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WAYS TO IMPROVE ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

WAYS TO IMPROVE ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION 1. Learn to listen. Before you learn how to speak, you’ll need to learn how to listen. Some sounds can be hard to tell apart when you’re listening. Did the speaker  sleep  or  slip ? Did he hurt his  chin  or his  shin ? If you can hear the difference, it will be easier to speak the difference. The better you get at hearing words, the better you will become at pronouncing them. 2. Notice how your mouth and lips move. When you speak, you move your mouth.  How  you move your mouth affects how you pronounce a word. The first step to correcting your mouth shape is to notice it and pay attention. There are a few ways you can check that your mouth and lips are making the correct shape: ·        Use a mirror.  This is by far the simplest way to tell what your mouth is doing while you talk. ·        Put a finger in front of your lips (like you’re saying “shh”).  As you speak, don’t move your finger. You should feel your lips moving away fr

CREATIVE WRITING SERIES-LESSON 1:How to make your writing interesting?

How to make your writing interesting? The ideal English text is clear, concise and easy to understand. Even advanced level academic textbooks are written in plain English words. So when you write, try to keep your sentences clear and well structured so that your readers will have no difficulty understanding them. Don’t try to use complex sentence patterns with the sole objective of impressing the reader. Chances are they wouldn’t. Worse still, they might abandon your text before finishing it.  When writing in English, keep the following rules in mind: Use simple language. That doesn’t mean that you should only write short, simple sentences. Instead, use a variety of sentence patterns – some complex, some simple and some compound. Just make sure that your sentences are not ridiculously long.  Make your text interesting by using a wide variety of sentence patterns. For example, use participle clauses, relative clauses, prepositional clauses, infinitive constructions and if-cla

A STEP BY STEP GUIDANCE FOR CSS ASPIRANTS TO WRITE A GOOD PRECIS

Write a PrĂ©cis of the following passage. Prevention is better than cure. It is recognized that the only way to get rid of malaria completely is o get rid of the mosquitoes which cause it. Malaria is always associated with damp and marshy land. This is not because the land is damp, but because the static water is the breeding place of the mosquitoes, which begin their life as a larva in the water. Malaria does not frequently occur in dry desert countries because mosquitoes cannot breed there. The only way to destroy mosquitoes is to prevent their breeding in static water. Draining all ponds and pools can do this. And by keeping them covered in the breeding season with a film of kerosene oil, which by depriving the larva of air kills them.  stage 1: read the passage thrice and pick important points in the  passage: Important Points: ( Write points in your own words) ·   Prevention is better than cure. ·   Mosquitoes cause malaria. ·   We should get rid of malaria. ·