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Exclusive suggestion for J.S.C Exam 2017

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Exclusive suggestion for J.S.C Exam 2017
English 1st paper
For Question No 1,2,3 : seen passage
Unit 1: L-5(B), unit 3: L 1(b) , unit 3: L 6 (b), L 3(a), L 8(B),Unit 5:L3(B), L (5), Unit 6: L 1(B), Unit 6: L 1(B), L6(C),L 9(C+F), Unit 7: L4(B), 2(B), Unit 8: L 1(B), L 3(B),L5(B), Unit 9: L-4(B), L6(B),
For question No 4 and 5 : Unseen passage (marks 10) : All board questions (2014-2016 )
For question 6 : all board question
For question no 7: all board question
For question no 8: all board question
For question no 9: all board question
Section B : Writing Test
Dialogue : *1. A dialogue on the importance of learning english. *2. A dialogue on the importance of reading newspaper/benifits of reading newspaper. *3. Preparation for exam.*4. importance/benifit of physical exercise. *5. Importance of tree plantation ***6. A dialogue between a doctor and patient. *7. You and a seller about buying a book. ***8. Two friends/father and sons choice of career/aim in life. ***9. Two friends about load shedding. *11. Two friends on benifits of early rising. 12. How to open a bank account. 13. customer and sales man in a shop . 14. Your plan after j.s.c exam/your plan to spend the summer vacation after exam. 16. adverse effect of illiteracy and to eradicate. 14. about air pollution/water/deforestation
Paragraph:
****1. Traffic Jam. ****2. Load shedding ***3. A rainy day. ***4. A winter morning. ***5. A school Magazine. *****6. Your school library ***7. A tea stall *8. A Book Fair ***9. A moonlit Night. 10. National flag. ***11. Early rising. *12. good food. *13. Hygiene *12. Nakshi Kantha. *13. River gypsies in Bangladesh. *14. Folk song *15. Using dictionary. *16. Physical exercise. ***17. tree plantation. 18. A railway station/bus stand
Completing story:
*1. The lion and mouse *2. The fox without tail *3. Unity is strength ***4. Slow and steady wins the race. 5. Two friends and a bear ***6. A liar cowboy or a liar shepherd. **7. Robert bruce and spider. ***8. A greedy farmer. *9. Bayazid and his mother ***10. Two cats and a mouse. ****11. The thirsty crow.
***12. Grapes are sour. 13. A wood cutter. 14. A hare and tortoise.
Letter/email:
****1. To your friend congratulate him on his brilliant result. *2. to friend thanking him for the birth day gift/present. *3. to friend describing your school/native country/homeland ***4. About the importance of reading newspaper *****5. Describing a picnic/a study tour/ your village. *6. About the annual prize giving ceremony. ***7. About your aim in life. ***8. About how to improve english/describing the importance of learning english. *10. About a street accident that you have witnessed. ***11. Inviting to join a picnic. ***12. Describing the importance of physical exercise. ****13. preparation for j.s.c exam ****14. to friend thanking him for hospitality.

English 2nd paper
Section A :Grammar Part
For question no 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 , see all board question (2014-2016)
Application/email :
*1. For a transfer certificate. *2. seeking admission *3. Full free studentship/half holiday/to witness a cricket match. *4. Permission to witness the football match. *5. For providing morning more facilities for reading newspapers and playing indoor games in the common room of your school. *****6. To h/m praying for setting a canteen/language club/common room/debating club/english speaking club/a drama stage. . ***7. for re-admission. *****8. For a seat in the hostel. ****9. seeking permission to go on a picnic./study tour. *10. for leave of absence ***11. Application to the UNO/TNO/DC to construct a bridge/a culvurt/a damaged road/sinking tube well/relief for the flood affected people. 12. To h/m for morning school . and Practice English 1st papers emails .

Short composition:

***1. Wonders of modern science. *2. Tree plantation **3. Your aim in life / Discipline/ value of time/ Physical exercise/ newspaper, ****4. Journey by Train/bus/boat/Plane **5. The rainy season/ The season I like most. *6. Computer/Television **7. Student life ****8. Your favourite game. 9. Your favourite hobby.***10. Your daily life. 11. A village fair/market.

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Mazharul Islam,
B.A(Hons), M.A(English), ICT (NU), Mobile: 01740163613

Critical Discourse Analysis of Beauty Product Advertisements

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Ad -1 : Jui Coconut Hair Oil

Ad – 2: Parachute Advanced Cooling Hair Oil

Introduction: Advertisement is a media discourse which deals with language and social practices. The role of media is to replace all older resources of knowledge and information and undertaking of the world. Producers always use specific strategy to attract their target group. In this regard, advertisement of beauty product grabs the attention of women in many ways. Continue reading →

Critical Analysis of Sheikh Hasina’s interview in BBC’s HARD talk

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The paper examines the conversation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s interview with BBC’s HARD talk as well as her ideology. It also justifies the published newspaper article which is based on the conversation and it shows the difference between the published copies with the original conversation. Our endeavor is to explain and analyze the hidden agenda with textual references. The analysis is mainly grounded in Norman Fair Clough’s norms in Critical Discourse Analysis.

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Features of Language

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Features of Language

It is generally believed that human beings are the sole species capable of developing language thanks to their intelligence and appropriate structure of the vocal tract. It is clear, however, that animals are also capable of communicating in their own way, for instance, bees by tail-wagging, or whales by ‘singing’. Yet, there are certain apparent differences in human and animal ways of conveying messages, which we will look at in the following paper. Continue reading →

Culture and Its Characteristics

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Culture: The quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letter, manner etc. is considered as culture. It is a particular form or stage of civilization. It develops our mind or society by education and training. Culture is a term which helps a particular person to maintain his daily activities like knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects.  Continue reading →

Language and Social Status

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Introduction

Language is the medium of expressing feelings, needs, emotion etc. language is not only speech sound producing from the speech organs but also any type of attempt to express inner wish like as gesture of hand, moving  different organs of the body, smiling, crying even being silent can be a language. At one sense every attitude of men or other animals that is used to draw attention of other or make other feel or inform other anything that is language. For this language has a great influence in the context of human life. Continue reading →

Definition of Paradigmatic

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Paradigmatic: Generally when we construct a grammatical sentence, we have to select words according to one set of rules and the set of rules is considered as paradigmatic.

For example; ‘The cat sat on the mat.’

Here the first word could be replaced by ‘A’ or ‘No’; the second word could be replaced by ‘Dog’ or ‘Boy’. The relations between the words within these groups of alternatives are paradigmatic.