of meditation.
Pushpinder Kaur : March
4, 2016
Sunday, April 3, 2016
A Video on City Life!
A Video on 'City Life' prepared as a Guideline for Descriptive Writing for Grade 7-8.
Saturday, April 2, 2016
TIPS ON NOTE-MAKING AND SUMMARY WRITING for O Levels and A Levels Students
NOTE-MAKING:
1.4.2016
1. Read the passage carefully.
2. Underline/ highlight the same points, related/ focused on the similar aspect with one colour- for example, points with focus on temperature, highlight in red; water shortage in blue and so on.( The points may be spread across the passage- they need to read as one point!)
3. The similar points must be combined, clubbed and collated. (The 3 C’s)
4. No credit is given for the similar points expressed as different points.
5. However, every different point must be given separately; clearly identified and written clearly.
6. Write each point as a fragment; as few words as possible to make meaningful sense/ not complete sentences.
7. There MUST be NO details, data, examples etc./only the gist of the point.
8. There should be no repetition at all.
9. In NOTE-MAKING, you may use the words given in the passage; better to change/ the same words are acceptable though in note-making.
10. A total of 15 POINTS is a MUST.
11. Arrange them in the right order of priority/(when you use the same colour to highlight/ number them at the same time)
12. A systematic organisation is very important.
13. ABSOLUTELY necessary/MANDATORY/OBLIGATORY to stick to the WORD LIMIT Given.
SUMMARY-WRITING:
1. Use the given points in NOTE-MAKING to write the summary.
2. A good/ perfect note- making automatically leads to a GOOD/PERFECT SUMMARY!
3. MOST IMPORTANT TO REPLACE EACH DIFFICULT WORD WITH OWN WORDS. DO NOT REPEAT THE WORDS GIVEN IN THE ORIGINAL PASSAGE- for example- "old" for "ancient"/ "important" for "significant"/ "change" for "transformation" etc.
4. Write the SUMMARY as a continuous paragraph, without splitting into parts.
5. MUST FOLLOW THE GIVEN WORD LIMIT VERY STRICTLY/MUST NOT EXCEED/ NEGATIVE MARKING FOR EXCEEDING
5. All the points taken down in NOTE-MAKING MUST be included.
6. The SUMMARY generally comprises 1/3rd the length of the original
passage.
-NOTE: A GOOD PRELIMINARY WORK FROM THE FIRST STEP WILL LEAD YOU ON TO A GOOD SUMMARY.
-USE NO UNNECESSARY WORDS/ BE CONCISE/ TO THE POINT/PERFECTLY FOCUSED.
-DO AWAY WITH ALL UNNECESSARY WORDS/EXPRESSIONS.
1. Read the passage carefully.
2. Underline/ highlight the same points, related/ focused on the similar aspect with one colour- for example, points with focus on temperature, highlight in red; water shortage in blue and so on.( The points may be spread across the passage- they need to read as one point!)
3. The similar points must be combined, clubbed and collated. (The 3 C’s)
4. No credit is given for the similar points expressed as different points.
5. However, every different point must be given separately; clearly identified and written clearly.
6. Write each point as a fragment; as few words as possible to make meaningful sense/ not complete sentences.
7. There MUST be NO details, data, examples etc./only the gist of the point.
8. There should be no repetition at all.
9. In NOTE-MAKING, you may use the words given in the passage; better to change/ the same words are acceptable though in note-making.
10. A total of 15 POINTS is a MUST.
11. Arrange them in the right order of priority/(when you use the same colour to highlight/ number them at the same time)
12. A systematic organisation is very important.
13. ABSOLUTELY necessary/MANDATORY/OBLIGATORY to stick to the WORD LIMIT Given.
SUMMARY-WRITING:
1. Use the given points in NOTE-MAKING to write the summary.
2. A good/ perfect note- making automatically leads to a GOOD/PERFECT SUMMARY!
3. MOST IMPORTANT TO REPLACE EACH DIFFICULT WORD WITH OWN WORDS. DO NOT REPEAT THE WORDS GIVEN IN THE ORIGINAL PASSAGE- for example- "old" for "ancient"/ "important" for "significant"/ "change" for "transformation" etc.
4. Write the SUMMARY as a continuous paragraph, without splitting into parts.
5. MUST FOLLOW THE GIVEN WORD LIMIT VERY STRICTLY/MUST NOT EXCEED/ NEGATIVE MARKING FOR EXCEEDING
5. All the points taken down in NOTE-MAKING MUST be included.
6. The SUMMARY generally comprises 1/3rd the length of the original
passage.
-NOTE: A GOOD PRELIMINARY WORK FROM THE FIRST STEP WILL LEAD YOU ON TO A GOOD SUMMARY.
-USE NO UNNECESSARY WORDS/ BE CONCISE/ TO THE POINT/PERFECTLY FOCUSED.
-DO AWAY WITH ALL UNNECESSARY WORDS/EXPRESSIONS.
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